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Title: reading
Post by: dc804 on October 20, 2009, 01:33:49 PM
Do you read regularly. I mean novels and short stories, not the internet. Just finished Stephen King's The Dark Tower series and am now reading Catcher in the Rye.

What about you?
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Glorb on October 20, 2009, 01:38:49 PM
In before reading is FOR LOSERZ.

But yeah, I don't really read books all that much.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Koopaslaya on October 20, 2009, 02:35:15 PM
I think I read too much for my own good. I've always got a book [or two] in my hand. I also like to read magazines, short stories, and poetry. We come to learn so much from active reading.
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Post by: PaperLuigi on October 20, 2009, 04:35:40 PM
I am currently reading Don't Think of an Elephant! and 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America. Good books.
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Post by: Turtlekid1 on October 20, 2009, 04:54:03 PM
I generally read Sci-Fi and fantasy books like Artemis Fowl or the Inheritance Cycle.

I read a good Superman-Batman novel called Enemies and Allies recently. 
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Post by: Nintendoobsessed on October 20, 2009, 04:55:56 PM
I read way too much.

I am known as a NURD. (Jock Spelling.)
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Weegee on October 20, 2009, 06:09:43 PM
I haven't read a full-fledged book by my own accord since finishing A Practical Guide to Racism in August. It's quite an insightful read if you can get past the title. Below is an excerpt from the first chapter, Hispanics: A Practical Guide to Fecundity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecundity):

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Title: Re: reading
Post by: ShadowBrain on October 20, 2009, 06:52:18 PM
Okay, now I know this was a thread... somewhere. Well, whatever.

I'm not really reading anything right now, except for 1984 for school. I want to read The Lost Symbol and few other books, though.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Weegee on October 20, 2009, 07:22:32 PM
Brian, this is an exercise in self-control. Highlighting the below text will spoil the remainder of 1984 for you.

Winston finally succumbs to the Party's absolute control by coming to the realization that "he loved Big Brother" just before his implied execution. O'Brien is actually a government agent who imprisons and tortures Winston and Julia, the latter of whom is never heard from again.

Can you contain yourself?
Title: Re: reading
Post by: BriGuy92 on October 20, 2009, 07:38:51 PM
I've almost always got a book lying around somewhere that I'm somewhere in the middle of. For example, right now I'm reading the fourth book in R.A. Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt series. I like to read just about any fantasy or science-fiction book, which is good because I have this one friend who always lends me books, and those are the only kinds of books he has.

After having read what I just wrote, I must ask you to please forgive the sloppiness of this post. I'm waaay too tired right now to actually write anything coherent, so I'll try editing this post tomorrow when I'm more awake.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Lizard Dude on October 20, 2009, 08:00:39 PM
WeeGee you are one f'd up dude.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Weegee on October 20, 2009, 08:05:26 PM
Spoilers are the spice of life, you know.

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Title: Re: reading
Post by: Rao on October 20, 2009, 08:15:38 PM
Well now I never have to read 1984.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: dc804 on October 20, 2009, 08:52:04 PM
Brian, this is an exercise in self-control. Highlighting the below text will spoil the remainder of 1984 for you.

Winston finally succumbs to the Party's absolute control by coming to the realization that "he loved Big Brother" just before his implied execution. O'Brien is actually a government agent who imprisons and tortures Winston and Julia, the latter of whom is never heard from again.

Can you contain yourself?
My turn to make a self-control exercise.

Everyone, this is an exercise in self-control. Highlighting the below text will spoile the Dark Tower series for you.

DT1: Roland lets Jake die.
DT2: When Jake died in this world, he was pushed into the street by a man in black. Not the man in black. Which is how he got to Roland's world.
DT3: Jake comes back to life.
DT4: Roland kills his mom. He saw Rhea (evil witch) in a mirror, turned around, shot her four times, and it turned out to be his mother and not Rhea.
DT5: THE WOLVES ARE ROBOTS.
DT6: Roland is the father of Susannah's baby.
DT7: Roland gets to the top of the tower. He opens the door to the room at the top. When he opens it, he sees a desert. He is sucked inside there, and he ends up back in the desert, chasing the man in black, where the first book begins. So he has to start all over again.
Little Sisters of Eluria: The nurses are vampires.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: PaperLuigi on October 20, 2009, 09:08:46 PM
Snape kills Dumbledore. Scar kills Mufasa. Vader kills Palpatine. Etc.
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Post by: Lizard Dude on October 20, 2009, 09:20:46 PM
Didn't I just go over how spoiler-fests were bad?

At least this time they're all covered.
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Post by: Turtlekid1 on October 21, 2009, 10:05:10 AM
Forgot to mention I'm also reading The Pilgrim's Progress for my English Literature assignment right now.  Pretty good so far, if a little hard to understand.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: dc804 on October 21, 2009, 12:49:30 PM
SNAPE KILLED the mood when he walked in on Harry and Ginny.
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Luigison on October 21, 2009, 06:19:40 PM
I have a habit of reading two or three books at a time.  I have "How to build a time machine" by Paul Davies in the bathroom, a couple of Ben Bova novels on the night stand, and often read short stories around the house. 
Title: Re: reading
Post by: Black Mage on October 21, 2009, 08:02:00 PM
You know what doesn't show up correctly on my phone's version of the mobile site?

Spoiler tags.