What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by Fife » Sat May 20, 2017 11:07 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:I am about 2/3 through the Ready Player One audiobook. This novel is a masterpiece.

DB, you need to get this.
Wil Wheaton did a fantastic job here, IMNSHO.
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat May 20, 2017 11:42 am

Fife wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:I am about 2/3 through the Ready Player One audiobook. This novel is a masterpiece.

DB, you need to get this.
Wil Wheaton did a fantastic job here, IMNSHO.

He's actually a great narrator. I have listened to a few other of his performances.
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:20 am

Hilarious:

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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by DBTrek » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:05 pm

Speaker to Animals wrote:I am about 2/3 through the Ready Player One audiobook. This novel is a masterpiece.

DB, you need to get this.
I'll pick it up.
I have a couple Audible credits kicking around, and it looks like a load of free time coming in August.
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by Hastur » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:10 pm

I'm reading Moby Dick this summer. Enjoying it a lot. I was unprepared for how funny it is. I laugh out loud a lot. The language is also spectacularly beautiful. No one writes like that anymore. Lyrical prose at it's best.
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:12 pm

Hastur wrote:I'm reading Moby Dick this summer. Enjoying it a lot. I was unprepared for how funny it is. I laugh out loud a lot. The language is also spectacularly beautiful. No one writes like that anymore. Lyrical prose at it's best.

I love that novel. You might want to get a guide to explain all the religious allegory.

They were fighting Quakers; they were Quakers with a vengeance..
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by Hastur » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:19 pm

Speaker to Animals wrote:
Hastur wrote:I'm reading Moby Dick this summer. Enjoying it a lot. I was unprepared for how funny it is. I laugh out loud a lot. The language is also spectacularly beautiful. No one writes like that anymore. Lyrical prose at it's best.

I love that novel. You might want to get a guide to explain all the religious allegory.

They were fighting Quakers; they were Quakers with a vengeance..
Great idea! Can you point me to a good one?
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by heydaralon » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:21 pm

Hastur wrote:I'm reading Moby Dick this summer. Enjoying it a lot. I was unprepared for how funny it is. I laugh out loud a lot. The language is also spectacularly beautiful. No one writes like that anymore. Lyrical prose at it's best.
Moby's what?
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:37 pm

Hastur wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:
Hastur wrote:I'm reading Moby Dick this summer. Enjoying it a lot. I was unprepared for how funny it is. I laugh out loud a lot. The language is also spectacularly beautiful. No one writes like that anymore. Lyrical prose at it's best.

I love that novel. You might want to get a guide to explain all the religious allegory.

They were fighting Quakers; they were Quakers with a vengeance..
Great idea! Can you point me to a good one?

Ask Alexander. Dude has a PhD in this field.
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Re: What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

Post by apeman » Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:22 am

Started reading Crime and Punishment last night, ~100 pages in, enjoying it.

Recently finished Gwynne Dyer's "War" (superb) and reading/skimming most of Don Quijote (apparently the first novel, shockingly funny)
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