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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:18 pm 
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Been reading a newish book called Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Its sorta Willy Wonka meets Second Life. Its the future, I think the late 2050's, the world sucks due to an energy crisis and pollution overload and pvery everywhere. An already famous multimillionaire game maker named Halliday makes a game called OASIS which is the ultimate MMO. It's a simulation of everything, any sci-fi/fantasy/video game/movie/book whatever universe in one game, and its free. Most of humanity drowns themselves in it to get away from the world. Awhile after its out the creator dies, but releases a video detailing a sort of contest. He hid clues withing in the game that led to keys which opened gates. After the third gate was an easter egg that would award the finder his vast fortune. Its all based on 80's pop culture and it takes people a long time to solve due to its difficulty. Legions of people devote themselves to relearning 80's culture, even having it make a comback entirely into real society. One day the main character figures it out and suddenly he's a famous person and getting endorsements but he's also a target of this crazy corporation that has been trying to take over Hallidays company to monetize and ruin the game by charging a fee and throwing ads everywhere. Its so goddamn good, I bought it and haven't put it back down. I DO SUGGEST IT IF YOU ARE THE NERDY TYPE (YOU PROBABLY ARE).

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:47 pm 
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I think I'm going to reread A Series of Unfortunate Events. Shame I don't have books 4, 5, 8, or 9 but I guess that's what libraries are for. I read a quote in which Daniel Handler said that when he got the idea for the series he pretty much put it as "I want to write 13 books about terrible things that happen over and over again," and that made me miss his humor.


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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:54 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:21 am 
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Oh god I'm so excited for John Green's new book The Fault In Our Stars

I preordered it back in June

JANUARY ISN'T THAT FAR AWAY NOW

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:23 am 
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Just re-read Howl's Moving Castle. It's such a wonderful book! The animated movie was great, but I find the story in the book to be much more charming. And the characters are more interesting, too.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:50 am 
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just finished Looking For Alaska because I forgot about it lol

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Also, she is british. She says "cheers" when she means to say "later". How great is that?

awful book 0/10 will never read again

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:19 pm 
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Reading Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King

I think this was a terrible first thing to read by Stephen King

"AND THEN THE HOUSE WAS A SPACESHIP AND THE DICK STEPFATHER WAS GONE"

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:29 pm 
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Finished the last Inheritance novel in a bookstore. And I can now say that I both know the entire story and absolutely hate the fact that anyone says Paolini writes well. How good the story is remains up to opinions (boring and plagiaristic in my opinion), but a question of skill is capable of being empirically determined and I can say with certainty that Inheritance is horribly written and Paolini has actually gotten worse over time.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:29 pm 
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I have acquired Inheritance

Bracing myself for a glorious reunion between me and my childhood

Ninja edit: Well crap. This is bound to be interesting, for better or for worse.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:22 pm 
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Hmm. I'm probably on the fourth chapter of Inheritance now. It kinda bothers me that Paolini uses such advanced vocabulary when it isn't really required. I understand he's trying to write a grand fantasy, but cripes. Even Tolkien didn't write at this level.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:36 pm 
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Well, apparently people don't land, they "alit"
Lots of "whereupon"s
"The wind from his passage tore at the flames on the blade" etc etc.

Just a whole bunch of pretentious phrases. Out of context they seem fine, but when you read it in the story there's just something grating about them.

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 Post subject: Re: Books and shit
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:41 pm 
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Somebody say King? Nightmares and Dreamscapes seems all over the place, sci fi, fantasy and all sorts of stuff, but It's not terrible and there're some decent stories. I liked Everything's Eventual, stuck to his guns mostly. Lunch at the Gotham Cafe was the first King thing that really caught my eye.

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I went to the library today and found they have almost no Terry Pratchett books that I havn't read already, they are missing more then 20 books that hes written.

I AM SO DISAPOINTED.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:28 pm 
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So King's working on a new Dark Tower.
Yippee.

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Reading Atlas Shrugged again. Such a glorious book.


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