What are you reading?

[stealthlol]

All of Gardner's work is, frankly, trite and contrived. I feel like he is telling me and not showing me the whole time.

You watch your mouth. I am showing you everything you could ever dream of. And damn well!

Didn't you ever learn not to start a sentence with and? It's just this type of writing I'm talking about

I'll start my sentences with whatever the hell I want. IT'S CALLED BEING DIFFERENT AND CREATIVE.

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I'll start my sentences with whatever the hell I want. IT'S CALLED BEING DIFFERENT AND CREATIVE.

Just like waking up to a [strike]zombie[/strike] super germ apocalypse is, right?

[stealthlol]

I'll start my sentences with whatever the hell I want. IT'S CALLED BEING DIFFERENT AND CREATIVE.

Just like waking up to a [strike]zombie[/strike] super germ apocalypse is, right?

You keep imagining crazy stories after hearing a 2 sentence synopsis.

Grant: So what's this thing everyone keeps talking about? The Walking Dead?
Me: Oh, it's a TV show about a group of survivors trying to stay alive during a zom--
Grant: Oh, so it's a slasher movie?
Me: No, it's a drama, mixed with a lot of thriller and sci-fi aspects. But it has zo--
Grant: Oh, okay I get it. So it's pretty much a slasher movie.
Me: Yes, Grant. It's a slasher movie.

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So it is a slasher movie?

[AlopeX]

Can we get back to actual books?

I read a whole lot of Star Wars books as well so if anyone ever wants to have an EU discussion I'm your man.

Also you can check out the Kingmaker Kingbreaker series. I'm currently on the followup series but it's so apparent the writer is a female that it has become difficult to read and I've put it on the back burner.

[lolinus]

Ken Folliet's "Fall of giants" are pretty amazing if you like history.

Also, the star wars books was meh, didn't really get into them.

Other than that i like random swedish detective/crime books.

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I read a whole lot of Star Wars books as well so if anyone ever wants to have an EU discussion I'm your man.

What books did you read? I remember back in grade school being totally into those books starting with the rogue squadron ones. I think I stopped reading shortly after the Thrawn trilogy, but probably read 10+ books in that universe. Can't remember much at all now, though.

e: Actually, looking back at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_books...

I think I stopped reading around the time the Young Jedi books started coming out. I must be totally misremembering the order because I thought that the x-wing books came out before the thrawn trilogy, but it looks like the thrawn trilogy was actually the first books. I remember also reading the han solo stories.

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The books are good, but there are definitely some parts in each book that you have to kind of power through, because they can get kind of slow. Also, the books are nerve wracking because the author is insane, so you definitely get hooked on reading them. Not going any further than that, enjoy the show.

Yeah, just read the books. There is a sequence of about 300 pages that is the most ridiculously intense storytelling that I've ever read. At one point I felt like I had actually been punched in the stomach.

nope dan, that was your brother mugging you for your lunch money, NERD!