The Books thread.

Nooke · Post by **Nooke** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:28 am

Speed_demon wrote:
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

Fail.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:44 am

how deep

report from da dark heart of congo:
started delving into the world of vonnegut yesterday, using cat's cradle as a springboard. 75pp in and enjoying the ride so far.

what else did you pick up with your massive gift card, naegro?

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:50 pm

I got Moby Dick, Einstein's Dreams, another Borges' book, and In the American Grain :deep:

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:34 pm

Wikipedia makes Einstein's Dreams out to be quite the snazzy little book. I do suspect that I will have to check it out. How would you rate it on the Gass-Wallace scale?

report from a previously unexplored subconscious: chillaxing with the rise and fall of the third reich. shirer's research is quite outdated, but it is an interesting read nonetheless :fun fact:

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:25 am

:pretentious pseudo-intellectual bullshit: gibariba

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:29 am

It's pretty postmodern, chief. But highly recommended. Quick easy read that still yet manages to make the mind behave in strange ways. Go to it, pilgrim.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:21 pm

I'll.. look into it.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:27 pm

Have any of you gimps read any of David Britton's stuff? His book "Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz" sounds mighty interesting, but seem to be a bit hard to come by.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:32 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Motherfuckers-Aus ... 360&sr=8-1

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:37 am

hardcover edition? sixty buckaroos? used? nigga please

maybe I'll just get it directly from the publisher

sarge112 · Post by **sarge112** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:18 pm

NakedLunch wrote:http://www.amazon.com/Motherfuckers-Aus ... 360&sr=8-1

entertainer · Post by **entertainer** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:23 pm

lol internet exploder

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:14 pm

I'm almost through Dies the Fire, and it's gotten pretty good. It's definitely not one of the best post apoc books I read. Although, I'd say it ranks with Lucifer's Hammer. They're both very long, have a million characters, there's groups of good guys, mercenary types, bad guys lead by Lord Humongous types, cannibalism, and dead bodies everywhere. The Wiccan shit mostly surrounds one chick and her group of hippies that live together on a farm. It's incredibly dorky, fortunately everyone else in the book thinks so too.

I do think it's intriguing to imagine what would happen if all the electronics and modern technology suddenly stopped functioning. We go back to medieval times, basically. I can't help but think how much better (and different) the book would have been if Stirling threw guns into the mix.

Next up in the not too distant future:
The Aliens vs. Predator series written by Steve Perry, Stephani Perry, and David Bischoff in the early 90's. I picked up the comics when I was a kid, but didn't rediscover the book series until a few days ago.
AvP: Prey is the first one, and I remember it was the basis of the original AvP movie script. Predators drop off Aliens on a desert planet for their younger members to fight and become "blooded". Unfortunately, there's a human colony of ranchers aliready there and shit hits the fan. Meanwhile a ship of Colonial Marines is heading toward the planet to do stuff.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:40 pm

Olde space crap

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:58 pm

sarge112 wrote:

Auschwitz -- Waist management

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:13 pm

Auschwitz diet really works. That's why you can't read about this stuff in the yellow press.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:28 pm

It's a well-kept secret.

sarge112 · Post by **sarge112** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:36 pm

not anymore

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:36 am

Mad Max RW wrote:I'm almost through Dies the Fire, and it's gotten pretty good. It's definitely not one of the best post apoc books I read. Although, I'd say it ranks with Lucifer's Hammer. They're both very long, have a million characters, there's groups of good guys, mercenary types, bad guys lead by Lord Humongous types, cannibalism, and dead bodies everywhere. The Wiccan shit mostly surrounds one chick and her group of hippies that live together on a farm. It's incredibly dorky, fortunately everyone else in the book thinks so too.

I do think it's intriguing to imagine what would happen if all the electronics and modern technology suddenly stopped functioning. We go back to medieval times, basically. I can't help but think how much better (and different) the book would have been if Stirling threw guns into the mix.

Next up in the not too distant future:
The Aliens vs. Predator series written by Steve Perry, Stephani Perry, and David Bischoff in the early 90's. I picked up the comics when I was a kid, but didn't rediscover the book series until a few days ago.
AvP: Prey is the first one, and I remember it was the basis of the original AvP movie script. Predators drop off Aliens on a desert planet for their younger members to fight and become "blooded". Unfortunately, there's a human colony of ranchers aliready there and shit hits the fan. Meanwhile a ship of Colonial Marines is heading toward the planet to do stuff.

Read all the avp books and still own them. from what I remember they were quite good.

Also, with dies the fire, I still have yet to pick up meeting at corvalis but I must say...from what I've heard, it keeps going much the same. I agree about the wiccan shit but, definitely a good book and an interesting exploration of that scenario.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:08 am

Anyone read The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley?

It's pretty entertaining if you are into prehistoric life and how basic written word and languages were developed.
It's pretty much a book on how ancient cultures were way more advanced than we originally thought they were and a study on how certain things developed in certain areas.

I'm only about a third of the way through but you should pick it up if you like a little history. It ain't light reading though.