The Books thread.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:21 pm

Not all of them. Tai-Pan and Noble House takes place in Hong Kong, and Noble House is basicalyl a sequel, it takes place 120 years later, with the same families.

Shogun kind of stands on its own, but in Whirlwind and King Rat you meet some characters who are descendants of some of Shogun's character, but it's not really part of the story, it's a bit unimportant, it's just some candy for people who read Shogun, knowing your most hated or favorite characters had descendants who succeeded or failed.

All his books stand on their own, except for Tai-pan and Noble House. I guess Noble House could still be read first, but havign read Tai-pan really adds something.

As for Gaijin, I haven't read it yet. I was just looking at some infos on the web and it looks like Gaijin takes place between Tai-pan and Noble House, with the same family, but was written after Noble House.

Means I should stop reading Noble House and buy Gaijin, fuck.

Edit - After reading a bit more about it, it seems Gaijin is set in Japan, with characters from both Shogun and Taipan,

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:50 pm

...and a hard rain fell, by John Ketwig.

vendetta · Post by **vendetta** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:36 am

"Master Misery", "Children of Their Birthdays", "Shut a Final Door", and other short stories by Truman Capote.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:19 pm

You're so topical.

I'm going through a Bradbury phase, just read Something Wicked this Way Comes, and Martian Chronicles.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:22 pm

I'm reading Sinuhe (The Egyptian) at the moment... It's a 50 year-old book by Mika Waltari and it's surprisingly good. I thought it would be boring, dry, dull and all that shit, but it's actually very interesting. Nice historic & scientific detail even though the author has never even been to Egypt.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:11 am

Goodbye, Darkness, by William Manchester.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:17 am

I'm reading some of Poe's shorts and book 12 of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:26 am

American Psycho, it's quite fascinating.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:44 am

I should read 500+ pages of economics shit for exams in 2 weeks but right now I don't want to. Hell, I don't even want to read half the posts here....

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:47 am

just quit college

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:53 am

I didn't spend half a year of my life to read for admission exams just to quit college/university/whatever! Or maybe I did, I'll ponder that next morning maybe.

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:26 am

michael burleigh : the third reich: a new history
:wnak:

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:26 pm

I'm desperatly trying to get my hands on Murakami's Kafka on the shore

meltedface · Post by **meltedface** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:35 am

Koushun Takami's Battle Royale FTW.

mmm...Government sanctioned Lord of the Flies....

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:12 pm

Gravity's Rainbow

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:26 pm

V is better than Gravity's Rainbow (and worse at the same time).

I just bought A Game of Thrones by George Rock n Roll Martin, Dune: House Atreidies, and Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert. Some asshole recommended I check out Mitch Cullin's books so I'll probably do that next since Tidelands looks interesting. He writes books about little girls and I like that.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:28 pm

Why'd you buy the Brian Herbert Dune books? They're horrible.

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:37 pm

I haven't read them yet, but now you've planted the seed of doubt in my head and I won't be able to enjoy them. Thanks for ruining Christmas.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:05 pm

People are always going on about "The Black Company", so I suppose that I'll buy it or something.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:52 pm

Brian Herbert really sucks the shit.