Books and shit

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Terraem]

Oh Science of Discworld, what can't you teach me?

[Exeres]

Samwell Tarly is the first fictional character that I've truly identified with in a long while.

[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?!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Dedivax]

To Be or Not To Be is being shipped next week, did anyone beside me pledge to the kickstarter?

[creakyAccordion]

I didn't pledge to the kickstarter but I did buy a signed copy at comic con on friday.

It is so good

[Dedivax]

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

[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.

[creakyAccordion]

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