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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:27PM

    by t-3 (4907) on Thursday December 22 2016, @10:27PM (#444854)

    Was in jail early in the year, read a bunch of Louis L'amour and some other westerns, a couple of anthologies by Niven, and a couple of the Foundation books, which got me on a major scifi spree when I got out, reading a bunch of stuff I'd seen recommended or hailed as classics but had never read - a lot of Asimov, Heinlein, CJ Cherryh, Le Guin, RA Lafferty, Stanislaw Lem. I reread the Culture books (Iain Banks), as well as Earthsea. I read some nonfiction too, a couple history books about native Americans, and some books about gardening.

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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday December 23 2016, @12:36AM

    by t-3 (4907) on Friday December 23 2016, @12:36AM (#444883)

    Forgot to mention which I thought was best; I'm torn between A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, and The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin. Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh was really good too.

    • (Score: 1) by charon on Friday December 23 2016, @04:51AM

      by charon (5660) on Friday December 23 2016, @04:51AM (#444930) Journal
      A Deepness in the Sky is a really excellent book. If you haven't read it too, the sort of sequel (though it was written earlier) is called A Fire Upon the Deep. The Dispossessed, like all Leguin, is also great.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:44AM (#444977)

    Was in jail early in the year,

    How many people did you kill?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:45AM (#444979)

      They're not people.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:46AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @07:46AM (#444980)

        You crazy son-of-a-bitch!

      • (Score: 1) by DannyB on Monday January 09 2017, @07:00PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 09 2017, @07:00PM (#451567) Journal

        Corporations are people too!

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        People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday December 23 2016, @08:42PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Friday December 23 2016, @08:42PM (#445206)

    In jail ?!

    • for how long?
    • how many books/pages/chapters did you read in a day?
    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by t-3 on Friday December 23 2016, @09:16PM

      by t-3 (4907) on Friday December 23 2016, @09:16PM (#445223)

      ~45 days total, but I didn't have access to books for about half of those due to being moved around (3 days in a holding cell with about 30 others, no books there, then to a general area with a small library for 4 days, then I got moved to a 10-man cell for the remainder of my stay, but the book cart didn't come for weeks). I'm a pretty quick reader and had a bunch of free time though, I estimate I read about 30 books overall. Some days I read 2-3 books (especially when I ran out and read the stuff other people had grabbed, which were mostly 100-200 page westerns and crime novels), many days I just slept, played cards and dice, did crosswords/sudoku, and rapped. Not being able to pick-and-choose what to read meant I ventured into a lot of genres that I normally wouldn't read, like war novels, some John Grisham books, and the aforementioned westerns. I wrote a bunch of rap songs and some poetry as well.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 09 2017, @08:16AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 09 2017, @08:16AM (#451367) Journal

        and rapped. Not being able to pick-and-choose what to read...

        Have you been able to pick what to rape, though?

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        • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Monday January 09 2017, @06:03PM

          by t-3 (4907) on Monday January 09 2017, @06:03PM (#451538)

          Being surrounded by a bunch of bearded men in various states of undress eliminated all serial desire pretty handily.

  • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Sunday January 01 2017, @05:02AM

    by Mykl (1112) on Sunday January 01 2017, @05:02AM (#448050)

    The Culture novels always managed to boost my (pretty low) annual book reading count by at least one. A great shame that Iain Banks died so relatively young.

    My favourite Culture Book would have to be "Use of Weapons" for the wonderful way that Iain Banks told the story both forward and backward from a particular point in time. It also contains my favourite sentence ever in a novel (toward the end of the book there is a wonderful use of ambiguity in a sentence that delivers a very powerful plot element).