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Post by dANdeLION on Dec 19, 2007 14:09:21 GMT -5
For me, it has to be Dan L. Pigeon's "Meet Anne Potatoes".
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Post by thomasallencummins on Nov 25, 2008 13:56:50 GMT -5
For me, it has to be Dan L. Pigeon's "Meet Anne Potatoes". Wow. I hadn't thought of that masterpiece. It's so tempting to run out and buy it....must...resist...urge......gggrrrrrrrrr.rrrr
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Post by dANdeLION on Mar 16, 2010 13:51:49 GMT -5
I've found it extremely difficult to buy any Pigeon books, for two essential reasons. One, nobody's willing to part with their used copy on Amazon or Ebay. Apparently they're just too cherished. And two, I'm too d**n cheap to buy a new copy. Nevertheless, I have scoured the interned for snippets of Pigeon's masterful wordsmithery, and have come up with this:
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Post by thomasallencummins on Feb 3, 2011 16:21:04 GMT -5
Funny I haven't seen much from Mr. Pigeon of late. Perhaps he did himself in one day after reading his own work.
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Post by Captain Nemo on Apr 28, 2011 23:56:47 GMT -5
It's not the best book I've ever read... but one of the most disturbing books I've ever read is Steven King's "Pet Sematery". I mean really "Death is a mystery, but burial is a secret..." (creepy)
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Post by dANdeLION on Apr 29, 2011 22:37:21 GMT -5
By the time I got to Pet Sematary, I was pretty much bored with King. I had I read everything he wrote to that point (or so I thought), and that one seemed weaker than his earlier books. I kept reading his stuff until Tommyknockers, at which point I decided I had read enough King to last my lifetime. Then, a few years back, someone told me about the Dark Tower series, so I read those, and liked them pretty well, especially the first four books. But, none of them compare to the masterpiece known as Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which, having not read, nevertheless was an incredible life-changing non-experience.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 30, 2011 4:44:51 GMT -5
I haven't read most King books as nearly every thought the man has in his head has been turned into a feature film or a television movie/mini series. Now that the Dark Tower books are being adapted for movies I see no reason to read any more of those books, though I did manage to get through The Gunslinger.
Not reading J. K. Rowling books seems to be my singular occupation these days though I do become weary of the effort from time to time. I may turn my attention to not reading the Narnia books which may prove to be more entertaining.
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Post by dANdeLION on Apr 30, 2011 21:16:37 GMT -5
Yeah, J.K. Rowling is a bear; the sheer volume of her books takes so much time to not read that I hardly have the time to not read other classics! Speaking of, War of the Worlds is another masterpiece I have failed to read. I tried once, way back in the eighth grade, but I only got to the part where the top of the spaceship (NOT a castle!) was unscrewing itself. I think it took H.G. Welles 168 pages of absolute dullsville (remember, I was 13) to get that far. I just didn't have the stamina to take any more of it. Guess it was just too d**n boring...errrr, I mean, amazing, for me to handle.
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Post by thomasallencummins on May 23, 2011 16:15:09 GMT -5
I just realized I never read anything by Frank Herbert and I'm ashamed I bothered to read anything by John Norman. How about that?
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Post by dANdeLION on May 24, 2011 19:40:28 GMT -5
Having read both of those authors, I can't say one's more shameful that the other. I'm assuming you're talking about the sexual stuff going on in the Gor series. Frankly (no pun intended), Herbert's last two Dune books had as much sex in them as anything Norman wrote. I haven't read a Gor book since high school, but going off my memory, I'd say the main difference between the two series is Herbert reversed the dominant/submissive roles depicted in Norman's books.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jul 11, 2013 6:20:08 GMT -5
Well I've been very very busy not reading books lately. I'm currently not reading Animal Farm by George Orwell. I've also heard that the sequels to Ender's Game are pretty good so I'll get busy not reading them next.
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