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Old 09-07-2017, 02:03 PM   #141
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man I loved that wonderland shit

was my first and only murakami book so far

not sure what to expect next now you saying that wasn't his usual style lol. was def weird asf.

some1 told me to grab the wind up bird chronicle
A lot of his books are steeped in fantasy, some more than others. But for the most part his books are very melancholy and the characters are always marred with some issue of loneliness or not being accepted.

If you want to continue the fantasy route I would go with Wind Up Bird Chronicle or A Wild Sheep Chase. After that, 1Q84 - which is over 1,100 pages long, so...have fun with that lol. It's great though. Once you read those three, the rest of his books are rather surreal.
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Old 09-07-2017, 05:25 PM   #142
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@oats do you like books by white people, too?

GAME OF THRONES BY GEORGE "GEORGEY BOY" MARTIN

Reread it since the show ended. He's not that dope of a writer and the POV style gets old sometimes and he uses a lot of repetitive phrases and lacks subtlety and has way too much exposition but I enjoy reading the shit so whatever.

Picking up THE NORTH WATER by Ian Mcguire so I can seem smart and fancy amongst my coastal elite friends.
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Old 09-07-2017, 08:31 PM   #143
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I read 10 books by the whites this year, not including the Bittersweet Science which had whites and nonwhites in it. @PancakeBrah
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Should i read that murakami book THO

Anyone with a name like haruki murakami not writing about military tactics/swordsmenship/weird poems about cherry blossoms im not sure i can get behind
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he writing about all that tho lol an sum whole other shit

idk man I wont pretend to understand your preferencing tho....like a game of dirt dice lol
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62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)


shit was cool. basically the evolution version of NDT's astrophysics for people in a hurry. his obnoxious ranting against creationists at times was off-putting and felt unnecessary but wasn't a huge detractor. I mean hawkings takes shots at creationists in his books but almost rarely and subtly when he does.....the work speaks for itself....too much acknowledgement towards the opposition reeks of insecurity to me.

anyhow I dug this a lot, chapters on GMO's, human cloning, evolution in medicine, viruses & bacteria, stem cell research were FIRE. also chapters about dinosaurs with feathers recently discovered and transitional creatures (sea and land.......think like the fish evolving into a lizard....but whatever the creature between them was during the evolutionary transition stage) was COOL.

genesis vs evolution comes back to geology for me tho and I cant say he fully sold me. either way the information was highly accessible and bill nye reads the audio jawn himself and is mad entertaining lol.
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16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
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35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
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37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
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39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
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43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
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45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
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62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)
63. The purpose driven life by Rick Warren (10/10)

not a huge review for this one as it probably wouldn't interest most but basically its a 40 chapter book about finding your purpose in life as a Christian serving god. you read one chapter a day for 40 days. thought it was amazing. also enjoyed the idea of one chapter a day I feel like I probably retained a lot more from it as opposed to plowing thru it in a couple days. I also highlighted passages as I read too. anyways tho word for anybody interested in Christian faith this shit is insane fire....every1 else will not give a fuck lol.
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10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
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man lol this shit was crazy. the entire book essentially takes place at a hospital with a psyche evaluator trying to determine if the protagonist OD'd attempting to commit suicide. our hero is a master forger and he goes into excruciating details of how he manipulates documents, reads peoples behavorial tendencies, has almost an autistic talent for numbers....and etc etc...loved it.
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13. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young Ha Kim (3/5)
14. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (4/5)
15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
16. My Financial Career and Other Follies by Stephen Leacock (3/5)
17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
18. Lua: Art of the Hawaiian Warrior by Richard Paglinawan (4/5)
19. Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino (3/5)
20. The Red Shark by Ruth Tabrah (4/5)
21. The Domino Diaries by Brin-Jonathan Butler (4/5)
22. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (4/5)
23. Black Flower by Young Ha Kim (4/5)
24. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (4/5)
25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (3.5/4)
26. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3/5)
27. The Bittersweet Science by various writers (4.5/5)
28. Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4/5)
29. Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (???/5)

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15. Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer (3/5)
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17. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (4/5)
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30. Ask the Dust by John Fante (5/5)

Ask the Dust follows a young writer named Arturo Bandini trying to make it in post-Depression Los Angeles. He falls in love for a crazy Mexican woman, and shit gets weird and existential from there. Few writers have been able to describe Los Angeles - the atmosphere, the feelings - like Fante. It's also really funny. Definitely a modern masterwork, something that @PancakeBrah would really like, I think.
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56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
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62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)
63. The purpose driven life by Rick Warren (10/10)
64. The Contortionists handbook by Craig Clevenger (10/10)
65. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (7/10)


this was ok.....idk kindve a snoozer compared to blood meridian. although some scenes were pretty jarring and stuck with me days after....def some fd up shit in this book lol////idk I don't wanna give anything away. it was good....worth the read but probably over hyped. considering getting into his trilogy ...all the pretty horses? I think that's just one of the books in the series...but word yea
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Been wanting to read that for years. Bags, you should consider checking out Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I've read it twice, it's dystopian with a mystical sci fi edge.
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Been wanting to read that for years. Bags, you should consider checking out Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I've read it twice, it's dystopian with a mystical sci fi edge.
cant say im honestly huge into dystopian stuff typically tbc I really only grabbed up the road because I was a fan of his other work and it came highly recommended

but any chance to peer into the mind of the vulgman is definitely one I will be taking advantage of

ill try give it a run thru here soon

gonna hop over to our book of the month now actually

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yea I remember u saying that....I think id prolly agree for the most part lol. check out blood meridian its endlessly better and if u liked deadwood ull like this x10
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Currently still perusing through a book on life in Russia at breakneck speeds (rather not). I've been reading it on train rides, not the best strategy for finishing books. Next on my list... four books on technology and science for a college class.
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