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It's nowhere near as bad as the movie though. Lost World the Book is about as good as Jurassic Park the Movie
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It's not as good. You're basically just anticipating the deaths of the characters the whole time, waiting for them to be killed off by X dinosaur.
It's nowhere near as bad as the movie though. Lost World the Book is about as good as Jurassic Park the Movie
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Halfway through reading Bill Byson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, its very very good, simultaneously one of the most humbling, funny, and terrifying books I've ever read.
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At the PC - Public Law 111-148, otherwise known as the god damned health care overhaul bill that congress recently shat out. This thing is a lump of poo. There are amendments and repellations of certain parts of the bill by other parts of the bill. I have to go up and down the fucking thing twice every time I read something just to make sure it's actually valid.
Studying - EA Study Course by Phoenix Tax Group. I could have made this product. It's nice to have the index cards so that I can study anywhere I sit, but there's a grammar or spelling error on almost one of every three cards and it's mostly based on content which I already have discovered, archived, and used for self-study before acquiring this product. It's not the worst use of $100+ in my life but I'm still pretty disappointed all the same.
On the can - Thirty Years In The Trenches by John Drummond. It has a good variety of small stories and I'm enjoying the read, but it is rife with all sorts of grammar and spelling errors. Whoever edited the book better not be on anyone's payroll.
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Just finished:
The Story of Sushi - Pretty great! Lots of detail on the history-of and critters-in sushi! Tells a good story about trainees at the California Sushi Academy.
Nine Stories - JD Salinger short story collection, many of which touch on the "Glass" family (who were the basis for The Royal Tenenbaumbs). "For Esmé - with Love and Squalor" was the best of them, I thought, though "Teddy" and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" were also compelling. Recommended!
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - Great history of 1970s Hollywood, essential if you enjoy movies from the decade. It charts out exactly how things went from studio control to director/auteur back again to studio control, and how it was essentially the directors' collective fault. And how Warren Betty is your secret father.
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Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22
I read that, but I do not recall much about it. Retirement home?
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I just bought At the Mountains of Madness from Amazon. Is this the Lovecraft book I should be starting with? bbobb made it sound awesome in The Hobbit movie thread.
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The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam. Why don't people write like this anymore?
Well it's hard to say where to start exactly with Lovecraft since he has son many interlinked short stories. I'm assuming you got a collection that includes At the Mountains of Madness, since it's a fairly short novella, right? If so what else is in it? Basically I recommend trying to hit up all the Cthulhu mythos stuff he did, as it's a really cool universe he created.
Call of Cthulhu is a good place to start.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
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