Lethal Nizzle Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 I might try getting around to reading Harry Potter. I've seen all the movies (except for Deathly Hollows Part 2 because it's not out yet). I prefer the books to the films, simply because the movies miss out some pretty important plot points to keep with the time limit. For example, the Quidditch World Cup was completely cut, despite a huge build-up to it in GoF and the Gaunt side-plot in HBP (I think?) wasn't present in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark-2007 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Right now I'm reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (aka the guy who created The Wire). Only about 50 pages through, and there's a further 600 pages where that came from. So far, however, it's excellent. I can already see just how Simon created The Wire from such experience and might have to try find the tv series that resulted from this book, I think of the same name (?). I'll definitely be buying the follow-up The Corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox09 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Rereading my way through the Dirk Pitt series of novels by Clive Cussler. I read them all as a kid, and they're actually what got me into reading in the first place. It's cool seeing all these characters that I grew up with again. Yeah, they're pulpy adventure novels with little intellectual value, but they're still a fun read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshyft Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Rereading my way through the Dirk Pitt series of novels by Clive Cussler. I read them all as a kid, and they're actually what got me into reading in the first place. It's cool seeing all these characters that I grew up with again. Yeah, they're pulpy adventure novels with little intellectual value, but they're still a fun read. Haha, that brings back some memories. Used to love Cussler books when I was a lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertical limit Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 The Alex Rider series are really nice, I just read 2, Storm Breaker and Eagle Strike. Also has anyone read the Silverwing Trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attorney General Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) Right now I'm reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (aka the guy who created The Wire). Only about 50 pages through, and there's a further 600 pages where that came from. So far, however, it's excellent. I can already see just how Simon created The Wire from such experience and might have to try find the tv series that resulted from this book, I think of the same name (?). I'll definitely be buying the follow-up The Corner. I've heard Simon's books were excellent. The Wire, for the record, is the best cop show in the history of cop shows. Do yourself a favor and just go buy the box set now. As for books, I'm slowly getting through both Dickens' Great Expectations and Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels (again). Both are outstanding in very different ways. I sometimes forget how fierce Thompson's writing is. Dickens, naturally, is a bit tamer, but elaborate and actually really funny. Upton Sinclair's Oil! is on deck, I think. But I've been meaning to read The Brothers Karamazov, The Road, Underworld, Atlas Shrugged and friggin War and Peace. Where the hell do I start! Edited June 17, 2011 by Attorney General Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 7 five 11 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) At the moment i am re-reading my large collection of star wars books, i am in love with them, this would be my 3rd re-read. I want more of them though, there are so many i don't have, every so often when they come up on ebay i snap them up. Edited June 17, 2011 by finn4life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KilnerLUFC Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Misery, Carrie and The Shining are the King books I've read. I sometimes feel this when it comes to books Vs films, but particularly in King's case, alot of the time I prefer the book to the film. The Shining was great, simply because the "thoughts" in the book helped build the characters of Jack and the boy up. The Stephen King novels I've read would be The Black House (excellent book, really unexpected twists and turns), Green Mile, IT & Cujo. I love his books, and really need to invest in some more. Another great similiar author is Dean Koontz, whom I also love. Dean Koontz was the one who got me into reading, after my dad lent me a copy of "Door To December"...excellent book. Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireguy109 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I read Roadwork's ending and beginning when I was bored in study hall once. I thought it was amazing- not just action wise, but in terms of the philosophy behind some of Dawes' actions. Great author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertical limit Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Go the f*ck to Sleep is a book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés. Described as a "children's book for adults", it reached #1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list one month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign which consisted of booksellers' forwarding PDF copies of the book by email. Looks like a nice book to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_the_f*ck_to_Sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark-2007 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Right now I'm reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (aka the guy who created The Wire). Only about 50 pages through, and there's a further 600 pages where that came from. So far, however, it's excellent. I can already see just how Simon created The Wire from such experience and might have to try find the tv series that resulted from this book, I think of the same name (?). I'll definitely be buying the follow-up The Corner. I've heard Simon's books were excellent. The Wire, for the record, is the best cop show in the history of cop shows. Do yourself a favor and just go buy the box set now. So far it is absolutely brilliant. And yeah, don't get me wrong The Wire is incredible. I'm almost done with the 5th se\ason after a good few years of making my way through the boxsets. After reading this book though, I'm very tempted to buy some of the series it then went on to spawn, called Homicide: Life on the Streets. Not sure if you've ever seen it, and I think it probably differs from The Wire in that it may focus a lot more on the police side of the story, but, nonetheless, I'm itching to see it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchuck Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 I've read a couple of good books these past weeks: Dune - Frank Herbert's classic novel, about the heir to the throne and his path towards accomplishing his goal. Herbert's attention to detail is amazing, and the way he conduces his story, even though you know what's going to happen, you never know HOW it's going to happen. Metro 2033 - The novel that gave origin to the game. Great story, very fast paced, read most of it in a single sitting, such was my anxiety to get to the end and discover what the hell was going on. Game is alright, but having read the book, it could have been a LOT better. Childhood's End - From the same author of 2001: A Space Odissey. As was stated in the intro, it was written at the time when the author believed in some paranormal stuff, which he eventually found out to be rubbish, and it's all over the story. Pretty great tale though, it makes you stop and wonder about the path mankind is taking. Foundation - Part 1 of this great series by Isaac Asimov. Inspired by the rise and fall of the roman empire, he writes the fictional tale of the rise and fall of a Galactic Empire, and deals with themes such as religion, commerce, power. Very good read, can't wait to find the sequel. Atlas Shrugged - One of Ayn Rand's most famous work. This reading is currently in progress. I'm liking how the characters are built, and how many examples we have of them in real life. Can't wait to find out who John Galt is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX1 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Just got my hands on a couple more Janet Evanovich books, '12 Sharp' and 'Naughty Neighbors'. I was given 'To the Nines' a couple years ago and rejected it after reading the first chapter, but when boredom set in after the book pile ran dry I read through it and was surprised at how much fun her campy tongue-in-cheek style is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Atlas Shrugged - One of Ayn Rand's most famous work. This reading is currently in progress. I'm liking how the characters are built, and how many examples we have of them in real life. Can't wait to find out who John Galt is! I've been procrastinating on giving this a read for much too long. I've lost count of how many times my father has suggested it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Atlas Shrugged - One of Ayn Rand's most famous work. This reading is currently in progress. I'm liking how the characters are built, and how many examples we have of them in real life. Can't wait to find out who John Galt is! I've been procrastinating on giving this a read for much too long. I've lost count of how many times my father has suggested it to me. Thanks for reminding me of this. I meant to read it a while back. Formed the spiritual basis for the Bioshock series of games, no? AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-King Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Atlas Shrugged - One of Ayn Rand's most famous work. This reading is currently in progress. I'm liking how the characters are built, and how many examples we have of them in real life. Can't wait to find out who John Galt is! I've been procrastinating on giving this a read for much too long. I've lost count of how many times my father has suggested it to me. Thanks for reminding me of this. I meant to read it a while back. Formed the spiritual basis for the Bioshock series of games, no? Yeah, somewhat, Bioshock is based on extremist objectivism gone horribly wrong. Objectivism being an ideal thought up and brought into popularity by Ayn Rand. I've also been meaning to do the same honestly, I read Anthem ages ago and have been planning on going through Atlas Shrugs once I finally get to finishing The Fountainhead. All three of which I picked up somewhat ironically at the Atlanta Airport on my way back from seeing Obama's Inauguration. On a note of what I'm actually reading/just read/plan to read I just finished the second book in Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles, Wise Man's Fear and I say with an absolute degree of certainty that it's easily the best piece of fantasy I've ever encountered, if not the single best book I've ever read. No book has ever captivated me or played with my mind with such fantastic degrees of subtlety before. I highly recommend the series as a whole, the second having just been released a month or so back. It's an amazing tangible fantasy, where all of the so called magic has an insane amount of science behind it (in the story) and it all feels practical and realistic to a degree. Aside from that. I'm very much considering trying to get myself access to the books from J.R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series right now. Had a friend recommend them quite awhile back, long before Game of Thrones and with the advent of the HBO series I feel more than just inclined to read through them. |PropagandaIncorporated:|: Steam:|: DeviantArt:|: Last.FM| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude4Catalina Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 not long finished reading The Short Timers and it's sequel The Phantom Blooper, both by Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers serving as the basis for Full Metal Jacket, I anticipated a similar ending to the film, but the book ending is a lot better, it's a lot more emotional but at the same time it is devoid of any characters emotion, Joker does what he does wether it is right or wrong and shows little remorse in doing so. this shows in the follow up as he is darker, the transistion could be described as the difference between Pvt Joker from Full Metal Jacket and Benjamin Willard from Apocalypse Now, he has few allies despite being part of the armed forces and doesn't care for those back home, is irrational but puts a lot fo thought into every sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slingaa Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 After playing through Red Dead Redemption and watching 3:10 to Yuma, I'm in a huge Western mood. Could anyone recommend me a good Western novel under 300 pages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 novel under 300 pages? That's more of a novella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthypants Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 novel under 300 pages? That's more of a novella. It's useless being so pedantic when the definition of what constitutes a novella is not entirely clear-cut, and page numbers can't be used as a measure of length anyway given that they vary so much. And a length-based definition is so arbirtrary and insufficient anyway. What about short novels? The Outsider? Gatsby? Slaughterhouse Five? The Sun Also Rises? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fnorg Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 After playing through Red Dead Redemption and watching 3:10 to Yuma, I'm in a huge Western mood. Could anyone recommend me a good Western novel under 300 pages? No, but I can recommend Blood Meridian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loch Dawg Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 And if you like the Blood Meridian definitely read Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy, sh*t rules. Currently reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, I'm like 50 pages in and I'm finding myself having the odd chuckle or two, which is a surprise since I don't make any noises when I read a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude4Catalina Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 can anybody recomend me any books about The Vietnam War please? I've started to become fixated with it, how America joined the war, how they lost, the mindstate of the soldiers during and after fighting, it becomes a physcological journey, not just "yee-haw, we done blown that sh*t up" and happily ever after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark-2007 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 And if you like the Blood Meridian definitely read Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy, sh*t rules. Currently reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, I'm like 50 pages in and I'm finding myself having the odd chuckle or two, which is a surprise since I don't make any noises when I read a book. Breakfast of Champions is good. If you haven't already, check out Mother Night by him too. Probably my fav book from him, along with Slaughterhouse Five. Bluebeard and Jailbird are also good too. My least favourite of his works that I've read so far has been Galapagos. Cat's Cradle wasn't a favourite either. Neither are terrible, but just weren't up to scratch in my opinion. Still have a few of his left to read. I read a couple McCarthy books, The Road and No Country for Old Men, probably the best known I guess what with the movies. Keep meaning to check out more of his work, and might get down to it over the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred durst Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 anyone here into Tucker Max Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Fight Club Club lol #tbh Pretty dope... and those shrooms were tight as f*ck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Der_Don Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 I've just finished Fall of Giants by Ken Follet. Awesome! I'd recommend this book to everyone interested in WW1. I personally found it much more interesting than Pillars of the Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro_Painguin Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I've just finished Fall of Giants by Ken Follet. Awesome! I'd recommend this book to everyone interested in WW1. I personally found it much more interesting than Pillars of the Earth. Interesting! I just finished The First World War by John Keegan which was alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr White0161 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I'm a big fan of Hunter S. Thompson, I just cracked open Great Shark hunt (once again). Great read, I always enjoy it every time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshyft Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I'm a big fan of Hunter S. Thompson, I just cracked open Great Shark hunt (once again). Great read, I always enjoy it every time around. As fas as the Gonzo Papers are concerned, my favourite is Songs of the Doomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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