You don’t. You’ll just die faster.
Cut the line. Sweet.
Sex & Taipei City by Yu-Han Chao, 2019, ~20 short stories.
Loaded and ready.
Edit: I read the first story and this is one of the worst I have ever read in my life. Terrible confusing illiterate story, doesn’t reflect Taiwan culture or any culture actually, reflects some strange person’s idea of something, like some stranger wrote it and doesn’t know Taiwan or sex, bad English.
Sex in Taipei City is not what one expects: it is repressed, traded for cash, vengeful, sometimes awkward and almost always secretive.
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I was wrong about this book and it is a good book. Once you get past the bad translation in the first two short stories, becomes much more interesting and insightful into Taiwan and culture.
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Oh hey, the Kindle edition is only USD$3.14! Sure, I’ll get that.
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#12: Pretty good, again I think I enjoyed it more the second time around. Casanunda shows up in the flesh, Greebo the cat does an amusing turn as a human for a little while. It’s a good take on Grimm’s fairy tales with a dash of New Orleans, more or less. Probably my favourite story with the witches, so far
#13: Small gods was my first, will be interesting to read it again now!
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Been reading these since I still have access to an American library.
Read through: going postal, making money, the train one (I forget the name building steam or something like that)
Also read: monsterous regiment and dodger (terry Pratchett but not discworld)
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Raising Steam; i like the moist von lipvig books but haven’t got that far on this read through.
first time through was random, now that they’re all on the shelf in paperback i’m reading a second time in order; it is a lot of fun this way 
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Yeah that’s it! I liked it but I think I liked making money the most so far.
I didn’t like monsterous regiment, but so far it’s the only one I didn’t enjoy
I took this from the school library. The librarian couldn’t believe I’d never read it. I don’t normally pick up things with Swastikas on them, said I. I think it is heartrending and beautifully done. So, I looked up the whole BAN BOOKS BLARG going on in Tennessee.
Turns out, it ain’t all that. Of course. I know. I should know better.
One of the most important roles of an elected board of education is to reflect the values of the community it serves. The McMinn County Board of Education voted to remove the graphic novel Maus from McMinn County Schools because of its unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide. Taken as a whole, the Board felt this work was simply too adult-oriented for use in our schools.
We do not diminish the value of Maus as an impactful and meaningful piece of literature, nor do we dispute the importance of teaching our children the historical and moral lessons and realities of the Holocaust. To the contrary, we have asked our administrators to find other works that accomplish the same educational goals in a more age-appropriate fashion. The atrocities of the Holocaust were shameful beyond description, and we all have an obligation to ensure that younger generations learn of its horrors to ensure that such an event is never repeated.
We simply do not believe that this work is an appropriate text for our students to study.
High School kids can read it. And should.
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Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. Just finished it a second (or third) time. Good story.
After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Now starting a second (or third) read.
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#13: This was my first, and I enjoyed it a lot more the second time through. The death of rats has a quick cameo that wouldn’t have meant much to me the first time, or CMOT dblah, or any number of running gags. Even the tone, the first time through I was used to more serious fantasy and not a satire on the real world that takes place in an improbably one.
#14: I recall not enjoying this once much, perchance because I haven’t read A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Lords and Ladies (#14): I remember not enjoying this much the first time through, a bit more fun this time. Starts off as a good witches/wizards crossover, and just keeps going until the end.
#15: I remember this was OK, I was a bit confused by Lord Vetinari, think it was the first time I’d met him. And a bunch of monsters in this one, again the first time for me in the Discworld, was a bit confusing.
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Lords and Ladies is one of my favorites. Vimes is great, Death is great, but the Witches are … wow. Plus I’m a sucker for anything faerie.
I am incapable of remembering which Watch book has which plot. All good - I just can’t keep them straight. If that’s the first Detritus one, I believe it’s also the one with the most & probably-best Detritus - the troll-dwarf conflict plays a big role, right? (A case could also be made that best-Detritus is his later appearances with a howitzer-Gatling-crossbow, but that’s basically a cameo).
Note that the Patrician does appear in the first two books, but he’s fat and I believe a bit dim. I do love how the later Thief of Time retcons the inconsistencies to make sense.
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We’ve seen him already, Moving Pictures for sure, but I think even before that he was a bouncer at the Drum (maybe Guards Guards?)
Yeah, I love the watch and Vimes. My first time through, reading them out of order, this was the first time I met Vetinari, since I read the first books nearer the end of my first read through.
Seems I was confusing Men at Arms with Monstrous Regiment in my post above. I don’t remember Men at Arms at all, yet. The first time I met Vetinari was Monstrous Regiment, though far from his first appearance (Monstrous regiment was one of the first 10 or so that I read).
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Lucky to find this at my local town library.
Great read done in 2 days a lot of myths revealed against reality.
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One of my favorites:
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