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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
Started reading The Big Short. Had this weird sense of deja vu that I'd read something by this guy before but couldn't place it. It was just so smarmy, I'm-the-smartest-guy-in-the-room, that I couldn't shake the feeling. I just checked Goodreads and turns out I read Liar's Poker a couple years ago. Weird.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10275 Location: in the air tonight
Iholdthepain wrote:
finished The Time Machine today, starting War of the Worlds tomorrow...
I HG Wells
The Time Machine is absolutely tops. The Island of Dr. Moreau is pretty good also. War of the Worlds and Invisible Man were middling to me, though. But Time Machine is so great
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:35 am Posts: 35478
Just finished this. Simply put. One of the best books I've ever read. Bawling happy tears at the end. Can't get over it. Well worth your time. Robbing yourself if you don't read it.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19722 Location: Cumberland, RI
Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19722 Location: Cumberland, RI
Simple Torture wrote:
Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10275 Location: in the air tonight
Simple Torture wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
Reading The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh and it's...wow. It's intense. It's really awkward too because I'm actually listening to it so I get to listen to a female narrator go on and act out all of these sex scenes.
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