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[Flying Dice]

Mm, I was rather pleasantly surprised by the Hunger Games trilogy as well. There were rough spots, certainly, but it wasn't bad as such things go.

[varnish]

It turns out the book I'm reading (Froissart's chronicles) is a heavily edited version! In fact, the editor keeps interrupting in order to sum up the parts he left out. It's disappointing. The edited sections sound pretty interesting.

[FearfulJesuit]

Instead of reading a book this year, I'm writing one: La Beloj kaj la Ĉastoj.

Ask for it in bookstores by name! (They won't have it...)

[SomeStupidGuy]

No, see, you're going to need to write 52 books, for that to count.

[fqllve]

What about 52 short stories? I hear Ray Bradbury actually did that.

Which is insane. I'm only shooting for 12 short stories this year.

Also, what is that, Esperanto?

[FearfulJesuit]

What about 52 short stories? I hear Ray Bradbury actually did that.

Which is insane. I'm only shooting for 12 short stories this year.

Also, what is that, Esperanto?

Yeah, nice catch. The title means "The Beautiful and the Chaste".

It asks a question: can degrading, fucked-up trash also be literature? The answer, to the small circle of Esperantist porn snobs who will read it, is either a resounding "JES!" or, more likely, "What the fuck is wrong with this shit‽"

But mostly I'm trying to be outrageous by writing fucked-up shit in Esperanto.

[Sheb]

So you're actually a polite outrageous person, that try to be outrageous in a language that few people speaks so that few people are actually outraged? :p

[FearfulJesuit]

I did it for the art. And for the disturbingly fucked-up dungeon porn scenes.

(Suffice to say that I have created an absolutely fantastic speciman of a disturbed, almost inhuman monster of a character.)

[Sappho]

it's tough to find English-language books around here

Seriously? I've found half a dozen just by googling it. You can also get free EU shipping from Amazon, although not on every item.

I should clarify: it's difficult to find English books I'd actually be interested in for a reasonable price. It's very easy to walk into a secondhand bookshop and come out with a mountain of horrible mystery novels I'd rather shoot myself than read, or go into a high-class bookstore and get a good one for crazy expensive. You can order books from Amazon but they don't give free shipping to this country and many items randomly have shipping prices that are 2-3 times the price of the item you bought (sometimes including books, sometimes not, I can't even pretend to understand how their shipping system works but I'm sure it's because of this country's convoluted postal system). If I was rich I'd have no problem finding books, but I'm a teacher, so...

I think I can get by mostly on digital books, re-reading old books I haven't looked at in a while, and borrowing books from friends. I'm sure I'll buy a few, probably from Amazon, many from secondhand shops (which I regularly peruse for the occasional prize - I once found a Discworld book there, and a copy of A Canticle for Liebowitz!). I'll make it work somehow!

I wish I had enough spare time to read a book a day! I'm 2/3 of the way through Junky by William S. Burroughs, lent from a coworker. I hope I can keep up that rate. I'll definitely be satisfied with my reading if I can manage that.

[RedKing]

I did it for the art. And for the disturbingly fucked-up dungeon porn scenes.

(Suffice to say that I have created an absolutely fantastic speciman of a disturbed, almost inhuman monster of a character.)

Follow that up with some Esperanto opera.

[FearfulJesuit]

I did it for the art. And for the disturbingly fucked-up dungeon porn scenes.

(Suffice to say that I have created an absolutely fantastic speciman of a disturbed, almost inhuman monster of a character.)

Follow that up with some Esperanto opera.

Now Playing (Nun Ludanta): A Night at the "Opera" (Nokto je l' "Opero")

Come for the experience, stay for Zombie Esperantist Tom Lehrer singing "La Masoĥisma Tango".

[pisskop]

So I'll be reviewing most of the books I read, [Insert plug here to post] Pluggy

[i2amroy]

1 book down with a total of 345 pages so far.

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Valentine's Exile - E.E. Knight

Mmm, got my next project started. Glad I can read the book before seeing the movie for once.

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Edit: Les Miserables is five volumes, with somewhere between eight and fifteen books per volume, each book having as few as two or as many as twenty-four chapters. I don't know if I count the number of books or the number of volumes towards my total. I finished the first book tonight, but it took about as long as reading a regular novel, so I'll go with each book counting as a book for the purposes of the challenge. Means finishing this one will be worth 48 books. Since I finished three others that means I'll have one final book to read and I'll be done with this challenge. The version I'm reading is the Project Gutenberg version if anyone else wants to read it too.

Recently while my brother and I were visiting the Bookman's used book store in our area we found a set of the five volumes (fifth printing or something like that, the books are like 114 years old) complete with all of the original drawings in them. And at only a hundred bucks they were a great deal too. Needless to say we purchased them right away.

[Caz]

Just finished a re-read of Grotesque, and gods does it live up to the title. It's a character study of several extremely despicable, shallow and selfish people. The author succeeded in squeezing every last drop of optimism and happiness from each page. It drips cruelty and wickedness and despair. (Also, I heard the english-translation version has had some of the original content of the book cut, which reduces its quality. I'd like to check, but unfortunately I'm no bueno with Japanese.  )

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The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz
Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino

[vagel7]

I feel so slow, being only about a quarter way into "A Dance with Dragons". Luckily it is probably the longest book I will be reading.