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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Fortet on January 21, 2010, 04:08:43 AM
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The man is right.
Quick, someone make an interesting topic. Not more ooh-are-you-excited-about-this-new-game-coming-out tripe. Something good!
Has anybody read any good books lately?
What are some of your favorite books?
I'm reading Under the Dome by Stephen King. It's rather humorous in King's morbid sort of way (ie. his use of irony and vulgarity infused with hints of sarcasm).
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Last books I read were "The Long Patrol" and "Marlfox". I unfortunately don't have the following titles...
But I've started reading the series from "Redwall" (the one with Cluny the scourge) and will probably begin "Lord Brocktree". My main problem is that I lack "Martin the Warrior" and that book two of that Luke one. Of course, that doesn't prevent me from reading "Lord Brocktree" but I'd prefer to have the next books before.
I also plan on reading the Holy Bible and Coran (or Qur'an), though for me they're more like novels since I don't follow any religion, but they seem pretty interesting.
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Starship Troopers and lord of the flies.
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XD Lord of the Flies.
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I have a long-running true crime fascination and a more recent fascination with plane crashes (Yeah, I know, morbid interests). So I read "9 Minutes, Twenty Seconds" (about a plane crash), another book with interviews from crash survivors, and I'm halfway through "Cruel Sacrifice," a book covering a case of a 12-year-old girl being murdered by a group of teenage girls.
Anyone else here also into nonfiction?
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Yes and no. I have a biography of Stalin which I'd like to read, and often see interesting books about real events. The only problem is that I don't really get in these book. Pretty weird, I know; I want to read it but don't particularly enjoy it. But I also plan on reading that biography some day, whether I like it or not!
...well not really, I'll just wait until I actually feel like reading it.
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I started reading The Stand by Stephen King, but then my dad stole the book and I can never get it off him.
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I'm starting to read Dune.
Much easier than the time I tried to read it when I was 10 and couldn't understand the concept of listening to multiple characters thoughts at once.
Also, call me crazy, but "A Dance in Fire" and "The Argonian Account" in Oblivion and Morrowind are actually entertaining reads.
Strange that the in game fiction can be so captivating.
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I have a long-running true crime fascination and a more recent fascination with plane crashes (Yeah, I know, morbid interests). So I read "9 Minutes, Twenty Seconds" (about a plane crash), another book with interviews from crash survivors, and I'm halfway through "Cruel Sacrifice," a book covering a case of a 12-year-old girl being murdered by a group of teenage girls.
Anyone else here also into nonfiction?
You think that's morbid? I spend my free time researching details about infamous murderers (especially serial killers) and their grim habits. I'm especially fascinated with the bizarre ones, like Ed Gein, Armin Meiwes, and Dorangel Vargas. Kind of turns my stomach, but I just can't stop reading about that kind of stuff once I'm on a roll.
Okay, books. Haven't really been reading that much as of late (I just can't pay attention to most things anymore. TV, video games, conversations, et cetera. Music seems to be the only thing I can stay attached to), but I've been meaning to read the newest Halo book, which has been staring me in the face for a few months now. I've also been (slowly) reading Watchmen, if you want to count that as a book. Cerebus has me wanting to start reading books from the Redwall series again. I have an autographed copy of my favorite entry in the series, but that's not really important.
Favorite books... Well, Batman: Knightfall was a fun read. It's a novelization of the story arc of the same name. I also really enjoyed Misery (fun fact: My mom read the book while she was pregnant with me. Finished it while in the hospital after my birth). What else? Oh damn... It's late, and I can't recall what my #1 favorite book was. I'll look into it tomorrow.
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I'm starting to read Dune.
...I tried to read it when I was 10 and couldn't understand...
Dune is the sucks no matter what age you are. Of course this is just my opinion, but I think I got a little credibility on my side. A fat old man in a futuristic floating diaper, that flys around and rapes teenage boys while ploting against his nephew that he thinks is sexy is never good
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Last books I read were "The Long Patrol" and "Marlfox". I unfortunately don't have the following titles...
But I've started reading the series from "Redwall" (the one with Cluny the scourge) and will probably begin "Lord Brocktree". My main problem is that I lack "Martin the Warrior" and that book two of that Luke one. Of course, that doesn't prevent me from reading "Lord Brocktree" but I'd prefer to have the next books before.
I also plan on reading the Holy Bible and Coran (or Qur'an), though for me they're more like novels since I don't follow any religion, but they seem pretty interesting.
ha ha got all the set but the new one in the set got 25 books in all
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Fight Club(pahlahnahuihiuk), Crime and punishment (some russian), and just finishing up lolita(some other russian). I was pissed off because after fight club I read everything in Edard nortons voice. Dostoevsky, and Nabakov in Edward Nortons voice is terrible.
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You think that's morbid? I spend my free time researching details about infamous murderers (especially serial killers) and their grim habits. I'm especially fascinated with the bizarre ones, like Ed Gein, Armin Meiwes, and Dorangel Vargas. Kind of turns my stomach, but I just can't stop reading about that kind of stuff once I'm on a roll.
Sorry, Archie, you can't out-morbid me. I've read a ton about serial killers. The crimelibrary/trueTV site is the best.
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Well sorry but you can't be as morbid as me. I have committed murders. And ate the corpses.
But of course this isn't true... or is it? Muahahahaha!
No.
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Dune is the sucks no matter what age you are. Of course this is just my opinion, but I think I got a little credibility on my side. A fat old man in a futuristic floating diaper, that flys around and rapes teenage boys while ploting against his nephew that he thinks is sexy is never good
You aren't a sci-fi fan then.
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I read David Gemmel's "Legend", it was pretty linear, rather cliché but there were some things I liked about it. Apparently there are 13 more books in the series though...
And I finished Trudi Canavan's series about the "age of the five" (priestess of the white", "last of the wilds" and "voice of the gods") a pretty interesting tale.
Beside fiction - nope. No need, why read about things happening around me when I can experience them?
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Sorry, Archie, you can't out-morbid me. I've read a ton about serial killers. The crimelibrary/trueTV site is the best.
It's not a competition. But it's nice to know that we can be morbid buddies.
Also, Cerby, if you start eating people, let me know.
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You aren't a sci-fi fan then.
Sci-fi is my favorite genre in any type of media thing. Dune to me just sucks. I like Robert Heinlen more than Frank Herbert.
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Whatever floats your boat man.
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I don't read very much, but I recently found a couple of old Borders gift cards from a few Christmases ago that I never used. One has 50 bucks on it, and I don't know how much the other one has because I lost the damn thing, which is odd because I kept the two of them together, so how exactly did I lose only one of them?
Once I find the missing gift card I'll go to Borders and wing it from there.
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Dune is okay sci fi, but it's just too long for the small amount of stuff that actually happens.
Now the Asimov Foundation series, that's good sci-fi. And I recently read his Robot series as well. And I even more recently realized that he connected the two books together in the plotline so that's is one, big, long series. Mind = blown.
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I just re-read Snow Crash.
Probably one of my favorite evar books.
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I just re-read Snow Crash.
Probably one of my favorite evar books.
I wanted to get that.
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Uhhhhhhmmm.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and Othello by William Shakespeare. =P
Also... Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Beowulf.
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re-read The Princess Bride. Amazing as always.
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all the lot i have readed now its adams go
i get the wife to read to him befor he get a good nights sleep
Title Publication Chronological order
Lord Brocktree[1] 2000-xx 2000 1
(The Legend of Luke - Book 2 substory)[1] 1999-xx 1999 2
Martin the Warrior[2] 1993-xx 1993 3
Mossflower 1988-xx 1988 4
The Legend of Luke[1] 1999-xx 1999 5
Outcast of Redwall 1995-xx 1995 6
Mariel of Redwall 1991-xx 1991 7
The Bellmaker 1994-xx 1994 8
Salamandastron 1992-xx 1992 9
Redwall[2] 1986-xx 1986 10
Mattimeo[2] 1989-xx 1989 11
The Pearls of Lutra[1] 1996-xx 1996 12
The Long Patrol 1997-xx 1997 13
Marlfox[1] 1998-xx 1998 14
The Taggerung 2001-xx 2001 15
Triss 2002-xx 2002 16
Loamhedge 2003-xx 2003 17
Rakkety Tam 2004-xx 2004 18
High Rhulain 2005-xx 2005 19
Eulalia! 2007-xx 2007 20 need to get
Doomwyte 2008-xx 2008 21 need to get
The Sable Quean 2010-02-23 2010 Feb 23 22 need to get
The Great Redwall Feast (1996) (picture book)
Redwall Map & Riddler (1998)
Redwall Friend & Foe (2000)
A Redwall Winter's Tale (2001) (picture book)
Tribes of Redwall Badgers (2001)
Tribes of Redwall Otters (2002)
Tribes of Redwall Mice (2003)
The Redwall Cookbook (2005)
The Redwall Graphic Novel (2007) need to get
Tribes of Redwall Hares (2006) need to get
Tribes of Redwall Squirrels (2006) need to get
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I've got myself 7 books of the Diskworld series.
Currently searching for more, because I finished reading them in 10 days.
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plane crashes
Reminded me that I'm reading Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
... and if I need to be reminded about a book I'm supposedly "reading," well, f*ck.
I'm doing an English course at university so I'm reading a bunch of other stuff too hahaha no I'm absolutely not.
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There's a few books that I'm interested in reading in now, because my awesome new World Lit teacher talked briefly about them.
The one that really caught my interest, however, is called "Black Like Me", a diary of a white man who died his skin black and went to live in the deep south for a bit, just to see what it was like (in the 50s). Sounded fascinating.
I'm also about to finish The Sorceress (only have about 90 pages left, it'll take me an hour), which is out of a series I recommend for those interested in Mythology. The series is The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, and it has some fascinating stuff in it, despite falling into a couple common errors (just 'cause it sounded cool, slightly meandering plot, one pretty sizable plothole, etc.) It is a fun read, nonetheless.
I also picked up a Garth Nix book at the schools library which makes me sad because it has like 18 half stocked shelves of fiction (I don't think they even carry the entire Twilight saga, which is a sign that your high school library really needs some more funding). Haven't gotten to read it yet, but I like Garth Nix.
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Currently readin Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett, and I got to say I love the character of Vorbis. I love the character, not vorbis. I hate Vorbis. But since he was supposed to be the villain, that's actually an acomplishment, since I rarely hate villains.
Before that, I read Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett, Jingo!, by Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett, Lord and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett, The Truth, by Terry Pratchett, Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett, The Lost Continent, by Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett, Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett, The Dark Side of the Sun, by Terry Pratchett, and The Communist Okra, by Carlos Eduardo Novaes.
I found a bunch of Pratchett books on my trip to Argentina. Ironically, no library of them had it, but I found them all in an anime figurine shop.
Aside the Dark Side of the Sun, which I found on the airport's library.
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On the last chapter of Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries fixing to start reading Dreamseller.
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Merged to reduce redundancy.
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Archem to the rescue!
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And all it's done is waste time. Nobody reads these days.
I've had a sudden urge to read Catcher in the Rye. No idea why.
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I finished "Catch 22" not too long ago....so funny.
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leik zomg i just read twilight and it is SOOOOO good
edqard si HAWT
Seriously though, I don't know why I felt compelled.
I feel dirty...
And in need of some good material...
*raids bookshelves*
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I really should start reading the Redwall series back... but I need Martin the Warrior! And maybe that Luke book 2...