Latest Gene Wolfe book you read (1-10 scale)

[riley-o]

did i know jon was going to

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get stabbed and that would be the end of the story in this book ?

yeah

i did

[Honky Kong 64]

dance with dragons - 9/10

fucking fantastic. would have been nice if a couple fucking retards knew how to use spoiler tags so i didn't know how the jon story was going to end, but yeah this one was really really great.

Glad you liked it bro. It's my favorite next to ASoS

[featherboa]

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So why did you kill Jon Snow?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN: Oh, you think he’s dead, do you?
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/07/21/dan ... g-twist-g/

[mithrandir]

did i know jon was going to

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get stabbed and that would be the end of the story in this book ?

yeah

i did

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stabbed but not dead, reread the Melisandre chapter for some glaring clues to his fate, too much has been invested into this character anyways, as I've been talking about the greater mysteries of the series....Jon is a big one, its leading somewhere but it ain't the end for him not by a long shot,

now that you've read them all, if you're interested I can PM you some info that I think you'd find very interesting, that is if you haven't figured out some of this stuff on your own yet ...

[riley-o]

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yeah i figured it was going to be like the tyrion drowning chapter although i'm curious how martin's going to perpetrate like, knife in the guts, knife in the back, more... it's okay folks, he's okay !

i mean i know he's already survived some pretty heinous shit so it's whatever

PM away, i've got some ideas about some fun stuff going on but i'd like to know more

[EEEOOOEEEOOOEEEOOO]

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 9/10

Enjoyed it way more than I had expected.

[fallbacktostone]

Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ /10
The Collected Works of Edmund Burke - −◡( ́○ ̖_◦`)◡− /10

[a world of no]

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yeah i figured it was going to be like the tyrion drowning chapter although i'm curious how martin's going to perpetrate like, knife in the guts, knife in the back, more... it's okay folks, he's okay !

i mean i know he's already survived some pretty heinous shit so it's whatever

PM away, i've got some ideas about some fun stuff going on but i'd like to know more

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catelyn died and was brought back from the dead, so it's not like it hasn't happened before.

[featherboa]

dance with dragons - 9/10

fucking fantastic. would have been nice if a couple fucking retards knew how to use spoiler tags

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so i didn't know how the jon story was going to end

, but yeah this one was really really great.

What did you like about this one, after giving the one before low marks?

[riley-o]

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lots of jon's (& melisandre's) story, fair bit of tyrion, a lot more daenerys & dragons (and the way this part ended ruled), a lot less ironmen, no brienne or sam or sansa, cersei's walk of shame, the reveal about the fate of onion knight and then the cliffhanger with stannis outside and everyone inside winterfell, basically everything in the book i loved

[NANOplague]

Rereading some true crime classics.
Killer cults - awesome book about the solar temple, the people's temple, the MOVE organization and others
Torture Killers I - compiled stories from True American Detective Magazine. Too sensationalist and schlocky, but entertaining.
Now reading Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. Slow start, but great fucking stuff. Can't believe they never made a movie of it.

[This Means War]

Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves - 8/10. It could have had a better ending IMHO. But who am I to argue with a master of Sci-Fi.

Currently:

Isaac Asimov - Robots & Empire - Better than ^

[Raw Ting]

8.5/10

The author worked as a Correctional Officer for a year just to get the inside scoop on the infamous Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York. This book is fucking bleak and depressing, but a great account on the goings on of this shithole prison. Good stuff.

[riley-o]

i robot - 8.5/10

[Necrometer]

I don't remember any sexbots anyway

edit: oh I am not in the Will Smith thread

[Gay for Cock]

A guy at work gave me a book to read: Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin. Should I be pissed off about this?
The cover makes me want to hate it....


I just started The Condor Years by John Dinges and I doubt it would be worth putting down for this book.

[featherboa]

Looks stupid

[Blair]

Look at the bald, smug, short, ashtray-eyed fuck.

The glue factory would be too good for the likes of him.

"I'm not wearing a tie because I mean business!"

Sweet Baby Lord Hitler preserve us.

[This Means War]

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot - 10/10. Blowing minds for a living.

[Liam Spengler]

Christopher S. Stewart: Hunting the Tiger - 7
Harry Partch: Genesis of a Music - 8

[altars of radness]

Going back to Christmas vacation:

Hitchens - God is Not Great 9
Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent 7.3
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine 8.4
Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers 7.9
J.G. Ballard - The Best Short Stories Of 3
Paul Auster - New York Trilogy 8.5
Rushdie - Midnight's Children 8.9
Rushdie - East and West 8
Russel Banks - The New World 7.9

Currently on some DH Lawrence, to be followed up by Freedom by Franzen and some Paul Bowles short stories.

[riley-o]

i read the first book and totally forgot i picked up the other two. need to get at those, the first one was great.

[altars of radness]

i read the first book and totally forgot i picked up the other two. need to get at those, the first one was great.

They're great stories. The way his characters actively think reminds me a lot of Saul Bellow.

I'm having trouble finding any other Auster books that come so highly recommended. Anybody?

[ibn Horowitz]

J.G. Ballard - The Best Short Stories Of 3

that's pretty low. I haven't read many of his short stories, maybe 4 or 5, but I've liked them. They tend to be repetitive, but I
think that ends up making them accumulate a sort of trance-like tone.

I loved all the novels of his I've read, except The Crystal World, which was just okay.

PS The New York trilogy is overrated.

[altars of radness]

J.G. Ballard - The Best Short Stories Of 3

that's pretty low. I haven't read many of his short stories, maybe 4 or 5, but I've liked them. They tend to be repetitive, but I
think that ends up making them accumulate a sort of trance-like tone.

I loved all the novels of his I've read, except The Crystal World, which was just okay.

PS The New York trilogy is overrated.

The Ballard stories were really old. Pre-Crash, forward written by Anthony Burgess old. I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, but when I find myself thinking 'What the fuck -- another story set in a desert where North America used to be?" I know I'm reading a book meant for someone else.

The New York Trilogy is fantastic, man. No one's saying it's Lolita.