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    Random Image Thread

    Ah, elephants are robust. Bear in mind that that little guy weighs about as much as a couple of linebackers.
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    "I said, 'GO PLAY OUTSIDE!'"
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    Everybody's an author now.

    I'd be very surprised if any publisher, no matter how small, still typesets novels in 2012.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Trieste, learning Finnish. Because when the entire language centre in your brain has been shut down, why not learn Finnish?
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    The official 2012 apocalypse thread

    By all means. Those of us who have seen Braindead know how useful all sorts of kitchen and garden implements can be against zombies. Do we know for sure that the Mayapocalypse won't involve zombies? Bugarach: Town 'set to survive the Mayan Apocalypse' cracks open End of the World wine | Mail...
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    Truman Capote: In Cold Blood

    Here's a sentence you might not have expected: New developments in the In Cold Blood case.
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    Herta Müller: Atemschaukel

    So this is finally coming out in English as The Hunger Angel. Interview here: Herta Müller: a life in books | Books | The Guardian
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    ^^ I actually have that book. It's brilliant. You flip to "Arachnophobia" and a huge spider jumps out at you.
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    Fascinating scientific stuff

    Unicorns discovered! ...In North Korea. What are the odds?
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    looking for a good book (or 10) to read

    ^^What a surprise. Seconded. That's a really good novel. Two of my favourite historical fiction novels, if you want to go back a bit further, are Frans Bengtsson's The Long Ships (vikings!) and Amin Maalouf's Leo Africanus (15th century). Also for a fun alternate-history romp, Guy...
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    Looking for stories of people from earth being sent to fantasy worlds

    How about Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Coraline? Also American Gods ... Neil Gaiman really likes these kinds of stories. Stephen King's Dark Tower series has a lot of this too. And it's about 3,500 pages or so all in all.
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    Recently Finished

    Svetlana Alexievich, War's Unwomanly Face. A history of WWII based on a perspective that almost never gets heard in official sources - that of the millions of Soviet women who took active part in the war, whether as pilots, medics, mechanics, soldiers, snipers, partisans... Based on hundreds of...
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    PC World: Pitfalls of E-book buying

    Luckily, more and more publishers seem to be heading in the opposite direction. Wiley & O’Reilly Sign eBook Distribution Deal – DRM-Free! | Good E-Reader - ebook Reader and Digital Publishing News Took the music business long enough to reach the same conclusion, and the publishers keep saying...
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    The official 2012 apocalypse thread

    Three weeks to go! :D Wasteland Not, Want Not » Funny & Stupid Customer Stories – Not Always Right
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    Random Image Thread

    Nobody born in the last 15 years will get this.
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    January 2011: Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory

    The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL: Iain Banks: 9780684853154: Amazon.com: Books
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    Stephen King: Under the Dome

    Stephen King's 'Under the Dome' gets CBS series order | Inside TV | EW.com Yay Brian K. Vaughan’s (Lost) script Oh please no why
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    What are you listening to Right now?

    For no particular reason. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams - YouTube
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    Fascinating scientific stuff

    Aw, absence of crap.
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    Brazil (duh). Same?
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