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Lasairfiona

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9612 Location: I have to be somewhere? ::runs around frantically::
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I'll send a picture book for you next time. _________________ Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael |
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Mr Gary

Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 6163 Location: Some pub in England
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Ha, no thanks, it'd be like looking at a Where's Waldo puzzle only with cocks instead of slightly misleadingly dressed foreground distractions. _________________
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Mizike

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5120 Location: Iowa City
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:53 am Post subject: |
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I thought he was Wally over there? _________________ Scire aliquid laus est, pudor est non discere velle
"It is laudable to know something, it is disgraceful to not want to learn"
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Mr Gary

Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 6163 Location: Some pub in England
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:58 am Post subject: |
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A linguistic concession. _________________
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ChastMastr

Joined: 15 Jul 2012 Posts: 368 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, US
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:15 am Post subject: |
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| Lasairfiona wrote: | | Oh fuck me, even my very christian friends are asking me if I have read 50 Shades of Grey. *Sigh* I don't want to read it. |
Speaking as a pretty heavy-duty BDSM fetishist (I'm also a Christian but that isn't directly relevant here), I have heard nothing but bad things about this book. The prose alone is pretty awful from the tiny excerpts I've encountered.
You may, instead, wish to check out Anne Rice's Beauty series, which seems to be considered very good, though I have not read that. |
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Halen

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1877 Location: England
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| ChastMastr wrote: | | Lasairfiona wrote: | | Oh fuck me, even my very christian friends are asking me if I have read 50 Shades of Grey. *Sigh* I don't want to read it. |
Speaking as a pretty heavy-duty BDSM fetishist (I'm also a Christian but that isn't directly relevant here), I have heard nothing but bad things about this book. The prose alone is pretty awful from the tiny excerpts I've encountered. |
Then you haven't talked to many middle aged ladies. |
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ChastMastr

Joined: 15 Jul 2012 Posts: 368 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, US
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| Halen wrote: | | Then you haven't talked to many middle aged ladies. |
Well, most of the ones I know are also pretty heavily into BDSM... |
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Adyon

Joined: 27 May 2012 Posts: 952 Location: Behind my Cintiq
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it's part of the BDSM play. That's why they love it! They do pony-play and have to hold them up while listening to them read the book aloud.
Or they whip them and read it aloud and see whether the whip or the book makes them use the safety word first. _________________ Have a Nice Day |
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mouse

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15446 Location: under the bed
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Kilgore wrote: | | mouse wrote: | | let me kinow what you think of it, and particularly of his writing - seems he's also written something about goldwater. i feel i should get educated about that. |
I'm nearly 200 pages in, so I can give you an opinion. It's worth reading. The writing itself is not going to win any literary awards, but it is workmanlike and easy to read, and his narrative is pretty well put together. He alternates between focusing on Nixon himself and a more general account of cultural events and the way they played out politically in the 50's and 60's (the story goes into the 70's, but I'm not there yet). Thus far it has been extremely informative. I have an inkling that the author's politics are a little one-sided, but I don't know enough about the era to be able to say for certain that he's saying anything unfair. I'll need to read more after this. |
thanks! workmanlike and well-put-together is what i like in nonfiction. i'll check it out. _________________ aka: neverscared! |
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ChastMastr

Joined: 15 Jul 2012 Posts: 368 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, US
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Let us not forget the dramatic readings by Gottfried and Nukem. |
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Oneponytoruleall
Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Posts: 3114
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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The Fig Eater by Jody Shields.
It takes place in Vienna in 1910. A young woman is murdered and her autopsy reveals she had eaten a fresh fig shortly before death. A fig out of season. The inspector investigating the case dismisses the fig to pursue other leads. His superstitious wife secretly reads his notes and investigates the connection to the fig herself with the help of a female friend named Wally. The inspector's wife is an artist and expert in superstition and folklore. She is suppose to be quite superstitious according to the dustcover, but the book portrays her as coolly rational and methodical in her own way as her husband.
Although the inspector seems a bit too modern for his time, the book has some scattered interesting tidbits of history, culture and superstition. I learned about gebackene mause - which is a kind of powdered doughnut according to google and 'werewolf nests' |
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Lasairfiona

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 9612 Location: I have to be somewhere? ::runs around frantically::
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:40 am Post subject: |
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ChastMastr - I've read the first of the Beauty series. You must have missed the outrage at the newest printing of that series...
Anyway if you like to read and you like fantasy, the Kushiel Series by Jacqueline Carey is excellent BMSD AND PLOT. _________________ Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael |
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ChastMastr

Joined: 15 Jul 2012 Posts: 368 Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, US
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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Ah! Thank you. I am hoping to afford some reprints of some Gengoroh Tagame stuff when I can.
(So NSFW it's not even funny, LOL) |
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Kilgore

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2827 Location: Portland, Or
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Still on Nixonland, about 3/4 of the way through. If you are an American and under the age of 40, you should read this book, or at least the first couple-hundred pages. It'll give you some perspective every time you think the world seems crazy and uncertain.
This message brought to you by The 60's, holy fuck was that a mess.
EDIT: Also, upon reading this book it makes more sense to me why my parents (i.e: my dad) freaked out when I started growing long sideburns in highschool. Props to them for letting me do my thing. _________________ "Whatever afflicts thee, their asses I shall kick"
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Oneponytoruleall
Joined: 02 Jan 2011 Posts: 3114
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'm reading Lee Goldberg's Mr. Monk the obsessive compulsive detective series.
Out of chronological order.
Not in alphabetical order either.
In both paperback and hardback.
Because I'm a rebel. |
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