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Complexity  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00s Reviews #9: "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

The books know where they are. It's the participants that have gone AWOL.

GorGorGorillaNeck veen galen flagamuffin iammyownrushmore TheGreatAbider16 OftenBen _refugee_





user-inactivated  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Excuse me. I sent mine out - thenewgreen.

Calling you out, man.

Anyway, I never saw another book. Actually I think I've read them all, can we start again with different ones?

Complexity  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Add new ones? But remember to include the Super Secret Special Thing...

And also add them to the map.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1jmGzz6DzojHQsGo0Xq47u_U2UG8

galen  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit, I totally forgot about this. I actually think I have my book in storage in NY? I'll have to see if I can find it, or if not, I guess it'll wait til August.

OftenBen  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I still have The Hot Zone, nobody requested it, but i'm happy to mail it to whomever would like to learn about AIDS Ebola.

Edit*

Complexity  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought The Hot Zone was Ebola?

OftenBen  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Evidently I need to read it again before passing it on, edited for brain fart.

veen  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Guilty as charged. 326 pages into Kavelier & Clay, which is more pages than all other physical books I've read put together in the last two years. Not that it's the book's fault though - I have the same problem as kb in that I basically only read audio or ebook.

I can keep it longer and maybe finish it when I am bored but it's not very likely, so if anyone wants it I can send it.

iammyownrushmore  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I sent East of Eden to arguewithatree over a year ago.

arguewithatree  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah i still have it but i haven't read it. grad school is officially over the first week of july though so i will be all over all the literature i've been neglecting lol

iammyownrushmore  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wasn't pointing fingers, just stating facts :)

And if you've got priorities that are higher than the social pressure of an ad-hoc book club, you should do those first. But I don't like Steinbeck that much to begin with.

Complexity  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i guess I should have created a database driven backend and easy to use ISBN scanning app first.

But the system is working like mycelial threads. Underground. Unseen.

iammyownrushmore  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you should repost the pretty page you made, and a reminder so the users can update it themselves.

Complexity  ·  2872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This thing?

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1jmGzz6DzojHQsGo0Xq47u_U2UG8

Let's see if I can remember which Google account I used to create it...