What are you reading right now?

**Frownland** · 05-16-2016, 10:32 PM

And then

The Batlord · 05-16-2016, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

I'm sorry.

Spoiler for LoTR:

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

I could never get past the Gandalf part. Been meaning to just watch the movies, as my attention span barely held on enough to finish The Old Man and the Sea within a year.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Lotr definitely has a brilliant story, but the prose is really hard for me to sift through. I need something flowery or well written. Plus I don't need to know the lyrics of the songs that they sing when they visit a pub.

**Frownland** · 05-16-2016, 10:41 PM

I thought that glasses were a nerd blindfold to criticism, but I might have to reconsider that.

The Batlord · 05-16-2016, 10:53 PM

It's not my fault everything you say threatens the very existence of life on Earth.

JGuy Grungeman · 05-17-2016, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I thought that glasses were a nerd blindfold to criticism, but I might have to reconsider that.

I actually agree the book is flawed. For me, the series has a tendency to ramble and get off track a bit.

innerspaceboy · 05-20-2016, 06:56 PM

To top of a fantastic day, my copy of Neuromancer arrived in the post. This will be my first venture into cyberpunk, and Gibson seemed a fitting place to start.

Was hoping to pick up a first-edition, but they command quite a price for a first-read.

JGuy Grungeman · 05-22-2016, 11:28 AM

I finished Prydain 1, now I'm gonna read Solaris.

DwnWthVwls · 05-29-2016, 08:45 AM

Just finished "Cinder", a sci-fi fantasy twist on Cinderella. It's the first book of a quartet, I'm going to order the next 3 books in the series today.

JGuy Grungeman · 06-03-2016, 11:10 PM

Three days in April. Edward Ashton's the author. Some cyberpunk mystery with a comedic side. It has a Pulp Fiction style weirdness, but not as Rated R as far as I know.

JGuy Grungeman · 07-01-2016, 10:06 AM

Three Days in April was so cool. It needed work on explaining the scenery, but the character development was good, it was pretty funny, and it had a cool and mysterious plot. Overall, it's a good satirization of the stereotypical poverty and government conspiracies involving cyborgs and humans that cyberpunk is known for.

9/10. I've been trying to find otherr books by Edward Ashton, bu7t I think that's his first pone, and I think it came out last year. Well, I'm really looking forward to any future projects. I would mind a sequel, though. While it left some questions unanswered, I just don't think a sequel would be able to copy the same suspense, ame author or not.

Last night I read the first chapter to Soloris by Stanislaw Lem. YEAH!

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I thought that glasses were a nerd blindfold to criticism, but I might have to reconsider that. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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06-03-2016, 11:10 PM	#5599 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Three days in April. Edward Ashton's the author. Some cyberpunk mystery with a comedic side. It has a Pulp Fiction style weirdness, but not as Rated R as far as I know. __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.

07-01-2016, 10:06 AM	#5600 (permalink)
JGuy Grungeman Primo Celebate Sexiness Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,662	Three Days in April was so cool. It needed work on explaining the scenery, but the character development was good, it was pretty funny, and it had a cool and mysterious plot. Overall, it's a good satirization of the stereotypical poverty and government conspiracies involving cyborgs and humans that cyberpunk is known for. 9/10. I've been trying to find otherr books by Edward Ashton, bu7t I think that's his first pone, and I think it came out last year. Well, I'm really looking forward to any future projects. I would mind a sequel, though. While it left some questions unanswered, I just don't think a sequel would be able to copy the same suspense, ame author or not. Last night I read the first chapter to Soloris by Stanislaw Lem. YEAH! __________________ I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me.