[QUOTE=aliendrone123;31532158]I'm about 3/4 through The Dark Tower: Wolves of The Calla.
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Loving this series.[/QUOTE]
I've only read the first one, but I have read the graphic novel Gunslinger Born as well. I kind of hate Stephen King, because he releases a lot of books like Dean Koontz, but King's are actually critically successful as well, and to have your Magnum Opus in a genre apart from the majority of your books is impressive.
You hate certain authors because they're productive?
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;31533661]You hate certain authors because they're productive?[/QUOTE]
no I hate certain authors because they're better than me
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;31533682]no I hate certain authors because they're better than me[/QUOTE]
Yesterday I showed a friend a fragment of my WIP and he told me I'd ripped off Stephen King.
:(
So I recently discovered a copy of this little gem of a book in my house, and have been reading it almost nonstop since I found it.
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[editline]4th August 2011[/editline]
God damn I love hunter s. Thompson.
I have to read Angela's Ashes and Grapes of Wrath in 5 days. All my friends said both of them suck.
Its 900+ pages of reading.
wat I do facepunch wat I do
Grapes of Wrath is a fucking beautiful book so don't back from that. Can't speak for the other one though as I have never read it.
Angela's Ashes is written with lots of Irish colloquialisms. So it was kind of hard to understand some of the things at first.
I think I'll start with Grapes of Wrath.
[QUOTE=Zatharon;31540916]So I recently discovered a copy of this little gem of a book in my house, and have been reading it almost nonstop since I found it.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/7/7c/20110510223953!Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas.jpg[/img]
[editline]4th August 2011[/editline]
God damn I love hunter s. Thompson.[/QUOTE]
That man had some crazy stories to tell, what I would give to live a day in his shoes
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;31544999]That man had some crazy stories to tell, what I would give to live a day in his shoes[/QUOTE]
i wouldn't think so man. the amount of drugs the guy took will kill you twelve times over.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;31545011]i wouldn't think so man. the amount of drugs the guy took will kill you twelve times over.[/QUOTE]
Dying's for fools
I found and bought this at the local used bookstore today. It's about the actions of the 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in a Word War III scenario:
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[QUOTE=Collin665;31540957]I have to read Angela's Ashes and Grapes of Wrath in 5 days. All my friends said both of them suck.
Its 900+ pages of reading.
wat I do facepunch wat I do[/QUOTE]
Your friends are swine.
I'm reading Dune Messiah, it's strange. I don't understand half the shit going on, but I still always want to read more. Frank Herbert should really have provided a Glossary for more than just Dune (which was probably added later too).
Despite all my searching I cannot find an image of the cover of the edition I'm reading. Regardless, here is what I am reading:
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[QUOTE=Emilie Autumn;31561611]Despite all my searching I cannot find an image of the cover of the edition I'm reading. Regardless, here is what I am reading:
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xMVLS5Z3C3I/TGv-xUUpUII/AAAAAAAAAbk/IX_0deTlmyQ/s1600/dracula_cover2.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Good book, but I found I got really tired of the constant pleasantries and "English" way. If they removed all the unnecessary "beating around the bush" it would be half as long. I'll finish it yet, but I needed a "sci-fi" break for a bit (read Ender in Exile, 2001: Space Odyssey, the Hobbit, and now Dune Messiah)
[QUOTE=Smeetin;31561709]Good book, but I found I got really tired of the constant pleasantries and "English" way. If they removed all the unnecessary "beating around the bush" it would be half as long. I'll finish it yet, but I needed a [B]"sci-fi"[/B] break for a bit (read Ender in Exile, 2001: Space Odyssey, [B]the Hobbit[/B], and now Dune Messiah)[/QUOTE]
Wait, what?
Just finished my summer reading:
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Very good primer to a history of conflict in the Middle East (ostensibly it's his memoirs), although Fisk doesn't claim to be a truly impartial journalist, so you'll have to do some background research to get the whole picture.
It gets just sordid at parts.
Just found a complete collection of HP Lovecraft's stories and some poems on amazon for 10$, in "very good" condition.
I bought that shit right up. I'm happy! :v:
[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1435107934[/url]
You can still get some cheap in the used section, I took the cheapest one of course.
[QUOTE=Smeetin;31561466]I'm reading Dune Messiah, it's strange. I don't understand half the shit going on, but I still always want to read more. Frank Herbert should really have provided a Glossary for more than just Dune (which was probably added later too).[/QUOTE]
It's a wonderful romp if you can get to the end, really - Frank Herbert really does a good job avoiding the rehash.
[QUOTE=HubmaN;31571048]It's a wonderful romp if you can get to the end, really - Frank Herbert really does a good job avoiding the rehash.[/QUOTE]
Ya I found that with the first one too, it was kind of stale until page 250 or so and then it picked up wonderfully.
I read Anvil Gate, now I know pretty much everything about the Gears universe.
There is actually a hell of a lot more to the story than large men on steroids killing aliens in a nonsensical plot, as 99% of people believe.
Does a great job fleshing out Baird, Bernie, and Hoffman, too.
Onto Coalition's End.
Also, I bought blood meridan, but the british weather destroyed it so I'll have to re-purchase it later.
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I'm almost done reading J.G. Ballard's Crash and I think it's a pretty good book. It's about people who have car crash fetishes and the novel's an interesting look at how the mind develops fetishes and the connection between sex and technology.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;31600087][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8C9zw.jpg[/IMG]
I'm almost done reading J.G. Ballard's Crash and I think it's a pretty good book. It's about people who have car crash fetishes and the novel's an interesting look at how the mind develops fetishes and the connection between sex and technology.[/QUOTE]
I just read the wikipedia article and what the mother cunt.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;31600140]I just read the wikipedia article and what the mother cunt.[/QUOTE]
Well it's not for those with a weak stomach I must say.
I need to buy The End of Alice somehow without looking like some kind of pedophile.
I'm just starting Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. I read the foreword, introduction, and the first ten pages. Heard really good things but man in the foreword he talks about how he won't go into the details of the car crash that changed his life so much and then he spends ten pages rambling on about it.
Sorry if i'm re-posting in here, but I really like Arthas: Rise of the Lichking.
[img]http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/a/a8/ArthasCover.jpg[/img]
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