The Books thread.

Corpse · Post by **Corpse** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:01 pm

Mr. Teatime wrote:Moved to the appropriate forum... and on the topic of books, the latest Terry Pratchett one (Going Postal) is pretty good so far.

Cool, I read most of the Discworld series up to "The Last Continent" but I think "Hogfather" has to be my favourite. I can see its one of your favourites too judging from your handle. Anyone read "Good Omens" by Pratchett and Neil Gaiman?

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:09 pm

Good Omens was terrific, as is anything else by Gaiman. And I thought that Last Continent was pretty weak for Pratchett. It seemed to just be a long joke about Australia rather than a good novel.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:34 pm

I just finished Palahniuk's Survivor. It's a great satire/commentary on religion and it's relationship to modern media. Palahniuk's Lullaby and Choke (Great fucking books by the way) were much better compared to Survivor -- It didn't move like Chuck's other books and the end of Survivor lacked the omph he's famous for.

Now I'm going to read the Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy series. I've heard fan-fucking-tastic things about the epic but I've never took the time to read it.

Hopefully all the references in Dongo Weener and in the Fallouts will finally make sense.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:44 pm

The weakest Discworld novel I think was Monstrous Regiment, which I never even finished. It seemed to be a bad attempt by Pratchett at feminism.

Going Postal, however, is turning out to be excellent, though like Pratchett's other recent novels, is based around Ank-Morpork (or however it's spelt).

Good Omens is one of my favourite books. Completely brilliant.

As for serious books, I really like EM Forster's Passage to India, though I've only really read it once. Lots of philosophies about the nature of the universe and stuff. Also Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy is a powerful read. Very anti-religion and anti-establishment, which is a brave thing to do considering the time and place it was written (around 1900 I think, in England). And the circumstances around the book concering Hardy are interesting, if depressing. I think it was the book that persuaded him to stop writing novels, and it was around the time his wife died, or maybe I'm getting things mixed up. I know he refused to speak to his wife on her death bed in the upstairs room, she died, and he was filled with remorse and gave up writing novels for the rest of his life and only wrote poetry.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:47 pm

Is it just me or is Neuromancer a fucking hard book to follow?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:09 pm

have any of you bum-faces read snow crash FFS

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:19 pm

r they stuk in a anvalance?

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:51 pm

Ernesto wrote:Is it just me or is Neuromancer a fucking hard book to follow?

Its an odd book to follow. But I think its only hard to follow when you start. Its been a while since I have read it.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:04 am

Ernesto wrote:r they stuk in a anvalance?

yea lol btw has your skin cancer eaten at your organs yet bye

It's about Hiro Protagonist whose a hacker, samurai swordsman and pizza-delivery driver. And this girl on roller-blades or a skate-board. I forgot. Anyway, it's good you gypsy fuck, so like...read it. OR else.

xbow · Post by **xbow** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:39 am

I recomend Armor by John Steakley its a very good read. If you don't get involved with the characters in this book your dead. Whats extra cool is that power armor is a critical component of the story. Much better than Starship Troopers and on an equal level with Hyperion.
Reviews

Insane-Lark · Post by **Insane-Lark** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:18 am

Snow Crash is worh a read indeed. Quite fun.

If you'd like to try something a bit different (I'd only reccommend the ones translated by Brinbaum) I'd suggest you might want to give Haruki Murakami's books a shot. Hard Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World & Wild Sheep Chase were excellent & either would be a fine place to start.

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:47 pm

Ernesto wrote:Is it just me or is Neuromancer a fucking hard book to follow?

Someone here is a moron!

Anyways, i'm reading Dune right now.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:59 pm

I'm pretty sure he means that after a book as good as Neuromancer, it's hard to follow up with a suitable sequel.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 5:48 pm

I'm pretty sure he can't comprehend books properly.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 6:18 pm

I'm becoming the subject of a stickied thread? Wow, I must be important.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:14 pm

xbow wrote:I recomend Armor by John Steakley its a very good read. If you don't get involved with the characters in this book your dead. Whats extra cool is that power armor is a critical component of the story. Much better than Starship Troopers and on an equal level with Hyperion.
Reviews

Yeah, Armor is pretty fucking good.
I think that the guy is writing a sequel to it atm, Armor 2, there's a chapter of it on some fan-site out there, on the interberrywebnet.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:11 pm

xbow wrote:I recomend Armor by John Steakley its a very good read. If you don't get involved with the characters in this book your dead. Whats extra cool is that power armor is a critical component of the story. Much better than Starship Troopers and on an equal level with Hyperion.
Reviews

The well conversation fucks with your head. I still remember it.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm

I just interrupted my Dune re-reading marathon for Brave New World, because my girlfriend had a copy and it's something I've always wanted to read. I always thought it was supposed to be pretty 1984, but it was on the whole much cheerier. I liked it, and it was really surprisingly ahead of it's time.

As I have mentioned before, probably in this same thread, I read all those idiotic Dune prequels and now I'm going back to re-read all the original Frank Herbert books. On Children of Dune right now, I'm actually amazed at just how little I remember from the last time I read them. Damned good stuff, anyway.

Anyone ever read any other Frank Herbert books? Obviously they aren't going to be Dune quality, but snap, he seems to be a decent author?

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:44 am

SuperH wrote:I just interrupted my Dune re-reading marathon for Brave New World, because my girlfriend had a copy and it's something I've always wanted to read. I always thought it was supposed to be pretty 1984, but it was on the whole much cheerier. I liked it, and it was really surprisingly ahead of it's time.

As I have mentioned before, probably in this same thread, I read all those idiotic Dune prequels and now I'm going back to re-read all the original Frank Herbert books. On Children of Dune right now, I'm actually amazed at just how little I remember from the last time I read them. Damned good stuff, anyway.

Anyone ever read any other Frank Herbert books? Obviously they aren't going to be Dune quality, but snap, he seems to be a decent author?

I'd hope they were better than dune quality. Dune isn't good enough for my dog to shit on.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:35 am

Dune: the book for all your fantasy needs FOR ME TO POOP ON!