The Books thread.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:47 pm

rabidpeanut wrote:Dreddy is part asian. too bad i is not his brain that is showing off this eastern phenotype.

Ironically the answer to this cretinisms lies in a book:

The good soldier Svejk.

In case you don't know the book, let me put it this way:
It's easy and incredibly useful/convenient to let dumbasses around you believe you're a buffoon, in order to gain control over something otherwise uncontrollable in ways they can't predict.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:52 am

Am reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:08 am

OLDMANANDTHESEA is oldmeme.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:01 pm

I finished Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It was fucking grand. That guy was a genius, I really need to get back to "The Devils", I don't know why I stopped half way through.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:07 pm

fap fap fap.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:54 pm

Just finished "Notes on a Scandal" by Zoe Heller. Recommended. Better than the movie, natch.

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:40 am

I read a book on eastern European pastry products recently. Was quite interesting and informative.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:52 am

Read war of the flowers. By Tad somethingorother. A bit on the :wha?: end of fucked up in some ways but all in all not bad. A bit yanky in the beginning but it redeems itself by only using that as an intro and i dont think it was on purpose i think i am just oversensitive to such things.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:49 am

Subhuman wrote:Just finished "Notes on a Scandal" by Zoe Heller. Recommended. Better than the movie, natch.

I don't know how's the book but the movie's ending felt sooo far fetched

Turns from a romantic movie to some thrilla shiut.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:25 pm

rabidpeanut wrote:Read war of the flowers.

something good came out of this thread after all

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:36 pm

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:59 am

Read it dewd. IT honestly is a VERY different book. Nothing like anything i have ever read before.

Cabba · Post by **Cabba** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:03 pm

If you're into fantasy, then read "A song of ice and fire" series by George R.R. Martin. Yeah it's a shitload to read, but it's worth it. It's not exactly fantasy, more historic-fantasy, but it's the best damn thing out there. Even you bill, will forget about your lotr(probably). Murakami has some good stuff too, strange but good.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:58 pm

Cabba wrote:Even you bill, will forget about your lotr(probably). Murakami has some good stuff too, strange but good.

Haha, am I not the one who suggested Murakami to you in the first place?

Cabba · Post by **Cabba** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:03 pm

No, don't think so. I've discovered him recently. What i do remember is recommending you musashi, even though i never got to reading it myself.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:32 pm

Reading Canticle for Leibowitz because I'm so far behind the times. Shit was good, now it's slow, we'll see how the last half goes.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:17 pm

Cabba wrote:No, don't think so. I've discovered him recently. What i do remember is recommending you musashi, even though i never got to reading it myself.

Eh, you have to read Musashi. I think I read it like 3 times in the past 5 years. Best book ever.

Haruki Murakami is really great. I have all his books

Cabba · Post by **Cabba** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:55 pm

And you gotta read the ice and fire. Or atleast the reviews and then decide for yourself. Do you know where i can d/l? Cuz i'm sure you understand that i can't go and buy it at a local store..

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:47 pm

I shall look into it, i know a guy who seems to be setting up a bloody library of fantasy.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:15 am

I recently picked up <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Fear">Kingdom of fear</a> and dare say that it's worth a read. A must read it is actually.