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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => NES games+comic books+conspiracies=Yauch => Topic started by: Yauch on May 20, 2007, 01:48:06 PM
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By books I of course am referring to the elitist comic nerd terminology for comic book. I'm currently reading the Lucifer series put out by Vertigo. Vertigo is a spin off aimed at the older crowd which contain more violence, nudity and engaging plot lines. You know, stuff kids want. Lucifer is a spin off of Neil Gaimen's Sandman series, so if you haven't read it I'd suggest reading it first.
On the manga front I'm currently on the third book of the Buddha series written by the legendary Osamu Tezuka. When I was younger I never really cared for his character designs and I still think that they're fairly simplistic however they work to lighten up such a serious piece. I wish every major religion would but out a bunch of comic books about how they came to be. It'd go a long way to alleviate FUD between differing cultures.
I was reading Slam Dunk but I guess Rajin (the company that translated it and published it stateside) went out of business. If anyone finds some scanalations let me know. Otherwise I think the anime has been subbed by some fan subber group, so I'll probably just look for a torrent of that.
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I've been slowly collecting all the volumes of Transmetropolitan. I think I'm up to 5 or 6, so I'm halfway there.
Also been re-reading The Watchmen after hearing the guy that did the movie for 300 is adapting it.
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I'm currently reading richard scary's cars and trucks and things that go. A very advanced book.
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I'm making my way through The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson, The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vangiem and Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman.
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Bradford's Thermopylae: The Battle for the West and Tolkien's The Children of Húrin.
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Surfing on the internet by J.C. Herz ( bargain book , 50 ¢ ;D )
and I'm currently collecting the fabulous furry freak brothers comic series.
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Murd0c: chuck Klosterman is great, he used to write this section in our local paper called the rage. It was all about music and interesting crap that pertains to us youngins. I remember that when the Foo Fighters first album came out and everyone was saying that they'd never go anywhere after they "use up all of Cobains leftovers" Chuck was one who expressed this band would be sticking around for a while. I'd say Chuck Klosterman is probably the 5th most noteworthy person to come out of ND.
Frog: That's the newly published Tolkien book,right? I'm assuming you've read the Similarion. Is it a hard to read as that? I've only read the original books and I thought those were a bitch to get through.
Mith: I too am excited for the movie adaption of the watchmen. I heard they're keeping it in the 80s so thats a step in the right direction. Hopefully it's more like V then swamp thing or league. I haven't read transmet but I remember coming across it when I was looking for the comic based on Neuromancer.
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Ctrl+Alt+Del (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com) A webcomic, about gamers
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Mith: I too am excited for the movie adaption of the watchmen. I heard they're keeping it in the 80s so thats a step in the right direction.
I think I may skip it altogether. I'd hoped for years this wouldn't end up happening, but it looks like now it will...poor Alan Moore.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. On the comics front, I just finished Earthboy Jacoubus, which was amazing.
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Frog: That's the newly published Tolkien book,right? I'm assuming you've read the Similarion. Is it a hard to read as that? I've only read the original books and I thought those were a bitch to get through.
It's Silmarillion. I don't know why everyone gets it wrong. I even got it wrong for a while.
No, it is nothing like his other post-humously published works. Getting through them is like chewing through rubber; Children of Húrin is amazingly well tempered--my favorite Tolkien work so far--and styled as a Norse saga. That is to say, it is written more or less simply, with priority placed on the story rather than the descriptions (which you may remember from other novels, he tends to go overboard with). Definitely check it out if, like me, you consider Tolkien a stronger imaginative than a writer.
Also, just finished Thermopylae. Now I'm reading From Armageddon to the Fall of Rome.
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I'm making my way through The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S Thompson is the man. His book on the Hells Angels is my personal favorite.
I'm reading Hacksaw by Edward R Jones. It's about a guy who escape from prison 14 times. Good read.
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I'm currently skipping around in George Carlin's Napalm and Silly Putty
its really good and hilarious
and also reading Love Hina
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Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual
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Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual
I have a copy of the Klingon Dictionary and English to Klingon translation and vice versa its pretty neat
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I'm reading The Gilded Age by Mark Twain. I'm 100 pages into it and I still don't know what it's about. He keeps killing off main characters and switching into new storylines.
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Mark Twain was a genius, made piles of sense but was also hilarious.
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and he was good friends with the extreme genius in your avatar Tachyon.
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True dat, as I recall he had a rather interesting experience with a certain device against Tesla's advice and had some bowel malfunction as a result...
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i remember that it was a platform that just vibrated very fast that you could stand on. Tesla was awseome you should read some of his books too. well, like his bio and lifes work.
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I have, as well as a cool old copy of "My Inventions" collected from [some oldschool radio magazine].
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Cheech Wizard (first two volumes) - Vaughn Bode
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I've read through Neuromancer countless times. I started reading it when I was only 11. I figured it as the greatest book ever written. A sci-fi world that's no inhabited by aliens who want to eat your skulls, or some exotic whore who wants to screw you or a space princess.
Many moons pass. I keep the same book and never actually bother to look it up on the net for any other of his writings. Don't ask why, I just didn't. A book that when I read it had come to a complete and total end turned out to be a three parter.
Recently I've read through William Gibson's Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. All three of which I suggest reading when given the chance. To this day I'm still heavily intrigued and amazed by the fact of how well Gibson wrote the net as a future every-man's thing. Everyone uses it now and it really doesn't show signs of ever leaving the radar. Very interesting books to say in the least.
Today however I'll be wandering around the sci-fi section and picking up a random book. Or maybe finally read some Philip K. Dick and see why he's the big gun of the old sci-fi world. Either way, I'm going to get my acne ridden geek on.
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I'm going to have to chime in here and state for the record both Count Zero and Mono Lisa Overdrive are better then Neuromancer, however Neuromancer does have a better title.
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Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation - G. Kipper.
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The Poetic Edda, written billions of years BC by unknown Norse skalds.
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Stephen Colbert's "I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)"
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The onion's "Our Dumb World" (buy this)
Abbie Hoffman "Revolution for the Hell of it"
Richistan
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Into teh wild
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The onion's "Our Dumb World" (buy this)
Abbie Hoffman "Revolution for the Hell of it"
Richistan
Abbie Hoffman was a tool, you should know this by now Raptor. Him and his fucking yippies.
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At least they weren't yuppies
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Black Seas of Infinity, by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Lovecraft ftw
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Lovecraft ftw
Crowley and Lovecraft conspired to make fake religions, for profit, sounds like today! Here' what i am reading.
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I just got done reading a book about embezzling money. I'm currently reading Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace.
MIB
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Did Lovecraft actually make a real religion for money? I wouldn't put it past Crowley, he needed SOME way to get his heroin (when his numerous sugar daddies/mommies were tired of his antics anyway).
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we cant say
[b][color=red]My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.[/color][/b]
anymoar its getting fucking annoying.
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I just finished Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (And So Can You!)" It was pretty freaking funny. It made me lul.
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I thought Watchers was pretty good when I read it back in the day but now I don't think Koontz is so good anymore.
Now I'm reading the Rum Diary, V for Vendetta again, the Blind Watchmaker, and Cyborg.
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I like Dean Koontz the last book I read by him was Intensity. Reminds me of the movie High Tension.
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I just finished the book Robbing Banks by L.R. Kirchner. It's about my 5th bank robbery book in the past couple years. I plan to spend my remaining years robbing banks. Please don't tell anyone!
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I just finished the O'REILLY Sysadmin quick reference and now I'm starting Uprading and repairing PC's by scott meuller.
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I finished Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and recently re-read Getting Started in Electronics to brush up before making the control board for my CNC machine.
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I finished Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and recently re-read Getting Started in Electronics to brush up before making the control board for my CNC machine.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an awesome movie.
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I finished Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and recently re-read Getting Started in Electronics to brush up before making the control board for my CNC machine.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an awesome movie.
If you like Fear and Loathing, you should watch Where the Buffalo Roam. It's all about Hunter S. Thompson's life, including what was in F & L.
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i need to read more HST...the only one of his books i've read so far is Hell's Angels. i find outlaw motorcycle gangs fascinating, so i really enjoyed it.
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Yeah I quite enjoyed it. On a related HST note, last week Rolling Stone moved his columns back into the free section, I recommend the one about the flaming birds at Owl Farm. Also this documentary I found on BitTorrent called "Breakfast with Hunter", where they basically follow him around for a while. Johnny Depp guest stars, it's good stuff.
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Now reading Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. After that I've got Ender's Game (a friend of mine accidentally ordered double the amount of stuff on amazon and sent me the doubles to read) and the books after Ender's Game. I'm probably going to be reading Flow my tears, the policemen said after Altered Carbon.
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Now reading Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. After that I've got Ender's Game (a friend of mine accidentally ordered double the amount of stuff on amazon and sent me the doubles to read) and the books after Ender's Game. I'm probably going to be reading Flow my tears, the policemen said after Altered Carbon.
I actually don't read much Sci Fi, but a good friend of mine lent me Ender's Game and I couldn't put it down. I really really really loved that book.
I just finished reading The Ruins since it got a nice endorsement from Stephen King and they're about to release a movie on it. The book was... eh. Guessing the movie will be just as eh. I don't think Little Shop of Horrors will have to worry about being replaced by The Ruins as the top horror flicks about killer plants.
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Currently reading The Proud Highway, Turn on tune in drop out, and one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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i'm currently reading a ton of cases on federal jurisdiction.
/wrists
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Don't hack across state lines?
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hahaha...nah, not that kind of federal jurisdiction. i wish. stuff like standing and mootness and ripeness...stuff that you really don't care about unless you're a lawyer desperate to kick a case that's been brought against your client, or a judge desperate to avoid ruling on a case.
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Right now I'm reading "Messy Spirituality" by Mike Yaconelli http://tinyurl.com/6zlorw
I don't go to church enough, I seldom pray. And sometimes when I'm on the road and pissed off, frustrated, lonely and missing my family or my late grandmother. My Christian faith gets me through. This is the book fo those who feel that they don't do Christianity right.
Another one I'm reading is "Project Beta: The Story Of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, And The Creation Of A Modern UFO Myth" by Gregory J. Bhishop-Hurley. http://tinyurl.com/56maba
I love UFO and alien stuff and this book is very informative to say the least.
From Publishers Weekly
This allegedly true tale of government secrecy reads like the entire story arc of the X-Files. Covering topics like alien invasion, UFOs, paranoia, cover-ups and smear campaigns, this book has all the elements of a compelling-though not entirely believable-yarn, but the narrative never gels into such a tale. In a nutshell, Bishop's story centers around the now-deceased Paul Bennewitz, a hapless electrical physicist living near Kirtland Air Force Base outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bennewitz detected what he believed to be signs of alien contact and began to grow alarmed, even panicked, by his observations. The book contends that while Bennewitz inadvertently did get close to something top secret, various government agencies fed him lies and disinformation to keep him believing in an imminent alien invasion until he was completely discredited and utterly insane. Eventually, author and UFO researcher Bill Moore was recruited as a mole to help in the disinformation campaign against Bennewitz. While hardcore UFO aficionados will no doubt salivate over the accusations, details and techie tidbits contained herein, Bishop never conveys a real sense of Bennewitz's personality and motivations, and neither Bennewitz nor Moore emerge as fully fleshed out individuals. Instead, Bishop tells readers that Bennewitz was a "genius at figuring things out" and "his Achilles heel was his credulity." It would have been nice to understand the broken man at the center of it all, but as it is, Mulder and Scully seem more three dimensional than the players in this narrative.
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i'm reading this book called "Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.. you all should check it out.. it's pretty damn good. After that, I plan on reading some books that I recently purchased... The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau), 120 Days to Sodom, and Philosophies in the Bedroom.... by Marquis de Sade... if any of you know him you'll know i'm kind of messed up :) but seriously, check em out!
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I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.
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I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.
yeah I'm quite into Holocaust/German books, too. I have an obsession with Germany... and I speak German.. have you read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? or "Mein Kampf"? Definitely worth checking out :)
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I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.
yeah I'm quite into Holocaust/German books, too. I have an obsession with Germany... and I speak German.. have you read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? or "Mein Kampf"? Definitely worth checking out :)
Mein Kampf. We have talked about that in school. I heard it is worth reading. I will pick up those books and check em out
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Definitely do so! Let me know what you think of them when you're done... (if we're both still around) haha!
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I'm all about Holocaust type stories. The diary of Anne Frank and Night were some of the good 1's.
yeah I'm quite into Holocaust/German books, too. I have an obsession with Germany... and I speak German.. have you read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? or "Mein Kampf"? Definitely worth checking out :)
Mein Kampf. We have talked about that in school. I heard it is worth reading. I will pick up those books and check em out
Sad part is I'm curious about this book but I don't want to look like a pledging skinhead when I ask for it at Barnes and Noble. After all having a good book on your shelf lets people know what to expect when they walk in the house.
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well..do you *look* like a skinhead? You could always buy it from amazon.com :P
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currently reading the road by Cormac McCarthy. I dug the no country for old men movie so I figured it's be best to check out something by the author. The Road has a post-apocalyptic setting that's I'm definitely digging. Anyone else have any reccomendations for PA books?
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nice banana phone!
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currently reading the road by Cormac McCarthy. I dug the no country for old men movie so I figured it's be best to check out something by the author. The Road has a post-apocalyptic setting that's I'm definitely digging. Anyone else have any reccomendations for PA books?
Friend of mine read through, Lucifer's Hammer I believe it was called, and it was based something in or around L.A. about stuff and things. I don't remember diddly-squat about it. It's a read I'm curious about picking up my self after I polish off the 7 remaining books I have on my shelf. She seemed to throughly enjoy it; but I myself cannot make a claim to how well the book is.
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I just picked up The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul at the airport giftshop. I hope to have it read before my plane touches down.
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The Revolution will be printed on paper!
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I just finished "From a Buick 8" by Stephen King, and am now starting Robin Cook's "Outbreak."
I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.
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I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.
no it's not. i carry mine around in my tote bag everywhere. :D
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I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.
no it's not. i carry mine around in my tote bag everywhere. :D
If I carried my reading material around in a tote bag, you'd have just totally skooled me. But I'm limited to a paperback in my pocket.
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I also have a copy of "The Best of 2600" I randomly skim, but that book is too huge to actually carry around anywhere and read.
no it's not. i carry mine around in my tote bag everywhere. :D
If I carried my reading material around in a tote bag, you'd have just totally skooled me. But I'm limited to a paperback in my pocket.
maybe you should start carrying around a tote bag. ever think of that?
:D
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is pretty awesome. I've also got The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism and the Myth of Juvenile Delinquency.
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Daniel Silva's "Moscow Rules"
So far it's dragging a little. I have a feeling it will pick up soon though. Glenn Beck, whom I watch every chance I get, had the author on the show and both of them convinced me to give it a try.
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I just finished Robin Cook's "Outbreak." It was a decent read right up until the last few pages, when it collapsed into the weakest goddamned ending possible. It goes from seviceable corporate/medical thriller to Lifetime Original Movie in one chapter flat.
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Kind of like the end of Stephen King's Cell.
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Transmetropolitan was the only comic I really liked.
Real books:
Just finished Moscow 2042 (great), and am reading War Nerd, The Brothers Karamazov, and Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook. After I finish some of these I plan on finishing Paradise Lost, and all of kurt vonnegut's books.
The more you know!
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Transmetropolitan was the only comic I really liked.
I'm reading Doktor Sleepless now as it comes out, its by the same guy I think and its pretty cool.
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i'm reading the Linux Administration Guide now. it's teaching this little Linux n00b a lot about computers...so it makes me happy.
i just finished a book called Spam Kings, which was about the pushing and pulling between spammers and anti-spammers in the early-to-mid aughts. it was an interesting book...i, myself don't get too worked up about spam since spam blockers have gotten pretty good, but it was really fun to read about the fighting and the tactics used on both sides.
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I'm around a quarter through the CIA one and now also reading a book about the rise and activities of Blackwater.
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I'm going to be reading Babylon Babies/Babes/Whatever it's called so I can see if there's a real ending to the Babylon A.D. movie at all within the next month.
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I'm reading Doktor Sleepless now as it comes out, its by the same guy I think and its pretty cool.
Hmm, I'd like to check it out but I've been blacklisted at the local comic shops 8)
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I get all my comics shipped to me, comes to around three-fifty Canadian apiece I thnk.
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*was about to make a canadian dollar joke but then remembered the joke's on US*
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I'm currently rereading "Fletch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(novel))" by Gregory McDonald. The gimmicky Chevy Chase movies from the 1980s were very loosely based on it, but the book is so much better than those, and so is the series that followed it. Highly recommended if you're looking for a mystery series to get into.
I'm also just about finished with "Notes from Underground (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Underground)," which was a gift from RogueClown. It's classically angsty and awesome if you can grok a wordy 19th century Russian novel.
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The people's history of American Empire. Nice comic that teaches you something. Especially relevant due to my current situation. Just met a dude from the Philippians and I was able to talk trash on Leonard Wood.
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The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson. It's the events leading up to Krypton's demise and sending Kal-El to Earth.
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Right now I'm 3/4 the way through Evasion. It's great. All about scams, dumpster diving, squatting, hitchhiking, and shoplifting. It's also written by some vegan strait edge kid who loves bagels and carrot juice. For five bucks I highly recommend it. Arbie, you should read it to get further inspiration for the phonelosers book.
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Arbie, you should read it to get further inspiration for the phonelosers book.
Yeah, when the fuck is the next chapter coming out anyway?
http://www.phonelosers.com/book/
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Arbie, you should read it to get further inspiration for the phonelosers book.
Yeah, when the fuck is the next chapter coming out anyway?
http://www.phonelosers.com/book/
Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.
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Im currently back and forth between 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'The Art of the Steal'
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Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.
There's actually a big chunk of that book that's sort of done. I keep changing my mind between going with that original chapter or just making a big archive of all the PLA stuff. Currently I'm working mostly on the original chapter idea. Each year I fail my goal of having it finished up by the end of the year. I really do still work on it when I have the time, though.
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Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.
There's actually a big chunk of that book that's sort of done. I keep changing my mind between going with that original chapter or just making a big archive of all the PLA stuff. Currently I'm working mostly on the original chapter idea. Each year I fail my goal of having it finished up by the end of the year. I really do still work on it when I have the time, though.
Is there any chance you could possibly upload them some where in a zip file so those of us with a genuine interest can have a read? Because I'd download it and take up precious bandwidth on your server just to show my gratitude.
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Believe it or not I'm actually interested in seeing some more of that book. I just figured Arbie got tired of it or lost all interest and figured that little snippet being the whole book. It's a shame. It seemed interesting to me.
There's actually a big chunk of that book that's sort of done. I keep changing my mind between going with that original chapter or just making a big archive of all the PLA stuff. Currently I'm working mostly on the original chapter idea. Each year I fail my goal of having it finished up by the end of the year. I really do still work on it when I have the time, though.
Is there any chance you could possibly upload them some where in a zip file so those of us with a genuine interest can have a read? Because I'd download it and take up precious bandwidth on your server just to show my gratitude.
Yeah, I would love to read some more even if it's just random chapters in no particular order. You actually inspired me to write my own book, although I've been working on it off and on for months and still haven't got to the second chapter. ;D
Im currently back and forth between 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'The Art of the Steal'
Catch Me If You Can is great, although the killjoys over at Snopes said some of it was made-up. My favorite chapter was when he gets locked up in French prison.