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⌈ Secret Post #2701 ⌋

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[The Almighty Johnsons]

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[X-Men Evolution]

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[The Dreaming Machine]

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[Parasol Protectorate]

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[Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Interview with the Vampire]

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[Marvel Disc Wars: The Avengers]

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[Orphan Black]

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[Team Fortress 2]

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[Severus Snape, Gerard Way]

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[Neil Patrick Harris/Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables/Hedwig and the Angry Inch)]

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[Gakuen babysitters]

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[The Walking Dead Game]

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[Billie Piper, Penny Dreadful]

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[Sherlock]

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The only book that I've re-read recently is 'Ender's Game' (and, yeah, the author and his views are problematic, but I own the book and he wrote it before he went off the deep-end). It definitely still held up. It's a fantastic piece of fiction.

Otherwise...I recently started reading Charles Dickens' work, and I've liked it quite a bit. I feel like that counts, since it's so old.

Edited 2014-05-26 23:54 (UTC)

I feel like I've read that book, but I don't remember when, or if I know any of the plot. I might need to read it, I've heard it's good in spite of OSC's personal views.

That counts! I just finished Great Expectations myself. It was a lot better than I was expecting it to be tbh. :D

re: Ender's Game
I ignore OSC's views and the other books and basically everything because that single book is really a stellar work, in my opinion. It does remain one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time, and I refuse to let it be ruined for me.
Luckily, I'd loved it for years before I started hearing the stuff about OSC, so that helps.

Huh, I might have to read it then, because I have heard a lot of good things about this specific book. :3

DA

I was kind of meh on it, and I read it loooooooong before all the stuff about his political views came out (and I also went through the era of SF where we had to contend with Jerry Pournelle, who made Card look like the gayest rainbow boi who ever sashayed into a room, trust me), and the book was OK, but the whole idea of these immortals instantly stopping any kind of pain and suffering/reversing any injuries (and this was only revealed looooooong after the extensive setup of the world-building), didn't really appeal to me.

I also found the book to be derivative of both Wyndham (The Chrysalids) and Heinlein's Methuselah's Children, both of which I had read previously.

If it's the book I remember reading that may or may not be Ender's Game, then I remember being kind of confused about it, but I don't remember if that book was Ender's Game or not, so now I'm curious. |D

I'll try and get my hands on Wyndham and that Heinlein book, though, I don't think I've read either.

....I would avoid Methuselah's Children, at all costs. That's from the "second age" Heinlein, when he started to get really freaky. Definitely do read The Chrysalids, though, it's a short book, but by no means a light read.

*lightweight

Ah, okay, I'll do that then, thank you!

...and the book was OK, but the whole idea of these immortals instantly stopping any kind of pain and suffering/reversing any injuries...

I...have no idea what you're talking about. It kind of seems like you might be talking about a different OSC book.

It's very good. It deals a lot with the nature and morality of war, and touches on the horror of genocide. Its main argument, ultimately, is that one's enemy is as worthy of compassion as one's allies, and that the cost of total war is the loss of one's justification for waging it.

I haven't gotten to 'Great Expectations' yet; I'm currently on 'David Copperfield.' I'm happy to hear that it's good, though!

Interesting! I'll definitely have to read it now. :D

Yeah, it was weird; it feels like a dense book, and it is a dense book, but it's also an interesting book, like, I expected to take so long to get through it, but then I'd look at the clock, and found out I'd already been reading for a while, and I'd gotten so lost in the book that I"d lost track of time, which I honestly wasn't expecting.

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