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Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:33 am
by McSpunckle
Gunner Recall wrote: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
I've started on The Hunger Games, and so far it's pretty good, actually! I'd been kinda "meh" about reading it just 'cause it's got that same "young adult" label that Twilight has... that, and my mom told me it was good. Overall the story's been pretty solid, though.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:34 am
by RR Bigman
Just busted out my old Conan anthology...I need some some chauvinistic badassery after spending all day with my feminist friends.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:59 am
by phantasmagorovich
futuresailors wrote:nieh wrote:Howl and Other Poems.
Of your own choosing? Because that's almost as bad as Shakespeare.
Currently:
She never fails. It gets a little tiresome after two or three highsmiths in a row but once in a while it is an awesome read.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:15 pm
by The4455
I went to the library yesterday and asked for Aleister Crowley, the librian said that they had 8 books in the system, as in out of a web of 88 libraries there are 8 of his books.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:00 am
by snipelfritz
Simultaneously: My friends incomplete comic book script; T.S. Elliot Anthology.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:30 pm
by Achtane
Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
and also The Velocipede, written in 1869 and full of highly entertaining made-up words. A female cyclist is a "velocipedestrienne".
When the rumor first came across the water, a few years ago, of that wonderful and fascinating little two-wheeled machine, upon which one could so gracefully annihilate time and space, the author of this little book was seized with his first attack of Velocipede Fever.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:42 pm
by RR Bigman
Norwegian wood...after years of avoiding it I've finally picked it up. I always get wary of literary works that are translated because the authors voice can be lost to that of the translator's. So far so good...
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:08 pm
by devnulljp
Larry Krauss' A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Zero-point energy bitches!
I want to hit Deepak Chopra with this book. Repeatedly.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:10 pm
by Gunner Recall
About halfway done with:
I think if everyone on ILF read this we'd all be getting along
It's only 100 pages, go on, I'll wait here.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:30 pm
by futuresailors
RR Bigman wrote:Norwegian wood...after years of avoiding it I've finally picked it up. I always get wary of literary works that are translated because the authors voice can be lost to that of the translator's. So far so good...
A: Haruki Murakami is a god
B: Jay Ruben is smart as shit
C: If you don't like it, pick up something else from him anyways
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:48 pm
by Gunner Recall
McSpunckle wrote:I've started on The Hunger Games, and so far it's pretty good, actually! I'd been kinda "meh" about reading it just 'cause it's got that same "young adult" label that Twilight has... that, and my mom told me it was good. Overall the story's been pretty solid, though.
I finished the last one a while back...starts strong but then
The first two and most of the 3rd were great though, miles above that twilight nonsense.
I can't wait for the movie...Jennifer Lawrence is 21 so it's not creepy for being attracted to Katniss.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:39 pm
by DallasLemonade
Just finished Brave New World, next is Biophilia by E.O. Wilson because me cool as fuck biology teacher recommended it. And she's cool as fuck.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:52 pm
by McSpunckle
Gunner Recall wrote:McSpunckle wrote:I've started on The Hunger Games, and so far it's pretty good, actually! I'd been kinda "meh" about reading it just 'cause it's got that same "young adult" label that Twilight has... that, and my mom told me it was good. Overall the story's been pretty solid, though.
I finished the last one a while back...starts strong but then
The first two and most of the 3rd were great though, miles above that twilight nonsense.
I can't wait for the movie...Jennifer Lawrence is 21 so it's not creepy for being attracted to Katniss.
Good good. I just finished the first book today. I think I'm gonna read Syrup, then continue the series.
Having seen the trailer for the movie, is it bad that I kinda ignored the main premise of the book (their age) and allowed myself a boner at times?
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:56 pm
by bigchiefbc
About 350 pages into Game of Thrones right now. Goddamn is it a fucking good book. Jesus H Christ. I know it's blasphemy, but I might actually like this better than Tolkien.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:59 pm
by jfrey
bigchiefbc wrote:About 350 pages into Game of Thrones right now. Goddamn is it a fucking good book. Jesus H Christ. I know it's blasphemy, but I might actually like this better than Tolkien.
Welcome to a new world. A better world.