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_Goggalor_
05/07/18 6:47:31 AM
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So far, I've got:

Great Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Green Mile by Stephen King
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sphere by Michael Crichton (currently reading, almost finished)

Next:

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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HaVeNII7
05/07/18 6:48:02 AM
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Just some Berserk.

Dont read much at all tbh.
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apolloooo
05/07/18 7:25:17 AM
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1984
Sapiens

Currently reading homo deus

Plan to read sam harris' free will afterwards
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Joelypoely
05/07/18 7:49:27 AM
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung (7.5/10)

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts (8.5/10)

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey (8/10)

All Things Are Possible and Penultimate Words and Other Essays by Lev Shestov (8.5/10)

Currently reading Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger and re-reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Lost_All_Senses
05/07/18 3:56:12 PM
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Everybody Poops
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Unspecified_NPC
05/07/18 3:58:34 PM
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Reading through the Redwall series of books because I've always loved them. Reading through chronologically. I'm on 5 (Outcast of Redwall) of 22 currently.
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_Goggalor_
05/07/18 4:00:34 PM
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Unspecified_NPC posted...
Reading through the Redwall series of books because I've always loved them. Reading through chronologically. I'm on 5 (Outcast of Redwall) of 22 currently.


Good books. RIP Brian Jacques:(
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ollie89
05/07/18 4:02:21 PM
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Zurkon posted...
Call Me by Your Name by Andr Aciman

By far the most beautiful, emotional book I have ever read in my life.

Have you seen the film, Zurkon?

apolloooo posted...
Sapiens

Currently reading homo deus

How are those books?

I've been considering reading them.
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MC_BatCommander
05/07/18 4:04:57 PM
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I went through Jurassic Park and The Lost World pretty quickly. I also read Pyramids and Guards! Guards! as I tend to read a couple of Discworld novels every few months.

I'm currently on the Lightbringer series, book 3. I liked the first two enough to keep going but this third book has really turned into a slog. Idk if I care enough to keep going with how bad the pacing is now.
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AvlButtslam
05/07/18 4:07:03 PM
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I listened to 2 audiobooks, A Song of Ice and Fire books 2 and 3
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Zeeak4444
05/07/18 4:19:09 PM
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Gone baby gone
Moonlight mile

Tinker. Tailor. Soldier. Spy.
The Honorable Schoolboy
Smileys peoples

The Things they carried

One bullet away

First two same author, next three same author, last two both standalones.
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DevsBro
05/07/18 4:23:34 PM
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (currently working on it)
And a dozen or so Philip K Dick short stories.

I should be running out of the short stories soon. He wrote just over 200, and I read a ton of them last year and more this year. Plus there are several I had to skip because I couldn't find them.

_Goggalor_ posted...
Sphere by Michael Crichton

This one is in my backlog. I loved The Great Train Robbery. One of very few books I read in school that didn't bore the hell out of me.
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_Goggalor_
05/07/18 4:27:07 PM
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Just finished Sphere. It was good. Not his best, kind of plain writing, but the mystery and tension were worth it.
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Medussa
05/07/18 4:28:20 PM
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nothing since last fall, when The Expanse #6 released in paperback. patiently waiting for #7 to do the same. October =(
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DevsBro
05/07/18 4:50:21 PM
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_Goggalor_ posted...
Just finished Sphere. It was good. Not his best, kind of plain writing, but the mystery and tension were worth it.

I've also got Thw Andromeda Steain waiting.

I dunno what it is but I don't really want to read Jurassic Park. I guess part of me is afraid the book is so much better than the movie that I won't be able to enjoy the movie anymore.
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ollie89
05/07/18 6:56:48 PM
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Zurkon posted...
ollie89 posted...
@Zurkon By far the most beautiful, emotional book I have ever read in my life.

Have you seen the film?

I was originally planning on watching it right after I finished the book but I haven't got around to it yet. I still need to watch that one and Love, Simon.

Let me know when you do watch it.

Would love to hear your impressions on it.
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__aCEr__
05/07/18 6:59:45 PM
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Yeah Sphere was pretty good. The movie really sucked, though.
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ChainedRedone
05/07/18 7:15:12 PM
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Currently reading War and Peace translated by Briggs and I'm loving it so far.

I will also be reading Master and Margarita.
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apolloooo
05/07/18 8:07:42 PM
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@ollie89 posted...

@apolloooo How are those books?

I've been considering reading them.

pretty good. aside from some little sensasionalist statements, i find it is very refreshing and give quite alot of new perspective
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apolloooo
05/08/18 3:57:05 AM
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I just pre ordered yuval hararis next book, 21 lessons for the 21st century.

Also bought sam harris' free will
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Sphyx
05/08/18 4:06:00 AM
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I started Cibola Burn, but i have't been as fast at reading it as the previous books in the series.

Not that i'm not enjoying it, but i blistered through the first three books and a couple of other books inbetween and am getting a little burned out of reading in general. I can't seem to stay into reading as long as i used to.
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Bad_Mojo
05/08/18 4:10:53 AM
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A Song of Ice and Fire (Everything)
Enders's Game
Reading Ender's Shadow right now
The Iron King; The Strangled Queen; The Poisoned Crown - Maurice Druon
Super Fudge - Judy Blume (I think)
A Choose Your Own Adventure
Afterlife with Archie; Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

And a few others I'm too lazy to look at to remember what they're called. Two of them are about a "heel" Peter Pan, and the other is a really fucked up version of Alice in Wonderland
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Ic3Bullet
05/08/18 4:13:17 AM
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apolloooo posted...
Currently reading homo deus

Lol you said homo.
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apolloooo
05/08/18 4:18:26 AM
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Ic3Bullet posted...
apolloooo posted...
Currently reading homo deus

Lol you said homo.

You homo sapiens
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scar the 1
05/08/18 4:30:30 AM
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Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
The Sleeping Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Currently reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Probably gonna read some more books from the The Expanse series that I started last year. Otherwise nothing planned.
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IloveJesus
05/08/18 4:30:11 PM
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_Goggalor_ posted...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche


Better off reading Beyond Good and Evil.
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LightHawKnight
05/08/18 4:32:13 PM
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Off Armageddon Reef
By Schism Rent Asunder
By Heresies Distressed
A Mighty Fortress
How Firm a Foundation
Midst Toil and Tribulation
Like a Mighty Army
Hell's Foundations Quiver
At the Sign of Triumph
Oathbringer
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_Goggalor_
05/08/18 4:43:46 PM
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IloveJesus posted...
_Goggalor_ posted...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche


Better off reading Beyond Good and Evil.


I've read both. Just re-reading Zarathustra.
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Bad_Mojo
05/08/18 5:29:29 PM
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Zurkon posted...
ollie89 posted...
Let me know when you do watch it.

Would love to hear your impressions on it.

For sure

@Bad_Mojo posted...
Two of them are about a "heel" Peter Pan, and the other is a really fucked up version of Alice in Wonderland

Was one of the Peter Pan books Lost Boy? The same author wrote a dark Alice in Wonderland I plan on getting to.


Yep, the Peter Pan book and the two Alice books are by th same author. Lost Boy must be what it was callesd. sounds right
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Medussa
05/08/18 5:31:23 PM
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Sphyx posted...
I started Cibola Burn, but i have't been as fast at reading it as the previous books in the series.

Not that i'm not enjoying it, but i blistered through the first three books and a couple of other books inbetween and am getting a little burned out of reading in general. I can't seem to stay into reading as long as i used to.


that one took me a little while to get into, too.
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AngryGrandpa
05/08/18 5:32:34 PM
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Haven't read a book since highschool English class.
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PowerMang
05/08/18 5:34:30 PM
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Read like the first two chapters of 'Fire and Fury' and that's it

When I realized all the juicy parts had already been talked about to death on the news. There really was no point in me continuing.
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Loghain
05/08/18 5:34:42 PM
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Anger Management: How To Avoid Strangling Your Own Mother
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Bad_Mojo
05/08/18 5:53:39 PM
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Loghain posted...
Anger Management: How To Avoid Strangling Your Own Mother


Thats very chill if you
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Minute
05/08/18 5:57:27 PM
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Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll

Huh, thought I had read more but I can't remember any others.
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Megaman50100
05/08/18 5:58:57 PM
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I finished The Way of Kings earlier in the year, currently reading The Terror (Dan Simmons).
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gguirao
05/08/18 6:03:29 PM
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None so far.
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lww99
05/08/18 6:04:49 PM
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HBOSS
05/08/18 8:10:34 PM
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other than my textbooks I've been reading Dune so I can read along with a book club for dune II.

got some 2017 best sellers I picked up on kindle too. not sure when I'll get to that but i DO plan on reading them before the year ends
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Omnislasher
05/08/18 8:12:15 PM
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Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis
Radio Free Vermont, Bill McKibben
Woody Guthrie: A Life, Joe Klein

might be forgetting one

now reading To the Promised Land, Michael Honey
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Antifar
05/08/18 8:13:12 PM
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Necessary Trouble, by Sarah Jaffe
Work: The Last 1,000 years by Andrea Komlosy
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_Goggalor_
05/08/18 8:17:15 PM
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God, Swann's Way is so good. Not sure if I'll read the rest of the books but this one is beautifully written.
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Omnislasher
05/08/18 8:24:15 PM
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Antifar posted...
Necessary Trouble, by Sarah Jaffe
Work: The Last 1,000 years by Andrea Komlosy


both seem interesting. thoughts? recommended?
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Antifar
05/08/18 8:27:50 PM
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Omnislasher posted...
Antifar posted...
Necessary Trouble, by Sarah Jaffe
Work: The Last 1,000 years by Andrea Komlosy


both seem interesting. thoughts? recommended?

Necessary Trouble is a good overview of recent movements. A lot of it was stuff I already kinda knew, but she does a good job of tying things together
Work is really fascinating to me; the author comes at the subject from a bunch of different angles: historical, linguistical... I've found it insightful.
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Omnislasher
05/08/18 8:29:01 PM
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nice thanks
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