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11) Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski. Audiobook, read by the author. An extremely enlightening book on female sexuality and all the breaks and accelerators that come with. Non-concordance, context, these are all things that hadn't entered into my monkey brain before and as a man I'm a lot better through understanding it. It's a bit self-help-y at times, but that's not a criticism.
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11) The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Johnny Ruff Ryder Tolkein. Audiobook. The Hobbit was shit, just a waste of time. All that this book has in common with that is that there are too many songs. I took these up, mostly because I knew Christopher Lee read the series once a year, and this was a fine reading experience. The Kiwi films, the nerds, the bearded men, and the odd painting people do have really undersold what's great about this story. It's the world that they pass through that matters. Cool, I'll finish this up. I also am able to take the chance to walk through the landscape that the writer was inspired by, too, which is neat.
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Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:20pm
11) The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Johnny Ruff Ryder Tolkein. Audiobook. The Hobbit was shit, just a waste of time. All that this book has in common with that is that there are too many songs. I took these up, mostly because I knew Christopher Lee read the series once a year, and this was a fine reading experience. The Kiwi films, the nerds, the bearded men, and the odd painting people do have really undersold what's great about this story. It's the world that they pass through that matters. Cool, I'll finish this up. I also am able to take the chance to walk through the landscape that the writer was inspired by, too, which is neat.
Can’t wait until I’ve got you reading the Silmarillion, nerd.
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Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:27pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:20pm
11) The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Johnny Ruff Ryder Tolkein. Audiobook. The Hobbit was shit, just a waste of time. All that this book has in common with that is that there are too many songs. I took these up, mostly because I knew Christopher Lee read the series once a year, and this was a fine reading experience. The Kiwi films, the nerds, the bearded men, and the odd painting people do have really undersold what's great about this story. It's the world that they pass through that matters. Cool, I'll finish this up. I also am able to take the chance to walk through the landscape that the writer was inspired by, too, which is neat.
Can’t wait until I’ve got you reading the Silmarillion, nerd.
Eh. If I live long enough.
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Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:29pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:27pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:20pm
11) The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Johnny Ruff Ryder Tolkein. Audiobook. The Hobbit was shit, just a waste of time. All that this book has in common with that is that there are too many songs. I took these up, mostly because I knew Christopher Lee read the series once a year, and this was a fine reading experience. The Kiwi films, the nerds, the bearded men, and the odd painting people do have really undersold what's great about this story. It's the world that they pass through that matters. Cool, I'll finish this up. I also am able to take the chance to walk through the landscape that the writer was inspired by, too, which is neat.
Can’t wait until I’ve got you reading the Silmarillion, nerd.
Eh. If I live long enough.
I’ll make the Húrin joke later, when you’re ready.
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Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:30pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:29pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:27pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:20pm
11) The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Johnny Ruff Ryder Tolkein. Audiobook. The Hobbit was shit, just a waste of time. All that this book has in common with that is that there are too many songs. I took these up, mostly because I knew Christopher Lee read the series once a year, and this was a fine reading experience. The Kiwi films, the nerds, the bearded men, and the odd painting people do have really undersold what's great about this story. It's the world that they pass through that matters. Cool, I'll finish this up. I also am able to take the chance to walk through the landscape that the writer was inspired by, too, which is neat.
Can’t wait until I’ve got you reading the Silmarillion, nerd.
Eh. If I live long enough.
I’ll make the Húrin joke later, when you’re ready.
If I'm still around in a decade, I'm sure I'll snort appreciatively.
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Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:32pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:30pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:29pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:27pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:20pm
11) The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Johnny Ruff Ryder Tolkein. Audiobook. The Hobbit was shit, just a waste of time. All that this book has in common with that is that there are too many songs. I took these up, mostly because I knew Christopher Lee read the series once a year, and this was a fine reading experience. The Kiwi films, the nerds, the bearded men, and the odd painting people do have really undersold what's great about this story. It's the world that they pass through that matters. Cool, I'll finish this up. I also am able to take the chance to walk through the landscape that the writer was inspired by, too, which is neat.
Can’t wait until I’ve got you reading the Silmarillion, nerd.
Eh. If I live long enough.
I’ll make the Húrin joke later, when you’re ready.
If I'm still around in a decade, I'm sure I'll snort appreciatively.
You’ll probably say “well, that’s a bit of a reach.”
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Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:33pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:32pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:30pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:29pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:27pm


Can’t wait until I’ve got you reading the Silmarillion, nerd.
Eh. If I live long enough.
I’ll make the Húrin joke later, when you’re ready.
If I'm still around in a decade, I'm sure I'll snort appreciatively.
You’ll probably say “well, that’s a bit of a reach.”
Is the Simarillon better than the Hobbit? The Hobbit's shit, Jon.
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I still love my Dracula book, but I hit a roadblock when I went on vacation and am having a hard time getting back on the bike. I hadn't previously read a book in like 3 years :disshame:
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Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:34pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:33pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:32pm
Wolter wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:30pm
Silent Majority wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:29pm


Eh. If I live long enough.
I’ll make the Húrin joke later, when you’re ready.
If I'm still around in a decade, I'm sure I'll snort appreciatively.
You’ll probably say “well, that’s a bit of a reach.”
Is the Simarillon better than the Hobbit? The Hobbit's shit, Jon.
They’re very different and I like them for different reasons.

The Hobbit is a children’s book. The Silmarillion is a nerd book, but like...academic folklore nerds, not Awesome Bacon nerds.
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Well, I would much rather read just about anything than a million biographies of Ulysses Grant or whatever, so perhaps the issue is a matter of taste rather than the quality of the work itself.
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I rise to stand with my Commonwealth friend's lunatic presidential biography fetish over fantasy quest books.
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tepista wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:45pm
I still love my Dracula book, but I hit a roadblock when I went on vacation and am having a hard time getting back on the bike. I hadn't previously read a book in like 3 years :disshame:
Sorry to tell you that, like SM, I gave up on it. I like the premise but I couldn't get into the writing.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 6:35pm
tepista wrote:
21 Mar 2019, 5:45pm
I still love my Dracula book, but I hit a roadblock when I went on vacation and am having a hard time getting back on the bike. I hadn't previously read a book in like 3 years :disshame:
Sorry to tell you that, like SM, I gave up on it. I like the premise but I couldn't get into the writing.
I figured. I liked the short chapters, made it an easy read for me. I'll finish this one up, take a break, and start book two. (in like three years)
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