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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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Jacob

#825
June 09, 2011, 12:35:41 PM
Quote from: Gups on June 08, 2011, 10:13:13 AMThe China one was good but I thought there was just too much to cover.

Yeah, it's definitely a survey work.

MadImmortalMan

#826
June 14, 2011, 01:23:15 PM
Slaughterhouse Five is on sale for three bucks on the kindle.
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Razgovory

#827
June 14, 2011, 04:44:31 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 14, 2011, 01:23:15 PM
Slaughterhouse Five is on sale for three bucks on the kindle.

The series really went down hill after Slaughterhouse 3.  By SL 4 it's pretty clear Vonnegut no longer knows how he intends to end the story and is just adding new story lines and other useless bloat.  Also he gets statistics from David Irving.  Bleh.
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Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#828
June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josephus

#829
June 14, 2011, 05:38:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.

Yeah...but it's War and Peace, right?
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

mongers

#830
June 14, 2011, 05:47:08 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 14, 2011, 05:38:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.

Yeah...but it's War and Peace, right?

:D

No one of the Larry Gonick 'cartoon history of the world' books.   :Embarrass: :blush: :Embarrass:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Habbaku

#831
June 14, 2011, 06:38:05 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 14, 2011, 05:38:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.

Yeah...but it's War and Peace, right?

Not much of an accomplishment.  The book isn't that long.
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The Brain

#832
June 14, 2011, 06:40:05 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 14, 2011, 06:38:05 PM
Quote from: Josephus on June 14, 2011, 05:38:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.

Yeah...but it's War and Peace, right?

Not much of an accomplishment.  The book isn't that long.

It's in Russian. :contract:
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garbon

#833
June 14, 2011, 06:56:25 PM
Just finished reading Annabel by Kathleen Winter. Pretty decent I guess although not as engaging as Middlesex. Parents of the hermaphrodite largely become caricatures as the book progresses - brooding father who stays out in the wilderness; hysterical mother who rots away at home.

Also finished The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White. Fitting end to the autobiographical trilogy.

Still making my way through Game of Thrones and about to start Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

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Grey Fox

#834
June 14, 2011, 08:50:56 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.

You suck. I think I read 10 so far this year.
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Josephus

#835
June 14, 2011, 09:40:10 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 14, 2011, 08:50:56 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 14, 2011, 05:19:25 PM
I have still only gotten around to completely reading one book sofar this year. :gasp:   :blush: to infinity.

You suck. I think I read 10 so far this year.

Doctor Seuss doesnt count. ;)
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Slargos

#836
June 17, 2011, 08:10:22 AM
I got those Dresden books as audiobooks. So far I gotta say I am entertained.

Slargos

#837
June 17, 2011, 11:08:58 AM
One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Valmy

#838
June 17, 2011, 11:09:40 AM
Quote from: Slargos on June 17, 2011, 11:08:58 AM
One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Magic!
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Slargos

#839
June 17, 2011, 11:12:17 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 17, 2011, 11:09:40 AM
Quote from: Slargos on June 17, 2011, 11:08:58 AM
One objection, though.

If Wizards make "technology" malfunction by their very presence, how is it that he can drive around in a car with no mention of it ever going haywire?

Magic!

Why you little...  :mad:
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