I just finished Mogworld
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It's Yatzhee's novel parody of MMORPGs which is absolutely fantastic. It's about the adventures of a recently resurrected mage and two of the people he resurrects with. There's a lot of MMO humor in it that you might not get if you stay away from them, but it's still nonetheless a fantastic book and manages to be absolutely hilarious at times.
Currently reading:
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which is about a soviet soldier during the 1940's who has been wrongly accused of treason and sent to a "special" work camp (read: gulag). The book quite obviously lays out one day in the camp he lives in, and it's a really well-written account of Stalin's gulag system.
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Up next:
Les Miserables
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and Great Expectations
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[QUOTE=Barblunder;28645804]how do you guys feel regarding classic literature vs. modern lit?
I mean there are definitely exceptions in both directions but in my opinion I prefer modern books. The writing and language can be rich in older books but 20th century lit has a subtlety in basically every respect that I find older books usually lack.[/QUOTE]
My preference lies with classical literature but there are some modern books I like.
I tried to get into Clancy for a while, on a tangent, and I liked his stories but the godawful tedious descriptions of how airplanes, submarines, and machine guns work turned me off of it.
Bought ths, about halfway through.
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I also bought this:
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Good choice? I've never read a warhammer book before.
[QUOTE=Strider_07;28710249]I just finished Mogworld
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It's Yatzhee's novel parody of MMORPGs which is absolutely fantastic. It's about the adventures of a recently resurrected mage and two of the people he resurrects with. There's a lot of MMO humor in it that you might not get if you stay away from them, but it's still nonetheless a fantastic book and manages to be absolutely hilarious at times.[/QUOTE]
I was very impressed with Mogworld too, I was worried it would just be another by the numbers fantasy book, but I thought it was brilliant. I read it in about 3 days while on holiday in Poland :v:
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28681588]As I said earlier, I just finished Neuromancer. I think I'd like to read Johnny Mnemonic.[/QUOTE]
I think I'm the only nerd in the world who didn't like Neuromancer.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;28713905]I think I'm the only nerd in the world who didn't like Neuromancer.[/QUOTE]
Probably! If you were reading it for nerdy interest that makes sense though since Gibson is very untechnical.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which is about a soviet soldier during the 1940's who has been wrongly accused of treason and sent to a "special" work camp (read: gulag). The book quite obviously lays out one day in the camp he lives in, and it's a really well-written account of Stalin's gulag system.[/QUOTE]
Great book.
Great Expectations is the kind of book they make you read too young in school and either don't understand it or find it boring; but going back to it, it's fantastic. Much like Catcher in the Rye, I didn't realise at the time how worryingly similar me and Holden were.
Did anyone here read "Down and out in Paris and London" by George orwell?
I'm trying to decide which to read first, this book, or "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas"
[QUOTE=myalt22;28712456]Bought ths, about halfway through.
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I also bought this:
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Good choice? I've never read a warhammer book before.[/QUOTE]
I would have recommended reading Eisenhorn before Ravenor. Great book though.
I have the shortest ass attention span ever, even if I sit down to read a book for enjoyment...
I'll sit down to read and I'll read a paragraph and fucking drift off into my thoughts. I will have read 4 or so pages and realize that I haven't taken in any of it, my life is miserable :frown:
Books I've bought but haven't gotten around to reading:
The Last Kingdom
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Treasure Island
The Fountainhead
1984
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Zombie Survival Guide
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I wish more people would posts the best books they've ever read instead of the ones they're reading, I want some really good reading material that takes me into the books
[QUOTE=bootv2;28726076]well, I guess this will be the fifth time saying this in here, but the his darkly matters series are the best books I've ever read, but you have to be able to focus when you want to read, if you're too tired one get's the effect you're describing of being unable to read shit.[/QUOTE]
his darkly matters? what.
i think you mean his dark materials...
I've been putting it off for years because of a few reasons, but I'm a few chapters in and I regret not reading it sooner.
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[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28715426]Probably! If you were reading it for nerdy interest that makes sense though since Gibson is very untechnical. [/QUOTE]
I was just reading it to read, just to see what all the hype was about, and it was all confusing :saddowns:
Well I finished reading a Game of Thrones and I didn't like it. The author is good at drawing you in but once he does there isn't much to it.
The story feels very slow and stretched out in this book and according to reviews of the next in the series it only gets slower (to make as much money as possible).
The fantasy element is always hinted at but never seems to appear which becomes extremely annoying. There are so many characters it gets confusing and many of the characters are bland and unrealistic.
I didn't care about them at all because of this and because the viewpoint switches so damn often. I would rate the book a 3 out of 10.
and don't forget the incest, rape, and detailed sex scenes containing a 13 year old girl.
I feel like an idiot posting this compared to the other novels in here but I really liked this book.
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It's basically WW1, steampunk style, and the allies are Darwinist and the Axis believe in robots. (really vague I know, but i read it a while ago.)
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also, this was inside the cover
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I wish I can afford books :[
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About 100 pages into this, it's a really intriguing depiction of magic, plus imagery akin to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;28736697]I was just reading it to read, just to see what all the hype was about, and it was all confusing :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Oh yes it is.
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Starting this in school, what does everyone think of it?
I don't understand the ravenor trilogy at all, I don't know what any of the terminology means, and most of all, I don't know why I even bought it. What a fucking waste.
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I love how it's part novel and part comic book when it switches to different chapters. When I'm done reading this, I'm going to get the sequel, Havoc.
I have 11 new books on my wishlist thanks to this thread.
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Holy shit what a boring book.
Victorian literature is the worst, and this is probably the best that the era has to offer, and even this is not interesting to read at all.
Lucifer's Hammer, page 284. My jaw actually dropped as I read the sixth paragraph. Everybody should read this book.
What does the paragraph say?
The character is in a space ship lab thing shaped like a capsule which explains the first sentence. It sounds silly without this context.
It says: [sp]And Johnny Baker dived a clean arc across to the communications panel. He turned frequency dials in carefully controlled haste, pushed buttons, and spoke. "LOOKING GLASS, THIS IS WHITE BIRD; LOOKING GLASS, LOOKING GLASS, THIS IS WHITE BIRD. SOVIET UNION HAS LAUNCHED MASSIVE ICBM FORCE; I SAY AGAIN, SOVIET ROCKETS ARE RISING. CONFIRMED OBSERVATION. Goddammit, the bastards are launching everything they've got! Five hundred birds, maybe more!"[/sp]
That book sounds quite shit
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I mean really, if you won't take the time to do a little research into what it's about, who the authors are and whatnot, I can't help you with your oh so wrong opinion. What with the book being nominated for the Hugo Award for best novel and all, the authors being well revered for their own works beyond this, etc.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;28775458]Holy shit what a boring book.
Victorian literature is the worst, and this is probably the best that the era has to offer, and even this is not interesting to read at all.[/QUOTE]
Oh c'mon, I'd be the last person to call myself a fan of Victorian literature, but Great Expectations isn't the best the era has to offer.
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Great, humorous satire.[/QUOTE]
You should read Candide, now that is fucking hilarious.
I've recently ordered this:
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It's about 900 British soldiers who one day just disappear on the Somme battlefield during the Great War and end up on an alien planet with no idea what the hell just happened.
I can't wait for it to get here because frankly it looks like the best shit ever.
It's actually a series; there's another one coming out later this year which I think is more focused around the tank they apparently brought with them (don't actually know where the tank came from, haven't read the book yet).
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