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Ociamarru
Joined: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:46 pm Posts: 1930
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Off-Topic Book Club
What the title says!
Well, not exactly. I'm not one for rigid adherence to authority. More, I was wondering what people in the (off-topic) forums have been reading lately? Or any recommendations they have? Personally I'm into books that get you thinking, if anyone has any suggestions along those lines [books I've really enjoyed include House of Leaves, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Brothers Karamazov/Crime & Punishment, Brian Greene-type ♥♥♥♥, The Metamorphosis/The Stranger].
Right now I'm plowing through A Scanner Darkly at about a mile a minute, and it's tactfully trippy as anticipated. First PKD novel, and I'm enjoying it so far.
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:03 am |
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CaveCricket48
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm Posts: 13144 Location: Here
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
I write a lot more than I read.
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:18 am |
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TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
I read The Martian a while ago. I don't read books too much anymore.
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:15 am |
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Izen
Joined: Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:56 am Posts: 1474 Location: At the corner of unoriginality and boring
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
I don't read much anymore but I will always recommend the Discworld and Myth series
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:34 am |
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DAME777
Joined: Wed May 18, 2011 2:44 am Posts: 491 Location: Dank dreams.
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
I read a lot of lore nowadays.
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Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:56 am |
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Seraphimo
Joined: Thu May 09, 2013 1:24 pm Posts: 89 Location: Somewhere in the solar system. (I'm not telling you where)
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
Recently I'm reading the book called Thing Explainer which is written by Randall Munroe. It's an interesting book because of it's special rule which is that it only uses "The ten hundred words people us the most" and thousand is not amongst them so he couldn't use it to state the rule. The book I read before it was "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" also written by Randall Munroe and the title pretty much speaks for itself.
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:09 pm |
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TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
For those not aware, Randall Munroe is the author of XKCD.
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 2:54 pm |
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zalo
Joined: Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:11 pm Posts: 1496
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
I highly recommend Blindsight (and Echopraxia (the sequel)) for some good smart sci-fi.
and Accelerando for people who need sci-fi that will take them completely off the deep end...
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Fri May 06, 2016 5:49 pm |
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CrazyMLC
Joined: Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:20 am Posts: 4772 Location: Good news everyone!
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Re: Off-Topic Book Club
I enjoyed the Quadrail series. Sci-fi train murder mystery novel series. Martian was also good.
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Sat May 07, 2016 6:47 am |
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