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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #135 on: December 27, 2012, 12:30:40 am »

Reading The Unincorporated Future right now. I sure wouldn't have known it from the first book, but by this point the authors have managed to outdo Battle Royale in terms of main character death.

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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #136 on: December 27, 2012, 11:14:10 pm »

I am signing up for this. See how quickly I drop out. 52 books is my goal, though I doubt I'll meet it.
Starting with The Lord of the Rings, in three parts. The Singularity is Near is also on the list, as are the Malazan books.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #137 on: December 28, 2012, 11:47:00 am »

I'm gonna do this mostly unplanned, and while I'm at it, I will do more than just read them. I'll graph them.

Like this: http://xkcd.com/657/large/

I plan on doing it for every book I read. Let's see how it goes.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #138 on: December 28, 2012, 12:12:43 pm »

Finished off Clive Barker's The Hell-bound Heart a couple of weeks ago. It's the inspiration for the Hellraiser series. Good little yarn, rather different focus than the series.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #139 on: December 28, 2012, 03:53:10 pm »

I'm gonna do this mostly unplanned, and while I'm at it, I will do more than just read them. I'll graph them.

Like this: http://xkcd.com/657/large/

I plan on doing it for every book I read. Let's see how it goes.

I'm working on that for a Song of Ice and Fire... Best way to do it is to read through the book and note every time a character being at a location at a specific time occurs. Then go back over your parsed list.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #140 on: December 29, 2012, 12:38:31 pm »

I claim this here for my booklist, when I get it together.


1)  Surrender, Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom :Bruce Bawer
    *Before somebody gets all omg u hateful monsterz on me, I figure I'd best get an opposing viewpoint on it, and its supposed to be written by a sensible man.  A gay man, which apparently makes him appreciate equality, according to reviews.

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2) Dune :Frank Herbert
   *Never read the original, believe it or not.  Figure the whole bloody series is too long, but thw original. . .

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3) The Portable Plato. . .
   * Cuz a more in-depth refresher makes me happy!  I enjoy the simplicity of the 'portable' series anywho.  I don't suppose somebody has a recommendation for this?

Cross off Plato :(

3) What Money Can't Buy : Michael Sandel
A book about the ethics of the market and America's [the west in general] new fervor for it.  Read one chapter already, and it appears to be liberal.  Appears he is dissatisfied with the idea that the affluent (never said rich as of yet, been avoiding that word) can simply purchause what others cannot, amoung other things.
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4)  Leverage : Karl denninger
   A fun little book by Karl Denninger, a.k.a.  the 'founder of the Tea Party'.  I believe he discusses the issue with our economy and its leveraging system.  Did you know we [our top companies] make most of our money off of interest and levies?
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5) The Decline of the West :Oswald Spengler
  *I happen to be a fan of German philosophy.  Some of the best and worst of human nature has come out through the works of the Germans  I am excited to read this book and learn of an author I previously only experienced when others mentioned him.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #141 on: December 29, 2012, 01:12:32 pm »

omg u hateful monsterz! >:[

I'm gonna do this mostly unplanned, and while I'm at it, I will do more than just read them. I'll graph them.

Like this: http://xkcd.com/657/large/

I plan on doing it for every book I read. Let's see how it goes.


I'm working on that for a Song of Ice and Fire... Best way to do it is to read through the book and note every time a character being at a location at a specific time occurs. Then go back over your parsed list.

I'd be very interested in that graph if you ever finish it :D
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #142 on: December 29, 2012, 01:25:40 pm »

Must remember to save some of the ol' Christmas money to buy books. There tends to be a lot of good deals on used books on Amazon straight after the holidays, what with people returning them etc.

I should get a kindle... but you don't get that smell of paper. Hmm..
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #143 on: December 29, 2012, 01:36:46 pm »

Hunt down used book stores, find your local thrift shops. When you include shipping, it's really hard for online purchased books to beat local deals.

I've found places that'd give out paperbacks for a quarter, which were just... I had to restrain myself, y'know? Sometimes. Other times I just bought the place out of books I'd read in one go. I've came away from book hunts with twenty, thirty books before... and spent less than twenty bucks in the process. It's wunnerful *teary eyes*

Though yeah, finding something you'd actually be willing to read in the mess those places tend to be can be difficult. But the hunt is half the fun!
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #144 on: December 29, 2012, 02:18:16 pm »

Sure, I'll do this.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #145 on: December 29, 2012, 02:30:13 pm »

I should get a kindle... but you don't get that smell of paper. Hmm..
But you can email books to yourself.

Like get this, you can be just sitting at your computer, then see a book you like and be emailing it to like mynamehere@kindle.com and suddenly BAM! book be on yo' kindle all up in dis shit.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #146 on: December 30, 2012, 01:41:55 am »

Tell you what, it's a shame children's books don't count. I oughta get special credit for reading my daughter bedtime stories every night.
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #147 on: December 30, 2012, 12:31:10 pm »

Read her Lovecraft?
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #148 on: December 30, 2012, 12:47:20 pm »

But you can email books to yourself.

Like get this, you can be just sitting at your computer, then see a book you like and be emailing it to like mynamehere@kindle.com and suddenly BAM! book be on yo' kindle all up in dis shit.

Wild.  :o
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Re: The Official Bay12 - 52 books challenge 2013
« Reply #149 on: December 30, 2012, 10:29:58 pm »

What the hell, I'll jump in on this. My current reading list is deep (a few series I've been meaning to try but never started before), so hopefully this will help clear that backlog.

My current fiction list, taken from my floor and Calibre library;
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There are a few others I can think of that still need acquiring, plus a handful of non-fiction that I can't be bothered to list yet.
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