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garus
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Jul 2014 22:29 Post subject: |
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Or you know... do what I do on my kindle. Get Calibre. Use google. Download ebook file. Use ebook file with calibre. Use calibre with kindle. Bam, no drm.
After I started buying most games a few years ago, I had to live out my filthy pirate urges somewhere else.
And Calibre is awesome, you can use it with most ebook devices, it converts ebooks automatically if your reader doesn't support the format, and you can even open a Calibre server on your network to sync all your devices with your huge virtual library.
Books I really enjoy I still buy (used) and put them on my shelf, for everything else... yarrrr!
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Jul 2014 17:32 Post subject: |
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Brilliance by Marcus Sakey, it's a really good read.
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Jul 2014 13:07 Post subject: |
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Tower Lord, a very well written book, but not as captivating as the first one. I think I was too hyped after the first, so I have a small meh feeling while I'm reading this one. While I thought the first was very refreshing for the fantasy genre, this one is a bit more typical.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Jul 2014 23:09 Post subject: |
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Just read "On the road" by Jack Kerouac. It was quite nice. Is it worth it to read some of his other books?
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2014 05:27 Post subject: |
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Just finished today: Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising
I really want to see it as a HBO miniseries or something.
There's very rarely high level strategy and big military campaigns in films and this is a perfect blueprint.
It's got everything.
Just started Max Barry's Lexicon.
Not many chapters in yet but seems really interesting and well written.
Good use of language.
About manipulation and control of oneself and other people through language.
Like inception without the dreaming bit.
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tw1st
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Almost finished with Survivor by Chuck Paluhniuk.
What a fantastic book, satire at it's best. Highly recommended, especially if you enjoyed fight club.
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garus
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nouseforaname
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I finished Tower Lord, it was a disappointment in the end. I might've been too hyped though. It's all so predictable, a cliche fantasy novel after what I considered to be some kind of reboot of the genre. I took a break from my fantasy break for this? Meh. Imagine playing Dragon Age 2 after Origins, it's fun I guess but nowhere near the original.
Stupid fantasy writers. You suck.
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couleur
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So I finished Crime and Punishment by Dosojewski (Dostoyevsky) while on vacation and as expected, it was a very good read.
The psychological depth of the criminal mind is so well described, the inner conflict between social standarts, ideological and moral values that takes place inside Raskolnikovs head is just fascinating. Some of Raskolnikovs theories seem like precursing Nietzsches Ubermensch.
The side characters are well developed but a little overdrawn as always, which can be as humerous as it can induce pity.
The book also gives quite an interesting view on the russian society from the 19th century!
Highly recommended!
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Aug 2014 19:26 Post subject: |
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Currently re-reading Stephen King's Dark Tower books. I am not really a fan of King's books, but the Dark Tower is absolutely superb.
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waste of $$$
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| Posted: Wed, 6th Aug 2014 10:35 Post subject: |
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Currently reading Terry Pratchetts newest Discworld book, Raising Steam, staring main character Moist von Lipwig again, fun!
Also Masters of Doom on my Kindle on the way to work, also highly recommended for any gamer.
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2014 01:38 Post subject: |
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starting dragonlance and I love it so far. I've searched for a simple RPG I know from D&D. I was sick of complex stories from 1000 POVs.
Free will - Sam Harris.
It's like with afterlife: i know I can't get a definitive answer about free will but it's very, very interesting and scary at the same time. Sam Harris asks simple but very important questions that make you think.
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2014 12:59 Post subject: |
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Does the Dragonlance series improve after the first book? I stopped halfway because I thought it was too childish and simplistic.
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Doh!
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| Mister_s wrote: | | Does the Dragonlance series improve after the first book? I stopped halfway because I thought it was too childish and simplistic. |
Have a feeling you missed the train :/ Reading all those books in the early teens was great, but reading it in 2014 and 20 years later is very hard.
I still love each and every character of first 2 book series.
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| Quote: | | Dragons of autumn twilight (first book of Dragonlance): felt like it's written by a teenager. Very simplistic and very cliche ideas, will not read the rest. |
I don't fully remember how it was, I just remember I didn't like it much, but this is what I wrote after it apparently. Maybe I'll give it another shot later. I didn't try Shadowrun yet, but I really liked the atmosphere in the game.
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Epsilon
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Read The Wheel of Time, it's a good series. But theres sometimes a bit too much female superiority going on. Regardless I've read 11 books out of 13 since november last year - I don't have a lot of time for reading, but it's an enthralling series.
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Morphineus
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So I'm reading The Ender series and almost finished the first book. If I'm not mistaken quite a few people have read it... did any of you actually thought that the writer has pedophile tendencies?
I just can't shake that feeling because of how he writes about the children in some passages. I have no clue who he is as a person. Only got interested in the series because it's scifi and people mentioned it as better than the movie, so don't know much about Orson Scott Card.
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2014 10:29 Post subject: |
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Started Dune last night .
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