The Books thread.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Mon May 19, 2008 6:46 pm

Nooke wrote:Books are for people with insomnia and no weed.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:48 pm

That was remarkably unfunny.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:02 pm

NakedLunch wrote:That was remarkably clever.

twit.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:10 pm

listen you don't want to start an internet war now do you?

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:16 pm

Going through my old collection.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:41 pm

books

reading a book about stalingrad, has been quite lulzy so far fyi

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:10 am

vassili zaitsev? :vietnam:

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:57 am

the movie stuff is from another book, IIRC, and it probably didn't take place at all :zomg:

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:09 pm

NakedLunch wrote:listen you don't want to start an internet war now do you?

no not really, you're pretty cool actually. Just feeling strange @ that time, I guess.

I do object, and say it was witty, however.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:17 pm

:russland:

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:32 pm

Nicolai wrote:the movie stuff is from another book, IIRC, and it probably didn't take place at all :zomg:

you never know what nazies are ready to do

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:47 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:
Dogmeatlives wrote:I started Shogun. It's really good. Long as shit, but good. High seas Japanese Samurai adventure and whatnot.
Ah, yeah, it's awesome. Read King Rat too. Actually, all Clavell's books are good, except Whirlwind. And I heard Gaijin wasn't too good either.

Yeah Shogun and King Rat are good stuff, could never be fucked to read the rest. After you read Shogun, go watch the miniseries with Mifune...but wait till you have the 'flu or are in the hospital and can't do anything - it's fucking loooong.

Now reading Don Quixote, and drinking it too (and people say Puerto Ricans don't work hard - they make some damn fine rum Morgan's, Bacardi etc.)- I don't know if I'm ambitious enough to finish it. Will probably go into the pile with Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Bullock's Hitler and Stalin as long ass books that I won't finish this decade.

S4ur0n27 wrote:
Nicolai wrote:the movie stuff is from another book, IIRC, and it probably didn't take place at all :zomg:
you never know what nazies are ready to do

Yeah, I read Beevor's Stalingrad, badass shit. That movie with Jude Law is crap though (first ten minutes showing the russkies fleeing across the Volga was cool)

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:54 am

Beevor's Stalingrad book is pretty gute, be sure to grab the Berlin one as well.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:18 pm

Cimmerian Nights wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote:
Dogmeatlives wrote:I started Shogun. It's really good. Long as shit, but good. High seas Japanese Samurai adventure and whatnot.
Ah, yeah, it's awesome. Read King Rat too. Actually, all Clavell's books are good, except Whirlwind. And I heard Gaijin wasn't too good either.
Yeah Shogun and King Rat are good stuff, could never be fucked to read the rest. After you read Shogun, go watch the miniseries with Mifune...but wait till you have the 'flu or are in the hospital and can't do anything - it's fucking loooong.

Never bothered with the miniseries, I thought it could only be "not as good as" the book.

As for Don Quixote : meh. I read it in high school though, maybe I was too young or something.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:24 pm

DQ is pretty gute

:brevity is key:

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:21 pm

OK, after taking a break to reread Z for Zachariah (great book, still holds up today) I finally got around to finishing The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Things picked up in the final act when war started between the Moon and Earth. The Federated Nations (all the nations of the earth) tries to invade and bomb the shit out of the lunar colonists. They fail. In response the moon folks use a "catapult" (think the dealy on aircraft carriers used to launch jets) they constructed to throw giant rock filled cans down to earth at strategic locations. The FN gets pissed and tries to fight back, more stuff is crushed over and over by rocks, people die, China says fuck this we like the Moon, more countries cave, the Moon is free Yay end of story.

If you're interested in Heinlein check out Starship Troopers, Farnham's Freehold, and possibly Stranger in a Strange Land. TMiaHM is not a long book, it's just painful to read. To put it in perspective, I read 1-2 books a week. This one took me a month.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:42 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:
Dogmeatlives wrote:I started Shogun. It's really good. Long as shit, but good. High seas Japanese Samurai adventure and whatnot.
Ah, yeah, it's awesome. Read King Rat too. Actually, all Clavell's books are good, except Whirlwind. And I heard Gaijin wasn't too good either.

Oh, good to hear. I'll check out the one and not the others.

Shogun gets better the farther along I get, though it's an audiobook. I work in a factory so just listen to it all day. It's like forty hours long.

The Japanese culture is so interesting. It seems so savage but in many ways it is better, at least for Samurai, than the more 'civilized' England. I love all the Samurai conspiracy talk and the planning and plotting and double-crossing. I highly recommend it.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Sun May 25, 2008 3:47 pm

Nicolai wrote:DQ is pretty gute :brevity is key:

Which Don Quixote? Cervantes or Menard?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:47 pm

the menard one is superior, obviously. who can identify with the protagonist of some book that was written 400 years ago?

Currently rereading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, since I realized that I had forgotten pretty much the entire plot as I was adding it to my librarything.com account. :alzheimers:

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:30 pm

Books have become so pretentious nowadays. I refuse to read them. For a while.