Duck and Cover

@ Susan re: Dark Tower - don't do it. Or read the first one and be happy with the not-really-an-ending ending. Around book 5 it gets fucking retarded.

@ Poops - The Road is pretty good - I just finished it a few weeks ago and then finished something else. Right now I'm re-reading Grimm's fairy tales. Haha, fairy tales were so much better before Disney....

So far the book 5 is pretty good, so I'll be reading the sixth in a few.

That's cool but just keep in mind it's all downhill from here unless you like alternate universes converging around a tiny inanimate object. I won't spoil it any more than that.

You could get that starting from the second book?

No - I was really entertained through Book 4 and maybe even 5 but it just gets really bogged down in the alternate universe thing and some other stuff relating to that.

Feel free to finish the books - I didn't listen either - and then maybe we can discuss it a bit more. I'm loathe to spoil it for you - I'm not the minority in not liking the last couple of books, but The Dark Tower has a pretty big following (or King does, whatevs) and you may enjoy it much more than I did.

just finished haruki murakami's kafka on the shore :susan:

I meant to post this ages ago, I read it probably five months back, but Armor is probably one of my favorite books now.

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Yeah! I wash down tylenol with whiskey around here

I really have to get on Armor. It sounds so badass. I started it like a year ago, but it was before my sci-fi addiction began, and it seemed a bit boring at the time. Not sure why I thought it, but I'll read it fo sho soon!

Pretty soon going to digest Carl von Clausewitz's On War. I've got rather high expectations after finishing Sun Tzu's Art of War, but we'll see...

Dogmeatlives wrote:I really have to get on Armor. It sounds so badass. I started it like a year ago, but it was before my sci-fi addiction began, and it seemed a bit boring at the time. Not sure why I thought it, but I'll read it fo sho soon!

It started out entirely average to me, but by the time I was into the second "book" of the three stories in Armor I was hooked and couldn't put it down.

Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces - starting the original The Sword in the Stone, but I should really finish Slaughterhouse 5 - got the gf to start reading Breakfast of Champions though

Slaughterhouse 5 is decent. Cat's Cradle is better. I'm rusty on my Vonnegut, that was so :high school: for me. Good author though.

I'm just trying to catch up on some required reading - missed a few years there where most of what I read was religion-based.

I have cat's cradle so once I finish S5 I'll get into it. I put down SinS (heh) to make sure I finish it.

I just ordered a few books off Amazon that I'll get when I head back to the UK for Christmas. Winds of Dune, Slaughterhouse 5, and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

Winds of Dune is the new one and, while it might be crap, I'll read it and love it because it's Dune. The other two have been on my must read list for a while now, but never got around to reading.

I might head over to the English language bookstore next weekend and pick up a copy of Atlas Shrugged. I considered getting it last time I was there but had no cash at the time.

Been reading alot of Terry Pratchett recently.

I never read Vonnegut but I saw the movie Slaughterhouse 5.
What is the hype about?

Fucking pick up a book you illiterate bumpkin.

cazsim83 wrote:I'm just trying to catch up on some required reading - missed a few years there where most of what I read was religion-based.

I have cat's cradle so once I finish S5 I'll get into it. I put down SinS (heh) to make sure I finish it.

Ok, you really need to stop teasing us with these tidbits and start an "i was in a cult" thread all about your time as a brainwashed worshiper on the path to enlightenment.

Dogmeatlives wrote:

cazsim83 wrote:I'm just trying to catch up on some required reading - missed a few years there where most of what I read was religion-based.

I have cat's cradle so once I finish S5 I'll get into it. I put down SinS (heh) to make sure I finish it.

Ok, you really need to stop teasing us with these tidbits and start an "i was in a cult" thread all about your time as a brainwashed worshiper on the path to enlightenment.

okay but no promises it won't be a little offensive, since I know how everyone here is really careful about hurting other's feelings and stuff.

jetbaby wrote:Fucking pick up a book you illiterate bumpkin.

I've got a shitload of reading to do for my degree anyway, I'm not going to spend the rest of my time on some book that turns out to be a piece of shit.