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Forum: Games and Tabs 03-20-15
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On the Road - 2

I guess I need more from my books than just three hundred pages of a bunch of white guys traveling around America romanticising the frick out of everything they come across.
Forum: Games and Tabs 10-27-14
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Posted By Iroquois
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Infinite Jest - 4.5
A Clockwork Orange - 4
Skulduggery Pleasant - 3.5

Currently reading Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace.
Forum: Games and Tabs 04-21-14
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Posted By Iroquois
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Hmm, trying to remember what I've read since my last post in this thread - apparently according to my last post I was reading The Stand. Aside from that, I managed to start and finish the entire A...
Forum: Games and Tabs 08-21-13
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Posted By Iroquois
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Recent reads:

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 4.5
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - 4.5
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - 4
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 4.5
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Forum: Games and Tabs 04-09-13
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The Fault in our Stars (John Green, 2012) - 3.5

Current reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
Forum: Games and Tabs 11-24-10
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Posted By Iroquois
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The Gunslinger by Stephen King - 4
Forum: Games and Tabs 04-16-10
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http://hbenjaminpetrie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/CastleOtranto.jpg

The Castle of Otranto ~ Horace Walpole - 3.5

Damned good read.
Forum: Games and Tabs 11-24-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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Well, I like to think I'm into the "whole metal/glam rock thing". I'll see where I can get my hands on it - bookstores don't usually stock his books unless you order them personally, so I'm waiting a...
Forum: Games and Tabs 11-24-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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Probably. Like Palahniuk, Klosterman's a writer that I acknowledge is not exactly a great writer but he manages to write something compelling enough to get me to burn through the book in a couple of...
Forum: Games and Tabs 11-15-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/Killijgasdhgsd.jpg/200px-Killijgasdhgsd.jpg

Killing Yourself To Live: 85% of a True Story
by Chuck Klosterman

To use a very basic...
Forum: Games and Tabs 10-07-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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Currently trying to read Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse for uni. Damned boring, but what can you do?
Forum: Games and Tabs 10-05-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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It's all right, he's definitely not for everyone.
Forum: Games and Tabs 10-05-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2008/08/Snuff-275x145.jpg

Snuff ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Probably one of Palahniuk's weaker works (and he's not that great an author, but I manage to find his books...
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-13-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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Well, my introduction to Gaiman came when I was into Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and one Christmas I was given a book that Pratchett had co-authored a non-Discworld novel with Gaiman - the...
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-13-09
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Reading Tab
Posted By Iroquois
Update: I finished this last night. It stayed...

Update: I finished this last night. It stayed very consistent in its storytelling and characterisation up until the very end. Gaiman is also becoming one of my favourite authors - between this, Good...
Forum: Games and Tabs 06-21-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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http://shoestringtraveller.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/075532281902lzzzzzzz1.jpg

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Am about halfway through it at the moment - so far I rate it 5. Absolutely...
Forum: Games and Tabs 03-29-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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The Outsider ~ Albert Camus

4
Forum: Games and Tabs 01-01-09
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Posted By Iroquois
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Finally finished Snow Crash.

I liked it.

4
Forum: Games and Tabs 09-15-08
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Posted By Iroquois
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Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Forum: Games and Tabs 08-22-08
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Posted By Iroquois
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The Story of B ~ Daniel Quinn

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/DanielQuinn_TheStoryOfB.jpg/200px-DanielQuinn_TheStoryOfB.jpg

Granted, Quinn's work tends to seem more...
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-28-08
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Reading Tab
Posted By Iroquois
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"Idiot"? Where'd that come from?
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-28-08
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Posted By Iroquois
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Oh, right. Either way, you get the same impression, I suppose.
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-28-08
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Posted By Iroquois
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Vice versa? What, like Incredibles is the "adult" version? :roll:

Anyway, yeah, having Watchmen spoiled for you would definitely melt you a little on the inside or something.
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-28-08
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Posted By Iroquois
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Am I right in assuming you haven't read Watchmen?
Forum: Games and Tabs 07-22-08
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Posted By Iroquois
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Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes - Story by Neil Gaiman

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/sandman_vol1_preludes.jpg

The only flaw I can find is that I don't have the cash to buy the rest...