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Dollface:

Scandanavian War Machine:
currently about 20 or thirty percent through Darwin's Origin of Species

good read for sure, but it's kind of hard because he's trying to convince people that have never heard of natural selection that it's real, when i've known that natural selection was real for my entire life. so half the time, im saying "well duh" and then the other half i'm going "wait what?" This is due to both the archaic language he uses, and also his lack of data that we now have. For example, he makes almost no mention of mutation, which is a crucial element, and if he does he generally calls it something weird, or attributes it to something else. he doesn't even know about DNA! how quaint!

anyway, it's pretty awesome. one of those things i think everyone should try to read at some point, just because it's so important.

pretty much only reading it because A) i never have before, and B) because i've been having a hard time coming up with good fiction to read because of lack of funds and also nothing has really sounded that appealing to me.

Origin of Species was free, and i love science and evolution and stuff, so it was an easy sell

Blyss:
Grave Peril - Book 3 of the Dresden Files, and now I have the whole series - or at least, what's been written so far.  Going to be fun getting through them.  One of my favorite series' ever.

IMMANotListening:
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming.

I'm never really been impressed by James Bond novels but they are always my go-to for trashy fiction so...

satsugaikaze:
So like I'm a couple chapters into A Feast for Crows and it's starting to dawn on me that R.R. Martin has been gradually trying to rid his writing of any sort of catharsis whatsoever

I mean, it's an entertaining read if you want to avoid specifics but honestly so much terrible shit happens in the past book or two that even events that might have been remotely positive have not been satisfying at all

Also some people I know have been wierdly gushing over how awesome a character Cersei is and I really don't get it  :mrgreen: Even when Martin's diving into her head in some of the pov chapters she's still utterly predictable and just a flat Bitchy Narcissist Powergrubbing McBitchface ugh
Nice intrigue in the plot even though the reader knows half of what's happening before the other characters do so we get to hear about how Bran and Rickard and Arya and Sansa are dead for nearly two books when we all know that they aren't HURR

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