Book Thread

Jubilation · Post by **Jubilation** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:32 pm

I like Pride and Prejudice, but wouldn't wanna read any more of her books.

isildur · Post by **isildur** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:36 pm

Well I already know that you're an exceedingly silly person.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:17 pm

uh, you're both silly

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:41 pm

Doom wrote:I saw the Life of Pi in the bookstore and read the back cover. It seemed weird !

It's a French Canadian book. If it wasn't weird it would be a gigantic failure.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:48 pm

It's not even weird. It should be a failure because it's french canadian.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:40 am

speaking of canadian authors i read in the skin of a lion at some point

i never thought i could find anything set in toronto interesting!

i also enjoyed the english patient!!! which i read first

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:47 am

Last "book" I picked up was Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It's a delicious graphic novel which I have read about 12 times now.

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:20 am

I bought the second book in Shannara series, that Elfstones one. This reminds me of that other god damn series that each book is self-contained for the most part, but has the same characters.. the Sword of Truth, that's it.

Reminds me of that, only better.

Kage · Post by **Kage** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:24 am

David eddings. A friend of mine swear by it.

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:30 am

SHAKESMOTHERFUCKINGSPEARE, PPL.

Hamlet

... Julius Ceasar

Seifer Almasy · Post by **Seifer Almasy** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:06 am

Well I havn't honestly picked up a book to read recreationally in years. Somehow I managed to bullshit my way through highschool english.

Anyway, rescently I've had a newfound interest in persuing reading again, so I went into chapters and bought the Lord of the Rings as well as another 3 book set of tolkein books including the Hobbit. One of those three books is called Roverandom and so I started with that one just the other night but I'm still on the prologue. Apparantly it's a tolkein family story that kept getting expanded and evnetually written down and rewritten a few times. Supposed to be quite vivid and imaginative. I'll let you know how it was.

I'm kinda excited about getting back into reading, I've been missing out on alot and I'm only sorry I've realized it this late.

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:15 pm

Abe wrote:SHAKESMOTHERFUCKINGSPEARE, PPL.

Hamlet
... Julius Ceasar

Yeah, I have no desire to re-live my highschool reading schedule right now. I hope he doesn't have any other mysterious works lying about because I read and own like.. all of them. Fuck AP British Literature and Poetry.

Although Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is possibly the funniest movie ever.

Raederle · Post by **Raederle** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:47 am

For those who don't wanna go through all of Tolkien's details:

The Silmarillion in a Thousand Words

Hi, elves! Wanna learn some cool stuff?

Sky Rendezvous · Post by **Sky Rendezvous** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:09 am

Ha, I wonder if Robert Jordan knows where his story is going. It's a fantastic set of books, and I love them, ut they can be tiresome. I've read through the nine books once, and then again for the tenth book. So yeah, I said good bye to one and a half years there.

Other authors I really like include Terry Brooks and David Eddings.

Terry Brooks was the first author whose books I read, and that at an early age, So they will always have a special place in my heart. The first three are exceptional, and I still think the latest development in the series is great. I've read Jarka Ruus and just bought Tanequil the other day.

I can't read that until I'm finished with David Eddings. David Eddings is probably my favorite author, though its very close between those aforementioned three. I've read all of his books many times over, and am halfway between the Tamuli trilogy at the moment. After that I'm going after Redemption of Althalus. I'm awaiting the second book to the Elder Gods.

Other recommended authors include Salavatore, Greenwood (which I'm suprised didn't appear on the other chaps list of Canadian authors), and Weis/Hickman, though I haven't read all of these guys' books, in contrast to my having read the first three authors' books several times over.

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:16 am

I personally am finding The Elfstones to be a pretty disappointing sequel.

Sky Rendezvous · Post by **Sky Rendezvous** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:29 am

I first read it when I was ten, so I'd be hard pressed to find fault with it, it having that special place in my heart and all.

1. How far are you in the book?
2. I liked the wishsong better

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:55 am

I always found elfstones much harder to get into than the other two in that trilogy

Xephonic · Post by **Xephonic** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:21 pm

Dark Tower VII was XD ;_;

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:17 pm

Sky Rendezvous wrote:I first read it when I was ten, so I'd be hard pressed to find fault with it, it having that special place in my heart and all.

1. How far are you in the book?
2. I liked the wishsong better

A few (about 10) chapters.

Personally I like the prequel the best so far.

iamsheep · Post by **iamsheep** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:18 pm

Edding's recent release are getting worst worst, but his first two series i would recommand to keep. see althalus

i am hoping the dreamers will be worth reading

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:25 pm

my favourite shannara books were the heritage of shannara series

Jubilation · Post by **Jubilation** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:46 pm

If you like old Eddings (Belgariad, Mallorean) DO NOT read Dreamers. It really isn't a patch on his early stuff. I was very disappointed by the first book, and have the second but haven't felt inspired to start it. Such a shame, because I love Eddings, and the aforementioned series are two of my favourite in literature.

isildur · Post by **isildur** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:40 pm

I've got the best of Jane Austen with my old faithful buddy sparknotes. Hehe!

Raederle · Post by **Raederle** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:57 pm

You know, my mom has a ton of Eddings books, but I think I've yet to read any of them.

Jubilation · Post by **Jubilation** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:39 pm

Read The Belgariad!! Gogogogo!

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:40 pm

But....Eddings....sucks.....

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:42 pm

isildur wrote:I've got the best of Jane Austen with my old faithful buddy sparknotes. Hehe!

Sparknotes helped me a lot in first year when I couldn't be bothered to read the red badge of courage

dem · Post by **dem** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:34 pm

I'm currently reading The French Executioner by C.C. Humphreys. It's an imagined story about the executioner, Jean Rombaud; the man who beheaded Anne Boleyn for Henry VIII. In this imagined version, Jean promises Anne that he'll also cut off her six-fingered hand and bury it at a crossroads in France where she was born. The book actually begins after that with Jean being imprisoned by Archbishop Giancarlo Cibo who witnessed him secretly cutting off Anne's hand. He wants the hand for himself because he believes it to be a powerful relic. Then the book moves from there.

I'm slightly less than halfway finished and so far it's pretty good.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:35 pm

Red Badge of Courage

dem · Post by **dem** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 11:54 pm

Oh and I also plan on reading:

Kiss me, Judas
Penny Dreadful
Hell's Half Acre

Those books are a trilogy by Will Christopher Baer and supposedly they are pretty twisted and fucked up; very Palahniuk-esque(in fact I heard about them on Chuck's website).

From Amazon:

In his extremely dark but very effective first thriller, former cabdriver and homeless counselor Will Christopher Baer takes that old urban legend of the man who wakes up in a hotel bathtub full of ice to discover that somebody has removed one of his kidneys and whips it up into a modernized Edgar Allan Poe nightmare. Baer's hero is in fact called Phineas Poe--an ex-cop who spent six years digging up dirt in and on the Denver P.D.'s Internal Affairs Division. On his first night out after a nervous breakdown and a six-month stay in a psychiatric hospital, Poe is picked up by a prostitute named Jude who drugs his drink and deftly removes his kidney.

Poe heads for the Witch's Teat, a sex shop where his friend Crumb works. "Crumb isn't really a doctor. He does cheap abortions and gunshot wounds and even dental work for the mad and desperate," Baer writes in deceptively plain present-tense prose, which quickly mesmerizes like electronic music. "Crumb reads a lot. He has a closet full of old surgical textbooks and a lot of stolen equipment. And he doesn't try to fake you. If you come to him with a ruptured bowel or a crushed spine, he gives you a cup of tea and sends you to the hospital." Poe learns that his kidney has been replaced by a bag of heroin--which could kill him if it dissolves. Intent on retrieving his stolen organ, he traces Jude to a bowling alley called the Inferno. Strangely enough, with Jude he reluctantly discovers the chance of love and family that he thought was gone forever when his wife died. In lesser hands, this flash of light in a roomful of noir could easily have spoiled everything. But Baer makes it all seem as natural as whistling in the dark.

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:43 am

Spark Notes

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:49 pm

Doom wrote:Red Badge of Courage

Exactly

EDIT:Nevermind.wtf is happening with my computer?

Raederle · Post by **Raederle** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:08 pm

I think I need to send Jub Riddle-Master.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:18 pm

j0hn Ayanami wrote:Spark Notes

book-a-minute > sparknotes >>>>>>>>>>>>>> u

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:06 pm

If I wanted to use something that condensed a book and got things wrong, I'd watch the movie version, plz kthx.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:35 pm

Summaries != analyses

ShadowDrgn · Post by **ShadowDrgn** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:50 pm

pinkmonkey.com got me through high school English classes. Sparknotes are total crap.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:02 pm

pinkmonkey

the suck

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:10 pm

I started working at chapters !

on sunday billy corgan is going to be there?!?!?!??!

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:19 am

How about reading the book

That's what I did!

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:20 am

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:30 am

no u.

AMERICA TEH BOOK. READ IT.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:36 am

Amen.

CDestroyer · Post by **CDestroyer** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:56 am

I recently finished Nemesis, by Isaac Asimov, and then I finished 2 more Haruki Murakami books (Norwegian Wood and The Elephant Vanishes). Nemises was pretty good, though I thought was a little predictable. Haruki Murakami was excellent, as usual.

I just started the Dune series a few days ago.

Ikari · Post by **Ikari** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:56 am

Currently reading Trump's "How to get Rich" and Pete Rose's "My Prison Behind Bars". That'll be 2 books more than I've read my whole life!

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:15 am

I would highly suggest Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Its so well written, though the subject matter is a rather strange choice, it just makes it all the more interesting.

A book I would not suggest would have to be White Noise by Don DeLilio, I had to read it for AP Lit, it really was a waste of time. Not worth the time and effort to read the book.

And for Classical reading, I just started on Caesar's Bello Gallica, thats good too.

The Complete Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne looks really interesting, I just read the first couple of pages, and it seems rather promising.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:50 am

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... hanks_dc_4

tom hanks as langdon ;O

Kage · Post by **Kage** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:56 am

Rereading "Da Vinci Code" Dan Brown.

B0N3M4N · Post by **B0N3M4N** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:24 pm

About a million years ago I bought Paradise Lost after a recommendation in these here forums. When it arrived, it was a little shock as I had known nothing about the book, especially not that it is a 300 page poem. Right now I'm done with the first chapter and have to say that I like it a lot, apart from the fact that it's really exhausting for a non-native English speaker.

Books on my bookshelf that I'm planning to read in the near future include

Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby
Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time
Terry Pratchett - The Truth
Clive Barker - Imagica

Orson Scott Card - Xenocide

Orson Scott Card - Children of the Mind

Cervantes - Don Quixote (in German)
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Susan Orlean - The Orchid Thief (After seeing Adaption this is a must)
Brent Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction
Sten Nadolny - Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Stephen King - Bag of Bones
Chuck Palahniuk - Diary

Douglas Coupland - Hey Nostradamus

Books that I would recommend (and which I have read just recently):

Philip K. Dick - The Minority Report and other Classic Short Stories
I don't know whether this is the best Dick short story collection, because it seems to have been published right after the movie as a money cow but for me it did the trick. I was intrigued how innovative the stories were especially considering that popular science fiction was quite young back in Dick's time. Being used to stories with a twist in the end, like newer science fiction short stories often present I was initially a bit disappointed because every story seemed to lack something in the end. But soon I got used to it and was able to appreciate the book for what it really is. All in all I loved the book and finished it within days.

Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
This book has been mentioned here, so I'll cut it short. It's brilliant. The nine stories start with an introduction into the laws of robotics which Asimov invented and story by story shed light on flaws these laws can have. Each story has its own twist on the laws and builds up on the one before. I found it impressive that throughout the nine stories Asimov managed to create a new problem with no relation to the ones before so the reader could puzzle what went wrong this time. For the record: I liked the movie although it was pretty generic action. I think it can be best interpreted as a 10th story in the I, Robot saga, although I am aware that the characters' age does not fit into the timeline of the book. And I agree with whoever posted that it would have worked better as a high budget TV series.

William Gibson - Neuromancer
Another brilliant classic. The book that singlehandedly invented the Cyberpunk genre. Innovative, gripping, detailed as hell and well-written. I read the last third of it in one sitting. I can't find the words to describe what exactly I loved so much, probably sentences like this one: "Night city was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button." So if you're into science fiction you probably already know the book, if not, put it on your wishlist now!

EDIT: On a related note, right now I'm totally hooked on Saikano. No Manga has moved me so much since Battle Angel Alita

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:04 pm

hey guys does anyone here read anymore

Square Gamer

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