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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 10:20:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		If I win it, I'm getting a hardcover of House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski. My paperback got lost on the path of booklending, and I have the urge to read it again.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:07:51 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:10:45 PM   
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Oooh, did that book unsettle me.


So cool, though! In concept and excecution. I very rarely reread books (not a photographic memory, but something akin) and that's on the short list.

Might do Gravity's Rainbow this summer, too. What the hell. SCIENCE!

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:16:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Indeed, I remember the scene early on where they initially find the door, and the guy with the camera walks around the wall, showing it shouldn't exist. Then reaches his hand inside, to the chagrin of his wife. I remember it well for the goosebumps it gave me.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:22:51 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:29:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		90% healed, actually. They didn't have to cut any of it off. The fingernail is about halfway grown back, and the giant missing chunk is finally growing new skin over it.

What nobody can figure out is how the bone didn't sustain any damage.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:30:18 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 12:32:09 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 1:44:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		On paper, I'm reading George C. Chesbro's "Mongo" stories, about a former circus performer turned private detective. They're not bad.

On audiobook, recently finished "Rule 34" and "The Jennifer Morque" by Charles Stross, and "Two-Bear Mambo" and "Bad Chili" by Joe R. Lansdale. Like Chesbro, Lansdale has been around a long time, but somehow I'd never encountered any of his stuff.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 3:47:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		OH criminy, I think I have that same Charlie Stross hanging around, on loan from a friend. I am on and off with his stuff, but Joe Landsdale is an excellent storyteller.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 3:48:42 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/5/2012 5:55:04 PM   
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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/7/2012 7:05:03 AM   
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I'm not a big film fan, so I picked up the books and find them quite hard to put down.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/7/2012 2:22:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've started reading Dark Romance by David J Hogan. It's about sex and death in the horror film, and as I have a deep love of horror films, it's very interesting indeed. So far, it's pretty damn good, anyway.

After I've read that I'll be starting on a collection of ghost stories by Charles Dickens.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/7/2012 8:51:45 PM   
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I started off my summer sweeping through a deeply silly Janet Evanovich novel. Since I now have the attention span of lint, it was a good choice, and not just because it was the book lying around the hotel room.

The pile of books waiting for me is large, and my Amazon wish list has some stuff there too. Naturally I am dissatisfied with all my options.

What are you reading this summer?

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What are you reading this summer?


Everything I can get my hands on.

(Reading is fundamental, you know).

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/7/2012 9:38:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm currently reading about the battle of midway, I find this particular battle fascinating.

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RE: What Are You Reading? - 6/7/2012 10:15:35 PM   
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Free audiobook download from the library. Might be available in e-book too. I lubs me some apocalyptic sci-fi from time to time. Go, aliens!!



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