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SilentJ:
I'm pretty sure I haven't plugged them before, so UBER NERD IS BEGIN.

The Halo book series, by Eric Nylund and William C. Dietz are a very entertaining read.  Dietz has only done The Flood (story of the actual Halo game) so far, and it may be my least favorite, but it is still hell of awesome.  Nylund has done The Fall of Reach (everything up to Halo 1), First Strike (flashbacks to Reach and a lot of stiff after Halo), and Ghosts of Onyx (completely unrelated in any way, but probably my favorite so far).  I'm gonna try to avoid spoilers as much as possible here.  Pretty much they have a very big taste of the Halo-esque fantasy to them, but both authors like to be a bit technical.  For example, very rarely are they referred to as just a "pistol," "assault rifle," or "sniper rifle," but rather, an "M6D" or a sidearm (pistol), an "MA5B" (assault rifle) and "SRS99C-S2 AM" (sniper rifle).  This doesn't take away from the plot or the characters at all, but it gets really fuckin' annoying after like 4 books.  Still, highly recommended.

DangerouslyRandom:
Books:

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. Already saw someone else had mentioned this, but I simply had to. I really like this book, it's certainly different, and even though I had to read it for english, I enjoyed it A LOT! Makes you think about what autistic people go through sometimes.

How I paid for college: A novel of sex, theft, friendship and musical threatre. By Marc Acito. This is just about my favourite book of all time. It touches almost every subject, from embezzlement, to homosexual feelings. My friend read it, and got a bunch of copies and gave to everyone, and I try to tell everyone I know about this book. It's awesome, quite basically.

Movies:

After reading all the first page, I'm not sure if this was suggested buuuuttt!

Pieces of April: Kinda low budget, I think. It has Katie Holmes in it, but very good nonetheless. It's about a poor girl trying to cook (i'm supposing) her first turkey, for her family whose coming down. She wants everything to be perfect, but her oven is broke. Luckily... some of her neighbors in the apartment are nice!

Empire Records: Romance, and humour, along with music. It's a very excellent movie. There's not much I can without  giving away a lot of the movie, so I'm just going to say you'll probably like it, and quite possibly get the idea to glue quarters to the floor at your work, as part of your "art" (I know I have thought about it >.o; )

Saved!: Generic comedy of a "perfect" christian girl who gets knocked up, while she's trying to save her boyfriend from being gay. It's funny, romantic, and has Calkin in a wheelchair, courting a jewish girl. It's a very quoteable movie, and I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy it.


I think that's it. I'll add more as I think about them!

the_tard:

--- Quote from: SilentJ1018 on 27 Dec 2006, 13:52 ---the Donnie Darko soundtrack has Duran Duran on it, so it gets my automatic approval :lol:

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Man, Donnie Darko was a strange-ass movie. Took me about two days to figure out what actually happened, but I finally understand. Just finished downloading 26 episodes of radio hitch hiker GttG off soulseek. That should keep me entertaind for 12 and a half hours.

SilentJ:
Ooh, ooh, I totally forgot earlier.  In books, Lessons by Kim Pritekel just came out recently.  It's really a very entertaining read, but just to save anybody interested a couple bucks:

http://www.academyofbards.org/fanfic/k/kimpritekel_lessons1.html <- chapter one, just click "continue" to keep reading.

Enjoy.

magdalena:
the prydain chronicles by lloyd alexander.

a lot of people are all 'it rips off the lord of the rings' and dismiss it out of hand.  but you really should give it a chance.  i read them in middle school, and just fell in love with the characters.  especiallly taran, who starts out as an orphan who takes care of an oracular pig, then events are set in motion that make him a very important person in his land.  he grows so much from the first book, and it really is beautifully done.

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