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1 year ago ::
May 21, 2012 - 6:52AM
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Man, you guys read a lot of Sci Fi and fantasy. Not a lot of nods to the classics so far here.  Anyhoo, I be readin' more Mailer - specifically Oswald's Tale. Sort of history, sort of fiction. Fictionalized history, I guess. Mailer did a lot of research and conducted a lot of interviews (even travelling to Russia to speak with Oswald's wife's family and others that knew him during his time there) to craft this monster. I'm not in too deep yet but it's sufficiently Mailer to hold my interest. The man knew how to write.
Resident Prophet of the OTTer.Section Six Soldier Front Door of the House of Trolls If you're terribly afraid of your character dying, it may be best if you roleplayed something other than an adventurer.
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1 year ago ::
May 21, 2012 - 9:16AM
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Hey, I also read some Chandler's crime stories! Abyway, got that Conan book and I'm not dissapointed so far, tough I'm only on the second story ( Rogues in the house).
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1 year ago ::
May 21, 2012 - 9:19AM
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Man, you guys read a lot of Sci Fi and fantasy. Not a lot of nods to the classics so far here.
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i'm also reading a bit of nonfiction Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen and if anyone has suggests on the following topics for nonfiction reading : Cuban Missle Crisis and the Cold War in general that would be great
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1 year ago ::
May 21, 2012 - 10:50AM
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I read an interesting fictional story about the Cuban Missile Crisis (among other things from that period) by Mailer called Harlot's Ghost. It was incredibly good. But it is mostly fiction.
Resident Prophet of the OTTer.Section Six Soldier Front Door of the House of Trolls If you're terribly afraid of your character dying, it may be best if you roleplayed something other than an adventurer.
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1 year ago ::
May 21, 2012 - 9:28PM
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Man, you guys read a lot of Sci Fi and fantasy. Not a lot of nods to the classics so far here.
I've read many of "the classics". But this thread asks what I'm reading.
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1 year ago ::
May 22, 2012 - 6:40AM
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Right right. Just seems most people aren't reading stuff like that right now - hence my observation.
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1 year ago ::
May 22, 2012 - 6:52AM
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Right right. Just seems most people aren't reading stuff like that right now - hence my observation. I'm old... get off my lawn!!! 
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1 year ago ::
May 22, 2012 - 6:55AM
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It's not that I'm old, it's that I have taste. 
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1 year ago ::
May 22, 2012 - 7:02AM
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Right right. Just seems most people aren't reading stuff like that right now - hence my observation.
/shrug
It's a rare book that I'll re-read. Hence my newly developed kindle habit.
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1 year ago ::
May 22, 2012 - 7:03AM
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Yeah, I don't re-read much either. Hence my Amazon habit. I gots lotsa books.
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