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Old 07-05-2010, 09:50 PM

<A< Is it bad to post a new list for each year of reading?

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#8877
Old 07-06-2010, 08:01 PM

Rainbows -- I don't think so, I mean, you wouldn't want to wipe your past accomplishments. =D

Over the weekend I finished Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller, and Truth, by Peter Temple. They were great, of course, I mentioned them a bit last week.

Yesterday was soooo slow, as it was a non-holiday day, so I read Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, which is a book of survivors stories, with some good hard science about the bomb, centering on the people who, after surviving the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, took the train to Nagasaki and lived through that bomb, too. It was well done, but I'd read the survivors stories before, for the most part. But again, it had the good hard science too, instead of treating the bomb like some crazy voodoo, that you sometimes see in other portrayals.

There's some controversy regarding Last Train, because of some religious glurge material that found its way in, but who'da thunk that would be inaccurate. :roll: That's what happens though, with "popular" non-fiction, it won't be the first time or the last.

I started reading Berlin Noir, last night, not hugely impressed, but it's well-written for what it is, historical crime fiction.

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#8878
Old 07-06-2010, 08:33 PM

Rainbows>> but you might want to tell Knerd that you have a new one when she comes on.

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#8879
Old 07-07-2010, 01:15 AM

Richard Muller? I was his student about a decade ago, not in the course which he always called "Physics for Future Presidents," which was the non-majors course, but in the majors course. He was really great, horribly tactless but very funny, and I remember him with great fondness. He actually learned the names of us shrimpy freshman majors. Funny that he's published a book with that name, after batting it around as a fictitious course title for so long. :D

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#8880
Old 07-07-2010, 03:07 AM

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LOL I wanted to. I read the first one....and then my mom could find all of her books EXCEPT the second. So I was like ".............well, then....I guess I'll just have to wait. Oh. Darn." I don't think my mom's kept up, either. There were just too many. I seriously want to get back to reading those, though. First one was pretty good. >.>
Yeah... the writer died... I really wanted to read the last book... but I'm afraid that the guy he choose to pick it up after he passed slaughtered it... T_T

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#8881
Old 07-07-2010, 05:09 AM

Woah, really? I knew he was gettin' old...but I don't think I knew he'd died yet. *sigh* I still wanna read the rest, though. I hate it when I never finish a series...

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#8882
Old 07-07-2010, 06:38 AM

I want to join in!!!! Hmmm.. I'll start when I finish this book, I'm most of the way through, but I've been reading it for a while and I can't remember when I started. I'll aim for 100 books.

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#8883
Old 07-07-2010, 06:39 AM

Ehh...whatever list I had disappeared when my computer got infected. Ohhh darn. I guess I'll just have to start over. The horror. >.>

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#8884
Old 07-07-2010, 03:41 PM

carzeebear>> good luck :)

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#8885
Old 07-07-2010, 06:19 PM

Hiyas again! I'm done with one series now. Shaman King.

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Old 07-07-2010, 06:38 PM

I updated my list last night but as usual I didn't have the books close enough to check the page counts. XD

I just finished a Sherlock Holmes book that was Holmes-less for a large part of it and now I'm over a quarter of a way through a Poirot book which the Belgian has yet to appear in. Darn runaway detectives.

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#8887
Old 07-07-2010, 06:43 PM

I'm working on reading Kurohime right now.

Anyone want an excerpt (rough one) out of a vampire book I'm writing?

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#8888
Old 07-07-2010, 09:51 PM

Aaaahg! I would be done with The Sacrifice (book one of the Fey series) right now, but my friend asked me to go to the pool with her, now I'm off to dinner with my family in a bit, and after that, I'm going out with the same friend I went to the pool with. I just want to finish this book! I've fifty pages left and it's soooo good! :gonk:

Kat- I've not read any Sherlock Holmes, but I've heard he likes to not be present in some books. :lol: Did it center on Watson, then?

Taiyo- Sure! I like to write about vampires myself, it's always neat to see how others portray them. ^^

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Old 07-07-2010, 10:33 PM

Okies. I'm not sure if you guys are gonna barf at it or not. It's a little gross and freaky.

SPOILERX

"What the hell was that?" Jess Inman asked. She sounded scared. I looked at her; her bright red eyes still creeped me out, even though she'd awakened as a vampire a few weeks ago.

"I don't want to think about it," I replied. True, I was a vampire myself, but I had yet to awaken. Still, I could see in the dark far easier than any human.

"Let's just drop the subject and do what we came here to do," Moria said, "find out what's been terrorizing the school."

"And killing students," Mika said. I glared at her. I really didn't want to think about that right now. The stress from the talent contest was bad enough; we didn't need to be reminded of the bloody remains of some of the students.

"Can you not mention that?" Shannon asked. "It makes me want to go home and hide under my covers for the rest of the month."

"And you're supposed to be a pureblood vampire?" Heather asked. Shannon glared at her.

"I'm also a teenager," she replied.

"Okay, guys; let's not plot revenge against each other." I said, shining the flashlight in their faces. Despite what I was saying, I was shaking inside; our lives had been getting creepier and creepier ever since some kids started coming to the high school. They claimed to be true vampires and were calling us fakes.

Sorry, but I think we're all true creatures of the night. Unfortunately, so were the guys making our lives hell.

I turned away from my fellow band members and aimed the flashlight forward again. What I saw on the ground made me curious. I wish it hadn't.

As I raised the flashlight I realized what I was looking at; another student. The body didn't even look human anymore, and here's what made it worse; the poor sap was still alive.

I nearly puked. I dropped the flashlight, hiding the former human in darkness again. My hands flew to my mouth as I tried to hold back the gag reflex.

"Tarya? What's wrong?" Shannon asked, alarmed. I just shook my head, too afraid to talk in case I barfed.

Jess had picked up the flashlight and was shining it on what had made me drop it in the first place. "Uh, guys," she said, "I think we've found the asshole judge."

"What do you mean?" Heather asked. She stopped when she saw what was left of him.

I steeled myself and looked up. It looked like he'd been halfway turned inside-out. I could see his entrails, and it looked like bones were sticking out of places bones weren't supposed to be. His ribs were completely inverted and were sticking out of his back from his spine. What hadn't been turned inside-out looked like it had been stripped of its skin. The eyes were only bloody sockets. The tongue was missing. There were extra limbs on the mass of flesh that was the body. What was worse, is that it could move around like a spider. The whole thing was disgusting as all get out.

"RUN!!!!!" I shrieked. I didn't have to repeat myself; we all turned tail and got the hell out of there as fast as we could.

"What the f*** did that do him?!" Mika yelped. She looked like she was about to crap herself.

"I have no idea, but we've gotta find our way out of here, ASAP!" I shouted in reply.


Remember, this is only a very rough draft.

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#8890
Old 07-07-2010, 10:43 PM

I want to read more! lol It's great!!

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Old 07-07-2010, 10:51 PM

I doesn't start out as creepy as that, I'll guarentee it. It actually gets off to a very slow start and appears to have a lot of teenage melodrama. Well, considering how that kind of thing happens to them, I'd say it certainly doesn't stay that way very long. I'm getting into the part where the weird and creepy stuff happens. And that's only the first book! There's gonna be three more after it!

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#8892
Old 07-07-2010, 10:52 PM

Anime_Scholar -- Very cool. I also remember reading his book Nemesis quite a long time ago and enjoying it very much.

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#8893
Old 07-07-2010, 11:04 PM

I'm writing something that's reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes as well. Still a bit gruesome, but you've gotta remember....the girl's related to Holmes himself and is a detective genius.

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#8894
Old 07-08-2010, 02:20 AM

Oh, boy! I want to Half-Price Books, and they had the entire Fey series! :drool: I was not expecting that, and it made me really happy. So I bought all the books, except the first one, since I've already got it. I did feel bad, leaving it there all by it's lonesome... Hopefully someone will pick it up, it's great! That book deserves a reading. Also, I think a different artist did the cover for all the books that followed the first... And I like the first's cover way more. The art is more appealing to me and it's exactly how I would have imagined the characters even without having seen it.
So anyway, in short, four (probably really amazing) books in good condition for thirteen dollars. HAPPY. <3

Taiyo- Like you said, it's still in the rough stages, but it seems like it will be really good! Is it about vampire detectives? Best of luck getting all the books written. :)

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#8895
Old 07-08-2010, 03:35 PM

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Kat- I've not read any Sherlock Holmes, but I've heard he likes to not be present in some books. :lol: Did it center on Watson, then?
I've not read that many myself which needs rectifying as soon as possible.

When Holmes catches the murderer there's a huge section devoted to the backstory of the people involved and the motives. I think it returns to the 'present' in the end so Holmes can explain exactly what happened and how he figured it out so Watson can say "Gosh Holmes!" or something similar.

I know from the Jeremy Brett series Holmes can spend the whole story pretending to be a beggar or in another disguise. XD

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#8896
Old 07-08-2010, 03:54 PM

I want to get one of the complete Sherlock Holmes volumes so I can read all of it, I can just never find them when I actually have money with me!

Oh, I see. I think he's not around awfully much in The Hound of the Baskervilles as well, or that was the impression I got from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The main character in that book love Sherlock Holmes and talked about The Hound of the Baskervilles a whole lot.

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#8897
Old 07-08-2010, 04:39 PM

If you guys ever get the chance, listen to the old Sherlock Holmes radio series. I personally think that it's even better than the books - Some stories just have to be read aloud. I love sitting with my father and listening to these stories at night!

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#8898
Old 07-08-2010, 04:48 PM

I have the Lord of the Rings audiobooks, and I simply can't go back to reading them anymore. They really come to life when read aloud.

(Do audiobooks count on our lists?)

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Old 07-08-2010, 04:49 PM

If you want them to count, they can count. :yes:

I listen to Harry Potter audiobooks on long roadtrips and I put them on my list. I just don't add the page count since I'm technically not reading any pages, haha.

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Old 07-08-2010, 07:22 PM

Hello again!

Yay! I'm over half done with all my manga!

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Taiyo- Like you said, it's still in the rough stages, but it seems like it will be really good! Is it about vampire detectives? Best of luck getting all the books written.
Nope. It's about seven friends--all vampires--getting together and forming a band to meet a common dream; become gothic-rock stars!

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