Whatcha reading redux.
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Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Damn. It's good, too.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
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Larry doesn't do fine literature, but he's a firm believer in keeping his readers entertained. He figures that as long as he has a fist fight, a gun battle, or something blowing up every 40 pages or so, you'll stay with it. And he leaves it enough of a cliffhanger at the end that you'll buy the next one.
It's worked pretty well, so far.
It's worked pretty well, so far.
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Keep in mind while reading it, that's only his first effort.
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Netpackrat wrote:Keep in mind while reading it, that's only his first effort.
And it only gets better from there.
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One of the great first lines in American literature:
On one otherwise ordinary Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteeth story window
Eppur si muove--Galileo
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And thus we neatly tie in the 'Ever had one of those bosses' thread.Darrell wrote:One of the great first lines in American literature:
On one otherwise ordinary Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteeth story window
Oh, and I'm currently re-reading 'Cauldron of Ghosts' by Weber and Flint.
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"Packing for Mars", by Mary Roach, after I heard her on the Alton Browncast.
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I'm going to have to make sure I don't get a new one any more frequently than once a month or so. I can't stand the lost productivity otherwise.Netpackrat wrote:Keep in mind while reading it, that's only his first effort.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
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Just started 'Son of the Black Sword' by Larry Correia. It's way different from his previous stuff, but it's been interesting so far.
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For honorable mention: "ARGH!, ARGH!, HOLD THE PIG! HOLD THE PIG!, ARGH!"