09-20-2013, 07:01 PM | #321 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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Robinson Crusoe
Narrative: Pro-Christian message: |
10-14-2013, 01:33 PM | #322 |
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Why I Write by George Orwell.
Not much to say here. If you are a believer in Socialism it's up your alley. Just a few essays. 6.12/10 |
10-14-2013, 03:49 PM | #323 |
Sisukas Mies
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W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician 8/10
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10-28-2013, 12:13 PM | #324 |
Sisukas Mies
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Emile Zola - Therese Raquin 8/10
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11-09-2013, 07:41 PM | #325 |
ELF ANGEL
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The Firm - 9/10
The Testament - 7/10 Game of Thrones - 10/10 The Disaster Artist - 9/10 Moby Dick (Currently Reading) |
11-10-2013, 03:24 AM | #326 |
ELF ANGEL
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@Nerfs rep message
Yes, it is a tedious read so far. Thinking Call of The Wild next. |
12-02-2013, 06:16 PM | #327 |
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Korea: The Impossible Country
Opens with a compact 20 page history of Korea but the entire book is about South Korea from 1945-the present with a focus on its contemporary culture. Religion, food, education, entertainment, social norms and a ton of other tenets of the society are covered and it's an awesome read to broaden your horizons and knowledge of a foreign and not-so-widely discussed culture. |
01-07-2014, 06:02 PM | #328 |
Tag Team Wrestling Mark!
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Finished the last game of thrones book. Finally. 8/10
Just when you think things are wrapping up, he swerves. It was originally meant to be a trilogy but he keeps writing and writing. They take real commitment though. |
01-27-2014, 11:23 AM | #329 |
MEIN FUHRER! I CAN WALK!
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Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
Very interesting book from a holocaust survivor / psychiatrist. Basically an existential look at how to find meaning in life when everything you've had has been stripped away. Definitely a suggested read. |
02-05-2014, 07:23 AM | #330 |
I'm Mr. White Christmas
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis - 9/10
COOL BOOK |
02-06-2014, 02:36 AM | #331 |
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The Professor's House by Willa Cather: 9/10
A modernist masterpiece |
02-18-2014, 03:21 AM | #332 |
DIY MS FILMWORKS
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No Country for old men-9/10 As good if not better than the film.
1984-10/10 One of the few classics I read in high school that I enjoyed. Marjoe-7/10 Decent Bio on the infamous child preacher. |
02-20-2014, 10:40 PM | #333 |
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A good friend hooked me up with an Amazon giftcard for X-mas. I had been wanting this collection of Peter Bagge's Batboy comic from the late great Weekly World News. Found a used copy super cheap. This hardcover reprints the 2 years when Bagge was writing and drawing the strip. Great stuff. |
02-20-2014, 10:43 PM | #334 |
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The newest issue of the best magazine if you love cult,exploitation,horror and classic porn cinema. As always this is a great read. |
02-21-2014, 04:00 PM | #335 |
Hey Mister!
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Final Fantasy: The Sky
Okay, so I didn't read it since there are almost no words. It's an art book dedicated to Yoshitakia Amano's work from FF 1-10. As a kid I hated Amano's art and it even deterred me from playing Final Fantasy 6.(Though my first RPG experience with Dragon Warrior was the main problem) But over the years his art grew on me til I finally "got it". This set is actually three books, each pertaining to a group of FF games, all together in a gorgeous box. It's not a series retrospective like the Capcom Complete works series. There is no commentary at all. It is a pure art book. I've seen a lot of amano's art over the years, but this had lodes of stuff I had never seen. It has everything from two page spreads to art for all the monsters. The dark tower gaurdians from FF 3 were particularly cool. The book that contains FF 7-10 is much smaller than the others, as Amano was no longer the head designer. FF 9 actually gets the biggest page count in that book. Interesting though, that Red XIII seemingly may have had a bigger role in the initial stages of FF VIII, as Cloud's pet/companion. Anyway this is an amazing set, and at 60 bucks, I felt like it was a great deal given the quality. 10/10 |
02-27-2014, 03:34 PM | #336 |
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Jack Ketchum's-Weed Species
This was originally a very limited print run chapbook. That was later reprinted as part of a mass market paperback. Based on that couple in Canada that were going around kidnapping then raping and killing teenage girls. It takes a lot to turn my stomach and this under 80 page story did that 4 times. |
03-22-2014, 07:43 PM | #337 |
"Ask him!"
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A Game of Thrones
Pretty great stuff. For some reason I was expecting really difficult to read, intricately detailed chapters like Tolkien, but it read more like adult Rowling to me (with more sex and violence than the Harry Potter series, obviously). The whole thing was kind of ruined for me though since I've watched the show. Clash of Kings next. |
04-22-2014, 05:10 PM | #338 |
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Approaching Oblivion by Harlan Ellison-8 out of 10
Love Ellison's short fiction and this collection is well done. Plus it was only 50 cents. |
04-24-2014, 12:50 PM | #339 |
The Classic Dylan Staples
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ken grimwood "replay"
pass.fail/pass.pass Cool novel about this guy who dies and then awakens as himself like 25 years earlier, relives his life and makes a bunch of money via betting and stuff, dies again at the same time and keeps reliving his life, cool |
05-11-2014, 12:11 AM | #340 |
Покупа́й Билет
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House of Cards - 9/10
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05-17-2014, 10:17 PM | #341 |
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Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia:
Now that it doesn't matter anymore, I have decided to see what I have missed out on in the Star Wars EU for the past 20 years. I rate this book 7.5/10. Think it had a weak beginning and a weak ending, but the middle part was pretty rad. |
05-18-2014, 09:53 PM | #342 |
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Fight Club - 7/10
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05-24-2014, 03:29 PM | #343 |
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Failures of the Presidents: 6.5/10
An interesting book focusing on the failures of various presidents including 5 of the first 10, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover, JFK, FDR, LBJ, Carter and Dubbya. Problems include bias' of the authors which are apparent with various statements of opinion presented as fact and a fair amount of editorializing. Most of these things are covered in various history courses in high scho and freshman college courses so there might only be a limited amount of new information for hardcore history buff readers. |
05-29-2014, 11:56 PM | #344 |
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I read The last Evenings on earth and By Night in Chile, they were both really good because Bolano is the best.
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05-30-2014, 02:01 AM | #345 |
Out Of Step
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Divergent trilogy 8/10
Because I have the reading habits of a 15yo girl. |
06-15-2014, 08:19 PM | #346 |
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Traveller of a Century - Good/strange novel by this Argentinian writer named Andres Neuman. About some translator in the 19th century who ends up in this city and is unable to leave and the relationships he forms in the town. Felt indebted to Mann, Kafka. 8/10
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07-04-2014, 03:22 AM | #347 |
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I've been reading the works of this Swiss writer Robert Walser. I really like his stuff -unique, neurotic, modernist prose. He was this outsider who was once really popular and guys like Musil and Kafka liked his stuff, but he slipped into obscurity, had a nervous breakdown and ended up in an asylum. He would go on long walks, and died during one of these walks and someone took a picture.
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07-04-2014, 08:51 PM | #348 |
is brat
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Peter & Max by Bill Willingham
7/10. Based in the same universe(s) as his Fables comic book series. Was alright. Read like a children's book/fairy tale. Drawback of that is that it just felt like it didn't have enough depth for a novel. Still enjoyable, but as a novel, would have been cool to have more details. Would go through years in a character's life in two sentences... |
07-20-2014, 07:57 PM | #349 |
LUV CABBAGE/H8 JEWS
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Apocalypse Watch - 3/10 The worst Ludlum novel I've ever read.
The Chancellor Manuscript - 9/10 The best Ludlum novel I've read. 3 books (fuck the titles) by Alex Kava - 5/10 Why do I even bother with modern crime novels by women. Well, at least she doesn't spend half the book describing outfits like Kathy Reichs. |
07-22-2014, 06:01 PM | #350 |
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The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam 9/10
Single volume history(with fantastic background coverage) of the first year of the Korean War. |
08-09-2014, 05:19 PM | #351 |
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Star Wars Darth Plagues by James Lucino 8/10
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08-16-2014, 08:48 PM | #352 |
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott 8/10
Well written book with a thought provoking thesis and evidence to back his claim. |
09-24-2014, 10:02 AM | #353 |
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Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison-9/10 Best part is the story of when he got hired and fired by Disney in less than 3 hours.
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10-14-2014, 08:48 AM | #354 |
#MakeTPWWGreatAgain!
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The Hunger Games Catching Fire? Think thats the name. 10/10 i read it last year. cool book.
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10-14-2014, 09:32 AM | #355 |
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Inner Demons by Brian Coll - 10/10.
Author is a buddy of mine from college, which is the entire reason I got the book. I ended up really enjoying it, though. Great character development, plenty of gore, imagery is awesome (plus I'm mentioned a few times - famous NPC right here). |
11-13-2014, 06:38 AM | #356 |
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Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark
The last of the Grofield series. Fun fast paced pulpy crime drama. 8/10 |
12-28-2014, 12:55 AM | #357 |
"Ask him!"
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Read the entire Game of Thrones series in the span of about 6 months. The fourth one was tough to get through (it features all of my least favorite characters), but making it to the fifth one made it worthwhile. Giving them individual ratings would be difficult at this point, since they all kind of run into each other in my head. Great though, if you're into fantasy/political dramas.
Finished "Catcher in the Rye" about a month ago - my first time reading it. I loved the style of the writing, but it ended up being rather simplistic. Don't really see what all the fuss is about. I guess it was more controversial when it was written. "Catch Me If You Can" is amazing. I highly recommend it to pretty much anyone. Don't let the Spielberg film turn you off from reading it - they're almost completely different. Reading, in detail, the depth that he went to fool so many people in so many scams was incredible. Pretty addictive book - I think I finished this in under a week. Finished "Enders Game" about a week ago. Pretty awesome stuff - way better than the incredibly shitty film. I started reading "The Forever War", but stopped about a quarter of the way through. Pretty depressing shit, which I guess figures, since it's basically a Vietnam War veteran's story set in a futuristic world fighting against alien beings. I'll probably finish it later in the year. Reading the new version of "The Death of WCW" right now. I've read the first publication version about 100 times, so reading the new version with about 40% more text is a bit refreshing. Just purchased about 10 new books for my Kindle (Top 10 sellers on Amazon for 2014), so I'll start something new soon. It'll be nice to read something from this year. |
12-28-2014, 02:42 AM | #358 |
Fire up Chips!
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Coupon Book 6/10. Some good stuff but mostly a load of nonsense I'll never use.
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12-28-2014, 07:28 AM | #359 |
Sisukas Mies
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William M. Thackeray - Barry Lyndon 7/10
Not as good as Vanity Fair, but still a decent read. On to Machiavelli's The Prince. |
01-07-2015, 03:02 PM | #360 |
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I had my girlfriend challenge me to read more books than she will this year. She set her goal at 100 books for 2015 so I gotta do at least 101. Finished up book 4 about an hour ago.
http://doubletsblogofreviews.blogspo...4-garbage.html 4.95 outta 5 |