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    Books Books that changed your life

    I'm just curious to see what books have changed other people's lives and why. Here's a few from the top of my head. * David Eddings's "Pawn of Prophecy" - my first introduction to high fantasy and teacher of a few important moral lessons. * Jostein Gaarder's "Sophie's World" - my first...
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    Books Haruki Murakami

    I've heard a lot about him but haven't gotten around to reading any of his books. TBH I'm kinda waiting to see one on sale in the Kindle store :P If I did amble along to the library though, where do you think I should start off? I'm told that Norwegian Wood is a good place to start!
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    Books Favourite books as a kid?

    If we're talking about my earliest earliest favourite books - I have to say they were the Spot books. :D I don't think my Mom found them very interesting though (and I can see why now) so I didn't get to read quite as many of them as I wanted. Moving on, while I was always a really avid...
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    Books Young Adult Novels

    I just turned 30 and do find myself reading a lot of YA these days. I think part of that is that YA has really picked up and there are a lot of interesting books/series out there in genres I do want to read (e.g. I loved the Marissa Meyer fairytale-inspired, cybernetic enhanced Lunar...
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    Adventure games

    By 'cult game' I mean that people who have played it are usually pretty obsessed with it or counts it as one of their favourite or seminal games. People really connect over it! I came back to say that I recently got a new computer and so managed install a couple of games I got for free on GOG...
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    Voices of a Distant Star

    I don't know if anybody ever watched this... but I watched this when I was 18 and, having had a very intense long-distance relationship, it broke my heart. It's a 30 minute short which seemed much deeper when I was 19, or maybe back then the technology wasn't so jarring. It's set in the near...
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    Tabletop Mansions of Madness

    Thought I'd provide a recommendation to anybody passing by. If you like Cthulu style occult dark fantasy, and you have some friends who don't mind playing boardgames, you should definitely play this. It might be a bit on the pricier side, and take a while to set up, but it is AWESOME...
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    Music Taylor Swift?

    I'm not very 'with it' in terms of music of the 2010s, but Taylor Swift is popular enough to even pervade my bubble. I have to say that I was so ready to find her annoying, but I think her music is great, and she seems like she's 'with it'. She's totally playing the media at their own game and...
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    Ally McBeal

    So I'm rewatching Ally McBeal (and making my boyfriend watch it for the first time) and I'm still rather enjoying it. I'm not sure if it's nostalgia or whether it really does stand up to the test of time. Something my boyfriend and I noticed is that the issues that come up in Ally are still...
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    Adventure games

    Does anybody still play adventure games anymore? I feel like Monkey Island is kind of a cult game - and the weird thing is that I generally LOVE people who have played it. Now it all seems to be FPS or MMORPGs... would be nice to see a great adventure game again.
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    Best android games

    I'm not looking to waste any more time on my phone, but I will admit that Monument Valley is very intriguing...
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    Tech Samsung Galaxy Gear Smart Watch

    I have to say that I've been seriously considering a smart watch. Maybe not the Samsung Gear, but something like the Motorola or LG offering, which looks like it could be a nice watch. Until it does cool things. I originally wanted a Jawbone Up, but seeing as smart watches are actually not...
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    Books The Hunger Games

    Is this too pop to belong in these forums? ;) I'm going to admit right now that I held off for a long time before I read these books - first because I wanted to read Battle Royale first (I still haven't....) and then because the movie came out and I just like to avoid things that are popular...
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    Books Do you use the library?

    I love libraries! I 'rediscover' them every now and then and end up saving lots of money on not buying books. :D Unfortunately, my city only has one library and it's a bit of a trek away. Plus I have kind of run out of time to regularly read books - the current book I'm reading I've been...
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