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by Bella Fortuna » Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:57 pm
We got this yesterday:
http://www.amazon.com/So-You-Created-Wo ... 0425245586
I've only taken a cursory glance, but can't wait to read it, it's really funny.

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by SteveB » Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:37 pm
Reading
Folklore Fights: The Nazis Humor in Occupied Norway 1940-1945
I found this pretty funny:
Norwegians were ordered to sit by a Nazi on the train if all other seats were occupied (they weren't allowed to stand), cuz it made the Nazis feel bad.

Twit, twat,
twaddle.
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by fretmeister » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:42 pm
A coin magic manual. And it's damn hard stuff!
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by Animavore » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:43 pm
A Clash of Kings.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by SteveB » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:45 pm
Animavore wrote:A Clash of Kings.
Find it a tad boring, like I did?

Twit, twat,
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by Animavore » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:46 pm
Nibbler wrote:Animavore wrote:A Clash of Kings.
Find it a tad boring, like I did?

Dunno. I'm on page 25.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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by SteveB » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:05 pm
Well then, I won't keep you.

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by Bella Fortuna » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:09 pm
I'm reading Dance Night by Dawn Powell. It's OK but I'm kind of ready for it to be over.
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by amused » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:35 pm
I just finished The Hunger Games trilogy. It was better than I expected.
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by amused » Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:34 pm
I'm working out a series of stories that roughly uses characters like Nick and Nora Charles as a point of departure. So I downloaded Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man to read his vaunted dialogue. He's good at it.
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by Sean Hayden » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:33 pm
annoying, the science of what bugs us
I think my barber may have the Shine.
"For that state in which the law is subject and has no authority, I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation, and every blessing which the Gods can confer." --Plato
Yeah, yeah, don't get excited. That asshole would have encouraged you to continue to follow the law regardless of your leaders too...

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by anna09 » Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:52 pm
I just gave up on
White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I really hate not finishing a book but I was 70 pages in (out of 448) and bored as fuck.

Anyone else read this?
Oh well, now starting
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch.
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by Cormac » Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:55 pm
is reeding this buk.
FUCKERPUNKERSHIT!
Wanna buy some pegs Dave, I've got some pegs here...
You're my wife now!
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by macdoc » Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:48 pm
Breathe by Tim Winton - had no realized this crafter of fine prose was shortlisted on the Booker TWICE!!!! Good literature - adventure and solid prose - akin to Deliverance in that regard
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:10 pm
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