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Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2018 11:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by Grace on Apr 27, 2018 12:54:13 GMT -5
Been reading some Chekhov short stories. Now I started Julio Cortázar's All Fires The Fire (also a short story collection); The first one, called "The Southern Thruway", is really really good. my dude
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Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2018 13:00:31 GMT -5
^ because te(leram)rry craig watched blow up
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 27, 2018 13:32:42 GMT -5
wrong. i got the book on recommendation of Finnish comic artist Jason. it was a coincidence that they screened Blow up recently (also i heard it has almost nothing to do with the original short story).
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Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2018 15:09:32 GMT -5
wrong. i got the book on recommendation of Finnish comic artist Jason. even more embarrassing actually
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 27, 2018 16:06:11 GMT -5
wrong. i got the book on recommendation of Finnish comic artist Jason. even more embarrassing actually i knew you wasn't gonna disappoint with the snobbiness btw you just complained about the lack of "adorable end-chapter adornments" in a book you got on recommendation from a children's book author
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Post by Reba on Apr 27, 2018 16:26:17 GMT -5
yeah i was just taking the mick ya t00l
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jun 16, 2018 13:04:48 GMT -5
Yesterday I read a book called The Pun Also Rises, written by a John Pollack. I recommend it for anyone interested in puns and language. Anyway, the reason I read it was that I have an exam on Monday in puns, and I regret exactly none of the decisions that led me to that situation.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jun 18, 2018 16:24:58 GMT -5
Rose novelisation by RTD (Birthday present from Anka). I'm really enjoying it so far and it makes me miss those days when i was 7 and doctor who was new to me.
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Post by Foxy on Jul 24, 2018 13:25:01 GMT -5
Last week I finished a book called Undoctored by William Davis, MD. It pretty much aligned with what I have been thinking about Big Pharma and Big Food for a long time. Then I read Sugar Crush by Richard Jacoby, MD. It might be the best book I have read on nutrition. Now I am working on The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein. I am only into the first chapter, but I think I agree with a lot of what he is saying. I also like to listen to audio books while I exercise, and I have been listening to Malcolm Gladwell books. I am listening to David and Goliath, and then I will have listened to all his books. I do not always agree with everything he writes, but I do find everything very interesting, and I also believe it is important to listen to all sides of an issue before you form your own opinion. I also pretty much just read non-fiction.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jul 24, 2018 17:55:55 GMT -5
I also like to listen to audio books while I exercise, and I have been listening to Malcolm Gladwell books. I am listening to David and Goliath, and then I will have listened to all his books. I do not always agree with everything he writes, but I do find everything very interesting, and I also believe it is important to listen to all sides of an issue before you form your own opinion. I also pretty much just read non-fiction. I've read Outliers, and I also find Gladwell's thoughts interesting to read about without subscribing completely to his views (not that I'm decided what I actually do think on the topics he discusses). It's a few years since I read it, but I remember thinking that it seemed a little too competitively minded for my tastes, but that his style of writing was compelling. I'm currently reading A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers. I'm not very far into it, but I like what I've read.
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Post by Foxy on Aug 7, 2018 12:10:58 GMT -5
Outliers was the first Gladwell book I read. I really enjoyed it, but I can see what you mean about his being a little too competitive. All his books are a bit like that.
I am on to Brain Maker by David Perlmutter, MD. It reminds me a lot of another book I read, Let Them Eat Dirt, because it talks a lot about the gut flora. I am also listening to Bill Bryson's One Summer - America 1927. It has a lot of funny stuff about Babe Ruth, and a lot of information on Charles Lindbergh.
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Post by lemonmeringue on Aug 13, 2018 8:31:42 GMT -5
I've been hit by nostalgia and am currently re-reading A Horse Called Wonder, which was my favourite book when I was ten or eleven.
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Post by Foxy on Aug 17, 2018 9:52:40 GMT -5
I am reading a really funny book called Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents by Cormac O'Brien. It has lots of funny facts about presidents, like Washington spent 7% of his $25,000 salary on alcohol. The inside cover has a picture of him holding a beer.
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The Seer
Reptile Researcher
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Post by The Seer on Sept 23, 2018 3:16:33 GMT -5
Albert Camus, the Fall.
Excellent.
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