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Read any good books lately?

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Read any good books lately?
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RE: Read any good books lately?
October 7, 2016 at 3:01 pm
(October 7, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Shell B Wrote:
(October 6, 2016 at 4:22 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Just started my annual re-listen of "The Night Circus".

It's basically one of the most beautiful books I've ever had the pleasure of encountering. Jim Dale is shiver-inducing.

I purchased that a few months ago. I haven't got around to reading it yet, but it's on my short list.

It's exactly like that moment in Willy Wonka when Gene Wilder says, “Close your eyes, make a wish, count to three.”
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RE: Read any good books lately?
October 19, 2016 at 1:25 pm (This post was last modified: October 19, 2016 at 1:26 pm by Fake Messiah.)
I've read autobiography of Harry Hamlin and so basically on every other page he's in life or death situation, going to prison, getting in awkward situations with horny gay guys, being busted for drugs or having situations with crazy girlfriends. For instance in one situation he decided to introduce his g/f to his parents and she was very eager and then it dawned on him that she never shaved her legs and dressed in very showy clothes, so when his mom met her she laughed at her face and called her a tramp.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Read any good books lately?
October 19, 2016 at 1:38 pm (This post was last modified: October 19, 2016 at 2:06 pm by Crossless2.0.)
I've started Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. I'm not far enough into it to say much at this point, but it's funny as hell. And Pynchon is daring and dazzling, as usual.
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RE: Read any good books lately?
October 22, 2016 at 6:23 pm
Reading Fight Club for the first time. Yes I know I'm late to the party on that one.
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RE: Read any good books lately?
October 22, 2016 at 6:25 pm
(October 22, 2016 at 6:23 pm)NaughtyButNice Wrote: Reading Fight Club for the first time. Yes I know I'm late to the party on that one.

You are, hehe
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RE: Read any good books lately?
October 22, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Just started Mistborn. Everyone keeps squeeing about it.
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