The Books thread.

madnath619 · Post by **madnath619** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:39 pm

djDannyP wrote:

That's what I'm reading, pussies. Step up or get the fuck out.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fairie-Fetish-C ... 081&sr=8-1
and thats what I read! :dinosaur:

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:55 pm

Recently I've finished the Road and Relic.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:24 pm

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:I'm like 20 pages in Armor and the books seems a bit intense almost too much and there are a lot of pages. I haven't read a book in years but I promised myself like a year or two ago I would read something.

Spectacular book, Poops, I promise you won't leave disappointed.

djDannyP wrote:

That's what I'm reading, pussies. Step up or get the fuck out.

You could at least bother to have some input about the book, not just ROFL J-BOOX LOL. So what is your take on the light novelization of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

fallout ranger wrote:Recently I've finished the Road and Relic.

And your thoughts on them are? Personally I thought The Road was pretty good, but not nearly what it's made out to be, but for contemporary PA it's a pretty solid novel. Writing style kind of rubbed me the wrong way starting out but I adapted by the time I finished. I've never read Relic.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:09 am

jetbaby wrote: And your thoughts on them are? Personally I thought The Road was pretty good, but not nearly what it's made out to be, but for contemporary PA it's a pretty solid novel. Writing style kind of rubbed me the wrong way starting out but I adapted by the time I finished. I've never read Relic.

Such a fuckin tearjerker lol. But great all the way through, the movie did it justice i think.

I found relic for 50 cents at a junk store. Damn good read.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:10 pm

I'm crawling through Pirsig's Lila; enjoying less than the Maintenance.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:13 pm

Reading a lot of William Gibson (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero) this summer, as well as Frank Herbert's non-Dune stuff - as opposed to those horrendous McDune sequels.

Read Joe Namath biography - good stuff, legendary pussy hound, drunk stoner, low life, philandering pigskin slanger and pimp wannabe. The guy's life is an endless string of high class pussy, booze/drugs and NFL glory. Guy knew how to live.

In a moment of weakness I picked up Shatner's Tekwar for .50 cents. I read the 1st 3 pages and it's very reminiscent of corny 80s TV Sci-Fi a la Buck Rodgers :beedee beedee beedee: Evidently, this is a well researched and prophetic view of the future, and we know it's the future because everything has sky or air in front of it as the books opens at a skyport with airtaxis, sky trucks, air trolleys and skybuses. Because it's the future and everything is exactly like it is now except for shiny silver robots walking around and everything flies!

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:42 pm

Re-re-reading Yoshikawa's Musashi. Awesome stuff.

Post by **Manoil** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:53 am

Old Wise Shitashi?

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:10 am

Been reading S. M. Stirling lately. Reading his Change series which is basically having all electronics and chemistry being "switched off" and the world being turned into basically medieval times except people having an education.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 11:03 pm

jetbaby wrote:
djDannyP wrote:That's what I'm reading, pussies. Step up or get the fuck out.
You could at least bother to have some input about the book, not just ROFL J-BOOX LOL. So what is your take on the light novelization of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Still waiting, idiot.

Poops, I need an update on Armor.

Stainless, may have to look into this Change. Sounds interesting.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:12 am

jared diamond - collapse. it's good, it's good

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:23 pm

jetbaby wrote:
jetbaby wrote:
djDannyP wrote:That's what I'm reading, pussies. Step up or get the fuck out.
You could at least bother to have some input about the book, not just ROFL J-BOOX LOL. So what is your take on the light novelization of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?
Still waiting, idiot.

Poops, I need an update on Armor.

Stainless, may have to look into this Change. Sounds interesting.

I'm about half way through and was a bit disappointed that it jumped to a new character. I'm still enjoying it though but not as much unless it turns around. I plan to finish it either way.

Stalagmite · Post by **Stalagmite** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:36 pm

Reading? Enlighten me.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:45 pm

Reading Huck Finn again.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:53 am

i am tstruggling with reading at the moment so im reading

a book of science fiction short storise from the seventies ROCK AND ROCK

a quantum physcis book uhhhh i dotn underatand maths wtf is this book lol

a book by the author bualiardd called simularaca and simulatee its about a big map or some shit

anyway i like the sci fi book best

Yonmanc · Post by **Yonmanc** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:02 am

Read a pamphlet in the doctors office. Did you know herpes never really goes away omfg

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:06 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:I'm about half way through and was a bit disappointed that it jumped to a new character. I'm still enjoying it though but not as much unless it turns around. I plan to finish it either way.

I was as well. I wasn't too big a fan of the new guy until a ways in and then things happen and I loved the shit out of his story.

Psychoul · Post by **Psychoul** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:04 am

Reading an international Edition copy of my book for class. I got it for 10 dollars on a book store online... usually its around 90 dollars. I'm really not sure why its so much cheaper, other than it being made in a sweat shop, but i really prefer this paperback cover the hard cover, for portability and weight.
Anyways.. appearantly international editions are... illegal in the U.S. oh well......

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:17 pm

International Editions are pretty popular at our school because of how cheap they are. I think it's mainly because in the US the textbooks are much more inflated in price and they are able to get away with it because all the textbooks are high priced but overseas I guess they don't roll like that as they probably won't use the book or something so they sell it at a lower price. I don't think it's illegal to use international edition books in the US it's just frowned upon by the textbook publishers I don't know.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:19 am

I read Level 7 in jail, pretty great, although a bit depressing.