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- I've been Christmasy since a couple of years ago. Like you, I'm a wandering soul. Read anything interesting lately?
If you haven't already, go check out Wanted (graphic novel, not the movie), and tell me what you think... I thought it was one of the best I've read in a long time. -
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- He's having a fever now, unfortunately. Hopefully he'll be back to making a whole lot of noise soon.
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About Me
- About direstraits
- Gender
- Male
- Biography
- I wrote something, then changed my mind. I'm just a booklover, and hopefully I'll be coming around to your neck of the woods to say hi. Damn that sounds weird.
- Location
- KL!!!
- Interests
- Reading, rambling and sports!
- Occupation
- Professional whiner
- Top Three Books
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Forever War by Joe Haldeman - Top Three Authors
- George RR Martin
Guy Gavriel Kay
Ursula Le Guin
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- Bookbabble || rambleville || otak || PoP
- Bookbabble || rambleville || otak || PoP
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Well, here's another update of my most recent book haul.
Last weekend, I bought the following:
The Thousandfold Thought, R Scott Bakker
The Gormenghast Novels, Mervyn Peake
The Little Endless Storybook, Jill Thompson
Then of course yesterday there was the Times Bookstore Warehouse Sale, and that triggered another round of indiscriminate and irresponsible...
Last weekend, I bought the following:
The Thousandfold Thought, R Scott Bakker
The Gormenghast Novels, Mervyn Peake
The Little Endless Storybook, Jill Thompson
Then of course yesterday there was the Times Bookstore Warehouse Sale, and that triggered another round of indiscriminate and irresponsible...
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Here is my recent book haul - the most recent are the first two which just came back with me:
Ring, Koji Suzuki
Shriek: An Afterword, Jeff Vandermeer
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Banewreaker, Jacqueline Carey
Godslayer, Jacqueline Carey
Ring, Koji Suzuki
Shriek: An Afterword, Jeff Vandermeer
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Banewreaker, Jacqueline Carey
Godslayer, Jacqueline Carey
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Wow. It was a couple of years ago that I've started to be interested in politics, but I've finally gotten my hands on America (The Book), A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. No just the original, but I got the Teacher's Edition, which contains 'corrections' from a professor in the form of handwritten notes on the margins of the text. The notes point out inaccuracies in the original text, sometimes with insight and sometimes with the professor's informed opinion, almost all with hilarious...
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I can't remember what I've recently read! :(
I'll try and remember for this year. Haven't had a lot, honestly - but I'll try and do better. After I complete my personal project, which is really where I'm putting some effort into nowadays, when I have time to spare for *@$*&$ work.
Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Last Light of the Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay
Jinx, Brian Michael Bendis
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Lots of Fables, Bill Willingham...
I'll try and remember for this year. Haven't had a lot, honestly - but I'll try and do better. After I complete my personal project, which is really where I'm putting some effort into nowadays, when I have time to spare for *@$*&$ work.
Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Last Light of the Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay
Jinx, Brian Michael Bendis
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Lots of Fables, Bill Willingham...
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Hey, I think I really like this feature!
I'm going to post my recently purchased and recently read up here. Sorta like an extension from my actual blog, but with less irritating ramblings!
So let's some things out of the way.
I wish I had more time in a day to do the stuff I want to do, because my work is consuming me whole. It's 4:33am now and I'm working tomorrow!
Geez.
Rambling and a little temperamental. Not a bad...
I'm going to post my recently purchased and recently read up here. Sorta like an extension from my actual blog, but with less irritating ramblings!
So let's some things out of the way.
I wish I had more time in a day to do the stuff I want to do, because my work is consuming me whole. It's 4:33am now and I'm working tomorrow!
Geez.
Rambling and a little temperamental. Not a bad...
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Hehe... it is a rollicking...
I too, have this book....
