Nr1Humanoid
Hank Scorpio
Is the #3 humanoid at best.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 7, 2021 19:23:33 GMT -5
The Shee by Joe Donnelly was excellent, if not too long (could have shaved off a 100 pages or so). It was a gory, gruesome thrillride, right up there with Edward Lee and Richard Laymon.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 8, 2021 13:52:40 GMT -5
Currently reading Saga by Brian K. Vaughn.
Excellent adult sci fi comic about two lovers from warring species on the run with their child.
I think I just read one of my favorite lines of all time, “Belay that f***ery!”
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 23:27:12 GMT -5
I just finished Rat Girl by Kristen Hersh. Really, really good book.
I just began reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 9, 2021 11:44:59 GMT -5
Currently reading Saga by Brian K. Vaughn. Excellent adult sci fi comic about two lovers from warring species on the run with their child. I think I just read one of my favorite lines of all time, “Belay that f***ery!” f*** me, I just got through all the published issues and it is half way through the story with a massive cliffhanger And people have been waiting on it for like 3 years The last series I got this into was A Song of Ice and Fire, goddamnit
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Lardlad
El Dandy
Live reaction to @WWE #WWENetwork
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Post by Lardlad on Apr 18, 2023 5:54:56 GMT -5
Fairy Tale by Stephen King.
I loved the first half of the book, but struggled with the second half.
I am looking forward to the release of his next book, Holly, in September.
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Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 18, 2023 16:15:43 GMT -5
The Muto Years-A history of Muto running AJPW.
Not bad got maybe 40 pages left.
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Post by Hurbster on Apr 18, 2023 16:22:02 GMT -5
Malleus Monstrorum Volume 1.
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Post by bibboid on Apr 18, 2023 19:48:17 GMT -5
Last month I flew across the country to visit my mom. Eastbound flight was Foundation by Isaac Asimov Westbound flight was Ringworld by Larry Niven
Once I got home I went on to Foundation And Empire. I am currently reading The Ringworld Engineers
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Apr 18, 2023 20:23:22 GMT -5
I have three chapters left of Star Wars X-Wing: Iron Fist.
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Post by bibboid on May 11, 2023 0:39:58 GMT -5
Continuing with both series. Just finished Second Foundation a few days ago I am a few chapters into The Ringworld Throne.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on May 11, 2023 1:02:00 GMT -5
Well, I have been reading a lot of movie novelizations. I just finished "Halloween Ends." I am back to reading my "Independence Day" novelization, though I had bought some other ID4 tie-in novels.
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Post by DSR on May 11, 2023 1:03:15 GMT -5
Tommy, by Kit Power. A book from the Midnight Movie Monographs series, discussing how the film (TOMMY, the musical based on the album by The Who) got made, a synopsis of its plot, the themes and symbolism contained therein. I have and enjoy most of the books in this series. They analyze without being so bogged down in jargon that they become inaccessible.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on May 11, 2023 1:51:22 GMT -5
Yesterday I finished The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins, and today I started Armageddon, by Bart Ehrman.
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Post by Hurbster on May 11, 2023 4:33:29 GMT -5
Eclipse Phase core rulebook.
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Post by KingPooper on May 11, 2023 8:35:12 GMT -5
I run two monthly book clubs at the library. Every so often I throw in some Juv titles to mix things up.
So I just read Bridge to Terabithia and Holes.
I’m actually going to an author talk with Tom Hanks tonight, as he has a new book coming out. So I’m sure that will be my next one.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 11, 2023 11:18:27 GMT -5
I've been making my way through The Expanse books but I've hit a wall on Cibola Burn about 3/4 of the way through.
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pinja
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Post by pinja on May 27, 2023 3:37:10 GMT -5
It's almost ten years now that I've read "Stoner" by John Williams. It was a fantastic novel for someone from a working class family who delved into studying. But it's also just a great read in general. I held off reading "Butcher's Crossing" back then because the inversion didn't appeal to me. A young academic searching for himself by abandoning the promise of an urban life to go to the wilderness of Colorado. But without the need for identification, "Butcher's Crossing" might be just as great as "Stoner". It reads especially timely as protagonist William Andrews is pretty much hunting for his own manlihood, so it's easy to read it as a novel on the manosphere.
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Post by pinja on Jun 3, 2023 2:57:23 GMT -5
So "Butcher's Crossing" was one of those reads able to transform how I view the world for a few short days. By that I don't mean it was a life-changing experience, but that it is so well written that it made me evaluate a few things and appreciate the sunlight a little bit more. My main takeaway: I want to be the kind of physical again that warrants a good shower. It is not that satisfying when the water goes down the drain as clean as it came out of the pipes.
Then read "My Sister, the Serial Killer" by Oyinkan Braithwaite, which was both fun and uncomfortable. The kind of uncomfortable that only comedy can be when it decides to shift its content to darker places without necessarily shifting its tone.
Now I'm reading "A Little Lumpen Novelita" by Roberto Bolaño and coincidentally I could say the very same about it that I said about Braithwaite's novel. Awesome narrator's voice.
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Post by bibboid on Jun 7, 2023 21:35:02 GMT -5
“Foundation’s Edge” starts to wrap up the Foundation series. While it is technically only halfway to the founding of the Second Galactic Empire, it finally gives us an idea of what that will actually look like. And since Asimov finally got around to mentioning robots in this one, I may have to go back and read a few of his earlier books before getting to the final book.
And since I finished up all the Ringworld books I own, I had to move on to another series. Starting up on “Gateway” by Frederik Pohl. The story of a group of people who climb aboard abandoned alien spacecraft and fling themselves into space in hopes of finding something to make them rich. Rob Broadhead hit the jackpot but the fact that half of the book is him talking to a therapist shows that there was quite a bit of trauma involved.
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Post by DSR on Jun 8, 2023 3:12:11 GMT -5
Tommy, by Kit Power. A book from the Midnight Movie Monographs series, discussing how the film (TOMMY, the musical based on the album by The Who) got made, a synopsis of its plot, the themes and symbolism contained therein. I have and enjoy most of the books in this series. They analyze without being so bogged down in jargon that they become inaccessible. I am now onto the latest released book in this line, discussing Michael Mann's Thomas Harris adaptation MANHUNTER.
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