Argon9
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I only read Never Let Me Go. To be honest I don't think I will read the other ones any time soon, I'm a bit more of the adventure/action type and these seem all a bit .... slow.
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A little log cabin in the middle of nowhere. Probably abandoned for several years
On the table there are hemmn... a an apple, an knife and a plate? (makes no sense assuming it has been abandoned)
I watch the bear with curiosity. I've never seen a bear before ^-^
A white simplistic chermamic mug with "make my day" on it.
I would go looking for a kettle and see if I can make some tea to poor in the the cup and enjoy my afternoon watching the bear ^.^
Yeah, I guess this is not really working that well with me. I've never been abandoned so the log cabin seems inaccurate I wrote down what I would like to find. The objects have the same problem. I just described the things commonly found on the tables in the game "skyrim" and since i just played that game it was the first thing that came to mind. I'm no good with cooking, don't like apples more then any other fruit and I don't use plates if I can help it (I hate doing the dishes).
The bear is a problem? Oh, I treated it as something interesting to watch. Bears are often scared for humans so its not like I couldn't chase it away if I wanted too.
The mug is another one. I actually like strange and unusual people. Simplistic and white doesn't really hold that much appeal. I described my favorite mug though. I use them for tea mostly so that's what the last answer comes from. ^.^. -
Retrovirus ^-^
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I both enjoy gaming and reading. Perhaps try many of the game related novels out there? Battlefield, metro (books that became games), assassins creed has a few novels, hitman, oblivion, ICO..... the list just goes on and on.
Games are really just an interactive form of story telling. I was taught about how to write the hero's journey and what not during my games developmet course.
The AC novels are said to be several kinds of awful though ^.^
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I know right! There goes my CSN! bye bye. Hello noodles and books for the rest of the month ^.^
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Right. From my point of view. Books are EXACTLY like videogames. (that is, if you like fiction). They are means of escapism They provide another temporary reality where you can laugh and cry with someones else's stories. The real difference is that videogames are bit more interactive and provide you with a visual and kickass soundtrack and a way of keeping score but, more often then not, lack an actually good storyline. The amount of info they throw at you will cancel out a lot of the imagination needed to read a good book. If you like games who are good because of their story line rather then their graphics (like a LOT of japanese RPGs but also games like The Witcher or Assassins Creed) you will find surely find books that, in one way or another, float your boat. If you are more into FPS you might find it a bit harder to find something you like but even then I imagine there is something out there. Gunslinger books enough, but then again, no personal highscore. If you are more into the MMORGPs well, then you are a lost case but then I do not want to hear you complaining about tediousness either
Just,... GRIND yourself through them Luck for all the gamers is that most of the new books follow the same gritter/darker/faster trend that games have been following the last 10 or so years ^.^ So if you are interested in that bit of gaming then there is more then enough to read ^.^ -
Yes. I'm happy no one died but oh, an actual meteor! The footage looks fantastic! Despite the demage I keep on thinking that meteors are absolutely awesome. Imagine standing there seeing a meteor the size of a bus comming right at you. Wow.
I've only once watched a meteor shower but I had the date wrong. So I went up the mountain near my home and looked at the winter sky until me and my friend were frozen to the bone. Just when we decided to go back home we both saw a bright flash and a streek acros the nothern sky. The daw after there was a news article in the papers saying that the russians had disposed of an old satilite and that it had burned up in the admosphere a bith north above the place where I had been looking for falling stars. So I never saw a falling star, just a falling russian satilite
I've always wondered they grand wishes too. -
So glad you like them! They are one of my more favorite series and one of the few books I actually reread a couple of times. I've not read every single one of them though. They library didn't had all of them at the time. But, oh, so glad to find someone else liking them too!
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Oh My Dear... I've read the back blurb with that exact description some months back in a bookstore. I can't remember who wrote it or what it is called either. T.T I'm sorry that can't help you but I KNOW WHICH BOOK YOU SPEAK OF!
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I have my usual free love attitude towards my books so I'm now reading the last bit of The Last Wish by Andrzej sapkowski which is the prequel of the book (blood of elves) I actually want to read after having had a really trippy dream some months ago where i asked a dwarf if he had it (he didn't) and accidentally burned his library down, I have had the need to read it ever since but it was no where to be found. (damned predicting dreams) Yes I should stop playing rpgs before I go to bed. So when i found it I ordered it and it should arrive somewhere this ... month?
Plan B 3.0 uppdrag:rädda jorden (english title: Mobilization to save civilization) by Lester R Brown which is a rather heavy read really and triggers my "don't tell me what to do, damnit" senses quite often. Even if he has a few good points. I'm clearly not made for non fiction.
Broken Furies by Richard Morgan Third book in the Takeshi Kovach trilogy and disappointing me since the first one (altered carbon) was so incredibly good. Not that it is bad, its just not that great.
And lastly Skapende handling om ideernas födelse (creating habits; the birth of ideas) by Pirjo Birgerstam Which is boring me to tears. -
Another thing I would add, is that having now seen the first film I think I have a good idea of how they are going to fill two more films and my concerns about Jackson adding too much padding (which he could still do) have dwindled quite a bit.
Second that.
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Modernization. Internet over books. Teenagers wasting time over stupid things. What happened to the great classics? If only books can talk, I think they'll curse us all. Let's continue to read, gain wisdom, and celebrate life's greatest lessons, page by page! (:
My parents would disagree. They find reading fiction just as wasteful as watching tv or browsing the web. T-T
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Neither have I. .... where is Worcestershire anyway?
I have never gotten a hand written letter.
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I'm reading Existence by David Brin. I borrowed it from a friend and I first did not like it much, but after 100 or so pages I do not feel like putting it down anymore. It has some interesting ideas even if the plot moves a bit slow. Maybe that is because I read the first 7 Dresden Files books last month and those go fast and are explosive
(and funny, very funny)The schools library had dumped a lot of books with broken covers in a container today that I, by coincidence, came across. Ofcourse I could not resist and went head first into the skip, looking for anything interesting to read. I've not got no country for old man and 10 other books on everything from IT security to environmental science and several other novels in my backpack. Now I have to carry them all home on foot. (cant bike in the deep snow) I'm an idiot for not thinking about that before I took so many books.
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I'm a full time IT student ^.^ But since studies in Sweden are as good as free (the studies mind you, not anything else attached to it) I'm doing some evenings courses in art and design too. I work in the summer vacations to pay most of my living expenses when I'm studying. My last job was working in an antique store selling old china and even older clocks ^.^
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University live is driving me crazy mostly because it eats away all my precious time and 90% is just plain boring. They tell me these courses are useful later on. They said the same thing 5 years ago and I still have had no use of my extended knowledge on the french revolution. We will finally begin with the programming courses next week though. Things might finally get interesting.
My humble home next to the railway still has no central heating or warm running water but I raised and isolated the bedroom floor and wallpapered it too while I was at it. Now my bedroom is reasonably warm and not drafty anymore ^.^. Getting central heating next
I cant live trough the winter if my nose freezes off because i let the fire go out by accident. ^.^Desperately looking for Blood Of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski after a very exceptionally trippy dream where i was doing the same thing. I found The Last Wish of the same author and read it a few days ago. Finding second hand versions of some unknown polish writer in Sweden is proving the be rather hard.
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Game characters only?
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I'll see the 2D version though. I'm as good as blind in one eye so 3D is kind of wasted on me.
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Nor, here in the Southern U.S. Bacon, sausage, steak, chicken liver all can and are included at one time/place or the other.
Steak and eggs are extremely popular.
I guess I'm still stuck in my Dutch upbringing. Cheese and meats are for lunch mostly and breakfasts exist out of jam, peanut butter, sugar and chocolate sprinkles on bread. Sometimes boiled eggs, yogurt, fruit, milk and/or orange juice. ^.^ Since I live in Sweden now I sometimes get hot rice porridge with cinnamon too ^.^
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Argon9, been there and done that. In a word, ICK! Sympathies. Good luck with the rest of it though.
On a personal note, I still haven't been able to schedule dog's surgery because doctors are still sending me for more tests to try and figure out why I occasionally go blind. Starting to feel like a guinea pig. Now we've reached the point of repeating tests. Again, I'm happy to have this long time problem finally addressed, but still want to get dog's surgery over with before she gets any older. Okay, whine officially over!
I wonder how someone can forget to clean for 30 years. The guy smoked indoors but I can now report that I got most of the icky cigarette smell out. ^.^
Oh gosh! That must be scary! Losing your vision at random intervals. I hope they find it and that it is something minor and easy fixable and not something more major like diabetes or worse!
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I'm moving to an very old train way-house at the moment. Its so massively dirty that scrubbing the tiny living room took 3 persons and all day. I'm now in the library trying to upload some Uni project related things since the house does not - and most likely will never - have internet. It does have a garden though and with that its better then most students can hope for.
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I've reserved it in the library. I'm number 64 on the list.
o.O I don't think my library has it to begin with
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I don't even know what villages is ^.^
Never have I ever slept in a hotel with stars.