WHAT are you reading right now?

[Fathom Zero]

Ever read Roadside Picnic, Zhukov?

[Shadowdancer21b]

Just finished "Nigh Omnipotent" by A. Lee Martinez. It was okay. Kind of a mediocre book really. He's done much better than this. 2/5.

[Zhukov]

Ever read Roadside Picnic, Zhukov?

No, but I will if you recommend it.

[Fathom Zero]

It was what the film Stalker and those STALKER games were based on.

I always loved the idea of Pripyat as an artificial, alien place, so I dug into it. I've not read it in a while, so I can't remember how dense it was. I remember enjoying it a bit, though. I think there's a PDF on Google Books of the entire thing.

[Shadowdancer21b]

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub, sequel to the Talisman. Good read, but King gets rambly.

[Fathom Zero]

I hated Black House. :\

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The little match girl by Hans Anderson :(

[Shadowdancer21b]

I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land again. One of my favorite books. Also, I really didn't like the end of Black House. It was just...a dumb ending.

[monster_movie_night]

just started reading a manga called bio meat:nectar

[King Hadas]

Dune! Where have you been all my life.

Has anyone here got an opinion on Brian Herbert's continuation of the series? I'm on Children of Dune and I can see his books waiting in the distance, making me nervous. What are they like?

[Shadowdancer21b]

CTHULHU the Mythos and Kindred Horrors written by Robert Howard. These stories are pretty cool, considering that they are Cthulhu stories written by the creator of Conan.

[Zhukov]

Dune! Where have you been all my life.

Has anyone here got an opinion on Brian Herbert's continuation of the series? I'm on Children of Dune and I can see his books waiting in the distance, making me nervous. What are they like?

Can't help you but I've been meaning to get into the Dune series. Haven't found the first one around, so I've put it off.

I just finished Starship Troopers, which was good, and amazing when you consider when it was written. I read it entirely while lying on grass in the sun.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Dune! Where have you been all my life.

Has anyone here got an opinion on Brian Herbert's continuation of the series? I'm on Children of Dune and I can see his books waiting in the distance, making me nervous. What are they like?

My friend has read through them and said the continuation ones are pretty good too. Worth reading at least.

[wizbenny]

Currently reading the latest "Wheel of Time."

I didn't say this about the last one because I had no way of knowing how much Robert Jordan had written before he passed... but now I must say that the editors did choose a fairly good replacement. He has the tone, voice and pacing of Robert Jordan down.

Unfortunately... he has the PACING of Robert Jordan down...

Seriously... could they beat the same dead horses over and over and over again in this series? And I swear that it seems halfway through the series they got bored with the lead character and just gave up on him. It's the only series I've ever seen where the protagonist starts becoming a MINOR character! He's a set piece.

At least with the George Martin "Songs of Ice and Fire" series it was ALWAYS an ensemble narrative.

[Zhukov]

Think my brother is reading that.

Das Krapital just arrived in the mail. It's a skid-marxist leviathan.

[captain516]

A Confederacy Of Dunces
It's weird to imagine socially awkward manchildren before the internet, but apparently they existed:eek

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Hell's Angels by Thompson.

[Fathom Zero]

Finished Ham on Rye. Bukowski is more depressing than I'd originally thought.

[kahljorn]

what is roadside picnic about? does the movie follow it pretty closely?

cause ive watched the STALKER movie and im not sure what to think about what happened :lol but i usually end up falling asleep when i watch it

[Zhukov]

It seems every second thing out of Russia is a post apocalyptic nightmare. There must be three different STALKER settings at least.

[Fathom Zero]

Russia's not really a happy place. :\

[kahljorn]

so nothing about roadside picnic/ stalker the movie? :(

i just sorta figured it was really about how pathetic that guys life was but I'm not sure :lol

[King Hadas]

Finished the last Frank Herbert Dune novel which, hilariously, is the only book in the series to end in a cliffhanger. I then tried one of his son's continuations of the series Hunters of Dune. I've been worried about these continuations chiefly because the appeal of Dune isn't really the cast or the world they in habit but how Frank tells the story. I worried another writer might miss this and I was right to worry. Also Brian and his friend Kevin are terrible writers. No offense to 10,000 Volt Ghost's friend but this shit is garbage.

[Esuohlim]

I'm finally reading Ender's Game, and I'm about a third of the way through. I like it so far, but it's not the amazing piece of literature I expected, at least not yet of course. The whole "smug little supergenius who is better than everyone at everything" thing is a bit annoying, especially since I have a few buddies who actually believe that they're Ender in real life.

[executioneer]

just finished game-players of titan (p.k. dick)

not recommended for paranoids

[kahljorn]

Don't forget Orson scott card's writings are about how much he hates homosexuals

[Fathom Zero]

so nothing about roadside picnic/ stalker the movie? :(

i just sorta figured it was really about how pathetic that guys life was but I'm not sure :lol

It's alright. :\

[kahljorn]

i didn't realize there was actually a book called game-players of titan. i thought you were being clever with the sirens of titan

[executioneer]

nope it's about mankind getting 99% wiped out in a war (against aliens? although they said it was the chinese who used the weapon that killed most of humanity so idk) and there's this game that the rich dudes play where they bet cities and uh marriage is tied into it somehow

[Fathom Zero]

good synopsis and stuff

[executioneer]

it's hard to synopsize a philip dick book without giving away spoilers :( ALSO I MIGHT HAVE TO REREAD IT AND I AM CURRENTLY SLIGHTLY TERRIFIED OF IT SO I'D RATHER NOT

[Fathom Zero]

eh true true

[kahljorn]

sounds like the sirens of titan but with rich dudes :O

[executioneer]

does sirens of titan have a sequence where the main character takes a bunch of meth and starts hallucinating horrifying shit

[Zhukov]

What a good book you have chosen to read.

[kahljorn]

no i dont think it has that :lol I'll have to read it again to be sure though. I know there were a few scenes with hallucinations maybe and a mind control drug :O

[Fathom Zero]

Sounds unique.

[kahljorn]

dang i just remembered sirens of titan is by vonneguht and not pkdick :O

still the stories are strangely similar :O

[Immortal Goat]

Currently, I am reading "House of Leaves", but it's a very complex read. It takes a lot of patience to get through it, and much like the house the book describes, while you may make progress in the book, it feels like you haven't moved forward at all.

In short, I love it.

[kahljorn]

THE BOOK OF DIFFERING FONTS

[Zhukov]

Babel 17. It's another sci fi "masterpiece", it's by Sam R Delaney and it's quite good - if a little hard to concentrate on sometimes. Probably from the 50s or 60s or something like that, so it's better in that regard I guess.

[Fathom Zero]

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8057/photohqz.jpg

Reading comics sucks because you always finish them the same day you get them. :(

[Shrubfest]

The entire plot line and multiple endings of the first Silent Hill game. Tired now.

[Fathom Zero]

I got a copy of the Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, but I've yet to read it. I'm kinda excited - people I trust have said it's good.

[Big McLargehuge]

Room by Emma Donaghue

It is from the perspective of a five year old child who is imprisoned in a room that he has never left, with his mother. In his mind only things in the room are "real" other things are "tv" and happen in "outer space". I am taking a break now because I don't want to be sad at the moment.

[Babs]

I really want to give Room a try, always seamed like a good reed. Just curious, how did they end up in Room, or is that part of the whole story's central plot?

[Big McLargehuge]

I have shelved it because i can tell it is going to be one of those books that fucks with you for days after finishing it. So i don't know yet.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The entire plot line and multiple endings of the first Silent Hill game. Tired now.

I ended up reading through the entire series before completing any of them.

[Krythor]

I got a copy of the Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, but I've yet to read it. I'm kinda excited - people I trust have said it's good.

I love that book, one of my favourites.

[Guitar Woman]

Homestuck.

I'm not really sure how to describe it; it's kind of a webcomic/choose your own adventure/animation/illustrated story hybrid, and it feels like something that could have only come from the internet. It's kinda fantastic, if a bit slow at the beginning.

Neat music, too.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002722
http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-jungle
http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/umbral-ultimatum

[Fathom Zero]

:O GODDAMN YOU FOR LIKING HOMESTUCK, TOO.

Also, I'm reading Tropic of Capricorn and Ulysses. Because I needed more reasons to be misanthropic, apparently.

[mburbank]

Just finishd 'Counter Clock World', Phillip K. Dick. Not my favorite of his works, but that's still pretty good.

[Zhukov]

That reminds me of the Red Dwarf (novel) scene where the world, sorry, a world, is going in reverse. This probably came first.

[King Hadas]

In Odd We Trust, a manga-style comic written by Dean Koontz. This may surprise you but it's not very good.

As supplementary reading I've got The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad.

[creeposaurus]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a23/creeposaurus/IMG_20110620_205726.jpg

[Pentegarn]

I for one would never ride the Aliens Omnibus, for one thing I abhor public transportation.

[The Leader]

:rimshot

[Pentegarn]

I'm here all week
Try the veal
Two drink minimum
Tip your waitstaff

[Esuohlim]

I'm getting into Stephen King again. I just finished Hearts in Atlantis, which I really enjoyed. I started the first Dark Tower book, the Gunslinger, and got bored after a few pages and gave up for the day. :( But I'll try again when I'm more in the mood. I never did finish the Stand, but it was starting to get stupid anyway.

[kahljorn]

did i mention I'm reading "The idiot" by dostoevsky in t his thread?

anyway stupid people always see it and give me a dumbfounded look. Its kind of hilarious.

[Zhukov]

I'm about 3/4 way thought it. But I've been reading that and War and Peace for the past few years. Russian authors always interest me and drag me in, then take too long to get to the end, and my patience wanes.

One of my favourite fiction authors is Iain M Banks, but I have never gotten around to reading his most famous novel, The Wasp factory. UNTIL NOW THAT IS.

It's really gripping and I'm only a few chapters in.

[Zomboid]

I just read the four released books in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, and just finished "1984" today. Nooooow I'm going to read "Fahrenheit 451." I'm pretty much catching up on stuff that I've missed out on.

[Esuohlim]

I just read the four released books in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series

I read the first two a long time ago, haven't gotten around to the third one yet. Those books are fucking great

[Zomboid]

The third was by far my favorite. It's where shit really reaches the boiling point. It's a lot better than the first two, and then the fourth is kinda meh, but the fifth one looks pretty good, based on the sample chapters that I've read.

GIANTS RIDING MAMMOTHS. That's my spoiler for the third book.

[captain516]

I just read the four released books in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, and just finished "1984" today. Nooooow I'm going to read "Fahrenheit 451." I'm pretty much catching up on stuff that I've missed out on.

If you were an American child you could've gotten it over with much quicker.

[Zomboid]

I don't get why they'd assign stuff like that for American children. Seems like it'd just fly over a lot of heads and put them off of reading. I had to read a bunch of other staples in high school, but those ones weren't there, for whatever reason. The stuff I had to read in university varied wildly from class to class, but there was a lot of Canadian stuff. Margaret Atwood can lick my taint.

[captain516]

True, I hated Faranheit when I first read it. Now Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

[Pentegarn]

When I went to school the only Bradbury I was required to read was The Illustrated Man and instead of 1984 we read Animal Farm

[Zhukov]

We read 'Royal Hunt for the Sun', 'Remembering Babylon' and 'The Giver'. I think I enjoyed them all.

[Zomboid]

I think Fahrenheit 451 would be easier to grasp than 1984. There are some kinda fucked up concepts in there that I just can't see a typical high school student being able to fully grasp. The bare outline of "the MAN" seems to be what most take away from it.

The best book I "had" to read in school was the Chrysalids. Still a favorite.

[Fathom Zero]

'The Giver'.

ugh

[King Hadas]

Animal Farm is the only book besides Shakespeare I remember being assigned to read. We read that instead of 1984, probably because 1984 is so fucked up and hopeless.

[Fathom Zero]

I remember finding Brave New World profoundly more disturbing than 1984. (Prolly for these reasons, even as a kid.) (http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html) I was required to read both Animal Farm and 1984, though. No room for Huxley, I suppose. Too much sex, maybe.

That and the Red Badge of Courage. I never read what was required of me after that and bullshitted through everything else, especially Beowulf.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I remember reading red badge of courage. It was decent. Beowulf was the shit by the way.

[Zhukov]

ugh

It's not that great, no, but I liked it when I was 13, and I am pretty sure it sparked my interest in a lot of interesting things.

[kahljorn]

I'm about 3/4 way thought it. But I've been reading that and War and Peace for the past few years. Russian authors always interest me and drag me in, then take too long to get to the end,Dostoevsky novels usually have shitty ant-climatic endings

i read about 100 pages of war and peace but its kinda boring except when they tie that dude to the bear. thats funny.

but yea i really like russian writers too

[Zhukov]

War and Peace does have a little bit of interesting in it, but it is just swamped with so much boring that it makes it a real chore to wade through.

I'm moving house at the moment and I left the book that I am reading --The Wasp Factory - at the wrong abode, so I went on wikipedia and read up on it. Like an idiot I spoiled it for myself and ruined the ending.


I like dystopian futures, and I think I might write a short story about one.

[King Hadas]

I only read the first chapter of War & Peace. A lot of it was in french with no translation, don't know if this was artistic or if the translators expected me to know french but I couldn't find the energy to go on. Never had that problem with Doestoyevsy, I burn through Dostoyevsky's stuff without ever breaking pace. I've only read his three most famous works though (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov), not sure about his other books like The Gambler or Demons.

@Zhukov - I had the same problem with The Wasp Factory, the ending was spoiled for me before I even started reading it. It's still pretty good even if you know how it ends.

[Zhukov]

I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment despite me thinking that it suffers from the same boring ending syndrome as other Russian literary classics. I've got The Idiot floating around here somewhere so I will get to that soonish.

My copy of War and Peace also has quite a lot of untranslated French in it. He doesn't make it easy.

[Fathom Zero]

Reading shouldn't be like solving a puzzle box. >:

[Sam]

UNLESS YOU ARE READING HELLRAISER.

[Fathom Zero]

blive carker

[King Hadas]

I've started Slapstick by Vonnegut.

This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography.
lol

[Fathom Zero]

Gawd, I love Slapstick.

[Esuohlim]

Slapstick is the worst novel Vonnegut wrote

I still agree with PAST ESUOHLIM. That's the one with the retarded twins who can mindmeld by fucking each other, right?

[Fathom Zero]

WHAT IS WRONG ABOUT THAT.

[Esuohlim]

So you loved Slapstick but hated Deadeye Dick?

[King Hadas]

Finished Slapstick. I liked it, I can't disagree with Milhouse though when he says it's the worst Vonnegut novel ever since I haven't read everything by Vonnegut and Slapstick definitely isn't better than any of the Vonnegut novels I have read.

The worst thing I've read by Vonnegut was God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian. That's not really a novel though.

[Fathom Zero]

So you loved Slapstick but hated Deadeye Dick?

DID I SAY THAT, MILHOUSE? DID I?

[Esuohlim]

I read through Deadeye Dick in one sitting this morning. IT IS NOT ABOUT DICKS. Recommended

derecommended

..

[Fathom Zero]

coz you said it wasn't about dicks

i was going for the gag, milhouse, you should know that

or I was being contrary that day

[executioneer]

going for the gag, eh

[Fathom Zero]

yeah, coz there's no way I'd like didcks in real life

yeah

[Esuohlim]

How about Breakfast of Champions, that one actually is about dicks

[executioneer]

is it about gagging on them though

[k0k0]

I just finished The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. It is an excellent story set in the First Law universe that he's created. If you like fantasy novels and haven't read any of Joe Abercrombie's work, I would highly recommend it, starting with the First Law Trilogy. All of his books do suffer a little bit switching character perspectives, but they hold some of the most brutally awesome fight scenes I've ever read. I've gone through all 5 of his books and they just keep getting better.

[captain516]

I fished The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad. In it, Hitler moves to America and becomes a beloved sci-fi writer. Kinda lame actually, but I'm a sucker for alternate reality stories.

[executioneer]

found a paperback copy of Dune for $1, fuck yeah

[Nick]

I just read through Volume 8 and 9 of the Dark horse's ongoing Conan series. I can't get enough of it. Volume 14 of The Walking Dead was pretty great as well. I hate how they always leave you hanging at the end of each Volume, though.

[King Hadas]

found a paperback copy of Dune for $1, fuck yeah
I found a paperback copy of Dune at St Vincent's once that was only a nickel. :dunce

[executioneer]

well it was one of those "donate your books then sell them and give the money to charity" things so i don't even feel that it was a cost at all

[Nick]

How much would a used dvd of Dune run? Three pennies?

[bigtimecow]

essential man-thing vol. 2

i finished vol 1 in like a weekend, but i've been slacking with vol 2. i fucking love this

[Nick]

How does Man-Thing compare to Swamp-Thing?

[bigtimecow]

i haven't read swamp thing yet either, but i do have the first swamp thing (alan moore)

it seems like swamp thing has a more cohesive story. man-thing has a few arcs, but most issues are contained stories that might involve some familiar characters but don't really connect

[Nick]

People seem to love Alan Moore's ruin on Swamp Thing, but I've never seen more than that old movie. What are the differences between Man-Thing and Swamp-Thing besides companies and rthat whole "hands brning evil" thing?

[captain516]

I'm gonna start reading Discworld, because even though I hate fantasy.
Wish me luck, guise

[k0k0]

That's not a reason to start reading Discworld. And although I love the games, I could only get through about 3 books of Discworld. It was kind of awful compared to a lot of the stuff I read. I know there's a point in the books where you can skip to and it'll be good, but I couldn't read until I got to that point.

[Esuohlim]

There's something about Discworld that causes sudden ADD onset and prevents me from paying attention while reading. I keep trying though! I got through Mort without any problems, start with that one.

[Zhukov]

Christ. I can't understand why someone hasn't already read all the Discworld books before the age of 15.

[k0k0]

Because when I was 15, I was too busy smoking a ton of pot, going to shows, and trying to get girls to have sex with me. I had no time for any books other than what they made me read in school.

[Zhukov]

Well some of us didn't have to try to get girls to have sex with us, because by reading Discworld novels they just flocked into our pants. :picklehat

[Esuohlim]

I never heard of Discworld until only a couple years ago. My ~15-year-old obsession was the Hitchhiker's Guide :\

[k0k0]

The discworld video games were what my 13 year old self played with my roommate. If we were stuck on a certain part for more than a week, we'd bicycle a mile to blockbuster and read the hint book for it. Then we'd bike back, solve the puzzle, then get stuck again for a week. It was an awesome point and click game, but a lot of the puzzles were tough because the world was too big and nothing guided you.

[Pentegarn]

Just got The Omen Machine, about 100 pages in and it's pretty good so far if you liked the other Goodkind books

[Guitar Woman]

Trainspotting.

It's sort of weird how you start to assimilate the phonetic scottish after a dozen pages or so.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The Complete Far Side.

With Borders going out of business this was finally a good time to get it.

[King Hadas]

I read A Dance with Dragons, I wonder if Martin is gonna be able to finish this series before he keels over. This book cost him six years and his already in his sixties. I hope this doesn't turn out to be another Dune.

I've actually been looking for another good Fantasy series, with no luck so far. I tried Thomas Convent's Unbelievable Adventure or whatever that series by Steven Donaldson is called. I've heard people rant and rave about it but I just think it's boring.

[Nick]

HACK/SLASH

[kahljorn]

reading breakfast of champions by vonneguht

kind of reminds me of slapstick and i didnt really like slapstick ;/

its like he's trying really hard to not try hard

[KandiJewl]

Im reading your post rite now ;D

[kahljorn]

r u a girl

[k0k0]

Kandi sounds pretty close to womti. My alarm is going off.

God damnit, this is like one of those horror movies when the cat keeps jumping out or it's just the wind.
Or maybe it's like 'The Thing'

[kahljorn]

i hope its a hot girl

[Pentegarn]

Sounds like you are hoping womti is a hot girl

[executioneer]

would you guys stop talking about womti already

[Pentegarn]

Blame khal, he's the one that hopes womti is a hot girl

[daff3w]

uncle montagues tales of terror

[executioneer]

did you join just to post that :/ why not tell us more about this book, mystery person

[k0k0]

It sounds like a book of molestation told from the point of view of the molester. I'd rather not read it.

[daff3w]

its a childrens book of horror stories as told by the kids uncle the stories are pretty good so fare the first story is about a kid who climbs a tree only to get killed by a monster i always found it hard to describe a book with multiple stories

[Pentegarn]

I usually go with "It's a book with multiple stories" myself

[daff3w]

ya my dumbass wasn't thinking sorry about that

[kahljorn]

whats wrong with wishing that womti was a hot girl instead of womti ;/

i feel kind of bad for that monster doomed to live in trees waiting for children to climb it but they are all busy playing videogames

[Pentegarn]

I can agree there are worse things to hope for

[Guitar Woman]

V for Vendetta.

The coloring is fucking horrible. I'm about halfway through Part 3 and I'm ready to call the movie better, if only because I could actually see what the fuck was happening more than a fourth of the time.

[Krythor]

I was about 200 pages into Meridian by Alice Walker but haven't read any more of it for the past two or three weeks. No particular reason why not, just not in the mood. I need to pick it back up again though, I really liked it. I didn't think Alice Walker would be my kind of thing but she's a bit experimental with the structure of the book and it's not all serious nagging about racism like I expected.

[Rongi]

I'm ready to call the movie better,


hahaha you are so terrible how are you such a terrible person

I'm reading my Drugs and Behavior textbook. On a friday night!

[The Leader]

V for Vendetta.

The coloring is fucking horrible. I'm about halfway through Part 3 and I'm ready to call the movie better, if only because I could actually see what the fuck was happening more than a fourth of the time.
Maybe you are farsighted.

[Revel]

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. good books.

[Hydraulic_Brains]

Right now I'm reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White, he was really brilliant and this is one of his, if not his best, works.

[monicat]

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Jose Saramago, for the sencond time. I'm stuck in my couch all day (http://www.fashionforhome.com/sofas) everytime I re-read it. Would recommend it to everyone

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Not that Game of Thrones book because I left it at home today by mistake >:

[captain516]

Creative Spirituality-The way of the Artist.
lol college english

[Brubeck Nightfly]

I'm reading All The President's Men. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are giving a lecture close to where I live in March and I want to brush up before I go to that.

[Vyvyan Basterd]

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[JohnnyLurg]

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I thought it was hilarious when you ate that TV on The Young Ones.

Hollywood by Bukowski for me.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm half way through game of thrones right now. Do the others ever come back?

[Tadao]

yes

[Esuohlim]

I started the following books over the last six months and never got past 50 pages or so.

Storm of Swords - GRRM
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Shining - Stephen Kunt >:
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

Just not into reading lately for some reason. It really sucks.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Do they not come back in this book or not until the next prologue. which would be dumb.

[Esuohlim]

The Others show up in Season 2 and they're lead by [spoolers]ben linus :eek

I haven't read past book 2 yet but I don't remember them since the book 1 prologue.

[Zomboid]

Well, finish Storm of Swords.

[Esuohlim]

I figured. It's been a while so I can't remember if I read it or just read about it.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Thats the thing. Its annoying that they being them up in the prolog. then fornever more.

[Gix]

finished starship troopers..was ok
and now on a 007 novel called Carte Blanche...really need more books
also, after i read A Dance with Dragons, i just lost all appeal for series,not wanting to give it away but for me the last straw was the ending of the book..after that event i was no longer wanting to continue

[kahljorn]

buy a kindle and get like every uncopyrighted book for free

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

^
They probably have the Malice in the Palace novella.

[kahljorn]

also you can pirate books for kindle too :O

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://www.amazon.com/Brod-Parody-Jack-Kerouacs-Road/dp/144052906X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325876826&sr=8-1

I might have to get this for my brother.

[Zomboid]

Thats the thing. Its annoying that they being them up in the prolog. then fornever more.

Well, if you think about it...the Night's Watch is going north of the wall as of the end of the first book. What's north of the wall? Stick with it. The Others are pretty much the biggest threat to all of Westeros, but the Night's Watch are the only people who seem to care/believe while everyone else is involved in other shit.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm in the last 100 pages of game of thrones. Its getting better. I only have time to read during my 15 min breaks at work.

[Fathom Zero]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

A few hundred pages into a dance with dragons now.

Shitmouth from a feast of crows is my favorite character.

[captain516]

Bill Bryson-Notes from a Small Island

[Phoenix Gamma]

I've been reading a lot of Marvel comics lately. They've got a heck of a lineup these days; Superior Spider-Man is actually really interesting; Doc Ock's funny in a way that you don't see very often. Also, the Hawkeye series is absolutely stupendous. The art, the layouts, the writing, it's all phenomenal. I absolutely adore it. Very smart. I'm also interested in their new X-Men book coming out soon.

I wish DC's reboot was as good. "Batman" is pretty great, but all the other Batman books are average at best. Wonder Woman is the only other DC series I haven't dropped yet, though I want to catch up on The Flash; it's a really pretty looking series.

IDW's got some good shit these days too. Their Ghostbusters comic is pretty great, and their current run of the Ninja Turtles is really solid. If you ever liked either one of those franchises as a kid, their current run on both are worthy follow-ups.

Lastly, Bandette is just a really charming series. The first issue is free right now to celebrate its Eisner nomination. Pretty art and fun writing.

[WhiteRoseBrian]

This morning I wrapped up the first volume of Lone Wolf and Cub. I'm still gathering my thoughts on it while typing up a post for my blog. I've also recently read American Born Chinese, which is great. Last month I've also read the first volume of Kamen Rider (there's not much substance but it's still a ride), the first volume of Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Things (very solid), and a volume of short stories by Will Eisner that I received as a freebie back in July (very much worth a look).

[SuperYuriGagarin]

Xenozoic tales. an 80's-90's running post environmental apocalypse that vomits out life from all eras of earth's history, detailing the pulp style adventures of a Man who restores pre-apocalypse cars.

[WhiteRoseBrian]

Batman: Death of the Family. Over-the-top but moody.

Scott Pilgrim. An overrated mixed bag, to be honest.

Axe Cop. Just plain nuts!

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The newspaper.

That crazy bitch that tried to drive into the white house was a crazy bitch.

[Kitsa]

I hate, hate, hate fantasy, and fuck anyone who has a problem with that, but for some reason I got really pissed off when people were taken aback by all the Red Wedding shit when it aired.

It was written what, fifteen years ago, something like that? Almost fifteen years ago, anyway. That's like being surprised at being hit by a train when the fucking tracks are right there.

So last week, even though I hate the genre and fuck you, I got the box set and mowed through them and at least I won't be one of those people who are like WAAAH, SO AND SO DIED even though I don't even watch the show.

[Tadao]

I like Pratchett and Adams and will always have a heart for fantasy, so long as people die. Do you hate fantasy or people who take fantasy too far?

[Kitsa]

I don't know, I just never developed a taste for it and then maybe I went to too many cons with too many insufferable twats, I don't know. My preference is nonfiction, by a landslide, with some literature thrown in.

[Tadao]

Yeah, never mix your people with your words. :(

[Kitsa]

Maybe I'm dumber than the average person, but I just don't feel like I have room in my brain for it. It's weird because I have no problem with creativity, but I just feel like my time would be better spent reading about the actual events (seems to be more or less the Wars of the Roses, with some extra combatants and some dragons and frostypeople thrown in). But, you know, if you like it and that's your thing, great. I do have way more respect for people who have actually taken the fucking time to read the books, versus people who just watch the show.

[Tadao]

heh I could say the same about historical books. Where is the time jump and why don't I have problems with ants? So far game of thrones is more historical than fantasy. Thus the glorious 3 part south park.

[Kitsa]

I do enjoy the historical parts (although the persistent spelling "Ser" drove me up a damn wall for some reason). I enjoyed Tyrion's POV chapters the most, I think, and Catelyn's the least. Some of the Wall stuff kind of lost me, and I got frustrated with the pages-upon-pages of this-guy's-suddenly-important, striding around castle keeps with endlessly complicated points of intrigue.

Daenarys' chapters seemed like an odd juxtaposition, like a random Turkish exile for a former Western European royal.

[Kitsa]

But still, my key point here is not that the book is shit (it's not, really, at all, and to me it felt like it was written in the same style and approximate catchiness as the Clan of the Cave Bear series), but rather that people are fucking morons for being taken by surprise by any plot twist in the TV adaptation. As I said, the events covered by the current seasons of the show were PUBLISHED FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. You can get the whole damn set for $27 in a nice box of trade paperbacks.

[postaholic]

For those looking for a stronger dose of fantasy in their reading diet I recommend the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. It's deep high fantasy that boasts some of the best written action on the shelves today, however, the characters are a bit flat and the dialogue is hokey at times but if you can look past that it's worth a read.