Generally I have better luck with receiving non-fiction so that's what I ask for now. Anthologies are pretty safe too. Already read the quilt book (it's mostly pictures) 
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MY KITTY IS POINTED AT THE WORLD
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Get any good books for Christmas? 
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talk about books or smth idk
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I will never understand Stoner
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AND I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND YOU EITHER.
Try the Forever War. I liked that book.
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I read The Forever War for the first time this year, I really liked it.
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Try Hyperion next!
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Way ahead of you there, I loved the Hyperion Cantos. A lot of scifi is derivative obviously but Hyperion was so original. And then he completely reinvented the series into something else halfway through.
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Omg bestie we literally have the same tastes! Can you recommend good/scifi movies and tv shows plz?
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uhhh for movies i'm pretty basic here are some of the lesser known ones i've liked
Strange Days
The Endless (more realistic sci fi but still good)
Sunshine
The Fifth Element (not lesser known but I had to include it)
Predestination (if you don't already know the twist going in)
Arrival (another blockbuster but I love it so much, the short story it's based on is also well worth reading)
Edge of Tomorrow (FINISH THE GODDARN SEQUEL ALREADY)
for TV I like:
Battlestar Galactica (it has its problem spots but overall I consider this the greatest scifi television show of all time)
Babylon 5
Farscape
The Expanse
X-Files (obviously)
Fringe (this one's a bit campier than the rest but it had a really solid run)
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Frick Sunshine is so good. I watched it like 5 times. Saw Predestination ages ago but yeh it was him the whole time lol.
I started Battlestar Galatica but never finished season 1 also got to season 3 or something of the Expanse.
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Yeh its so good. How beautiful was the ending. They ended up together through all that time and everything they went through.
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I don't think I have enough testosterone for that book
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It's surprisingly sad. So was Hyperion. I think a lot of books about the future are. You don't like scifi?
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I don't think I've read much sci-fi. I'm struggling to think of any I've read actually
I've read Cat's Cradle
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Yeh it's an acquired taste. I always thought of books as going back in time cause they were written in the past but scifi is an escape to the future.
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that's beautiful, yo
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Same vibe.
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I bought myself a nice peepeeens collection, a kipling anthology and I'm finally going to get around to reading canterbury tales to see what all the hype is
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You strike me as a Miller's Tale kind of guy.
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yasss Wife of Bath is a #girlboss
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Arguably based
og feminist.
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He's actually
not kidding. It's what we had to do in senior English 
lit class.
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I got a hard back of one of my favorite books The Pillars of Earth. I cant wait to reread it this weekend with all the new fancy tea i got
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I know it's not right, but i cant see those books
and not think 
of fundamentalist christians
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I mean its about church masonry but its much more just a interesting story then any idea pushing.
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ooh what kind of tea
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Some really fancy lose leaf earl grey
Its definitely my favorite, has a hint of vanilla too
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I got some nice jasmine myself
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Thats a favorite of mine, the worst thing i lost in any break up was a tea kettle that heated the water to individual tea types. It was so easy to get the water the perfect temp for brewing. Also i quit smoking and Mullein tea has been amazing clearing out my lungs.
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I'm going to get a fancy electric kettle one day
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Dont let your gf steal it from you she wont take you back and she wont give you the kettle back
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!slots123
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I got a book on Indian architecture, a Thomas sowell book, books on bacterial genetics and physiology, the simarillion, and a couple books on wwi. Very happy haul
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What's the book on Indian architecture called?
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Also got a copy of "where there is no dentist" but gave it to my dad cus he's had to take antibiotics so long for his feet that all his fillings fell out and he has no dental insurance
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When my dad dies I'm gonna get his books and he has a lot, particularly stuff that has not printed in decades. He has most of Dune in my favorite edition, also some old Folio stuff.
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sorry about your mom
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I got the Penguin Classic Clothbound Paradise Lost, both Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion Deluxe Illustrated editions(super cool), the Deluxe Encyclopedia of Middle Earth, Esoteric Napoleon, and the later five Witcher Books(hardbacks with good art, no pictures from the show or games
). Then I also bought for myself the first three dune books in the deluxe anniversary collection, and The Thousand Names, which I have been meaning to start for a while. I also went to a local used book store and bought a couple history textbooks I have been eyeing up, and last but certainly least was Barnes and Nobles, they had a sale but as per usual they had jack shit and even less that was worth anything, all I got from there was a nice copy of the Odyssey and Iliad.
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I got the "Abroad in Japan" book cuz he's my boy.
And "Armies of Sand" which is just a turbo-neurodivergent collating a bunch of data to dunk on Arabs.
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Just opened these bad mofos:
!spooky somebody remind me the ping group
pls
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I don't read because I'm not a woman. I don't even know how to.
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Put the physical book on a digital
amazon 
wish list and send it to them.
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Hardcover is only available from collector's stores unfortunately
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