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This book is real good, I'm near the end (At the 600-something page) and enjoyed every minute of it. However, it's a bit technical and "dry", so it might not interest those who aren't big history fans.
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Now that's a really good book, and very well written, about the battle of Stalingrad between the Nazis and the Soviet. It is written in a very thriller-novel way, which is excellent in order to keep interest. I finished reading it in a couple of days, because it is really great.
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Now this book is really interesting, and I'm sure most of the people know it or heard of it. The author, Jared Diamond suggests his theory for why some civilizations are more 'backward' and 'primitive' technologically and culturally speaking, using eco-reasoning. I just have a few pages left, a real good food for thought.
Also, you should read the Bartimaeus trilogy.
Currently reading;
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[QUOTE=sp00ks;29503176]Loved the Navidson's story, hated everything else. So pretentious.[/QUOTE]
Too deep for you.
Definitely going to buy this book. The last three were amazing.
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The Walking Dead Vol.1 was good.
Much better than the TV series, Character development wise, and story wise.
I read "The World Made Straight" by Ron Rash for my English class not too long ago.
It's a really great coming-of-age story. I suck with summaries, so just look it up. :v: Great read, but I hated the ending.
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Haha. Ohhhh fuck. 3rd pageking in a row. BOW DOWN TO ME
I want them.
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Haha. Ohhhh fuck. 3rd pageking in a row. BOW DOWN TO ME[/QUOTE]
An image fit for a pageking.
[QUOTE=Icyanimal;29486751]I just finished reading 1984 and I'm about to start reading "Night"
For people who have read it, is it any good?[/QUOTE]
It's alright if you like comedies.
[QUOTE=Icyanimal;29486751]I just finished reading 1984 and I'm about to start reading "Night"
For people who have read it, is it any good?[/QUOTE]
Night is a nice book, but the stories the author tells aren't that easy to chew on.
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Looked up the premise, sounds like a damn nice read. Gonna have to buy it.
My mother is currently crazy about Murakami, but she still picked up A Game of Thrones and is liking it.
I'm 15 years old and want to move onto adult books because at the moment I'm still reading teenager books. I am a boy. Can anybody suggest some good books for me to try?
The genres I like are: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thrillers and I especially like books set in the past during World War II for example.
[QUOTE=AllNamesRTaken;29518426]I'm 15 years old and want to move onto adult books because at the moment I'm still reading teenager books. I am a boy. Can anybody suggest some good books for me to try?
The genres I like are: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thrillers and I especially like books set in the past during World War II for example.[/QUOTE]
Catch-22 is a hilarious book set in WWII. Check that out.
[b]MAKE A FUCKING BOOK LIST IF YOU HAVEN'T[/b]
Here's mine:
[b]Kurt Vonnegut - [/b]
[u]Slaughterhouse-Five[/u]
Bluebeard
[b]Ernest Hemingway -[/b]
For Whom the Bell Tolls
[b]John Steinbeck -[/b]
East of Eden
Pastures of Heaven
[b]Albert Camus - [/b]
[u]The Stranger[/u]
The Fall
[b]Hermann Hesse - [/b]
[u]Moby Dick[/u]
Steppenwolf
[b]Ayn Rand - [/b]
Atlas Shrugged
We The Living
The Fountainhead
Misc:
A Brief History of Time
Animal Farm
Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Don Quixote (need to read again cause it was so fucking good)
Beyond Good & Evil
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Catch-22
[u]Twilight of the Idols[/u]
Brave New World
The Great Gatsby
[u]Brothers Karamazov[/u]
The Republic
The Call of The Wild
[u]Heart of Darkness[/u]
The Illiad
Walden
Lord of The Flies
Paradise Lost
Fahrenheit 451
[u]Crime And Punishment[/u]
The Trial
War and Peace
Nausea
Prometheus Rising
Chasm City
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Some books I read recently that I totally recommend;
The Old Man and the Sea
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Of Mice and Men
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Oh and for anyone who's into Ayn Rand, read her biography first. It's amazing.
and if anyone is looking to win some money, the Ayn Rand Institute gives you money for writing essays about her books. Win up to $3000.
There's due dates for each one. Pretty soon. I'm reading [i]We The Living[/i] for that essay right now.
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About Lovecraft, if you want to get to know the Cthulhu Mythos a bit, I would recommend [i]The Nameless City[/i], and [i]At the Mountains of Madness[/i]. Both fucking good.
Just reread Stephen Colbert's "I am America (And So Can You!)"
Its pretty funny, essentially half political satire half activity book. At one point theres a matching game where you have to examine pictures of testicles and determine which species they belong to!
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[QUOTE=JamesIsGay;29524126][b]MAKE A FUCKING BOOK LIST IF YOU HAVEN'T[/b][/QUOTE]
Man, I spent long enough impulsively reading pulpy sci-fi books that I can say I finished a book about every week for a few months, but I can't name any of them.
Currently reading Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers".
Back on the topic of Ender's Game,
[url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/summit-to-finally-really-truly-try-to-make-enders,55305/]about time[/url]
[QUOTE=InvisibleTed;29526642]Man, I spent long enough impulsively reading pulpy sci-fi books that I can say I finished a book about every week for a few months, but I can't name any of them.[/QUOTE]
I know man
[QUOTE=JamesIsGay;29524126]Oh and for anyone who's into Ayn Rand, read her biography first. It's amazing.
and if anyone is looking to win some money, the Ayn Rand Institute gives you money for writing essays about her books. Win up to $3000.
There's due dates for each one. Pretty soon. I'm reading [i]We The Living[/i] for that essay right now.
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Ayn Rand was a cunt and the Ayn Rand Institute is a fascist cult centered around her.
[editline]1st May 2011[/editline]
Your brain is god by timothy Leary.
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Timothy Leary goes back to the wisdom of the east. He argues that because of the conflict between your cerebrum and your cerebelum (essentially, your animal and your human side), and your bias to act on your senses, philosophy cannot be examined empirically or through outside observation, because observations are based on animal senses. He says that to examine philosophy you have to examine your own brain, which he described as god because of its creative and imaginative powers. Timothy Leary did not advocate LSD, he advocated consciousness expansion, whether it be through meditation, LSD, or other New Age techniques developed during the spiritually liberating years of the 20th century. Timothy Leary says that in our day and age of consumerism, the brain has replaced the genitals as the forbidden organ.
lol you fucking communist
[editline]1st May 2011[/editline]
I mean, yeah she was a dumb bitch - but I take from her ideas and apply them to my own. The ARI probably follows her philosophy a little too closely, but she has some pretty thought-provoking shit. I think the power of the individual can totally be a super ego-booster, but I just give too much of a fuck about starting my own life right now.
Is it supposed to be favorite books?
[b]Isaac Asimov:[/b]
[u]The Bicentennial Man[/u]
I, Robot
[b]Alastair Reynolds:[/b]
[u]Revelation Space[/u]
Redemption Ark
Absolution Gap
The Prefect
Pushing Ice
[b]Tom Clancy:[/b]
[u]The Hunt For Red October[/u]
Cardinal of The Kremlin
[b]David Hoffman:[/b]
[u]The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of The Cold War and It's Dangerous Legacy[/u]
[b]Orson Scott Card:[/b]
[u]Ender's Game[/u]
[u]Ender's Shadow[/u]
Shadow of the Hegemon
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Revelation Space
Redemption Ark
Absolution Gap
The Prefect
[b]Pushing Ice[/b]
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The underlined ones are ones that I want to read first.
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Pushing Ice was absolutely brilliant in my opinion. The ending got a bit slow, but overall it was a great book.
Yeah, it's my favorite novel by Reynolds. The Revelation Space universe is really nice as well, but the books are long as shit and the story takes a lot of time to get anywhere. When I got to reading Redemption Ark (or was it Absolution Gap? I don't even remember) I had forgotten almost everything about the events of Revelation Space so I had to stop reading to pick up Revelation Space again, but I haven't been able to so far.
Chasm City was nicely self-contained though, and Diamond Dogs & Turquoise Days give a little insight into two things that appear later in the story in minor roles.
Chasm City was good, I especially liked the later [sp]Sky Haussman[/sp] segments, where it reveals the secrets of the [sp]fourth ship[/sp]. DD&TD is the only RS universe novel I haven't read.
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