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Re: Bay12 Book Club
« Reply #60 on: September 27, 2010, 10:44:07 pm »

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« Reply #61 on: September 27, 2010, 10:44:17 pm »

Gastby's a fool. He should've spent the monkey in women and booze.
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« Reply #62 on: September 27, 2010, 10:45:53 pm »

Gastby's a fool. He should've spent the monkey in women and booze.
Preservation.
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« Reply #63 on: September 27, 2010, 10:46:28 pm »

I just read Water for Elephants, the Book Thief, the Passage, and some other books.

In other news...

yay book club!
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« Reply #64 on: September 27, 2010, 10:46:53 pm »

Gastby's a fool. He should've spent the monkey in women and booze.
Preservation.

Yeah, that too. Women, booze and prophylactics
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« Reply #65 on: September 27, 2010, 10:48:21 pm »

...or the Bagavad Gita.

if you're gonna read that, you may as well read the mahabharat, of which the gita is but a single chapter.

It has the record of being the longest poem in history.

That length might actually be a problem--not many people are going to sit down for the, what, million and a half or two million words of it? That takes a certain level of devotion that probably shouldn't be under the auspices of an online book club, heh.
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« Reply #66 on: September 27, 2010, 10:48:58 pm »

Wow, a million words...

How many pictures would that be?

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« Reply #67 on: September 27, 2010, 10:50:13 pm »

Has anybody read Inkheart? I couldn't get through it the first time I tried to read it, nothing happened for the first half of the book. I can bare a slow start, but that was just terrible. I've been wanting to try again though, because I've been told it's a good book, but I lost it a while ago.
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« Reply #68 on: September 27, 2010, 10:51:11 pm »

Ooh, I have, some years ago.

It was O.K, and the sequels are alright at best.
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« Reply #69 on: September 27, 2010, 10:53:11 pm »

Inkheart is good, the sequels will make you tear your eyestalks out.
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« Reply #70 on: September 27, 2010, 10:53:52 pm »

Really? I didn't find it that sad...
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« Reply #71 on: September 27, 2010, 10:54:26 pm »

Has anybody read Inkheart? I couldn't get through it the first time I tried to read it, nothing happened for the first half of the book. I can bare a slow start, but that was just terrible. I've been wanting to try again though, because I've been told it's a good book, but I lost it a while ago.

I read the first 50 pages or so, and then I wanted to kill myself too badly to continue.  It just seemed so... childish.
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« Reply #72 on: September 27, 2010, 10:55:17 pm »

Those sequels made me want to cram explosive propellant into my consumption orifice and blow out my thought muscle.
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« Reply #73 on: September 27, 2010, 10:57:23 pm »

I have this habit of finishing a book whenever I start it, no matter how bad I find it. I have no clue why.

If there are sequels, the urge to read continues.


That's why I read the Twilight series. Oh god all the wasted brain cells...
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« Reply #74 on: September 27, 2010, 10:59:02 pm »

Hmm, maybe my friends just have bad taste in books or something. At the very least, the friend that recommended it hated The Great Gadsby.

Also, anybody read The Golden Compass? I hated the book, personally. Far too many unanswered questions. If I wanted a mystery, I would read a mystery novel. It's not nice to make a critical plot element completely unanswered as to what it even is.
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