The Books thread.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:59 am

johnnygothisgun wrote:a collection of short stories and plays by gogol

I read a collection of his short stories quite a while (~5y) ago. Brilliant. My favourites were "The Nose", "The Overcoat" and "Diary of a Madman". Thanks for reminding me, will definately reread over christmas "break".

Connor · Post by **Connor** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:12 am

Reading the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. Great stuff. For a history fan like me, that's like porn.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:27 pm

Reading some Chine Mieville; Perdido Street Station.

Good sci-fi.

inomel · Post by **inomel** » Sat May 15, 2010 8:42 pm

Green Lantern Sleepers book 3 is my current favorite.

TwinkieGorilla · Post by **TwinkieGorilla** » Sat May 15, 2010 10:22 pm

just finished a whole lotta moderists for a class and am now currently reading Ubik by P.K. Dick, my sci-fi hero, as a sort of recess.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Sat May 15, 2010 10:57 pm

Re-re-re-re-re-rereading The Hobbit.

Machiavelli · Post by **Machiavelli** » Sat May 15, 2010 11:32 pm

Vampire Earth series and re reading The Survivalist series (gotta love "mens adventure" novels!)

Nameless_One · Post by **Nameless_One** » Mon May 17, 2010 8:15 am

Hey can you guys also upload favorite covers and/or one of the other people`s comments over the .net that stick with your thoughts about the books that you are currently reading? Ah think it can bring this topic a new fresh breathe.Just suggestin`
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Hey, S4ur0n27 i think your old avatar was better; this one`s more interesting but...dunno

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue May 18, 2010 4:36 am

SenisterDenister wrote:Re-re-re-re-re-rereading The Hobbit.

Funny, I just read it two weeks ago. I think it's better every time.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue May 18, 2010 5:00 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:
SenisterDenister wrote:Re-re-re-re-re-rereading The Hobbit.
Funny, I just read it two weeks ago. I think it's better every time.

Tolkein is so outclassed in this day and age. At least it's The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings is dated and windy to me.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Tue May 18, 2010 9:37 am

jetbaby wrote:outclassed

by?

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Tue May 18, 2010 4:25 pm

I think The Hobbit was his best work, that said I think The Lord of the Rings are by no means bad. Quite the contrary, they're quite good. It will never be outclassed by any other book in its category mainly because it helped define the category.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue May 18, 2010 4:25 pm

Pretty much anyone willing to step outside of the Tolkeinian box. Jordan, primarily, a couple of others.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Tue May 18, 2010 5:15 pm

Just finished Caesar's Conquest of Gaul :shout out to my homie of antiquity Johnnygothisgun:

Now working on Mona Lisa Overdrive from William Gibson. Love Gibson's stuff. As a lecherous IT stoner who lived in Tokyo many years, Gibson's books really are my cup of synthi-cafe. Seamy, drugs, sex, crime, dorky techy shit, Nips, noir-ed up burnouts. Love it, and the guy's prose is fucking tight too.

Pretty much anyone willing to step outside of the Tolkeinian box. Jordan

But Jordan often steps right into other boxes - uninspired, cookie cutter Conan cash-in sequels and the like. Surely a formulaic, post-REHoward Conan novel is about as boxed-in as you can get.

Hobbit gives me the warm fuzzies. I still love the old Rankin/Bass animated version too.

Down, down to goblin town...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkqjc23yqs

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Wed May 19, 2010 2:14 am

SenisterDenister wrote:I think The Hobbit was his best work

The rest I just found fucking boring.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Wed May 19, 2010 7:21 am

Cimmerian Nights wrote:But Jordan often steps right into other boxes - uninspired, cookie cutter Conan cash-in sequels and the like. Surely a formulaic, post-REHoward Conan novel is about as boxed-in as you can get.

I'd put Goodkind into that Conan box, but, sure, he does far from cleave a new literary path, but he cuts a damn cleaner one than Tolkein ever could. He has an immense propensity to be windblown and drag things out, but so did Tolkein, Tolkein just had a habit of italicizing it and thinking he was a poet.

Frater Perdurabo wrote:The rest I just found fucking boring.

Precisely. Tolkein is the forefather of the long ear, kind, generous, intelligent nancy-boy elves and the stout, industrious, grumpy dwarf. He basically shit out the modern stereotypes that I hate in fantasy.

inomel · Post by **inomel** » Fri May 28, 2010 1:03 am

Nameless_One wrote:....Just suggestin`

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4xK0rwrhg
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-Sle ... ewpoints=1

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:49 am

I'm like 20 pages in Armor and the books seems a bit intense almost too much and there are a lot of pages. I haven't read a book in years but I promised myself like a year or two ago I would read something.

djDannyP · Post by **djDannyP** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:36 am

That's what I'm reading, pussies. Step up or get the fuck out.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:07 am

Deadeye Dick, very interesting.