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It's always something...
Join Date: Apr 2007
Type: INFJ
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre...again, 'cause like someone else, I don't have anything new to read either.
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5w6 ^8
Join Date: May 2007
Type: INTJ
Location: TEXAS! the state formerly known as a country
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Gang Leader For A Day
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau Truths are a useless fiction. - Nietzsche Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. - David Hume "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." |
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will make your day
Join Date: Apr 2007
Type: INFP
Location: Norway, the land of Norwegians
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Ok, I've gotten over my reluctance to pick up another book after having read through His Dark Materials. It helped that my wife started reading the series so now Lyra and Will can live on for a while more as I live the story again through my wife.
The book I've started reading now is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. So far I'm not impressed. Sure, the story seems to have potential, but his writing style annoys me, and why would a guy who's obviusly writing for nerds and geeks feel the need to explain in minute detail every bit of technology he's writing about. I see the need when describing "futuristic" technology, but he goes into detail about how the internet works, how computers work in binary and how and why 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 and so on are important numbers when dealing with computers etc etc. Booring. Love the protagonist's name though: Hiro Protagonist
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Type: ISTJ
Location: Houston, TX
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Just finished Innocent Mage, by Karen Miller. About to begin Awakened Mage, book two.
Innocent Mage was absolutely awesome.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. --Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation" Nothing is worse than active ignorance. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. --Isaac Asimov |
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and free bunnies!
Join Date: Jun 2007
Type: INFP
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The Outside World-Tova Mirvis
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"It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. `No, I'll look first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; ......if you drink much from a bottle marked `poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."-Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland My pupils are not students they dilate but they never learn. my pupils are not students they dilate but they never learn. ~ Marilyn Manson. |
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It's always something...
Join Date: Apr 2007
Type: INFJ
Location: in a hollowy place
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I haven't read this one in a while.
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