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Post by Jibbs on Dec 5, 2015 21:39:50 GMT -5
I'm going to avoid reading a synopsis like I did with this book. I knew 0% going into it.
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Post by Deexan on Dec 6, 2015 8:02:33 GMT -5
Me too, I already read one sentence on reddit about 'Death's End' and even though it was incredibly vague it was enough to make me go out of my way to avoid reading anything else in future.
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Post by Jibbs on Dec 12, 2015 2:20:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deexan on Dec 12, 2015 2:40:54 GMT -5
....ffs
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Post by Deexan on Dec 12, 2015 2:58:10 GMT -5
I've checked all retailers...definitely pushed back 4 months...
Gaaaaaaagggggghhhhh!
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Post by Ramplate on Dec 24, 2015 14:33:34 GMT -5
The last few I have listened to are...
The Hitler I Knew: Memoirs of the Third Reich's Press Chief by Otto Dietrich
Every Mother's Nightmare by Chris Bosworth
The World's Most Evil Psychopaths by John Marlowe
Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away by David Dekok
Body Count by Burl Barer
The Misbegotten Son by Jack Olsen
Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Paragrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
And now I'm listening to Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster because I can't go see the movie.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Jan 9, 2016 14:31:38 GMT -5
The Magicians by Lev Grossman. It DEFINITELY borrows a lot from other fantasy series (it's basically a more adult Harry Potter so far) and it's very...prose-y, but Grossman writes that prose very well and I'm still interested in seeing where he takes the story.
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Post by Jibbs on Jan 9, 2016 17:06:49 GMT -5
Finished Interstellar Pig by William Sleator.
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Post by Fiverrabbit2014 on Jan 25, 2016 7:23:01 GMT -5
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Post by IanTheCool on Feb 16, 2016 16:51:18 GMT -5
I'm giving Endemyion a go, from the Hyperion series. So far, its quite fascinating.
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Post by Jibbs on Feb 16, 2016 21:04:19 GMT -5
Cool. I stopped after the second one.
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Post by IanTheCool on Feb 17, 2016 8:31:11 GMT -5
Well so far they have taken some of the ideas from the first book, like the cruciform parasite, and really expanded on them in an interesting way. I'm only about a third of the way through, but i'd recommend it so far.
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Post by Fiverrabbit2014 on Feb 17, 2016 17:15:45 GMT -5
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Post by Justin on Mar 2, 2016 11:18:14 GMT -5
"Girl With Curious Hair" by David Foster Wallace
"Seveneves: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson
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Post by Fiverrabbit2014 on Mar 2, 2016 12:52:13 GMT -5
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Post by sabin26 on Mar 14, 2016 9:18:13 GMT -5
Almost done reading Armada by Ernest Cline.
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Post by Seakazoo on Mar 14, 2016 17:31:43 GMT -5
Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Mar 22, 2016 9:39:46 GMT -5
Finished some film reading so now I'm finally onto Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I'm only 20 pages in, but I love it so far.
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Post by sabin26 on Mar 22, 2016 9:44:54 GMT -5
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
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Post by Justin on Mar 31, 2016 18:22:37 GMT -5
"The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)" by Cixin Liu
Having seen this mentioned earlier in the thread, I had to check it out. It is really a great read so far.
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Post by Jibbs on Mar 31, 2016 18:45:19 GMT -5
Yes! Welcome to the club.
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Post by Justin on Mar 31, 2016 21:45:43 GMT -5
Finished some film reading so now I'm finally onto Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I'm only 20 pages in, but I love it so far. How far along are you now? |
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Mar 31, 2016 22:35:22 GMT -5
Finished some film reading so now I'm finally onto Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. I'm only 20 pages in, but I love it so far. How far along are you now? Only 100 pages, it's a book that when I sit down to read I want to be seriously focused on so I haven't been powering through it. I'm hoping to get 100 more pages read this weekend. Have you read it? |
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Post by Justin on Mar 31, 2016 22:44:46 GMT -5
Yes, a long time ago. I loved that book and it seriously made me want to be a writer. More recently, however, I read "Infinite Jest"--another behemoth of a novel. Like "Gravity's Rainbow", it's one that requires every ounce of your concentration, or you'll just lose the thread completely.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Mar 31, 2016 22:48:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard that's a tough one as well. I've been so impressed by Pynchon's style. After Gravity's Rainbow I'm thinking of checking out Mason & Dixon. Even though that's another massive, sprawling novel by him I've heard it's just as good as Gravity's Rainbow. I haven't been this excited to read a novel in awhile.
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