Poll
Question:
Whos with me
Option 1: Yay
votes: 13
Option 2: Nay
votes: 1
Im currently Reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign trail '72.
Its good stuff so far Thompson loves go off on his little tangents :Epleased:
Next by Michael Crichton. The last book I read was The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
The Saga of Seven Suns (series) by Kevin J. Anderson. I'm only on the first book. I haven't been able to read very often recently, but I'm getting there.
shadow of the hegemon by orsen scott card.
anything by him is pretty much awesome, if not a little tedious.
Settling accounts series by Harry Turtledove. I read the Storyliner from the Great War Series through American Empire and now am on the first book of this series :Epleased: it's really good
Rereading Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind.
I like them alot, alot of ethics and politics in it even though it's fantasy.
Dante's Inferno
The Harsh Cry of the Heron, the last of hte Otori series (the series that started with Across the Nightingale Floor).
Four books, good story and the like, although a bit too fantasy maybe. However, it kills the time and is addictive enough to keep me awake on the train or on a piss-boring op.
Hamlet by Shakespeare and Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
Hamlet is nice :)
I also recently read Hannibal Rising. Is it bad that I liked the movie better than the book?
.............also, young Hannibal is hot.
ooh i got some more books for the birthday. i got obama's book : the audacity of hope and i have everything you know is wrong
both are bound to be great reads.
Sharpe's Fortress. I'm vaguely making my way through the series, but that could take a while...
Apologies for the long hiatus too, Spent a week frenziedly attempting to catch up with my maths etc and now I'm in germany with limited internet access for a bit. Thank god for bringing books
sharpes fortress hang on let me take a look at my series....
BOY you have a long way to go plus all the new ones Bernard put in
Still listening to the unabridged audio version of Robert Jordan's Lord of Chaos in the Wheel of Time arc. Would've finished it months ago, but Daughtry's new CD put a bit of a crimp in that. But then again, Jordan does put his trademark intro at the beginning (such as there are any in The Wheel of Time...) of every novel, tee hee. :Ewink:
Last read, "What Color is your parachute?" by Richard Bolles. Also caught the 1st chapter of Max Barry's "Company" http://www.maxbarry.com/company/preview.html
books that arn't manga? wa?
^spam
That post was hardly spam... He said that he doesn't read much (or anything) that isn't manga. If post count doesn't matter, then why is it bothersome? This thread is basically another spam thread anyway... no one has commented on anyone else's selections, it's just self-indulgent.
so is what game are you playing at the moment,what are you listening to now thread, last cd(s) purchaced,top 5 cds.
But a out of place post in anyone of those threads would read:"i dont like video games","im deaf so i cant hear music","i dont like music".
Yeah... isn't that answering the thread topic? Out of place would be something completely unrelated.
I agree with Poey. Lately there hasn't been much stuff on these threads of great substance or something that we can have great debate with. That makes me a bit sad.
Now back on topic, I to haven't read much in the terms of real novels. Does the hundreds of textbooks I have to read in college count? The closest thing that I have read was the Kino no tabi light novels. (that is sad) If you guys can private message me something that is good I might read it. I guess I'm growing up and I am losing time for anime recently.
I haven't been really into anime in a long time. I try to read often, but I just don't have a lot of time.
I am rereading C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy because it's been a few years. The first time I read the first book "Out of the Silent Planet" it too me 6 months to read and there is onlt 160 pages but some of tha paragraphs are 2 pages long. The series is quite remarkable and has changed my veiw on religion. They are science fiction books. The first book takes place on Mars. The second book, "Perelandra", takes place on Venus and the last book "That Hideous Strength" takes place on Earth. If you liked reading The Chronicles of Narnia then you should read these books.
And that reminds me, I need to reread Narnia!
Yesterday a book my mom bought arrived in the mail.
It was a book I had asked for christmas.
Howl's Moving Castle.
I finished it a few hours ago.
It was great.
<3 <3 <3
My sister has some of her other books. I want to read Castle in the Air too!
Just finished Ecclesiastes by Solomon.
I read Castle in the Air, the squeal to Howl's Moving Castle.
It was wonderful, I loved it!
Now to read all those Chrestomanci books!
The World according to Clarkson :lol:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson, in preparation for my thesis paper, though I don't start grad school until August. I just like to be prepared well in advance.
The Children of Húrin (http://www.amazon.com/Children-Hurin-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0618894640)
7th Harry Potter
Twilight, a book about vampires <3
I Just begun reading the second Doom novel (of four)
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So fare Im loving it ^_^
Book 3 and 4 will arrive in the next couple of days \^o^/
I absolutely love those covers... :)
[edit:] damnit, not even the regular smiley face works properly
More Dune, as always.
Machine Crusade at the moment, should be done in a couple days at most. Sandworms of Dune comes out on the 7th, I'm excited.
The textbooks I will be teaching to my English 150 class. Figured I'd get familiar with the material well in advance of the start of the term. They still need to get me my Teacher's handbook, but the head of the program cocked up and didn't order it before she went on vacation, so I won't have a change to get it till about two weeks before the start. And it's the thickest one, of course...
Quote from: Micki! on July 30, 2007, 02:12:26 PM
I absolutely love those covers... :)
[edit:] damnit, not even the regular smiley face works properly
Just got the last 2 today ^_^
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And when I get through them all im gonna re-read Masters of Doom
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Yet again two excellent covers... 8)
I just got done with New Moon, the sequeal to Twilight and the thrid is out! So I'm gonna go read Eclipse!
Yay for a girl who's best friend is a werewolf and her fiance is a vampire!
<3 <3 <3
Just can't seem to make the time for book reading (besides the manga I read) these days. I used to buy a lot of comic book titles at one time though. But even that has dwindled with the price for 'em these days.
Atm, Catwoman #69.
Quote from: Lord Il on August 19, 2007, 04:55:07 PM
Just can't seem to make the time for book reading (besides the manga I read) these days. I used to buy a lot of comic book titles at one time though. But even that has dwindled with the price for 'em these days.
Atm, Catwoman #69.
Lol, 69.
Sorry, someone just
had to do it.
^heh.. What's interesting about that is I figured someone would joke about it.
Just now I dug out some of my Wolverine comics from a few years ago when he had the adamantium ripped from his body for a while. Ah memories..
I just finally finished The Children of Húrin, but now I most likely won't be able to do any reading for enjoyment since the semester has begun.
Since my last post in this thread I've finished Machine Crusade, Battle of Corrin, Sandworms of Dune, and re-read Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Now I'm re-reading God Emperor of Dune.
Beowulf, in the original Old English (blessedly with modern English translation where I get stuck)
well, i'm reading notes from the underground 'dostroyevsy' hope thats spelt right...
my favourite books are ian flemming books, hitchickers guide to the galaxy, honestly, the movie sucked, catch 22...others, there are others...
Quote from: randamonian on August 23, 2007, 10:36:45 PM
hitchickers guide to the galaxy, honestly, the movie sucked,
Yeah, it did. The books are epic, though.
Quote from: Foggle on August 24, 2007, 07:19:34 AM
Quote from: randamonian on August 23, 2007, 10:36:45 PM
hitchickers guide to the galaxy, honestly, the movie sucked,
Yeah, it did. The books are epic, though.
yeah, i lived the tv show. have you seen it? it very similar to the books, except the series ends at book 3. I liked it because they cut the seance. Funny, when i read hitchhikers the second time, that was when i actually noticed it. I must have been enjoyong them so much i didn't even take in what i was reading...
I finished the 4 books in week...
havent read the fifth book though. sister told me it would make me sad. Cause it was like 1984, which i have read. Don't like sad stories.
Quote from: randamonian on August 25, 2007, 08:17:37 PM
Quote from: Foggle on August 24, 2007, 07:19:34 AM
Quote from: randamonian on August 23, 2007, 10:36:45 PM
hitchickers guide to the galaxy, honestly, the movie sucked,
Yeah, it did. The books are epic, though.
yeah, i lived the tv show. have you seen it? it very similar to the books, except the series ends at book 3. I liked it because they cut the seance. Funny, when i read hitchhikers the second time, that was when i actually noticed it. I must have been enjoyong them so much i didn't even take in what i was reading...
I finished the 4 books in week...
havent read the fifth book though. sister told me it would make me sad. Cause it was like 1984, which i have read. Don't like sad stories.
Funny, I thought there were only 4 books. I'll have to look into this fifth one.
I've seen bits and pieces of the show, thought it was pretty good.
Yeah, they made four books into a large one, then cut the fifth one. weird...
the thing is, i heard it was very, VERY different. not as good as the others, and very depressing. Arthurs all by himself...
Its called mostly harmless if you're still interested, but i was told not to read it, so maybe you shouldn't.
I read the salmon of doubt, and Douglas adams talks about how he was having a really bad year when he wrote it. He planned to write a 6th one, happy, and that had everyone in it...but he had to die like that....(CRY)
a heart attack on a treadmill(not sure if the treadmill part is true)
in 2001...
Quote from: randamonian on August 25, 2007, 08:33:59 PM
Yeah, they made four books into a large one, then cut the fifth one. weird...
the thing is, i heard it was very, VERY different. not as good as the others, and very depressing. Arthurs all by himself...
Its called mostly harmless if you're still interested, but i was told not to read it, so maybe you shouldn't.
I read the salmon of doubt, and Douglas adams talks about how he was having a really bad year when he wrote it. He planned to write a 6th one, happy, and that had everyone in it...but he had to die like that....(CRY)
a heart attack on a treadmill(not sure if the treadmill part is true)
in 2001...
Did you ever play the Hitchhiker's Guide Text Adventure PC Game? Hardest damn video game I've ever played.
No. I do want to see Starship Titanic though. It's another game he made.
Terry (something) wrote a book based on it. I want to get it.
But i can only get it from ebay, and my brothers never around and my sister got kicked out because she complained about something. (got a couple stories about they're ebay habits)
My grand mother made me read gone with the wind...and i loved it!! that was a awesome book. i love books that take place in that time. i am now going to read scarlet. but i hear it kinda sucks (its the sequel to gone with the wind)
i actually bought bees and flowers...they're always advertising that one in the E.S books. I had my suspicions that it was one and I checked as soon as I got it...but yes,...i did buy an R(mature) rated book. at fifteen. urrgh.... and i got away with it. I must say though...it would just be older teen..nothing really happens that would make it rate so badly. I keep buying books too old for me. My first manga(at 12) was 16+.
Damn, im sorry....this is not manga. however, im too lazy to do anything about it. sorry.
pretty good book though. Funny parts, i would get the next one. won't tell my sister the rating though...
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
i just finished scarlet and it was okay, but not as good as gone with the wind
I pretty much never read romance books, but now I am reading an old Harlequin titled The Grand Finale. Why? Because it's the ancient remaining copy the library has on it, and it was written by Janet Evanovich, now famous for her hilarious series about Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter.
And it's funny, too. The heroine has already attempted to deliver a pizza, climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, seen the male lead undressing hough the upstairs window, fallen out of the tree onto his pizza, and watched her pizza delivery vehicle roll over a cliff. And that's all in the first chapter.
Good stuff....
what else has that writer done. her name is familiar. or am i thinking of that prostitute from pretty woman, or something?
I got the print version of John Dies at the End by David Wong of www.pointlesswasteoftime.com (http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com) which is one of the best comedy sites out there.
The book's actually available to read online, but I don't want to kill my eyes
Quote from: randamonian on September 21, 2007, 04:09:15 AM
what else has that writer done. her name is familiar. or am i thinking of that prostitute from pretty woman, or something?
Like I said, she wrote the Stephanie Plum series.
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to get Deadly
Four to Score, etc. Lean Mean Thirteen just came out, and I had to wait for months to get the library audiobook of it.
It's a comedy/mystery series about an unemployed woman from New Jersey who goes to work as a bounty hunter for her cousin's bond office. Gun-totin' grannies, exploding cars, all sorts of fun.
It's good to read this old romance and hit patches of really lousy wriing from time to time. Gives me hope for my career as an author!
oh actually that does sound familiar. the bounty hunter. in fact, i may have read some but dont remember what happened.
hey i got excel saga 10 and 12 (its sooo cute!)
and more to the point - moonraker by ian flemming. i love james bond books!
haven't read it yet.
Im about to re-read the Devenchi Code (most for a class) and 1984. I am also working on creating my own original piece of literature. I want to post what I have so far in my creativity topic but I dont know how outside posting it line for line (and that would take hundreds of post to do ;;)
Quote from: starcat on September 23, 2007, 05:35:52 PM
I got and finished Making Money yesterday. Now I'm on to Monstrous Regiment. Both are by Terry Pratchett.
Monstrous regiment is possibly the worst book in the discworld series. I won't spoil it, but i'll say that it becomes more and more contrived as it goes on, especially the big reveals at the end. There are some good scenes once Vimes shows up though
Haven't read Monstrous Regiment but I also found Equal Rites very dull, but other than that I've never been displeased with a Pratchett novel. Some are definitely better than others, and I'm a big fan of Rincewind. Interesting Timesis perhaps my favorite of the Discworld series. The last Disc book I read was Thud, which was pretty good.
I quite like the Tiffany Aching ones, but also anything with Death in it prominently...I remember Soul Music being especially fun, and Reaper Man.
Reading the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne for AP Lit. It's really interesting, there's so much symbolism & imagery (are those the same? o_o).
dont eat this book - by morgan spurlock(that guy who made super size me). im sorta shocked about food in america - cause we dont have that many corporate farms. yet.
I simply cannot get enough of Thomas Harris. I've blazed through both Red Dragon and Black Sunday, and plan to read Silence of the Lambs soon. Do any fans of his know, did he write any books that aren't related to Hannibal Lecter (besides Black Sunday)?
I'm reading the following
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Confessor By Terry Goodkind, It's the last book in his Sword of Truth series.
Quote from: HA1L ILPALLAZZO on October 23, 2007, 05:43:06 AM
I'm reading the following
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Ah another Warhhamer fan :lordilsmile:. I'm currently reading the Ciaphas Cain series
Quote from: Necrominion on November 23, 2007, 09:37:55 AM
Quote from: HA1L ILPALLAZZO on October 23, 2007, 05:43:06 AM
I'm reading the following
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Ah another Warhhamer fan :lordilsmile:. I'm currently reading the Ciaphas Cain series
I haven't read that is it good?
It is, full of subtle humour...reminiscent of Tom Holt
what's the series about?
im reading 'miss smithers' by susan juby. good stuff. better than tweeny and teeny rubbish that passes for literature these days.
yeah, i heard about the television show, but i have serious doubts as to whether i'll ever, ever see it. it would take a while even if it came out on dvd. great book series. the end was slightly fuzzy. made me want more. did she end up with that...?
At the moment I'm reading "Cold Granite" (for the second time :D) by self-proclaimed "bearded crime write-ist", Stuart Macbride. Very gritty crime novel set in the city of Aberdeen, and yet also pretty funny in parts. Macbride has a good grasp of "gallows humour", it would seem :)
Finished reading these
WH40K: Dark Apostle and C&C Tiberium Wars
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and just got this in the mail
WH40K: DOW: Blood Ravens Omnibus
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i've been reading wodehouse.
honeysuckle cottage is probably the best short story i've ever read! it's like a satire of romantic stories where the hero is completely unwilling to be all shojo, so great.
but i'm mostly reading jeeves and wooster.
Quote from: BloodShed on May 02, 2008, 05:54:51 AM
Finished reading these
WH40K: Dark Apostle and C&C Tiberium Wars
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and just got this in the mail
WH40K: DOW: Blood Ravens Omnibus
Dark Apostle is a good read i really reccomend it, but was a bit disapointed with the Blood Ravens series. Current;y reading Tacitus at the moment, but nearly finished it and will soon get onto the Gaunts Ghosts series.
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Quote from: Necrominion on May 04, 2008, 02:44:46 AM
Dark Apostle is a good read i really reccomend it, but was a bit disapointed with the Blood Ravens series. Current;y reading Tacitus at the moment, but nearly finished it and will soon get onto the Gaunts Ghosts series.
the gaunts ghost series is a fantastic read but my faveourite is certainly Necropolis :ehail:
I'm currently reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
I'm rereading Heretics of Dune... sorta slowly.
Hehehehehe, oh man, I'm working on my thesis and my summer sources, so I'll just go down the list in order. *breathes in and...*
Pilgrim's Progress, Frankenstein (again), Gulliver's Travels (again), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing in America, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72', Hell's Angels, Generation of Swine (again)
That's required. Now, if I have time, I will also reach Reach (Halo novel) and Making Money (started it, but had to go to my academic reading).
Recently finished Chaucer's Love Visions, and Spencer's The Faerie Queen.
i love jules verne. i remember 6th grade, reading the journey to the centre of the earth.
im reading moby dick now. not a dark novel like i expected, good humor to it.
what are the halo novels like. whats the story?
Don't know yet, it'll be my first one, but I'll let you know if I can ever read it :D, but Reach is the story of what happened on Reach before the first game started, and introduces us to Sergeant Johnson. I figured it was a decent place to start since I couldn't find the first book of the primary trilogy.
The halo books were alright, but there are some better novels out there.
Oh I know there are, I'm a literature student after all, but I hope they're good enough for a fun read. Not everything one reads has to be Nobel prize winning material :).
I've been reading Catch-22. It's pretty funny although it's taking me forever to read. Once I finish that I'm going to read Dante's Inferno.
Dante's Inferno, or the Divine comedy is a good read. Depends on if you get the original format in seperate stanza's or the modern book form.
i breezed through catch 22 because i enjoyed it so much. i don't know why, but i wasn't confused with the timing, the flashbacks, how the story played out.
and with the halo books, the point of reading it is to get the whole background from the books. does it have the same 'feel' or atmoshphere as the games?
Yes they do, I must admit it. Although the book which covers the first game doesn't quite hit it. I think it was due to the fact you knew what was going to happen well before you read it.
That's why I am more interested in reading the Halo books that didn't have anything to do with the games themselves, but the more backstory ones. I generally don't expect much from books like those (like the Magic the Gathering books, which are almost always bloody awful), but my friends declare that "even I will like them." I'm a harsh critic on most things :P.
I've been re-reading some of the Holmes books recently.
I just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.
QuoteI just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.
I loved the MYTH series, but it doesn't age well, I tried rereading MYTH Inc. in action, but it just wasn't what I remembered.
Sorry, I am a bit of a boring old sod, I enjoy reading about the old disused and abandoned railways of the united kingdom
Currently reading my SIGNED copy of Anthony Horowitz' Snakehead.
Quote from: ElricJC on June 25, 2008, 05:44:28 AM
QuoteI just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.
I loved the MYTH series, but it doesn't age well, I tried rereading MYTH Inc. in action, but it just wasn't what I remembered.
I think the problem wis that at the begining it was Skeeve and Aahz doing funny "Road to.." like stuff. But as the series progressed and the cast got bigger, it became a lot less about those two getting out of situations by talking and more about Skeeve being an idiot.
Also a liked Tananda more than Bunny.
Quote from: Mullon on June 25, 2008, 05:52:16 PM
Quote from: ElricJC on June 25, 2008, 05:44:28 AM
QuoteI just reread the original MYTH Series by Robert Aspirin. Not as fun the second time around.
I loved the MYTH series, but it doesn't age well, I tried rereading MYTH Inc. in action, but it just wasn't what I remembered.
I think the problem wis that at the begining it was Skeeve and Aahz doing funny "Road to.." like stuff. But as the series progressed and the cast got bigger, it became a lot less about those two getting out of situations by talking and more about Skeeve being an idiot.
Also a liked Tananda more than Bunny.
Yeah, the whole flow got kind of old pretty fast, and the entertaining escapades became tiresome and rather juvenile as it became more about "watch Skeeve be a completely clueless moron."
Also, I second the Tananda > Bunny comment :).
MYTH? is that a story based on the computer games?
Quote from: randamonian on June 27, 2008, 02:52:54 AM
MYTH? is that a story based on the computer games?
No, it's a humorous fantasy series by Robert Aspirin. The titles are all puns, like "Little MYTH Marker" and "Hit or MYTH."
There are books based on Myst. I haven't read them though.
oh, it's myst? okay.
i am reading wodehouse's jeeves and wooster, finishing it.
No no no, you misunderstand. There's the MythAdventures Series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythAdventures) by Robert Aspirin (R.I.P.) and the series of books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myst_Reader) based on the unrelated game Myst. We were talking about the former.
Wow, I didn't even know Robert Aspirin was dead :(.
Right now I am reading two books, Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Again.
yeah, okay, i got it - i need glasses, i misread. myth, myst...
Reading the Horus Heresy series for warhammer 40k, managed to get all the books out at the moment for £30, thought it was a steal.
I just finished The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. It was good, but complicated.
I just finished the Innocent Mage and Awakened Mage by Karen Miller.
good soldier svejk by haser. i have a habit of reading long but easy to read books.
Do light novels count? lol If so then I am reading the first Strawberry Panic novel.
If not then I have yet to finish Dante's Inferno. I really need to finish it. So close...
man no one has replied in this topic for a while so here we go
I have just been reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (this is a massive read that could take me between a week or 2) it's a most enjoyable read which is full of facts and Hugo's personal opinions aswell as the main story of Jean Valjean and events in the book that happen will actually make you think more about things then most other books do. if you have seen the west end/broadway musical of the same name you know the basics of the story and also look out for the anime Les Miserables: Shoujo Cossette it is a must to look at (oh by the way if Carl Horn is reading this could he ask the nice people at Viz and Manga if they could bring the anime over to Britain and America please as it is a must see)
the story is of Jean Valjean as he leaves prison after 19 years for stealing some bread to feed his sister and her 7 children who are destitute. After being refused entry in some inns because of his yellow ticket of leave which he must show he is taken in by a bishop. During the night Valjean steals the bishops silverware except 2 candlestick holders. he is caught and bought before the bishop but the bishop then says that he gave him the silver and that in his rush he had forgotten the candlestick holders and also that he made the promise to better himself and help his fellow men I won't continue more as it is a massive book and includes more deatils then you think (or see in the shows) and I suggest you either borrow it from a library or buy it from a good bookstore
Eheh I think that Les Miserables will be my next reading, I'm discovering the classics, just finished in the last month Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Count of Montecristo" by Dumas. :)
The latest book ive finished is who's afraid of virginia wolf. A few things went over my head and overall i found some bits disturbing, it was pretty good.
Also my brother got 50 animorph books and some of the megamorphs at a used bookstore for $1 each (50c American) and they're in great condition. loved these books when i was younger so being able to read almost the entire series is pretty special. Still only on the first book, started last night.
I just started reading a borrowed copy of "When will Jesus bring the pork chops?", by George Carlin.
I own "Brain Droppings" as well as "Napalm & Silly Putty", both are great.
E^D
I'm reading H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" - It's a cool read, really deeply told, and very technically written (using many terms and such)
It's more like reading a logbook of their journey...
It's translated in Danish though, i'd like to read the original english version...
Live, dead thread!! Apparently us manga kids do not bother with pages without pictures much. :il_hahaha: I kid, I kid.
Anyhow, I am going to try to convince you all to read Christopher Moore, as I was trying to do in chat earlier XD
http://www.chrismoore.com/books.html (http://www.chrismoore.com/books.html)
If the titles alone don't make you laugh, you are a bad person.
Moore's a great satirist... just like our dear Rikdo!
Haha, this post has been brought to you by Pample re-reading "Lamb".
Old railway line books at the moment, one of my little hobbies of sorts
After taking several years to finish Tales of the South Pacific, i finally did it. Melancholic ending, but is that not what war novels are about?
And reading Moby Dick.
Currently reading "Naked Lunch". The non-linear and stream of consciousness style of the book is sort of mind numbing and reads more like frantic poetry rather than a novel, but overall the metaphors and characters along with the atmosphere that the books creates are very nice. I'm really surprised that a person could come up with such ugly yet strong imagery around 1959. I'm sort of tempted to read some more of Burroughs' work...even if it does hurt my brain :D
I'm not reading any non-manga fiction at the moment, but reading about economics and the recent financial meltdown is pretty close!
FREEFALL - America, Free Markets, And The Sinking of The World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
I'm reading this at the moment
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followed by this
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I don't know whether I'll sleep tonight or not
read some oscar wilde. The picture of Dorian Gray was very good.
Currently reading Pride and Prejudice. Suprised to find out Darcy's more of a jerk than the one movie i saw, which was Bride and Prejudice, with a loosely related plot. That just makes me like him, since books in that time period seem so, i don't know, sappy/innocent?
Read some pre clone wars star wars book I got for my birthday about 2 years ago, my opinion crap, arrgh the only thing good about it was it did introduce some bloke who makes an appearance in the post new hope books, admiral thrawn or thawn, not to sure on the spelling.
I've been reading through the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher. Very good series for fans of fantasy, suspense, and detective stories. He's a huge gamer geek, and a lot of that humor comes through his books, but he's also just a very good story teller, and Harry Dresden is a great character. There are some flaws in the early books, mistakes common to young writers, but it wouldn't be as popular as it is without a strong following. Currently reading book V, Death Masks.
Didn't know there is a topic like that.
Well, it took several months for me to get throug the first two books of Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, "the man with no qualities". I thought I'm done with the difficult stuff and read Lovecraft's horror stories. Even if I don't like that kind of stuff, I admit he is good... but anyway, I realized that's not my kind of thing and here I am, reading Toistoi's War and Peace. Hate the frensh parts, but beside that it's going on pretty well.
Plus, I can brag about reading another piece of so called great literature :lordilsmile:
I'm ploughing through all five parts of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, as I didn't read them all the way through when I was a teenager. Hardly a challenging read, which is a good thing really as I don't have a huge amount of time anyway.
Can anyone reccommend some good Terry Pratchett books? I keep meaning to try out his stuff and never get around to it.
Hell yeah, Pratchett is great, and as for which ones to read, I suppose it depends on what series sounds most interesting. His best works involve the City Watch (Guards! Guards!, Night Watch, Feet of Clay, with the best so far being Thud!), then my personal favorite Rincewind and his follies (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, Interesting Times, and The Last Continent). His first book, The Colour of Magic, is pretty weak, but he definitely improves quickly after that. Also the series involving the witches is pretty good (Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, a few others) and several stand-alone works that don't feature returning characters (Small Gods was really funny, for instance). Otherwise, check out Good Omens, which he wrote in cooperation with Neil Gaiman. One reviewer said that it read like the Book of Revelations if it had been written by Monty Python. Good shit.
^ I absolutely agree!
A really good summary is at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld)
'far from the Madding crowd' and 'the adventures of sherlock holmes'.
Cheers people. Very helpful :e_pleased:
Did anyone see that show the BBC put on about him and his troubles with Alzheimer's? It was sad.
Quote from: incarta on August 18, 2010, 09:53:35 AM
Cheers people. Very helpful :e_pleased:
Did anyone see that show the BBC put on about him and his troubles with Alzheimer's? It was sad.
Didn't see it, but it is sad. I've read all his books, I think. It would be great to be met with Terry Pratchett's version of the Grim Reaper when I die. My favorite Discworld books featured him and/or his daughter Susan. Reaper man was great, and Soul Music, and Hogfather. They even made a reasonably decent movie of Hogfather.
By the way, I find it hard to read a Pratchett book without wanting to underline every great quotation. :il_hahaha:
Sad also to read a page back that Robert Asprin is dead. I practically grew up on Myth Adventures and Phule's Company.
On a brighter note, I am currently reading the newest book in the Temeraire series. (I forget the title) It's a series that starts with 'His Majesty's Dragon', and is a sort of alternate history of the Napoleonic war era, except that they have dragons. So, something like a cross between Horatio Hornblower and the Pern books! The main characters are Captain Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire. Excellent reading, by Naomi Novik.
My God, I had no idea he has Alzheimer's! That is awful news, I can't believe it :(.
books about railways existed before beeching had his way with them.
Alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass. Wonderful sense of wit in these books even though they're intended for children. It's nice to see kids not being talked down to.
Finished Jane Eyre.