Recent content by Vinkus

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    Films off the beaten path

    The Great Happiness Space- A documentary on Japanese host boys who are paid by women to fake a relationship. The funniest part to me was that some of these women are prostitutes themselves.
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    Cyberpunk

    You could try Otherland by Tad Williams.
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    What book did you just buy?

    For Christmas I bought my kids The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones the Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin. For myself I ordered Empires of Sand by David Ball and need to get around to reading it once I finish the last Wheel of Time book.
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Otherworld by Tad Williams is the best cyberpunk I've ever read. Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson is solid, but it's harder to find a sympathetic character.
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    Wheel of Time series

    Got to about page 300 in AMOL and became frustrated with not remembering who too many people were. Downloaded the series to Kindle for a re-read and am now frustrated with not having an easy way to flip back and forth to the glossary to keep track of everyone - the black Ajah members seem to be...