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BOOKS. whatcha readin...?

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:41 am
by darkwingduck
MOD EDIT: MAKING THIS A STICKY BY POPULAR DEMAND

-MR MANAGER


im about 100 pages deep into a 800+ Dan Simmons novel. THE TERROR.

holy shit! this book is a fucking crazy edge of your seat, page turner.

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Re: BOOKS. whatcha readin...?

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:42 am
by The Drunken Poet
darkwingduck wrote:im about 100 pages deep into a 800+ Dan Simmons novel. THE TERROR.

holy shit! this book is a fucking crazy edge of your seat, page turner.

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I like the cover... I always judge a book by its cover.

Re: BOOKS. whatcha readin...?

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:51 am
by darkwingduck
The Drunken Poet wrote:
I like the cover... I always judge a book by its cover.
the quote on the back says it all about the author...

"I am in awe of Dan Simmons." - Stephen King.

i grabbed the book from the bargin bin at B&N for $5. Hardcover.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:07 am
by Dan
I'm reading

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It's taking me a while cause I read a chapter, then listen to that particular CD that the chapter covered.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:55 am
by NovaLux
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It's quick reading though, and I don't know what's next.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:59 am
by Comedy Quaddafi
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:13 am
by Sylissez
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Keep reading it every now and then. Was into it at first, then lost it, then read Slapstick by Vonnegut, so I'm trying to work myself back into a frame of mind for this.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:09 am
by blastmaster
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:10 am
by blastmaster
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:23 am
by Comedy Quaddafi
Does Irvine Welsh write about anything but British Junkies? :lol:

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:57 am
by bringinoutbangerz
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shit is OFF THE FUCKING CHAIN

also just finished:
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my sixth consecutive Pelecanos. Had to weed off of him for a bit. The Derek Strange series is required reading.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:15 am
by Trademark
re-reading the Road by McCarthy.....Not sure I got it the first time..

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:36 am
by cascarrabias
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Hari Seldon is that motherfucker.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:42 am
by Y@k Bollocks
Blastmaster - how is that Irvine Welsh book?

Just read the 4 Rabbit books back to back - some of the best books i've ever read...
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Finished this the other day and it blew ma' mind...
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Halfway through this and its great...
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:48 am
by ALASKA
just finished brooklyn follies by paul auster. pretty good.

working on fear and loathing in america - the gonzo letters vol. 2 by hunter s. thompson.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:50 am
by CRASH DDZ
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:53 am
by torchETB
Just finished this
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and then took a break because reading is a lot harder than watching TV with my mouth hanging open.

Looking for a new read though. Might pick up The Terror per darkwingduck's endorsement; the title sounds promising.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:58 am
by Trademark
I love dispatches, there is a great book on Stanley Kubrick and directing, basically a series of interviews, and in one of them Kubrick said he read dispatches and called Herr, said he loved the book but it could never be a film but he badly wanted to collaborate. The two along with Gustav Hasford ended up writing Full Metal Jacket.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:58 am
by b0mbs_of_death
torchETB wrote:Just finished this
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and then took a break because reading is a lot harder than watching TV with my mouth hanging open.

Looking for a new read though. Might pick up The Terror per darkwingduck's endorsement; the title sounds promising.
Neal Stephenson is super dope. Check out that diamond age

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:30 pm
by slimebucato
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Comprising two distinct but interrelated plots, the narrative runs back and forth between the two, taking up each plotline in alternating chapters.

The odd chapters tell Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu, run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the androgynous Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of A Thousand and One Nights and the collected works of Natsume Sōseki until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with a brutal murder.

The even chapters tell Nakata's story. Due to his uncanny abilities, he has found part-time work in his old age as a finder of lost cats (a clear reference to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle). The case of one particular lost cat puts him on a path that ultimately takes him far away from his home, ending up on the road for the first time in his life. He befriends a truck-driver named Hoshino. Hoshino takes him on as a passenger in his truck and soon becomes very attached to the old man.

Nakata and Kafka are on a collision course throughout the novel, but their convergence takes place as much on a metaphysical plane as it does in reality and, in fact, that can be said of the novel itself. Due to the Oedipal theme running through much of the novel, Kafka on the Shore has been called a modern Greek tragedy.
Wish I got the one with that cover, I like it better. Not my favorite Murakami book so far, but still great.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:14 pm
by RacquetballGangsta
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funnest read ive had in a while...educates u a bit about eating out/cooking too. dude is a really really entertaining, sometimes eloquent writer.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:16 pm
by ALASKA
RacquetballGangsta wrote:Image

funnest read ive had in a while...educates u a bit about eating out/cooking too. dude is a really really entertaining, sometimes eloquent writer.
that was a good book. i've eaten at his restaurant a few times. pretty killer.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:26 pm
by drizzle
the foundation is the shit, sequels start to diminish in quality. the one with the Mule is the best one

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:16 pm
by GM Dizzy Skillespie
just finished:
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
can't wait for the movie... book was a quick read too.
I'm just going to start reading all his shit.

currently:
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
i was entranced by Tropic of Cancer... Capricorn hasn't caught me though, probably because he actually has a job in this book and writes about it for the first 60pgs.
still, he throws in some incredible passages that keep me going.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:24 pm
by AWAE
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:58 pm
by b0mbs_of_death
Gettin my nerd on

Richard Hamilton - Judas Unchained
Charles Stross - Singulariey Sky

and NCLEX books.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:09 pm
by RacquetballGangsta
ALASKA wrote:
RacquetballGangsta wrote:Image

funnest read ive had in a while...educates u a bit about eating out/cooking too. dude is a really really entertaining, sometimes eloquent writer.
that was a good book. i've eaten at his restaurant a few times. pretty killer.
man, i would love to go to his restaurant..pretty expensive or what?

do u watch his show on the travel channel? shit is DOPE

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:04 pm
by blastmaster
Y@k Bollocks wrote:Blastmaster - how is that Irvine Welsh book?
The conclusion is kinda predictable and rushed, but its a solid, very fun read. If you like his older stuff, its similar. A little more tame, but its still an Irvine Welsh novel. There is a cool male on male rape scene.

I am about to crack open Fury by Salman Rushdie.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:29 pm
by Sebastian gets busy
breaking the spell - daniel c dennet

ancient egypt: the light of the world - gerald massey

anton checkov - collected works

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:29 pm
by Sebastian gets busy
drizzle wrote:the foundation is the shit, sequels start to diminish in quality. the one with the Mule is the best one
I agree