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I actually don't read a lot of books, just a ton of articles (really long ones). This was the last one I read and finished
 
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Fine shiterature, that
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I really fucking dug that last book I read, Confessions of a Sociopath.
 
I did a lot of sitting in the cab of a truck this past weekend, and when I wasn't driving I was reading this:
 
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in deep: country essays
 
by maxine kumin
 
also jane eyre, which i have never read
 
and infinite jest. once more unto the breach, dear friends :squirreltank:
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Jane Eyre is a great book.  I found the cross-dressing scene well trippy.  That shit isn't in the movies.
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we watched the 2011 adaptation a few days ago and it was amazing, a beautiful and exquisitely-done film. so now i have resolved to read the novel
 
50 / 682 pages so far
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Yeah, that is a great film.  I saw the early gloryhole era adaptation when I was young'un and it freaked me the fuck out.  I would have been about eight at the time. 
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moll flanders is a good novel
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I am enjoying it so far, can't believe it was written three hundred years ago :dizzy:
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it might be the earliest enjoyable novel :idea:
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i dont know where my goddamn collection of communist writings went. i have a feeling imran swooped in and stole them in the night, but i have yet to see any change in my apartments class division. this is a mystery
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i cba at the moment
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Recent reads include Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner, The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort and fall down in a giant display of homosexuality by Jared Diamond.
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A fellating lover just gave me a nice hardcover copy from 1980 of Vikings! by Magnus Magnusson, so I am reading that in this period.
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i dont know where my goddamn collection of communist writings went. i have a feeling imran swooped in and stole them in the night, but i have yet to see any change in my apartments class division. this is a mystery
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I found it on the bookshelf by the bathroom today :santa:


my HP Lovecraft collected works book is still missing though :hate:
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I picked up a Lovecraft collection a few years back that looked really cool but is not so well bound and was produced cheaply. It's pretty to look at but will not hold up well to handling as the years progress.
 
Here's a photo of it I found with GIS


 
I've seen some hardcover versions floating around that probably hold up far better.
 
Which collection do you have?
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[quote="Abzu"]
I picked up a Lovecraft collection a few years back that looked really cool but is not so well bound and was produced cheaply. It's pretty to look at but will not hold up well to handling as the years progress.
 
Here's a photo of it I found with GIS


 
I've seen some hardcover versions floating around that probably hold up far better.
 
Which collection do you have?
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i can't remember, it might be the same as yours with a different cover. it's been a while since i read it
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Omg Ali is so hot I want to fuck both nostrils, earholes, even his armpits and elbows. Basically I want to fuck him everywhere except his ass and mouth.


To jizzfinity and beyond
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Recent reads since Christmas:
 
Watership Down
In the Freud Archives
The Brewer's Tale: the World According to Beer
Brew North: How Canada Made Beer and Beer Made Canada
Leftover Women: the Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
The Breweries Of Australia: A History
 
And I am about a fifth of the way through the following, in preparation for the trip to the continent:
 
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It is fucking fascinating :santa:
 
Them Beaver Wars :oldryan:
 
Also I love how contingent the Pilgrim's first colony's success was, hilarious.
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maybe this is better than the now reading thread
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wow i read a lot faster when i worked full time and before i started this phd thing
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phd in what?
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book learnin?
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Finished Henry Rollins - Get in The Van awhile ago, great book!
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because i absolutely need to have a bad time all the time, i have ordered vincent bevins' the jakarta method.
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Polish translation of Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Finished Henry Rollins - Get in The Van awhile ago, great book!
It is indeed awesome - the audiobook version (read by Rollins himself) is one of my favourite spoken word thingies for longer drives.

Currently I'm re-reading the 'Broken Earth' trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, a biography of the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis and 'British Battleships 1919-1945' by R.A. Burt.
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Damn I need to get that Rollins audio book!!
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Part One:



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my last fancy book was the ulver book, really nice
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reading lord of the rings for the first time. i'm 6 or 7 chapters in and it's far more boring than i expected. it's cool but half the chapters are dense descriptions of the land :homework:
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a matter of land
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i don't care about the land. middle earth could use a good highway system
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i recently rewatched the three main movies after god knows how many years, at least 15 or so

they were slooo o o o ooo oo o o o o ooooo wwwwwww
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My book is really slow, but does have action...Jackson.
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i recently rewatched the three main movies after god knows how many years, at least 15 or so

they were slooo o o o ooo oo o o o o ooooo wwwwwww
once i watched the extended versions of all three. i do not know why
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One of the reasons I always preferred The Hobbit as a book. My favorite Tolkien story so far.
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i was given the hobbit and the lord of the rings as a present when i was in primary school. i tried reading the hobbit a few times, but never got past the first chapter. i thought it was very boring and shit
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Not getting past the first chapter will set your experience with a book up for failure, no matter which book it is.

Read it :judge:
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not getting past the first chapter definitely reduces the chance of finishing the book
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i loved the hobbit. i read it when i was super super young with my mum, this wonderful edition with painted illustrations. set me up for my love of fantasy in the teenage years
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