Obviously if you're reading this now, then by the time you get around to posting the last thing you've read is going to be a forums post, but I'm thinking more along the lines of books, articles, short stories, comics, etc. If the last thing you read was somewhere on the internet, post a link so that interested people can read it too!

The last thing I read was this article (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20100524/EU.Britain.Autism.Doctor/) about the crazy autism/vaccines doctor finally losing his license.

I'm currently half way through "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future" by Michael J. Fox. I'm loving it so far.

Peter Kuper's Give It Up! and Other Short Stories (http://books.google.com/books?id=8ifh56lewVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=peter+kuper+give+it+up&source=bl&ots=m5cPzjQJaG&sig=nsvbYsq3Mq8VNZ7uTs7OPlwMOIo&hl=en&ei=5XkFTK7MMISdlgfmzNjWBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false). It's a graphic novelization of Franz Kafka stories that's a lot of fun (can be found on Amazon, but their images from inside the book don't show you much so I'm linking to Google Books). I had previously read Kuper's graphic novel for the Metamorphosis, which is what got me interested in this.

Watchmen.

Thinking about re-reading The Regulators/Desperation and finishing Dark Tower.

x-force #27

Marvel Zombies: Dead Days

The Asus M4N72-E manual.

http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Forty-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/0307377342

in the middle of it. i really like it <3

http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Forty-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/0307377342

in the middle of it. i really like it <3

I got a chance to watch the youtube video of this you linked to me this morning, it was pretty neat!

The last thing I read was issues 1-5 of Joe the Barbarian. It is imaginative and wonderful and the art is spectacular.



It's not finished yet, but I'm happy to send the issues out so far to anyone who is interested. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes reading adventure comics and doesn't mind a little weirdness. Gonna try and get to my nearest comic shop later this week and buy some actual issues of it too, I want to make sure this sells well enough to get a trade.

Is this the voice of Oscar Wilde? (http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/06/03/the-voice-of-oscar-wilde/)

Last novel: Cat's Cradle
Last Novella: Animal Farm
Last article: http://www.naturalnews.com/028803_psychiatry_disease.html

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier.

Great read though I would have liked more actual character, story, & comic in it. I had trouble actually just sitting down and reading it because half of it is summary text with very little theatrics or suspense.

Finished Regulators. Didn't end the way I remembered it ending, tbh. The appendix to the last chapter is the same, though, so it must just be my faulty memory.

It's still good. Not great. I preferred Desperation, originally, too. We'll see how that pans out.

I've just always had a soft spot for this duology. Must be how they work in tandem. *shrug*

The Korean Street Fighter animated movie (http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2010/05/korean-week-street-fighter-animated.html)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I read that in college and remember liking it a lot. I wasn't a big fan of the movie, though.

Fluke, by Christopher Moore.

It's about whale scientists in Hawai'i and then funny things happen. Also some pseudo-biological theories about life and evolution.

Night Strike, by Gregory Vanhee.

A little cold war political drama. Nothing special, but not bad.

Star Wars Omnibus Menace Revealed

Takes place between ep. I & II and like most prequel books I've read, while not bad the stories aren't all that captivating and the characters are rather bland. The Aura Sing parts being the most interesting and but make be angry at the CGI Clone Wars series for making her weaker than she is. The artwork for the Jango Fett Story is very good, sort of a realistic caricature of the "live action' stuff. The last 20 or so pages where lame, I thing they're just toy adds or something becasue they all end with "With the new Republic Gunship and force FX lightsaber, the possibilities are endless! The force is in your hands!

Not bad but wouldn't recommend it.

The Fall of Cthulhu: The Fugue

My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond (http://www.amazon.com/Life-Heavy-Metal-Steve-Almond/dp/0802140130/ref=tmm_pap_title_0)
One of my favorites.

Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October. I intend to, when I finish this, to read the other 'Jack Ryan' novellas.

The 25 Gobots that Could Most Easily Pass as Transformers (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/06/the_25_gobots_that_could_most_easily_pass_as_trans .php?page=1)

I read that in college and remember liking it a lot. I wasn't a big fan of the movie, though.

I really enjoy the movie as much as the book, so far. I dunno what to pick up next - any suggestions?

Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1. My little brother loved it and with everyone on here loving it too I had to or else people wouildn't think I'm popular.

It's really good and to think it's the guy's 2nd book ever done is inconceivable!
I love the names Knives Chou & Romana Flowers.

I like Wallace Wells. ^^

The end of the first Scott Pilgrim volume made me squee so hard. I think Volume 3 has my favorite ex battle, though.

Maybe I should date a high schooler, become jobless, and beat people up.

I went and bought Lost at Sea (his first book) and I liked it but you can definitely see an improvement in skill and storytelling and overall cohesiveness between Lost at Sea and Scott Pilgrim. It's like he aged an eon between the two.

i'm reading freakangels and i am loving it.

So glad you are! I've always thought that it seemed so up your alley. ^^ What do you think of Arkady?

I really enjoy the movie as much as the book, so far. I dunno what to pick up next - any suggestions?

Hmm...Are you looking for something along the same lines? Or just anything? Well, here are a few ideas to get you started:


---Short stories about sick people / people in hospitals---


The Birds for Christmas (http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0898/richard/sstory.html) by Mark Richard

Mudlavia (http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2003/09/stuckey-french.htm) by Elizabeth Stuckey-French



---Novels that are sorta similar---


The Winter of Our Discontent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Our_Discontent) by John Steinbeck

Flowers for Algernon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon) by Daniel Keyes

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Kool_Aid_Acid_Test) by Tom Wolfe

Catch-22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_22) by Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse Five (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse_five) by Kurt Vonnegut

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas) by Hunter S. Thompson


I think all of these novels are at least partially available through Google Books. Let me know if you have something specific in mind, and I'll try to come up with a better list.

So glad you are! I've always thought that it seemed so up your alley. ^^ What do you think of Arkady?

she's awesome!!! so cute and funny and quirky. and she seems to be the most powerful :)

The oldest shoe in the world (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10shoe.html?hp)

One of the most significant papers ever published in the annals of science appeared recently; it deals, for the first time ever, with one of the biggest scientific questions ever faced by the scientific community, and uses cutting-edge technology and awesome powers of deductive reasoning and logic to reach shocking, paradigm-shifting conclusions. (http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/giraffe_flotation_dynamics.php)

Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris

Last thing I read was FINALLY my booklet for Zelda: Spirit Tracks, AFTER I was already 90% through the game already. Bitches don't know 'bout my game skills.

freakangels is awesome
but i generally love everything warren ellis is involved in

Why did nearly all life on Earth die 250 million years ago? (http://io9.com/5558871/why-did-nearly-all-life-on-earth-die-250-million-years-ago?skyline=true&s=i)

Ebert takes on another Airbender question (http://www.racebending.com/v3/news/ebert-takes-on-another-airbender-question/)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

You are reading up a storm, Triple T!

Last thing I read was Secret Six 22.

You are reading up a storm, Triple T!

Last thing I read was Secret Six 22.

I know, I'm quite proud of myself. This past week I've been more productive than usual.

The Scott Pilgrim's are one of those books that I'll go pack to pevious pages to check on things that I think might be subtle forshadowing while I'm reading it.

6 Japanese Subcultures That Are Insane (Even for Japan) (http://www.cracked.com/article_18567_6-japanese-subcultures-that-are-insane-even-japan.html)

Ulysses (http://ulyssesseen.com/comic/us_comic_tel_iii.html), the graphic novel, which just got banned from iPhones for this () single frame of cartoon nudity. :rolleyes:

oh apple and your shittiness for banning stuff~

freedom from porn

The Problem With Colorblindness (http://www.racebending.com/v3/background/the-problem-with-colorblindness/)

Leonard Nimoy screens Star Trek IV, talks about his career, all things Trek! (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45445)

- Nimoy ragged on Michael Bay following up a comment about great effects still need a great story. “I can say that because Michael Bay is my wife’s cousin! But he’s never invited me to be in any of his projects! I sat by the phone night and day, but Michael Bay never called me!”

- Sometime in the late‘60s, Nimoy was in Cleveland at a restaurant in a private room. Someone came up to him and said, “Jimi Hendrix is in the restaurant. He heard you were here and wanted to know if it was okay if he came in and said hello.” He said of course and there’s a photograph that exists of him with Hendrix from that night.

SCP-303 (http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-303)

Nimoy stuff is neato. I saw him at a Trek con when I was really little.

juvenile orion, a manga my aunt brought me.
now i have to buy the other volumes.
good thing they ae only 5

SCP-303 (http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-303)

Nimoy stuff is neato. I saw him at a Trek con when I was really little.

Scp, is that a Sackboy thing?

I read Star Trek Countdown which takes before the Abrams Trek movie.

In it The destruction of Romulus is even more tragic because Spock's reunification deal actually worked out and the Romulan culture began to open up so much that Spock was a legal resident and the ambassador of the Federation. He brought the whole star going nova deal up with the Romulan counsel and stated the only way to prevent this cataclysm was if Vulcan & Romulus pooled their tech together so as to collapse the explosion. Well both Vulcans and romulans refused to let any of their secret tech fall into the hands of the other side so Spock along with Nero who was at the system when the start first began blowing up set out to mine enough of the stuff to make the red matter to use with the vulcan's device.

Along the way the ran into the Enterprise who Data is now the captain of with Picard now the ambassador to Vulcan. The romulan grand poobahs did the math and decided that Spock was right and began evac all too late. Nero went back home to ad in evacuations while Spock promised him that he'd do everything to save both their worlds. Nero returned in time to see Romulus blown up. Data and Picard called up Geordi who had retired from starfleet to design and build his own starships, one of which being the squid thing that Spock was going to use to collapse the super nova. Meanwhile Nero found the Romulan leading party adrift in space and brought then aboard to kill them himself. (that staff he has in the movie was the tribal spear thing of the Romulans so it's not just a poker for poker's sake) and using their starmaps found the secret romulan starbase where the Narada was outfitted with experimental thinking Romulan/Borg nanotechnology which can repair itself as well as upgrade and augment it's abilities according to it's use and environment. Using this Nero attacked Fedi, Klingon, & Cardassian territories until Worf lead a fleet to subdue him. All but 1 of Worf's ships was destroyed and he was ordered to surrender so naturally, Worf just flew to the Neruda's hull in a shuttle and cut his way first in then through Nero's men. Worf battled his way the the bridge where Nero had a tentacle thing impale Worf through back. The Enterprise having Spock's ship and the red matter joined the Klingons in fighting the Nerada and when asked to surrender and lower their shields did so, beamed Worf aboard, and got away with intermediate damage.

And so Spock set off with the red matter, fully realizing that this was a 1 way trip and his final act for all of his people, Vulcan, Human & Romulan.

Then the movie stuff happened.



Also Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness

6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think (http://www.cracked.com/article_18472_6-depraved-sexual-fetishes-that-are-older-than-you-think.html)

SCP is hard to explain. It's sort of like a wikipedia of weird stories written in an encyclopedia entry format? I can link you to some good ones if you're curious.

I reread Demo #8 this morning because I was in the mood for something sad.

I've been reading The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography by National Geographic.
It's a new book having been made withing the last 5 years or so, so there's tons of stuff on digital cameras and having read the how to pick a camera out, I feel supremely lucky in the one I found on sale that I'd been looking at and just impuse bought it after months of going over dozens of reviews for it and the other 5 models in my range.

I still don't understand all the apertures, flash timing, and shutter speed things :(

The Mystery Play by Grant Morrison. Pretty awesome!

Finally got around to this

V for Vendetta, its pretty badass

Currently reading The Plague by Albert Camus. Will finish it tomorrow, probably. It's a fantastic novel.

the manual for warcraft 2 battle.net edition

I went looking for Vol. 4 of Scott Pilgrim and went to a smaller branch library and while small it's well stocked.

Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 2
Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 3

I had no intrest in reading these when I heard that Sadamoto changed the Asuka/Rei/Shinji dynamic plus that fact that he doesn't know how to end it.
But now that I don't have to pay or read them online I don't mind some light reading.

Seeing as how Sadamoto also did the artwork for the show it's like getting a comic that looks just like the cartoon. And already this early on I get naked Misato bottom & Rei boobies <3

They gave Toji that gruff Osokan/Broklyn/southern dialect and I can't welp but read him with Meoth's voice & Kensuke with Scooter's.


I'm proud of myself for knowing most of this stuff already.
7 Classic Disney Movies Based On R-Rated Stories (http://www.cracked.com/article_18589_7-classic-disney-movies-based-r-rated-stories_p2.html)


Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies) (http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5-ridiculous-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html)

The last book I read was Aquarium (Viktor Suvorov)

Currently reading The Plague by Albert Camus. Will finish it tomorrow, probably. It's a fantastic novel.

I need to get around to this. The Stranger is one of my all time favorites.

the rulebook from the pokemon TCG deck i just bought

Batman Year One by Frank Miller.
It's a good book, not the greatest I've ever read but still good.

i want to read scott pilgrim but the art totally turns me off

i want to read Scott pilgrim but the art totally turns me off

I avoided it for that reason too, but after a while it didn't bother me. It's not "bad" or "low quality" just something different from what you usually see.

The Last Question (http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html) by Isaac Asimov

Here's the graphic novel (http://www.multivax.com/cgi-bin/display_images.cgi?page=0) version.

Batman Year One by Frank Miller.
It's a good book, not the greatest I've ever read but still good.

I like that it's heavy on Gordon, but at the same time, it feels like it should focus a little more on Batman. I think maybe it should have been a little longer. I do like what's there.

I don't think of Year One as being all that short since The Long Halloween and Dark Victory pretty much follow up on them. I know Miller didn't write them, but still. There are so many great early Batman career stories out there in general, really. Lately I have been all about Batman: Gothic.

The last thing I read was a book I bought because it was a dollar called Like Being Killed. It was kind of annoyingly written and a lot of the characterization was inconsistent, but I barely ever read novels anymore so I am glad I read it all the same.

also what are you guys talking about Scott Pilgrim has great art :(

I like that it's heavy on Gordon, but at the same time, it feels like it should focus a little more on Batman. I think maybe it should have been a little longer. I do like what's there.

Exactly how I felt. Loved having so much Gordon but I was disapopinted not as much Batman. Could have been 2 books.



also what are you guys talking about Scott Pilgrim has great art :(

I didn't say I hated it, it jsut took a little getting used to like anime styles or something.

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Capone talks to a perfect doll, Jodi Benson, the voice of TOY STORY 3's Barbie and THE LITTLE MERMAID's Ariel!!! (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45593)

Going down memory lane for some reason and started rereading the Harry Potter series.


I need to get around to this. The Stranger is one of my all time favorites.

Loved The Stranger when I first read it in high school. Next time I am in the city I want to stop by Barnes and Noble and buy it, to read it again. Great book.

screw you for being on AIM for five seconds! I was about to IM you!

Read it again, it gets better! I really think Camus was a genius. Plus I mean there's the fact that all books are better when you read them for yourself instead of school.

Wow I'm about to go read it again because of this coming up in this thread. I really love that book.

Someday I will read the Harry Potter books. It's on my list.

The last thing I read was a lot of /mu/ on 4chan, but if we're talking about serious reading, it would have been Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. And the Tao te Ching.

Read Harry Potter! It's a pretty good series. And rereading them now that I'm older allows me to pick and interpret the entire series in such a different way. I think every book should be read twice. As you grow, so does your perspective on things, and thus it won't be same book. Pretty much why I want to read The Stranger again. I'm sure I'll get a different feel from it.

Reading The Prisoner of Azkaban now.

Tomorrow I'll go to the library again and get some more batman and eva stuff. This one branch library is small but well stocked and finding something new is surprising.

I had to inter library lone vol. 4 of Scott Pilgrim and I have no idea if it'll even get shipped. Why anyone would buy 2 copies if vol. 3 for the library and not one of each is beyond me.

i just finished reading episode 260 of bleach manga...:)

The Last Airbender: Pre-Screening (http://community.livejournal.com/racebending/246774.html)

Preliminary Thoughts on Race and Gender in The Last Airbender (http://community.livejournal.com/racebending/249582.html)

Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 5

The Goblet of Fire!

The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. It's exceptionally good the second time around.

The Goblet of Fire!

Wow you're a quick read Mina.


The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. It's exceptionally good the second time around.

I didn't know he's done books.


Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 6

I need to get around to this. The Stranger is one of my all time favorites.

The Plague touches on some of the same themes - particularly, of course, the notion of the absurd - but in quite a different manner to The Stranger. Not sure if it's 'better' (it's bloody stupid trying to assess that anyway a lot of the time, I think) but I'd definitely recommend it! There's also a nice reference to The Stranger in the novel which made me smile.

Anyway, in the interim I read The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, which was pretty good, and I'm currently halfway through Gabriel Garcia M�rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. I'm trying this summer to read a lot more novels, having read about 3 in the past 9 months.

Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 7

Dante Basco on The Last Airbender Boycott (http://dantebasco.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/the-last-airbender-to-boycott-or-not/)
"�Prince of Persia� had the same dilema with Jake Gyllenhaal playing the lead, and my fiance is Persian, so I was able to hear the point of view of that community."

Do you think he dresses her up as Katara so they can reenact Zuko & Katara shipping?

M Night Interviewed by Washington Post (http://community.livejournal.com/racebending/252897.html)

Finished One Hundred Years of Solitude now. It's probably one of the most remarkable books I've ever read.

another thriller by douglas preston/lincoln child (maniac) :D

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe


Now all I need to do is wait.

50 pages of givesmehope, then 28 pages of 6 million secrets. talk about your roller coaster of emotions

Yotsuba&! vol. 4

Just read the Dark Tower Vol IV - Wizard and Glass. Now reading Vol V, Wolves of Calla.

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro

Finished the Harry Potter series a few days ago. Now reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.

An old playboy magazine, a long time ago....

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1 by Luo Guanzhoung, translated by C.H. Brewitt-Taylor

The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands. A book about wolves and people and more besides. It's an excellent memoir - funny and moving - but more than that it's a good work of philosophy, challenging commonplace attitudes to humanity, animals, death, the primacy of happiness etc. Pretty easy to read as well, so, basically, get hold of a copy. It might not change your life but it could well change your mind.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe

im ready for the finest hour next week

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe

im ready for the finest hour next week

im gonna read all of them in the next few days to get ready too weeee

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris

Not quite amongst my favourite titles within the Southern Vampire series. But still found it an enjoyable read!

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Just finished Stephen King's Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands and currently working on book IV, Wizard and Glass.

good work
wizard and glass is bad ass
you're about to go finish the best books in the series

Just finished Stephen King's Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands and currently working on book IV, Wizard and Glass.

Good choices! :) Been meaning to read those for a long while myself!

This was a very, long time for me that these kinds of experiences are rare. The first episode of Pushing Daisies was great, I knew me as a fan about 30 seconds in. Other than that, its been a quiet couple of years.

This was a very, long time for me that these kinds of experiences are rare. The first episode of Pushing Daisies was great, I knew me as a fan about 30 seconds in. Other than that, its been a quiet couple of years.

Wrong thread buddy. This is a reading thread go to the tv & movies page for Pushing Daisies.





I'm under half way into Nordic Hero Tales from the Kalevala.

Good choices! :) Been meaning to read those for a long while myself!

Do yourself a favour and stop after the third one.

Do yourself a favour and stop after the third one.

Take it you were disappointed with the books? Would be interested to hear the reasons behind your opinion? That's if you don't mind sharing. :)

I'm reading "Sh*t My Dad Says" in between infant feedings. It's quite hilarious. Highly recommended.

Boy or girl AchillesPDX?

Take it you were disappointed with the books? Would be interested to hear the reasons behind your opinion? That's if you don't mind sharing. :)

I can't really say without giving you massive spoilers. I'm a great fan of King's early work, and loved the idea of him doing fantasy in the Dark Tower series.

His ability to characterise is almost unsurpassed in his genre, but there are things in the later DT books that just don't work. There is a Deux ex Machina that I'd think most people will either classify as pure genius or the pinnacle of ridiculous plot devices. I went for the latter. Anyone that has read them all will know what I mean.

I will say the very ending of the whole series was interesting; I wasn't expecting it.

Also... I'm going to spoiler this in case you don't want to read it, it IS a spoiler:

He attempted to do what Asimov attempted decades before which was to merge characters from other books and make it plausable. It kind of works but kind of not. I know, that sounds weird but its how I felt.

If you want to get more into it after you're read them all get in touch then. :)

Unreleated: Carrie is still my favourite King book.

because carrie is a baddass psychic bitch, mir?

And DePalma made a great Hitchcock movie out of it. :)

I can't really say without giving you massive spoilers. I'm a great fan of King's early work, and loved the idea of him doing fantasy in the Dark Tower series.

His ability to characterise is almost unsurpassed in his genre, but there are things in the later DT books that just don't work. There is a Deux ex Machina that I'd think most people will either classify as pure genius or the pinnacle of ridiculous plot devices. I went for the latter. Anyone that has read them all will know what I mean.

I will say the very ending of the whole series was interesting; I wasn't expecting it.

Also... I'm going to spoiler this in case you don't want to read it, it IS a spoiler:

He attempted to do what Asimov attempted decades before which was to merge characters from other books and make it plausable. It kind of works but kind of not. I know, that sounds weird but its how I felt.

If you want to get more into it after you're read them all get in touch then. :)



Many thanks for sharing your thoughts! Appreciate what it is you're saying there and will bear those points in mind - and yup will do. :)

Carrie is one of my favourite books out of his early stuff too. One of his top best imho!

Just finished reading:


The Transformers: Annihilation by David Cain.

Unfortunately, I can't find the third book, Fusion by Scott Ciencin, so I'm reading 'The Warrior's Tale' by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch. Sequel to the Far Kingdoms, it's a pretty good read. I'm searching for it and Fusion atm.

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro

Unreleated: Carrie is still my favourite King book.

Carrie was more of a tragedy than a horror movie. Sorta like a realistic X-men story.

Personally any series that can survive and retain any measure of interest after a fifth book is worthy of some accolade. The Dark Tower certainly held mine till the end though it was a diminishing parabola of interest only repeaking with the final book. At least it didnt go the way of robert jordan poor sod.

Reread Roger Zelazny's chronicles of amber. very intriguing novel

I think you can read Carrie in many ways. As a tragedy like Tom says of the movie, as a traditional suburban horror, as an emotionally charged metphor for puberty and repressed sexual awakenings, even as an (admittedly warped) parable.

From a literary perspective it obviously tends to favour a feminist analysis but it's possible to undertake a structuralist reading, or a psychoanalytic reading, or even a formalist one; that's the beauty of it. And all in less than 250 pages.

Nowadays King churns out phone book sized novels that still have a literary value but his editor needs a lesson in brutality; cut some of that crap out and make it more immediate.

That's my rant over. Back to topic. :)

lol a bookclub-esque intellectual discourse in a fantasy forum. nice rant:)

Still, some of that 'crap' enables the structured world building in novels. i mean the dark tower series wouldnt be as engaging if King went vegetarian and pruned off much of the unnecessary backstory and went straight to the tower in one book.

Back to stuff recently read

Oh! If there is a book nerd thread make sure and send me a PM about it. I'm in. :)

I liked "...if King went vegetarian...". Nice analogy.

When it comes to King, I liked 'Rose Madder', 'Dolores Clayborne' and 'the last stand' best, although my first ones 'Salem's Lot' AND 'It' were differently fascinating as well...


My favorite will always be the 'Dune' world, all of them....Frank Herberts work and later then his son's efforts too.

If you've read Dolores you may find "Geralds Game" of interest. I'll not say why. :)

DUNE is the Sci-Fi bible. Loved all 6 of them. Not so keen on the son's works.

If you've read Dolores you may find "Geralds Game" of interest. I'll not say why. :)

DUNE is the Sci-Fi bible. Loved all 6 of them. Not so keen on the son's works.

I read geralds game both in german AND in english, I do not know why but it was better in english :D


Yes, I liked it too!

What a pity you do not like his son's work, I appreciate this a lot too, it "rounds" the picture for me. (does one say that in english as well?)

I much prefer Dune to 'lord of the rings', although I adore the movies.

I admit I love the 1984 movie (dune) as well.

And yes, all six books, I am fascinated by the the way he narration changes with the changing of the worm, the different meaning of time, understanding of the universe, I have read those in german though.

More than once. I understand what mnakes it difficult for some people to read the last 3 books, they are different but no less fantastic....

I appreciated what his son tried to do but he didn't have the intricacies that Frank had, or the ability to stir the emotions. For me, anyhow.

"The God Makers" is similar in places; it's by Frank. It has many parallels with the socio-political and religious aspects of Dune.

I didn't know you were german. I read Herman Hesse some years back, though it was in translation into English, but it was astonishing. "Steppenwulf" it was called. He did simply amazing things with the narrative and the "person"... you know first person, third person? I hope you know what I mean.

On topic:

I finished the 6th in the Lucifer series of collected editions today. There were 11 in all, by Mike Carey. I'm missing 2 though. :(

I know Hesse is good. Sadly we were tortured with hesse at school, I never found my way back to him, when i am in the right modd I like Bert Brecht, Max Frisch though.
[And yes, don't worry, I know what you mean. :) ]

Besides Sci Fi and Thrillers ;)

I haven't read much of Herbert besides Dune.

My father left me his sci fi 'library' of 700 pocket books, many 'old' ones, Heinlein, Darlton, Sheer, and others, I grew up with sci fi books.

I have read and loved 'a planet called treason' by Orson Scott Card, even heinlein 'stranger in strange world' (afterwards learning about discussions), and Darlton "der Sprung ins Jenseits" (german title, sorry, no english title included in the book) ->dealing with reincarnation

and an amazing book by one the early and rare women in the genre : Maria Szepes.
In german it was called 'der rote L�we', again dealing with reincarnation, I was stunned she seems to have written this in 40ties....

When it comes to King, I liked 'Rose Madder', 'Dolores Clayborne' and 'the last stand' best, although my first ones 'Salem's Lot' AND 'It' were differently fascinating as well...

I fondly remember staring into my bathroom drain after reading IT.

And i second that frank herbert somehow gave dune a certain savor his son did not imho.

though now the most engaging thing i'll be reading is a marvelously entertaining chemistry text. sigh

I fondly remember staring into my bathroom drain after reading IT.

And i second that frank herbert somehow gave dune a certain savor his son did not imho.

though now the most engaging thing i'll be reading is a marvelously entertaining chemistry text. sigh

I know what you're talking about concerning the drains ;)

I do not expect Brian to be Herbert. It is impossible to do a Frank herbert-Dune, I guess, but - for my taste - Brian did a piece that goes well along with THE 'Dune'....

Well: good luck with your chemistry text!

I read was this article about the crazy autism

I read was this article about the crazy autism

autism is a complex "thing" ;)

I'm reading "Sh*t My Dad Says" in between infant feedings. It's quite hilarious. Highly recommended.

YES, one of the funniest things I've read in a while. It's great to because some of the chapters take a short break from being funny and show that the dad was really a genuinely good guy.

What it's like to be a Nerd Of Color (http://io9.com/5604617/what-its-like-to-be-an-noc-nerd-of-color)


If ‘Family Circus’ Didn’t Suck (http://www.cracked.com/blog/pg13-family-circus/)


5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same (http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html)

5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same (http://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html)

All true.

7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly (http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html))

I am currently reading Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and before that I read American Gods

The Passage

(yes, that passage)

explain plot pls

It's like, they find this crazy magic virus in Peru, and it makes you live forever or something as long as it doesn't kill you. People who have it are super-strong and hard to kill and all this other shit, and I guess they like, drink blood and crap. So AMERIKA tries to use it to make these super army dudes or whatever. But they fail hard at quarantine and it gets out, and then the world is fucked. The rest of the book is like this continuation of depressing world-rape.

the manual for fallout 3 GOTY. yes, i do have the original F3 (which i plan to sell or trade now) but i wanted to see if there was anything new, aside from the one page mention what quest leads to what expansion

It's like, they find this crazy magic virus in Peru, and it makes you live forever or something as long as it doesn't kill you. People who have it are super-strong and hard to kill and all this other shit, and I guess they like, drink blood and crap. So AMERIKA tries to use it to make these super army dudes or whatever. But they fail hard at quarantine and it gets out, and then the world is fucked. The rest of the book is like this continuation of depressing world-rape.

:(

See, I saved you, like, thirty bucks

the manual for fallout 3 GOTY. yes, i do have the original F3 (which i plan to sell or trade now) but i wanted to see if there was anything new, aside from the one page mention what quest leads to what expansion

Does the guide outline the strategy to fully maximise your character? You can do that with the Brotherhood of Steel DLC. 10 in every stat and 100 every skill. It's a bit silly, really.

Finished lotr two nights ago. Now reading (once again) The Fuck Up (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Fuck-Up/Arthur-Nersesian/e/9780671027636/?itm=2&USRI=the+fuck+up). I read all my books over and over because I suck I guess and I don't have a library card.

I don't really enjoy this book but it's better than the dozens of stupid war books my husband has that take up every single piece of shelf space *bitter*

I am attempting to be really good and have started my academic reading for next year, I've just completed Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' and currently on Ngugi wa Thiong'o 'A Grain of Wheat'. Only 8 more to go for this module alone (New English Writings and Voices), should probably have started doing this upon receiving the reading list 2 months ago. Whoops. I am at least enjoying these books more than the 16th - 19th century ones from last year!

i think i am the only person that preferred cat's cradle to slaughterhouse five ;-;;

I need to read that so I can compare, once I've waded my way through all these other books!

i think i am the only person that preferred cat's cradle to slaughterhouse five ;-;;

Not sure about Cat's Cradle but both my friends who were into Vonnegut in high school liked Breakfast of Champions more. Slaughterhouse Five is my favorite though.

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i think i am the only person that preferred cat's cradle to slaughterhouse five ;-;;

Not sure about Cat's Cradle but both my friends who were into Vonnegut in high school liked Breakfast of Champions more. Slaughterhouse Five is my favorite though.

Just finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and an Ivor Cutler collection (and a Perl book). Now starting Anna Karenina (and a book on space time coding).

I loved One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

I'm done with rereading the Picture of Dorian Gray. Excellent as always, has been a favorite of mine since high school. Now, I can finally begin the Hitchhiker's Guide! Too bad I probably won't be able to finish it for a bit since classes are already starting. I'm also reading the Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago - which is quite the excellent read as well. I'll post more in detail about it once I finish.

Hitchhiker's Guide is so overrated.

lolololol 42 what craziness.

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Hitchhiker's Guide is so overrated.

lolololol 42 what craziness.

Hater ~

Reading Eat This, Not That atm

Hater ~

Whatever try to seriously defend the 42 thing. Srsly!

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Hater ~

Whatever try to seriously defend the 42 thing. Srsly!

10^42 = the number of orgasms your reincarnating soul needs to experience before ascending to Heaven

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Hitchhiker's Guide is so overrated.

lolololol 42 what craziness.

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Hitchhiker's Guide is so overrated.

lolololol 42 what craziness.

Jesus is overrated but he still saves our souls just like in the Jewel song which upon hearing for the first time made Jewel cry because she realized she sounds like Kermit the Frog when she sings.

I'd actually pay for a Jewel CD if it consisted of tracks recorded while she was being fucked up the ass with a live dolphin.

TINTIN The Black Island

Gary Kurtz interview. fucker's 7 pages long but well worth it.
FROM THE VAULT: An Interview with Gary Kurtz � FRED Entertainment (http://www.asitecalledfred.com/2010/08/12/gary-kurtz-interview/4/)

Just finished Nietzsche's The Will to Power, a fucking brilliant compilation. I need to read some of his finished works.

William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven & Hell

Lord of the Flies. I figured just having seen the movie wasn't enough.

Finished Fool Moon a few nights ago, and am now reading Grave Peril. I'm quite enjoying the exploits of this Harry Dresden fellow.


I'd actually pay for a Jewel CD if it consisted of tracks recorded while she was being fucked up the ass with a live dolphin.

You've been reading the notes for her next album, you cheeky blighter!


Does the guide outline the strategy to fully maximise your character?

More importantly, does the guide outline the best method for not melting your game console into a heap of useless slag during an average play through of Point Lookout? That's the page I was hunting for after the fifteenth or sixteenth system-freezing bug out.

I really hope New Vegas is better optimized for the PS3.

I finished "The Lost Symbol" last night. What a great book. Can't wait until the movie comes out.

Next is "A Heavy Metal Memoir", by Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth). I'm actually gonna have him sign my copy in a couple days. :D

Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 8
Tin Tin: The Blue Lotus
Tin Tin: The Black Island
Tin Tin: The Crab with the Golden Claws

So in Eva It seems they're really going for the Rei & Shinji pairing what with Rei asking to hold hands and all. Having noticed this, Ritsuko mentions that Rei only liked Gendo at first but now she has both Ikari men wrapped around her figner and Rei replays that she likes Shinji in the same way Ritsuko likes Gendo and at that Ritsuko starts choaking Rei.

For some reason I read Tin Tin with the Crocodile Hunter's voice, Captain Haddock in Hagrid's voice, and Snowy with the original Winnie the Pooh's voice.

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, which was pretty good. Now I'm unto Heart of Darkness.

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.

The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, which was pretty good. Now I'm unto Heart of Darkness.

I think I read some of The Secret Sharer. My sister was reading it for her gay literature class. While you could make an argument on how every relationship between 2 men in a book is automatically homo.
You read the whole thing what do you think about it being used in that context?

Just finished Nietzsche's The Will to Power, a fucking brilliant compilation. I need to read some of his finished works.

Wasn't that edited primarily by his (anti-Semitic, proto-Nazi) sister?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is pretty good (but avoid the Thomas Common translation). It's an overview of the philosophy he advocated in his later works - the ubermensch, the will-to-power, eternal recurrence et al - which is also a pretty good piece of literature. Nietzsche is not someone whose philosophy I always agree with, perhaps in part because it can so easily be distorted into something horrible, but his strong affirmation of life is something that I admire greatly.


I am currently reading Plato's Meno.

Republic Commando: Order 66
Imperial Commando
Penny Arcade Vol 6

About fifty pages of Misery, by Stephen King. Gonna read more now.

King is King.

Eva vol 9.

Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda (http://www.amazon.com/Deogratias-Tale-Rwanda-J-P-Stassen/dp/1596431032/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283965410&sr=8-1) by J.P. Stassen

Alligator (http://www.amazon.com/Alligator-Novel-Lisa-Moore/dp/0802170250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283965423&sr=8-1) by Lisa Moore

Next is Franzen's new novel.

Batman - Mask part 1

Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book

Downloaded MLBB for the iPad, saw it, and said "why not?"

Just started The Children of Hurin.

The last thing that I read was my favorite comic.

Finished Crime and Punishment yesterday. What an excellent novel! I'm embarrassed that I've only just read it.

Finished Vampire Knight volume 9 last night. Still reading As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann.

The last thing that I read was my favorite comic.

This curious Carl would like to know what your fav comic is.

Finished Children of Hurin last night. It was really good though some of you might get confused if you've only watched or read The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings. Get the Illustrated version if you're going to buy it.

I think I read some of The Secret Sharer. My sister was reading it for her gay literature class. While you could make an argument on how every relationship between 2 men in a book is automatically homo.
You read the whole thing what do you think about it being used in that context?

Sorry! I didn't see this until now.

I don't see any homosexual context behind it, at all. To me, it was more concentrated on morality ... but, I can't even begin to discuss the plot of it now. I was so concentrated in Heart of Darkness that I barely remember the significant points of The Secret Sharer. During my winter break, I plan on reading both of those stories over (just because I am on a mission to really get Conrad) and I'll probably end up PMing you to discuss it further.

Last book read: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. Fascinating read. The beginning was a bit slow and it didn't really peak my interest until 1/3rd of the way through. However, the manner in which it is written, in a non-linear way, made it quite interesting to read. You sort of had to follow when the protagonist was talking about the past or the present. So, essentially, he was telling you the story in a conversational manner. Which is easy enough to follow after awhile because I feel it follows the natural flow of conversation. Has anyone read it? I'm dying to discuss it - outside of the classroom setting.

I obtained a copy of Goethe's Faust a week ago and I finally got around to finishing it today.

Needless to say, it is now one of my favorites.

Just finished Eiji Yoshikawa's "Musashi"...Epic!

(http://www.amazon.com/One-Thousand-Beards-Allan-Peterkin/dp/1551521075)

Sorry! I didn't see this until now.

I don't see any homosexual context behind it, at all. To me, it was more concentrated on morality ... but, I can't even begin to discuss the plot of it now. I was so concentrated in Heart of Darkness that I barely remember the significant points of The Secret Sharer. During my winter break, I plan on reading both of those stories over (just because I am on a mission to really get Conrad) and I'll probably end up PMing you to discuss it further.

Last book read: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. Fascinating read. The beginning was a bit slow and it didn't really peak my interest until 1/3rd of the way through. However, the manner in which it is written, in a non-linear way, made it quite interesting to read. You sort of had to follow when the protagonist was talking about the past or the present. So, essentially, he was telling you the story in a conversational manner. Which is easy enough to follow after awhile because I feel it follows the natural flow of conversation. Has anyone read it? I'm dying to discuss it - outside of the classroom setting.

That's alright I'm just glad to know you aren't ignoring it for whatever reason. I guess I'll track at least Secret Sharer down and read it before Christmas.

Next up is Dracula. I got a hard cover with the Boris Vallejo cover.
(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/4975126-original.html)
it's dated 1997.

The above post.

Nevermind, it's now my post.

Okay I lied. It's the "Post Quick Reply" button.

That's alright I'm just glad to know you aren't ignoring it for whatever reason. I guess I'll track at least Secret Sharer down and read it before Christmas.


Do so! And no, I wouldn't ignore you. I just have been particularly busy lately and only come to lurk around for a bit. I'm trying my best to not disappear completely from the forums.

Nintendo's Long Legacy of Stubbornness | Geekosystem (http://www.geekosystem.com/nintendo-stubborn/)

Reading now

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beulah-Height-Dalziel-Pascoe-Mystery/dp/0770428363/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286298808&sr=1-10)

I hate the cover, its weird and creepy.

5 situations where it's better to tell than show in your fiction (http://io9.com/5655794/5-situations-where-its-better-to-tell-than-show-in-your-fiction)

Late Game Zerg imba against Terran - Forums - StarCraft II (http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/801800569)

This is relevant to my interests.

5 situations where it's better to tell than show in your fiction (http://io9.com/5655794/5-situations-where-its-better-to-tell-than-show-in-your-fiction)

I asked Junot Diaz about this topic, since so much of Oscar Wao is explained by the narrator instead of done in-scene. His comment was "But it's showy telling," which I think is smarter than he meant it to be. If tension is present, then the information is going to have an impact. The trick is to maintain the tension through the explanation, and that requires knowing when a reader is going to want a piece of information, withholding it from them, and then delivering it at another time when it's still relevant. Tough thing to do because you have to lead up to the revelation as well.

When did you get to see Junot Diaz? He was speaking in one of the colleges here in NYC and I missed him :(

Last book read was The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. Short read with quite the interesting plot. A lot of it could be related back to Ford's telling of The Good Soldier[I], but I wouldn't compare this [nearly] linear novel to Ford's ... memory mess, is all I can call it, for lack of better words.

Unto [I]The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce now.

He spoke in either 2008 or 2009 at my program, then had a Q&A with the MFAs, which is when I asked him. I remember he never took his hand off his right cheek, like it was glued there. When someone would ask him a question, he'd stand still with his eyes closed and his hand covering half his face, speaking in a dreamy, quiet voice. It was odd, but kinda relaxing. And he was very humble.

One of the other smart things he said was about the writer's relationship to his/her subconscious. He said it's like riding a horse. The horse is separate from you with its own will. But through daily practice it will work with you, and surprise you sometimes.

He spoke in either 2008 or 2009 at my program, then had a Q&A with the MFAs, which is when I asked him. I remember he never took his hand off his right cheek, like it was glued there. When someone would ask him a question, he'd stand still with his eyes closed and his hand covering half his face, speaking in a dreamy, quiet voice. It was odd, but kinda relaxing. And he was very humble.

One of the other smart things he said was about the writer's relationship to his/her subconscious. He said it's like riding a horse. The horse is separate from you with its own will. But through daily practice it will work with you, and surprise you sometimes.

Just like how the horse in Twilight Princess is pure fluid fun while the original in Ocarina of Time is somewhat brain damaged.

The last thing I read was this thread, and the "Post Quick Reply" button :P

Just like how the horse in Twilight Princess is pure fluid fun while the original in Ocarina of Time is somewhat brain damaged.

And Agro in Shadow of the Colossus is a little bitch.

And Agro in Shadow of the Colossus is a little bitch.
I liked the horse there, it was smart not to fall after multiple attemps to make it fall of cliffs... all right it is little bitch...

Why do Superman movies keep featuring the same old enemies? (http://io9.com/5659948/superman-rogues-gallery-post-+-draft)

The first 3 chapters of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

6 Things That Are Secretly Turning You Into A Bad Person | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_18794_6-things-that-are-secretly-turning-you-into-bad-person.html)

It's Time To Forgive George Lucas (http://gizmodo.com/5664218/its-time-to-forgive-george-lucas)



....It's only one reinterpretation away from working its way back into my heart, very much like the feelings I have for Star Trek post-reboot—I feel like I have space to love what I love, hate what I hate, while not being beholden to defend the weakest parts....


I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I don't want to hold on to any frustration and disappointment for Mr. Lucas any longer. He could make a thousand more Star Wars films, each more terrible than the last, and they wouldn't do anything to diminish the feeling inside my chest that wells up when I see an AT-AT stepping out of a Hoth blizzard or hear the sound of a lightsaber being brought to bear.

I just got started reading the Gormenghast novels. I got the nice big book with all three novels in it :) This is gonna take a long while to finish :p

Just started and it's pretty good so far.

The Ten Minute Suicide Guide | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_15658_the-ten-minute-suicide-guide.html)

Is Reality TV a Revolution for Race or the New Minstrel? - COLORLINES (http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/10/is_reality_tv_a_revolution_for_race_or_the_new_min strel.html)

Ancient turtle bones reveal that Antarctica was once a rain forest (http://io9.com/5667860/ancient-turtle-bones-reveal-that-antarctica-was-once-a-rain-forest)


....if nothing else, it's all proof that, against all odds, the Savage Land isn't completely ridiculous.

Unto The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce now.

Oh God! I read that too. Be thankful they gave you that one to do and not Ulysses or Dubliners. I think there is a film of "...Portrait..." but I've never seen it.

Good luck.

James Joyce is such a difficult author to read! The novel was incredibly interesting and beautifully written. There was a lot of depth and a lot to analyze. We read an excerpt of Finnegans Wake and it seems that towards the end of his life Joyce was absolutely losing his mind! He certainly is an interesting man, I find him to be quite brilliant. But in all honesty, Portrait is another book I have to pick up at some other time and reread to truly understand it. I have to be in a certain mood to read this modernist novels! They are so detached from everything and take you down so many different paths to lead you to a conclusion...I'm not ready for them! I feel its perhaps because I am in a juncture in my life where I want the answers in my face and everything straightforward. A modernist novel just doesn't do that for you.

Oh God! I read that too. Be thankful they gave you that one to do and not Ulysses or Dubliners. I think there is a film of "...Portrait..." but I've never seen it.

I read Dubliners (not Portrait, Ulysses, or Finnegans, though), and I liked it a lot! He superloads significance into every sentence though, so yeah, it is pretty fucking deep.

Anyway, just read these two:

The Day the Gaming Industry Died: Impressions from E3 2010 | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_18608_the-day-gaming-industry-died-impressions-from-e3-2010.html) ("The audience at the conference reacted in exactly the same way you react when you notice the homeless guy next to you on the subway is masturbating" is a pretty good line)

More Proof the Video Game Industry is Out of Ideas (E3 2010) | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_18609_more-proof-video-game-industry-out-ideas-e3-2010.html)

Why Doc Brown is the real villain of Back To The Future (http://io9.com/5673855/why-doc-brown-is-the-real-villain-of-back-to-the-future)

Topless Robot - 6 Great (and 6 Extremely Sad) Halloween Costumes Based on Toys - Page 1 (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/10/the_6_great_and_6_sad_halloween_costumes_based_on. php?page=1)

Topless Robot - The 10 Best (and 10 Worst) Songs for Halloween - Page 1 (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/10/the_10_best_and_10_worst_songs_for_halloween.php?p age=1)

I finished reading The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett and am now currently working on The Black Prism by Brent Weeks.

Peter V Brett's novels are amazing. Great fantasy.

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The 7 Most Ridiculous Ghost Stories from Around the World | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_18814_the-7-most-ridiculous-ghost-stories-from-around-world.html)

Now reading: Virgina Woolf - To the Lighthouse

My brain is so burnt out from these books that I misspell their titles.

While I don't want to get into that state I really want to increase my reading output. I just know I'm going to need to be able to go through books at a much higher rate than I am right now.

The 5 Most Epic One Man Rampages In the History Of War | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_18810_the-5-most-epic-one-man-rampages-in-history-war.html)

There Was Always That One Kid That Ruined Every D&D Game ... | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/blog/there-was-always-that-one-kid-that-ruined-every-dd-game-.../)

the carrier war. one of TIME life world war 2 books.

While I don't want to get into that state I really want to increase my reading output. I just know I'm going to need to be able to go through books at a much higher rate than I am right now.

The 5 Most Epic One Man Rampages In the History Of War | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_18810_the-5-most-epic-one-man-rampages-in-history-war.html)

There Was Always That One Kid That Ruined Every D&D Game ... | Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/blog/there-was-always-that-one-kid-that-ruined-every-dd-game-.../)

Hey, wanna read? Read all the books for my classes - that would be nifty! Then you can write my essays for me ;p

While I don't want to get into that state I really want to increase my reading output. I just know I'm going to need to be able to go through books at a much higher rate than I am right now.

I think motivation is key! :) I'm actually a really fast reader but with the exception of a few authors I am terrible about reading novels these days. :( I have a couple sitting around the house I still haven't gotten too. It's a shame because I think I'd really enjoy them too.

We should do some kind of FFShrine reading challenge next year! X number of books in a year, and we can have a thread where we update our progress. ^^

Hey, wanna read? Read all the books for my classes - that would be nifty! Then you can write my essays for me ;p

I wrote my essays, and I even got a letter back from one of them.
(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/5392047-original.html)

It isn't so much not having anything to read as it is not being able to read it as well as I need.
I think that would be a great idea ndi, Start it on Jan. 1 and see how well we all do. I'd have to be a somewhat informal contest seeing as how the only real way so judge who's faster and better-er is if we read the exact same books in the same order and test how much we remember from what we read and that's just too much work.

What was the letter about? I got a B+ on the last essay I wrote, which is an alright grade, but I know I can write much better. I've been so stressed lately that my brain has sort of given up on me at this point. I need to sleep and never get the chance too.

Fun part about Virginia Woolf - I get to read that same exact book for another class! Yay. I didn't enjoy it the first time through...

Currently reading: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing. By far, the easiest novel I have read in this class as of late.

What was the letter about?

I actually didn't do that, it was a refrance to an episode of south park where the boys have to write essays on The Old Man and the Sea. With zero time to accomplish this they wire Mexican day ladorers at home depot to "Read the book and write an essay" which they do by first reading the book ("There's an old man and me goes to the sea to catch the feesh, but he no catch feesh, then me catch feesh but then feesh get away.") and write a letter to their essays.

Grizzly Bear vs. Polar Bear - Who Will Win? (http://io9.com/5697839/grizzly-bear-vs-polar-bear-+-who-will-win)

Why did mammals evolve to enormous sizes - then get smaller again? (http://io9.com/5698890/why-did-mammals-evolve-to-enormous-sizes-+-then-get-smaller-again)

FLCL manga.

Not that great.

the story parts of all the warcraft games manuals.
i tend to do that a lot, actually.

I was rereading The Poisonwood Bible. I actually have yet to finish it :o

I finished reading The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett and am now currently working on The Black Prism by Brent Weeks.

Peter V Brett's novels are amazing. Great fantasy.

Can I just say that you have great taste! the Desert Spear is a very good book and the ending! :0 I haven't read the Black Prism yet but his previous trilogy leads me to think it will also be tremendous. My last book was Towers of Midnight, by Brandon Sanderson/Robert Jordan.

I finished Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. Good stuff. Now reading (finally!) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Simply hilarious.

"Holy Fuck! Penis posts have fucking went over the damn edge!"

XDXD

Now seriously, I'm reading a book about Egyptology

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i read that too
good read

i read that too
good read

Makes me want to read the book. I heard they're pretty fucked up and that there's "clean" and original versions of the first few.

alice was about politics
this may as well be the old version of death note

alice was about politics
this may as well be the old version of death note

Alice?

alice in wonderland


and lion king is pretty much hamlet.

let's write a children's book guys. let's base it off the plotline to pride & prejudice.

alice in wonderland


and lion king is pretty much hamlet.

let's write a children's book guys. let's base it off the plotline to pride & prejudice.

Oh I thought we were still on Wizard of Oz.
Lion King was gonna be a Kimba the White Lion but at the last minute disney backed out on the rights so it became "Lion King."

Oh I thought we were still on Wizard of Oz.
Lion King was gonna be a Kimba the White Lion but at the last minute disney backed out on the rights so it became "Lion King."

Didn't they steal it from a Tezuka story?

Didn't they steal it from a Tezuka story?

Yes, Kimba the white Lion.

Yes, Kimba the white Lion.

This was on Wiki.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Kimbasimba.JPG

i remember when it became such a fanboy war

Started The Flight of Dragons. Should finish tomorrow.

Lion King was gonna be a Kimba the White Lion but at the last minute disney backed out on the rights so it became "Lion King."
I am pretty sure this isn't true.

And now reading Watchmen again. Last book of the semester. Phew!

And now reading Watchmen again. Last book of the semester. Phew!

But didn't you already read it for a class?

No. The first time I read it was just for pleasure. This is the only class I've ever had that actually put it on its syllabus.

And now reading Watchmen again. Last book of the semester. Phew!

Alan Moore may be arrogant but he's earned the right to be ten times over. Great book (or comic).

Alan Moore may be arrogant but he's earned the right to be ten times over. Great book (or comic).

If this were Facebook, I'd like this comment 1000x over.

He's not arrogant, he's just a hobo wizard who's burned out dealing with mortals.

I also get to write an essay on Watchmen. I've never been so excited to write an essay for class in my life.


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I also get to write an essay on Watchmen. I've never been so excited to write an essay for class in my life.


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I wanted to type up a thing on Dracula but I keep getting interrupted and I lost half of it on word which hasn't being loading properly so I guess I'll just drop it.

The last book I read was Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. It was pretty interesting. I had to read it for this History of Christianity class.

Finally finished Hyperion by Dan Simmons. If they go through with making the movie, the soundtrack should be Epic.

Finished the Flight of Dragons last week. Needs to be on DVD.

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Currently reading The Making of Star Wars. Huge and tasty.

Finished the Flight of Dragons last week. Needs to be on DVD.

It's on amazon man. Grabbed a copy months ago.

the story part of cataclysm's manual