Books motherfuckers, do you read them?

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

Gonna pick this up:

[fyre]

Read a few of Thoreau's essays for a paper I'm writing for school. Currently reading some of Lysander Spooner's stuff for the same paper.

[Vlambo]

Currently I am in the Middle of Huck Finn, Watchmen, and V for Vendetta. I also got Farhenheit 451 and This Perfect day today, so those will be after

[KarthXLR]

Read Anthem by Ayn Rand recently. It takes a little bit to get into, but it's a great book. It's an old book also.

[sarcasticsteve]

I've been devouring books since I first learned how to read.  Most recently these have been my favorites:

The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore (Dark elves, dwarfs and the like)
Magician's Guild Trilogy by Trudi Canavan (Magic, rebellion, invasion)
Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini (Magic, lone hero, rebellion, feels like Star Wars but with dragons)
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell (Arthurian legends, in a more realistic fashion)
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (Sex, drugs, & blood)
A Song of Ice & Fire Series by George RR Martin (Magic, dragons, many character viewpoints) *My all time favorite series

-Steve

[Dave]

Drizzt is the only ranger that isnt a bitch

[Surf314]

George RR Martin is a whiny little bitch.  I mean he is an amazing writer, but put out the next damn book already!  Oh it's too hard I've got too many characters.  I'm busy.  Hollywood is calling.  I'll finish it soon I swear.

Shut up and write!
[me=Surf314]is jonesing for the next book really bad.[/me]

[sarcasticsteve]

Agreed, I got him shortly after he put out A Dance With Dragons at the insistence of a favorite webcomic author, and the years have just dragged on by as I await that next book...

[Surf314]

It wouldn't be so bad if his books weren't so incredibly intense all the time.  And the last book had a colossal cliff hanger.  The books just weren't meant to be read over a long period of time.  Also still hoping the HBO series works out.

[sarcasticsteve]

The show will work out wonderfully as long as Martin has a firm hand in it himself, not letting others interpret his work too heavily.

[shoopfox]

Hasn't Dance With Dragons been delayed over and over again for more than a year now? He's gonna have a heart attack and die before that book comes out

[Surf314]

Hasn't Dance With Dragons been delayed over and over again for more than a year now? He's gonna have a heart attack and die before that book comes out

Pretty much.  It grows, it shrinks, it gets broken up, it gets put back together.

[KarthXLR]

Finished both V for Vendetta and The Dark Knight returns recently incredible books on their own and both carve a beautiful story.


Only problem: I think I liked the V for Vendetta movie better than the book. (mainly for the ending though)

also too lazy to bump comic thread. :3

[fyre]

Now that school is out, I finally had the time to finish Anathem. It was pretty damn awesome. I'm gonna have to read through it again in a year or so and take more time to actually think through all of the stuff in it. I definitely recommend it though. I wish our world had something akin to the concents.

Also I started The Wapshot Chronicle this morning. I'll let you guys know how that turns out.

[rumsfald]

Ok, this post ought to earn me a smite from Budr for admitting that, for the dozen or so times I have seen Blade Runner, I have never read this book.



I just started reading it today on the train, I'm only like 4 chapters in, but reading it after obsessing over the movie, reading the book totally mindblowing. To have all this additional information/introspection of the various characters....well, all I can say is I am one happy puppy.

[at0m]

Ok, this post ought to earn me a smite from Budr for admitting that, for the dozen or so times I have seen Blade Runner, I have never read this book.



I just started reading it today on the train, I'm only like 4 chapters in, but reading it after obsessing over the movie, reading the book totally mindblowing. To have all this additional information/introspection of the various characters....well, all I can say is I am one happy puppy.

Yeah, its a good book. The movie is entertaining, but is only _loosely_ based on the book IMO. If you can get over the 'omg the movie isn't anything like the book'/'book isn't anything like the movie' drama, they're both entertaining in their own right. I mean, the movie didn't even _touch_ Mercerism, which is such a huge theme throughout the book.

I've also enjoyed reading some of PKD's short stories; there are several collections of them and I have yet to find one that wasn't worth spending money on.

[rumsfald]

Yes, reading about Mercerism is making me remember and rethink so many scenes from the movie, and totally blowing my mind. Every 10 pages I feel like I am having a Keyser Soze moment, where everything I thought I knew about the movie is now up for grabs, and it's awesome. The snake, the scales, the eyeball, the turtle question on the voight-kampff, everything.

[HeK]

Rummy, your choice of reading material has influenced me to go out and purchase a Bluray copy of the collected Blade Runner to replace my lost copy of the Blade Runner DVD which I purchased to replace my lost copy of the Blade Runner VHS.

I'll add the book to my reading list, but it is so piled up with Bruce Sterling and William Gibson.

[rumsfald]

Hah. I have my first Gibson novel, Neuromancer, in my to-do stack, along with Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vector Prime (on advice of Kor).

[HeK]

Hah. I have my first Gibson novel, Neuromancer, in my to-do stack, along with Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vector Prime (on advice of Kor).

The Neuromancer universe is good, but that trilogy pales in comparison to Gibson's Bridge Trilogy.
If I ever have free time to myself again, I may possibly finish reading All Tomorrow's Parties. I also have Spook Country.