The Books thread.

sarge112 · Post by **sarge112** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:42 pm

I'm thinking of reading Call of Cthulhu, anybody read this, think it was good?

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:34 am

It's good but nowhere near Lovecraft's best

:atthemountainsofmadness:

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:27 am

At the mountains of madness is probably his magnum opus, yes. You might want to give Ligotti and Borges a shot once you've grown tired of Big L

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:03 am

Read the expensive Mountains of Madness rpg scenerio book.

It was excellent.

Perhaps someday I will actually play/gm it.

Maybe we should have a DAC Book Exchange.

Mail books to each other, if the mailing vs buying could be calculated to be cost-effective.

I'm serious, it could work. Slightly.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:12 am

Whenever I search predictable in the dictionary I get H.P. Lovecraft.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:56 pm

that's funny i get the definition of predictable maybe you should recalibrate your dictionary or overclock it and get more bauds out of it you know watt I mean, joules?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:31 am

breaking nooz: ballard's short fiction is tremendously lulzy

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:48 am

nearly finished kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, and then i'll prob read swift's gulliver travels

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:11 am

Nicolai wrote:breaking nooz: ballard's short fiction is tremendously lulzy

:thedayofforever:

Wallace's short stories are pretty good too. Oblivion in particular. Picked it up from the library today along with Borge's collected short fiction.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:28 am

Redeye wrote:Read the expensive Mountains of Madness rpg scenerio book.

It was excellent.

Perhaps someday I will actually play/gm it.

Maybe we should have a DAC Book Exchange.

Mail books to each other, if the mailing vs buying could be calculated to be cost-effective.

I'm serious, it could work. Slightly.

i have like 15-20 cthulhu scenario books, if anyone's actually interested in that. the scenarios ARE good reads, & fortunately quite adjective-lite. i still wanna play that orient express one.

tbh i've read a lot of lovecraft's short stories but i can't remember them, shit is just too much. the colour outta space? shadow over innsmouth? fuhgeddaboudit. a lot of his non-mythos stories are good too, eg. the music of erich zahn. try dem.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:47 am

what's crackin', atoga

colour out of space was good lovecraft chit, mang

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:43 am

Fungi From Yuggoth is magical

. Ther was a period of maybe three weeks when I stopped listening to music or anything and just listened to the Yuggoth audiobook over and over and over and over again.

It really creeped people out when they got in my car and that shit is playing.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:11 am

I'm reading Redefining Black Film by Mark Reid and its one of the dumbest books I've ever read. It's not that its litterally dumb but that the author has some of the most robust vocabulary there ever was and I can barely understand him. He also makes up his own words, it surprises me of how much bullshit ethnic studies are.

I'm reading it for my African American Film class which I'm taking to fullfil our colleges "womens and cultural minorities" requirement.

Here is some words the guy has made up; Hybrid minstrelsy, satiric hybrid minstrelsy, and my favorite Negritude. Perhaps they weren't made up by him but he uses them a lot.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:27 pm

Dear god what kind of fascist college do you go to, poops?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:32 pm

NakedLunch wrote:Wallace's short stories are pretty good too. Oblivion in particular. Picked it up from the library today along with Borge's collected short fiction.

Totalement, Oblivion is a pretty solid collection. Better grab Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and Girl With Curious Hair when you've plowed through it. Wallace seems to have mastered the whole short story thing.

Haven't had a chance to check out any Borges outside of Labyrinths yet, but I've been intending to pick up Collected Fictions for a while now.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:19 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:nearly finished kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, and then i'll prob read swift's gulliver travels

I watched the movie of Slaughterhouse 5, and thought that it was pretty weak. Is it better if you've read the book?

I mean, the whole movie is just a boring drift with no apparent beginning, end or direction, which I presume was the point that the guy was trying to make with him being dislocated in time and seeing life just as a "set of experiences" to which you eventually become indifferent, however I did not find the movie to be anything special. Just a big "meh".

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:26 pm

I haven't seen the movie but the book is very bueno, been a while since I read it though.

edit: negritude 4 life

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:05 pm

Catch-22's movie adaptation was surprisingly good. TALK ABOUT A CATCH-22 ON THAT ONE RIGHT LOL

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:18 pm

Frater Perdurabo wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote:nearly finished kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, and then i'll prob read swift's gulliver travels
I watched the movie of Slaughterhouse 5, and thought that it was pretty weak. Is it better if you've read the book?

I mean, the whole movie is just a boring drift with no apparent beginning, end or direction, which I presume was the point that the guy was trying to make with him being dislocated in time and seeing life just as a "set of experiences" to which you eventually become indifferent, however I did not find the movie to be anything special. Just a big "meh".

Haven't seen the movie, and from your comments you might not like the book either.

I still think it's pretty good.

NakedLunch · Post by **NakedLunch** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:22 pm

Slaughterhouse Five is pretty legit although I personally think Mother Night is Vonnegut's illest to the dolla dolla billest