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[OFF TOPIC] Βooks Thread

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no but I saw the movie if it help you 

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Well-stocked for a period without sports. Finished Stephen King's The Long Walk, now reading his Carrie and then I've still got dozens and dozens and dozens of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Jeffery Deaver and some others to go which I happened to stumble upon online :p 

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I didn't see the movie and didn't read the book (luckily we didn't really have any forced literature in school :d), but I did see the Family Guy episode about it :) 

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

Is it worth reading? :p

 

I don't know if I'm the right person to ask :lol: when school forces me to read something I usually don't like it because I don't like to be forced. It wasn't the worst read though, it's a classic so it's a must read I guess!

 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

 

I don't know if I'm the right person to ask :lol: when school forces me to read something I usually don't like it because I don't like to be forced. It wasn't the worst read though, it's a classic so it's a must read I guess!

 

Something being a classic doesn't mean everyone would think it's good though :p Most of these classics sound rather boring to me and I doubt I'll really go and read them :d 

 

@dcro Please do read it and report back :p 

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Man, this thread is really not for me :lol: I hate reading, literally hate it.  But I blame our school system for that, they forced us to read some really totally nonsensical and boring books. some of them were good medicine when I could not sleeping though...

 

I guess the last book I read was the 10 little niggers aka 10 little indians aka and then there were none from A. Christie, this was some nice couple of years ago :d

 

but in other hand I have a very interesting collection of our NOC official Olympics books (All from Seoul 1988 to PyeongChang 2018) + I added to my collection the Grenoble+Mexico City 1968 one and Oslo+Melbourne 1956 book as well, I found in our local antiquarian, and my uncle few years ago gave me the Tokyo 1964 book

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Something being a classic doesn't mean everyone would think it's good though :p Most of these classics sound rather boring to me and I doubt I'll really go and read them :d 

 

@dcro Please do read it and report back :p 

 

That's exactly what I think too, since I never liked the books we had to read for school :lol:

One of my least favorite was probably "The Plague" by Albert Camus, which is not the kind of thing you want to read right now.

 

 

 

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