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Mike is on page 61 of 322 of Every Day (Every Day, #1)
David Levithan, you shall be my new god. TELL EVERYONE, GUYS. WE'RE CONVERTING THE WORLD INTO LEVITHISM.
Oct 14, 2013 06:06AM Add a comment
Every Day (Every Day, #1)

Mike
Mike is 30% done with Great Expectations
Ah, there's the plot. I couldn't find it anywhere.
Oct 14, 2013 06:05AM Add a comment
Great Expectations

Mike
Mike is 25% done with Great Expectations
I can't imagine reading this as it was orignally written. It's good,don't get me wrong, but this doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would keep followers when you had to wait a whole week for the next chapter. Not enough is happening for that - or, at least, not enough is happening for it to survive with that format in the present day.
Oct 13, 2013 11:56AM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is on page 155 of 234 of The Conduit
God, I hate Kendall so much. She's like Nudge from Maximum Ride; nothing more than a caricature of a girly girl.
Oct 12, 2013 02:19PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike added a status update
I've just made an account with BookLikes, since that's where a lot of GR's reviewers have been going. The site is far less user-friendly, it lacks the vast majority of the features that make GoodReads cool, and it uses (bad) graphics to distract from the fact that it kind of sucks. But, you're allowed to call authors assholes there, so it's automatically better!
Oct 12, 2013 01:28PM 11 comments

Mike
Mike is 22% done with Great Expectations
Goddamnit, Charles Dickens is such a good writer. And Pip is such a well-realized character. This is easily the best classic I've read for this class - I was worried that they'd all suck.
Oct 11, 2013 06:10PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is on page 110 of 234 of The Conduit
Why do all fantasy books I've read lately have infodumps? Seriously, it's such an annoying and pointless trope - not good worldbuilding at all.
Oct 11, 2013 02:04PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is on page 28 of 322 of Every Day (Every Day, #1)
Holy shit. This is really, really good already. David Levithan has such a unique writing style, and he captured A's voice so well.
Oct 11, 2013 02:03PM Add a comment
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Mike added a status update
Alright, I promised I would just write my opinion in the piece of writing I wrote and stay out of everything else, so I'll keep this quick. But you wanna know something cool? Any time anybody blocks any information is censorship. So when you say you're opposed to all of GR's censorship, you're saying you're opposed to it taking down nude pictures and spam. I'm just saying...
Oct 10, 2013 06:46PM Add a comment

Mike
Mike is 20% done with Great Expectations
This book has no plot. For all its faults, at least The Good Earth was somewhere this point in the story - here, we're basically in the same position we were at the start of the story.
Oct 10, 2013 06:36PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is on page 103 of 234 of The Conduit
I don't like the way that Rourke kind of made fun of the idea of moral complexity, and not wanting to kill people. Not a good sign.
Oct 10, 2013 02:19PM Add a comment
The Conduit

Mike
Mike is on page 65 of 234 of The Conduit
This is... alright, I guess. The writing is pretty good, and the characters have personalities, but they don't act much like real people. And the plot hasn't really kicked off yet. Meh.
Oct 09, 2013 01:02PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is on page 32 of 234 of The Conduit
These characters don't really act like real people, more like cartoon characters. There's a lot of kicking people in annoyance and nervous stammering and suchlike.
Oct 08, 2013 07:20PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is starting The Conduit
I actually met Rourke at DragonCon, and she signed the book for me! Yay! Anyway, I've been told that it's similar to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I should be skeptical, because the last time an author got me to read her book because it was similar to something else I liked, it turned out to be horrible, but I'm pretty excited.
Oct 07, 2013 01:57PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is 93% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
This makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. I know Klein wanted to throw in a big twist, but that was just nonsensical.
Oct 07, 2013 01:14PM Add a comment
Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)

Mike
Mike is 16% done with Great Expectations
I don't like judging writing from before the 1900's, because I know so little about how people talked back then. But this is really well written.
Oct 06, 2013 02:01PM 6 comments
Great Expectations

Mike
Mike is 88% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
We appear to be reaching no dramatic climax, although I suppose it might be too soon to tell. Or maybe I'm just being cynical because the rest of this book was so bad.
Oct 06, 2013 10:55AM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is 13% done with Great Expectations
Very little of interest is happening. I'm not quite ready to go down the 'fuck required reading' road, but this book could certainly be better.
Oct 05, 2013 12:29PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is 81% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
Why does every other line of dialogue end with an ellipsis? And why do some of the ellipses have four periods?
Oct 04, 2013 02:01PM Add a comment
Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)

Mike
Mike is on page 204 of 276 of If I Lie
Angst, angst.
We're falling apart to half-time.
Angst, angst.
Yeah, these are the lives you'd love to lead.
Angst.
This is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me.

This is a very angsty book, is what I'm trying to say.
Oct 03, 2013 02:06PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is 76% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
And now, Robyn has used the word 'retarded' casually, without anyone pointing out how fucked up that is. *sighs*
Oct 03, 2013 02:06PM Add a comment
Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)

Mike
Mike added a status update
Recently, it was announced that a TV studio has acquired the rights to make Gone into a TV show, and that it has a good chance of being green lit. Now, I don't want to get my hopes up, because the last time one of Grant's books got adapted into a TV show, it was a horrific disgrace to the series. But I'm really, really excited about this.
Oct 02, 2013 06:55PM 2 comments

Mike
Mike is on page 150 of 276 of If I Lie
Much as I like this, I do wish that Jamie was fleshed out better. Nikki and Angel aren't that bad, but Jamie is a huge caricature.
Oct 02, 2013 01:28PM Add a comment
If I Lie

Mike
Mike is 71% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
That action scene wasn't actually that bad; not well-written, but at least suspenseful.
Oct 02, 2013 01:27PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is on page 120 of 276 of If I Lie
ANGST, ANGST, ANGST! Not that that's a bad thing, mind you.
Oct 01, 2013 06:54PM Add a comment
If I Lie

Mike
Mike is 66% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
This worldbuilding is ridiculously complex, to the point that I can't keep track of it. Harry Potter and Den of Shadows and The Mortal Instruments built their worlds gradually; Klein drops all of it on us at once, making it far harder to comprehend it all.
Oct 01, 2013 06:53PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is 8% done with Great Expectations
This isn't nearly as wordy as I expected. I mean, yeah, Dickens uses more words than he needs to, but it's no worse than anyone else from the era.
Oct 01, 2013 06:52PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike added a status update
Alright, so I've been trying to express my opinion in this whole controversy, but I just tend to piss people off. So, I'll stop. Here's my opinion: http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3... I'll just leave it at that and stop intruding on your private threads with my objectively wrong opinion.
Sep 30, 2013 01:04PM Add a comment

Mike
Mike is on page 76 of 276 of If I Lie
Remember back when I could get sixty pages done on a typical school day? Those were the days...
Sep 30, 2013 12:55PM Add a comment
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Mike
Mike is 61% done with Supernatural Freak (Supernatural Freak, #1)
I gotta say, the characters aren't really interesting. They're universally one-note, and nobody has a real character arc. I feel like Robyn is supposed to come across as quirky and fun, but she's just a cliche.
Sep 30, 2013 12:54PM Add a comment
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