The Books thread.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:43 pm

Grow up

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:40 am

Cimmerian Nights wrote:Zombie Survival Guide

Eh, alright. Not that kickass.

Mechanurgist · Post by **Mechanurgist** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:27 am

Naked_Lunch wrote:China Mieville's "Looking for Jake" was absolutely amazing though, specifically the title story, the graphic novel, and "Reports Of Certain Events In London." Very Lovecraft-esque. Good shit, mates.

The problem with Mieville is that he's a Peake and Lovecraft pastiche writer, and he injects his adolescent politics into everything, turning a great premise into shite.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:15 pm

Mechanurgist wrote:
Naked_Lunch wrote:China Mieville's "Looking for Jake" was absolutely amazing though, specifically the title story, the graphic novel, and "Reports Of Certain Events In London." Very Lovecraft-esque. Good shit, mates.
The problem with Mieville is that he's a Peake and Lovecraft pastiche writer, and he injects his adolescent politics into everything, turning a great premise into shite.

Eww, I always wanted to try one of his books. I guess I won't, now.

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:28 pm

The Witcher (Wiedzmin) by A. Sapkowski. Mothafucking awesome dark fantasy shit. Getting to the third installment of the series right now. Almost as awesome as Glen Cook's Black Company series.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:27 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:
Mechanurgist wrote:
Naked_Lunch wrote:China Mieville's "Looking for Jake" was absolutely amazing though, specifically the title story, the graphic novel, and "Reports Of Certain Events In London." Very Lovecraft-esque. Good shit, mates.
The problem with Mieville is that he's a Peake and Lovecraft pastiche writer, and he injects his adolescent politics into everything, turning a great premise into shite.
Eww, I always wanted to try one of his books. I guess I won't, now.

Well, Perdido Street Station and The Scar are both great beach books and definitely worth checking out if you have some time to spare, but I can't say the same for Looking for Jake. 2-3 decent stories ("Reports..", the wormwood one ~~) and a whole lot of crap. (I mean, what the hell was he thinking when he wrote An End to Hunger and 'Tis the Season? Some pretty massive lulz right there)

Currently reading: Crash by JG Ballard. Very :dac:

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:19 pm

I bought Crash, Concrete Island (I think that was the title?) and Crystal World. I read half of concrete island and all of crystal world - didn't get to Crash, but I did watch the movie.

His writing style is very... sparse? I donno, it obviously fits the subject matter wonderfully but it's also pretty depressing to read.

Mechanurgist · Post by **Mechanurgist** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:06 pm

edhead wrote:The Witcher (Wiedzmin) by A. Sapkowski. Mothafucking awesome dark fantasy shit. Getting to the third installment of the series right now. Almost as awesome as Glen Cook's Black Company series.

Really? I loved the Black Company series (well, at least until book 5 or 6). Can you tell me if the English translation is good?

edhead · Post by **edhead** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:51 am

I haven't read The Witcher in English, but the Lithuanian translation was excellent

TNP · Post by **TNP** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:07 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:Grow up

If you mean conform to ZOG, too fucking bad, buster, that will never happen. Do you think I'm gonna sit by and let my white race be polluted into nothing while future generations are half-breeds and sick looking mongrel fucks that are nothing but Jew soldiers? Fuck that shit and fuck all weak minded Zionist cocksuckers who give me shit.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:29 pm

Muhammad Ali - Mein Kampf

TNP · Post by **TNP** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:34 pm

Muslim swell guy Rocky Adrian Right-hook Jab Final Solution Zyklon-B National Socialism Sylvester Stalone hello Thor Kaufman make sense

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:26 pm

im about halfway through julius caesars memoirs of the gallic wars, theyre pretty neat

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:52 pm

johnnygothisgun wrote:im about halfway through julius caesars memoirs of the gallic wars, theyre pretty neat

Written by?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:20 pm

jk rowling of course

:ROFL:

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:48 pm

megatron i will love you

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:30 am

S4ur0n27 wrote:
johnnygothisgun wrote:im about halfway through julius caesars memoirs of the gallic wars, theyre pretty neat
Written by?

um... julius caesar? who else, lolz

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:39 am

johnnygothisgun wrote:
S4ur0n27 wrote:
johnnygothisgun wrote:im about halfway through julius caesars memoirs of the gallic wars, theyre pretty neat
Written by?
um... julius caesar? who else, lolz

It could be fictionnal LOLZ. I never heard of Caesar's memoirs

it's worth it?

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:13 am

yeah, theyre pretty solid

i bought his commentaries on the gallic war and the eminently more depressing commentaries on the civil war. theyre both pretty short reads and are written in a very simple, direct, and entertaining style that you might enjoy. i sometimes wish he were more descriptive, but at the time of writing he pretty definitely had a different target audience in mind who would have been better informed about things that arent second nature to the modern man, so that explains the occassional want of details (composition of legionary engineer detachments, clearer description of roman artillery deployment etc)

there are three other extant works that are attributed to him (on his hispanic, african and alexandrine campaigns, respectively) but the historical record seems to indicate theyre forgeries and were not written by our man

Mechanurgist · Post by **Mechanurgist** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:43 am

johnnygothisgun wrote:im about halfway through julius caesars memoirs of the gallic wars, theyre pretty neat

I commend you on your interest in the Classics. I'm reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations right now.