[QUOTE=ScoutKing;28537197]
East Of Eden.
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:smile:
After Winter of our Discontent, I'm gonna read Tortilla Flat.
I wonder when Ender's Game is going to be posted.
I'm about halfway through this:
[img]http://img.listal.com/image/366861/600full-slaughterhouse--five-cover.jpg[/img]
I'm loving it so far, it's full of sort of dark humor and makes you think in a weird way.
[QUOTE=freighter014;28537409]I wonder when Ender's Game is going to be posted.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://whs.wsd.wednet.edu/Faculty/Cloke/images/EndersGame.jpg[/img]
??
I've always hated that cover.
v superior version
[QUOTE=freighter014;28537409]I wonder when Ender's Game is going to be posted.[/QUOTE]
I was going to but I always post it in every book thread.
Oh fuck it.
[img]http://www.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/enders_game_book_cover_orson_scott_card-401x600.jpg[/img]
My favorite book of all time. I recommend it for everyone.
[QUOTE=Nachoman17;28535419][img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Winter_discontent.JPG[/img_thumb]
:h: you Steinbeck![/QUOTE]
Steinbeck is awesome and you should all read his books, that is all.
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[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]
oh my god read this also it is awesome
[QUOTE=TheDudeGuy;28537370][img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Tao.jpg[/img_thumb]
Just read this, I highly recommend it, it can change your life. It's changed mine.
Looks like someone already beat me to Taoism.
Just some advice, if you're interested in Taoism but know nothing about it, read Tao of pooh. It's a much easier read. However Tao Te Ching is a bunch of interesting poetry and stories and is fascinating on it's own.[/QUOTE]
Haha, funny you should post that so soon after me. I'm doing a philosophy course yet I've only met about two people who've even [i]heard[/i] of Taoism, so it's always nice to see someone who appreciates it. I may check out that book!
[img]http://www.fast-autos.net/diecast-cars-models/diecast-car-image-large/godzilla-returns-marc-cerasini-1996-pb-1st-printing_110647225282.jpg[/img]
Believe it or not, Marc Cerasini's Godzilla books are very well-written and mature. Take Godzilla out of the cheesy man-in-suit context and he is frightening indeed. Shame Random House never picked the license back up when they lost it in '98, I was looking forward to what I'm guessing would have been the last book in his series.
[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]
Another one on my list. After finishing 'Dark Dude', I'm going to have to find more time to read these books. Between school, weight lifting, and hosting a MC server, I hardly find time for reading :saddowns:
On a side note: When recommending a book, you should post a brief summary and why you like it, like how pie_is_good did it on the page king.
[QUOTE=Doomish;28537463]Steinbeck is awesome and you should all read his books, that is all.[/QUOTE]
That's the goal!
Also this:
[img]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n32/n163754.jpg[/img]
This is a fantastic book as well, although it's hard to explain without spoilers. I highly recommend this too.
[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]
+ [img]http://www.bookapex.com/images/First-Meetings-In-the-Enderverse-0765308738-L.jpg[/img]
Prequel, good book.
Anyone else read Red October?
EDIT: Fucking submarines.
Holy shit, people who read.
Anyone read or reading Blood Wedding?
[QUOTE=TheDudeGuy;28537493]+ [img_thumb]http://www.bookapex.com/images/First-Meetings-In-the-Enderverse-0765308738-L.jpg[/img_thumb]
Prequel, good book.[/QUOTE]
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.
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The Ender series has such a weird way of branching between novels.
There's the main series which starts with Ender's Game, but the novel after it takes place 3000 years later. Then the two novels after that continue right from the end of each other. :v:
Here is a list of books I currently have out from the library:
-Differential Geometry: Curves - Surfaces - Manifolds, by Wolfgang Kühnel
-Quantum Mechanics, by A.S. Davydov
-Isoperimetric Inequalities in Mathematical Physics, by G. Pólya and G. Szegö
-Harmonic Analysis and Boundary Value Problems in the Complex Domain, by Mkhitar M. Djrbashian
-The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson
-The Poetic Edda, by Snorri Sturluson
-The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
- Introduction to General Relativity, by Ronald Adler, Maurice Bazin and Menahem Schiffer
-Differential Equations, by L. E. El'sgol'ts
-The Elementary Theory of Tensors, with Applications to Geometry and Mechanics, by Tracy Yerkes Thomas
-Calculus of Variations, by J. C. Clegg
So my reading list is kind of full.
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/2428126894_aff04e77b1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/1984.large.jpg[/img]
George Orwell's works.
I'm now currently looking for a good author which expresses forms of nihilism in his work. Any recommendations?
To be honest, I hated Animal Farm.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28537611]Here is a list of books I currently have out from the library:
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I don't like getting books from the library. I don't know about you, but for some reason all the books at my library smell like semen.
[QUOTE=thereisno131;28537618][img_thumb]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/2428126894_aff04e77b1.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/1984.large.jpg[/img_thumb]
George Orwell's works.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that the book about communism?
[editline]10th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;28537642]I don't like getting books from the library. I don't know about you, but for some reason all the books at my library smell like semen.[/QUOTE]
Don't go the magazine section D:
[QUOTE=Nifae;28537244][img_thumb]http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c4/c21777.jpg[/img_thumb]
Lovecraft is the most lovable lovely writer of all time. I love Lovecraft. Lovely lovable love puns aside, he's the most verbose and deep writer I've ever read, even more than Stephen King. It feels like what he writes about could be real, there's just so much detail and immersion in every single story he wrote. Perhaps they are real, and humanity just hasn't ventured out of its isle of ignorance yet. V:v:V[/QUOTE]
You rock.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;28537323]I have that exact book! One of these days I'll get around to reading it.[/QUOTE]
You rock. (In the future.)
[QUOTE=TheBrokenHobo;28537426]I'm about halfway through this:
[img_thumb]http://img.listal.com/image/366861/600full-slaughterhouse--five-cover.jpg[/img_thumb]
I'm loving it so far, it's full of sort of dark humor and makes you think in a weird way.[/QUOTE]
You rock. (Read Cat's Cradle.)
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;28537642]I don't like getting books from the library. I don't know about you, but for some reason all the books at my library smell like semen.[/QUOTE]
Nobody's masturbating over the isoperimetric inequality, I assure you.
So I'm going on something of a book buying spree. So far I'm getting the Communist Manifesto, The Art of War and the Tao of Pooh/the Te of Piglet, and I'm very tempted to buy Elmer the Elephant purely because he's the birthchild of JS Mill's thought. Do I splash out on the hardback or is £9.99 for a child's book undesirable...
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;28537689]Nobody's masturbating over the isoperimetric inequality, I assure you.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.untoldentertainment.com/blog/img/2009_09_24/nerd.jpg[/img]
You never know...
[QUOTE=thereisno131;28537618]
[img_thumb]http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/1984.large.jpg[/img_thumb]
George Orwell's works.[/QUOTE]
1984 is such a good book. It's so sad though and hopeless, I almost stopped reading it. Glad I didn't. He's got such a poetic way of writing.
That's a cool cover too, never seen it before. Didn't know they used shepard fairey's art for it.
That ending is just unforgettable.
There is already a thread. It is in the Bullshit > Chat threads.
[QUOTE=Xonax;28537739]There is already a thread. It is in the Bullshit > Chat threads.[/QUOTE]
Sorry mate, didn't see. It seems this one is more popular at the moment :/
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