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Re: Books and shit

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:57 pm
by creakyAccordion
I'm in the middle of the first draft of On the Road right now and wow I love this

especially where they spent a couple of days with William S Burroughs that was so cool

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:24 pm
by Tales
it's been ages since I read any dystopian fiction so I just finished reading The Running Man by Stephen King and it was really good.

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:28 pm
by shazza
The guy Kyle co-leased from last year gave him a big stack of books to read when he moved. Kyle doesn't read so we just stuck them on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf until the other day when I got tired of the shelf looking messy and organized it. Turns out these are Michael Chrichton books and they look pretty good. Started reading one 3-in-1 book if for no other reason than it contains Sphere which I've wanted to read for a while >>

Of course Sphere is the middle book so right now I'm reading the first one, Congo, and it's interesting so far. I like how it's apparently based off of a thing that actually happened!

Unfortunately not one of the three compilation volumes contains Jurassic Park. I'm so disappointed.

it has an actual talking communicating parrot

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:39 pm
by Exeres
Do you have Chrichton's Next? It got shit reviews for being somewhat more political than his others, but I thought it was a fun read.

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 2:52 pm
by Terraem
Oh Science of Discworld, what can't you teach me?

fat and craven yes that is me

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:19 pm
by Exeres
Samwell Tarly is the first fictional character that I've truly identified with in a long while.

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:03 pm
by Terraem
I've finished 3 books in just as many days. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman and The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska by John Green.

Tell me how to hold all these feels. Will John Green ever write a book where characters I like don't die?!

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:30 am
by shazza
^ probably not lol



i have been trucking through my 3-in-one book and im on the last one now. I REALLY liked Congo...then it just kinda. fell? like the end was just like oh ok its over now lol we're cool. there wasn't really a climax

sphere was great though. im glad i finally got to read it

now i'm on eaters of the dead. interesting so far - i like how it's written in first person and set up like a journal. i think i'm gonna be disappointed at its length though - it's probably only barely longer than a novella.

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:08 am
by Dedivax
I have finally managed to buy and read This Book is Full of Spiders and while it's pretty different from John Dies, I think it's just as great and the three different narrators make up for all the gruesome-slapstick humor Spiders lacked.

great time freezes how imaginative

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:45 am
by Exeres
Yeah, Spiders was more of a standalone horror story, while the first book was kind of a sillier anthology-like setup. Both good, but I was somewhat disappointed that the soy sauce was handled so differently.

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:13 am
by Dedivax
To Be or Not To Be is being shipped next week, did anyone beside me pledge to the kickstarter?

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:36 pm
by creakyAccordion
I didn't pledge to the kickstarter but I did buy a signed copy at comic con on friday.

It is so good

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:33 pm
by Dedivax
creakyAccordion wrote:I didn't pledge to the kickstarter but I did buy a signed copy at comic con on friday.

It is so good
Lucky, I'm gonna get it later than everyone else because I bought it from breadpig.com :I

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:22 am
by Kergan
In case some of you haven't seen this : http://chuckpalahniuk.net/news/chuck-pa ... fight-club
I don't know for you, but I have a mitigated feeling about this.

Re: Books and shit

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:38 pm
by creakyAccordion
Kergan wrote:In case some of you haven't seen this : http://chuckpalahniuk.net/news/chuck-pa ... fight-club
I don't know for you, but I have a mitigated feeling about this.
>The end of Tyler Durden, living inside Jack

an interesting thing evidenced by this statement: it's going off of the movie's canon, not the book's canon considering that in the book Jack kills himself in the process of killing Tyler

also in the book the narrator's name is assumed to be Joe, not Jack so there's another thing that points to that.

I'm interested, I wouldn't really say excited but I want to see where it goes