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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

More Than This Patrick Ness

Kurdistan, by Susan Meiselas. I expected a small "non-fiction" hardcover when I ordered it, but as it turns out is is an enormous encyclopedia-style photographic history. Mindblowing, really...

Hyperbole and a half: unfortunate events, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened

by Allie Brosh

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Watership Down by Richard Adams.

Staten Island Noir

An anthology of short, original noir stories set in Staten Island.

I have just tried reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, but honestly the bland and choppy prose turned me off. I also don't think the setting's backstory was fleshed out very well. For example, just why is the Capitol oppressing the people in the Districts? Do they have some political or religious ideology motivating them, or are they oppressing just to be oppressive?

doesn't get enough love. have you read The Plague Dogs?

Finally finished Stephen King's The Dark Tower series (annoying ending but at least he warns you first ) - re-reading the whole of my Tolkien collection, partway through The Silmarillion, to be followed by his son's edited version of The Children of Hurin.

I also thought the "Hunger Games" was weak. I actually like the setting much more than the story.

im not experienced with literary criticism talk, even though ive been a lifelong book addict, but that sounds kinda like what put me off about reading world war z which i started and abandoned recently. it was just something about how bad it was that totally disgusted me.

I just reached this point about this guy who'd put fake vaccines on the market to make money out of the zombie crisis and the language used just completely and utterly enraged me for some reason.

Max brooks is an utterly sucky writer. I cant write myself so some might say i have no right to criticise, but i am very experienced with consumption of books and i absolutely hated the way he wrote.


Reading the Farthest shore by Ursula le Guin right now. I save it for when im sitting in the park with my dog during the day so im taking a lot longer to read it than i normally would with a book of that size.

reading old Hellblazer comics at the moment. I forgot how much I used to love these

Just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.[i]

War Trash by Ha Jin. It's a fictional memoir of a Chinese Red Army soldier who knows some english and survives the Korean War.

Reading tehanu, 4th in the earthsea series, written a couple of decades after the first trilogy I believe.

It seems to be about the girl priestess from the 2nd book and set on gont so far. It must be before the time of the end of the 3rd book because it never mentions a new king, but it mentions geds an archmage, that the girl is all grown up, and there seems to be trouble that could be the same things that ged sorts out at the end of the furthest shore. I guess it's set around about the same time, maybe just before.

I hope ged turns up.

Per Petterson out stealing horses.

nothing to impressive, but i did enjoy it. the first fiction book i've read in ages.