[ SECRET POST #3281 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3281 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Sam Smith, Duran Duran, a-ha, Madonna, Alicia Keys and Jack White]


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[The DCU]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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[Paladin Danse - Fallout 4]


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[A Song of Ice and Fire]


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08.
[Candy Candy]


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09.
[Agent Carter, Jessica Jones and others]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #469.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

What is the last book you read and loved?

[sarillia]

I got Ella Minnow Pea for Christmas and it was everything I wanted it to be. I love stuff that plays with language the way this book does and it developed a kind of absurdist dystopian feel that I really enjoyed.

What's the last book you loved?

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

atlanta nights

figures the first book i've read in ages was intentionally bad

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[blitzwing]

One day, Atlanta Nights will be recognized for the masterpiece it is.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[sarillia]

Oh I forgot about that one. I should read that.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

LMNOP?

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[sarillia]

Yup. There's a reason for the name thematically, but now I'm curious about if her parents named her that intentionally in-story. It's the sort of thing people in this place would do.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[kaijinscendre]

I FINALLY finished House of Leaves and loved it!

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[sarillia]

I still need to read that.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[blitzwing]

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists probably. It's hard to find a book that long, that is consistently funny throughout.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[sarillia]

Sounds like something I would like too.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

I read The King In Yellow thanks to a secret here a while ago. I liked the weird semi-creepy stories at the beginning and the ending stories about student life in France.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[philstar22]

I read the Star Wars The Force Awakens novelization last night and loved it. No spoilers, but it expanded well on the movie and was pretty good (though nothing quite matches the Revenge of the Sith novelization).

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

The Floating Castle by Craig Mills. It hit me in the nostalgia feels.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

Cinder by Marissa Meyer (part of the Lunar Chronicles). I graduated about a week ago and haven't read a book that wasn't required for class in over a year, so I figured that a YA series might be a good way to decompress. It's a fun series so far!

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[ginainthekingsroad]

I read Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell in time for the series. And it was really really good. The footnooooootes!

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[morieris]

Fairy's Got Talent. Yeah, it's from a girl's doll franchise, but it was really good. It went into things like being standoffish, aloof, superior, and how it's not bad to accept help and friendship.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

Atlanta Nights. I can't remember the last time anything made me laugh that hard.

"...they made love like wild beasts, like penguins of the Sahara diving into the sand and rutting wildly after easting on sand sharks. She envied those penguins. All that hot sand to swim through, the raspy grains sliding over their feathers as they hunted in wild packs, baying at the moon, and diving deep, deep, down into the dusty depths of the dry smooth sand."

Sheer genius.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

I was talking about this the other week, but I just finished the second Kate Kane book. It's brilliant! Can't wait for the third. Oh and it turns out that the writer is a bisexual trans-man, so it kinda diffused the exploitative elements for me.

Really good lesbian urban fantasy with solid humor, good sex, and a thrilling plot. Also Love the side characters.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[loracarol]

I haven't really had time to read anything, except rereading Night Watch, but drive-by love for Ella Minnow Pea!

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate. I read the first book and loved it, so I had to pick up the sequel and it didn't disappoint.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

I picked up The Beautiful and Damned because one of the characters in Delta Wedding was reading it. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as much as I did.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[skeletal_history]

I'm in the middle of Moby Dick and I absolutely love it. It's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny! No one told me about that. And the language is so beautiful I have to read it out loud to myself, especially Ahab's speeches.

Also, I've come to understand that "everyone" skips Chapter 32 ("Cetology"), but that's a dumb move and you're only hurting yourself if you do, because that chapter is goddamn hilarious.

I love this line: "Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being."

I highly recommend following the twitter account @MobyDickAtSea, which is just quotes from the book, but that's what compelled me to read the book in the first place, because the wisdom and the poetry of the quotes were so impressive.

Edit: Have you read Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn"? From how you described "Ella Minnow Pea," you might like this, too. The main character has Tourette's Syndrome and spends a lot of time ruminating on language, and the book is set in modern times but feels like an old school noir crime story.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

Either Redeployment or Don't Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something.

Re: What is the last book you read and loved?

[(Anonymous)]

The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman. It was creepy and magical and funny and really drew you in, all the characters really breathed, it just...managed to do SO MUCH cool shit at once. and there was ONE thing going on throughout the book that I didn't like, and the ending TOTALLY FIXED IT!