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Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by Melody Bot, Mar 13, 2015.

  1. i was lucky that my two advisors in college specialized in non-men writers (specifically of the american revolution) and world literature (specifically chinese lit, but i ended up reading more post colonial stuff with him than anything). got to avoid a lot of the white male bullshit
     
  2. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    Granted I haven't read all of his short stories, but Stephen King's "I Am the Doorway" from Night Shift might be my favorite short story of his. So wildly creepy and in a very unusual way for King. Seriously, everyone should take ten minutes and read this ten page short story.

    Stephen King finally goes to space!
     
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  3. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    Audible is having a 50% off sale on the entire site. some good deals to be found, depending what you're looking for.
     
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  4. inwaves

    gravity comes to us all

    I own Night Shift but haven't read everything in it. I'll read this today!

    I have about 240 pages left in 11/22/63 and I'm so eager to finish it.
     
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  5. Colby Searcy

    Is admired for his impeccable (food) tastes Prestigious

    Most of my reading time is also on my lunch break at work. Can typically get in about 50 pages or so, which is good for me
     
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  6. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    Damn, that's impressive for a lunch break. If I try to read and eat at the same time I can get maybe a page done every ten minutes or so. I always lose my place and end focusing on my food.
     
  7. Colby Searcy

    Is admired for his impeccable (food) tastes Prestigious

    Haha I'm a pretty slow reader too. I get an hour for lunch, don't know if that's typical or not. Also I eat at my desk so it's nice and quiet, which helps alot.

    You really get into your food huh?! Lol
     
  8. emersontheauthor

    Regular

    Same, lol. I get an hour for lunch, but I usually spend the first 30 minutes eating, and then I'll read like 15 to 20 pages.
     
  9. Colby Searcy

    Is admired for his impeccable (food) tastes Prestigious

    Sometimes it's definitely less but that's typically my goal is 40-50 pages
     
  10. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    I tried to read during my lunch breaks but no one cares if I'm on lunch so I end up working during lunch anyway. I'll be at my desk, back to my office door, holding a book and no one will care. People will just come in mid-conversation and off we go for something work related. No apologies or anything for interrupting me reading / interrupting my lunch. Which is kind of weird because my coworkers are awesome and very nice.
     
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  11. awakeohsleeper

    I do not exist.

    I get 30 minutes lunch and tend to get a book out as everyone takes lunch when they want.
     
  12. Deanna

    Trusted Supporter

    Started The Dead Zone by Stephen King today. Hoping to have it done by next week maybe.
     
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  13. fyebes

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  14. drewinseries

    Drew

    I just ordered a ton of Charles Williams on amazon. One of the few inklings I haven't fully delved into.
     
  15. reading Lispector's Água Viva and gosh is she incredible--the way she writes sentences is so strange--they're so beautiful the first time you read them and then when you go back they kind of dissolve into something completely different.

    Also The Hour of the Star is one of my favorites if anyone is looking for something new to read--really beautiful book.

    Also this is a great article about her The True Glamour of Clarice Lispector
     
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  16. anyone get anything good for christmas? I got a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to pick up from the last two years:

    The Windfall - Diksha Basu
    Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
    The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
    Moonglow - Michael Chabon
    Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier - Mark Frost

    and my uncle was taking me through his vintage books collection and he gave me a pretty old two-volume edition of Les Misérables which is pretty awesome.
     
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  17. manoverboard365

    Trusted Supporter

    I got:
    I am Brian Wilson
    The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
    All The Light We Cannot See
     
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  18. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    I got:

    - The Magic Mountain
    - The Instructions
    - Coin Locker Babies (super shocked someone found this)
    - The Feast of the Goat
    - Dandelion Wine
    - Intensity
    - Revival
    - How to Breathe Underwater
    - The Handmaid's Tale (signed copy)
    - Zero K
    - Under the Volcano
     
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  19. emersontheauthor

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    These aren't necessarily "book books" but I received Harry Potter: A Journey Through a History of Magic, the collected Peanuts 1957-1958 (there is a whole series of these and this will be my 7th volume - hopefully one day I'll have them all), and Volume 4 of the Lumberjanes, Out of Time.
     
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  20. For Christmas, I got The Fact Of A Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnivich and Draft No. 4 by John McPhee.
     
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  21. fastlife

    Regular Supporter

    The Instructions is pretty great (but also gigantic and the reason I got a kindle haha).
     
  22. drewinseries

    Drew

    I got

    - Once Upon An Algorithm
    - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
    - Descent Into Hell
     
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  23. Iain

    Regular

    I am reading Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. I have had it on my phone for ages, and I was waiting on my Chinese order so decided to read it without knowing too much of what it was about. You know that way, it is really busy, and you know its going to take forever? Disaster struck, no internet signal or wifi.

    Anyway, i cannot put the book down. Who would have thought a story about speeding up the speed of the stock exchange by milliseconds would be so interesting?!
     
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  24. Garrett

    i tore a hole in the fabric of time Moderator

    Anyone read The Goldfinch?
     
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  25. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    LOVED IT.

    The Secret History is also great, one of my absolute favorites.