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Farted by WrenchClock, March 01, 2013, 05:16:52 AM

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WrenchClock

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!
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WrenchClock

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.

Slurpee

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.

SoBe Clock

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.

WrenchClock

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

patriotclock

i finally got back to A Dance With Dragons after like5 months of not touching it

BoomStick Clock



what can I say, I'm fascinated by this shit.

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK

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.

Slurpee

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/

PhantomCatClock

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

buttplug


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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?
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Lump Clock

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.

WrenchClock

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.

RobClock

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.

PhantomCatClock

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.

WrenchClock

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.

WrenchClock

WOAH WOAH ACTUALLY
TREASURE ISLAND IS FREE ON THE KINDLE MARKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PaperClipClock

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!