The Books thread.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:18 pm

I used to go around feeling that I could read, that I was a person who read books. But now when I pick up a book I just drop it with my pudgy sausage fingers then my arm turns into a big wobbly sausage and my bell end drops off. So I just can't seem to get into books. Give me something light and easy and bullshit like i am legend or dice man or some gay discworldian shit, except a book in none of the previous genres and also not bullshit. a nice light read. like harry potter.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:24 pm

i can totally relate to that

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:55 pm

My name is Legion by Roger Zelazny.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:53 pm

Just finished Blood Meridian and can someone please explain the Judge? Is he the devil or something?

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:10 pm

Storm of Steel form Ernst Junger, best war book I've read in years.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:24 pm

Cimmerian Nights wrote:Storm of Steel form Ernst Junger, best war book I've read in years.

i posted in may saying i had read that

we should rub our fat cocks together

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:58 pm

I'm totally into Neil Gaiman these days. I read Good Omens right around the time I got home from the States, then did Cristopher Moore's A Dirty Job and then back to Gaiman with Stardust and am now reading American Gods. Effing great.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:57 am

Tingel Tangel wrote:Gaiman

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:27 pm

american gods is great. definitely pick up neverwhere and anansi boys as well. currently working by way through book 7 in the great book of amber(all 10 books of the amber chronicles) by zelasny.

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:35 pm

I already read Neverwhere - that one got me started on Gaiman, actually. I bought Good Omens, American Gods, Stardust and Anansi Boys for my boyfriend when I was in the states, and am reading them now. He's going to read Anansi Boys while I finish American Gods, and then we switch.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:39 pm

Dogmeatlives wrote:Just finished Blood Meridian and can someone please explain the Judge? Is he the devil or something?

Well, he's obviously not your average Joe. I was reading this interesting dissertation/thesis/whathaveyou on Blood Meridian and the Judge a while back, but I don't quite know where I found the damn thing.. I'll post it up if I manage to track it down.. again. Hmm

On another note, can any of you jocund chaps recommend some interesting books on WW1? As I was plowing through the first volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past I was suddenly struck by the realization that I'm need of some juicy WW1 spelunkage. Anything will do, really, 'long as it's juicy to the max and beyond. Memoirs, novels, short stories, non-fiction. So far I have on yon fine shelf (the aforementioned) Storm of Steel and Johnny Got His Gun, with All Quiet on the Western Front on the way.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:05 pm

nicolai, find yourself a copy of robert graves' goodbye to all that as well as siegfreid sassoons memoirs of an infantry officer

i most recommend the former because sassoon tends to somewhat stuffy sometimes. i get the feeling he was not entirely comfortable venturing far from poetry and thusly his prose efforts can be a little dry, but still flow nicely and have some very subtle and wonderful humor. robert graves is as brilliant as ever, only even more brilliant. youll love it

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:14 pm

Sounds pretty solid, compadre. Just put it an order for the two books you mentioned + Sherriff's Journey's End at my friendly neighborhood webshop.

This Sassoon sounds like an interesting fellow, so I suspect I'll be picking up Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man as well

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:06 am

Anthem, Ayn Rand. Kinda fallouty.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:13 am

Nicolai wrote:Sounds pretty solid, compadre. Just put it an order for the two books you mentioned + Sherriff's Journey's End at my friendly neighborhood webshop.

This Sassoon sounds like an interesting fellow, so I suspect I'll be picking up Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man as well

very good, just be sure to read memoirs of a fox hunting man first

there is a third part to his series, titled sherston's progress, but it appears to be exceedingly rare. i dont know how much of a poetry man you are, but his works are pretty neat. you may also like wilfred owen, as well as a very rare but very wonderful collection by robert graves titled "fairies and fusiliers"

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:51 pm

Wound up canceling my original order and grabbed this thing instead, so the scarcity of the third volume shouldn't be a problem

i dont know how much of a poetry man you are, but his works are pretty neat. you may also like wilfred owen, as well as a very rare but very wonderful collection by robert graves titled "fairies and fusiliers"

Never been big on poetry, but I'll check them out

Goretheglowingone · Post by **Goretheglowingone** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:43 am

have any of you read any of David Drake's books?

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:25 am

i just started reading john laurence's the cat from hue, it seems pretty good

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:23 am

Strarted readding Francis Wheen's "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World". Daaamn, that's one good friggin book. Not recommended for TNP though.

Goretheglowingone · Post by **Goretheglowingone** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:45 am

"story of an African farm" sucks, i have an original
first edition and signed by the author, it didnt make it any better.