Because pretty much the only other thread in this subforum is about Homestuck so I'm disgusted in all of you
Discuss what book(s) you have just bought and what you are reading!!!
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I'm only about 70 pages in, but this is a great book. It is about a city in Australia that gets filled with three feet of man eating jam. As I read it, I can sort of pretend in my head that the characters in the book are the same characters from Shawn of the Dead, I don't really know why :P It is also great that they spend literally no time at all grieving about the dead, or getting all emotionally worked up, they just say "Frank got eaten by the jam" and get on with their lives.
So, in short, a very original book, great humor, and I love all the characters. Favorite book of the year so far. Read it!
Ooh I wanted to look at that one but I wasn't sure if Croshaw was any good as a writer. Is it written in his usual snarky Yahtzee voice or does he go for something different?
I'm 20% (KINDLE KINDLE) of the way through Life of Pi and the minute and I'm enjoying it so far even though not much has happened yet. The colourful description of the zoo at the start and the discussions of religion are really nice.
Quote from: WrenchClock;1940787Because pretty much the only other thread in this subforum is about Homestuck so I'm disgusted in all of you
A million years ago I posted a thread about Agota Kristoff's Notebook trilogy and nobody even deigned to make so much as a perfunctory "sounds nifty." I decided to enjoy books on my lonesome.
I'm currently in the process of heavily annotating highlighting and bookmarking The Brothers Karamazov by Fyoder Dostoyevsky, drunkenly recommended to me by a friend when I inquired about his reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved.
They have just begun to make the company of the elder Zosima, and Fyoder Pavlovich's behavior is reminding me starkly of BB10.
I am also reading A Confederacy of Dunces (I think Ignatius just masturbated to a hallucination of his childhood dog? what is this book), American Gods (Shadow, who I am picturing as Javier Bardem, has just made the acquaintance of Mama Ji, who I believe is an incarnation of a Hindu Goddess, because that was the name of Paras's mother in X-men Lgeacy), The Pilgrim's Progress (Pliable just bailed out at the swamp of sadness or whatever. idrk this book is getting a little heavy handed), and the third Artemis Fowl book, fuck if I can remember what it's called (the human businessman that I'm picturing as Sam Rockwell just stole the magic box, and Holly is going to a pizza place at Stonehenge or something).
Books are gay, kids, play more videogames
edit: Oh speaking of gay I'm also rereading Maurice by E.M. Forster. I didn't think of that because it's not on my iPad. Hall has just become obsessed with Durham. The prose is thick with meaningful metaphor. This book is a bold, beautiful, and accurate statement about human sexuality in western culture, and it's a shame it went unpublished for six decades. I'm sure it could have been a great comfort and inspiration for many homosexuals in the 20th century.
I'm reading Moby Dick at the moment. I've read it once before but it's been so long that I decided to do so again.
Quote from: Slurpee;1940809edit: Oh speaking of gay I'm also rereading Maurice by E.M. Forster. I didn't think of that because it's not on my iPad. Hall has just become obsessed with Durham. The prose is thick with meaningful metaphor. This book is a bold, beautiful, and accurate statement about human sexuality in western culture, and it's a shame it went unpublished for six decades. I'm sure it could have been a great comfort and inspiration for many homosexuals in the 20th century.
sounds nifty Gotta put this one on my list. Haven't read many novels concerning sexuality
Quote from: SoBe Clock;1940810I'm reading Moby Dick at the moment. I've read it once before but it's been so long that I decided to do so again.
Shit I keep promising myself I'll finish reading that but then I get distracted by another easier book
i finally got back to A Dance With Dragons after like5 months of not touching it
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what can I say, I'm fascinated by this shit.
Unfortunately I have not been reading much literature lately. Gir sent me John Dies at the End so I'm gonna read that pretty soon. I also started Wizardy Herbert and the Mobius Slipknot but it's an unfinished book which will never be finished which is just adsfasdfasdfasdf.
Quote from: Slurpee;1940809A million years ago I posted a thread about Agota Kristoff's Notebook trilogy and nobody even deigned to make so much as a perfunctory "sounds nifty." I decided to enjoy books on my lonesome.
I didnt know these were in english actually, I wanna read these.
Quote from: FloundermanClock;1940860Unfortunately I have not been reading much literature lately. Gir sent me John Dies at the End so I'm gonna read that pretty soon.
I didnt know these were in english actually, I wanna read these.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Notebook-Proof-Third-Lie/dp/0802135064/
I just got a Kindle so I've been reading an assload of the free books. Mostly explorer's diaries from 1700-1930ish. Plan: never go exploring in Australia. Been reading a lot of people's memoirs of the Navy, too, much to the chagrin of my recruiter. Apparently I'm learning a lot of things that are no longer relevant instead of reading my fifteen page START guide and getting ready for Boob Camp
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Quote from: WrenchClock;1940790Ooh I wanted to look at that one but I wasn't sure if Croshaw was any good as a writer. Is it written in his usual snarky Yahtzee voice or does he go for something different?
I'm 20% (KINDLE KINDLE) of the way through Life of Pi and the minute and I'm enjoying it so far even though not much has happened yet. The colourful description of the zoo at the start and the discussions of religion are really nice.
What do you mean by snarky?
I am reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I am on chapter eighteen of twenty-four (or maybe twenty-five? I can't be bothered to check...) chapters. It is a great read, nothing at all like the movies (except maybe the monster's portrayal in Van Helsing, ironically), which is pleasantly surprising.
I am, also, reading the suicide note of Mitchel Heisman, a one-thousand nine-hundred five page note he sent to four-hundred some odd people. It is widely regarded as the most significant piece of philosophical literature in the twenty-first century, thus far. I am on page sixty which is in Chapter 2: God is Technology.
I'm nearrrlllyyy halfway through Life of Pi and I've only just got to the bit where the boat sinks, I honestly expected it to happen a lot earlier.
I recently bought a ton of the Warcraft books. I'm just after finishing Day of the Dragon, The Chronicles of War Archive (Rise of the Horde, The Last Guardian, Tides of Darkness, & Beyond the Dark Portal), and I'm half way through the second book in the War of the Ancients Trilogy. Still to read is; Stormrage, Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects, and Wolfheart. Sofar none of the books have been very challenging reads, but as a fan of the Warcraft franchise, I can't help but enjoy them.
Aside from all that, I started picking up the new Thor comic series, and the first 5 issues had a little story arch which i enjoyed.
Two hundred E-mails from Amazon later, each one congratulating me on a successful purchase of a single free Kindle book and dozens of recommendations for books that cost $10, I really wish there was a cart/checkout method for buying these E-books. I mean, I get it, but those of us who didn't plan on spending any money anyway aren't going to lose track.
Finissshed Life of Pi.
I'm guessing the story with the animals is the true one. I don't want the whole book to be "just a dream" :(
Anyhoo, starting Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tonight. I'm a huge fan of the film adaptation.
WOAH WOAH ACTUALLY
TREASURE ISLAND IS FREE ON THE KINDLE MARKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Lump Clock;1940914I am, also, reading the suicide note of Mitchel Heisman, a one-thousand nine-hundred five page note he sent to four-hundred some odd people. It is widely regarded as the most significant piece of philosophical literature in the twenty-first century, thus far. I am on page sixty which is in Chapter 2: God is Technology.
WOW i can't believe a 13 year old wrestling over the concept of nihilism in philos 101 has this title!
"If reason is incapable of deducing ultimate, nonarbitrary
human ends, and nothing can be judged as ultimately more important than anything else,then freedom is equal to
slavery; cruelty is equal to kindness; love is equal to hate;
war is equal to peace; dignity is equal to contempt;
destruction is equal to creation; life is equal to death and
death is equal to life."
are you kidding me? how embarrassing for him!
-The Great Gatsby (again)
-The Lathe of Heaven (again)
-The Casual Vacancy (when I can)
-A bunch of poetry
-A bunch of comic books
-A bunch of other random stuff for school
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herman hesse- siddhartha(again x 2)
+The Awakening (again)
+The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
+Still a lot of poetry and comic books and random school stuff
Could anyone recommend me any really good contemporary adventure novels? I'm hungry for some page travellin'
I'm reading The Elegant Universe right now. Getting a head start on physics ;)
I am in the process of WGetting this directory (http://ny.iadicicco.com/Finished/20,000%20Ebooks/) and it is looking like it'll be done in time for Christmas.
Naturally, I'm going to go through and delete the non-Public Domain ones because I am a normal Internet-user
Got myself some British history books; Historia Brittonum, and The History of the Kings of Britain.
:tophat:
Just got a Franz Kafka anthology for my kindle, haven't read Metamorphisis for a while
-Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
Quote from: OcarinaClock;1944681herman hesse- siddhartha(again x 2)
Quote from: WrenchClock;1946935Just got a Franz Kafka anthology for my kindle, haven't read Metamorphisis for a while
Excellent choices.
Quote from: DiscoBallClock;1946936Excellent choices.
I like Gregor's reaction to waking up as a giant bug.
I'm going to be late for work!
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I got really anxious reading it back and forward frantically searching for what what the insect thing is supposed to be a metaphor for, since his really underwhelmed reaction led me to believe he wasn't actually a bug or something :shrug:
Quote from: WrenchClock;1947205I got really anxious reading it back and forward frantically searching for what what the insect thing is supposed to be a metaphor for, since his really underwhelmed reaction led me to believe he wasn't actually a bug or something :shrug:
It's a critique regarding the non-acceptance of Gregor's family to change, or in broader terms, something that isn't familiar. Kafka wants to criticize how someone who once was regarded as family is suddenly ostracizised on account of his change. He's basically saying that Gregor's family's love is bullshit (probably because of his own daddy issues), though that could be extended on a wider scale if you compare the family to society as a whole, since they are so unreceptive to different things.
Aaahhh, I thought it was something like that. The Judgement is all about the father issues too.
Quote from: WrenchClock;1947239Aaahhh, I thought it was something like that. The Judgement is all about the father issues too.
A lot of Kafka's work can be traced back to father issues. It's his thing
Is it weird that in "The Judgement" when he mentioned how his bathrobe-wearing father is "still a giant" I thought he was talking about his dad's dick? Some Freud business there, Georg.
I was interested in giving The Punisher comics a look, and rather than jump into the currently ongoing series, since the comic store had it, I bought this five issue miniseries called Punisher Nightmare. The basic plot was The Punisher vs. some afghan vet with regenerative superpowers. It wasn't exactly awful, but if it's par for the course with the ongoing comics I'm not sure It sold me on the series.
Been creeping through the Kafka anthology really slowly between doing my own writing work, so I've only just arrived at Act III of The Metamorphosis.
I'm really seeing how Kafka projects his own anxieties onto his characters. Samsa's fear of his father trying to kill him and his need to cling onto the human memories in his possessions (the painting) made me feel genuinely upset.
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Grabbed this for $1. Fuck yeah.
+ The Fall of Arthur - J.R.R. Tolkien
Cat In The Hat Comes Back
It's about these two kids whose negligent mother keep leaving them home alone to do chores despite reoccurring home invasions.
just tore through Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Stranger in a strange land is awesome
Quote from: Heliopios;1949180Stranger in a strange land is awesome
Great book
I do not grok
Got a few things on the go
-The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
-Hammer of Darkness by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
-Conan by Robert E. Howard
Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut [Misadventures in the counterculture] by Paul Krassner
Cannabis and the Soma Solution by Chris Bennett
Pot Stories for the Soul by Paul Krassner (updated for a stoned America)
So I just discovered Weird Tales magazine (famed for contributions by HP Lovecraft and Robert E Howard) is still around. I've bought a couple of issues and they're pretty good.
I just finished reading Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad
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and am mostly through Grendel which I can't believe I had never heard of until recently
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and I ordered this off of Amazon: 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
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the first two are legitimately interesting, the third one I plan on using in my classes
also some flannery o'connor compilation is sitting on my nightstand that I keep meaning to read but probably never will
My reading backlog's got several volumes of Yotsuba&! and The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation on it. I'm sure i'd enjoy them if I actually got around to reading...
Quote from: KeyClock;195514919 Ways of Looking at Wang
Pffft, only 19?
I finally got around to watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and now that stilted preconceptions have been established, and the story is spoiled- fresh in my mind, I got the novel out at the library. Gonna start on that tonight.
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The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism by Michael Oakeshott
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Great combo I guess.
The Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
yay college
Gonna start Stephen King's The Dead Zone soon, it's been sitting on my shelf unread for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages
Quote from: WrenchClock;1964989Gonna start Stephen King's The Dead Zone soon, it's been sitting on my shelf unread for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages
I call myself a King fan and I have like half of his books sitting around, unread.
Currently:
Kiss of the Spider Woman
I'm reading through The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
I will be reading both
The Crying of Lot 49 and
Blood Meridian over winter break
Quote from: SoBe Clock;1964995I'm reading through The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
How is this? I have heard good things from a friend of mine but his taste is pretty different than mine and I haven't read any easy fun books in forever
I keep forgetting to popst here.
Since Kiss:
The Casual Vacancy
Billions and Billions
Suck It, Wonder Woman!
America's Best Short Stories 2013
Death by Black Hole
And now I'm catching up on the 100+ issues of comic books that have been piling up these last few months.
Finished that giant stack of comics. And just finished The Catcher in the Rye for the first time. Now to tackle a smaller stack of comics before moving on to another N.D. Tyson book.
Started Dune for some terrible reason. Going to stick with it but at the beginning it just sorta feels like work.
Quote from: Sombra;1971343Started Dune for some terrible reason. Going to stick with it but at the beginning it just sorta feels like work.
That's one of those kinds of books that I always tell myself I'll get around to reading "eventually," but mostly because I feel like I should, not because I'm burning to do it.
Just finished
Lolita, now catching up on comic books before I get into reading some stuff for my thesis.
Quote from: Losperman;1971350Just finished Lolita,
How did you like it? I grabbed it on a recommendation but still haven't worked through it myself. Does he focus into one time period or does he just kinda keep skipping around like he does at the beginning?
Quote from: Losperman;1971350now catching up on comic books before I get into reading some stuff for my thesis.
Ooh, what are you going for?
Quote from: Sombra;1971351How did you like it? I grabbed it on a recommendation but still haven't worked through it myself. Does he focus into one time period or does he just kinda keep skipping around like he does at the beginning?
I liked it a lot. It's beautifully written. The middle section gets a bit rambly and boring, but it wasn't a deal breaker for me.
QuoteOoh, what are you going for?
A master's in English with a focus on literature and film.
Quote from: Sombra;1971343Started Dune for some terrible reason.
Well, urine luck. If you're never seen the movie, someone recently
uploaded the entire thing to YouTube. Hurry before it gets blocked!
Quote from: Losperman;1971350That's one of those kinds of books that I always tell myself I'll get around to reading "eventually," but mostly because I feel like I should, not because I'm burning to do it.
Just finished Lolita, now catching up on comic books before I get into reading some stuff for my thesis.
hey, what comics do you read? also, do you sell any comix? :o
oh, and: losperman(and everyone else in this thread) does anyone here has a good book to suggest for me?
i like anything, as long as it is enjoyable and with a good pace.
(also, i would love some medieval novel, and i already got umberto eco's, and italo calvino's works.
Quote from: BilliardBall10;1971379hey, what comics do you read? also, do you sell any comix? :o
Oh, lawd. My pull list is pretty long at the moment. Batman. Batman and Robin. The Dark Knight. Detective Comics. Catwoman. Worlds' Finest. Superman. Action Comics. Supergirl. Batman/Superman. Superman/Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman. Justice League. Justice. League of America. Justice League United. Justice League Dark. Trinity of Sin: Pandora. Harley Quinn. Forever Evil. Batgirl. Batwoman. Batman Eternal. Birds of Prey. Nightwing. Earth 2. Futures End.
And... I think that might be it.
And I don't have anything to sell. :(
Quoteoh, and: losperman(and everyone else in this thread) does anyone here has a good book to suggest for me?
i like anything, as long as it is enjoyable and with a good pace.
Have you read
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It's the book that
Blade Runner was based on. A bit different than the movie, but it's one of my favorite books.
Quote from: PhantomCatClock;1971356Well, urine luck. If you're never seen the movie, someone recently uploaded the entire thing to YouTube. Hurry before it gets blocked!
lol, all I've seen from it is
this gem.
Quote from: BilliardBall10;1971379does anyone here has a good book to suggest for me?
i like anything, as long as it is enjoyable and with a good pace.
(also, i would love some medieval novel, and i already got umberto eco's, and italo calvino's works.
Czech out The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett sometime if you get the chance. It's one of the few books I've read that I'd truly consider "epic" in the classic sense; it goes through entire lifetimes of some characters and goes from deeply personal spotlights on individual characters to almost an entire society when ideas/ themes are put together.
Quote from: Losperman;1971385Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It's the book that Blade Runner was based on. A bit different than the movie, but it's one of my favorite books.
about the comics, ok. no problem
also, good suggestion, i like phillip k. dick's books, (and movies) but i never got around to read one, thanks for the suggestion!
Quote from: Sombra;1971388Czech out The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett sometime if you get the chance. It's one of the few books I've read that I'd truly consider "epic" in the classic sense; it goes through entire lifetimes of some characters and goes from deeply personal spotlights on individual characters to almost an entire society when ideas/ themes are put together.
thats good. thanks for the suggestion, sombra!
what else do you suggest/what book is your favorite? i personally love baudolino by umberto eco, and i enjoyed the island of the day before again by eco.
also, i really liked ''the brothers kipp'' from jules verne.