I may abandon the read altogether and just read something else.
Tom Send a noteboard - 22/06/2010 06:24:36 PM
Candidates that seem to be jumping up and down on the shelves, waiting to be picked, include:
Catch-22
Possession
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Volkogonov's biography of Trotsky
The Beautiful and the Damned
anything by Bunin
????????? (The Adolescent)
Catch-22
Possession
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Volkogonov's biography of Trotsky
The Beautiful and the Damned
anything by Bunin
????????? (The Adolescent)
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Am I missing something about the Dresden Files?
- 22/06/2010 04:05:52 PM
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I haven't read them, but I understand they're not that deep, but fun, and get better as they go on. *NM*
- 22/06/2010 04:23:20 PM
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I'm not really feeling the "fun" just yet. I'll finish this book, though. *NM*
- 22/06/2010 05:19:40 PM
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To be honest, the first two books are a bit formulaic
- 22/06/2010 04:27:01 PM
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First three, for me
- 22/06/2010 04:59:49 PM
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My time is valuable. I'm not giving an author three books of my time just to see if I like him. *NM*
- 22/06/2010 05:16:34 PM
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They're short books! 
*NM*
- 22/06/2010 05:20:43 PM
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*NM*
- 22/06/2010 05:20:43 PM
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That's true. I got through the first couple shortly. And, note, they're not BAD, they're just a bit
- 23/06/2010 08:40:29 PM
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The first book really isn't a good example of the series.
- 22/06/2010 04:27:45 PM
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I think the only way I would continue is if those "hints" are promising enough for me.
- 22/06/2010 05:19:06 PM
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Not really
- 22/06/2010 05:52:22 PM
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- 22/06/2010 07:23:24 PM
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- 22/06/2010 08:47:20 PM
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- 23/06/2010 02:14:46 PM
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I may abandon the read altogether and just read something else.
- 22/06/2010 06:24:36 PM
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- 22/06/2010 07:23:24 PM
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- 22/06/2010 08:47:20 PM
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- 23/06/2010 02:14:46 PM
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They grow up.
- 22/06/2010 10:05:37 PM
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Yeah...uh...I'm probably going to finish this book.
- 23/06/2010 01:50:19 AM
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Good idea.
- 23/06/2010 04:29:23 PM
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Let me clarify: the book may be finished at some point in some year.
- 23/06/2010 09:53:43 PM
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