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Post by Mage the Observer on Jun 27, 2012 20:24:37 GMT -5
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline. A wonderful sci-fi story, filled with pop culture references and deep philosophical implications. Pick a copy up now, if you haven't already.
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Post by Butterscotch on Jul 5, 2012 11:59:03 GMT -5
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean Auel. It's the sixth and final book in the Earth's Children series. The book is divided into three parts, and the first two parts focus on Ayla's training to become a Zelandoni, one of her adopted people's religious and spiritual leaders. In the second part, as part of her training, Ayla visits some of the sacred painted caves. The plot really starts in the third part, when Ayla's training has caused her to distance herself somewhat from her family.
The book was okay. I enjoyed it more than the previous book. Though Ayla is still one of fictions biggest canon-Sues, it's a bit more toned down in this book (until the third part, but that was kind of foreshadowed). Originally, there were supposed to be seven books in the series, but apparently Auel changed her mind. She must have changed her mind quite late in the game, as there are some plots left unresolved.
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zombieheadcrab
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Favorite Harvest Moon Game: Harvest Moon: More friends of mineral town & A wonderful life
Currently Playing: Gary's mod
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Post by zombieheadcrab on Jul 27, 2012 20:32:00 GMT -5
The last book I read was: Among the Free. The last book of the Shadow Children series.
It is about a country that went through a famine and a drought years ago. So the wacky government made it illegal for family's to have more than two kids because there wasn't enough food. And so the series is about a group of third children trying to free other third kids, and going undercover in the population police headquarters. I'd probably give it a 9/10
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Post by Butterscotch on Sept 6, 2012 14:33:49 GMT -5
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The book is set sometime after the world has been destroyed by a mysterious disaster. All (or at least most) plants and animals are dead and most of humanity has died off as well. The story follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a dying world.
The story is quite grim, as you can imagine. I read it on my breaks at work, which wasn't a great idea. Usually I read lighter fare at work, to put me in a good mood. And I had a depressing dream during the time I was reading it. The book's lack of punctuation is annoying. There are no quotation marks to indicate talking, making it oddly easy for dialogue to run together.
I can't say I exactly enjoyed reading such a grim book, but it's not as if I disliked it either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2013 22:40:54 GMT -5
The Night Circus is the last novel I was reading. So far I'm still fairly early in, but it's getting pretty interesting. ^.^b
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Post by Butterscotch on Feb 21, 2013 21:23:33 GMT -5
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. The book is about a pair of laotong girls, Lily and Snow Flower. The laotong relationship between two women is supposed to last a lifetime and be deeper than a woman's relationship with her husband. Lily is from a poor family and Snow Flower is from a high-class family. Despite this the two girls are good friends who truly love one another. What Lily wants more than anything in her life is to be loved and when the people around her let her down, she lashes out and cuts them out of her life.
I rather enjoyed this book. I seem to read a lot of books set in China, usually about spirited women trying to buck the traditions of how women were treated. Lily is unusual in that, for the most part, she doesn't try to act out, instead using her place as a woman to her advantage.
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Post by BorderWolf on Apr 12, 2013 1:46:04 GMT -5
Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader and Uncle John's Fully Loaded 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader These books interest trivia on a wide veriaty of subjects, such as how not to run a business, as in the family fued of the shoe companies Adidas and Puma. Another is of Doomsday predictions that never came true. The books and the other one the Bathroom Readers' Institute have written are always fun to read. Even the short trivia at the bottem of the pages. Sometime they have a joke. Like... Why are jaguars bad at playing hide and seek? Because they are always spotted. |
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Post by Butterscotch on Apr 25, 2013 7:37:08 GMT -5
The Inconvenient Duchess by Christina Merrill
Miranda is a young lady from a high-class family that has fallen on hard times. Her family friend (step-mother? The book is unclear on that point) arranges for Miranda to meet with the son of her old schoo-mate. Miranda arrives at the duke's house without an escort. The potential scandal forces the duke to marry her.
The duke is rather bitter after his first marriage, but when he learns the truth about Miranda's past his heart softens and he falls in love. The duke's jealous younger brother tries to come between them.
All in all, a pretty typical romance novel. Not bad not good. However the scene where they finally consummate their marriage came across as rather rapey and that left a bad taste in my mouth
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Post by Juxapose on Apr 25, 2013 18:20:41 GMT -5
50 Shades of Grey. . . Don't judge me!
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Post by Butterscotch on Apr 28, 2013 10:57:21 GMT -5
You...paid money for Twilight fanfiction?
Anyway, I've been rereading the Anne of Green Gables books. I love them. They're really old-fashioned and wholesome, but LM Montgomery has a sense of humor that balances things out and keeps them timeless.
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Post by Butterscotch on Jul 14, 2013 21:00:26 GMT -5
I've done a lot of reading lately.
The Hollow Kingdom and Close Kin by Clare B. Dunkle, the first two books in the Hollow Kingdom Trilogy.
In the first book, Kate and Emily are two orphaned sisters who are sent to live with distant relatives. Unknown to them, they live near the underground kingdom of the Goblins. Goblin women have trouble conceiving, so the Goblins sometimes kidnap human women as brides. The grotesque Goblin King, Marak, wants to marry Kate; she tries to resist, but when Emily is in danger, she willingly offers herself to Marak to protect her beloved sister.
The second book picks up a few years later. The Goblin Seylin tries to propose to Emily, but due to a misunderstanding, he thinks she doesn't care about him and goes off in search of the Elves. Emily goes after him, escorted by a Goblin woman.
I liked both books a lot, especially the first. The second book is less dramatic and a little disjointed. The last quarter or so actually focuses more on an Elf woman named Sable than Emily or Seylin and while her story is compelling, I was disappointed that Emily was so out of focus later on.
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Post by BorderWolf on Jul 16, 2013 12:25:14 GMT -5
This will be a report on two books.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
This book starts just before the assassination, building up from Lee tring to keep his army together before having to surrender. You find out that Booth was a relly big... *cough* jerk (read this as a polite as possible saying allowed here). The book ends with the hanging of Booth's co-conspirators.
The other book.
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Starting with Kennedy getting sworn in, telling a little bit about his time in the navy, the Bay of Pigs crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, the assassin and the hunt for Oswald. You also find that Oswald was the same comment I gave Booth.
Both books are very good reads.
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Post by BorderWolf on Oct 21, 2013 11:45:34 GMT -5
These two books are aimed at middle-readers, but are surprisingly fun to read.
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda: by Tom Angleberger
The story is about a sixth-grader named Dwight who is a bot of an oddball, but one cool thing he does is origami. One day he brings an origami Yoda puppet he made, and with it give strange ways to deal with tricky situtions. The advice works and soon most of the sixth grade start lining up with questions. Tommy a friend of Dwight, wants to know, how is it that Oragami Yoda is so smart, while Dwight is so clueless at times. So Tommy makes several investigations before he asks Origami Yoda for advice about something important (it involves a girl).
The other book is....
Darth Paper Strikes Back: by Tom Angleberger
The following year after the events in Origami Yoda, Dwight's nemesis Harvey, who feels that he was made a fool the previous year, shows up with an origami Darth Vader. Now all of the good work that Origami Yoda did, is being undone by Darth Paper, and that Origami Yoda must go. Tommy desides to make more case files to prove to the school board that Dwight and Origami Yoda are good for the school.
At the back of the books, there are pages to make your own origami Yoda and Darth Vader.
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Post by BorderWolf on Nov 6, 2013 15:55:06 GMT -5
i am maru: by mugumogu
Yes, the title is in lower case. This is a book on the internet sensation known as Maru, the adorable Scottish Fold cat, who lives in Japan. The book has pictures from some of the videos that are on YouTube. A nice thing is one the inside of the book's jacket, is a poster.
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Post by Butterscotch on Nov 15, 2013 22:47:11 GMT -5
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgsen Burnett. It's been a while since I last read this book. I know it's a kids book, but I love it. It's one of those books I just need to reread from time-to-time.
You've probably heard of the story. Sara Crewe is a rich little girl who attends a boarding school in London. Her father makes bad business deals, loses his fortune and the stress of it kills him leaving Sara penniless. She works as a servant in the school from then on.
While Sara has some of the traits of a Mary-Sue, she manages to avoid becoming one. With everything that happens to her, it's hard not to cheer her on. While I see the potential Mary-Sue traits more as an adult, I also better understand just how bad her life as a servant was.
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