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penguinofhonor

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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #495 on: April 24, 2013, 11:40:27 pm »
Cthulhu, that is the strangest possible way to end that story.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #496 on: April 25, 2013, 11:01:32 am »
It was good though.  Like I said, I had to readjust my perceptions of what kind of book it was for it to seem good.  I thought it was a paperback grocery-store thriller and got a serious horror novel that didn't pull punches.

I'm reading Cujo now.  I remember reading somewhere about Cujo being a  bad villain because it's just a dog, but maybe that guy's never been around giant dogs.  There's something primally scary about Cujo, giant supernatural "eldritch abominations" are sort of scary I guess when they're done really well, but they're not real and there's always that kind of disconnect.  Being eaten by a giant dog is real though, even realer than a murderer.  It gets your Inner Monkey chattering, you know what I mean?
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #497 on: April 25, 2013, 11:40:52 am »
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I haven't really been keeping track. Bad me. Winter's Tale is always fun.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #498 on: April 28, 2013, 11:30:10 am »
One more !

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I never liked Zweig's novels, but his non-fiction works are a pleasure to read. Should get my hand on some more.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #499 on: April 28, 2013, 12:25:29 pm »
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Cujo was good.  Like I said, big supernatural "eldritch abominations" (I hate that phrase) can be scary when they're done very well, but dying in someone's driveway, within earshot of the city park?  Because of an animal you probably have in your home right now and can trust?  That's scary on a very real and personal level.

Occasionally the series of unassuming coincidences that led to what happened jarred at my suspension of disbelief, but shit like that happens all the time.  True story, a deaf kid went missing in a snowstorm in my neighborhood a few years before I was born.  They looked everywhere, I think the parents were murder suspects for a while, eventually they gave up the search.  Like ten years later they found his bones in the backyard of his house.  They weren't even buried.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #500 on: April 30, 2013, 06:09:51 pm »
I saw that reading books you have already read doesn't count but what if  you are reading a book you started but never finished
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« Reply #501 on: April 30, 2013, 06:13:05 pm »
First off,
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4) Rereads are allowed as long as they were last read before the 1st of January 2013

So if you read those parts before 2013, then it doesn't count as rereading. And if you read those parts during 2013, that counts as part of your reading it for this year.
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« Reply #502 on: April 30, 2013, 07:09:16 pm »
ok thanks going to start reading today
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« Reply #503 on: April 30, 2013, 07:34:41 pm »
Also this challenge is for you, mostly. So you can make your own rules as you see fit.

And while I'm posting here, I'm really bad at reading. I haven't finished anything but Dubliners since my last post, though I am halfway through Mrs Dalloway.
I should read Life of Pi next. Or one of the couple of books I was recommended a couple of weeks ago. Or something with Alaska as the second word in the title, which I was also recommended.
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« Reply #504 on: April 30, 2013, 11:02:12 pm »
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The Story of the Stone was a totally mindblowing experience.  Recommended, recommended as a life experience--it's not a diversion, I wouldn't say.  It's like climbing the grand canyon.

Next, I'm going to finish the Poetic and Prose Eddas, as well as the Auden translations.  Then The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which I'd read much of previously but need to finish.  I'm being kind of lax with the standards for myself--note the short Sufism and poetry books above--but on the other hand I'm trying to motivate myself to read a lot and finish off a particular number of texts I've been putting off forever, rather than read a book every week.

Whatever.  I'm expecting it won't matter, anyway--in the five days between my graduations, I'm expecting to read another multi-thousand-page book, which I figure gives me the right to go light on a couple entries here and there.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #505 on: May 02, 2013, 12:11:42 am »
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    Just read Abusing Science. It's a good book arguing against Scientific creationist claims, instead of the more prolific "IF WE CAME FROM MONKEYS WHY ARE THERE STILL MONKEYS CHECKMATE ATHEISTS" It was really interesting seeing more complex creationist claims, and the authors slightly(hah) aggressive response.
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    Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
    « Reply #506 on: May 02, 2013, 02:35:18 pm »
    Oh hey, I read a book while I was travelling.
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    Good book. Enjoyed it. Could see it as a live-action movie or animated. And there's rumors of both.
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    Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
    « Reply #507 on: May 02, 2013, 06:02:37 pm »
    I'm so lazy with my Portuguese that I haven't gotten around to anything 'cuz I've just been reading short stories and poetry.

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    « Reply #508 on: May 02, 2013, 07:22:51 pm »
    If you're reading through collections, those should count, too...
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    Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
    « Reply #509 on: May 03, 2013, 11:26:23 am »
    I'm definitely counting Lovecraft's short stories as one.
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