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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Sword View Post
    After much delay waiting for it to become somewhat affordable, started reading A Dance With Dragons by G.R.R. Martin. Dark start.
    I hope you enjoy waiting for things to happen and then getting pissed off when they finally do. Cause that's ADWD in a nutshell.

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    Sailor Moon, volume 4. I think I'm a little in love with Setsuna's manga design.



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    Can't wait for the third Kingkiller book.
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    Finally finished The Sword of Shannara, now starting on Elfstones. The fact that I have the three-books-in-one edition is most definitely not helping.

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    I wanted to read those, but my library apparently couldn't be bothered after they bought the first and third books.
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    I've only read the first book of the Shannara trilogy...

    Rereading Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See. I remember how my English teacher just refused to lend me hers; Now I know why :3

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    I'm read the Alchemist now. ....I'm not really thrilled with it. It's a short book, sure, but it'll still take several more days to finish. Must be my cynicism.

    Quote Originally Posted by KENTA View Post
    I hope you enjoy waiting for things to happen and then getting pissed off when they finally do. Cause that's ADWD in a nutshell.
    Finished it already; it was a great read. Unlike most people, I'm not into instant gratification. I enjoy watching people set up their schemes as much as I enjoy the inevitable battle, bloodshed, and betrayal that follows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Sword View Post
    I'm read the Alchemist now. ....I'm not really thrilled with it. It's a short book, sure, but it'll still take several more days to finish. Must be my cynicism.



    Finished it already; it was a great read. Unlike most people, I'm not into instant gratification. I enjoy watching people set up their schemes as much as I enjoy the inevitable battle, bloodshed, and betrayal that follows.

    sounds like david eddings, especially his later books, I have never quite understood how a guy can write a book series thats like 95% or more of just people standing around chatting and so consistently knock it out of the park.
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    I wanted to read those, but my library apparently couldn't be bothered after they bought the first and third books.

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    Currently reading Nabokov's Lolita ...... what can I say? Guilty pleasure I suppose, Humbert reminds me so much of Macbeth and Nabokov's writing style is just so engrossing I just can't put the book down every time I pick it up ... God I feel like such a Pervert afterwards but I don't care, ARS GRATIA ARTIS!!!!
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    I've been meaning to read that one for a while now.

    It's currently sitting with War & Peace, the complete works of Shakespeare, anything by Nietzsche and various others in my list of "So-called must-read classics that everyone means to read but nobody ever gets round to because damn, they're long/boring/deliberately opaque."
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    Quote Originally Posted by eddyak View Post
    "So-called must-read classics that everyone means to read but nobody ever gets round to because damn, they're long/boring/deliberately opaque."
    "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
    (Mark Twain)

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    I'm currently re-reading "Good Omens".

    Such brilliant and awesome stuff. Crowley is my hero. And Pepper and Adam are love.



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    Rereading Peony in Love before I'm back to Good Omens. Thank god I could find my copy before exams begin.

    Artist's block. Bigger bitch than karma, I swear.

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    Reading A Thousands Sons, part of the Horus Heresy. I've liked what I've read so far in that series, but I almost gave up on this one before the end of the first chapter, because one of the characters is Moe. Seriously, they practically copypasted the definition from Urban Dictionary. Something about 'a vulnerability that made man alternately want to protect her and deflower her,' and she has no idea she does it.

    You can have that in some series, but keep it out of my Warhammer! Ah, well. It doesn't matter; she'll probably end up as a daemonhost. The weak don't survive in Warhammer.

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    Um, isn't deflowering a requirement in Warhammer? Mostly because it involves tainting what was once pure?

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    Coincidentally, I'm also reading Warhammer right now. Eisenhorn, to be specific. I just started the third book, Hereticus.

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    Eisenhorn and Ravenor are good stuff. The short stories you find in the omnibus editions are really kind of interesting. See if you can get a peek at them.
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    Yeah, forgot to mention that it is the Omnibus I'm reading. I've got the Ravenor one on hold at the library too.

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    Reading Battle Royale right now, about 17 chapters in
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    [07:55:59] <Spinach> Take off your clothes Kirby
    [07:56:07] <Kirby> I'm in class
    
    [20:37:34] <Lian|phone> there is a such thing as lingerie for guys?
    [20:37:54] <Kyokushi> yea
    [20:37:57] <Kyokushi> they're called jockstraps
    [20:38:02] <Lian|phone> :o
    [20:38:07] * Lian|phone googles
    [20:38:10] <Kyokushi> NO
    [20:38:11] <Kyokushi> DON'T
    [20:40:07] <Lian|phone> okay
    [20:40:16] <Lian|phone> I don't think I should have googled that
    
    [12:59:30]  <Spinach> call me onii-chan, bitch
    [13:00:12]  <kroyo> imma fuck ur shit up onii-fam

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