MaxPower Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Just finished 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks. Very entertaining read. I haven't read fiction in a long time and really enjoyed this. I laughed, I cried, I got angry, all in all a very easy read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 I'm taking three literature classes this semester: British Literature I, Literature of the British Renaissance, and Milton. I'm going to be posting in this thread a lot in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 I've started And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer. I won't be finishing it. It's the newest (2009? I think?) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book since Douglas Adams' death, by the Artemis Fowl guy, and it's terrible. Not in a "It's not Adams and therefore heresy" way, but more of a "this is painfully, wretchedly unfunny" way. If your lights go out, and you have nothing to do but read, and you get a few chapters into your book and realize that you would rather be staring blankly at the wall than continue what you're reading, then you are not reading a very good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 I'm taking three literature classes this semester: British Literature I, Literature of the British Renaissance, and Milton. I'm going to be posting in this thread a lot in the near future. My Milton class - with Canada's leading Miltonist and the school's infamously hardest marker - was one of the most difficult and rewarding classes I ever took. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 I have finished Weston Ochse's "Empire of Salt." A zombie novel that takes place in the Salton Sea which is just plain fucking great! I hope to have him on the show soon. I'm almost done rereading "Haunted Air" by F. Paul Wilson putting me almost halfway through the Repairman Jack books on my quest to read them all in a row culminating in the final book. A scene I blazed through on first read, had me in tears on the second. Great stuff. Started Ten Cent Plague, Nightmare USA, and soon starting Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Every spring quarter my school offers a Milton class which then involves a marathon reading of Paradise Lost in the lobby of the English building. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Been reading Chris Mullin's second volume of memoirs Decline and Fall. Mullin was an MP for Sunderland and former Africa Minister for the UK, and his detailed and very personal memoirs are tremendously interesting. He has some great personal perspectives on many of Britain's most significant political players from someone who worked alongside them, for them and against them. It's frankly brilliant, detailing his experiences from his local constituents to his personal relationships with Africa's most prominant leaders and his own fall from grace due to his unwillingness to fully support Blair or Brown during his party's transitional period in the mid to late 2000's. A must read for those interested in political life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted October 29, 2011 Report Share Posted October 29, 2011 Just finished Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Really good read, I'll definitely get his other works and read them. Next on the list is Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Time to visit the parents again and you know what that means: A ton of books ready to read. This year we got: Pressure by Jeff Strand Side Jobs by Jim Butcher Ghost Story by Jim Butcher The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde Straight Man by Richard Russo The Point Man by Steve Englehart The Crying of Lot 47 by Thomas Pynchon The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein (Haven't reread it since 5th grade. Same copy I had then even.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobob_100 Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Started reading The Hunger Games. I haven't read a book in maybe three years, I've read audio books and comic books, but no actual books in three years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted November 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Currently, Everything Is Illuminated. I'm thinking of trying a Jeff Strand book. Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Pressure. That was the first book of his I read and I loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 What Chris said. Read it a few days ago. Fucking awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted November 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 Because it was free in iBooks, I just read the short story "Specimen 313." I loved it so much I had to leave a review. Next, I think I'll give Pressure a try. Thanks, all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 You damn yankees and your free iTunes assortment! No Specimen 313 up here... Pressure, I've said all I should about it. One of my favorite novels of all time. Absolutely heart-wrenching. Suspenseful as all fuck. And pretty funny at times too. Jeff: "Suspenseful as all fuck" has to be on the the trade dressing of any future printings of Pressure. I command it. Dweller is an equally heart-wrenching tale about a boy and his monster. Benjamin's Parasite is a hilarious body horror novel. Those are my three Strand recommendations for a place to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Okay, got home and here's my update on what I read. Pressure by Jeff Strand - Fucking awesome. I can see what the deal was and I'm kinda bad I haven't read this sooner. Thrilling and fucking emotional. Side Jobs by Jim Butcher - A collected edition of Dresden Files short stories. Not bad. Ghost Story by Jim Butcher - An exploration of the afterlife in a series that already had a pretty rich mythology. It ends on another cliffhanger. Don't know how I feel about that. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - I can't wait for the movie. I thought it would be a Battle Royale rip-off and while it has elements of it, it's more than that also. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell - Still working on it. Funny, just had other things to do. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - Some more fantastic Gaiman. It's one of his children's books but that means little. It's still a great story. One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde - Like the previous books in the Thursday Next series, it's porn for English majors. Its also so insanely meta that I can see it giving someone a headache. Straight Man by Richard Russo - I got a couple of pages in before I knew this was fated for my next Half-Priced Books purge. The Point Man by Steve Englehart - Didn't buy and it's still sitting in the store. The Crying of Lot 47 by Thomas Pynchon - 50 pages in before I stopped this time. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein - Rereading for the first time since I was a kid. It's not as good as I remember. Really, The Lord of the Rings was the more mature book. It's not bad, its just that its writing for a younger audience sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 I can seriously count on one hand the number of books I've started and not finished. If I start a book, I see it through to the end. I am very seriously considering chucking Simon Pegg's autobiography, though. I'm halfway through and he's still in grade school. I'm a huge fan, but GOD is this book dull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 The Catcher in the Rye. Had never read this before and while travelling through Laos and Cambodia over the break I had to buy a couple of books for the trip. Really enjoyed it and was travelling with a high school teacher who had just done it with his class the previous year (for probably the 100th time) so was good to discuss it with him. Now on to 1984 in another classics catch-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 I just finished Ender's Game. I was a little hesitant to read it because of all the controversy around the author being anti gay marriage. I'm glad I did. The book wasn't that bad, but after reading it I'm convinced he is gay. If I didn't know ahead of time I might have not noticed all the allusions to male body parts, and naked fight scenes. The tender boy on boy kisses hidden as a cultural custom. The fact that there are only two female characters in the book, and it is specifically stated that it's ok that one is naked around everyone because she still looks like a boy. If you look too deep it gets creepy because these kids are 5-12 years old in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 I tend to gloss over the personal politics of creative people whose works I read/watch/play. If they're lynching people in the streets that's one thing, but honestly, if I let myself get offended at everything everyone said, I'd never be able to read/watch/play the majority of media out there. As long as those politics don't cross over and start corrupting the story, I'm cool with it. Free country and all. Tolerance, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 So I'm gearing up to leave in about a week or so, and just curious if anyone has any suggestions for books to download on my Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 What kind of books do you usually go for? Obviously if you're not much for urban fantasy, I'm not going to recommend The Dresden Files. I'm also not sure of what the Kindle's marketplace looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 I keep meaning to start reading Dresden but I always end up getting something else instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 I read pretty much everything, last couple of books I read were: Let Me In Lords of Chaos-Bloody Rise of The Metal Underground With The Old Breed (WW2 memoir) Iwo Jima (another WW2 book) The Complete Marquis De Sade The Divine Comedy Assholes Finish First Illiad and the Odyssey So, as you can see, I read about every genre. So I'm open to any suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 11, 2012 Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 If you haven't read it, Pressure by Jeff Strand. Storm Front by Jim Butcher which is the first book of The Dresden Files The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Dubliners by James Joyce Choke by Chuck Palahnuk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.