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The first book wasn't so bad, so I was trapped into the second two by my OCD. Once I finished one portion, as much as I hated the experience of the subsequent portions, it would have driven me nuts if I didn't complete it. It's one of my quirks. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/sigh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':sigh:' />

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I know people like that and used to be like that myself until I discovered the trash called Twilight. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... lesson.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lesson:' /> So you're not alone!



And I just wanted to thank you guys for saying all that about Hunger Games because I was so torn. It seemed interesting, but I hate the taste in books of everyone who's suggested it to me, so I never knew what to do, especially when it's YA (prime territory for crap IMO) and all the author's other books are for little kids.
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I couldn't finish the second book tbh. It's a recurring theme with me. Read first book, think it's okay, start second, become infuriated at something and question my policy against burning books.



I read a part of that 50 Shades of Gray book and man, if there's one thing I can't stand it's bad sex scenes. For one, they're bad and for two I start thinking about the sex life of the author if they thought that tripe was titillating. And who wants to think about the sex life of others? Not me. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... nfused.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':confused:' />



I think I'm going to stay far away from any book on any sort of "popular" list. I hate that it makes me seem so hipster but I haven't enjoyed any big book in a long while.
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I couldn't finish the second book tbh. It's a recurring theme with me. Read first book, think it's okay, start second, become infuriated at something and question my policy against burning books.

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That's far better than having to plow through it with disgust.
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I know I'm going to sound like a kid but, I got it for the wonderful pictures. The art work in the graphic novel is breathtaking.



It puts the set designers for the actual TV show to shame. I don't plan on buying the actual novels.
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Is that question for me? If it is I was talking about the Game of Thrones graphic novels.
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Actually picked up the first book in the Seven Realms Series recently and have to say I eat my words on young adult now. Most of my books come from recommendations from my roommate and those 300 pages will be such a grind to get through, but I blew through Demon King's 500 pages in two days without even noticing, so I'm kinda officially hooked. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... stling.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />



Commencing the hunt for the second book now.
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YA novels aren't all bad, just ones that focus on romance instead of their secondary genre. Unless you're Judy Blume. Then you can focus on romance and have it not be facepalming-ly bad.
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Been reading up a storm.



Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne. Tells the story of a female FBI desk-jockey thrown into the investigation of a serial murderer making impossible murders happen in plain-sight. Andrew Mayne is a highly-respected magic consultant and the level of plausibility in Angel Killer is almost alarming.



Bones Are White by Scott Sigler. Short story collection of gruesome, shocking, or otherwise thrilling stories. From space marines to a boxing Rabbi to the continuation of Sigler's Hunter Hunterson and Sons series, Bones Are White offers classically written short stories with very engrossing themes.



The Imposter #1: Half a Hero by Richard Lee Byers. Four parts of a new superhero story. Aliens are attacking and the world's superheros can't save us. After narrowly being skinned alive, Matt Brown ends up getting superpowers and having to navigate the alien-infested, super-villain run city.



Got them all on Kindle for super cheap.



And currently reading a special advance copy of Andrew Mayne's Hollywood Pharaohs. Only one chapter in, but he's described it as Indiana Jones meets The Big Lebowski. You can get an advance copy too at blrb.it/hollywood (or blrb.it/hollywoodepub for Nook). Andrew's hope is that, when the book drops on Thursday, fans can rate, review, like, and buy the book on Kindle and push it to the number one spot (even briefly). Andrew's previously optioned his novella Public Enemy Zero on internet word-of-mouth alone.
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Stopped reading Hollywood Pharaohs for now. Picked up Count to a Trillion, a semi-futuristic tale of posthumanity and space invasions. What makes the book so enthralling (which it absolutely is) is the constantly growing magnitude of twists. You start off very slowly understanding the post-America and the technology of the time and trying to keep up with the insane amount of science-speak and then everything just blows up in greater and greater levels. I'm about halfway through and I recommend it highly.
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I've been reading A New World by A.J. Penn. If you watched the Cloud9 Production The Tribe the book is a continuation of the TV series. The book begins what would have been series 6 on TV. The book was a really quick read and very fast paced. There was about six main characters and POV's that alternated though out the book. The very same formula they use in the TV series+ more dialog. After reading this is so clearly meant for the fanbase formed in the late 90's to early 2000s. Some of the topics and themes in this book are very mature. Come to think of it, a lot of the themes of the TV show were mature. The book is a lot more explicit when it comes to things like torture. The Tribe is supposed to be adapted to film some time in 2015 and I hope this book is used. I recommend this book to anyone who loved The Tribe or any post-apocalyptic fiction or films. I LOVE THIS BOOK! <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... nceman.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':danceman:' />
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I just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.



It's about the life of a man from the perspective of his dog. (Spoiler alert- the dog dies. Spoiler alert - it's happening from the first paragraph) The dog is on his deathbed and he reminisces on the life he's lead and the hardships he and his partner have faced. There are some cute parts, many somber parts, a bawl-worthy part, and many, many references to driving/racing. The owner, Denny, is a semi-pro racecar driver, so the dog often compares things in life to driving a race.



I enjoyed it. I had several people tell me it was "the greatest book I ever read' and while it's not the greatest book I've ever read, I would place it on my "solid, enjoyable afternoon read" list. The personality of the dog is well done. He's human enough to identify, yet holds enough dog mannerisms that it doesn't seem overdone or forced. While his personality is great, I did find most of the drama forced, especially after the wife drama.
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Reading "White Tiger" AKA Marvel's spanish heroine right now and I have one thing to say:



White people Comic writers, stop trying to inject spanish into comic books. For one, you use the completely wrong term and/or incorrect slang and for two it sounds horrible. If they're going to say a spanish word, make it a spanish phrase. I'm starting to get hives like I do when weeaboos speak "japanese". :|



edit - I apologize to all white people who may be offended at my generalization of being white.
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[quote name='showraniy' timestamp='1335237026' post='123577']

[quote name='Plum' timestamp='1335227703' post='123571']

The first book wasn't so bad, so I was trapped into the second two by my OCD. Once I finished one portion, as much as I hated the experience of the subsequent portions, it would have driven me nuts if I didn't complete it. It's one of my quirks. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/sigh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':sigh:' />

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I know people like that and used to be like that myself until I discovered the trash called Twilight. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... lesson.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lesson:' /> So you're not alone!



And I just wanted to thank you guys for saying all that about Hunger Games because I was so torn. It seemed interesting, but I hate the taste in books of everyone who's suggested it to me, so I never knew what to do, especially when it's YA (prime territory for crap IMO) and all the author's other books are for little kids.

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OMG Twilight did it for me too! I only read the first one because Ryan's mom sent it with him to Japan for me and I felt rude if I didn't read it, and then I read the next two because HE actually got into them and had his mom keep sending them. I still haven't read the last one, but I probably will one day just because of the OCD thing.



I am currently reading The Hunger Games at my mom's (I forgot my book one weekend I went AND my DS so I just went into my sister's room and picked something out). I actually like it so far. I just finished the first third. (I only read it like once a week).



At home I am reading Fifty Shades of Grey, which is horrible, but I guess I am going to read all three because I accidentally bought the third one instead of the first one and figured I might as well keep it due to my book series finishing OCD. Unfortunately, bad or not, shit like that makes me horny...so I have to take a break this week.





I just had to read it to see how they were possibly portraying BDSM culture, a subject I have researched since middle school (because I am a delinquent), that 90% of the female population is so enthralled by it. But it reads so much like a fanfiction (which I know it IS) that it is painful. It's like hey I used to write shit like this when I was 13, EL James is a middle aged woman. I dunno.





Oh, BTW, I just finished Adam Ant's autobiography, Stand and Deliver, and it was amazing. Even if you don't like him specifically I recommend it if you have any interest in British music in the 80s.
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[left]Finished Nick Cole's The Old Man and The Wasteland. Very touching man vs. nature story set in a post-nuclear war Arizona. The ending is well put together which is a relief after a bunch of scifi novels with characteristically lame endings.

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I read 50 Shades of Grey. I did so for two reasons:



1) I knew I thought it was an abomination, but the enthusiasm with which I tore it apart just rang hollow as long as I couldn't claim to have full context. Basically, I didn't want to be "that guy" that tore something apart without even having read it.



2) Thanks to the fact that I pointed out just HOW successful the book had become, a librarian friend felt obligated to read it. I read it with her as an act of solidarity.



So, on to my thoughts.



What. The fuck. Is wrong with the woman that wrote this book.



Like misogyny? We've got it! Homophobia? Oh, it's rampant. Abusive relationships? You'll find none better! Always wanted to read about a guy taking a girl's virginity and feeding her the blood? Of course you did! Does getting your clitoris hit by a riding crop sound good to you? Sure thing! DO YOU WANT TO ABANDON THE IDEA THAT WORDS SHOULD MEAN THINGS IN FAVOR OF READING A BOOK THAT DESCRIBES ERECTIONS AS LANGUID AND ELEVATORS AS TRAVELING UPWARD AT TERMINAL VELOCITY? YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT FRIGGING PLACE, LITTLE LADY, LANGUID COCKS FOR EVERYONE.



This was the worst book I have ever read. The writing is abysmal, and it reads exactly like poor fan fiction. I can't even get into the repetitive descriptions. Did your breath hitch? Really? DID HE MUTTER THAT? SAY "Holy Crap" AGAIN, I DARE YOU.



This sentence actually appears, honest to God, in one of the top selling books of all time: "I have never fitted in anywhere before."



Let it wash over you.



I have never. Fitted in. Anywhere. Before.



That happened.



The lead is a childish, whining, terrible human being that rejects genuine affection from everyone around her in favor of a billionaire that sexes her up real good while he degrades her. She's impossibly stupid, like at 22 she's supposedly a college graduate that wants to go into publishing, but she has no e-mail address. Oh, and all her references to literature are ridiculous and wrong and reek of an author trying to make her protagonist sound smart and failing. Hey, Icarus had a hot thing! Hot billionaire is hot! Icarus is MY VAGINA. Perfect!



Hot billionaire is of course a human sack of crap. Oedipus Oedipus Oedipus, he likes to dominate women that look like his crack whore mom. How romantic!



You know what, I need a break. Just like I needed 70 breaks from this book.



BUT BEFORE I GO, JUST REMEMBER, KIDS! YOU AREN'T VALIDATED AS A PERSON UNTIL YOU SLAM YOUR GENITALS AGAINST SOMEONE ELSE'S!



I'M OUT.
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I... I am in awe.



If I wasn't in love with you already, this would make me fall.



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Always wanted to read about a guy taking a girl's virginity and feeding her the blood?

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So is this the book to a Japanese porn or wut ? lol
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Dang it, Plum, I really wanted to read it for the same reason! <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Argh, I was hoping it was at least well-written since the author is in her fifties/sixties... The subject can be total crap, but I was hoping for a competent author at least.
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It was so poorly written it honestly completely rocked my idea of what a published book should be. I'm serious. I did not think something this bad could get such a widespread release, ever.
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Does getting your clitoris hit by a riding crop sound good to you?

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Actually, yes. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... stling.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />













I think I'm going to make a drinking game to read the second one though. For example, anytime she says "inner goddess," "fifty shades of ________", or anytime she shouts someone's name (including her own) in italics.



I'll think of more I'm sure.



Oh, anytime she says Mrs. Robinson. Anytime it's GLARINGLY OBVIOUS it is Twilight fanfiction. Anytime he reprimands her for biting her lip or rolling her eyes.



I'll be wasted after one chapter.
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Ow, yuzu. Just ow.



My contributions: Anytime anyone's breath hitches. Anytime she hugs herself. Anytime she clenches... down there. ANYTIME SHE REFERS TO HER GENITALIA AS "there." Anytime E.L. James references literature poorly (protip: this is anytime she references literature). Anytime a word doesn't mean what E.L. James thinks it means. Anytime Christian ruins a moment of apparent level-headedness by being a misogynistic asshat. Anytime someone other than Christian tries to be nice to Ana and she responds by being a brat.



PS: Look forward to the first chapter. I hear it has the sentence, "It has pride of place on my desk." Truly, we are in an age of enlightenment.



PPS: Your imagining of the book will be greatly improved if you picture this man anytime she refers to him as Fifty. Also James's descriptions make Ana's orgasms sound like diarrhea. You're welcome.
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Yeah, I know I'm weird. Which is why I think it's odd that such a badly written book has such widespread popularity. Like...are most women way kinkier than I thought? I've always been pretty open about my masochistic tendencies (although I would never claim to be a full on masochist that is capable of being a legitimate sub).



I'd like all the women fawning over this book to read "The Story of O".
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[quote name='yuzuriha' timestamp='1345818372' post='132341']

Yeah, I know I'm weird. Which is why I think it's odd that such a badly written book has such widespread popularity. Like...are most women way kinkier than I thought? I've always been pretty open about my masochistic tendencies (although I would never claim to be a full on masochist that is capable of being a legitimate sub).



I'd like all the women fawning over this book to read "The Story of O".

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From what I understand, it's not typical BDSM. I mean, they go through all the usual BDSM kinks, but she tells him to stop and he keeps going, he controls who she talks to, what she wears and eats, ect. It's a full on abusive relationship. Which is why the "sex" is weird. I think it's more due to the fact that it's a sex book and women go crazy when "let loose" like the batshit way women act in male strip shows? OMG I'm reading a naughty book!
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You're not weird at all, yuzu, it just sounds really painful to me personally. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />



I was mostly shocked to see that in such a popular book. And yeah, it's definitely more abusive than anything. I've read online that a lot of people into BDSM are legitimately angry about the light it casts on their scene. I can definitely see why, since there's a real pattern of him utterly ignoring her when she voices discomfort.
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Yeah well I think more of what petit mentioned must happen in the second book because I am only like...halfway through the first chapter. The first book wasn't like that much at all. In fact if anything I spent 95% of the book WAITING for something to happen. Which I guess I might spend the whole series doing.
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I disagree, the first book was abusive as hell. It gets worse though.



Also, I found Christian's youtube account.
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I more mean the first book didn't have so much of the her telling him to stop and he doesn't suff. It was still emotionally and physically abusive. Except for like two instances I can think of she was pretty much with him on what he was doing to her and didn't actually ask him to stop.
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I finished Catch Me If You Can from Frank Abagnale today (remember that movie Leonardo DiCaprio starred in?). It's exciting, if not a little limp on the ending. Knowing that it's a true story is so astounding. I can't imagine being in this guy's shoes. Give it a read, y'all.
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BBS readers~ halp plz?



My adorable little cousin I gush about all the time because he's that adorable likes Harry Potter. In fact, the HP books got him into reading. But now he doesn't have any more HP books to read. Rather than cry about another person losing the love of reading, I want to give him another series to bite into. My aunt says he likes wizards and mythical creatures the most. There are plenty of YA books I've enjoyed, but I've never been keen on the traditional fantasy/wizardry the HP series is known for. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/rofl.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rofl:' /> He's only 10, btw. Oh, and sorry about asking here, but my small little town of illiterate idiots shut down the library earlier this year.



I haven't done pleasure reading lately. All I read are science textbooks. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ryalot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':cryalot:' />



Oh, and SAD HORRIBLE NEWS. Anyone remember the Scary Stories books? The ones with the fantastically creepy nightmare inducing illustrations?

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GONE. Replaced by basic boring artwork. I feel like a part of my childhood has died. I can still recall some of those creepy images. :shudder:And the spider eggs story still haunts me to this day. I think it created a deep seeded fear of spiders laying eggs that will follow me until I die and spiders bury their eggs in my rotting flesh (but I won't know it so it's okay... I think...)
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