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« Reply #1460 on: January 07, 2013, 02:11:09 AM » |
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. I'm reading this book to understand storytelling better but oh boy, it's so hard to read! English is not my native language and those multiple complex sentences (almost every one in the book) are really hard to follow sometimes. I'm wading through at least two times slower than any other book but I'm determined. 
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« Reply #1461 on: January 07, 2013, 03:02:09 AM » |
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I got the complete Amber series in a book for my birthday, so I'm now a few books into that.
Tell me if they're any good, I only know of the roleplaying system based on the books which is GM/Player adversarial as fuck to the point of straight up telling the GM to permanently ruin characters if the player is having too good of a time. |
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It's been quite enjoyable so far. The guy who gave it to me said that the first five books are excellent, and the second five (which follow a different character) are just "good". I'm still within the first five, though.
And a roleplaying system based on it seems hard to fathom...
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« Reply #1463 on: January 08, 2013, 07:03:22 AM » |
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finished slaughterhouse V for the second time
starting on some of those haruki murakami books. All I know is that he exists and the local library has english copies. Glad to go into it not knowing much about him or his books.
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« Reply #1464 on: January 08, 2013, 11:28:22 AM » |
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Just finished: - Theft - Peter Carey
- True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
- Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Currently reading: - A People's History of the World - Chris Harman
- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - George Dyson
- Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
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« Reply #1465 on: January 08, 2013, 11:47:12 AM » |
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Just finished The Children of the Sky which I thought was kind of middling. I was also really hoping that it was going to finish the story that the last one started, but instead it just opened the door for another book. I really enjoyed the prior two books in this series though, so I will probably keep pushing on.
Prior to that I read high rise, which I enjoyed, although I think I might be getting tired of all the sexual violence and lack of women as characters in ballard's books.
Prior to that Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making (had to put the full title there in case people wanted to find it)... it was great, but it may have been a case of confirmation bias. What a confirmation though! so inspriational, makes me want to make more and more strange music games.
so a bunch of caveats strewn in there.
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« Reply #1466 on: January 08, 2013, 11:48:36 AM » |
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Italo Svevo -- A Life
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« Reply #1467 on: January 08, 2013, 01:22:17 PM » |
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Just finished: - Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
This is one of the Murakami books I own, yet haven't read. Still holding onto 1Q84 too. |
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« Reply #1468 on: January 11, 2013, 04:41:38 PM » |
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« Reply #1469 on: January 11, 2013, 06:48:04 PM » |
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« Reply #1470 on: January 14, 2013, 03:31:35 AM » |
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Carl Sagan's Contact and Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future travel firmly in my satchel.
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« Reply #1471 on: January 15, 2013, 11:50:37 AM » |
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.
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« Reply #1472 on: January 16, 2013, 12:35:48 PM » |
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« Reply #1473 on: January 16, 2013, 01:06:40 PM » |
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Reading Siddhartha as part of a study on isolation in literature.
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« Reply #1474 on: January 16, 2013, 10:37:30 PM » |
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.
Chris Ware is my favorite graphic novelist. All of his artwork is so painstakingly detailed and precise. |
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« Reply #1475 on: January 19, 2013, 06:11:42 PM » |
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During lunch at work I have been plugging through Lord of the Flies.
It wasn't fair to the book.
I took it home.
Almost done.
It's pretty damn short.
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« Reply #1476 on: January 19, 2013, 08:48:59 PM » |
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During lunch at work I have been plugging through Lord of the Flies.
It wasn't fair to the book.
I took it home.
Almost done.
It's pretty damn short.
Although the book became a bit repetitive to me after a while ,it poses some interesting questions to think about. I enojyed reading it none-the-less. I am reading A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry atm. Still have to finish Gibbon's book though -_- |
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« Reply #1477 on: January 25, 2013, 09:09:19 AM » |
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"The Father-Thing: Volume 3 of the Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick", paperback 1994, decent condition
I like his short stories, and there are several in it I haven't read before. They're good speculative fiction even if they can get a bit "Twilight Zone"-ish.
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« Reply #1478 on: January 29, 2013, 04:50:22 AM » |
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I want to read this guys book.
More shenanigans on his channel... like shooting heroin.
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« Reply #1479 on: April 26, 2013, 09:08:23 AM » |
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"the kids are alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace" 2006
ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-0435-4
ISBN-10: 1-4221-0435-4
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