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Ennis



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:47 am    Post subject: What are you reading? Reply with quote

I couldn't find a thread for books so I'm making a new one.

I'm rereading the Animorphs series and feeling a little like I'm reliving my childhood. Has anyone else read it? It's a damn good series. It's been out of print for awhile but you can find digital versions to read for free here. I believe the author has gone on record saying she doesn't care if people pirate the books, since they're so hard to find and I don't think anyone's really making any royalties off them.
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Heretical Rants



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://sinfest.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=181

thread active since 2006
most recent post was a couple of weeks ago

you yourself posted in it last month ...?

Ennis wrote:
I hate watching or reading things like that, and they always seem to put themselves in the unfixable situation and make it worse instead of telling a more sensible lie and making it likely they'll get away with it.

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In recent years my reading patterns consist primarily of textbooks, blogs, wikis (and their ilk), research papers, and fanfiction, in that order, but I mostly only post about fanfiction in that thread since it has a strong lean towards fiction.
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Ennis



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What the hell? I thought there was one, I must have gone temporarily blind because I scanned the page about five times, even checked the next one, cmd-f for "read" and all I got was a bunch of thread results. I figured I must have imagined it, that I'd been talking about books in an unrelated thread. Okay, I'll post in there then. Seriously, what the hell. I looked pretty damn hard.

Edit: Ohhh, I know why. It's in General Discussion. I figured it would be here, in Casual Chat. Well, at least I'm not going crazy and/or blind. Why is that in GD when all the other similar threads are here anyway?
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Heretical Rants



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure why you would think that, but my past experiences with other forums bias me towards thinking of "casual chat" as a place for silly forum games and such

speaking of which, there hasn't been a Sunday Playlist all year. Hrm.


if we had mods maybe semi-focused threads about cartoons etc would be moved to general discussion, leaving "casual" a wasteland of post-postwhoring threads of doom and Sunday Playlists

or alternatively threads about fictional-book-crap would end up in "casual chat" with the cartoon crap

or maybe they'd categorize things entirely differently
it would be their call

but this is anarchy! ANARGHHGHGHY
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Jabberjay



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I *was* thinking of making a cooking thread and starting it off with my recipie for cream of leek and potato soup. I'm just not sure if anyone would be interested.
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Mr Gary



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a recipe thread already. I'd link to it but on my phone it's a pain.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recipe thread - http://www.sinfest.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2991
And an attempt at making a second one - http://www.sinfest.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=7002

And a thread on what you are drinking right now - http://www.sinfest.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2803
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Mr Gary



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quality work SP! God I hate phone internetting.
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Jabberjay



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I started reading The Stars My Destination again, mostly because I have a bus ride that is 90 minutes each way I have to take twice a week. There's actually an online copy if anyone is interested. It has one of the best first chapters in any book I've ever read. Possibly the best.

Note I said "first chapter" and not "prologue." The prologue is good but it is entirely expository so it doesn't have the same impact.

http://americandigest.org/Bester,%20Alfred%20-%20The%20Stars%20My%20Destination.pdf

The only other sci-fi I like more is The Lathe of Heaven.
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