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    Quote Originally Posted by Solanine View Post
    I recently picked up Oliver twist because its free on kindle and I'm partial to a bit of Dickens every so often. It is a pretty good read and most definitely better than the movie.
    i appreciate dickens contribution to literature, i cannot read his work. it's like rubbing sandpaper on my eyeballs and the splashing some nice soothing hot sauce in there. i just want to bite the book. literally, i want to bite the thing. i made it through great expectations in school and thought i was never going to read another book again. it wasn't until i found zombie literature that i realized that reading didn't have to be less preferable to cutting off your arm at the elbow by shaving off slices starting at the finger tips.

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    The prisoner of birth....Jeffrey Archer!!

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    Right now for my kids book club they are reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore. It's really a pretty good, ya, fiction book. The main character reminds me of the Kill Bill main character. Thumbs up.. worth a read. I'm going to read book two, Fire.. we'll see how that goes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reaper239 View Post
    i appreciate dickens contribution to literature, i cannot read his work. it's like rubbing sandpaper on my eyeballs and the splashing some nice soothing hot sauce in there. i just want to bite the book. literally, i want to bite the thing. i made it through great expectations in school and thought i was never going to read another book again. it wasn't until i found zombie literature that i realized that reading didn't have to be less preferable to cutting off your arm at the elbow by shaving off slices starting at the finger tips.
    We've been over this...dickens IS zombie literature...read...become a zombie....

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    Quote Originally Posted by reaper239 View Post
    i appreciate dickens contribution to literature, i cannot read his work. it's like rubbing sandpaper on my eyeballs and the splashing some nice soothing hot sauce in there. i just want to bite the book. literally, i want to bite the thing. i made it through great expectations in school and thought i was never going to read another book again. it wasn't until i found zombie literature that i realized that reading didn't have to be less preferable to cutting off your arm at the elbow by shaving off slices starting at the finger tips.
    So are you saying that you don't like Dickens?
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    Quote Originally Posted by reaper239 View Post
    i appreciate dickens contribution to literature, i cannot read his work. it's like rubbing sandpaper on my eyeballs and the splashing some nice soothing hot sauce in there. i just want to bite the book. literally, i want to bite the thing. i made it through great expectations in school and thought i was never going to read another book again. it wasn't until i found zombie literature that i realized that reading didn't have to be less preferable to cutting off your arm at the elbow by shaving off slices starting at the finger tips.
    I agree there are some of his books I just can't read. I got a couple of pages into a tale of two cities and gave up. But a Christmas carol and Oliver Twist aren't to bad.
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    so im just adding to all this idk if any one else threw up this series but rangers apprentice really great about 13 books in the series...Its a really easy read something to enjoy my little sis picked it up and never read it so i took it and loved it . its done in diffrent types of stories and done well...its more midevil kinda fantasy stuff if ur into that stuff try it out....i just finished that series now im on catching fire...and that is also awsome ..

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    Currently reading Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles. Although it's scholarly, it's a fairly accessible history of Carthage, which was one of Rome's better known enemies. Worth a read if you like ancient history and even if you don't, it's edifying.

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    Opium Fiend: 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction by Steven Martin *****/***** awesome book.

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    Currently its "Childhoods end". Not really sold on it too be honest. Interesting take on the sci-fi invasion genre though.
    "A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely." Ra's Al Ghul, Batman Begins

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