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finished this, fantastic book, I have to admit I always subscribed to the theory that it was arrogant to assume that we were the only planet that harbors life due to the size of the universe but one dude puts forward an argument that made me realize just how wrong I could be
say there are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, suppose life's origin needs a specific sequence of ten critical precise chemical reactions (an underestimate) and each one has a probability of occurring in the habitability window of, say, one in a hundred then the combined probability for all ten steps to occur is one in a hundred billion billion, that would leave the odds of life in the Milky Way pretty low.
There is also mention of the zero one infinity rule which I've read about before, basically the only three numbers that matter in anything are zero one infinity
its an interesting book man, I got a bit bogged down with the repetition in the final third of it but still great, I'll probably just return to this every now and again and read a chapter whilst I'm on the shitter, there is a lot of info to take in after just one read
I'll be starting this soon, I might take a few days off from the books, I've been hammering them for a while now
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In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.
Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She’s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she’s never seen anything like this.
Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he’s found new dreams – of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real.
Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity.
A killer who wants to make you whole again…
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I went to the opticians for an eye test today, I've been getting pretty bad headaches, I thought it was just my eyes disintegrating at the same rate as the rest of my body.
Apparently my eye sight ain't all that bad (surprising as I'm blind as a cunt with out my glasses) and even after 6 years I don't need to get a new pair or anything, my eye sight is just a good/bad as it was 6 years ago.
I told her about the headaches and she asked me what I do at work, I told her that I sit in front of a computer all day, she asked what I do when I get home and hobbies and shit, I told her that I read a lot and usually do a book or two a week and when I ain't reading I'm playing the piano, she asked me how much telly I watch, I told her I watch probably half an hour a night when I get in from work, she told me that maybe I should watch more TV because it isn't as stressful on the eyes...not happy with the outcome of that opticians appointment...
Hahaha, did she suggest any specific programs? HAHAHAHA
She didn't but I think that people are quite taken by TOWIE, Big Brother, The Jungle get me out of here, The geordie thing, The bake off, and Hollyoaks, I might start watching all of them...or I might just slit my throat, I haven't decided yet.
Throat sliting it better, but carry on reading and lose your eyesight. Listen to good music then.
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I am reading this book about Steve Jobs at the moment. Great person, interesting but not easy life...
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I've not even looked at a book in the last week or 2, I think that work has been absolutely frazzling my brain, I'm well ahead on my reading goal for the year anyway so I might take the rest of this week off and then get started again
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I've not even looked at a book in the last week or 2, I think that work has been absolutely frazzling my brain, I'm well ahead on my reading goal for the year anyway so I might take the rest of this week off and then get started again
@Batman you ever read mans search for meaning by victor frankel. He survived auschwitz. He was a doctor and when he came out he developed logo therapy which is a school of psychiatry. It's a fascinating book that I used to read once a year
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JK Rowling has just been on the radio talking about the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.
I seriously doubt if anybody has made such a career of milking one small wizard since Debbie McGee.
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last couple of books that I have read
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In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.
Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She’s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she’s never seen anything like this.
Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he’s found new dreams – of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real.
Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity.
A killer who wants to make you whole again…
Decent book this was, it started off as a really good crime thriller sort of thing and then descended into absolute chaotic twilight zone sci-fi gibberish which threatened to ruin the whole thing.
All of the characters were telegraphed and massively cliched, you had the tough single mom, the little shit of a teen daughter who gets into trouble all the time, the hard ass black fella who has a heart of gold, the down on his look journalist who will do anything to make it to the big time.
It should have been a snooze fest but the dialogue between the characters was fantastic and it saved it, the final third of the book really tries to ram home the dangers of social media and show how reliant we all are on it, I didn't get that at all and thought it wasn't needed but that's probably because I don't use any social media at all.
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A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? Will he hang for his crime?
Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs, where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s multilayered narrative will keep the reader guessing to the very end.
This was fucking brilliant, I love books from the era that this is set in and the writing style is perfect although the fact it was only wrote 2 years ago makes it a helluva lot less dense and wordy as books from the late 18's or early 19's but it doesn't lose any of the feeling or athmosphere of these sorts of books.
The blurb says that it will leave you guessing to the very end and it certainly did, fucking fantastic book, it certainly reminded me a little of 'confessions of a justified sinner' (I think I mentioned reading that a few months back) so that sat well with me.
I'd definitely recommend it.
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I have just got Carl Froch book from the library will let you know how I get on with it.
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I have just got Carl Froch book from the library will let you know how I get on with it.
I heard it was 80,000 pages long and published in Wembley
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I have just got Carl Froch book from the library will let you know how I get on with it.
I heard it was 80,000 pages long and published in Wembley
I am sure that will come up somewhere in the book.
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Next book that I'm going to get started on this, I've gotta get it finished by 8th September when the film comes out, I'd forgotten what a fucking monster of a book it is, 1200 pages so I've gotta get cracking with it, I've not read it for years and I just remember the ending being pretty fucking terrible, but hey ho, I feel like I need to get through it before I see the film
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Well I started IT last wednesday and im on page 530 of 1116 so I'm pretty much half way through now.
It's a slog, I don't wanna spend too long on it so I've been hammering it, it's not exactly the biggest font ever either.
I'd forgotten how good it was, the losers club have all just met up again for the first time as adults, their childhood is slowly coming back to them now.
Fuck me though Stephen King could have already shaved 100 pages off it so far, there's a chapter which is about 40 pages long which tells the story of a negro club being burnt down by the white folk of the town, yeah I get why it is included but fucking hell King it didn't need to be 40 pages long.
Oh yeah I'd forgotten that old Dick Hallaran out of the shining puts in an appearance as well, that's a pretty cool touch.
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I'm reading Peter Hooks account of his New Order days. A very long book but one of the fumniest I have read. Hook has a way of telling a story that makes me sit back and have a giggle. Great book.
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I'm reading "rivals until death" about the many feuds between Hamilton and Burr leading up to the duel that took the life of the man who started the us financial woes
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Finished It last night, really enjoyed it and the ending didn't grate on me as much as the first time around
Started this today
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Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas--Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language ...It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose' Irish Times 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect ...He is a great writer' Independent 'A bloody and starkly beautiful tale'
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`Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.'
This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. The novel follows Victoria's progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career of deepening criminality conducted under Satan's watchful eye. Charlotte Dacre's narrative deftly displays her heroine's movement from the vitalized position of Ann Radcliffe's heroines to a fully conscious commitment to vice that goes beyond that of `Monk' Lewis's deluded Ambrosio. The novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of Victoria's intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya that transgresses taboos both of class and race.
A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, Zofloya has been unduly neglected. Contradicting idealized stereotypes of women's writing, the novel's portrait of indulged desire, gratuitous cruelty, and monumental self-absorption retains considerable power to disturb.
The introduction to this edition, the first for nearly 200 years, examines why Zofloya deserves to be read alongside established Gothic classics as the highly original work of an intriguing and unconventional writer.
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One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by Craig Raine.
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.
'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine ... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent'
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'Dedalus have unearthed a series of aptly decadent titles where elements erotic and grotesque combine. The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, surprising the station staff.' Chris Fowler in Time Out Something fresh and original in fantastic fiction.
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Read Froch’s book which has a quote on the cover about the “saviour of boxing” which is complete nonsense. I thought the book was going to be about Froch loving himself and how great he thinks he is but it was not that bad.
Froch had invested in property before he became a professional boxer and is doing well for himself.
I forgot Froch was with Hennessey and was on primetime after being on BBC and ITV where he had built a fan base. After he lost to Ward he went to Eddie and Sky where he got his best win against Bute on normal sky then fought on PPV against Kessler et al.
Froch does talk about how he was unmotivated against Ward but in reality Froch lost because he simply was not good enough to beat Ward but Carl did not give Andre the credit he deserved.
However Froch talks up about how good Arthur Abraham was when really he was just a blown up middleweight.
Froch also hates Groves with a passion but does not admit how much he does in the book, claiming he did not take him seriously and was in a dancing show during the weeks up to their first fight.
Overall it was ok book which I enjoyed reminiscing about the good fights he had during his career.
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well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all
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well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all
I want to hate Froch but he is very knowledgeable about boxing and that comes across when he commentates on Sky, loves his home city Nottingham, family man and does not mind getting his hand dirty. So I think I would get on well with him.
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well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all
I want to hate Froch but
he is very knowledgeable about boxing and that comes across when he commentates on Sky, loves his home city Nottingham, family man and does not mind getting his hand dirty. So
I think I would get on well with him.
well they do say that opposites attract :p
I don't have a problem with him, he's a big headed bastard and I always thought he would get found out in the ring but he never did so fair play to him.
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well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all
I want to hate Froch but
he is very knowledgeable about boxing and that comes across when he commentates on Sky, loves his home city Nottingham, family man and does not mind getting his hand dirty. So
I think I would get on well with him.
well they do say that opposites attract :p
I don't have a problem with him, he's a big headed bastard and I always thought he would get found out in the ring but he never did so fair play to him.
Andre Ward exposed his limitations which is why most think Joe Calzaghe would out box him too. Especially since he lost to Kessler and Joe beat a prime Kessler.
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Finished this today, I know that Cormac McCarthy is a divisive author and you either love him or hate him, unfortunately I think I am firmly in the latter bracket.
I enjoyed The Road but even that took me a good two attempts to finish it, Blood Meridian just felt like I was literally slogging my way through a sludge if words, I really struggle with his writing style.
The Judge was a good character though.
I've not decided what I'm going to get started on next.
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I suggest 'Charlatan' by Pope Brock or 'The Devil In The White City' Erik Larson or 'The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France' Eric Yager
Let me know if you select one of those
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I suggest 'Charlatan' by Pope Brock or 'The Devil In The White City' Erik Larson or 'The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France' Eric Yager
Let me know if you select one of those
@El Kabong I've just added Charlatan and The Devil In The White City to my 'to read' list on goodreads, Trial by Combat doesn't really sound like my sort of thing.
I've got 3 books to get started on so it'll be a few weeks before I'm looking to buy anything else.
Also the name of the author of Charlatan sends chills down my spine...Pope Brock...Jesus, just the thought of it makes me break out in a cold sweat
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'Dedalus have unearthed a series of aptly decadent titles where elements erotic and grotesque combine. The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, surprising the station staff.' Chris Fowler in Time Out Something fresh and original in fantastic fiction.
Right I've decided, I'm gunna get started on this one now
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I suggest 'Charlatan' by Pope Brock or 'The Devil In The White City' Erik Larson or 'The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France' Eric Yager
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El Kabong I've just added Charlatan and The Devil In The White City to my 'to read' list on goodreads,
Trial by Combat doesn't really sound like my sort of thing.
I've got 3 books to get started on so it'll be a few weeks before I'm looking to buy anything else.
Also the name of the author of Charlatan sends chills down my spine...Pope Brock...Jesus, just the thought of it makes me break out in a cold sweat
It was a very interesting read about 2 knights in medieval France there's a charge of rape against one of them and after DECADES of going to court and higher courts and higher courts the leadership of the era said the case should be decided by a knightly duel and God would guide whoever was in the right to win.
Just figured you might like that, relatively short book you'd read it in like 2 seconds. But hell yeah enjoy those books man, let me know what you think of them.
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Fucking fantastic book, 11 short stories all brilliantly told, I usually struggle with short stories but these were crackers, each one only between 10 and 15 pages.
Grabinski manages to fit a hell of a lot into them without it feeling rushed but leaving you wanting more.
A fantastic selection and it has everything you could really want.
People say that Grabinski is a Polish Poe or Lovecraft, I can't see that but I can see that Thomas Ligotti must have been influenced by him in quite a big way.
If you like Ligotti then give this a go, cracking book
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finished this morning, took me longer than usual but I've been dragged on a few piss ups and with this bloody job interview and what not I don't think my head has been in the right sort of place for reading
How can such a colourful book be so dark?
Basic premise, Humbert Humbert falls in lust with a 12 year old girl, he kidnaps her and subjects her to 2 or 3 years of rape, as I say it is an extremely dark subject matter, the beauty of this book (as I said at the start of this post) is how colourful the writing is, not only colourful but clever as well.
The fact that the subject matter is one of the worst possible crimes possible never once did the book feel too overly serious, never once was I terrified for Lolita's safety or well being, never once did I feel an overwhelming level of hatred for Humbert Humbert.
Thats because the whole book is told from HH's point of view, Lolita doesn't get the opportunity to express how she is feeling because the whole book is seen through HH's eyes, oh don't get me wrong there are plenty of clues that Lolita is not happy and there are plenty of times when she says something that drags you back to the subject matter and makes you go 'wow' Humbert Humbert is so blase in his own mind that his actions are almost second nature to him.
Right up until the very end of the book you get an insight into this mans twisted perception of right and wrong.
A brilliant read, I'm going to let this one marinate for a few months and then re-read it because I am sure that there is a hell of a lot more to be taken from this book after the second or third (or maybe fourth) read.
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Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defense Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Harry has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits. Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is, this time Harry is working for the defense, aiming to prevent the accused, Leland Foster, from being convicted. And not only does the prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, but having crossed over to 'the dark side' as his former colleagues would put it, Harry is in danger of betraying the very principles he's lived by his whole career.
I was planning on reading 1984 next (as I mentioned in another thread) but my dad has thrust this book upon me, it's the fucking 20th in the series and I've never read any of them before.
I've not really read any of these types of books (except for the Rebus series) for absolutely ages and I don't really want to read this one though, my Dad enjoyed it though and I like to keep him interested in reading so I'm going to plough through this in the hope it sparks him into picking up another book.
it's 400 pages but it should only take me a few days, if I really throw myself into it then I could get it done before the weekend quite easily, only problem was that I was planning on getting back onto my piano, I've not played in ages so there is a good chance that'll take up a lot of my time
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I'm currently reading 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, I don't get much time to read books, although there are several classics I'd like to work through and this was one of those (other options considered at the time: 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville and 'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens).....funny that so far the book reminds me of @Gandalf moody like Dorian Gray, completely focused and yet in awe of his skill like Basil Hallward, and a whimsical dandy like Lord Henry and Wilde himself.
I'm not certain what I'll read next, I would like to try out Dickens but perhaps a different story than 'Hard Times' as, Charlths Dickenths don't know nuttin' about HARD TIMETHS
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I'm currently reading 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde, I don't get much time to read books, although there are several classics I'd like to work through and this was one of those (other options considered at the time: 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville and 'Hard Times' by Charles Dickens).....funny that so far the book reminds me of @
Gandalf moody like Dorian Gray, completely focused and yet in awe of his skill like Basil Hallward, and a whimsical dandy like Lord Henry and Wilde himself.
I'm not certain what I'll read next, I would like to try out Dickens but perhaps a different story than 'Hard Times' as, Charlths Dickenths don't know nuttin' about HARD TIMETHS
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Great stuff, take a look at what I bought just the other day, it was delivered on Friday, keep me updated on what you think of it (no spoilers though)
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Well from watching Venture Brothers I know that Oscar Wilde was a huge fan of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American painter best known for the portrait of his mother titled 'Whistler's Mother' ) and his portrait of Robert de Montesquiou apparently inspired Wilde to write his tome 'Dorian Gray'....
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Dorian Gray is an excellent book and probably due a reread once I am through with the backlog that seems to be in front of me. I love those Victorian duality stories like Hyde, Gray and Dracula, and maybe even Frankenstein. Those kinds of stories will never get old.
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right well I've got 4 books after I have finished this one to hit my goal for the year
I was going to read 1984 next but I have been told to read another Nabokov book, which should be delivered any day now, I can't remember exactly what its called, something like 'sinister bend' or something, but I'm going to read that, then Dorian Grey (to give the Nabakov book time to settle) then I'm going to read 1984 (because apparently its a direct rip off of sinistier bend or what not) and then tthe 4th book is up for grabs at the minute.
once I have hit my goal though I want to leave myself enough time in the year to read S by JJ abrams and I wanna re-read house of leaves...Pissed I am...but that is my plan
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right well I've got 4 books after I have finished this one to hit my goal for the year
I was going to read 1984 next but I have been told to read another Nabokov book, which should be delivered any day now, I can't remember exactly what its called, something like 'sinister bend' or something, but I'm going to read that, then Dorian Grey (to give the Nabakov book time to settle) then I'm going to read 1984 (because apparently its a direct rip off of sinistier bend or what not) and then tthe 4th book is up for grabs at the minute.
once I have hit my goal though I want to leave myself enough time in the year to read S by JJ abrams and I wanna re-read house of leaves...Pissed I am...but that is my plan
Damnit @Batman read '1984' so you can compare and contrast your take on it with Hillary Clinton's take on it
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right well I've got 4 books after I have finished this one to hit my goal for the year
I was going to read 1984 next but I have been told to read another Nabokov book, which should be delivered any day now, I can't remember exactly what its called, something like 'sinister bend' or something, but I'm going to read that, then Dorian Grey (to give the Nabakov book time to settle) then I'm going to read 1984 (because apparently its a direct rip off of sinistier bend or what not) and then tthe 4th book is up for grabs at the minute.
once I have hit my goal though I want to leave myself enough time in the year to read S by JJ abrams and I wanna re-read house of leaves...Pissed I am...but that is my plan
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Batman read '1984' so you can compare and contrast your take on it with Hillary Clinton's take on it
That was the plan but apparently 1984 completely ripped off Nabakov so I'm gunna have to read that one first so I can give a balanced view on the book and the author .
Fuck I'm pissed
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I like to read my Kindle in the bath and dropped it in the water yesterday. It was totally submerged, but the power came back on and it seemed to be okay. Today though I tried turning it on and the screen went blank. It wouldn't turn on! I tried to reset it and still nothing. I was panicking. I read online that you can put it in a sealed bag with some rice and I did that while I went out. I came back and it was trying to update, but stalled. Then right before it came back! I am so relieved! Amazon is one evil bullshit corporation, but I need to read and thank god it came back. I would happily pay 15% extra for all my books if it would go directly to the staff in Amazon sweatshops. Form more unions you buggers, take them down!
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading ?
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Gandalf
I like to read my Kindle in the bath and dropped it in the water yesterday. It was totally submerged, but the power came back on and it seemed to be okay. Today though I tried turning it on and the screen went blank. It wouldn't turn on! I tried to reset it and still nothing. I was panicking. I read online that you can put it in a sealed bag with some rice and I did that while I went out. I came back and it was trying to update, but stalled. Then right before it came back! I am so relieved! Amazon is one evil bullshit corporation, but I need to read and thank god it came back. I would happily pay 15% extra for all my books if it would go directly to the staff in Amazon sweatshops. Form more unions you buggers, take them down!
Best thing when something like that happens is to put it in a box with rice before switching it back on, let it dry out completely first
Or leave it in a box of rice overnight and an Asian will sneak into your house and repair it for you
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading ?
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Batman
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Originally Posted by
Gandalf
I like to read my Kindle in the bath and dropped it in the water yesterday. It was totally submerged, but the power came back on and it seemed to be okay. Today though I tried turning it on and the screen went blank. It wouldn't turn on! I tried to reset it and still nothing. I was panicking. I read online that you can put it in a sealed bag with some rice and I did that while I went out. I came back and it was trying to update, but stalled. Then right before it came back! I am so relieved! Amazon is one evil bullshit corporation, but I need to read and thank god it came back. I would happily pay 15% extra for all my books if it would go directly to the staff in Amazon sweatshops. Form more unions you buggers, take them down!
Best thing when something like that happens is to put it in a box with rice before switching it back on, let it dry out completely first
Or leave it in a box of rice overnight and an Asian will sneak into your house and repair it for you
Where is Miles going to find an Asian?
I can't imagine reading stuff on a kindle but with hundreds of books lining the walls could do with the space. No smell, no touch, no pate turning sound....ewww
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I've got a Kindle but it doesn't get used all that often at all, its more for if there is a book that I am only semi interested in then I'll download it.
It's also good for my Lovecraft and Poe stuff I mean they the books are not exactly practical for reading on the bus
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I'm hoping to get The Crossing finished today or tomorrow, I've got about 200 pages left in it, its actually been a lot better than I was expecting, I thought it would just be in the same vein as James Patterson or Jeffrey Deaver but its actually a lot better than that, it isn't all car chases and shootouts (so far) and its very much about the investigation side of things which sits well with me.
I'm enjoying it so far anyways.
After that I think I'm going to get started on 1984, I was going to read Sinister Bend by Nabakov but it hasn't been delivered yet...I don't think, it may have and I've just forgotten about it, I've had a fuck load of books delivered over the past few weeks.
