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« Reply #1650 on: June 30, 2017, 02:20:47 PM »
And nerds, please don't be like "oh but when you find out why Mrs. Norris is named that in book 4 its sooooo awesome" because its still a dumb cat name. Cats should be named whiskers or boots or cat bosco etc.

I used to have a cat named Caesar. He was best buds with my dog, Bark Antony.

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« Reply #1651 on: June 30, 2017, 03:23:14 PM »
My only complaint about names so far in HP & TSS is that Hedwig/Hagrid are too similar and Mrs Norris is a really dumb name for a cat.

Don't get me started on LOTR with Sauron and Saruman.  I don't think it was until I watched the movies that I got they were a different thing.

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« Reply #1652 on: June 30, 2017, 03:33:51 PM »
grrm is also super good at creating characters with similar OR EVEN THE EXACT SAME names

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« Reply #1653 on: June 30, 2017, 04:05:26 PM »
here is every single one of dostoyevsky's characters: Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (a.k.a. Mitya, Mitka, Mitenka, Mitri)

the characters use the full names when talking to each other all of the time, except when they don't.

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« Reply #1654 on: June 30, 2017, 04:40:57 PM »
I started reading a book and there were like six spy characters right off the bat and they each had their own undercover spy names and I was like, "Man, eff this crap."

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« Reply #1655 on: July 01, 2017, 10:24:31 AM »
The Prize had a lot of characters and I had to stop after like 100 pages and then take notes and re-read it all over.

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« Reply #1656 on: July 18, 2017, 10:12:48 AM »

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Chingon is really good at recommending books. I read the whole series and it was great.

@Chingon, I need a book/series recommendo for when I go on vacation in a couple of weeks. I read Dawn and that whole series last vaca and it was great.

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« Reply #1657 on: July 18, 2017, 11:56:13 AM »
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a fantastic and necessary read.  PM me if you would like me to send you a copy.
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« Reply #1658 on: July 18, 2017, 03:16:45 PM »
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century? is a fantastic and necessary read.  PM me if you would like me to send you a copy.
I would like a copy.

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« Reply #1659 on: July 27, 2017, 10:04:04 AM »

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Chingon is really good at recommending books. I read the whole series and it was great.

@Chingon, I need a book/series recommendo for when I go on vacation in a couple of weeks. I read Dawn and that whole series last vaca and it was great.

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« Reply #1660 on: July 27, 2017, 11:34:14 AM »
have you read butler's other stuff?
"experienced commanders will simply be smeared and will actually go to the meat."

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« Reply #1661 on: July 27, 2017, 12:10:36 PM »
have you read butler's other stuff?

Yes, I've read all of her novels, even the one she tried to disown (Wild Seed).
The only book listed on her website that I haven't read is "Bloodchild and Other Stories" which is a collection of short stories; and it doesn't look like I can get that anywhere soon.

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« Reply #1662 on: July 27, 2017, 12:18:20 PM »
make a list of everything you haven't read and i'll pick out what you should read next.
"experienced commanders will simply be smeared and will actually go to the meat."

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« Reply #1663 on: July 27, 2017, 12:38:41 PM »
we need a boring ass stupid crap forum from 1952 so i can move this thread there

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carry on! 

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what's next, you guys going to talk about the krebs cycle?

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« Reply #1664 on: July 27, 2017, 01:06:12 PM »
Looks like I'll be reading the Midnight, Tx series by Charlaine Harris. It will probably be good, but not mind blowing. Oh well.

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« Reply #1665 on: July 27, 2017, 02:54:42 PM »
Looks like I'll be reading the Midnight, Tx series by Charlaine Harris. It will probably be good, but not mind blowing. Oh well.

chings recommended this for my last vacation and it fit the bill (even if they aren't quite as page-turny as Dawn): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Trilogy

Also, I'm reading the Gospel According to Jesus Christ and enjoying it a lot. The conversations with God and other angels are LOL funny

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« Reply #1666 on: July 27, 2017, 03:21:05 PM »
I read the Gospel According to Jesus Christ and also Cain and Blindness by Jose Saramago. Blindness was the best one.

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« Reply #1667 on: July 27, 2017, 04:52:23 PM »
I read the Gospel According to Jesus Christ and also Cain and Blindness by Jose Saramago. Blindness was the best one.
In a while you should read Seeing.

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« Reply #1668 on: July 27, 2017, 04:56:08 PM »

Dawn by Octavia Butler

Chingon is really good at recommending books. I read the whole series and it was great.

@Chingon, I need a book/series recommendo for when I go on vacation in a couple of weeks. I read Dawn and that whole series last vaca and it was great.

 :impatient:
Check out Aztec by Jennings.

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« Reply #1669 on: August 08, 2017, 06:54:05 PM »
Robin Hobb's "Live Ship Traders" trilogy was good.  Not too much sex and violence, and more sentimental than most sci-fi/Fantasy books.

I am reading Black Company now.  A classic in the fantasy genre, can't believe I waited this long to read it.  It's very different, reads like a journal entry.  Very violent and profane...it's fun.

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« Reply #1670 on: August 08, 2017, 09:05:52 PM »
Reading blood meridian and it is good


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« Reply #1671 on: August 08, 2017, 10:14:58 PM »
I started reading hillbilly elegy and thought the author was kinda annoying but enjoyed it until I stopped reading it.

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« Reply #1672 on: August 08, 2017, 10:15:35 PM »
Currently reading Season of the Witch. Holy crap San Francisco (and the USA in general) was mumped up in the 70's.

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« Reply #1673 on: August 15, 2017, 09:08:36 AM »
The first "Black Company" company book, by Glen Cook, was a lot of fun.  I am on to the second one now. 

I don't know why I keep up this vigil of posting about fantasy books, except that I keep hoping that Mr. Bread comes back and is proud of me.  I miss him.

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« Reply #1674 on: August 15, 2017, 09:11:36 AM »
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