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machiavelli33 Reply #840 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 07, 2008, 08:06:07 PM
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Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

To be honest I'm finding it kind of underwhelming.
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Gudy Reply #841 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 08, 2008, 02:15:14 AM
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JC Chasez in a Dr Huxtable sweater
I tried to draw it out, but I'm finally done with Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice For All Creation. That was fun and I want more. I'm also almost done with Mack the Knife's Feldare series.

Not sure what to read next, both digitally and on paper.
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Arachne Reply #842 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 08, 2008, 07:07:05 AM
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S.D Tower's Assasins of Tamurin

... so far, I'm enjoying it. Smile
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Symmetry Reply #843 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 12, 2008, 04:13:22 PM
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A collection of the years best SF short stories.  And I just noticed that all the Hugo short stories are online.  link

Go read The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate.  The Cambist and Lord Iron too.
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machiavelli33 Reply #844 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 12, 2008, 10:46:05 PM
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Alan Moore's From Hell.

And christ, Gull doesn't shut the hell up.

Blah.  Blah.  Blah.  Man.  Woman.  Sun god.  Hate women.  Penis.  Unrealized homosexuality.  Turn here please, Netley.  Blah.
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hehehehhehe I just finished that a few weeks ago Mach.

Also just put down "Eleanor Rigby" by douglas Coupland

and picked up "The Gun Theif" by the same author.

I'm just starting Roald Dahl "Skin: and other stories"

And Foucault "This is not a pipe" with illustrations and letters by rene magritte.

All in all it was a successful book store trip (since they almost never get Dahls books for adults used and this one was new at 8.50, and Foucault never stays on the shelves... )
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Lady Malchav Reply #846 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 12, 2008, 11:52:36 PM
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MeowBerry Reply #847 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 13, 2008, 10:22:31 AM
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Anthony Trent: Master Criminal.
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phobos Reply #848 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 13, 2008, 03:07:54 PM
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Morlindale, a re-telling of The Silmarillion from the villains' perspective. Chronology's a bit off in places (edit: in fact it's thoroughly shot to hell), but then this is based on the premise that the Elvish histories were liberal about what they considered fact. So this one's Morgoth's propaganda piece instead.

Interesting read so far, exploring Melkor's motivations and giving a pretty decent explanation for the Orcs. Goes a little too far in demonising all the other Valar, I think, but then it _is_ meant to be Melkor's story. Something was nagging at me, though; I'd seen the author's name before, and not on a Tolkien site...

Ah. Founder of the Temple of Set, a splinter group of the Church of Satan. No wonder this guy's writing the Big Bad's side of things :-)
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NoxEquites Reply #849 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 17, 2008, 01:07:17 PM
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Just finished "Unto the Breach" by John Ringo.
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Symmetry Reply #850 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 23, 2008, 02:03:37 PM
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As a blast from the past, "The World of Null-A" by A.E Van Vogt.  I have to say, science fiction writers seem to have developed a lot of techniques for writing about superintelligent characters in the last fifty years without letting the reader see ways in which said character isn't actually as smart as the reader.  Sadly, Van Vogt wrote before all of these.
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machiavelli33 Reply #851 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 23, 2008, 02:04:26 PM
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Just finished Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, good quick fun read.  Classic Heinlein style.
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MeowBerry Reply #852 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 23, 2008, 03:52:28 PM
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I'm reading through the Complete Sherlock Holmes once again.
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POwriter Reply #853 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 27, 2008, 08:34:05 PM
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Scix Reply #854 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 28, 2008, 03:55:52 AM
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Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt.

Somehow I had never got around to reading this before.
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Arachne Reply #855 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 28, 2008, 10:20:08 AM
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Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power, by Bonnie Berry

This book depresses me.
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Quote from: Scix on July 28, 2008, 03:55:52 AM
Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt.

Somehow I had never got around to reading this before.

It's good when they stick to reason and stop being moralising douchebag lifestyle evangelists.

And when the lesbian one quits saying "goddess", but that's just my personal pet peeve.
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Scix Reply #857 in So what are YOU reading? — Posted July 28, 2008, 03:32:34 PM
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um ... yeah. hadn't noticed either, but I suppose it's in therw. It's a new edition, though.
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Postwar by Tony Judt. It's interesting how little I actually know about European history since WWII - well, except the British stuff.
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