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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:59 am
by Frater Perdurabo
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".
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:12 am
by Connor
Reading the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. Great stuff. For a history fan like me, that's like porn.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:27 pm
by S4ur0n27
Reading some Chine Mieville; Perdido Street Station.
Good sci-fi.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:42 pm
by inomel
Green Lantern Sleepers book 3 is my current favorite.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 10:22 pm
by TwinkieGorilla
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.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 10:57 pm
by SenisterDenister
Re-re-re-re-re-rereading The Hobbit.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 11:32 pm
by Machiavelli
Vampire Earth series and re reading The Survivalist series (gotta love "mens adventure" novels!)
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 8:15 am
by Nameless_One
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
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 4:36 am
by S4ur0n27
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.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:00 am
by jetbaby
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.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:37 am
by PiP
jetbaby wrote:outclassed
by?
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 4:25 pm
by SenisterDenister
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.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 4:25 pm
by jetbaby
Pretty much anyone willing to step outside of the Tolkeinian box. Jordan, primarily, a couple of others.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:15 pm
by Cimmerian Nights
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
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 2:14 am
by Frater Perdurabo
SenisterDenister wrote:I think The Hobbit was his best work
The rest I just found fucking boring.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:21 am
by jetbaby
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.
Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:03 am
by inomel
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:49 am
by POOPERSCOOPER
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:36 am
by djDannyP
That's what I'm reading, pussies. Step up or get the fuck out.
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:07 am
by rad resistance
Deadeye Dick, very interesting.