WHAT are you reading right now?

[Colonel Flagg]

Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku.

[elx]

Biocentrism - Robert Lanza; Bob Berman
The Planets - Dava Sobel

and I just read The Time Traveler's Wife because my mom brought it home and I didn't want it to go to waste. It was horrible. I want my 16 hours from today back. :(

don't see the movie, not that any of you would anyways

[elx]

Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku.
michio kaku?!?!???!

you should know better, i'm disappointed in you

[Guitar Woman]

Dark Knight Returns.

It's, uh, bad.

[Terra]

"Always Looking Up" by Michael J Fox. Getting ready to read "Lucky Man" by the same author. "Lucky Man" was his first book. I didn't realize that until I started his second book.

[Colonel Flagg]

[EDIT= It's not worth it]

[Terra]

"Always Lookin Up" is a bit slow but "Lucky Man" is reading pretty well.

[stevetothepast]

I'm finally reading the watchmen, didn't see the movie yet. I know, trendy right?

[Krythor]

You don't need to lose any sleep over it.

[elx]

just finished Jane Eyre, about to re-read Middlemarch

[El Renardo]

Reading the following...
The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sydney Sheldon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Also checking out the following webcomics:
Sam & Fuzzy
Sword in Hand
Bob and George
Super Frat

[Tadao]

Why should I? Those all have very gay titles.

[Fathom Zero]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom

By Cory Doctorow!

[MrSmiley381]

I have a bunch of Sandman, Ghost Rider, Deadpool, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre comics to read. That should take quite a while.

As for standard non-pretty-picture books, I have about a quarter of The Color of Magic left to read, almost the entirety of The Illuminatus! Trilogy to read, then after that it's Atlas Shrugged.

[executioneer]

The Color of Magic

the title is spelt colour g*d damn it

[Phoenix Gamma]

I'm starting to read a lot of Deadpool now. He's pretty entertaining, especially for someone who's not really into superheroes.

Also reading Maus I and II for my directed study next semester. I don't like the art that much, but the story's still good.

[Zomboid]

I'm pretty much always reading comic books, so I won't even mention those :( (but if I did, I'd mention how Sinister Spider-Man and the Hawkeye [Bullseye] limited series are great. So is Hellboy, as always.)

I bought "The Last Walk" on Saturday and finished it in the morning yesterday. It's one of the "Bachman Books," so it's essentially a King story, but the writing style and tone are different enough that it doesn't read like a cheap knock-off. Plus, I love stories set in a dystopia.

[executioneer]

is the last walk like a sequel to the long walk

[Zomboid]

I AM STUPID AND GOT THE TITLE WRONG.

Yeah, it's the Long Walk. I don't think you could do a sequel to that. There's supposed to be a movie at some point though.

[RaNkeri]

Batman: The Long Halloween

I read it couple of years ago and loved it so much that this time I bought it as trade paperback

[Sam]

Just started Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last night. :eek

[Aimless]

I'm re-reading Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin because the first time I sped through it.

[stevetothepast]

I'm reading a god damn fortune cookie.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Just started Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last night. :eek

Let me know how that is. I read a synopsis of it a few months ago and it sounded amazing. Read the synopsis right after watching Fido.

[Zhukov]

My mother is a big Jane Austin fan, so I bought her Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but she doesn't like the look fo it, so I will steal it back later on. Also got her The Time Traveller's Wife, which I have heard both good and bad reviews of.

I am still reading War and Peace, and have just started Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks, which is part of the Culture series.

[elx]

Also got her The Time Traveller's Wife, which I have heard both good and bad reviews of.

noooooo, you're going to want to snatch that one back too before she gets a chance to read it. :( like half of the six hundred pages are made up of very detailed love scenes, and the other half is just as equally blech-worthy. strange coming from a son, i think.

you should've trusted my bad review!

[RaNkeri]

noooooo, you're going to want to snatch that one back too before she gets a chance to read it. :( like half of the six hundred pages are made up of very detailed love scenes

Because a woman who has given birth might not just yet be able to understand sex. :rolleyes

[Zhukov]

noooooo, you're going to want to snatch that one back too before she gets a chance to read it. :( like half of the six hundred pages are made up of very detailed love scenes, and the other half is just as equally blech-worthy. strange coming from a son, i think.

you should've trusted my bad review!

Well I had heard good and bad reviews. Yours being the bad, and my ex accounting for the good. :\

She says she likes it so far, and yes, I can handle my mum reading love scenes. Thanks for the heads up though, I wont ask her any details.


While on that topic, I was lent a copy of The Unknown Terrorist by a female workmate, and there is a very detailed part where a man ejeculates into the face of the female protaginist. I felt very uncomfortable when the workmate asked me what part I was up to, and I was up to THAT PART. Pretty lousy book btw.

[elx]

I don't think i emphasized how disgusting it actually is well enough. the book isn't just like a novel that contains gratuitous sex, it's full-on erotic literature with a crummy underlying story, and that's why i think it makes a strange son-to-mother gift.

but uh, the basic idea is nice, give your mom a top bestseller that someone you were close to recommended.

edit: it's a sugarcoated sappy porno

[Zhukov]

Well the someone I was close to didn't recommend it to ME so I could read it and get off :(

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

[MetalMilitia]

I finished All Quiet on the Western Front recently and it was pretty much the best thing I've ever read, so continuing on that theme I picked up Storm of Steel (http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Steel-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141186917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250511336&sr=8-1) by Ernst Junger. Only read the introduction so far but it seems pretty good.

While I was at the book shop I also got The Art of War for £3 which isn't really something you can sit down and read for long periods of time but is very interesting none-the-less. Good coffee table/toilet book.

[elx]

Well the someone I was close to didn't recommend it to ME so I could read it and get off :(

WHAT HAVE I DONE?
you should just trust me in the future :(

[Zhukov]

"On the day Germany declared war in 1914, 19-year-old Ernst Jünger enlisted. He fought with an infantry company -- the 73rd Hanoverians -- for the next four years and participated in some of the most famous and bloody battles of all time: the Somme, Cambrai, Passchendaele. "

Wow, he's lucky to have lived through that. Also, the Washington Post review of it sounds interesting enough, but to be completely honest the cover art and title already had me hooked.

Elx: I will, yes. I will just have to avoid talking to my mother for the next week or so.

[MetalMilitia]

One thing I love about books like this is how taken out of context parts of this book written by the evil baby-impaling Hun could've been written today by any young soldier heading out to Iraq or Afghanistan:

Grown up in an age of security, we shared a yearning for danger, for experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war. We had set out in a rain of flowers, in a drunken atmosphere of blood and roses. Surely the war has to supply us with what we wanted; the great, the overwhelming, the hallowed experience. We thought of it as manly, as action, a merry dulling party on flowered blood-bedewed meadows. ' No finer death in all the world than...' Anything to participate, not to have to stay at home!

But yeah, check it out. It's only <300 pages and should be available in most used book stores.

[Zomboid]

:lol

Yeah, your typical soldier heading out to Iraq or Afghanistan is going to know words like "enraptured" and "bedewed."

[Zhukov]

I believe he was talking about a British soldier, my good sir. :posh

[crown pika]

Hey, I like the little hoppy red thing. What is it, an alien?

[Zhukov]

It's an emoticon, you just put in :cok and it works.

[Zomboid]

I believe he was talking about a British soldier, my good sir. :posh

That changes everything :(

[captain516]

I finished reading Tortilla Flats and Cannery Row. I couldn't decide which one I liked more.

[Kitsa]

I've been working my way through some Nigel Cawthorne books. I just finished Public Executions. His stuff seems to be all over the board and I've already started spotting some recycled information that almost seems copypasted from book to book. So far the good material is really good and the bad material is really bad.

Public Executions has a lot of great information and illustrations, but the editing is shitty. And he's a writer/editor, pfft. But still, good coffee table book if you want people to wonder about you.

[ZeldaQueen]

I'm currently working on Twilight.

I'm still trying to figure out the appeal.

[Tadao]

I felt the same way about The Catcher and the Rye.

[Kitsa]

Tried to start "Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze", but the writing style is annoying me too much. I'll probably just end up skimming it.

[Zhukov]

They gave their lives for the defense of their homeland, and you can't even read their book properly. Nice.

I'm still reading Consider Phelbas, and I am absolutely loving it. I only get sparse time to really read in peace (less time on the internet maybe? Fool) and I often can't bring myself to stop.

Sci Fi how it should be done. It's fast paced, yet still intricate and descriptive, has interesting and varied characters and situations... plus, I'm loving the all powerful anarchists The Culture, as I do all futuristic utopian societies.

[Krythor]

I finished Bonfire of the Vanities and am currently working through Ulysses and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

I'm glad I stuck it out with Bonfire of the Vanities past it's slower moments. Some of the creep characters got their come uppance, and not at the expense of the story's realism. VERY GOOD.

[Kitsa]

Zhukov...I'm hoping at this point that the sanctimonious thing is a joke.

There are plenty of good documentaries on the kamikaze out there. This particular one was written by a man who felt it was more important to write detailed character sketches of random people at a shrine than to provide a lot of actual content. It was reading more like a "gaijin in Japan" travel narrative than a book on the kamikaze. And I've already read more than enough "gaijin in Japan" travel narratives.

[Zhukov]

Zhukov...I'm hoping at this point that the sanctimonious thing is a joke.

Of course.

[ZeldaQueen]

I felt the same way about The Catcher and the Rye.
Agreed, though at least with The Catcher in the Rye I occasionally felt sorry for the main character. Bella's just plain annoying and a complete Mary Sue. Probably doesn't help that the book's 80% description diahrrea, 18% shallow romance, and 2% actual plot.

[Kitsa]

You know, speaking of travel narratives and annoyance with them...

I like Paul Theroux. I really do. But...

YOU HATE WHITE PEOPLE. WE GET IT.

Over and over it crops up about how the evil caucasian tourists ruin "his" travels, "his" islands, "his" interactions with people. The fact that he's also caucasian and that perhaps he's being indulged by the locals is one he seems to completely miss.

Edit- I probably said all this before, but any time I pick up any of his stuff I get irritated at it all over again.

[Krythor]

He gave a lecture at my university a few months ago. I was interested in going but it completely slipped my mind and I missed it. Oh well.

[Dimnos]

This is what I just read. :tear

http://www.destructoid.com/disney-acquires-marvel-for-4-billion-in-stock-and-cash-146880.phtml

[Kitsa]

I'm reading an autobiography called "My Lobotomy (http://www.amazon.com/My-Lobotomy-Howard-Dully/dp/0307381277/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251990905&sr=8-1)". It's fascinating. This 12 year old kid's psycho abusive stepmother basically told any lie she had to to make sure that the icepick-lobotomy happened, because she thought it would make him easier to control.

Comes complete with freaky photos that the doctor (the infamous Dr. Freeman, who spread the doctrine of the icepick lobotomy far and wide) snapped during the surgery to show off:

http://soundportraits.org/on-air/my_lobotomy/page4.php

[Zhukov]

Jesus Christ that sounds interesting, but also to scary for me to read.

[Zhukov]

*too damnit.


Now I look like an idiot in the BOOK forum. How come I don't have an edit button?

I'm reading Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, by the way. Second book in The Culture series. Good so far.

I had hoped the protaginist from the first would make a return to the series at some point, but I find that highly unlikely now.

[Kitsa]

I'm re-reading "The Unwilling Vestal". I haven't had a copy in my hands since high school latin class, and I wanted to see if there was anything I'd missed.

Nope. Same stilted post-Edwardian "Latin Scholar" take I remembered.

[Kybo Ren]

the ZOMBIE survival guide by Max Brooks- should of bought this damn thing years ago, now I feel vindicated in zombie proofing my domicile.

OUTCAST, OMEN, ABYSS- STAR WARS: blah, blah, jedi, or force or something or other.
liking them better than I thought, lots of good Luke & Han action, but not at the same time.

STAR WARS: firefight. oh that X-7, can't kill Luke on his own, so he hires a bunch of mercs, shoots them up and sends the survivors after our favorite rebels. it may be a kids book, but at least Mighty Chewbacca is kicking some ass <burn in hell R.A. Salvatore> *****spoiler alert: Lune Divinian shows up pimping a firspray. OH YEAH!!!!*********

Owner's manual to a 1993 Honda Accord- I've read worse

[Kitsa]

My mom gave me "Punk: the Definitive Record of a Revolution" (http://www.amazon.com/Punk-Definitive-Revolution-Stephen-Colegrave/dp/156025369X) as a gift. I guess what I was hoping for was "Please Kill Me (http://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0140266909/ref=sip_rech_dp_10)" with more pictures. I loved Please Kill Me.

There are lots of interesting pictures, yeah, but I was disappointed to find that the majority of the book is given over to kissing the asses of Malcolm McLaren/The Sex Pistols/Vivienne Westwood, like they defined all that is punk and that should be good enough for the likes of you. Really, they just made it cartoonish.

Still, good purchase for the pictures, even though the text (especially the captions) is annoyingly tiny.

[CinnamonGrrl Erin]

I am re-reading "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostovo. I really can't recommend it enough; it's a wonderfully modern take on the Gothic genre of the 1800s.

[stevetothepast]

My mom gave me "Punk: the Definitive Record of a Revolution" (http://www.amazon.com/Punk-Definitive-Revolution-Stephen-Colegrave/dp/156025369X) as a gift. I guess what I was hoping for was "Please Kill Me (http://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0140266909/ref=sip_rech_dp_10)" with more pictures. I loved Please Kill Me.

There are lots of interesting pictures, yeah, but I was disappointed to find that the majority of the book is given over to kissing the asses of Malcolm McLaren/The Sex Pistols/Vivienne Westwood, like they defined all that is punk and that should be good enough for the likes of you. Really, they just made it cartoonish.

Still, good purchase for the pictures, even though the text (especially the captions) is annoyingly tiny.

I was going to buy Please kill me a while back, kind of wish I did now. Have you read "Our band could be your life" I want it bad.

[captain516]

I'm halfway through "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, which isn't nearly as cool as I thought it would be from the title. It's about the friendship of two Jewish boys. What really bugs me is that in the book, all they ever do is either study the Talumnd or go to the library to read. I mean, haven't these guys ever heard of the park, or the movie theater?

[stevetothepast]

http://www.amazon.com/Vice-Guide-Drugs-Rock-Roll/dp/0446692816

This is pretty damn hilarious at times.:lol

[Kitsa]

Nope, steve, haven't read that one but Please Kill Me is definitely worth it. Very balanced, I thought.

The Punk pictorial thing...well, as I said, some good photos but I definitely got tired of page after page of Johnny Rotten's face. You'd think everything began and ended with the damn Sex Pistols (I hated them anyway)...they take up a good 3/4 of the book.

They also spent too much time on Andy Warhol and gave him (I think) way too much credit.

[stevetothepast]

I hate andy warhol and the sex pistols.

[Kitsa]

the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I hate pretty much everything Malcolm McLaren has ever done. He strikes me as an egomaniac who tries to take credit for everyone else's success. I hate even seeing him in interviews, just that smug look on his face.

And I think that Andy Warhol just embodies that "it's art because it's trendy" thing. His paintings are one thing, but the films*? The happenings? The Exploding Plastic Inevitable? The fucking Velvet Underground with Nico droning away? Errrggghh.


*Having to watch "Empire" in an art course, beginning to end, should be the new vision of hell. Dante is outdated.

[captain516]

The Scarlet Pimpernell- it sucks, the whole book seems to be about lord percy and his wife. Someone please tell me it gets better.

[stevetothepast]

the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I hate pretty much everything Malcolm McLaren has ever done. He strikes me as an egomaniac who tries to take credit for everyone else's success. I hate even seeing him in interviews, just that smug look on his face.

And I think that Andy Warhol just embodies that "it's art because it's trendy" thing. His paintings are one thing, but the films*? The happenings? The Exploding Plastic Inevitable? The fucking Velvet Underground with Nico droning away? Errrggghh.


*Having to watch "Empire" in an art course, beginning to end, should be the new vision of hell. Dante is outdated.

Agreed. But I do have a certain love for the velvet underground.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Trying to finish Motley Crue's the dirt by next friday so I can read "The Ghost King".

[kahljorn]

whenever i think of andy warhol films i think of trash and then i think of hairy penises :(

oh and then that girl with thehuge fake boobs at thebegining :(

[Kitsa]

After what I've had to see in various art classes, I'm now convinced that I would chew my own leg off to get out of watching another lengthy warhol creation.

[Guitar Woman]

Transmetropolitan.

My favorite thing so far is the mention of an Ebola bomb in Spider's toilet.

I once broke into a cabin in the woods and used the toilet, but now I know to be more careful.

[kahljorn]

haha yea that's a really bad idea bruce campbell from evil dead part 1 :(

[Kitsa]

"The Lives They Left Behind"- nonfiction. a mental hospital was being torn down and historians were searching the grounds when they found an attic full of all the personal belongings that had been taken from the patients. It's a series of case studies tying their previous lives to what they became after being imprisoned in the hospital. It's really sad :(

[King Hadas]

I was wandering through the library the other day when I realized that all the books I've ever read in my life would only fill out about two or three shelves.

I finished Mao: A Life a few hours ago.

[Tadao]

I just got this book in J-Town the other day. http://www.yokaiattack.com/ I like mythology and folklore a lot.

[Fathom Zero]

I actually found a copy of Ten Little N*ggers at a used book store and I bought it out of sheer vintage-tude; I've already got And Then There Were None hardcover.

[Kitsa]

My grandmother gave me a copy of Little Black Sambo when I was a kid. The weird thing is, for all the racism it implies, Little Black Sambo was from India, not Africa. The original illustrations make it very, very clear.

[kgp4death]

The encyclopedia....almost done.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Ghost King. Hopefully it will be better than the pirate and orc kings.

[Pentegarn]

Just finished The Fountainhead a couple days ago. Haven't decided what to read next, but am leaning toward Soul Survivor

[Zhukov]

I just finished Use of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks. It was fantastic, my favourite of his so far. The twist at the end was a complete surprise, and I could only see it coming a few paragraphs before it happened. I had to keep myself from looking ahead by covering the offending passages with my hands. I kept saying to myself in my head "no, no no! Don't let THAT be the case!" Right up to the end.

Have now started his most recent sci fi The Algebraist. It's great so far. Some nut on the bus last night noticed I was reading his favourite author and proceded to annoy me with his views on metaphysics and Socrates. This is the second time this has happened.

[Babs]

Right now I'm reading two books currently. Right now I'm reading "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and as well "Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles". Really enjoying the book by Ken Kesey and also really fond of Georgy Zhukov's book. A very interesting point of view of the battle of Stalingrad from the words the most decorated man in Soviet history (not just the battle of Stalingrad I might add).

[Seth]

Working on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, and Dracula concurrently. It's amusing to see writers of the same era all referencing each other and using similar "in" words, like "picturesque".

[Tadao]

You haven't read those 3 yet? Interesting. I'm in need of a big book. Maybe tales of 2 cities.

[Seth]

A Tale of Two Cities was interesting, but it was hard for me to stay with it because of the style. I hope you enjoy it :D (If you haven't read it already, I suggest The Count of Monte Cristo, if our tastes are by any chance similar.)

[Tadao]

Ah! I haven't. Let's say I enjoyed reading Don Quixote, but can't get into Poe or Shakespeare. It's not the style that hurts me, it's my lack of comprehension.

[Seth]

Oh, okay. Yeah, with some authors... I'd imagine it's something like I don't mind reading them, but since they take more studying, so to say, than reading, that I need to be in the mood for it. It takes more effort.

So, on that front, I would heavily agree with Shakespeare, especially since his work is in middle English and requires knowing the time period to understand a lot of the moral (or immoral) and historical backing of some stuff.

For instance, Macbeth took a lot out of me because, although it is beautifully written, you cannot appreciate its intrinsic power until you understand the time frame it was written in and who it was targeted at. Needless to say I now love it now that I've already studied it and read it, and now when I re-read it I can enjoy it more than study it.

Poe, well... :D He more often takes a kind of... I want to say fantastical and romantic mindset, although romantic not being used in its current-day slaughtered definition. Does that kind of make sense? I felt that he isn't so much about context, as Shakespeare is, as style and approach, itself. It's kind of hard to explain.

Anyway, your avy is full of win. I thought I would share that.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I really shouldn't have gotten the unabridged version of Don Quixote. :(

[Fathom Zero]

I'm going to buy One-upmanship, I've decided. :posh

[Tadao]

I tried really hard to read Macbeth. It came with all kinds of wonderful notes and explanations. I used to read it on the beach all day, but it really was taxing on me. I might try Poe again if it was on my girlfriends coffee table and she was in the shower.

Dante's Divine Comedy was a great read too. I also think I will be hard pressed to find a better Avatar.

[kahljorn]

you can always just watch throne of blood instead :O

[elx]

i'm reading Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
she's so great :)

[sspadowsky]

I am currently using this:
http://www.taudiobook.com/catalog/images/Pride_and_Prejudice.jpg

to get to this:
http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2009/03/30/PPZquirk.jpg

[captain516]

Catcher In The Rye.

[ZeldaQueen]

I tried really hard to read Macbeth. It came with all kinds of wonderful notes and explanations. I used to read it on the beach all day, but it really was taxing on me.

I never had much trouble with Shakespeare but then I only really read it in my Lit classes with teachers who took time to point out the various dirty little jokes the Bard put in there (like the rape threats in Midsummer Night's Dream).

On the other hand, I really can't get into the historic Shakespeare stuff.

@ sspadowsky - If you finish that, you should consider Sense and Sensibility and Sea Serpents.

[sspadowsky]

Thanks for the tip, ZQ. By the bye, I would like to state that I will gouge out my own eyes, stuff the sockets with hand grenades, and detonate them simultaneously before I EVER read another Jane Austen book.

[Zhukov]

The television adaptations of Jane Austen are always superior, I think.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200911-omag-books-john-cusack?cnn=yes

:lol Who cares?

[ZeldaQueen]

Thanks for the tip, ZQ. By the bye, I would like to state that I will gouge out my own eyes, stuff the sockets with hand grenades, and detonate them simultaneously before I EVER read another Jane Austen book.
No problem. I'm surprised there aren't more like that written. It's inspired me to work on Hamlet and Werewolves.

But like Zhukov said, the movie and TV adaptations tend to be easier to follow.

[Krythor]

About to start 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess by Stewart Home and Samuel Beckett's Trilogy.

[Ant10708]

About to start 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess by Stewart Home and Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. that book is pretty bad

[Krythor]

Which one? And in what way?

[elx]

recently finished A Mathematician's Apology, hardy was so great :)

[WarpSpasm]

Just finished Stephen King's Cujo, oh how a masterful freak like him can weave a scary book. I had a couple Horrorgasms, which is why I keep coming back to him.

Now I'm moving onto Dante's Inferno and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

[Zhukov]

Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Hegel.

Don't let the title fool you; it's actually really boring.

[Fathom Zero]

:lol

The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. The strangest little paperback I've ever "read". I would almost have thought it written recently, except for the fact that it predates anything resembling the internet.

[Krythor]

Finished 69 Things, have begun Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille and The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. I also plan to start and finish Passages by Ann Quin in the next couple of days. It's quite short.

[Krythor]

Also, I read a tiny bit of Beckett's Trilogy and gave up. Not in the right frame of mind for it.

69 Things was not particularly enjoyable, but it wasn't meant to be, and I found it quite interesting.

[Ant10708]

I was talking about 69 things. I found it to be far from interesting and a horrible read.

How do you read so many books in such a short period of time? Do you forsake school or work to read or have some awesome job where ur paid to read books?

[Krythor]

I do an english degree that I'm about to finish and read pretty much all day every day.

[Ant10708]

whats one of your favorite books?

[Krythor]

Ulysses by James Joyce is my favourite book. WHY?

[kahljorn]

isnt the story of the eye

the one about the girl who like takes peoples eyes out of their head and masturbates with them or something

[Krythor]

I haven't got that far yet, but based on what I have read it sounds likely.

[captain516]

I re-read Of Mice and Men, and had a mental image of a huge retarded guy snapping Tadao's neck..

[Tadao]

:lol

[Fathom Zero]

:lol

[BatmanJohnson]

Currently Reading: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.

[MrSmiley381]

Still haven't made any progress with the Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Have a quarter of The Color of Magic to read.
Still on The Restaurant at The End of The Universe.
Just started Neuromancer.

Hooray for reader's ADD!

[Ant10708]

Ulysses by James Joyce is my favourite book. WHY?
why the fuck not? Its called finding out what others find to be good reads so you can read them yourself. I don't have unlimited time like you to read thousands of books so I like to read ones that people have suggested to me in order to avoid shitty books.

[Lord Lonic]

http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/smbsstitle.jpg

[executioneer]

ColoUr of Magic

>:

[Krythor]

why the fuck not? Its called finding out what others find to be good reads so you can read them yourself. I don't have unlimited time like you to read thousands of books so I like to read ones that people have suggested to me in order to avoid shitty books.

I thought you were asking to be a dick. Well, it's a good book.

[captain516]

I love retrojunk.com
Never heard of it, who's the author

[Lord Lonic]

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1586/smbsslogojx7.jpg

Fat Mario Heads

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Choke by Chuck "Shades" Palahniuk.

[King Hadas]

I was going to start another thread for this but I think I'll just ask here. I've been trying to remember the name of a book that was recommended to me a while ago. The story's told from the perspective of a mean, bitter old woman whom the book is also named after. I'm pretty sure it's an older novel but I'm not sure about that. Also the word Aunt might be in the title but once again I'm not certain.

[RaNkeri]

Finished Richard Matheson's 'Incredible shrinking man' & 'Nightmare at 20000 feet' short story collection during my stay with the folks.

Starting Joseph Heller's Catch-22 again, trying to finish it this time

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Starting Joseph Heller's Catch-22 again, trying to finish it this time

I really want to read Catch 22. It took me a long time to sit down and watch the movie which I loved. Once again though I'm sure the book is tons better.

[Zhukov]

I just finished Look to Windward by Ian M Banks about 5 minutes ago, it's the second last in his The Culture series, the last being Matter, which I have ordered and am hoping it arrives here soon.

I guess I've got a few days to kill before it gets here, so I'll probably slip back into pointlessly reading War and Peace, or some boring shit about economics, knowing my next Sci-Fi fix is just around the corner.

[Pentegarn]

I just finished The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind. I am surprised how far after his original series he went with this. While I liked it, I thought the ending was far too abrupt and I would have liked to see the story dragged out to a three book series like he did with the Chainfire storyline.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7wd12zq5Tos/Sp86gVIdjMI/AAAAAAAABTk/Xl6rJMHrvkQ/s400/penguin.jpg

[captain516]

The Aamzing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, good stuff.

[BatmanJohnson]

Breathers: A zombies Lament. Excellent book, thought it was going to be terrible. It is however quite good. I'd recommend it.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[YellowSub287]

George Carlin's Napalm and Silly Putty.

[Pentegarn]

I might have that book. All I remember is when I read it I thought to myself, 'He told these jokes in his stand up already'

[Grislygus]

I just gave my copy away to the goodwill, if i had wanted recycled material i would have bought a book by dennis miller

[Zombie Loaf]

Bram Stoker's Dracula

[Babs]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

One of the few books that was adapted to a movie perfectly. I swear that the movie is word for word.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

^ That's what I've heard, I've only seen the opening 20 mins of it and that was years ago. Probably going to watch it when I'm done reading it.

[Ant10708]

how have you not seen that movie by now? your missing out

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Its just one of those movies that I'm sure its good but everyones raves about it so I feel inclined to not watch it.
This also goes for:
Memento
Godfathers
Gladiator
Troy.....pretty much any sword and sandal movie in the last 15 years
King kong
A bunch others

When I'm done reading fear and loathing in las vegas I might read the rum diary or finish 1001 nights

[Tadao]

Rum Diary was really entertaining.

[Krythor]

Just started North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and will soon be starting The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Arabian Nights.

[stonewar]

B as in Beauty by Antonio Ferreras (another lame fat girl finds self esteem novel, oddly not written by a woman)

The 'about the author' blurb was funny. A first novel by the performance artist know as "Dr Truth" who sets up booths to answer peoples questions with brutal honesty.

[Krythor]

I'm reading The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor and I'm ashamed that I haven't read any of her writing before. I am thoroughly enjoying it.

[King Hadas]

Flannery O'Connor is great. Another southern, female writer from that time period I like is Carson Mccullers.

Tried to read The Road by Cormac Mccarthy but I couldn't get into it.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I picked up the 1st book of the new dragonlance trilogy and I just can't get into it.

[Tadao]

How did you like 1001 nights?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm only on part three so far. Don't really remember which night that is because there are so many stories inside stories inside other stories around other stories relating to other stories.

I have a bad habit of starting books without finishing them.

Books I have started that need finshing:

The two towers
Carl jung's Man and his symbols
1001 nights
that new dragonlance book
how to speak spanish(possibly te toca a ti)
Becoming a category of one.

Going on vacation next month, maybe I'll finish up one of them at the beach.

[Tadao]

Becoming a category of one?

That title sounds dreadful.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

It really was. It was some book from my work they wanted everyone to read.

[Fathom Zero]

1001 Nights is hilarious. It's the ultimate frame story.

[Zhukov]

The Myth of Sisyphus.


Only just started but I might wait until the end until I end my life.

[kahljorn]

by camus? :O

[Zhukov]

Oui.

[zeldasbiggestfan]

'Bout done with Blood of the Fold, moving on to Temple of the Winds soon. Terry Goodkind has some good stuff out if you're into fantasy.

[Pentegarn]

The series really gets good with Faith of the Fallen. Just make sure you have it handy when you finish Soul of the Fire because the ending of Soul kind of pisses you off. I read them as they came out on hardback and when I got to the end of SotF I was like, "That's it? You're ending the book like that? I am pissed!"

Oh and book 7 (Pillars of Creation) goes off on a huge tangent but the story gets back on track in book 8

[Grislygus]

oh shit, i forgot there was a thread like this

East of Eden
Log from the Sea of Cortez (again)
As I Lay Dying
Cabal (again)

and i just finished Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, and The Pearl (all again), as well as Books of Blood (complete), King's Danse Macabre, Supernatural Horror in Literature and Shadowland... still not sure why Peter Straub is a big deal. Maybe if i finally read Ghost Story

[Esuohlim]

I'm reading Jennifer Government, A Clash of Kings, Guards! Guards!, and Player's Piano right now. I just bought Neil Gaiman's American Gods. :eek

[Grislygus]

guards! guards! is fucking hilarious, how is american gods so far? I've never given two tin shits about gaiman, but i've heard good things about that one from some very smart people

[Tadao]

oh shit, i forgot there was a thread like this

East of Eden
Log from the Sea of Cortez (again)
As I Lay Dying
Cabal (again)

and i just finished Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, and The Pearl (all again), as well as Books of Blood (complete), King's Danse Macabre, Supernatural Horror in Literature and Shadowland... still not sure why Peter Straub is a big deal. Maybe if i finally read Ghost Story

You gonna go t Monterey soon or something?

[Esuohlim]

guards! guards! is fucking hilarious, how is american gods so far? I've never given two tin shits about gaiman, but i've heard good things about that one from some very smart people

I don't know mang, I just bought it :eek But I'm a very smart person as well so I let you know the good things when I get to it.

And Guards! Guards! is amazing. I'm reading the series in chronological order so I had been looking forward to this one

[wizbenny]

Both American Gods and its sequel (of sorts) are quite good. Not as good as Good Omens.

Pretty much the entire Pratchett library is good. "The Nation" was a bit boring, but readable. It wasn't standard fare for Pratchett, so that may have lessened my enjoyment.

Before American Gods I was with you on Gaiman. I had tried Sandman a few times and found it to be boring as hell. Then went back and picked up some of his other works and found that it's his COMICS writing that I don't care for. He was made for novels.

[Esuohlim]

Good Omens is a fantastic book, otherwise I wouldn't know who the fuck Gaiman even is. Neverwhere looked interesting too but I was too poor to buy both :(

[wizbenny]

I always buy my books used off of Amazon or Half.

[Fathom Zero]

I'm about to read The Faggiest Vampire as soon as it gets here. :)

[wizbenny]

Ha. Had to look up if that's real. Looks like it is. Along with the author's other works: The Baby Jesus Butt Plug (http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Jesus-Butt-Plug/dp/0972959823/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278246864&sr=8-2), Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere (http://www.amazon.com/Rampaging-Fuckers-Everything-Shitting-Atmosphere/dp/1933929782/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278246864&sr=8-3) and Satan Burger (http://www.amazon.com/Satan-Burger-Carlton-Mellick-III/dp/0971357234/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278246864&sr=8-5)

[zeldasbiggestfan]

oh shit, i forgot there was a thread like this

East of Eden
Log from the Sea of Cortez (again)
As I Lay Dying
Cabal (again)

and i just finished Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, and The Pearl (all again), as well as Books of Blood (complete), King's Danse Macabre, Supernatural Horror in Literature and Shadowland... still not sure why Peter Straub is a big deal. Maybe if i finally read Ghost Story
Me ma just read Tortilla Flat and she said it was really good. How's East of Eden?

[Grislygus]

all of steinbeck is good. critics generally have serious issues with it, because they're cocksuckers. it's not as good or well-constructed as grapes of wrath so far, that's true, but it IS a great american novel, just as Steinbeck's a great American author.

[Grislygus]

You gonna go t Monterey soon or something?

dude, everyone on these forums knows that I'm practically gay for John Steinbeck

[Grislygus]

which is why it's particularly embarrassing that I've never read east of eden before

[kahljorn]

THERES A HORRIBLE MUSEUM IN MONTEREY DEDICATED TO JOHN STEINBECK

THE GRAPES OF WRATH WAS WRITTEN ABOUT BAKerSFiELD WHICH IS WHERE I LIVE RIGHT NOW :O HIS book WAS BANNED HERE FOR A LONG TIME :lol

[Tadao]

Yeah, I've heard that it's smaller than a bedroom.

[timrpgland]

"The Winter War" by William Durbin. He's my uncle so it's pretty much the only reason I'm checking it out. Most of his novels are for the younger crowd. Historical novel, Soviet Union invading Finland in November 1939.

[wizbenny]

"The Winter War" by William Durbin. He's my uncle so it's pretty much the only reason I'm checking it out. Most of his novels are for the younger crowd. Historical novel, Soviet Union invading Finland in November 1939.

That's very cool. Historical fiction is very tough to do well.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Just finished the last Scott Pilgrim book.

God, what a let down. Wangst got cranked up ("it felt like I was trapped in a river..."), the fights were stupid (and not funny stupid. Just stupid) and the pacing was horrible. I missed reading a fun comic about a guy fighting even exboyfriends with occasional game jokes tucked away in a few pages. Not stupid melodrama. Now I definitely don't want to see the movie.

[Esuohlim]

I've never read a Stephen King book before, so I'm going to try The Stand and see how it goes

Well ok I've read Thinner but that's a Richard Bachman book w/e :rolleyes

[Fathom Zero]

It's gotta be one of the best, really. The Shining and It are good, too.

[Pentegarn]

I've never read a Stephen King book before, so I'm going to try The Stand and see how it goes

Well ok I've read Thinner but that's a Richard Bachman book w/e :rolleyes

"Richard Bachman's" greatest contribution to entertainment was when The Running Man became a movie :lol

[MLE]

Though the best work that King wrote while he was writing as Bachman was The Long Walk. I loved that shit.

[Zhukov]

I've never read a Stephen King book before, so I'm going to try The Stand and see how it goes


Make sure you start at the begining of his career and work your way through while giving us one line reviews.

[Esuohlim]

I was thinking about doing that with I-Mock members in reverse alphabetical order

[Fathom Zero]

:lol

[Grislygus]

Though the best work that King wrote while he was writing as Bachman was The Long Walk. I loved that shit.

as soon as i saw the crack about the running man the FIRST THING i thought of was WHAT ABOUT THE LONG WALK

[Nick]

Some shitty webcomic called Wayward Sons.

[wizbenny]

At least you're reading.

Meanwhile I've been reading Lackadaisy Cats (http://www.lackadaisycats.com/)with my daughter. The author gave me a book at SDCC, and it's some pretty amazing stuff... I'm not typically into anthropomorphic stuff, but the artist has real talent which gets me past that barrier. I can recommend it.

I also started reading an interesting Webcomic called OUT THERE (http://outthere.keenspot.com/)from R.C. Monroe. He was at my booth, and I got a chance to peruse his stuff. Again, not the typical fare I'd read, but pretty good focus on characterization, not artwork.

I picked up several novels from the Del Ray and Tor booths as well, but haven't dove into those just yet.

[wizbenny]

I've never read a Stephen King book before, so I'm going to try The Stand and see how it goes

Well ok I've read Thinner but that's a Richard Bachman book w/e :rolleyes

The thing that frustrates me with Stephen King is... he's brilliant at creating concepts and characterization... but he FAILS to outline his plots or where to take them.

So it's invariably enjoyable right up to the climax, and then the whole thing seems to meander and fall apart. He has great beginnings and middles, but AWFUL endings.

I don't think I've EVER read a Stephen King book (and I've read a lot) and gone, "What a satisfying ending..." The best I've managed to say was, "Well... that was... different."

[Pentegarn]

I'm going to say you are wrong because of Shawshank Redemption


Which is more of a novella, but still

[wizbenny]

Yeah I mean novels since that was what was being discussed. His novellas are typically better constructed... Guess I should have specified.

Mind you, I enjoy them overall, but disappointed in the finales.

[Fathom Zero]

I like a lot of his non-supernatural thriller stuff. Fo' realsy

[Esuohlim]

Well since I'm the kind of person who enjoys reading books and cares more about the journey than the destination, I'm not going to be put off by bad endings as long as most of the overall book is good. I'm about 400 pages into the Stand and it's incredible so far, btw.

[Fathom Zero]

Trashcan Man is one of my favorite characters in anything ever.

[wizbenny]

Bombedy bombedy bomb.

The Dark Tower series was very cool in that it tied a lot of his books together into one kind of psuedo-continuity. Ending sucked tho... which, he even SAYS will suck with a disclaimer for anyone reading it. Seriously. Kind of insulting.

Still, there's no denying he's a good writer... he just needs an equally good editor to pin him down to endings that make sense and he'd be a perfect writer. LOL.

Everyone needs a sounding board... in my opinion. Unfortunately (as demonstrated by Lucas) when you're surrounded by sycophants and yes-men... too afraid of upsetting the 800 lb gorilla... you're left with bland creative from otherwise talented people.

[Fathom Zero]

I don't think it's easy to end a magnum opus.

[Grislygus]

the dark tower series is very simple. as soon as stephen king wrote himself into it, as a character, it solidified as crap.

It's archetypal Dune Syndrome; everything gets too damn big, everything gets explained even as more questions are raised, the explained again, everything gets lost in the muddle, everything gets ridiculous in a hurry and then the whole damn series collapses in on itself in a ludicrous, quivering pile of What The Hell Was THAT Crap

[Grislygus]

psuedo-continuity, my ass. Occasionally, continuity wouldbe briefly hinted at in books like Cujo (yes... and It). From there, connections were firmly established in Insomnia.

Unfortunately, all that was just too damn interesting and subtle, so we get beaten over the head with ZOMG ROLAND ACTUALLY MET STEPHEN KING AND TOLD HIM THAT EVERY STORY HE EVER WROTE WOULD ACTUALLY BE ABOUT THE DARK TOWER LET'S ALL GO TO BARNES AND NOBLE AND GEEK OUT TOGETHER

[Pentegarn]

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[King Hadas]

I'm with Milhouse on the journey being over the destination. Even though I remember most of what happened in the Dark Tower series I can't actually recall why they were going there in the first place. As for King introducing himself into the the series, meh. The chapter describing the guy who runs Stephen King over is really funny. You'd think after having so many people run over in Maximum Overdrive he'd be more philosophical about it happening to himself.

[wizbenny]

I don't think it's easy to end a magnum opus.

If it doesn't have a good ending, can it by definition BE a magnum opus? Or is it merely an "almost" magnum opus?

[wizbenny]

psuedo-continuity, my ass. Occasionally, continuity wouldbe briefly hinted at in books like Cujo (yes... and It). From there, connections were firmly established in Insomnia.

You are aware what the word "psuedo" means, correct? Because you say "my ass" then agree with its appellation.

[Grislygus]

psuedo-continuity, my ass. It WAS a pseudo-continuity until is was firmly established as an ACTUAL continuity in a single furious act of literary masturbation

[Grislygus]

in other words, read the wole damn thing. to make things clearer:


BEFORE

"Huh. it's all clues that point to this story having something to do with these other stories that he wrote, which in turn distantly tie into the same multi-verse that encapsulates the dark tower storyline."

AFTER

"I AM STEPHEN KING. I AM IN MY OWN BOOK. EVERYTHING HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE DARK TOWER. EVERYTHING IS A PART OF THE DARK TOWER. DARK TOWER DARK TOWER DARK TOWER"

[kahljorn]

:lol
have you guys seen that family guy called, "the three kings?"

[wizbenny]

Well... not to get into semantics (because who want's to be accused of anti-semantism?) but no, it's not a real "continuity." Continuity is something that's a continuous narrative. Dark Tower isn't even a "shared world" (which is also different than a continuity). Dark Tower's a literary device that "intersects" each of these worlds as alternate realities... thereby creating (within Dark Tower only) a sort of psuedo-continuity. It's continuous narrative WITHIN Dark Tower, but outside of it, it's not.

I do, however, agree that adding himself into it was purely masturbatory. I swear that ever since he got hit by that car, EVERYTHING seems to be about people getting hit by cars while running. See Kingdom Hospital? Sheesh. Get over it! One traumatic experience and everything has to be centered around it?

I just hope he doesn't stub his toe really bad... or we might get a string of novels about monsters that stub people's toes when they're not looking.

[King Hadas]

To be fair it wasn't a small thing. He was seriously injured and his body is still fucked up because of it. I think I read in "On Writing" that he can't sit down for too long because his body starts to hurt to much.

Right now I'm reading 'The Belgariad IV: Castle of Wizardry'. It's good.

[Fathom Zero]

Yeah. PSH. Almost dying and having a traumatic experience that he can draw from in future narratives. Who does this guy think he is?

[wizbenny]

Yeah. PSH. Almost dying and having a traumatic experience that he can draw from in future narratives. Who does this guy think he is?

Is this i-mockery, or i-whine? LOL.

Seriously though... I think there's a one-personal-trauma-inspired work limit law or something. If I get shot in the foot, I don't get to have more than one story I write involve the intricacies of getting shot in the foot.

[Pentegarn]

Write what you know :lol

[TheCoolinator]

Batman - Trying to collect a few more No Man's Land. Just got the one where Joker blasts Sarah Gordon.

Wolverine's Origins - 39 and 40, where he fights Romulus

Flash - 83 from 1993

and found this little used book store that sells them for 33 cents each. I think I bought the best ones out of the boxes that he has. Some obscure ones like Secret Origins, Elf Quest, ROM, and Blue Devil. All 80's comics and all of them in very good shape.

[Esuohlim]

BE CAREFUL, THAT INK COULD KILL YOU

[TheCoolinator]

Paperbacks -

Flinx in Flux

and

Ecology of Devastation: Indochina by John Lewallen

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The Far side - Night of the crash test dummies.

[Fathom Zero]

12 preview pages of the Fallout: New Vegas graphic novel. S'aright.

[Krythor]

I just finished reading How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian by Stewart Lee. Very funny, and at times quite interesting, but I am a huge Stewart Lee fan so I was never going to be dissapointed, and I love annotations and hearing the true stories behind where jokes come from. It's essentially an audio commentary in book form for his first three stand-up shows that have been made available on DVD (stand-up comedian, 90s comedian and 41st best stand-up ever), with chapters between each in which he talks about the relevent events of his life that lead up to each of the shows.

I have a huge amount of books on my shelf waiting to be read, but I have been trying to get through Blood Brothers by Richard Price, which is a good book, but just not what I have really been in the mood for recently. It's slow going but I refuse to read anything else now until it's done. After that I have to finish reading Wiseblood by Flannery O'Connor because I got halfway through that before I started reading Blood Brothers. I am an impatient, self-sabotaging reader.

Oh yeah, recently I read Donnie Brasco too. That was fun.

[Fathom Zero]

Bonfire of the Vanities

[Shadowdancer21b]

Fool by Christopher Moore. It's a retelling of King Lear from the perspective of Pocket, Lear's fool. It's funny and good.

[Esuohlim]

Christopher Moore captured my interest once but I haven't given him a shot yet because I'm afraid his books will be really dumb and I don't want to embarrass myself by admiting that I gave him a shot :(

[Shadowdancer21b]

I think he's funny. For a starter I recommend "The Stupidest Angel". It's got zombies.

[Pentegarn]

I read Bloodsucking Fiends and Lamb. I haven't read anything else of his though. My GF is really into his books

[Fathom Zero]

nvU9mvDyi0o

[Shadowdancer21b]

I read Bloodsucking Fiends and Lamb. I haven't read anything else of his though. My GF is really into his books

I LOVED Lamb.

[Shadowdancer21b]

Babycakes is also awesome.

[captain516]

Batmanga-The Secret History of Batman In Japan

[Zomboid]

Going to finish Hellboy vol. 10 and then MAYBE start Under the Dome. It's a biiiig fucker.

[captain516]

Batmanga kinda sucked.:( Still worth reading for the novelty, though.

[Zhukov]

I'm eating fried rice off of a bus time-table with a steak knife.

[MLE]

Wrong thread

[The Doctor]

Treasure Island found a copy of it and Tom Sawyer in my parents basement, so i figured I would give them a read. I am enjoying Treasure Island it has obvious plot twists but an enjoyable read.

[Shadowdancer21b]

I'm reading "A Dirty Job" by Christopher Moore. It's a bit emotional but still some laughs to be found. Not one his best though.

[Zhukov]

Wrong thread
Even after reading the last two pages, I still felt the need to get it wrong :(

[MLE]

I respect that.

[Dr. Boogie]

Just finished reading "A Dark Sacrifice", a fantasy novel I picked out of the bargain bin at Borders.

It was a surprisingly interesting read, and it ended on a big cliffhanger. Unfortunately, when I say it "ended", I mean it really ended. It didn't sell well, so the author never wrote any more books in the series. So nothing was ever wrapped up.

How's that legal?

[The Doctor]

Just picked up The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S Thompson

[Shadowdancer21b]

Reading "Chill Factor". A novel in the Deathlands series by James Axler. Not highbrow by any means, but entertaining. Also avoid the Deathlands movie. It's a Syfy original and therefore blows.

[Zomboid]

Finished Under the Dome a little over a week ago. It was pretty gosh-darned good!

[Zhukov]

That's good!

I'm reading Guantanamo, by David Hicks. He was an Australian wrongly detained in Guantanamo Bay for 6 years and tortured. It's pretty horrible the stuff they did to him, and I feel really ashamed that this kind of thing goes on.

[Shadowdancer21b]

Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor. Yes this novel inspired the series, and yes, there are differences. The novel has a considerably darker tone. I mean really, really much grimmer. The characters are identical in their portrayal however, so that was good to see. I hate it when characters get changed in the transition, but Naylor wrote the television script too, so we saw none of that. Much of the book is in the series, but it goes more into Lister's backstory and also there is quite a bit that didn't make it into the series, such as the evolution of the cats and what their holy war was about (not the color of the hats at the hotdog stand, but rather the name of Holy Mother Frankenstein's protector and their savior. Cloister or Clister.) It was an entertaining read, but I was depressed at the end. It's very well written too. So I give it four out of five.

[Fathom Zero]

Found my copy of Love All The People. It's funny, reading stand-up bits.

[Esuohlim]

I read through Deadeye Dick in one sitting this morning. IT IS NOT ABOUT DICKS. Recommended

[Fathom Zero]

derecommended

[Esuohlim]

Pffft

[kahljorn]

Dickommended

[Zhukov]

Metro 2033. I heard it was 'alright' but not great, but the allure of a Russian author sucked me in. It's alright so far.

It has the usual Russian literary charm involving lots of exclamation marks and oft lost in translation descriptive writing, but there's a good portion of the book where the author must have gotten bored and just decided to skip ahead with the story and not bother writing about boring bits or things that must have been too difficult to explain, or that he couldn't figure out continuation for.

[Ex Leper]

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas the newest book by Lewis Black

[executioneer]

Metro 2033. I heard it was 'alright' but not great, but the allure of a Russian author sucked me in. It's alright so far.

It has the usual Russian literary charm involving lots of exclamation marks and oft lost in translation descriptive writing, but there's a good portion of the book where the author must have gotten bored and just decided to skip ahead with the story and not bother writing about boring bits or things that must have been too difficult to explain, or that he couldn't figure out continuation for.
how's it compare to the game

[Zhukov]

Well I haven't played the game, but my brother has it and he's going to lend it to me or copy it or whatever.

It got better towards the end, then a bit stupid, then alright, then good, then it was over. The book, that is.

[Dr. Boogie]

Just started reading Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down.

I never expected a book by two MMA fighters to be this funny. If fighting doesn't work out for Forrest Griffin, he could be the next Maddox.