[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;28969201]That's the top criticism for ereaders but when I saw a Kindle for the first time it looked exactly like a piece of paper that moved.
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[sp]He isn't executed, the ending is ambiguous and none of the films or anything include it. I had to go back and read it, and I'm certain that he is not executed at the end of the book.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]But it talked about him walking off to his execution or something, then it says the long awaited bullet was entering his brain... was it not talking about him, was it a metaphor?[/sp]
[QUOTE=InvisibleTed;28969710]Read that when I was in 8th grade, when vehement atheism was cool.[/QUOTE]
I'm not in any vehement period, I've just always enjoyed the topic.
[QUOTE=InvisibleTed;28969710]Read that when I was in 8th grade, when vehement atheism was cool.[/QUOTE]
Read that when I was 18 when religious belief was irrational.
Oh wait, it always is.
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I love that story.
I just finished this book last night
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This book answered every question of mine about life and universe.
I cannot allow such a glorious thread to die.
Working my way through this [url=http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.html]list[/url] that someone linked in this thread atm. For some reason I started with 1984 (5th on the list), but whatever.
As long as the thread is bumped, I feel compelled to say that I finished Shadow of the Hegemon today (2nd book of the parallel series of Ender's Game). Incredible.
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just started. i love stuff like this
also, i would like to read the god delusion. is it good?
I read the Name of the Wind and am about half the through the sequel: Wise Man's Fear. Anyone else read them?
I just started The Stand by Stephen King.
I'm currently on the second book of a three-part series written by an author named James Dashner.
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The first book is called "The Maze Runner" and it consists of the adventures that a boy around the age of 16 has when he is put into a setting unknown to him. He wakes up in a large, dark and empty box with no memory whatsoever of his previous life set aside for his name and must try to survive along side other boys with the same confusion inside a compound unfamiliar to any of them.
The second book is called "The Scorch Trials" and starts off right where the first book ended, I'm about halfway through it and I can't wait to start the third when I'm done. Although the author has yet to finish the third one I'm sure it'll be pretty good. His writing style is well done in the sense that he's quite good at explaining a characters feelings as if the character were interpreting them their selves, and it doesn't seem to deteriorate as the book progresses.
Also for my American Authors class at school, part of our class is participating in reading the novel "The Scarlet Letter". Excellent read if you haven't read it. The language is quite different from that of today but as you read through it the text becomes more sensible.
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Just bought the hardbound for five bucks. Sounds promising.
Reading Generation Kill again. Still can't decide which one I prefer, this or Jarhead.
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My current book, it's a mindfuck and a half.
[sp]Who doesn't love satirical child rape?[/sp]
After this, since I'm getting back in to the swing of reading, I'll probably try to finish The Stand.
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I'm almost halfway through it, and it's AWESOME.
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Ha, I just shelved that the other day at my job at the library. I'll have to check it out some time.
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I'm almost halfway through it, and it's AWESOME.[/QUOTE]
What's this about?
[QUOTE=InvisibleTed;29168176]What's this about?[/QUOTE]
It's really hard to explain if you haven't read it at all (and I don't fully grasp it yet anyway) but it's set in the near-future, where the military have developed a supercomputer (the Demi-Monde) capable of exactly replicating our worlds most evil characters (Toquemada, Heydrich, Himmler and the like) and letting them wreak havoc in the virtual world...It sounds confusing, and a bit bland, but I guarantee you, it's great!
The Leviathan series is great, a stroke of mother fucking steampunk genius.
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Finished reading this, it sucked.
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By the way, this is my favourite book.
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Strangest book I've ever read.
Right now I'm just beginning Ulysses. Either I'm a genius or I'm insane because it isn't [I]that[/I] incomprehensible. There are times where it gets more abstract but it isn't hard to grasp what's going on. I quite like it so far.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;29241583]Strangest book I've ever read.
Right now I'm just beginning Ulysses. Either I'm a genius or I'm insane because it isn't [I]that[/I] incomprehensible. There are times where it gets more abstract but it isn't hard to grasp what's going on. I quite like it so far.[/QUOTE]
That's little league Joyce. If you want real incomprehensibility, read Finnegan's Wake.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;29243967]That's little league Joyce. If you want real incomprehensibility, read Finnegan's Wake.[/QUOTE]
No apostrophe. It's Finnegans Wake. As in multiple Finnegans are waking.
Finnegan's Finnegan's Finnegan's
He who hasn't read the Dark Tower books by Stephen King has forgotten the face of his father.
[QUOTE=Mr. Massacre;29244109]He who hasn't read the Dark Tower books by Stephen King has forgotten the face of his father.[/QUOTE]
Supposedly in a coupla years Ron Howard is directing a movie adaptation of the series. I don't know how that'll turn out.
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