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By ObviousTroll (Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 12:35:31 PM EST) (all tags)
I got back into books about a month ago.

Did I mention I speed read? It's an expensive hobby.



I'm practically drowning in books and graphic novels these days; I'm reading them in almost random order, and more than one at a time, so here there are:

Confessions of an Economic Hitman - by John Perkins

This is one of the ones I haven't finished yet - it's interesting but I have a terrible time accepting it as non-fiction. While I have no problem believing in greedy individuals and greedy corporations screwing the people of the 3rd world,  I just can't believe in an organized conspiracy between corporations to do same.

Tales of Fallen Malazan, beginning with Gardens of the Moon and through Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

It's a seven book sword-and-sorcery series. Which pretty much sums it up. Fat books with too many characters and too many plots but still enjoyable. I'm about halfway through the series.

Hunter's Run by George Martin, et al.

Basic man-hunts-man story but with several twists, including the fact that the protagonist is a thoroughly disagreeable SOB hated by everyone including the woman he leaches off of. Not bad.

Duma Key by Stephen King

Bought it for Mike who loves Stephen King. Been meaning to read it, but lent it to my mother who's been stuck at home with a broken foot for the past 8 weeks.

Hellboy Animated, Volumes 1-3 including The Menagerie

Not bad kid-friendly comics that I buy to share with Mary.

HellBlazer trade paperbacks including The Devil You Know

Yow. Speaking of anti-heros. Very disturbing stories but also compelling. I think I'm going to end up buying a lot of these.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore

This was a major disappointment. The pop-culture references were cute but no more, and the plot was just... missing...

B.P.R.D. graphic novels up through BPRD: Garden of Souls

Yummy. I eat these up like potato chips (and the the Hellboy books, too).

52 graphic novels up through 52, Vol 4

The ending was a disappointing mishmash, but up til then, it was a great ride.

The Cityof Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

I got this to read aloud with Mary. Easily as much fun as The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear.

The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman

This one is sitting next to my bed, I'm reading a chapter a day before bed. Like all of Hillerman's books it's a good read.

The Red Horseman by Stephen Coontz

My bedside book before The Shape Shifter. God, what an awful read. Not because it was badly written but because it's horribly dated. Somehow I don't want to read about how military adventurers save the world anymore.

Under Orders by Dick Francis

You know, I'm having a hard time telling you what this was about, except that it involved horses and Sid Halley, who is Francis' best recurring character. Somebody got killed, I think. Not a bad book, but it's just kind of blended together with all the other Dick Francis books I've read.

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but I think this is most of it.

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to quote sasquatchan by marvin (4.00 / 1) #1 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:22:29 PM EST
A massive curse on you. Although at least you didn't link to >100 books at amazon like Vulch did. So let's leave it at a mid-sized, milder curse. A mild pox on your house, perhaps?



Wow. Thumbnails and everything. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #2 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:45:53 PM EST
And here I thought I was being nice by going to that extra effort.

It's also interesting that it only happened with the amazon links and not the links to sfbc.

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It's a feature by Vulch (2.00 / 0) #5 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:44:08 PM EST

Hulver gets a kickback if you order a book through a link, Amazon URLs get his associate code bolted in so they know to pay him. As a side effect they get the sidebar link with a cover pic and the comments entry in the books section.

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right, and that's certainly fair to him by gzt (2.00 / 0) #6 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 04:08:37 PM EST
but i'm just wondering how much business that nets and whether it's worth it. i mean, it could be, in which case, gravy. i just wonder whether it really is.

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There's an accounts page somewhere by Vulch (2.00 / 0) #7 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 04:42:21 PM EST

I think. But I can't find it... It's not a huge amount from what I remember, and it's spilt between the various Amazons, but better than nothing.

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Not a lot by hulver (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 10:13:58 AM EST
It's one of those things that took me a while to write, so even though it's crap I'm not getting rid of it.

I maintain high hopes of one day retiring off the proceeds, although $30 a year isn't looking good so far.
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sha, honestly. by gzt (2.00 / 0) #3 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:48:09 PM EST
i mean, everybody hates that "feature". could we just get rid of the whole "making amazon product pages" thing? i can literally never think of a time that adds utility to this site.

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where it messes me up: by gzt (2.00 / 0) #4 Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:53:32 PM EST
going from story to story in the whine cellar. in the other sections, the links to next story and previous story go to the next story in those sections, but the whine cellar ones include the amazon section stories, which pisses me off to no end.

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The Everything link seems to be fixed now though by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #8 Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 03:34:34 PM EST
When I click on the Everything link in the top right I now get all the diaries, holiaries and whine cellar entries on one page, without the Amazon stories.
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