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iiicon
11/01/2017
08:22 PM
#1
Help! I bought three books and I don't know what to do!



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All three books interest me for a variety of reasons and I can't pick, so I'll start whichever one has the most votes by the time I put the kids to bed tonight.
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X_Dante_X
11/01/2017
08:28 PM
#2
i voted for mike duncan - the storm before the storm
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11/01/2017
08:28 PM
#3
I bought IT, but I haven't started yet. It's super long and I don't want it to interfere with NaNoWriMo.
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iiicon
11/01/2017
08:58 PM
#4
X_Dante_X posted...
i voted for mike duncan - the storm before the storm

did you vote to tie it up, because you liked the title, or do you listen to his podcasts
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KingButz
11/01/2017
09:00 PM
#5
I read a lot of newspapers

Mostly nyt, wsj, and wapo
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X_Dante_X
11/01/2017
09:00 PM
#6
i liked the title
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iiicon
11/01/2017
09:10 PM
#7
thank you for your support
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X_Dante_X
11/01/2017
09:10 PM
#8
also when i voted it put it in the lead
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X_Dante_X
11/01/2017
09:11 PM
#9
titles are a powerful thing in literature, man

good title good book
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iiicon
11/01/2017
09:15 PM
#10
He hosts a podcast called Revolutions about, fittingly, historical Revolutions. This book is a follow-up to his podcast series about the history of Rome called The History Of Rome.

So while this title continues his very literal naming convention, it does have a little poetic rhythm
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NFUN
11/01/2017
09:32 PM
#11
Snow Crash Override

how about The Captive Mind? It won a Nobel prize and everything.
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iiicon
11/01/2017
09:35 PM
#12
Books don't win Nobel Prizes!
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NFUN
11/01/2017
09:46 PM
#13
The author was Lithuanian and didn't have really anything else translated. Close enough
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5tarscream
11/01/2017
10:37 PM
#14
Just finishing the last ASOIAF book. About to start Perfume next for the Book Club on Gamefaqs Literature board.
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Gatarix
11/02/2017
11:38 AM
#15
recently read a couple of really good monster short stories for Halloween(ish)

The Lamentation of Their Women (Kai Ashante Wilson) - I don't agree with the politics of this one but it was fantastically written (also I am dense and can't figure out what Anhell's "big sin" is supposed to be, if anyone gets it please tell me)
https://www.tor.com/2017/08/24/the-lamentation-of-their-women/

These Deathless Bones (Cassandra Khaw)
https://www.tor.com/2017/07/26/these-deathless-bones/

in the backlog:
- still need to get/read The Stone Sky
- got a few library books on call that I'm saving for Thanksgiving vacation - The Boy on the Bridge (M.R. Carey), Strange the Dreamer (Laini Taylor), The Wolf Road (Beth Lewis). wanted to get Bacigalupi's Tool of War but couldn't find it anywhere
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SeabassDebeste
11/02/2017
12:38 PM
#16
Gatarix posted...
- still need to get/read The Stone Sky

you recommended this series to me and i have literally no one to discuss it with :(

reading life 3.0, an exploration of the future of AI. i really want to grind and understand the mathematical ideas behind neurons and machine learning, but it's all in footnotes, sadly, and i'd rather plow through the book to get onto other stuff.

need to start the trial by kafka (maybe saturday? seems like a one-day project)

my hold on new york 2140 expires today, so i need to pick it up. have to finish it in 2 weeks and it's like 600 pages!
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iiicon
11/02/2017
12:41 PM
#17
SeabassDebeste posted...
you recommended this series to me and i have literally no one to discuss it with :(

and I recommended it to Drak!

... I think the only 2017 book I've read is the new Jennifer Egan.
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Gatarix
11/02/2017
12:44 PM
#18
borne? which was pretty great btw. poor little guy, he tried so hard and they still kicked him out :((
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iiicon
11/02/2017
12:48 PM
#19
Oh right! That came out around my birthday. That feels forever ago.

I still think it's crazy that there's a Jeff VanderMeer movie coming out, and the trailer is currently showing in theatres. Before B8 was my internet home, I spent my time in the comments section on Jeff VanderMeer's blog.
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NFUN
11/02/2017
01:56 PM
#20
Oh, I guess Oy is reading the Dark Tower series
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VeryInsane
11/02/2017
10:03 PM
#21
Man I recognize Coates's name but from exactly where I'm drawing a blank from

This does remind me that I am looking for something new to pick up! Kinda looking for something that's cyberpunkish in setting but any good sci-fi from the last couple years would probably be good, I've picked up on the foundations of the genre but haven't really kept up with any of the newer stuff
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iiicon
11/02/2017
10:14 PM
#22
VeryInsane posted...
Man I recognize Coates's name but from exactly where I'm drawing a blank from

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
https://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates/dp/0812993543/
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Panther-Nation-Under-Feet/dp/1302900536/

One of these, probably.
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Drakeryn
11/02/2017
10:15 PM
#23
you could read the short stories I linked!! (though neither is cyberpunk)

also Borne is post-apocalyptic sci-fi
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VeryInsane
11/02/2017
10:26 PM
#24
Out of those it definitely sounds like the Atlantic article!

And I'd look into those short stories at some point this weekend, preferably when I don't mind staring at a computer screen for a long time
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tabiicat42
11/02/2017
11:05 PM
#25
If you're taking suggestions, I enjoyed Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
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