[ SECRET POST #2725 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2725 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

^

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

I re-readv HP and a Chamber of Secrets.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

Omg, I'm reading it too! D:
Although not re-read, just first reading. I don't like the movies so I thought I'd read the books and I've never made a better decision in my life, they're amazing so far! \o/

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[rubbertea]

the big sleep by raymond chandler. a classic you can't really go wrong with. i was surprised by how funny it was, though. marlowe is snarkier than i thought he would be.
the whole novel feels very modern even though it was written in the 30s. is it because most modern crime novels were influenced by chandler's style? idk, but i like it.
there's some old-timey homophobia though, so i wouldn't recommend this book if that's a dealbreaker for you (though idk if the author shared his character's opinion on the subject, but if he did, yeesh).

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[cushlamochree]

Raymond Chandler is great! I think it definitely is a case where crime novels and films have been so massively influenced by him. It's still very much his genre, including all the humor and snarkiness, I think. He's a sneaky-good stylist as well.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[sarillia]

I love Chandler. I prefer Dashiell Hammett overall but Chandler is great.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[mechanosapience]

I just finished the Monstrumologist, which I recall someone (maybe diet_poison?) having a lot of feelings and analysis about. I really enjoyed it, though I kept thinking "Why was this in the YA section?".

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[diet_poison]

I've never even heard of that book lol so it was someone else

What's it about? The title is cool.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't it dreemyweird?

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[mekkio]

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse. (by Wayne Gladstone)

It's a hilarious sci-fi/fantasy-ish book about what happens when the internet disappears and one man's search to bring it back. (For one thing, people try to re-make the internet in the real world. So, you have people following cats around and trying to make them do cute and silly things until the point of exhaustion. And then you have other people forming site-groups like there's a 4chan group where everyone wears masks and tries to out shock each other and there's a tumblr group that tries to pull that SJW nonsense but learns that it doesn't quite work as well in the real world.)

The only problem with the book is while I was reading it, I couldn't help but think, "Oh, this is going to date really fast."

So, read it now.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds funny. I've checked it out from my library now, thanks!

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

I just read Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. It was his first novel, and well, I liked it but I like his later stuff more.

But I can't read or watch stuff dealing with (explicitly stated to be unprotected) gay sex that's set in the '80s without getting extremely paranoid about the health of the characters. D: I'm also looking at you, Halt and Catch Fire!

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

I re-read Watership Down, and realized where all my deja vu as I was watching Walking Dead came from.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh. My. God.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[cassandraoftroy]

Yup. I actually made a secret about this back during TWD season 3, when they were dealing with General Woundwort the Governor.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[cushlamochree]

The Circus of Dr Lao, by Charles G Finney.

It was... interesting. It had a lot of really good stuff in it. It's essentially about a bizarre circus full of mythological creatures (sphinx, satyr, sea serpent, etc - Apollonius of Tyana is there as a fortune teller, that kind of thing) that comes to a tiny town in Arizona. So there's some very funny satire in it, especially of small town mores, and some really great mythological stuff. But it doesn't go anywhere. It's just a book of "Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this mordantly ironic or remarkable?" and then it ends. Still an enjoyable read though, because it is very good at doing the ironic slightly humorous fantastic intrusion on everyday Americana thing, and it's also pretty short.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[sarillia]

I feel like I heard about that a while back but then forgot to put it down on any of my to read lists. It definitely seems like something I would like.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

I thought of it as a longish short story (maybe because I found it in a book with a few stories). I read it all at once one afternoon years ago, now I kind of want to reread it.

I'm reading Chrome

[fingalsanteater]

You may recognize it from that tumblr post with book cover of some shirtless dudes clinging to each other and one looks to have dlido arms. Tag line is something like "It's death to love a Robot."

Anyway, IT'S FUCKING INSANE. I love it. I'm trying to get everyone to read it, but so far I'm alone in my awe of this tucking weird book.

Re: I'm reading Chrome

[(Anonymous)]

Can you give a brief plot teaser summary?

The Raven Boys

[iceyred]

That series is emotionally devastating. My heart was hammered into pieces by a paperback then stapled together by its sequel.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading David Weber's back catalogue for free online ( http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/David_Weber.html ).

I quite liked The Shadow of Saganami, the first of the Talbott Quadrant subseries of Honor Harrington. An extremely shellshocked Captain (as in, spent time as a POW of a brutal regime regrowing some limbs after having his ship and its escorts be pretty much annihilated) takes command of a heavy cruiser and goes to play pirate catcher in a backwater quadrant while the main war heats up elsewhere. After a while tooling around putting out 'minor' fires, dealing with political issues and utterly terrifying some space pirates (seriously, that sequence was somewhere between 'awesome' and 'holy fuck, dude, calm down'), he realises that the small fires may not be so small after all, and finds himself and his ship at the short end of the wedge. Contains the immortal line "What sort of raw meat to you people feed your cruiser captains?" when word of his exploits gets back to HQ.

(You can't really start on the Talbott subseries without some knowledge of the main Harrington universe, unfortunately, though I kind of jumped in at the deep end myself, using TV Tropes and the three-ish main novels I'd read to tide me over. This one does stand alone relatively well, though, if you've got the basics of the universe, because until the end things really are mostly focused on the Talbott quadrant itself).

I also quite liked the short story "Fanatic" from the same universe (here: http://hell.pl/szymon/Baen/Torch%20of%20Freedom/The%20Service%20of%20the%20Sword/The_Service_of_the_Sword.htm - go to page 17). You really need to know who Victor Cachat is before you read that one, though, because if you don't then you won't realise how utterly hilarious the outside POV of him is during this story. Well, hilarious in sense of 'you poor bastard, you have no idea how sneaky this genuinely murderous fanatic actually is, and it may yet save you all'. Black humour, definitely black. But. Still.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[inkdust]

Odd Thomas! We had an Odd Thomas movie secret the same day I finished the book - strange, and fitting for the story.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

Fortunately, The Milk. A quick read that made me giggle.

Re: A book you recently read and liked?

[(Anonymous)]

Drown by Junot Diaz.