What are you reading?

behndy · Post by **behndy** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:26 pm

i loved World War Z. very cool idea, awesomely executed.

Jenkins · Post by **Jenkins** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:41 pm

behndy wrote:i loved World War Z. very cool idea, awesomely executed.

I only just started, but having a hard putting it down.

This was what got me started reading again a few months back! Awesome! :animal:

behndy · Post by **behndy** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:14 am

lol. yeah. he also did a series of Zombie Graphic Novels too i think? like to read some NON-Zom stuff. i'm getting pretty burnt out on shuffling dead.

fiddelerselbow · Post by **fiddelerselbow** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:08 am

I liked world war z a lot. The survival guide got a bit bland in places though. Is that movie in production yet?

Jenkins · Post by **Jenkins** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:16 pm

I've heard the movie just took the name and is nothing like the book! I hate the way hollywood changes an already good thing and makes it into a ish sandwich! :mad:

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:18 pm

Jenkins wrote:I hate the way hollywood changes an already good thing and makes it into a ish sandwich!

I think I died a little when I saw I am Legend. Hey how about you take a book, throw out like 75% of the plot, change the ending, and remove the whole point of the book that gives it the title so that the title doesn't even make sense anymore? I am Legend. :facepalm:

McSpunckle · Post by **McSpunckle** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:25 am

behndy wrote:i LOVE my Kindle. i have one of the Kindle keyboard ones that does 3g and wifi, played with the Fire and the Touch at a local Best Buy. i'm not a huge fan of the touch, i'd rather have the Next/Back Page buttons be physical on the side than swipe, and the Fire is cool if you....... just want...... an Amazon branded Android Tablet. 'cause that's all it is. it's got a pretty screen, but it's running the same free download Kindle software that you can put on any iphone, Android, iPad, PC or Mac.

i just wanted a BOOK replacement. and the not-redrawing screen is PERFECT for text. love the thing. actually gave away LOADS of books after i got it.

Dude, e-ink readers are tits on a biscuit. I got a Kobo touch, and I love the thing to death. My mom has a Kindle Touch which is really cool too. I don't miss the buttons (maybe 'cause I've never had them), but I could see how people would prefer the buttons.

They're way better than real books. :joy:

Alas, the books still cost about the same as paperbacks and you can't... share them (well... you CAN). But it's worth it.

Narwhal-Industries · Post by **Narwhal-Industries** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:04 am

I've been pretty impressed with how well the Kindle touch handles pdf files natively. I load a bunch of recipes on my wife's Kindle yesterday, so now it's a cookbook too.

mauerkraut · Post by **mauerkraut** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:31 pm

Just finished A Clockwork Orange, great read. The language makes the book. Now onto A Perfumed Scorpion by Idries Shah, I'm ready for it.

Gunner Recall · Post by **Gunner Recall** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:16 pm

I got a nook simple touch for christmas, been tearing through some "popular" books.
Reading is much easier with e-ink.

Finished Dragon Tattoo (and saw the movie right after :love:

) Pretty worthy of the hype it gets.
Surprisingly dark/disturbing for how popular it is (probably why the movie isn't doing so hot...nobody wants to see a movie about rape/murder/abuse on christmas)
Nothing truly remarkable but a real page turner and an interesting critique of Swedish society.

Also got through The Hunger Games and Catching Fire...about 80 pages into Mockingjay. I really enjoy this series, reminds me of Asimov for some reason (no robots here though...)
Very plot driven, perhaps somewhat easy to read (she's not overly verbose), but never insultingly simple like in Twilight/DaVinci

Plus Jennifer Lawrence is playing Katniss in the movie :drool:

Achtane · Post by **Achtane** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:25 pm

You can put comics and manga on the Kindle too if you download Mangle, it's free and I'm too lazy to link to it.
Anyway it sizes the images to fit whatever Kindle you have.
It's neato if your screen/the type is big enough.

I've never read 1984, so I downloaded it last night.

Gunner Recall · Post by **Gunner Recall** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:31 pm

Oh also reading:

We're all doomed.

morange · Post by **morange** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:53 pm

Achtane wrote: I've never read 1984, so I downloaded it last night.

There are live feed security cameras all over the store I work in, and there are a few hidden spots where we hang out. I think about that book almost every day while I'm hiding there.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:22 pm

I'm not a fan of ebooks for my own reading.

They make an incredible amount of sense for textbooks (especially since textbooks aren't really an open market thing, so universities can still charge obscene amounts for 'em) though.

McSpunckle · Post by **McSpunckle** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:33 am

So, I was going through this thread, as I was just getting into reading and wanted to pick a book.

Someone mentioned "Stranger in a Strange Land", right? I look it up, apparently it's amazing.

This book is terrible, and someone owes me $8.

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