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Old 09-29-2018, 06:29 PM   #6251 (permalink)
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Two very different genres. Canticle for Leibowitz is 100% post-apocalytic.
Never finished it but obviously. Calling it dystopian would be like calling a handjob an orgy.
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Old 09-29-2018, 10:38 PM   #6252 (permalink)
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Never finished it but obviously. Calling it dystopian would be like calling a handjob an orgy.
Ever read On the Beach? Another classic post-apocalyptic novel. I had a terrible time reading the last chapter because of all of the tears streaming down my face. One of only a handful of novels to do that to me.

The Road and parts of Pet Cemetery being a couple others. (reading the latter about a month after Sherri was born was a mistake in hindsight)

Some other great PA books I've read:

The Stand
Swan Song
I Am Legend
World War Z
Lucifer's Hammer
One Second After
Wool
Childhood's End
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Blindness
Earth Abides
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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Old 09-30-2018, 02:49 AM   #6253 (permalink)
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Ever read On the Beach? Another classic post-apocalyptic novel. I had a terrible time reading the last chapter because of all of the tears streaming down my face. One of only a handful of novels to do that to me.
We talked about it before but seriously one of the most engaging powerful and even if not entirely on point scientifically based on what we know now about meteorology it’s still a crucially important read.

Spoiler for Spoiler:
When he wife freaks out and calls him insane because he provides cyanide tablets for her and their kids was probably the longest cry a book ever gave me. ****ing bone chilling


And also The Road. Goddamn. Talk about a book that will bring you head to head with human nature and mortality. And Childhood’s End...****ing jaw dropping.

Don’t **** up and watch the movies first people.
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Old 10-01-2018, 12:21 AM   #6254 (permalink)
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We talked about it before.
I remember now. About your Spoiler, same for me. The last couple of chapters had me gutted deep.
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Old 10-05-2018, 05:30 AM   #6255 (permalink)
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Time's Eye
(A Time Odyssey #1)

by Arthur C. Clarke

I’m getting pretty close to having read everything Clarke published

I guess I have around 5 left
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Old 10-05-2018, 06:38 AM   #6256 (permalink)
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ive been reading this interpersonal communications book a lot. reading each chapter a lot because the first quiz was a 40% and i read it once. got a 100% when i read the chapter 5 times, then now just only a 80% Wednesday when i read the chapter 3 times.

looks like im reading each chapter 5 times, since my data shows i just need to put in that extra hour (takes about 1/2 hour to read a chapter)
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Old 10-24-2018, 04:46 PM   #6257 (permalink)
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Old 10-24-2018, 09:30 PM   #6258 (permalink)
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My favorite thing about that particular short story is that it inspired a character on One Piece.
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Old 10-25-2018, 04:09 PM   #6259 (permalink)
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I’ve been reading a lot lately and I’m out of anything interesting to read, does anyone have any recommendations? I don’t like any horror/thriller stuff.
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