The Books thread.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:31 pm

Nicolai wrote:Anyway, I've read some reviews of 'The War of the Flowers', and I have to admit that it sounds quite interesting. I'll have to pick it up one day.

Is it written by Martin Luther King?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:26 pm

Your wit didn't fail you this time, Susan.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:37 pm

Mine never does, contrarily to yours

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:45 pm

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:23 pm

That's what you get for being a mean guy, VasikkA!

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:20 pm

baby arm wrote:Speaking of The Black Company, I've got the second book in the series but not the first. Would I be missing out on a lot if I started with the second?

I can't see peoples infatuation with these books. I've read the reviews, I've read the backs and I still can't see myself being attracted to novels.
Must be something to do with the fact that all fantasy novels have the same basic plots, characters and goals.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:55 pm

I just finished reading all the Watchmen comics

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:21 pm

I just sold mine on ebay. Great series.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:40 pm

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
baby arm wrote:Speaking of The Black Company, I've got the second book in the series but not the first. Would I be missing out on a lot if I started with the second?
I can't see peoples infatuation with these books. I've read the reviews, I've read the backs and I still can't see myself being attracted to novels.

They are light and enjoyable reads.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:54 am

baby arm wrote:I just sold mine on ebay. Great series.

HOW COULD YOU?

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:17 am

The same reason I sold 90% of my collection: they were just sitting in boxes for years and years doing me no good. Collecting things just to collect them doesn't turn me on anymore and I'm too paranoid to open them and read them so off they went. I might buy the trade paperback version someday when the urge strikes me.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:28 am

The Histories, Herodotus.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:49 am

johnnygothisgun wrote:The Histories, Herodotus.

Or... Thucidides(sp?)

I read now, again, after recovering from the ludicrously repetitive horror
of cs:source.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:35 pm

Thucydides wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War.

Yeah, sometimes it's difficult to differentiate.

Thucydides work is really more of a fact based history of the war, while Herodotus includes legends and he goes into descriptions of almost the entire known world.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:04 pm

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence.

Zetura Dracos · Post by **Zetura Dracos** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:45 pm

"Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. It's pretty good so far. Before that, Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis," which was pretty good, about as far from type as I think he can write.

-Dracos

box · Post by **box** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:54 pm

Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Suetonius took an unhealthy interest in the sex lives of the Roman Emperors. Of course, Romans loved their gossip. Entertaining read.

This summer I'm going to read Gibbon's masterpiece, and not the bullshit abridged version, either.

Speer's Inside the Third Reich to read about filthy Nazis from the viewpoint of, well, a filthy Nazi.

Speaking of fiction, Buckley's Getting it Right was actually just good (historical) fiction. His portrayal of Objectivists and John Birchers was simply hilarious.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:23 pm

I'm reading Kerouac's "On the road"

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:48 pm

I don't know about "On the Road" but "The Subterraneans" is amongst the greatest literary crimes against humanity and has convinced me that I should be greatful that Kerouac died at 47.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:34 am

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich