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Books Thread

Discussion in 'Books' started by Hellblazer, Mar 12, 2016.

  1. Ol Slag

    Ol Slag 'Tism stormchaser

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    The Suicide Club is pretty good and a quick read.
     
  2. SpacePanther

    SpacePanther G'night you comic sans using fucks

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    Drizzt can drag on a bit too, or I thought it did when it came to a character named Wulfgar. R.A. Salvatore is also no George R. R. Martin and never let's his characters stay dead. At one point I was making bets on when a character would come back.

    Heh. I definitely agree with your sister.

    Dragonlance is definitely good! My favorite character is Raistlin!
     
  3. Ol Slag

    Ol Slag 'Tism stormchaser

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    The Way of All Flesh is pretty decent.
     
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    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    One of my favorite novels is The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

    (I thought the thread title was "boobs thread" for a second.)
     
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    I still enjoy the venerable Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as most things that were written by Crichton.
     
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  6. ToroidalBoat

    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    Do nonfiction books count too? Cosmos by Carl Sagan is one of the best nonfiction books I've read.
     
  7. A Potato Named Vodka

    A Potato Named Vodka AKA Vodka Vodkavich Vodkaev

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    I'm a Russian lit fiend. If there was a god of modern literature, Gogol would be god. I do enjoy Dostoevsky, especially the way he writes his main characters. Rodya will always be my number one literature lolcow.
     
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    Nobody Whom of None Staff Member Moderator

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  9. Someone In A Tree

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    For the past 8 years, I've been trying to read selections from the Modern Library's Top 100 English Novels from the 20th Century when I've had the chance, and I just finished the 12 volume A Dance to the Music of Time. The books are pretty damn dry and I remember telling a friend back when I first started that I wish Powell, the author, would slip a graphic description of a sex act somewhere in there. Finally, in the 11th book, we hear about a character who shaves off the pubic hair of his conquests and puts them in a pillow. Close enough.
     
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  10. A Potato Named Vodka

    A Potato Named Vodka AKA Vodka Vodkavich Vodkaev

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    I'm currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and I'm in love with it already.
    Why? Who would do that? What does it mean?
     
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    I have just finished reading The Silmarillion. It's a great book but I can see why people have some trouble getting into it. If you are a Tolkien fan and can soldier through the first part, you will be rewarded.

    I actually enjoy it more then Lord of the Rings, I find LotR to be a very dry and slightly dull book.
     
  12. Someone In A Tree

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    In the context of the book, the character is a larger than life American filmmaker. I wonder if the author, a Brit, thought that was something cocky Americans do. Also, every good thing you've ever heard about One Hundred Years of Solitude is true, so you're in for a great time.
     
  13. bustopher_jones

    bustopher_jones Found at all the best clubs.

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    According to the author's published journals, the character of Glober was based in part on Edward Heron-Allen, who apparently collected the pubic hair of his conquests in real life.

    I really disliked this book, to the extent that I read Powell's journals in order to understand it better!
     
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    I liked a few of the individual volumes in the series, but they are just too damn dry for me to recommend to anyone. I really liked the gradual transformation of Widmerpool until he abruptly became a hippie in the final book. It doesn't help that a good chunk of the British novels I've read from the list are either about young men trying to find themselves in the world or coping with WWII, and this covers both.
     
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    I've had the Lord of the Rings book trilogy for almost 20 years and I still haven't even finished the first one.

    I feel like I have to read them by pop culture duty...
     
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    I have a special snowflake "friend" who's basically Vade 2.0 who is writing a book called Helping Hand. In order to see how much of a special snowflake book this really is, here are two of the character's biographies. Also, does Bonnie seem like he's based on a white knight's interpretation of Chris?
     
  17. Someone In A Tree

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    I'm about halfway through Death Comes for the Archbishop.
     
  18. My main complaint about Tolkien (and also Frank Herbert) is their baffling ability to strip all the life out of a rich and vibrant world with their bland writing style. They write the way an engineer would write, as someone I know once aptly put it. So if you're approaching the books from a more, I don't know how else to put it, "artistic" aspect you'll find yourself wanting where the style is concerned. The one good thing is that I always know exactly what's happening in Tolkien's massive battle scenes.
     
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    I'm about 20 pages into Infinite Jest. I'm liking what I've read so far, but this is going to take some time. There are several paragraphs that go on for several pages, and the margins and spacing are so tight that it looks like an Apple user agreement in book form at times.
     
  20. As I always tell people, no one reads Infinite Jest, you just endure it.

    I got Blood Meridian today so that's going to be fun times in a bit once I finish Man In the High Castle.
     
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