The Book Topic

[makeshyft]

'Clockwork' is a p short read. Well, it would be shorter, but you often have to re-read certain sentences in order to translate the Nadsat words based on the context you find them in. By the end it's second nature, though.

 

Really good book.

[baptiste]

I bought all 7 halo books.

 

Started yesterday, its gonna be crazy.

[Tyler]

Fan of the Halo series I'm guessing?

 

 

Anyone 'round here like Sci-Fi?

[Punk-in-Drublic]

 

'Clockwork' is a p short read. Well, it would be shorter, but you often have to re-read certain sentences in order to translate the Nadsat words based on the context you find them in. By the end it's second nature, though.

 

Really good book.

Yeah, when me, Damien and Jacky Fiend started the gang The Droogs we used Nadsat alot, so I know quite alot of it, some of the books have the dictionary in the back aswell.

 

As for the Halo books...my mate borrowed me 3 of them ages ago and im not sure if I gave them back so I might try and find them.

[Fnorg]

Fan of the Halo series I'm guessing?

 

 

Anyone 'round here like Sci-Fi?

I've only read 2001: A Space Odyssey as far as sci-fi goes, but I've been feeling the urge to get a Sagan book. But not because it's sci-fi, but because it's Sagan. I'd buy erotica if he wrote it.

 

2001 is mad awesome, by the way. Differs from the film in quite a few places and leaves a bit less to audience interpretation so it's def worth it if you've seen the flick but not read the book.

[Hell No..]

Bought "The Lost Symbol" today, finally. Looking forward to starting it after I move.

 

Anyone wanna buy some movie tie-in books? Might just give them to charity other wise.

[silvermanblue]

I am a big fan of Clive Cussler, just finished reading the latest Oregon files book. Good stuff

[Der_Don]

I just finished the latest Mass Effect novel. I dont know the English title (Retribution or something?). I think it was quite a good read. Way better than ME Ascension.

[Tyler]

I don't know how I've never read Of Mice and Men before, but Jesus Christ do I regret it. It's an amazing book, to put it simply. Don't think I've ever read a book that made me tear up like that, especially considering that it only took me about an hour and a half of reading to get through it (occasionally pausing to look at an interesting episode of King of the Hill). Anyway, if you haven;t read it then do so before you die. It's definitely a must read.

[nerner]

I don't know how I've never read Of Mice and Men before, but Jesus Christ do I regret it. It's an amazing book, to put it simply. Don't think I've ever read a book that made me tear up like that, especially considering that it only took me about an hour and a half of reading to get through it (occasionally pausing to look at an interesting episode of King of the Hill). Anyway, if you haven;t read it then do so before you die. It's definitely a must read.

I never really got into that book. Perhaps it was because I was forced to read it for a school project. I don't know.

[Tyler]

You were? I never remember reading it in school before. I had it on my shelf for ages and I finally decided to read it. Was it some sort of 'learn about American literature' class project?

[nerner]

You were? I never remember reading it in school before. I had it on my shelf for ages and I finally decided to read it. Was it some sort of 'learn about American literature' class project?

I had the choice of whether or not to read it or "Lord of the Flies" for my GCSE in English Literature. I read them both and Lord Of The Flies came out better.

[Ziggy455]

 

I don't know how I've never read Of Mice and Men before, but Jesus Christ do I regret it. It's an amazing book, to put it simply. Don't think I've ever read a book that made me tear up like that, especially considering that it only took me about an hour and a half of reading to get through it (occasionally pausing to look at an interesting episode of King of the Hill). Anyway, if you haven;t read it then do so before you die. It's definitely a must read.

Studied it for my GCSE English finals.

 

 

Poor Lenny.

 

It was not about American Literature. It was more about learning why Steinbeck wrote about what he wrote and how he applied the values and rules of the Depression into his work. British schools study alot more international stories and authors then they do their own.

 

I think this means most british writers suck ass.

Edited November 13, 2010 by Ziggy455

[truthypants]

I think this means most british writers suck ass.

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Donne, Marvell, Marlowe, Jonson, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Walpole, Lewis, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Rossetti, Austen, Dickens, Brontë, Brontë, Brontë, Carroll, Collins, Eliot, Hardy, Wells, Conan Doyle, Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Housman, Huxley, Auden, Spender, Orwell, Tolkien, Lewis, Greene, Fleming, Golding, Dahl, Carter, Hughes, Duffy, Motion, Cope, Lochhead, Dunn, Armitage, Thomas, etc. etc.

 

You're right. British writers are sh*t and we don't study them (or read them). Ever.

[baptiste]

I bought all 7 halo books.

 

Started yesterday, its gonna be crazy.

well, i'm done, they were all pretty awesome, apart from The flood which was pretty bad.

 

But you cant blame the writer, being forced to tell what happens in Halo 1 cant be that interesting. Its supposed to be played, not relayed, so its understandable. He Still did a good job at adding what he could without disrupting the story of Halo.

 

Best ones were the last 3, Ghosts of Onyx, Contact Harvest and The Cole protocol were alot better. Although First strike and Fall of reach were pretty damn cool, following Master Chief without being constrained by the story of the game is pretty cool.

[Pac.]

There are only a few times where i have actually sat down and fully concentrated on a book reading relaxingly without getting distracted, for me it's very hard. I get distracted to easily.

[Tyler]

Sit down in a quite room, with a single light close by for reading (Lamp not ceiling light). Just concentrate on thinking of the characters while your reading. Imagine the entire scene and play it like a movie from there. Helped me when I was tired of reading.

[Hell No..]

I do that. When me and the gf go to bed.

 

I'm now reading the Deathly Hallows... , which is actually good!

[SIKKS66]

I think this means most british writers suck ass. 

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Donne, Marvell, Marlowe, Jonson, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Walpole, Lewis, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Rossetti, Austen, Dickens, Brontë, Brontë, Brontë, Carroll, Collins, Eliot, Hardy, Wells, Conan Doyle, Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Housman, Huxley, Auden, Spender, Orwell, Tolkien, Lewis, Greene, Fleming, Golding, Dahl, Carter, Hughes, Duffy, Motion, Cope, Lochhead, Dunn, Armitage, Thomas, etc. etc.

 

You're right. British writers are sh*t and we don't study them (or read them). Ever.

Haha, owned.

 

Currently reading Shakespeare's Roman plays (Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus), quite a lot. Doing my dissertation on them. Went to see Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra in Liverpool the other day, that was pretty cool. The guy who played Octavian Caesar was amazing.

 

Anyone who has the perception that Shakespeare is "boring" or "irrelevant" (as a lot of my buddies do! ) needs to see a performance of Titus Andronicus. It really is like watching a 400 year-old Tarantino movie.

[Tyler]

Anyone catch this book called 'Cell'? Written by Stephen King, this book does a good portrayal of the sort of doomsday world that an average person would react to. I'm not very far in, but Stephen King is well deserving of his respect in the writer's community. This book is very engaging and interesting. That, and I'm a sucker for the King.

[greebo-man]

Jack Kerouac's on the road last night made me shed a tear with joy.

Him describing new years 1949 is just oh wow

[Otter]

Anyone catch this book called 'Cell'? Written by Stephen King, this book does a good portrayal of the sort of doomsday world that an average person would react to. I'm not very far in, but Stephen King is well deserving of his respect in the writer's community. This book is very engaging and interesting. That, and I'm a sucker for the King.

Yeah! Loved it, but I felt he was treading some awfully familiar ground. Apocalyptic scenario, the 'magical negro' (a King staple) and over-the-top group dynamics. Have you read Under The Dome? Another great adventure in the same vein. Just don't think either had a great ending.

 

I'm just about finished reading A Storm of Swords - holy sh*t. Book three in an awesome series of fantasy novels by George RR Martin. I really hope he finishes the series before he dies.

[MobBG]

"Johnny got his gun" is the book which everyone should read!

[TomVDC]

I don't know if any of you know the Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It's a great piece of writing. Everything is so intensly describer that you could just feel tension between characters. I'm sure if he hadn't died there would have been more books.

 

David Baldacci is definitly one of my favourite writers for exactly the same reasons I liked the Millenium trilogy. You really get sucked into the story and you want to keep reading.

 

And since I've noticed you guys talk a lot about Stephen King, well the story never really does anything for me.

[nerner]

I don't know if any of you know the Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It's a great piece of writing. Everything is so intensly describer that you could just feel tension between characters. I'm sure if he hadn't died there would have been more books.

I think that the magic could have been ruined if he'd carried on writing. Things with regards to his novels are perfect just the way they are, apart from the fact that he's dead...

[TomVDC]

 

I don't know if any of you know the Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It's a great piece of writing. Everything is so intensly describer that you could just feel tension between characters.  I'm sure if he hadn't died there would have been more books.

I think that the magic could have been ruined if he'd carried on writing. Things with regards to his novels are perfect just the way they are, apart from the fact that he's dead...

But don't you have the feeling that somethings still needed answers.

Like what happened to her sister? That's something that could have been explained in a next book.

That's probably why they left that part out in the series because he never actually did something with that. There are a few other things but those are minor.

[Tyler]

Yeah! Loved it, but I felt he was treading some awfully familiar ground. Apocalyptic scenario, the 'magical negro' (a King staple) and over-the-top group dynamics. Have you read Under The Dome? Another great adventure in the same vein. Just don't think either had a great ending.

 

I'm just about finished reading A Storm of Swords - holy sh*t. Book three in an awesome series of fantasy novels by George RR Martin. I really hope he finishes the series before he dies.

Actually, I'm on page 94 right about now, I haven't gotten too far yet in the plot, but I do see the usual plot elements in King's work. I haven't gotten the chance to read Under the Dome yet, I really want to start up on it though. I have King's entire Dark Tower and Green Mile book saga, ever read those?

[Otter]

Love the Dark Tower.... and I actually loved the ending to that! I haven't read The Green Mile though.

[Mr.Mister]

Have to read a story in english 12 class called the 5 people you meet in heaven, anyone read it before? Just started it and its kinda weird lol

[Slingaa]

Can anyone recommend any fantasy books similar to Eragon?