The Books thread.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:15 pm

I read a few pages of The Bloody Road to Death before deciding to jump ship on it. :lowbrow: :shittyprose:

Splatterpope · Post by **Splatterpope** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:45 am

I've probably said it before, but I can't be bothered leafing through all the pages looking for my avatar.

Read Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny.

It's one of the best books(series) ever, seriously.

Goretheglowingone · Post by **Goretheglowingone** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:47 pm

Here Be Demons , by Esther Friesner
is a good little read.

Atrokkus · Post by **Atrokkus** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:18 pm

Thanks to Nico's recommendation, I've totally embraced Nabokov's literary genius. Beautiful prose, and fantastic abiitiy to have such a beautiful style in both English and Russian (he was a perfect bilinguist, and even trilinguist as he also used French a lot).

It makes me wonder how well his Evgeniy Onegin translation is perceived by the non-Russian audience... Anyone read it?

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:11 pm

Goretheglowingone wrote:Here Be Demons , by Esther Friesner
is a good little read.

Wasn't that a trilogy?

Dis Kapital?

Perhaps I am confusing this with something else.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:23 pm

Dreadnought wrote:True. MEMOIRS OF A PHUKET GEISHA is a track by the RED ELVISES (maybe some remember them from the movie SIX STRING SAMURAI).

They have a buch of really decent tracks.

Red Elvises

gut

Inside the Soviet Army

Entertaining, but you can never really trust defectors. Might be some embellishment.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:20 pm

Nabokov's stuff is indeed delicious to the max.

Currently working on DeLillo's White Noise. Pretty chouette stuff.

Goretheglowingone · Post by **Goretheglowingone** » Tue May 01, 2007 1:37 am

Redeye wrote:
Goretheglowingone wrote:Here Be Demons , by Esther Friesner
is a good little read.
Wasn't that a trilogy?

Dis Kapital?

Perhaps I am confusing this with something else.

nope, its a single.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:01 pm

i just finished robert graves' goodbye to all that and loved it

i am now reading ernst junger's storm of steel

Fa11lloutfan_15 · Post by **Fa11lloutfan_15** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:12 pm

Did anyone here read Dispatches by Michael Herr? I'm slightly disappointed myself.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Fri May 04, 2007 12:55 am

Splatterpope wrote:I've probably said it before, but I can't be bothered leafing through all the pages looking for my avatar.

Read Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny.

It's one of the best books(series) ever, seriously.

Technically its a long assed series (10 books) of which I own every original.

The first half of the series was great, but I found the second half a little meh.
It's pretty good if you want a different take on a fantasy/sci-fi novel.

Goretheglowingone · Post by **Goretheglowingone** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:48 am

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:
Splatterpope wrote:I've probably said it before, but I can't be bothered leafing through all the pages looking for my avatar.

Read Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny.

It's one of the best books(series) ever, seriously.
Technically its a long assed series (10 books) of which I own every original.

The first half of the series was great, but I found the second half a little meh.
It's pretty good if you want a different take on a fantasy/sci-fi novel.

try reading Hubbard's dekalogy "Mission Earth" i was the first dekalogy
to exist, and in my opinion one of the best... and ... its fuckin whacked out. ol' L.Ron Hubbard must have ben on meds while writing this, or hallucinogens.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri May 11, 2007 5:40 pm

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:58 am

Who has read this, I need to know.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:00 am

I just finished God is Not Great by Chris Hitchens. Fucking awesome book. Great read for any athiests out there or anybody else that agrees organized religion sucks.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:05 pm

Hitchens is good.

Question: Anybody read Max Brooks' World War Z or Zombie Survival Guide and if so are they worth reading?

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:28 pm

Redeye wrote:Who has read this, I need to know.

I have it on the bookshelf.

Also Zombie Survival Guide is alright for a few chuckles. Never got around to World War Z though.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:02 pm

Just finished Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood, and R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Great.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:46 pm

i reading lord mahon's life of belisarius, its pretty neat, however painfully ethnocentrist

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:37 pm

Just finished The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castenada. It was very strange but worth a read as its not very long.

Now I'm working on Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan as an audiobook. It's pretty interesting so far.