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Raelyn from California is reading The Liars' Club November 28, 2011 - 6:25pm

I don't know. I was leaving my apartment to go drop off packages and it was gone. There are no garages where I live--midtown Sacramento--and it's not the best neighborhood. Plus my car is rated the #1 most likely car to get stolen.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters November 28, 2011 - 6:35pm

Well, you proved that rating system to be accurate.  At least that's something. 

Sorry to hear that. 

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Instag8r from Residing in Parker, CO but originally from WV is reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy November 28, 2011 - 6:53pm

Raelyn that really blows. The only thing I can say is - use it as inspiration for a story.

Hope it works out for you.

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Typewriter Demigod from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by Joyce November 29, 2011 - 10:46am

@Raelyn that sucks. That really sucks. Hope all gets better.

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig November 29, 2011 - 4:47pm

Shit, that is terrible :(

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. November 29, 2011 - 6:12pm

You bought an escalade. You live in California. You don't have a garage. This was to be expected.

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Raelyn from California is reading The Liars' Club November 29, 2011 - 9:15pm

I hope you're joking about the escalade? I bought a shitty little used Honda.

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. November 29, 2011 - 9:40pm

How are shitty Honda's the most stolen car? The insurance money you'll get, you can get a shitty used Chevy or something.

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig November 29, 2011 - 9:42pm

Honda's have been the most stolen car for a long time.

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Raelyn from California is reading The Liars' Club November 29, 2011 - 9:58pm

They're the easiest to strip for parts. 

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. November 29, 2011 - 10:10pm

Jeez, Dakota, be nice.  She just lost her car.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin November 29, 2011 - 11:20pm

I'm pretty sure they would have Lo-Jacked an escalade, I wouldn't steal an escalade from anybody unless it was going to be stripped five minutes later, and even then, that motherfucker is probably going to track you down and kill you. Silly tangent, sorry.

But I'm sad to hear that Rae, does liability cover stolen cars? How good is your insurance?

I'm with Insta8r, when bad things happen, write about them.

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. November 29, 2011 - 11:33pm

You can totally borrow my motorcycle.  It's all snowy here so I can't ride it anyway. 

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. November 30, 2011 - 2:06pm

We will all take turns giving Raeyln free piggy back rides

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ReneeAPickup from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig November 30, 2011 - 2:42pm

I have a bad hip, but I can make my husband give her a piggy back ride when it's my turn.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. November 30, 2011 - 4:58pm

If you guys want to trade out books for xmas, check out the secret santa thread.

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Raelyn from California is reading The Liars' Club December 9, 2011 - 1:49pm

FUCK YES! MY CAR WAS FOUND!   :D

Do you realize how happy this makes me! 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters December 9, 2011 - 1:52pm

REALLY??  In one piece?

That is great news!

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Raelyn from California is reading The Liars' Club December 9, 2011 - 2:02pm

Yep! Everything in the trunk is gone and the door handles were broken off...but it drives! :)

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Instag8r from Residing in Parker, CO but originally from WV is reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy December 9, 2011 - 8:29pm

Sweet! Glad to here it.

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. December 10, 2011 - 9:57am

Thats awesome! No luck on the tape decks though. Or the Creedence...

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Renfield from Hell is reading 20th Century Ghosts December 13, 2011 - 4:01am

Spam is stealing my lines. Is this QR Markham's new career?

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Brian Ingham from Stillwater Oklahoma is reading There is No Year by. Blake Butler December 13, 2011 - 4:04am

My girlfriend got me a 1st edition Less than Zero! How awesome is that!? Plus, she's terrible at keeping secrets and can never make it to Christmas/my birthday/etc without giving me the gift, so when when the day actually comes, she feels bad that I'll have gifts for her and she wont have anything for me so she goes out buys me another badass gift! Unbelievable this girl. Unfortunately,  I have no idea what to get her. 12 days to come up with something good...uh oh

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. December 13, 2011 - 10:42am

Give her an orgasm and all will be forgiven.

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. December 13, 2011 - 1:06pm

Girl orgasms are nothing more than a myth. I think I want a first edition copy of American Psycho.

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Typewriter Demigod from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by Joyce December 13, 2011 - 3:41pm

boy orgasms are awesome

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Jeremiah December 20, 2011 - 3:36am

A gift card for me would do. I can buy anything that I want regardless of the price because its for free! Over the last week, motorists in Prosper, Texas have been hoping to be greeted by a traffic cop.Exceptional drivers have been targeted by law enforcement officers. Then they are given a $10 gift car as a reward. Article source: Good driver receive gift cards in Texas town

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin December 20, 2011 - 3:45am

Girl orgasms are not a myth, they are the most gratifying experience of your life.

Good to hear about the car... door handles? Who steals door handles? Did they at least take the stereo before they went for the door handles? It seems if I were trying to strip a car for profit I would go after the door handles last.

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Arkadia from Australia is reading Selected Poems by W.H. Auden December 20, 2011 - 4:18am

Congrats on finding your car, Raelyn! Very cool. Apart from the door handle thing. What the eff is that? People are enigmas.

Nkwilczy, despite having a super hard to pronounce username, I like you already. Yay for girl orgasms!

And Christmas presents? I always ask for the same thing. A donation to one of my favorite charities. It is seriously so ridiculously easy these days to make a donation. It takes a second to do it online. A couple of charities I wanted to donate to even had these cool donation vouchers, so instead of giving a gift voucher, you gave a donation voucher. I sent a link to all my family members (who are always bugging me about what they should get me for Christmas) and told them that was what I wanted. Apparently giving to charity in place of buying a useless unwanted Christmas present is UNTHINKABLE. I mean, I appreciate that they buy me anything at all, I really do. But they like to give me gifts like bath salts (I don't even HAVE a bath) and calendar diaries (I have been given approximately a hundred of these in my lifetime and never used a single one - sorry, my life is just not that busy). And often the nicer gifts are way off the mark too, like a king size bedspread when I have a small double bed, DVD series I have zero interest in watching and jewelery I will never ever wear.

I will admit though, if someone bought me 11/22/63 I wouldn't cry about it. Hardcover version would be even better.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin December 20, 2011 - 5:54am

It's completely unpronounceable, it's the initials of my first and middle names with a chunk of my last name. I used to rock these juvenile usernames (still do, sometimes) but when I feel serious I always just amend Nicholas Karl Wilczynski (somehow even less pronounceable) to nkwilczy and hope it seems businessey enough.

I think some email client made that decision for me a long time ago.

I did the "give to charity in your name" bit to all of my siblings one year. They were furious. I tried to be zen about it though.

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Hetch Litman from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor December 20, 2011 - 2:03pm

So this here is Madeline. See that beautiful front wheel? Well, I hit something in the road and it is shot now. the good news is I'm alive. The bad news is that is a 1300.00 wheel.

So, Santa if you're out there and you read Litreactor...

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Dean Blake from Australia is reading generationend.com December 20, 2011 - 2:59pm

Please give me money for Christmas.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. December 20, 2011 - 4:28pm

Im getting a Nintendo Ds for xmas that I wanted. Oh Mario, How I've missed you, working class hero.

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amazingrobots from Savannah, GA is reading When You Are Engulfed In Flames December 20, 2011 - 4:38pm

I'm making pretzels and other baked goods for everyone for Christmas.

Motherfuckers better enjoy.

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Hetch Litman from Somewhere in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor December 20, 2011 - 8:00pm

Hey if I got that for you I could say I gave a flying fuck this christmas