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goodreads.com


pretty cool site, gives you recommendations on other books you might like and all the stuff you'd expect from a social networking site.

need a site for people who used to read but ever since books turned into computers find it hard to read something that isn't touchscreen...
:(

that's called Facebook

womp womp wahhhhhmp

http://www.tastekid.com/

oats you ever heard of this?

nah, pretty similar concept, just more stuff than books

already been a member

I want to read the alchemist. Should I do this?

never heard of it...author?

Paulo Coelho

I still have an issue reading books on any device

still a fan of paperback/hardcover myself

Heard good things about the alchemist, never read it though.

I'm the same as you, GOW, only read bound books. I've tried different e-readers and it just doesn't work.

I'm hoping I just have to find the right book.

shit feels weird right? lol its the same with me i just cant get into it

idk i like readin stuff on my ipad or phone
mostly because i can pirate 1000's of books for free in seconds

Haven't read a new book in a while...I have a house full of books of which I'm pretty sure I've read all of them multiple times...need to get some new books.

I also only read real books....can't get with reading on these electronic thingamabobs.

lol opposite for me..


is goodreads an actualy site with books or just suggestions for books?

cuz my kindle is broken and I cant find shit for free.

was reading tom sawyer narrated by elijah wood shit is dope.

are narrated books considered reading lol?

same i need a book, not a screen...can't stay focused...i like turnin pages..i uno

I enjoyed it.

This I have a problem with. The thousands of hours that go into writing a book deserve your financial support. At least musicians can go on tour to continue making money, but writers don't have those other outlets to support themselves.

And yeah e-reading gets me too distracted, I don't like it. But it is convenient.

lol i'll usually buy them if i like them within a few chapters. otherwise i have no real way of knowing if they are good or not apart from going to a library and reading which i do not want to do

Fair enough. Just know that most writers are struggling to live by way of their craft alone, unlike most musicians. It's a difficult industry to be in.

i agree w u oats...i lways buy books..even go to the library when im skepticaal n will rent..but yea writing is hard as is...now w piracy of books smh...

Rawn what's your goodreads account? I ain't got no friends on there

hold on tho. don't authors get monies from movie deals? i know not a lot get them but they still rake in money from it right?
but still i agree its a super struggling industry

yeah there are a few writers who are excessively wealthy (JK Rowling, for example), but most of them work their ass off before seeing even modest results.

its all in the marketing, look at the beautiful creature bitches that shit was only internet marketed n published by them

I'm gonna write a book one day.

Truth.

true true
also took how long for game of thrones to become a series lol like 2 decades

btw if u're into aliens and stuff go check out Out of the Dark by David Weber

@oats ; i had it linked to my fb...but now i cant find it... if i do ill give u my handle...i have a feelings it my gov't and tbh...i used it when i first found out bout it (months ago) specified all the sht i have read, want to read, liked, disliked n all..but aint used it since LOL...

i mean imma read what peaks my interest, and usually w books its a personal recommendation or prior works i enjoyed from the author...ya feel..

awesome site btw

piques

@oats ...by the st we've conversed on i highly reccomend Oryx and Crake to u...i feel like u got the right mindstate to truelly appreciate it (only other person i think that colld to teh same degree is @Chyeahhh!!! - n ive reccomended it to him b4 as well) its by Margaret Attwood (she wrote 'A Handmaidens Tale') 'Oryx n Crake' won like the Booker Prize and NY Best Seller..
@Artemus u may enjoy it too...judgin by the few convo's on correlating topics that we've had, mind u im just gettin a feel for ur persona...but if ur names more then just a name, and my judge of character is correct (which it usually is) it may b worth picking up

yeah you have brought that up, and I heard it's good. I've read a couple of things from Atwood and I like them a lot, I'll def put that on the queue.

word i started reading handmaidens tale, but something came up with irl...so i had to stop, and i wasn't to into it that i felt like going back, kinda femalish story...but thats kinda the theme w thaat one...its said to b real good tho, as was the writing as always w/ atwood, but it was on loan from library so..yah, ne ways oryx n crake r part of the 'mad adam trillogy' but its the only one i read, prolly all superb tbh..what have u read by her @oats ?

also u ever hear of the 'level 7' srs by the dood who made the original csi (long foreign type name) along w Mark Ecko?...that shts dope too...totally diff type of books though...but its got accompanied webisodes so thats pretty cool.

Oryx and Crake sounds cool, it's post apocalyptic or somethin?

yea...kinda its hard to explain...like it is and then it also flashes back to what caused the apocalypse...it ties in a lot of the sht we speak on, science v god, genetic engineering, intelligence, biomodification, n then more tangible things kidnap, rape, child exploitation/human trafficking...its dope n macroscopic...hard to summerize n i dont wanna ruin it. @Artemus ...story is very well wrote and keeps u intrigued.

@Rawn MacDon I've read a number of short stories by her (Happy Endings is a good place to start, I think you'll dig it. plus you should be able to find it online). Only novel I read was Pennelopiad, which I really liked.

word..thats actually the one i wanted to peep tbh...i picked handmaidens bc it was more 'critically acclaimed' but that intrigued me more tbh..i shoulda gone w it...im not a big fan of short stories...like i read some Vonnagut shorts n it didn't really connect the way the novels do...i unno...atwoods a diff beast tho.. @oats

i read short stories by john grisham tho 'ford county' and that sht was dope @Bags (only cuz i kno u like grisham)

I dig short stories, probably my favorite medium for reading. Try "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, "Escape From Spiderhead" by George Saunders, or "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. You can google those and find them online pretty easily.