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#628946 - 07/15/15 06:10 PM
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The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
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#629965 - 09/09/15 08:31 PM
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a sci-fi book: Wool by Hugh Howey WSJ article about the the book and changes in the publishing world. Sci-Fi's Underground...
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#630777 - 10/25/15 03:51 PM
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All Who Go Do Not Return- Shulem Deen (JB may have heard the story of this local Brooklynite) I have now. Any good?
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#630779 - 10/25/15 04:04 PM
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Porn Jesus
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#630789 - 10/25/15 08:03 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook 5th Edition.
The new rules have a classic feel using a modern d20 system. More balance between the crunch and role play. There is also a push back to "rulings rather than rules" for the Dungeon Master like in the 70s and 80s. They are also leaning more back to the "theater of the mind" so no need for detailed grid maps and battle mats. Wizards of the Coast is on a slow release schedule for additional books and have promised to keep the "bloat" down and to maintain balance in this edition and it appears 5th will be around till at least a few more years, but we'll see.
The book is better than previous editions laying out the rules but its still a cluster fuck at times. Reading it and having some of the "cheat sheets" you find online that were made by other players helps. It also helps to look up some of the terms for the 5th edition definitions(there is no glossary) to make things clearer. They use the terms for 170 pages before you get to the sections where they actually define them. This edition looks fun and actually makes me want to play again unlike editions 3, 3.5 and especially 4th edition.
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#630869 - 10/28/15 03:13 AM
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Ugh, someone is in their first year of university. There's nothing 'classist' about requiring people to wear a collared shirt for Christ's sake. To call that oppressive, as opposed to, say, actually being oppressed, is mind bogglingly stupid and denigrates people who have really suffered and struggled. Also all her talk about 'authenticity' seems pretty naïve and not very pomo.
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#631136 - 11/08/15 01:10 AM
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Porn Jesus
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^ I agree. My Dad worked at the Rainbow Room many years ago and it was fun hearing Bourdain's stories about the place. The main story I remember my pops telling me about the place was about him getting into the elevator and seeing Johnny Carson already in there with a cigarette in his mouth and a blonde on each arm. That's show business!
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#631541 - 11/22/15 01:51 PM
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a chart of age of consent by state
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#631553 - 11/23/15 07:30 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Goldmine magazine. Good article on The Zombies and one on Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown. Also a short one on the Yardbirds.
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#631807 - 12/02/15 04:09 AM
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An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
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#632608 - 01/17/16 08:37 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
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attempting to read Infinite Jest while plastered
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#632664 - 01/18/16 07:51 PM
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Demon Spawn
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Pilkington is the best thing Gervais/Merchant ever came up with. Some of the funniest shit ever.
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#632665 - 01/18/16 07:56 PM
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Demon Spawn
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I am reading a novelization of the 2011 film by Bela Tarr'The Turin Horse'.
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#632687 - 01/20/16 07:13 AM
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Just finished John Cleese's So Anyway ... Disappointing. He went into excruciating detail about his childhood and youth but completely left out from the Monty Python years (which is covered in another book) until the group's reunion of a couple of years ago. Nothing from the 1980s, 90s and 2000s -- about his failed marriages, A Fish Called Wanda, etc.
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#632812 - 01/24/16 05:31 PM
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Any day now I plan to start D-DAY
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#632816 - 01/24/16 06:52 PM
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I turn to Goldmine magazine the most these days. Especially in the "reading room".
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#632828 - 01/25/16 02:15 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch
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#632942 - 01/30/16 03:02 AM
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#633825 - 03/01/16 06:35 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
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Tampa by Alissa Nutting
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#636097 - 04/23/16 09:19 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
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Just finished The Heart Of Darkness. Now starting Doctor Sleep
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#636099 - 04/23/16 10:18 AM
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Color me incredulous, but I'd have expected a perpetual college commie to have already read Conrad. And bleated about its failings ad nauseum. Whoever's writing your copy has to do a whole lot better.
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#636101 - 04/23/16 10:26 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
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I'm not even in college. I'm a prole working in a mind numbly annoying shit job for slightly more than peon wages. Conrads failings? Book was fantastic. It's less about imperialism than being consumed by the void of the primal reptilian jelly in the center of our souls. ( if we have souls)
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#636649 - 05/02/16 06:55 PM
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Bukkake Boy
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The Divine Invasion - Philip K Dick Walking to Hollywood - Will Self The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
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#637923 - 05/30/16 02:37 PM
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Demon Spawn
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From over in the Gimp Box Brandon Irons wishes you to know he is reading 'From Under' by Bill Tyson or something.
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#637926 - 05/30/16 02:49 PM
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