The Glade 4.0

Tried to read it...could not do it.


Pick up Under the Dome. It is awesome.

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Raell Kromwell

just finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

Have now picked up Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.

I've been trying to catch up on reading some of the "classics" lately. Have already read Paradise Lost and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard.

When Darkness Falls - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Just finished Johannes Cabal the Detective

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Shadowmarch by Tad Williams.

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~Tolyn~

"A penny for your thoughts; $20 to act it out."

Just finished that one Tolyn. What do you think compared to his other series?

God help me. I am reading the Twilight series. I started the first book late Saturday night. I'm on the fourth one now.

Don't worry...your Midgen is safe...for now.

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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” - Pearl S. Buck

omg.....

/hide

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Er.. I think I'M the one that needs help now! :p

/comfort Midgen

I started this one but gave up on it. Should I pick it back up? His earlier stuff is great.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I've liked it, but it took a while to get into. The later books in this series feel more like Memory, Sorrow & Thorn/Otherland on crack. Far more complex.

Wait, more complex than Otherland? Talk about a dense series of books in which I had absolutely no idea what was going on, half the time...

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

yeah pretty much. Otherland at least all came together. The Grail Brotherhood and the Norns had comprehensible motives.

The Qar and the Xand ... I'm still baffled by their actions. The Qar especially--I've never come across a fantasy species thats quite so incomprehensible.

Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Gulliver's Travels

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Just finished Doomsday by Connie Willis, looking through the unread pile.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

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I was thinking of picking up H. P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection: 101 Stories, 45 Poems, Biography, and Bibliography in One Volume [Kindle Edition]

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Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis
Seventh Son, by Orson Scott Card
The Americans, The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin
Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, by Fawn M. Brodie
On Liberty, Society, and Politics, by William Graham Sumner

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I just downloaded At the Mountains of Madness. Reading it in MS Word, which looks enough like work that I can read it at work when I have a spare moment or two.

Also reading Twilight of the Sea Gods by Thaddeus V. Tuleja, about the German Navy in WW2.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Necroposting cuz I'm still reading ...
A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo - downloaded from the Baen Free Library.
Sci-fi / war fiction - aliens have declared war on other aliens who don't know how to fight their own battles, so they've hired the human race to act as mercenaries in their defense. About a third of the way into the first book in the series, and it's a really good read so far.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Just finished Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh, about to start The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris.

Reread Watership Down.
Then started reading the Dark Tower series. On book #2 now, because I got tired of people recommending this.

I'm not a King fan - I think he's a terrible writer. Good ideas, terrible execution.