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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:30 AM
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Spider man is way cooler than me.
Edited on Sun May-13-07 06:34 AM by Neoma
I have read 109 books since September 12th, 2005. I usually brag about it to complete strangers (old people) to promote books. The conversations usually turn out to how I read more than you. Actually, the conversations don't turn out too well...yeah, there are alot of people on the internet that 'hates' to read, so promoting books confirms the fact that I'm the pompous one...

Even though some people claim to be smart after they explain how much they don't read and shows how they do not know how to spell 'congratulations'. At least make the effort! You'd be amazed at how many versions I've come across when it comes to shortening the word 'congratulations'.

Anyways...I have discovered that if I went with my original idea when I started counting how many books I read, that maybe I should read one book a day to distract myself from future bragging. Which you can see, did not work and I have in fact, turned into a braggart. But if I did read one book a day, which is sometimes impossible; I would have read 500 books more than what is on the list now. I would have had five hundred more reasons, for you to crawl under the coffee table and drown yourself in movies.



So basically, my new motivation is to keep it at an even 500. Go me, this won't last a day!
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:48 AM
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1. I used to have a book
with a list of the books I had read.

Since you have read 109 books in the last two years to my 4, tell me about some of the best of them.
I am still slowly working through both "Screwed" by Thom Hartman and "Wait, don't move to Canada" by Bill Scher of www.liberaloasis.com
I feel like I should goto the library and get the latest Vonnegut now that he has died. IIRC I did not care too much for Timequake.
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 03:35 PM
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3. Well, I've read alot of great books.
Longitude by Dava Sobel, The Golden Ass of Apuleius Translated by Robert Graves, One flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey, Gandhi by Louis Fischer, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig...
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:32 PM
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5. A Man W/o A Country is a fine book
Unless you're one of the evil republicans he trashes in it. It was actually my first Vonnegut book ever and I'm ashamed that I waited so damned long.
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some guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:16 AM
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2. 109 books
Congraduations, er cogradulashuns, erm congratulatshums, arg congradyulatiuns

Congratulations.

Reading is fundamental.

I like the Hulk picture, by the way.

:hi:

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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:36 PM
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4. Yeah, its purtea.
;)
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