BOOKS. whatcha readin...?

Pontius Pilate · Post by **Pontius Pilate** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:52 pm

Read the short 'The Island Of Doctor Moreau' a few weeks ago
Movie sucked, sorry Val Kilmer

deepfriedjellol · Post by **deepfriedjellol** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:11 pm

was late to the hunger games party
tore through book one in 3 days, reading only on the shitter and while waiting for asshole children to stay in bed
enjoyed the shit out of it

360 · Post by **360** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:49 pm

ric wrote:@360
please come back with an assessment to confirm or deny what ive heard

Read all 10 books. It's easy to see why the series is revered as classic and why Jordan is so celebrated. Truly a great series. There are parts where I felt
he was slowing down in his writing but with a 10k page series, it's understandable.

Please don't ask me to compare it to Song of Ice and Fire. I naturally began comparing them but forced myself not to. While both series have similar qualities, the writing styles are vastly different.

Jordan is a better writer but Martin is better at adding that gritty feel to the fantasy world.

ric · Post by **ric** » Fri May 04, 2012 10:03 pm

@360

good memory. thanks for coming back and laying it down.

kato · Post by **kato** » Tue May 08, 2012 6:04 pm

just finished this...pretty fucked up. It's about a serial killer who is attempting to create his own zombie through lobotomy. It's also a quick easy read.

reading:

fuckin great so far!

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Fri May 18, 2012 3:55 am

Ryu Murakami is now my favorite contemporary author (I usually read older stuff so that admittedly doesn't mean much).

Really recommend In The Miso Soup in particular. It's about a guide for sextourists in Tokyo who gets hired by a weird American who he suspects to be a serialkiller. The novel that the movie Audition is based on is also a great read, even if you've seen the film. There's much more depth in the book obviously and many things are quite different.

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Wed May 23, 2012 11:25 am

i'm on a walter isaacson kick lately

just finished the steve jobs authorized biography...great and quick read, very well-organized, and brutally honest (jobs was a crybaby megalomaniac who went on fruitarian diets and attempted to treat his initial diagnosis of cancer with extreme diets and alternative medicine...huge idiotic fail, probably would still be alive if he didn't let his shit grow and metastasize for NINE MONTHS before finally accepting regular treatments/medicine)

just started the einstein biography

just bought the benjamin franklin biography

kato · Post by **kato** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:42 pm

just finished:

enjoyed it very much...got really into the book. Would be a great movie.

starting:

360 · Post by **360** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:53 pm

Oscar Wao is really ood. Enjoy that.

kato · Post by **kato** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:55 am

360 wrote:Oscar Wao is really ood. Enjoy that.

yeah, it was really good. enjoyed it.

just started:

wizeguy · Post by **wizeguy** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:21 am

finished this

pretty much a classic book...about to get into this

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:50 am

Just started reading again recently.

So far I'm through...

Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
End of Faith - Sam Harris
Free Will - Sam Harris

and am currently on

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence - Sgt Rory Miller
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

All are trill and recommended.

I can't fuck with fiction for some reason.

Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:48 am

Moolah wrote:I can't fuck with fiction for some reason.

you just need to punctuate the hyphen, then your dick will sprout wings.

Kiran187 · Post by **Kiran187** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:41 pm

Just finished this:

Great read about why several countries collapsed financially over the last part of the 2000's. Michael Lewis is definitely becoming one of my favorite authors as far as business-related books go. I've read 3-4 of his books and have never been disappointed.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:41 pm

I am astonished that this book was published in 1956, not only ahead of time but beyond the curve

supposedly his other book the demolished man is considered the first cyberpunk novel by many, weird that I never heard of him outside of a google search for sci-fi classics the other week

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:29 pm

Trademark wrote:I read the Hunger Games Trilogy. IF that makes me a faggot so be it, but it was awesome. Every time I thought it would devolve into a high school romance triangle it pulled itself out with some amazing death, violence, and mayhem. I thought it was good shit, did anyone else read these?

Slogged through them a few months ago when I was away and had nothing else to read. Felt like I was reading something written by a gifted thirteen-year-old.

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:57 pm

kato wrote:
360 wrote:Oscar Wao is really ood. Enjoy that.
yeah, it was really good. enjoyed it.

just started:

co-sign on the Wao.

starting this

and this too

ric · Post by **ric** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:22 pm

@alpha
liars poker is top fucking notch for what it is

Kiran187 · Post by **Kiran187** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:35 am

Agreed. I really liked Liar's Poker.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:50 pm

just picked up this

pretty excited for my next poop now

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:30 pm

kato · Post by **kato** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:15 pm

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:18 am

I read that joint back when I was in high school because Chuck Pahlaniuk listed him as an influence. Really excellent use of language, but moved mad slow (at least when I was 16, 17). Maybe I'll revisit.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:33 am

^ Read 'End Zone' if you want a Delillo novel that moves quicker

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:50 am

Sleazoid Express by Bill Landis & Michelle Clifford.

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:12 am

perfectprism wrote:^ Read 'End Zone' if you want a Delillo novel that moves quicker

Sounds pretty good. Thanks for the recommendation.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:12 pm

Currently re-reading this again:

chump change · Post by **chump change** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:01 am

Reason wrote:i'm on a walter isaacson kick lately

just finished the steve jobs authorized biography...great and quick read, very well-organized, and brutally honest (jobs was a crybaby megalomaniac who went on fruitarian diets and attempted to treat his initial diagnosis of cancer with extreme diets and alternative medicine...huge idiotic fail, probably would still be alive if he didn't let his shit grow and metastasize for NINE MONTHS before finally accepting regular treatments/medicine)

just started the einstein biography

just bought the benjamin franklin biography

read the majority of isaacson's stuff... including all three you listed... however.. isaacson does catch some flack for being a revisionist... i really enjoyed einstein's bio

just finished survivor by chuck palahniuk... never been a huge fan of his.. but it was a decent read..

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:44 pm

ric wrote:@alpha
liars poker is top fucking notch for what it is

you can tell it's his first book. I don't remember the writing in "moneyball" being as bad.

chalkdust · Post by **chalkdust** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 4:52 pm

mother night - kurt vonnegut

platos parmenides - constance c meinwald

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