The Books thread.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:36 am

yes, taking the plunge does the indeed sound a bit risky. on the one hand you might just end up discovering a treasure trove of delicious absurdist humor, but on the other hand you run the risk of forever tarnishing your memory of Catch-22

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:38 am

yep kind of like with matrix and matrix 2 :matrix:

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:41 am

Nicolai wrote:yes, taking the plunge does the indeed sound a bit risky. on the one hand you might just end up discovering a treasure trove of delicious absurdist humor, but on the other hand you run the risk of forever tarnishing your memory of Catch-22

Just got a 50 dollar borders gift card. Time to decide the fate of the universe

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:45 am

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:16 am

Nice avatar, nico :fineliterature:

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:23 am

You know it, baby.

There seems to be something horribly wrong with the top of his hat, though. I might just have to fire up MS Paint and have a look at it. Might just.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:00 am

yeah crop the top a little and you should be rollin' in da dough

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:48 am

Buy a lot of Heinlein books, you can't go wrong with any of them.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:52 am

Heinlein kind of went batshit insane in his later days

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:50 am

Robert Van Gulik

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:17 pm

Finished Brian Keene's Dead Sea the other day. As usual, it was a very good zombie book. Unlike the previous ones it never went weird with demons and talking zombies driving trucks and shooting guns. But you do get zombie dogs, fish, sharks, and other stuff. A good fast read you can finish in a few afternoons.

Putting a hold on my other books to try SM Stirlings Dies the Fire. It's post apocalyptic, in that some mysterious white flash started at Nantucket and encircled the globe, rendering all modern technology useless. Lights go out, planes fall from the sky, guns don't work, etc. The only thing that annoys the fuck out of me so far is the annoying Wiccan shit. "By Goddess" and "blessed be" is shouted a lot while characters draw a pentagram in the air. Very :larp:.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:07 pm

Wiccan is SO overplayed

Speed_demon · Post by **Speed_demon** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:20 am

There is only one thing to do when you find a witch OR warlock (lol)

BURN THEM!

Let's see your fancy pent-o-gram protect you against that

Nooke · Post by **Nooke** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:35 am

Speed_demon wrote:Let's see your fancy pent-o-gram protect you against that

Easy:

Satan = the government

government laws prohibit burning people

you fail because you don't have the balls to fuck around with the gov.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:31 am

Saw an interesting book called "Tree of Smoke" in borders today.

anyone hear about it on the grapevine?

Speed_demon · Post by **Speed_demon** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:16 am

Nooke wrote:
Speed_demon wrote:Let's see your fancy pent-o-gram protect you against that
I don't have the balls to fuck

:qft:

PS Side note "King Warrior Magician Lover" is an informative book written by Moore and Gillette. It has some cool psychological mumbo-jumbo in it

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:22 am

Haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but word on the street is that tree of smoke is quite gut

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:05 pm

once I finish moby dick and einstein's dreams and the countless other books i just purchased I'll get around to it I guess

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:44 pm

so many books and so little time

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:16 am

so many books so many different gardens of forking paths to venture forth and discover the very meaning of time in