You must have a short attention span to be reading all that.

To be reading all what?

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Oh yeah, all those books.

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Oh, yeah, and I forgot to mention what I AM fuckin' readin'. I'm up to June 1968 in my slog through the first decade of Marvel superhero comics (sadly, not including Sub-Mariner, Nick Fury, or Captain Marvel, since they haven't been Essential-ized yet). I think Thor #153 is next on the list.

Thor's getting a little ponderous at this point in the title. Same old shit all the time. Oh no, Asgard's in trouble... oh wait, now Earth is... I love Jane Foster, but I can't have her... oh wait, now I love Sif... oh Odin took my powers away again because he's a huge cockbag...

Although this is my favorite Spider-Man period, the rest of the line ain't measuring up (except Iron Man, which is pretty cool).

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12 cents?! What a rip.

But dude, it's the issue where Iron Man gets his mask knocked off by the evil Bling King.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

Man, Thor's blog is a real downer.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

I loved it when comics were 12 cents. You could buy two comic books for a quarter and have a penny left over for bubble gum. No tax. Compared to that, everything now is shit. And yes, the fucking comics were better, too. They weren't a bunch of pretentious, nearly unreadable art portfolios with captions.

What am I reading now? I'm re-reading my Oz books. I just finished "The Wizard Of Oz" and now I'm starting in on "The Land Of Oz." After that comes "Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz", "The Scarecrow Of Oz", and "The Patchwork Girl Of Oz." When I bought these exquisite recreations of the original editions, they were a dollar fifty apiece, whereas now they would probably sell for ten or fifteen bucks apiece--further proof that everything now is shit. And if you've never read any of the original Oz books, you should be executed.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

All I remember is when I could take a $10 bill, fill up my gas tank, and have enough left over for a soda and candy bar.

This book is awesome. Read it.

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-=- You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world. -=-

Yes, everything used to be so cheap, and now it's so expensive. I trust y'all're just complaining because it's fun, and in reality you realize that in terms of perchasing power parity almost everything is cheaper than back when you had to walk forty miles to school through the driving snow uphill both ways.

I do have to agree with biped's assessment of modern comics, though. Though I was never into comics, when I look at comics or manga these days it really does suck just how much effort is put into the art and no effort is put into making a story sequence that you can actually follow without having to have a PhD in comicnerdology.

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OMG teh sequel!? *runs to book store*

Don't forget our first job, the paper route. We had to get up at 3am every day in the snow, walking uphill the entire way. We made 5 cents a month; three cents went to our family and we got to keep 2 cents for ourselves. And that's how we bought our first car. Ahhh...those were the days.

My mother never did approve of my major.

Comics are far more awesome today than they ever were, except the ones that suck.

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Yeah, but these days, where in the mainstream do you get young boys reading comics like these:

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That related to Guns of the South? I loved that book.

Also, there's still no fucking dinosaurs in Tyrannosaur Canyon. Now there's a monk who used to be a codebreaker for the CIA. But no fucking dinosaurs.

not related except by author. mucho kick ass though...

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Kill Whitey.

Just finished Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab The Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson.

And have finally started The Satanic Verses. However, I've only slogged through a chapter or so of Rushdie's dense prose. I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it right now. His unending sentences in which he describes an event or person in 10 different ways while saying the same thing is wearing me down. I don't remember his Shame being like this at all.

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I have just recently finished Blood Ties by CC Humphreys. To anyone interested in English history, its definitely a good read. There's a few dry parts, like when he goes off into decribing wars and things like that, but its otherwise a decent book. All about Anne Boleyn's executioner, 20 years after her death, and how he cut off her 6 fingered hand and buried it so that it couldn't be used against her daughter when she came into power. The first book (which I can't remember the name of right now, oops), is apparently about the executioner and his meetings with Anne and all of the things leading up to her death and after it.

Oh also, speaking of books bought and never read... I owned Gulliver's Travels for 2 years before I was finally able to get through the entire novel. And I have not read it again since.

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

Just finished the trifecta of William Gibson's Burning Chrome -- a collection of short stories, James Finemore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy.

I read them all at the same time (not simultaneously:). Going from one to the other was easy because of Gibson's short stories and Cooper's relatively short chapters. Finished Gibson first and then started Jealousy while about halfway through LotM.

Gibson's slick tech-fi and Cooper's early American prose contrasted well. Cooper's pacing is more deliberate where Gibson flits from point to point like an exotic acrobat. However, both authors journey from point A to point B in a very linear fashion. Cooper's novel was more fulfilling, but that's hardly surprising considering its greater length and in-depth characterizations. When read in a volume, Gibson's short stories mirror each other to such a point that one is hardly different from the other. So, Burning Chrome turned out to be an unlikely yet somewhat apt precursor to...

The dense and confused "narrative" of Robbe-Grillet. Here, objects are given more import than the characters which surround them. Thus, the characters themselves become objects. Architecture, geography, geometric patterns, and light and shadow become the main players of Jealousy. Passages are repeated and blended, repeated and retold in a slightly different manner. Time is plastic. Still, there is a small amount of resolution. However, that resolution is hardly enough to satisfy the readers who indulge Robbe-Grillet's method/madness. Some hail Robbe-Grillet as a genius while others call him a literary fraud. In Jealousy, I see reason for both.

And I must admit that this latest attempt was at least my third in finishing Jealousy. But I did it, Ma. I did it!

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I'm reading "Under the Wire", the autobiography of William "Tex" Ash, whom the Steve McQueen character in THE GREAT ESCAPE was inspired by.  I have a personally-autographed copy of it, which automatically makes me better than everybody else.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

I'm reading Guns of the USO, where Bob Hope, Tony Romano, Frances Langford, Patty Thomas, and Barney Dean foil Tojo's plot to take Christmas away from the American GIs. Actually, I made that up, but I would read it if it existed.

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The Ram Rebellion, the 4th novel installment of Eric Flint's excellent 1632 series. The series began with 1632 wherein a small west virginia mining town is transported back in time to end up in germany smack dab in the middle of the 30 years war.

since that first book the scope of the storyline has expanded at an insane rate and mixes fictional and historical figures with equal aplomb. (hehe i said 'aplomb')

Again, if you're into historical fiction, you can't go wrong with this.

also re-reading and re-re-reading Thud and Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, the world's greatest living author.

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Kill Whitey.

I'm trying to savor every Fables trade I have because there's only one more left and it hasn't been released. And I just know I'll fall madly in love right as it's cancelled. Like Transmetropolitan.

Oh, I'm also reading some intellectual shit. I'm rereading Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska and I've been trying to finish Anansi Boys. I also tried reading this book on how to become psychic, but after the author insisted that the cause of all disease is misaligned chakras, that western medicine (i.e. cancer treatment, antibiotics, etc) is bogus, and psychic surgery (which has been debunked as total fraud for 30 years) is the best thing ever, I've lost interest.

Just read through 'The Art of Discworld' which also includes a lot of info on how the characters and setting developed over the years. It's almost scary that Pratchett's setting is more logical than the majority of fiction out there.

 Much as I like China Mieville's books, the fact that the Discworld makes more sense just feels weird.

Speaking of Mieville, I saw that the city of New Crobuzon and some inhabitants got statted out for D&D, due to an editor at Dragon magazine reading his books and thinking "I've never seen a fantasy setting that has less in common with most D&D worlds.  Perfect!" Heh.

 I noticed that DC comics finally reprinted the last two volumes for Starman.  It's my second favorite series, and the next to last storyline was the single best one I've ever read (due to the entire series before subtly setting up for it), and I've got to reread it.  If it wasn't for Starman, I wouldn't have gotten interested in the history of the DC universe.

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