At the moment i'm reading "Metro 2033"; It's pretty good.
When I finish it, i'm going to move on to "The Last fighting Tommy" by Harry Patch, and then probably finish reading "Eisenhorn", which I stopped reading a while ago. :v:
[QUOTE=scurr;31839965]At the moment i'm reading "Metro 2033"; It's pretty good.
When I finish it, i'm going to move on to "The Last fighting Tommy" by Harry Patch, and then probably finish reading "Eisenhorn", which I stopped reading a while ago. :v:[/QUOTE]
I'm reading Metro 2033 at the moment too :v:
Great "children" books with dark humor .
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I recently read House of Leaves and absolutely loved it. So thank you, FP book thread, for motivating my purchase of it. I hate to just lurk all the time and come out of the blue with a vague request, but I'd like another experimental novel. I'm not picky about the length or the subject of the plot, I'd just like something rather outlandish.
And to actually contribute, I'm reading my way through all of Albert Camus' works now. I'm working on The Plague, next will probably be The Stranger. I'm liking it, but with the bleak landscape of his writing it's hard to commit to reading his works, love them as I do.
[QUOTE=Teal Moose;31851181]I hate to just lurk all the time and come out of the blue with a vague request, but I'd like another experimental novel.[/QUOTE]
You could check out Mark Z. Danelblahblahblah's other novel Only Revolutions if you can handle something twelve times more incomprehensible.
Another novel I suggest similar to House of Leaves is David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It's over a thousand pages and it's set in a dystopian future at the Enfield Tennis Academy and the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (redundancy sic) where wheelchair-bound terrorists from Quebec try to bring down the Organization of North American Nations by tracking down a lost art film which is so entertaining that if you watch it you lose interest in everything else until you die. He uses a slew of styles in the book and like in House of Leaves the story is presented in a faux-essay sort of way complete with a ton of footnotes in the end. Also some of the footnotes have footnotes in them!
Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a book which is about you (yeah you) reading the book If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
Also Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs are both authors who love to break every rule of plot and whose books are full of drug inspired hallucinatory paranoiac nightmares. Very good writers right there.
Brian O'Nolan's also known as Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is about a student writing a book, and then one of the characters in his book starts writing a book of his own, and in that book the characters plot to overthrow their creator. Very funny book.
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is known as one of the most comprehensible novels of all time. The first sentence on its wikipedia page tells us that it's "significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language." Ulysses by the same author is a granddaddy of modern literature and although is not nearly as screwy with its language as Finnegans Wake, it's still pretty far out.
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Fucking phenomenal and all around very eye opening. It also made me realize that Teddy Roosevelt was an awful person.
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Done reading this. It actually has nothing to do with games but is a very, [I]very[/I] good introduction to compiler theory and parsing and what not.
I'm hoping to finish reading all my stuff so I can dedicate most of my reading time to Nanosystems and the required calculus/chemistry knowledge.
Great thread! I'm a great fan of the author Nora Roberts. She writes great thrillers! I find great deals on books here -snip- Hope you pick up on a good deal!
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Just finished:
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Very very good
[sp]Why are all The Culture endings so depressing hhhh[/sp]
Now on to:
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Last Culture book at the moment, you [i]really[/i] need to read them, Eudoxia. I'll probably reread [i]His Dark Materials[/i] at a friend's behest next, then maybe something new. Probably nonfiction.
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seriously one of the best books I have ever read.
I want a book that does try to tell me anything
That just tells me a story and lets me think what I want about it
Reading this for school.
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It's pretty good, though sort of hard to follow the old English that the people use.
The lightning thief was amazing,
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These books.
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This was pretty good too.
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Also these were irresistible when I was younger.
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Also, a great book.
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Finished Catch-22 about a week ago, really dug it.
Read through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas over the weekend. Crazy awesome.
Plowed through Looking for Alaska last night, couldn't put it down. Couldn't sleep after that, either.
Just started up This Side of Paradise. Looking good so far.
Picked these up the other day.
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Fun for the whole family.
yep, nothing says upbeat and cheery like Nick Cave
I have to do a book review for my religion and science class but the professor said I can't use Cat's Cradle. :c
I just finished:
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Last Culture novel at the moment; I hope he writes another. The ending of this one...
[sp]MY MIND IS FULL OF FUCK[/sp]
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A satisfying conclusion to a great series.
This is the only book i've ever read:
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It's quite obviously a childrens book, but i enjoyed it at the time (being a child and all that). Must've been almost 10 years ago.
The shit is this I get banned for making a racist joke but not for breaking clearly marked rules
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1) Talk about books and only books. No posts that don't have to do with books please.[/b][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Checkers;28535615]Pies are nice
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Someone suggested the Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld a while back in this thread; I thank them for that. These are the best books I've read in a long time, and the illustrations are beautiful.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;31927315]Someone suggested the Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld a while back in this thread; I thank them for that. These are the best books I've read in a long time, and the illustrations are beautiful.[/QUOTE]
Goliath soon, fellow stalker
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;31927636]Goliath soon, fellow stalker[/QUOTE]
Barking Spiders!
:v: That had to be my favorite line in the books.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;31927772]Barking Spiders!
:v: That had to be my favorite line in the books.[/QUOTE]
Sadly I've never heard an English person say it. I should bring it to the mainstream single-handedly
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yes
yessss
I honestly can't tell you why, but I enjoyed this book to a ridiculous degree. I found myself slacking off at work to read through this. I read all the letters in the back, looked at all the illustrations, followed the footnotes, Johnny's journal. Brilliant piece of work here.
I've been reading 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, lately. Pretty interesting so far
I've started reading Catch 22 for the first time, and I love it. It's just hillarious, and really well written. The structure of the story seems wierd so far.
Just bought [url=http://www.bookdepository.com/My-War-Colby-Buzzell/9780552154376]My War by Colby Buzzell[/url].
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