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  • @internrachel @julia1

    Hey guys!

    So, I saw the Harry Potter movie last Saturday, and I decided it would be fun to reread the books! Like, all of them! So I did. (309, 341, 317, 734, 870, 652, and 759 pages, individually, and 3,982 pages total!)

    On the whole, it was a really strange experience. I had read the books when I was much younger and…[Read more]

    • Aw, I’ve really been wanting to reread Harry Potter! I really hope they’ll come out on Kindle soon

      • Jo Rowling is releasing e-books with the launch of her new project “Pottermore” :D
        (pottermore.com)

  • Roo posted an update in the group Group logo of FangbangersFangbangers 12 years, 1 month ago

    Amnesia Eric is even more adorable this week, I have such a massive crush.
    And THANK GOD Jason is out of Hotshot, I’m so glad thats over for all our sakes.

    • I hate hotshot. Like Jason, I hope we never see them again (yeah, cause that’s gonna happen. Sure)
      I hope they don’t mess up Pam’s face permanently. That would be a shame.
      Anyone else think that it wasn’t Devil Baby that wrote the message on the wall and it was Creepy Doll with the bad pensmanship?

      • I thought Devil Baby was being possessed by Creepy Doll, but actually thats a good idea. After all we know Creepy Doll can get around, climb out of lakes etc

        • I thought it was Creepy Doll, but that Devil Baby would get alll the blame. Now apparently there’s something else going on…
          I want to say more but what’s the policy on spoilers here? Do we just assume everyone’s watched Sunday’s episode by Monday? Or am I the only one who can’t wait?

  • Hi @internrachel @julia1!

    I’ve read more books! My girlfriend calls it an addiction but I don’t believe her.

    Today I read The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff (206 pages), which is one of my summer reading books and was absolutely amazing. I love Tobias Wolff and have read several of the stories in the collection before, but he continues to wow…[Read more]

    • Oops! I forgot one! I also reread 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. It’s a play and it’s only 43 pages, but it’s amazing and postmodern and about depression and mental illness and I absolutely love it. I probably read it at least once every few months.

    • Ooh, I liked Rant. Invisible Monsters is my all time favorite of Palahniuk’s, although Fight Club is a close second. I found that I didn’t enjoy many of his later novels, until Rant came along. It’s a total mind fuck and I loved the categorizing of people by Day/Night. Very inventive story.

  • Okay, so I have a lot of books to talk about @internrachel @julia1!

    So, first I read an advance reader’s copy of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, 205 pages. It was a YA novel at its most mediocre, and kind of painful to finish. The plot was overused, the prose stilted, and the entire book was just sort of irritating. I did, however, have fun…[Read more]

  • Roo posted an update in the group Group logo of UK and Ireland StraddlersUK and Ireland Straddlers 12 years, 2 months ago

    just wondering how many other straddlers are going to Pride in london this week? :) Its my first and I’m pretty excited

  • @internrachel @julia1

    Hi guys! So I just finished Brett Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero, 208 pages.

    I totally thought that all of the hype about it being “disturbing” or really in any way exceptional or exceptionable was mostly bull until somewhere around the last fifty pages. At first it really just seemed like another “drug novel” or “book that’s…[Read more]

    • I am indifferent about Ellis! For some reason I cannot make up my mind about him, haha. I did like Less Than Zero…. but Lunar Park struck me more.

  • Hi @internrachel, @julia1 and everybody else!

    I am sososo excited about book club!!!!!

    I read Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson (329 pages) a few days ago…I didn’t actually know he used to be a talk show host, until about halfway through when I decided to read the back. It was a fun summer read but not exceptional :( It was…[Read more]

    • I read Between the Bridge and the River years ago, when I watched Craig Ferguson’s show. Mostly I remember that there was a prostitute and what seemed like product placement for a suit. (Do they do product placement in novels? He was certainly talking one up.) Good times, though.

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