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Oh, dear. Dear, dear, dear. "Clarified" is not what I'd call the later books, politically speaking.

MUAD'DIB

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I'm re-reading Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. This book is maybe the most pretentious goddamn thing I have ever read, it's hilarious. Highly recommended if you like to laugh at flaky postmodern philosophy.

Just the title alone makes me feel like I'm not cool enough to read it.

Picked up The Artemis Fowl series again.

:3 My sister actually FINALLY asked to read the first book. So, I still have not finished reading Opal Deception and I have Lost Colony in my box set. I was half way through Arctic Incident but I decided to reread it today and I've already passed where my book mark was. I love Sword of Truth series but it's great to go back to something simpler again. XD

Not to mention, I just LOVE Artemis Fowl.

First book end spoilers
[spoiler]I just LOVE that he always acts so evil and tries to act so uncaring but things keep getting thrown in his face and every once in a while a conscious just stirs. The first book's ending with the deal with Holly for his mom was just... beautiful.

Still, I love the first book the best because I just couldn't decide who I wanted to win. Artemis, the evil villain who I love. Or the fairies who are being conned by this brat who just needs a good butt smacking! XD[/spoiler]

lol books everyone read in elementary school

except I didn't :C

reading Isaac Asimov's NIGHTFALLLLLLL

New acquisitions today:

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Leonard Mlodinow)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)

Nightfall the short story was okayish, although Asimov's characters are always cardboard. The novel went post-apocalyptic and therefore sucked.

aw man now I feel odd reading it :<

Odd how? Asimov is classic sci-fi literature.

because I think I will probably agree with you in the end

also it is pretty boring compared to, like I, Robot

maybe I should just look for the short story

Nightfall and The Ugly Little Boy are both novelizations together with Robert Silverberg, based on short stories by Asimov. In both cases I think the original was better. The novels add more detail, which is good, but they also extend the stories beyond the originals, which made them kinda meh in my opinion. I haven't read the novelization of The Bicentennial Man (which was later made into a movie), but I imagine that situation is not much different, as the original already captured the most important scenes in the story.