What Are You Reading? - Page 116

AlexMcDermott · 05-24-2011, 10:17 PM

If you do the sci-fi thing then you MUST read Ender's Game. WOW this intense look at the nature of warfare, justification of annihilation and final redemption. DO NOT SKIP AHEAD AND READ THE END!!

AlexMcDermott · 05-24-2011, 10:20 PM

It's not the most intellectual book on the shelf, but Max Brooks' World War Z is a lot of fun! Besides, it's one of the few books with a paralyzed character who's not doing everything in the universe to walk again. I could rant all night about that. I even wrote a flash fiction story about it because I was so pissed off. Ok I'm done now. If you need a break from the intense philosophy, try a little zombie apocalypse!

Grausamkeit · 05-25-2011, 10:50 AM

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It's not the most intellectual book on the shelf, but Max Brooks' World War Z is a lot of fun! Besides, it's one of the few books with a paralyzed character who's not doing everything in the universe to walk again. I could rant all night about that. I even wrote a flash fiction story about it because I was so pissed off. Ok I'm done now. If you need a break from the intense philosophy, try a little zombie apocalypse!

I keep hearing good things about this one. I normally read D&D-type scifi.

I'm currently reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Yes, I am a drooling fangirl for this series, regardless of the total lack of reality.

Llyallowyn · 05-25-2011, 04:40 PM

I'll have to browse this more thoroughly once I get myself out of my video game spree. I am currently reading Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin, in which she takes the briefly mentioned young wife of Virgil in The Aenid and fleshes her out and brings her to life. It has been a great read thus far. USually I stick more to sci-fi and fantasy, but I am a big fan of LE Guin's. If anyone has read the Earthsea series and loved her writing style, you'll like this too.

Sinjob · 05-25-2011, 06:04 PM

Devouring Cormac McCarthy's The Road. A bit slow but the language and not to mention consistent breaks are worth it.

Grausamkeit · 05-26-2011, 07:14 PM

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I'll have to browse this more thoroughly once I get myself out of my video game spree. I am currently reading Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin, in which she takes the briefly mentioned young wife of Virgil in The Aenid and fleshes her out and brings her to life. It has been a great read thus far. USually I stick more to sci-fi and fantasy, but I am a big fan of LE Guin's. If anyone has read the Earthsea series and loved her writing style, you'll like this too.

I do like me some Ursula K Le Guin. I will have to jot down that title. Thank you.

Pineapple_Juice · 05-26-2011, 09:24 PM

Nonviolence In Theory and Practice. Had to buy it for a peace studies class a few years ago.

Dont remmber anything sbout that class, except that my teacher ended up hating me aad forbidding me from her class. My notes stop roughly 10 pages in so i guess i ddnt learn muh th first tim.

Goddamn you, touch screen keyboard.

Llyallowyn · 05-26-2011, 09:28 PM

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Goddamn you, touch screen keyboard.

It's the little things in life that get us, right?

CuckooTuli · 05-27-2011, 06:05 AM

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Devouring Cormac McCarthy's The Road. A bit slow but the language and not to mention consistent breaks are worth it.

I saw the film a few weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I assumed that the slowness of the plot meant they'd just make it all action-y, expand the roles of the cannibals, and all that noise. But it was very faithful. Although I don't like what they did with the ending (which, again, is faithful but... well, let me know when you've finished and, if you're remotely interested, I'll tell you what I would like to've seen them do with it).

AlexMcDermott · 05-27-2011, 10:19 AM

I'm only halfway through and this book is already a favorite!! Verland: The Transformation is back to the gothic tradition in literature! This vampire is the isolated outsider and the book's themes are dark, brooding and unbelievably intense! Is immortality the real gift humanity thinks it is? Cannibals as the first vampires? The origins of the Josephus Equation as a vampire's survival? Dark, intense and unsettling! I love this!

http://www.verlandlives.com

AlexMcDermott · 05-27-2011, 10:20 AM

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I keep hearing good things about this one. I normally read D&D-type scifi.

I'm currently reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Yes, I am a drooling fangirl for this series, regardless of the total lack of reality.

Brooks isn't literature, but it's a fun, fast read!

Pineapple_Juice · 05-27-2011, 12:22 PM

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It's the little things in life that get us, right?

Amen. and praise buddha

Saya · 05-30-2011, 07:00 PM

Next school book: Hunting Humans: The Rise Of The Modern Multiple Murderer by Elliott Leyton.

Fruitbat · 05-30-2011, 07:18 PM

Finished Amanda Hocking's Hollowland - man so disappointed with it. It's like she's taken most of the big zombie movies (thinking resident evil, 28 days later) and stuck her character into someone else's reality.

Virus (spread by blood/saliva) makes people into zombies. Girl in quarantine that gets overrun by zombies, lives and goes in search of her brother, along the way kicks loads of zombie butt, comes across the usual people you'd expect to meet along the way - religious zealot, gun totting idiots and a few really nice people...

Yep, it's that predictable, but it has loads of action and is a fast read.

Isabel · 06-01-2011, 01:50 AM

I recently started reading the book on which Dexter TV series is based, and I can say that I like the book way better that the TV series so far

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bigsick · 06-01-2011, 07:16 AM

Priest manga for the 23293293929 time. I was a fan before the movie came out. Sucks that they changed it so much. that's hollywood for you.

Geoluhread · 06-01-2011, 08:40 AM

Rereading Harry Potter and Haruki Murakami's master piece "Kafka on the Shore"

For lack of new interesting material.

Saya · 06-01-2011, 02:51 PM

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Rereading Harry Potter and Haruki Murakami's master piece "Kafka on the Shore"

For lack of new interesting material.

You'd like the book I'm reading now! I'm getting pretty freaked out reading it.

erotomaniac87 · 06-01-2011, 09:52 PM

I'm currently reading "French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano.

Llyallowyn · 06-04-2011, 07:49 PM

I just finished "The Summer Country" by James A Hetley. It wasn't a terrible read, but it was definitely not what I expected. I am more interested in fantasy with a political or emotional undercurrent, a real story about growing up or struggling with various aspects of life. In some sense of those words, this book had it, since the main character is a victim of forced intimate encounters trying to deal with additional suffering brought on by an abusive father, religious zealot mother, and living with her slutty, confident sister. Ultimately, it is like a more mature version of Twilight, sans vampires and enter wizards.

Saya · 06-04-2011, 11:27 PM

Regarding The Pain Of Others by Susan Sontag

Grausamkeit · 06-05-2011, 12:51 PM

Necroscope ~ Brian Lumley

My mother recommended this series to me when I was 14, but I was too busy reading 'Dracula' and 'Interview With The Vampire' to give it a chance. Once again Mother schools me with her book selection....some 19 years down the road...

Valhalla · 06-06-2011, 01:49 PM

I just borrowed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from a friend. I've heard good things, hope they're true.

Saya · 06-06-2011, 02:46 PM

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I just borrowed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from a friend. I've heard good things, hope they're true.

I don't know how to feel about it. I had misgivings about it after I read it, I ranted about it here quite a bit, but I still overall enjoyed it. But now as time passes I like it less and less.

Not to discourage you, I don't feel like it was a waste of time reading or anything.

ChoptopsFave · 06-06-2011, 05:04 PM

Just finished "Grin in the Dark" by Ramsey Campbell, which sadly I really didn't like. I loved the idea of a lost silent film star (ala Paul Auster) and clowns terrify me... but it was a disjointed mess with a weak and predictable ending.

Now I'm reading Bright's Passing by Josh Ritter, and maybe picking up my copy of David J Schow's The Kill Riff as I'm still in a horror mood, just want it to be GOOD.