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by Chris Faylor, Jan 27, 2009 1:45am PST

The dawn of a new day brings with it the birth of a new chatty, a shining bastion of hope and opportunity. Oh, and since it's Tuesday, we also get some Fallout 3 DLC. Yay.

I had considered staying up late to play through that new Fallout 3 quest, but my plans were dashed as I (accidentally) fell asleep on the couch around 10:30 PM. I feel old :(

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I haven't sat down and read a book in about six months, but i'm looking for something to keep me occupied while I duck out of the social life for awhile. I'm picking up World War Z and Starship Troopers tomorrow, while i'm out there, I might as well pick up some others. What are the other books the shack keeps saying, but that my memory fails to pull up?

Video games, booze, music and driving aimlessly are all nice, but i've kinda been itching to find myself back in the paper, since I used to read every night for at least an hour, and books are the one area the woman in my life hasn't touched so I can actually escape for awhile. I'm gonna be plowing through a lot of pages, anything is welcome.

Jan 27, 2009 2:28pm PST

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  Hyperion, along with The Fall of Hyperion : phate81
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    I can't get my hands on Hyperion, am I killing myself if I read The Fall and later come by the original? : Zolneirz
    - YES. : vigilante
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      Yeah, definitely don't read the second one first. The first book is better because of its unique construction, and you will ruin some of the important surprises if you read the second one first.
      
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      Yeah, definitely don't read the second one first. The first book is better because of its unique construc... : Goncyn
  - If you go for Simmons then you can't pass up The Terror. So good. : mrwolf710
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    anyone else not care that much for the Hyperion books? I mean there was some interesting sci-fi in there,... : Modulus
    - His Keats obsession is kind of odd, but it seems like it's mainly isolated to the second book. The first ... : phate81
    - Yeah, I felt the same way. I did enjoy Ilium and Olympos though. : mrwolf710
  - Fuck yes. This. : Richese
- The Last Wish (The Witcher book) is pretty good. : Modulus
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  What kind of books are you looking for? I'll suggest The Count of Monte Cristo and The Name of the Rose. : mechanicalgrape
- Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erikson : grendel
- World War Z is pretty cool. Stanza (iphone app) has tripled how much I read. : Clay
- The Woman in White and The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins, are two classic Victorian page-turners. I haven'... : tashtego
- Blindsight by Peter Watts is extremely good. : Richese
- Let's Talk about Love: a Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson http://www.amazon.com/Celine-Dions : sgtsanity
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  If you like Stephenson, Anathem is great* *Though he has loggorhea, and is still pretty bad at actuall : Dan[WSB]
  - I really like the endings to his books. Well, outside of The Diamond Age resurrecting WTF SUBPLOT as a de... : sgtsanity
- The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno : Magus
- Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss is a brilliant book. : Modica Sol Solis
- The Sharpe's series. Historical fiction series following a British infantrymen in the Napoleonic Wars. Th... : Sturm08
- you just reminded me to buy some stuff on bn.com and holy crap their 75% off sale is unreal : dahanese
- If you're into books like Starship Troopers get Forever War, or Old Man's War...both are amazing books. : HotNasty