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reading takes so long... movies ftw -_-
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Lollita by Vladimir Nabokov
Just finished Perfume by Patrick Suskind
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I'm reading D-Day, but Stephen Ambrose.
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A Street Fighter FAQ. Recently read Captains and the Kings by Jeffrey Archer, though. Amazing author, absolutely phenomenal.
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
On August 11 2007 18:22 TeCh)PsylO wrote: I'm reading D-Day, but Stephen Ambrose.
ooh I'm busy on that too.. but reading too much so I put it on hold for a bit :D
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I just finished reading a book called "Killing yourself to live" by Chuck Klosterman,
I am also reading a book on american history and the wheel of time- series in english.
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Just read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I can't stop thinking about that book. I didn't enjoy reading about all the gore and inhumanity yet I kept on reading it. Very fascinating book.
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Reading: Ajax on Java, Journey to the West Vol.III, Pragmatic Unit Testing, Hardware Architecture Design
Just finished The Alphabet of Manliness.
Oh, just started reading Spook, too. Did you guys know that "ectoplasm" specimens are preserved by a state library? And other fun facts..
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Joseph Fouche- Bildnis eines politischen Menschen. by Stefan Zweig
Just bought it in Vienna, reading a little on vacation.
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Foucault - Discipline & Punish
I read anywhere from 1-40 pages a day, one day a week, it's a great book but I just have ADD
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On August 11 2007 18:38 Storchen wrote: Just read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I can't stop thinking about that book. I didn't enjoy reading about all the gore and inhumanity yet I kept on reading it. Very fascinating book.
One of the best books I've read actually. Parts of it are so funny that I almost wet my pants laughing. I just love how Bateman gradually goes more and more insane and does the weird shit he does. And Easton Ellis writes in a mesmerizing way.
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G.W.F. Hegel - Encyclopedia of philosophical Sciences. It's a horrible read, but very interesting.
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thedeadhaji
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"Getting Past No", a book on negotiation, as well as "Sangatsu, Nanoka", a novel in japanese.
Er wait I just finished Sangatsu Nanoka
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Just finished these books.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. White Noise by Don Delillo. The Mind's I, by duel editors I cannot remember.
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The Stand - Stephen King The Tipping point Wide Sargasso Sea
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Korea (South)11558 Posts
Just finished, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Now I'm reading Actual Innocence by by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer
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The Bonehunters - book six of "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson (ugh, I've read books 3 - 5 in the last 2 weeks already and each book is about a thousand pages thick)
I'm also flipping through "The Mathematics of Poker" and "Shader X5".
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I just finished Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. I'm not much of a reader at all, this is probably the first book I've ever read willingly. I watched the movie right after, and now I finally understand why people moan that the book beats the movie. The movie just feels so fucking short having read and experienced the book. I'm definitely going to continue reading now. It's good.
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Been alternating a bit between Tale of two cities by Dickens, and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. TM&M is absolutely brilliant.
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On August 11 2007 21:16 Last.Midnight wrote: I just finished Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. I'm not much of a reader at all, this is probably the first book I've ever read willingly. I watched the movie right after, and now I finally understand why people moan that the book beats the movie. The movie just feels so fucking short having read and experienced the book. I'm definitely going to continue reading now. It's good. If you like it, read Filth from the same author. You will like it!
The plot centres on Bruce Robertson, a Scottish police officer. He is a sex-obsessed, misanthropic man driven by his intense hatred. With cravings for cocaine, a pleasure for "the games" - Bruce's euphemism for the myriad foul plots he hatches directed at workmates - and sexual abuse of the women in his life, Bruce is an anti-hero
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On August 11 2007 21:30 sushiman wrote: Been alternating a bit between Tale of two cities by Dickens, and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. TM&M is absolutely brilliant.
The Master and Margarita is one of my favorite literature books
On August 11 2007 18:19 fuglyfrog wrote: Lollita by Vladimir Nabokov
Just finished Perfume by Patrick Suskind
What do you think of Lolita so far? I found it pretty interesting and disgusting
On August 11 2007 18:09 Beyonder wrote:Hoping to find some interesting books, so please describe some and perhaps a picture if you can. :D I'm currently reading all the The Iliad books from Homer(us) It's really fat but reads well. Pure art; so beautiful to read. link
Iliad was my favorite book when I was younger. I wonder if it's any better when you read it when you are older. I remember that I loved the story telling when I was 12. Very compelling book and reads very fast, because you just don't want to stop
On August 11 2007 20:50 NeoIllusions wrote: A Game of Thrones
That's the book by George SSR Martin right? Song of Ice and Fire? Think I read that too when I was little, much better than Tolkien and Terry Goodkind
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At the moment I'm reading "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut. And I just finished "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
One of my favorite books is "Good Omens" by Pratchett and Gaiman, I noticed someone mentioned it further up.
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i finished a book called "the beast house" by robert laymon. it wasnt fantastic, but i still managed to read it in a week or so. now im going to be reading Velocity by Dean Koontz. Both are good horror authors imo.
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Taiche
France1963 Posts
I'm currently reading the Wallander series from Henning Mankell. Quite a good read actually
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for summer reading, I had to read Things fall apart, a story on these african villages and then a book called in country, about these veterans and stuff coming back from the war.
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New York City13113 Posts
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United States37500 Posts
On August 11 2007 21:46 {ToT}Strafe wrote:That's the book by George SSR Martin right? Song of Ice and Fire? Think I read that too when I was little, much better than Tolkien and Terry Goodkind
Indeed. Hot_Bid brought it over two weeks ago, I'm slowly getting through it.
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Kinda stuck at p. 3xx tho
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
some representationalist papaers, although i dont have access to the academic sources right now, a pain in the ass.
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just finished:
currently reading:
and
after that scheduled is the second part in the series "A Song of Fire and Ice":
Tolkien's Children of Húrin is recommended, although being published by his far less talented son Christopher, it is a good read.
Digital Fortress didn't really get me hooked, although I plan on finishing it, and be it only to be able to claim that I read all his books.
A Game of Thrones is even better than I have been promised by the fantasy-loving part of our beloved IRC-channel, I highly recommend everyone to read it if you have the slightest of interests in fictional literature. The second part of the 4-part sequel is the logical choice for the next book then.
I just hope I can finish them all before classes start in a couple of weeks ^^;
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On August 11 2007 22:30 oneofthem wrote: some representationalist papaers, although i dont have access to the academic sources right now, a pain in the ass.
vpn into your school network and access the sites~~
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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Pretty insane stuff, Please let me know if you know of any similar books
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Consumed by Benjamin Barber, a nonfiction book about capitalism and consumerism and advertising and marketing.
End of Faith, a nonfiction book about religion from an atheist's perspective.
Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance, an excellent science fiction book about the earth many billions of years into the future when the sun is old and red and going to go out at any minute. He makes the setting really cool, it's very realistic in that what happened in the books is actually what could happen on earth: science became so advanced, and then in various disasters each civilization that had risen and triumphed eventually fell, and so the people had access to these "ancient" (to them) tools and weapons and items that were normal science to the people that made them, but were so advanced that to the Dying Earth people who didn't understand them, they were indistinguishable from magic. and so there are people known as magicians and sorcerors and there are magical talismans and amulets and stuff, and all the characters really believe this is magic, but the author and the reader know it's just really advanced science from our future and the book's setting's past.
Vance is an awesome writer, in fact the great George RR Martin, whose excellent series A Song of Ice and Fire has been rightly mentioned, said that Vance is one of his favorite writers and one of his big influences.
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Thanks alot CC Rider, now I know what's next after A Song of Fire and Ice, since originally I've been a bigger fan of Science Fiction than of those ancient history knight tales ^^.
I also recommend reading the Perry Rhodan series when you have a couple of years to spare.
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On August 11 2007 23:53 Cpt Obvious wrote: Thanks alot CC Rider, now I know what's next after A Song of Fire and Ice, since originally I've been a bigger fan of Science Fiction than of those ancient history knight tales ^^.
I also recommend reading the Perry Rhodan series when you have a couple of years to spare.
Cool! Haha people always take my suggestion to read Vance when I mention what GRRM said about him . I should mention I like the books by Vance that I read before Dying Earth, called the Demon Princes, a little more than Dying Earth. If I were to recommend a Vance book it would be that. There are five novels in the Demon Princes series, the first one is called The Star King. Demon Princes is a much more standard sci-fi setting than Dying Earth, it takes place out in space in a galactic civilization. Really cool stories about this guy named Gersen who is out for revenge against the five Demon Princes, who aren't really demons but are super-powerful intergalactic crime lords who fucked his planet over and hes one of the few survivors. Each of the 5 books is him tracking down and killing one of the 5 demon princes.
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On August 11 2007 23:35 thedeadhaji wrote:Show nested quote +On August 11 2007 22:30 oneofthem wrote: some representationalist papaers, although i dont have access to the academic sources right now, a pain in the ass. vpn into your school network and access the sites~~ yea i know, the library fucked up my access code so i have to fix that.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
i just started reading a new biography of bakunin by mark leier. only finished 10 pages though, although i liked it when he called most works on anarchism by historians etc ignorant, to paraphrase.
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United States4998 Posts
House of Leaves is indeed good though how its put together seems where it gets most of its hype cleverly done thoguh.
Niel is the man Magic by gosh what a brilliant magical preformer.Swan song neat book good for mindless reading similar to The Stand in ways. And i consult these books almosst everyday for the last 5 years or sosince i picked them up.
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Just finished this book today, loved it.
I think I'm reading either,
or finishing up (about 1/3 left)
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United States1966 Posts
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Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
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Reading "Consent to Kill" by Vince Flynn
thriller/espionage type of books
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I have alot of books im reading just never finished them all in the middle. Dante's Divine comedy only read inferno and beginningof purgatorio Started the odyssey. In the middle of War and Peace and the call of cthulu by h.p. lovecraft. Need to finish one book completly sheesh.
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i love the way he writes.
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If you liked the Da Vinci Code i susgst books by dan brown, one of the few authors i liked, his books have similiar endings, but they are fun to read none the less, for me anyway, i small time frame which they take place in, and how all the actions hit fast and the excess of detail. Angels and Demons was better then The DaVinci Code, imo (It's the prequal to davinci code.)
If you are intersted in space, science, computers or conspiracy. You s hould read these books. His books have themes like that,
Deception Point - Involves space the ocean and fun to read, imo. Only if your itnersted in that stuff.
Digital Fortress - Interesting to read, has to do with computer hacking and codes, with a most entertaining storyline, once again imo.
Angels & Demons - Religious rituals conspiracy, this book was amazing to read, it deosn't preach religious views, it just throws stuff out there, i enjoyed it very very much. Similiar to the Da Vinci Code. I personally beleive it was better, contained more action, and had a better storyline, can't wait for the movie
The Da Vinci Code - Who doens't know about this? Great book.
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I think I'll take a trip to the library tomorrow. :O
I'm not the biggest reader, in all honestly. It takes a lot for me to get into a book, but once it has me, I won't put it down (much) until I'm finished.
I also go through reading spurts. I won't read a single book for a couples months, and then I'll read 3-4 in 1-2 days. I just need to get into the habit of doing it more often.
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Australia3818 Posts
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Workin' on Dune #6 right now as well as the Harry Potter series all over again now that I know how it ends Recently finished Dan Simmons' Ilium and Olympos duo, which were pretty amazing pieces of sci-fi... also the Star Wars: X-Wing series (all 9 lol; fun reads, albeit lacking in substance) Next up are the third and fourth books in Simmons' Endymion series, and my calculus textbook
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if you know of any books similiar to those i listed, please let me know, i would love to find a new author to read.
I might check out the Bourne Identity series.
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On August 12 2007 15:01 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote:If you liked the Da Vinci Code i susgst books by dan brown, one of the few authors i liked, his books have similiar endings, but they are fun to read none the less, for me anyway, i small time frame which they take place in, and how all the actions hit fast and the excess of detail. Angels and Demons was better then The DaVinci Code, imo (It's the prequal to davinci code.) If you are intersted in space, science, computers or conspiracy. You s hould read these books. His books have themes like that, Deception Point - Involves space the ocean and fun to read, imo. Only if your itnersted in that stuff. Digital Fortress - Interesting to read, has to do with computer hacking and codes, with a most entertaining storyline, once again imo. Angels & Demons - Religious rituals conspiracy, this book was amazing to read, it deosn't preach religious views, it just throws stuff out there, i enjoyed it very very much. Similiar to the Da Vinci Code. I personally beleive it was better, contained more action, and had a better storyline, can't wait for the movie The Da Vinci Code - Who doens't know about this? Great book. Yeah i personally liked angels and demons better than da vinci code.
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I'm reading a couple of books for highschool which starts on Monday. Finished The Great Gatsby a few days ago, Frankenstein Yesterday, and Oedipus Cycle like a week ago. Now I'm reading Heart of Darkness.
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
Sun Tzu's Art of War haha
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The Sin War Trilogy
(Diablo book series)
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United States24342 Posts
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infinity21
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On August 12 2007 15:59 micronesia wrote: pfft physics >_>
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On August 12 2007 16:12 infinity21 wrote:pfft physics >_> Awesome book. And physics is also awesome. There is no excuse for not agreeing with me. + Show Spoiler +Actually there would be if you explained yourself.
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
On August 12 2007 16:18 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 16:12 infinity21 wrote:On August 12 2007 15:59 micronesia wrote: pfft physics >_> Awesome book. And physics is also awesome. There is no excuse for not agreeing with me. + Show Spoiler +Actually there would be if you explained yourself. How do you know it's an awesome book if you haven't read it? + Show Spoiler +I like physics too. just joking around with ya
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On August 12 2007 15:06 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote: if you know of any books similiar to those i listed, please let me know, i would love to find a new author to read.
I might check out the Bourne Identity series.
Neal Stephenson, more specifically Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon
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United States24342 Posts
On August 12 2007 16:22 infinity21 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 16:18 micronesia wrote:On August 12 2007 16:12 infinity21 wrote:On August 12 2007 15:59 micronesia wrote: pfft physics >_> Awesome book. And physics is also awesome. There is no excuse for not agreeing with me. + Show Spoiler +Actually there would be if you explained yourself. How do you know it's an awesome book if you haven't read it? + Show Spoiler +I like physics too. just joking around with ya I've read over 50% of it so I think that's a fair amount to judge the book off of. It addresses a lot of issues that are important but rarely addressed (actually a big problem in the world of physics).
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On August 12 2007 16:27 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 16:22 infinity21 wrote:On August 12 2007 16:18 micronesia wrote:On August 12 2007 16:12 infinity21 wrote:On August 12 2007 15:59 micronesia wrote: pfft physics >_> Awesome book. And physics is also awesome. There is no excuse for not agreeing with me. + Show Spoiler +Actually there would be if you explained yourself. How do you know it's an awesome book if you haven't read it? + Show Spoiler +I like physics too. just joking around with ya I've read over 50% of it so I think that's a fair amount to judge the book off of. It addresses a lot of issues that are important but rarely addressed (actually a big problem in the world of physics). lol micro sry if you didn't get my joke. I was saying that you didn't read the physics book and read the gay one instead
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infinity21
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Back on topic, I bought the Wheel of Time series 1-9 but haven't started yet. Is it good?
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On August 12 2007 15:07 Ilikestarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 15:01 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote:If you liked the Da Vinci Code i susgst books by dan brown, one of the few authors i liked, his books have similiar endings, but they are fun to read none the less, for me anyway, i small time frame which they take place in, and how all the actions hit fast and the excess of detail. Angels and Demons was better then The DaVinci Code, imo (It's the prequal to davinci code.) If you are intersted in space, science, computers or conspiracy. You s hould read these books. His books have themes like that, Deception Point - Involves space the ocean and fun to read, imo. Only if your itnersted in that stuff. Digital Fortress - Interesting to read, has to do with computer hacking and codes, with a most entertaining storyline, once again imo. Angels & Demons - Religious rituals conspiracy, this book was amazing to read, it deosn't preach religious views, it just throws stuff out there, i enjoyed it very very much. Similiar to the Da Vinci Code. I personally beleive it was better, contained more action, and had a better storyline, can't wait for the movie The Da Vinci Code - Who doens't know about this? Great book. Yeah i personally liked angels and demons better than da vinci code.
same also liked angels and demons more than da vinci, i didnt like Digital Fortress much though
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Bey, didn't they make you read the Iliad @ school? Wow, education in other countries sure isn't the same as it's here...
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Andy McNab books, just finished Aggressor yesterday. Going to start on Recoil asap.
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On August 11 2007 20:50 NeoIllusions wrote: A Game of Thrones
same here
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
On August 12 2007 16:50 Naib wrote: Bey, didn't they make you read the Iliad @ school? Wow, education in other countries sure isn't the same as it's here...
Not 600 pages of it.
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The Destiny of Man - Nikolai Berdyaev
I'm required to read this for philosophy class. An interesting read, since he bashes a lot of other philosophers
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Waugh's Way - Roland Perry
I have to study it as a book for English :D
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On August 12 2007 16:47 infinity21 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 16:27 micronesia wrote:On August 12 2007 16:22 infinity21 wrote:On August 12 2007 16:18 micronesia wrote:On August 12 2007 16:12 infinity21 wrote:On August 12 2007 15:59 micronesia wrote: pfft physics >_> Awesome book. And physics is also awesome. There is no excuse for not agreeing with me. + Show Spoiler +Actually there would be if you explained yourself. How do you know it's an awesome book if you haven't read it? + Show Spoiler +I like physics too. just joking around with ya I've read over 50% of it so I think that's a fair amount to judge the book off of. It addresses a lot of issues that are important but rarely addressed (actually a big problem in the world of physics). lol micro sry if you didn't get my joke. I was saying that you didn't read the physics book and read the gay one instead What is that, Canadian humor? How on Earth was I supposed to figure that out?
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Germany2762 Posts
starcraft: queen of blades by aaron rosenberg
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Collected works of Edgar Poe and H.P. Lovecraft (ongoing--both are excellent writers.)
Demons by Daylight by J. Ramsey Campbell
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
I couldn't bne bothered to look up pics, sry.
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God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens. Very well written, Hitchens knows the English language inside and out and he is also incredibly well educated on the subject, especially for an atheist. Understandably though, if you're religious, you will really not like this book and you may end up wanting to kill the author if you read it because he's atrociously unforgiving.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, by Thomas C. Foster. Summer reading. >_< It's supposed to be a friendly and engaging textbook but Foster riddles it with sweeping generalizations and numerous logical fallacies which really detracts from one's ability to know what information is useful and what is rubbish. I think I'll be safe if I disregard most of the book because it's not amazingly insightful anyways, it just reiterates what English teachers have taught over the years but with many more words and examples limited to the same ten authors every time a point is made.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling. I feel I won't finish this book because the first 400 pages has just been three teenagers roaming aimlessly across the countryside, pissing and moaning in a tent. Virtually all of the mythology has been replaced with ridiculous emotional traumas, I've no desire to continue at this point.
I have a large stack of books I intend to read at some point but whenever I get a chance to start reading one, I end up play StarCraft or some other video game instead. XD
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Sweden33719 Posts
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
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James Joyce, Ulysses. Fantastic, fantastic stuff. Incredible depth too.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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On August 12 2007 16:49 infinity21 wrote: Back on topic, I bought the Wheel of Time series 1-9 but haven't started yet. Is it good?
Depends who you ask, and which book you mean. Books 1-5 are awesome, 6-8 blow ass, 9 is good again, 10 and 11 made me want to stab myself b/c nothing happened
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I'm nerding out and reading: Shadow of the Xel'naga by Gabriel Mesta
and I have the third book in the series when i finish that.
Anyone know what order the books go in though?
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Australia3818 Posts
On August 12 2007 23:35 KOFgokuon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 16:49 infinity21 wrote: Back on topic, I bought the Wheel of Time series 1-9 but haven't started yet. Is it good? Depends who you ask, and which book you mean. Books 1-5 are awesome, 6-8 blow ass, 9 is good again, 10 and 11 made me want to stab myself b/c nothing happened Isn't Jordan terminally ill now or something? Writing what shall be the final book of the series?
So basically for the lack of things that happened in books 10 and 11...they are sure to happen in the final book. Unless Jordan wants to be cruel.
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress- Robert Heinlein
Actually a re-read, but still well worth it.
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On August 13 2007 00:04 Smurg wrote:Show nested quote +On August 12 2007 23:35 KOFgokuon wrote:On August 12 2007 16:49 infinity21 wrote: Back on topic, I bought the Wheel of Time series 1-9 but haven't started yet. Is it good? Depends who you ask, and which book you mean. Books 1-5 are awesome, 6-8 blow ass, 9 is good again, 10 and 11 made me want to stab myself b/c nothing happened Isn't Jordan terminally ill now or something? Writing what shall be the final book of the series? So basically for the lack of things that happened in books 10 and 11...they are sure to happen in the final book. Unless Jordan wants to be cruel.
ya he's terminally ill, i forgot with what, and i don't feel like going on wikipedia. he's planning on finishing it all up with this last book..but there's so much story left. i guess i won't post spoilers since people haven't read it yet..but they have so much left to wrap up
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Right now, I'm reading Jack Vance's The Demon Princes, then will move onto Gai-jin by Clavell. I really like their writing style and they're big enough to occupy me for a while... I just finished HP7 (I HAD to skimread the middle bit about the emo-whining, so it only took me like 5 hours) and didn't really like it. WoT isn't *bad* but I dropped out about the 8th book. The first 3-4 books in my opinion are the best and if he managed to compress the whole thing into a 5-6 book series, it'd be pretty good.
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Don Wollheim Proposes - 1985
This is basically a collab of the best science-fiction stories from the year of 1984. This particular book (There are a lot more from many different years) features the following stories: 1) The Picture Man by John Dalmas 2) Cash Crop by Connie Willis 3) We Remember Babylon by Ian Watson (note: I absolutely love this author.. I read more then 5 of his other books, all great) 4) What Makes Us Human by Stephen R. Donaldson 5) Salvador by Lucius Shepard 6) Press Enter by John Varley 7) The Aliens That Know, I Mean, Everything by Geogre Allec Effinger 8) Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler 9) The Coming of the Goonga by Gary W. Shockley 10) Medra by Tanith Lee
Overall a fun read.
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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Decameron
it was school reading that i never did so i'm going back and reading it now. it's a fun book with lots of sex puns and religion bashing.
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I also just finished reading this and the rest of the series
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"Shadow and Claw" by Gene Wolfe. Very bizarre, very much worth reading.
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Harry Potters Series COMPLETE! (yes its a ebook)
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Korea (South)11558 Posts
Now I'm reading Actual Innocence by by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer
Then I'm going to read High Fidelity by Nick Horny
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On August 13 2007 09:07 KOFgokuon wrote:I also just finished reading this and the rest of the series
Knaak is a wonderful author. The best book I have read by him was a short story he wrote in the dragonlance series involving a haunted castle. It is extremely entertaining.
ON another note, There is a dragonlance movie being made: http://imdb.com/title/tt0825245/ (Credited cast)
Michael Rosenbaum ... Tanthalas 'Tanis' Half-Elven (voice)
Kiefer Sutherland ... Raistlin Majere (voice)
Lucy Lawless ... Goldmoon (voice) Fred Tatasciore ... Flint Fireforge/Fewmaster Toede (voice)
Michelle Trachtenberg ... Tika (voice) Rino Romano ... Caramon Majere (voice)
Jason Marsden ... Tasslehoff Burrfoot (voice) Neil Ross ... Fizban The Fabulous (voice)
Marc Worden ... Sturm Brightblade (voice)
Phil LaMarr ... Riverwind/Gilthanas (voice)
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The Anthropology of Language (for class) The Harry Potter series (finished 7 when it came out, so im rereading it all for a retrospective look. just started 4 now)
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Here's a few books I personally enjoyed that I'd recommend for pretty much everyone.
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didnt read through the whole thread but if it already came up this is another reason to read it:
an excellent book, by the first page i was almost brought to tears
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On August 13 2007 12:05 fusionsdf wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2007 09:07 KOFgokuon wrote:I also just finished reading this and the rest of the series Knaak is a wonderful author. The best book I have read by him was a short story he wrote in the dragonlance series involving a haunted castle. It is extremely entertaining. ON another note, There is a dragonlance movie being made: http://imdb.com/title/tt0825245/(Credited cast) Michael Rosenbaum ... Tanthalas 'Tanis' Half-Elven (voice) Kiefer Sutherland ... Raistlin Majere (voice) Lucy Lawless ... Goldmoon (voice) Fred Tatasciore ... Flint Fireforge/Fewmaster Toede (voice) Michelle Trachtenberg ... Tika (voice) Rino Romano ... Caramon Majere (voice) Jason Marsden ... Tasslehoff Burrfoot (voice) Neil Ross ... Fizban The Fabulous (voice) Marc Worden ... Sturm Brightblade (voice) Phil LaMarr ... Riverwind/Gilthanas (voice) Haha that sounds nice. I liked the books.
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On August 13 2007 17:06 Ilikestarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2007 12:05 fusionsdf wrote:On August 13 2007 09:07 KOFgokuon wrote:I also just finished reading this and the rest of the series Knaak is a wonderful author. The best book I have read by him was a short story he wrote in the dragonlance series involving a haunted castle. It is extremely entertaining. ON another note, There is a dragonlance movie being made: http://imdb.com/title/tt0825245/(Credited cast) Michael Rosenbaum ... Tanthalas 'Tanis' Half-Elven (voice) Kiefer Sutherland ... Raistlin Majere (voice) Lucy Lawless ... Goldmoon (voice) Fred Tatasciore ... Flint Fireforge/Fewmaster Toede (voice) Michelle Trachtenberg ... Tika (voice) Rino Romano ... Caramon Majere (voice) Jason Marsden ... Tasslehoff Burrfoot (voice) Neil Ross ... Fizban The Fabulous (voice) Marc Worden ... Sturm Brightblade (voice) Phil LaMarr ... Riverwind/Gilthanas (voice) Haha that sounds nice. I liked the books.
oh nice, Kiefer Sutherland
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ace on the River by Barry Greenstein... 220 pgs in
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I liked The Fountainhead, but I just could read Atlas Shrugged for some reason.
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Oh here's another book I read for an english assignment. I thought it'd be boring at first, but I found I actually liked it (this might just be because I am interested in politics). It is non-fiction.
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yo this isnt a thread about posting your favorite books. its a caught pants down kind of thread.
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no one mentioned one of the greatest recent american authors: john irving... imo "the hotel new hampshire" is the greatest book by him.
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On August 13 2007 16:33 CustomXSpunjah wrote:didnt read through the whole thread but if it already came up this is another reason to read it: an excellent book, by the first page i was almost brought to tears
AMAZING BOOK!
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Phil Lamarr is the greatest voice actor
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besides poker books,
Education Of A Felon - Eddie Bunker
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I read Artemis Fowl-The Lost Colony, and another great book made by Eoin Colfer, The Supernaturalist. I'm also reading Death Note and .Hack....
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Austin10831 Posts
Finishing right now. Getting ready to read George RR Martin because Hot_Bid is a bully.
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Chuck Klosterman looks good though. Maybe I'll read something of his.
Also, I never knew people read so much non-fiction.
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Austin10831 Posts
Klosterman is amazing. I suggest starting with Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs.
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On August 13 2007 14:15 Vigilante wrote:Here's a few books I personally enjoyed that I'd recommend for pretty much everyone.
Great recommendations... 1984 is probably one of my favorite books.
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Then
And just started
I'm loving it, and I know I'm going to be sad after I finish Resolve, as the next book isn't due out until the summer of 08. I'll likely finish it (even though I'm only about 40 pages in ) a couple hours after I wake up. I'd continue reading now, but I'm beat.
I'd recommend the series to anyone who likes Science-Fiction/Fantasy, or anyone who enjoys reading in general.
The other books, in order are Way of the Wolf Choice of the Cat and Tale of the Thunderbolt
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On August 12 2007 22:59 FrozenArbiter wrote:Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've never heard anyone mention that book until now. If you want to discuss i'm here. There was a Murakami short story in the new yorker a few years back that's also good. His stories are like shinto-jungian esque, very good writer.
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I'm reading this: "What are you reading right now?"
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on an unrelated note, any randists feeling like being a sacrificial sheep? make a debate thread on objectivism, haha.
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On August 12 2007 15:15 kNyTTyM wrote: I'm reading a couple of books for highschool which starts on Monday. Finished The Great Gatsby a few days ago, Frankenstein Yesterday, and Oedipus Cycle like a week ago. Now I'm reading Heart of Darkness.
The Great Gatsby alone took me an entire semester, numerous papers, and a lot of will strength to finish
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you tell me what objectivism is and i'll debate about it, atlas shrugged seems to be every twenty year old college student's favorite book but Ayn Rand isn't well-regarded in continental philosophy
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On August 18 2007 22:37 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: I'm reading this: "What are you reading right now?"
Damn you !!!.
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ender's game, ender's shadow
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I'm reading Failed States by Noam Chomsky atm. So far its been about how the US government avoids addressing the needs and wants of the majority of its public and acts as though international laws do not apply to the US.
The part I just finished reading was about US intervention in Kosovo, which is widely held in the intellectual west to be an "illegal but legitimate" action. According to these intellectuals, the action was legitimate because diplomatic avenues had been exhausted and further Serbian atrocities would've been witnessed had NATO not bombed promptly.
Chomsky shows that there were still diplomatic actions available to Western powers in dealing with Milosovic and the Serbs, and that the Serbian atrocities, while bad, were made worse, not better, as the result of the bombings. As evidence to this assertion, Chomsky cites Milosovic's war crimes charges, as most of the atrocities he was charged with occurred after the NATO bombing. Chomsky also cites detailed studies: In the year leading up to the NATO bombings, 2000 people were killed in Kosovo as the result of conflicts between the Serbs and the KLA (Albanian guerrillas). According to Nicholas Wheeler's study (which happened to support the NATO bombing), only a disappointing 500 of these 2000 murders could be attributed to the Serbs. After the NATO bombing, as many as 800,000 Kosovars were forcibly deported, among other atrocities.
Chomsky concludes that the NATO bombing of Kosovo was not a humanitarian action that happened to break international law, but a fully illegal action with no legitimate justifications, unless you ascribe to the belief that might makes right. He goes beyond this assertion to posit that the bombing wasn't even a failed attempt at humanitarian intervention, but was in fact "to assure 'the credibility of NATO,' meaning the United States". To further underline this point, Chomsky recalls that the US and NATO did not intervene in East Timor, where Indonesians were committing genocide in efforts to convince the Timorese to acquiesce to their annexation attempts. Chomsky implies that had the NATO bombing of Kosovo been done for humanitarian reasons, NATO should also have bombed Indonesia as a matter of principle.
From the chapter's conclusion: "Few questions are more important today than the propriety of the use of force. No doubt one can imagine, perhaps even find, genuine cases of humanitarian intervention. But there is, always, a heavy burden of proof. And the historical record should give us pause. We might recall, for example, the observations of one of the major scholarly studies of humanitarian intervention. The author finds three examples of such intervention between the 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war and the UN Charter in 1945: Japan's invasion of Manchuria and northern China, Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, and Hitler's takeover of parts of Czechoslovakia. Not, of course, that he regards these as genuine examples, but rather that they were depicted as such, and evidence was provided, which, however grotesque, was regarded with some ambivalence-- and sometimes support-- by the United States and Britain. [...] It tends to support the measured judgment of the World Court, in 1949, that 'the Court can only regard the alleged right of intervention as the manifestation of a policy of force, such as has, in the past, given rise to the most serious abuses and such as cannot, whatever be the defects in international organization, find a place in international law ...; from the nature of things, [intervention] would be reserved for the most powerful states, and might easily lead to perverting the administration of justice itself.'"
So that's what I'm reading.
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Ender's game .. first time :p
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i'm currently reading the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky. my favorite author of all time. he penetrates so far into the human psyche. i also recommend the unbearable lightness of being. I just finished god is not great by hitchens and I must say that book is highly overrated. somebody in this thread said he knew english inside and out, that somebody must have never read a good book in his life. his book is rubbish and he comes off as a complete hack. he can't hold a logical argument and he has never been introduced to the paragraph. he constantly digresses from his point he is trying to make, causing everything to be trite and convoluted. the only thing i would recommend to you about this book is to stay away from it.
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Warcraft Novels - The Last Guardian =0
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Bravo Two Zero, by Andy McNab
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LotR first time 48 Laws of Power
After this I'll probably finish the d'Artagnan Romances by Dumas and start The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
I'm not sure where I'll go from there. My last major area of heavy reading was 19th century Russia. I'm thinking of going 20th century existentialism but the two can be somewhat related and I want a complete change of pace
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