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[jinian]

Found Magazine is more fun and mostly less sordid than The Stranger's "I Found It!" column.

This week's "I Found It!" is all about drug dealing, which fortuitously brings us to Harry Potter's significance to Melbourne.

I still lack a present from LJ Wang Chung, but technically we're only on the ninth day of Christmas...

Nobody wants to talk about books, huh? I suppose it was mostly self-indulgence that led me to type that stuff out for an hour last night, but I was hoping for some kind of reaction. Doesn't anyone want to fight? :)

Comments

[jenett]

About the books, I didn't read stuff until just now :)

Still processing. I am deeply in awe of people who can actually comment on what they've read. Particularly at the moment, as I've been on a fluffy-fiction kick the last week (partly because I've been feeling on and off lousy, and Mercedes Lackey is therefore about my current speed, so I've been rereading much of her stuff.)

I do agree about Curse of Chalion, and I obviously really need to get my head into gear and read King's Peace. (It's been sitting by my bed for months, and I started it, but I've been in very non-high-fantasy mode as far as what I want to read for a few months.)

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I think I'm all faught out over SNOW CRASH (which is practically the only book I've read this year, some years are slow I guess)

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I didn't really disagree with anything you wrote; some was about books I haven't written (???) read, while the comments about books that I have read seemed pretty right on to me. I don't usually do lists of favorite books or commentary about books because - I dunno, I forget. :) It'd be interesting to do what I did my freshman year in high school, and keep a list of what I've read along with how many pages were in it. The first quarter of my freshman year, I earned so many extra credit points from my reading list that there was essentially no way I couldn't pass the class, and the teacher told me (and my friend Alan) that our reading lists didn't count for extra credit anymore. We still turned 'em in, though.

I'm still struggling out of the book desert

[roobug.livejournal.com]

That I've been in for the last 4-5 years. I have ambitious plans to get the books on your list and read them. :)

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I'd like to talk about books, but I don't read very many these days. I certainly never get to read new fiction - I'm usually running several years behind.