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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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I've been reading Hoodoo in Theory and Practice by Cat Yronwode, and it's a fantastic and well-balanced collection of information about hoodoo practices and some of the more famous (or infamous) conjure men and women.
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 3332
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Reading the diary of a Scotsman in the US army during the US-Mexican War. Cool stuff. It was published by Lakeside Classics. Only learned about this series, which does a lot of US history, primary source, material, last year after visiting a used book store. Wish I knew about these in grad school. They would have helped considerably.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
Posts: 3707
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The Book of Humanity by the Dalai Lhama.
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it was the blurst of times |
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Rycona
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Title: The Maestro
Joined: Nov 01 2005
Location: Away from Emerald Weapon
Posts: 2815
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I just finished my Uncle John's Bathroom book recently. It's pretty interesting and I wish I had some other ones.
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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Rycona wrote: |
I just finished my Uncle John's Bathroom book recently. It's pretty interesting and I wish I had some other ones. |
It's pretty crazy when you realize that you haven't shit for a half an hour but you're still reading the book. My wife's uncle sends me one every year for Christmas, and I always enjoy reading them!
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maverickhuntergirlz492
Joined: Feb 04 2015
Location: California
Posts: 49
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some fictional ghost story called asylum
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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I'm reading all of Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern, along with Green Lantern Corps and tie-in titles. It is incredible how he managed to take a second-tier hero who hadn't been relevant in a long time, and revive him in an amazing story of redemption, and bring back the whole mythos and turn it into a best-selling storyline. Woo!
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
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Just finished a baseball book by Steve Stone which talked about all the positions in the game and the state of the sport. Was pretty interesting, but you can tell about half way through he lost interest and was just trying to meet deadlines to get it published.
Just started a new one. It's a biography of Charles Comiskey, who started the Chicago White Sox. It's trying to rehab his image as the excuse for why his players cheated in the 1919 World Series. So far it's real interesting - just the foreword was able to disprove all the anti-Comiskey arguments, using salary figures and stats - but the book proper is a bit too laudatory, overcompensating for his negative reputation. I thought all those cheapskate stories about Comiskey were true, so this book is a bit mind-blowing.
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Joined: Aug 05 2008
Location: CA
Posts: 867
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Probable Muppet
Joined: Aug 05 2008
Location: CA
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The Scarlet Gospels Clive Barker.
Sequel to Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser). It definitely holds some finality.
My god this book is so damn good. People are complaining because he promised a lot more; the original draft was about 2400 pages and 1000 were released. I can understand the frustration somewhat but after waiting at least 7 years for this book I am not at all disappointed.
The prose is excellent. It is a super perverse and sick version of Dante's Inferno filled to the brim with Clive Barker's many fetishes but it is epic and totally worth reading at least twice.
Can't wait for the movie and the long promised sequel to cabal.
RIP Pinhead...
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Brandon22000
Joined: Jun 05 2013
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Can manga count? Bacause if so, I am currently reading the electronic version of Berserk (the scanlations, don't judge me).
One of the most fucked up stories that I have ever read, yet one of the most intriguing at the same time. If you want to read the manga, here is a link:
http://www.mangahere.co/manga/berserk/
WARNING: Very much NSFW and not for the squeamish or easily offended.
I could have bought the manga, but I seem to be a bit too lazy for that. Also, although I just turned 18 a couple of weeks back, I am kinda flat broke. So I read the scanlations instead.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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bleh... i havent read anything in a really really really long time. im disappointed with myself. i spend most of my nights working out & then when i get home my roommate and i just play smash bros online until we decide to pass out. im hoping to remedy this though. soon they will be allowing us to take 1 hour long lunches at work instead of 30 minutes. so w/that extra half hour ill start reading... something... ANYTHING really.
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Neutral-Bob
Title: Zarkin Frood
Joined: Aug 17 2006
Location: Casa Del Guapo
Posts: 964
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Mostly some Redwall novels when I'm not busy with other things.
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Etch
Title: Intermittent Scribbler
Joined: Mar 15 2011
Location: Texas
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Neutral-Bob wrote: |
Mostly some Redwall novels when I'm not busy with other things. |
Read the John Swartzwelder books The Time Machine Did It and Dead Men Scare Me Stupid.
Funny stuff, a lot like Mike Nelson in style but much faster paced. Recommended for fans of absurdist humor.
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Sarge
Title: The Self-Titler
Joined: Aug 14 2010
Posts: 598
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Stephen King, 11/22/63.
I need long books or they only last a day or two. King and Clancy are the backups when I can't pick out something interesting.
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HardcoreGamer4Ever
Title: I Am The God Of Awesome
Joined: Jun 28 2010
Location: Your Mom's Vagina!
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I'm reading through all the Harry Potter books again, as it's been a couple of years since I read them. I am currently on the Half Blood Prince. One thing I've noticed is that the books have definitely improved after the beginning. I love all the books, including the Sorcerer's (or Philosopher's if you're British) Stone and the Chamber of Secrets, but the first two are probably the worst ones.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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HardcoreGamer4Ever wrote: |
I'm reading through all the Harry Potter books again, as it's been a couple of years since I read them. I am currently on the Half Blood Prince. One thing I've noticed is that the books have definitely improved after the beginning. I love all the books, including the Sorcerer's (or Philosopher's if you're British) Stone and the Chamber of Secrets, but the first two are probably the worst ones. |
That's funny, I have the opposite opinions. To my mind, the first two books are the most charming by far, and the darker and more adult that the series became yielded diminishing returns. I really enjoyed the Roald Dahl-style of the first two, and was less interested in reading a fantasy epic. Different strokes.
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Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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REAMDE, by Neal Stephenson. He's one of my favorites, and so far the new one is not disappointing me at all. |
Just finished this one, and before that I re-read The Baroque Cycle, consisting of Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World. Stephenson is also one of my favorites and I would recommend these books to anyone who has enjoyed his other work.
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Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
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Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R.Tolkien
The writing style is more in the vein of "The Hobbit", easy to pick up and read with classic elements like dragons, a knight that saves the day etc.
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brellow
Joined: Mar 08 2011
Location: Ohio
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I'm reading "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. I'm only fifty pages in but I really enjoy it so far and I hope that its sort of growing intensity pays off. I also bought another copy of "East of Eden" since I gave mine to someone else a year or so ago and wanted to read it again soon.
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Title: Dorakyura
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Location: Castlevania
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I read The Three-Body Problem and its sequels, The Dark Forest and Death's End, by Cixin Liu, last year. Some interesting concepts in those books, I still find myself thinking about them from time to time.
I also re-read Ringworld by Larry Niven this past year.
I wish I had more time to read, but life has been chaotic and busy.
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