Actually I've been reading novels since last year (thank The Lovely Bones for that). I just recently finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and now, I am currently reading Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.
Still, I'm refraining myself to these [I]young adult[/I] novels, the hype is making me doubt it, or, maybe, the clean structure is making the story too naive for me. But, that's just me.
I'm giving it a chance. I bought The Hunger Games, still don't have the nerve to open it. But, my friend said it's fucked-up shit. I don't trust people that easily.
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Harlan Coben - No Second Chanche
Awesome book.
The final really turned all things upside down.
It's awesome guys. It's worth the read
Hmm... Well I'm currently reading:
[img]http://www.adampurcell.co.uk/books_files/5de55488a07d8b0a90f41c8530a43674.jpeg[/img]
(That exact cover) And I shall move on to it's relatively more obscure 3 sequels.
Not too long ago I read:
[img]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1303/709432842_e8e8d6cc31.jpg[/img]
(Not that cover) A well recognised-adly good book, well thought out and wonderfully compelling, a must read in my opinion, both for sci-fi fans and philosophy fans.
But, my favourite series of books is rather more... childish. More teenage fiction really, but a really great world, and the best steampunk style series I have ever read:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Mortal_engines.jpg/200px-Mortal_engines.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Predatorsgold.JPG/200px-Predatorsgold.JPG[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Infernaldevices1.jpg/200px-Infernaldevices1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Darkling_Plain.JPG[/img]
A great series. (Also hell yeah for the original paperback covers!)
And the prequels:
[img]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n59/n298521.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n67/n338974.jpg[/img]
Unfortunately I have yet to read "A web of Air"
Just finished reading Engines of Creation :3:
[img]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n57/n286908.jpg[/img]
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Currently I'm finishing Metro 2034.
Yeah after playing the game i got into it, so i picked the books. They worth the reading, very inmersive.
Can anyone suggest me some apocalyptic-style books?
I've read The Road, and i got into this kind of fiction :v:
[QUOTE=Kommunist;28805644][img_thumb]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n57/n286908.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5582/9785170596720.jpg[/img_thumb]
Currently I'm finishing Metro 2034.
Yeah after playing the game i got into it, so i picked the books. They worth the reading, very inmersive.
Can anyone suggest me some apocalyptic-style books?
I've read The Road, and i got into this kind of fiction :v:[/QUOTE]
The Hunger Games books, post-apocalyptic.
[QUOTE=LordLoss;28801388]You might want to start elsewhere when reading into Warhammer 40k.
Or you could just hit up lexicanum and read the first few lines (no more) of every article about stuff you don't get.[/QUOTE]
Where would you recommend I start? I know the different species, Tau, Tyranid, Necrons and whatnot.
[QUOTE=myalt22;28806619]Where would you recommend I start? I know the different species, Tau, Tyranid, Necrons and whatnot.[/QUOTE]
Go to the lexicanum article for the Imperium.
Start clicking everything and read your ass off for a few hours.
[img]http://bokunosekai.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/battle-royale.jpg[/img]
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
A high school class (Either 9th or 10 graders) is put on an island and made to kill each other for reasons unknown to them. They just know their fascist government did it for political reasons (which are eventually explained, but I don't want to spoil it), and that there's a Battle Royale once a year. It follows the entire class broken up by chapter, but the main 3 characters are Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, and Shogo Kawada. It has a strong anti-war theme, and an underlying theme about youth that I'm still trying to decipher. I lent it to a friend of mine and he recommended it to a friend, who recommended it to another friend, and so on and so forth, so most of my friends have read it based on recommendation. My friend said that he was 80 pages in and had been shocked several times. If you're a fan of the hunger games series, read this, because it most likely served as inspiration for the hunger games series.
And don't say it's weeaboo shit. Just because something is made in Japan doesn't make it weeaboo shit. This book uses children and a mutation of the lord of the flies situation to explain its own ideas and metaphors. It's a literary work of art that a few friends have said they liked better than Brave New World.
I very nearly bought that today. I've seen the movie, it was awesome, and I've read the first Manga novel (The only one I own lol).
Was it worth the purchase? Is the book as good as the film?
:siren:Don't read this if you've never finished Of Mice and Men or don't know the ending...:siren:
[sp]Goddamnit Curley's wife, if you weren't such a whore then maybe Lennie wouldn't have had to die.[/sp]
:smith:
[QUOTE=massn7;28795437]Fucking this.
Currently in book seven. The series is indeed fantastic. Did you hear he's writing another Dark Tower novel that bridges the gap between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla?[/QUOTE]
[i]WwwwhhhhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT[/I]
[editline]25th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Regorc's Chest;28804956]Hmm... Well I'm currently reading:
[img_thumb]http://www.adampurcell.co.uk/books_files/5de55488a07d8b0a90f41c8530a43674.jpeg[/img_thumb]
(That exact cover) And I shall move on to it's relatively more obscure 3 sequels.
Not too long ago I read:
[img_thumb]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1303/709432842_e8e8d6cc31.jpg[/img_thumb]
(Not that cover) A well recognised-adly good book, well thought out and wonderfully compelling, a must read in my opinion, both for sci-fi fans and philosophy fans.
But, my favourite series of books is rather more... childish. More teenage fiction really, but a really great world, and the best steampunk style series I have ever read:
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Mortal_engines.jpg/200px-Mortal_engines.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Predatorsgold.JPG/200px-Predatorsgold.JPG[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Infernaldevices1.jpg/200px-Infernaldevices1.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Darkling_Plain.JPG[/img_thumb]
A great series. (Also hell yeah for the original paperback covers!)
And the prequels:
[img_thumb]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n59/n298521.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n67/n338974.jpg[/img_thumb]
Unfortunately I have yet to read "A web of Air"[/QUOTE]
Oh god so much Steampunk
My want list is growing.
[QUOTE=myalt22;28806619]Where would you recommend I start? I know the different species, Tau, Tyranid, Necrons and whatnot.[/QUOTE]
Try some of the imperial guard novels, the majority of them are fairly easy to follow with little knowledge of WH40k, Gunheads, Dead Men Walking, Fifteen Hours, maybe Titanicus and Planetkill aswell. And there's always the two big 40k series, Gaunts Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain. The former is written by Dan Abnett, who also did Titanicus and he's one of the best authors in the (lore) universe.
Also, the Horus Heresy help with a lot of the deep back story of the universe but I wouldn't recommend starting there.
[QUOTE=LordLoss;28809539]Try some of the imperial guard novels, the majority of them are fairly easy to follow with little knowledge of WH40k, Gunheads, Dead Men Walking, Fifteen Hours, maybe Titanicus and Planetkill aswell. And there's always the two big 40k series, Gaunts Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain. The former is written by Dan Abnett, who also did Titanicus and he's one of the best authors in the (lore) universe.
Also, the Horus Heresy help with a lot of the deep back story of the universe but I wouldn't recommend starting there.[/QUOTE]
Dan is [B]the[/B] best author in the Black Library.
That definitely seems to be the consensus.
[IMG]http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo293/DarbeliMatkapTr/A-History-of-Modern-Psychology-0495097993-L.jpg[/IMG]
Psychology is everywhere in this bitch.
Currently reading Misery by Stephen King, it's great.
I finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy a while ago, it was excellent.
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;28808611][img_thumb]http://bokunosekai.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/battle-royale.jpg[/img_thumb]
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
A high school class (Either 9th or 10 graders) is put on an island and made to kill each other for reasons unknown to them. They just know their fascist government did it for political reasons (which are eventually explained, but I don't want to spoil it), and that there's a Battle Royale once a year. It follows the entire class broken up by chapter, but the main 3 characters are Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, and Shogo Kawada. It has a strong anti-war theme, and an underlying theme about youth that I'm still trying to decipher. I lent it to a friend of mine and he recommended it to a friend, who recommended it to another friend, and so on and so forth, so most of my friends have read it based on recommendation. My friend said that he was 80 pages in and had been shocked several times. If you're a fan of the hunger games series, read this, because it most likely served as inspiration for the hunger games series.
And don't say it's weeaboo shit. Just because something is made in Japan doesn't make it weeaboo shit. This book uses children and a mutation of the lord of the flies situation to explain its own ideas and metaphors. It's a literary work of art that a few friends have said they liked better than Brave New World.[/QUOTE]
The amount of anti-nationalism and pro-Americanism in there is stagnating.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/SoundAndFury.JPG[/IMG]
I have this around here somewhere...
I'm sorry, I'm a nigger and therefore cannot read. Please don't beat me masters.
I was doing some cleaning today and I found two things
1. A tattered old copy of Lord of the Rings. Never read the book, so I want to try that.
2. The first issue of BONE, a graphic novel. I bought this years ago, and I plan on just buying the complete edition from Amazon some time (£22 though).
So all in all, it was a successful cleansing.
Surprised Ender's Game got posted on [I]page 2[/I]. I didn't think many people had read it (or enjoyed it, for that matter). Plus, I'd never seen a books discussion on Facepunch, besides those fucked up child's books...
[QUOTE=TheBrokenHobo;28537458]I was going to but I always post it in every book thread.
Oh fuck it.
[img_thumb]http://www.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/enders_game_book_cover_orson_scott_card-401x600.jpg[/img_thumb]
My favorite book of all time. I recommend it for everyone.[/QUOTE]
Favorite book, just finished Children of the Mind and am now moving onto Shadow of the Hegemon
Read them in an order just as ridiculous as the order they were released - Ender's Game > Speaker for the Dead > Ender's Shadow > Xenocide > First Meetings > Childreno of the Mind > Shadow of the Hegemon
Only thing is, the Enderverse depresses me, in a sense. Somebody once told me it was the way Card writes, but I think it's just the whole "wow, these kids will never have a regular childhood", and when [sp]Ender has to leave all of his pseudo-friends[/sp] at the end of Ender's Game.
Also, there is definitely room for more after Children of the Mind - I want to know what happens about [sp]the descoladores[/sp].
[QUOTE=TheBrokenHobo;28537531]I'll have to read that sometime. I've read Speaker For the Dead, and I'm starting on Xenocide, but I've had to put it off since I have to read two books at a time always for classes and I have trouble keeping track of more than one book at once. I forget plot info and end up feeling like I never read it.[/quote]
First Meetings was great. It has the original novella version of Ender's Game in it, and it's awesome to see the contrast between the two.
[QUOTE=Grahamcracker;28785800]I suggest anything from the Enderverse. Children of the Mind was my favorite, followed by Ender's Shadow.[/QUOTE]
You really thought Children of the Mind was the best? I thought it was better than Xenocide, but worse than Speaker/EG. Really, Xenocide and Children of the Mind weren't even on the same level as Speaker or EG, but they're still great books.
Of course, that's just my opinion.
Ender's Shadow is definitely up there with Speaker/EG, though. It was nice to have a protagonist who actually [I]thinks[/I].
Make sure to read Bone, it's a great graphic novel.
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;28808611][img_thumb]http://bokunosekai.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/battle-royale.jpg[/img_thumb]
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
A high school class (Either 9th or 10 graders) is put on an island and made to kill each other for reasons unknown to them. They just know their fascist government did it for political reasons (which are eventually explained, but I don't want to spoil it), and that there's a Battle Royale once a year. It follows the entire class broken up by chapter, but the main 3 characters are Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, and Shogo Kawada. It has a strong anti-war theme, and an underlying theme about youth that I'm still trying to decipher. I lent it to a friend of mine and he recommended it to a friend, who recommended it to another friend, and so on and so forth, so most of my friends have read it based on recommendation. My friend said that he was 80 pages in and had been shocked several times. If you're a fan of the hunger games series, read this, because it most likely served as inspiration for the hunger games series.
And don't say it's weeaboo shit. Just because something is made in Japan doesn't make it weeaboo shit. This book uses children and a mutation of the lord of the flies situation to explain its own ideas and metaphors. It's a literary work of art that a few friends have said they liked better than Brave New World.[/QUOTE]
I remember my English teacher reading this last year. I should read it to.
[QUOTE=mookman22;28822010]Make sure to read Bone, it's a great graphic novel.[/QUOTE]
I certainly plan to. I think I used to have the second volume, but I can't find that. Oh well.
[QUOTE=Nachoman17;28821641][img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/SoundAndFury.JPG[/img_thumb]
I have this around here somewhere...[/QUOTE]
I'm reading this now.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28823394]I'm reading this now.[/QUOTE]
Very nice.
Oh boy are you going to be happy, I got this at the bookstore.
[IMG]http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10350000/10350414.jpg[/IMG]
Oh, I am happy.
I was reading the Necronomicon in my electricity and magnetism class the other day and the guy sitting next to me recognized it as Lovecraft, although he said he hasn't read any. Started talking about what we were reading. 'Twas fun.
I really should read more Lovecraft. I have two books which contains some of his short stories, but I've never really gotten around to reading them.
Also people don't seem to mention The Statement of Randolph Carter, despite the fact it's brilliant. The last line actually gave me chills.
Well it's got "The Call of Cthulhu", obviously and "The Shadow over Innsmouth".
I don't really know where to begin as I know practically nothing about the Cthulhu Mythos... :frown:
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