Books motherfuckers, do you read them?

[Surf314]

Ok post what your reading and if you like it and who else would probably like it.

Right now I just started Vicious Cycle by Mike Carey.  Mike Carey wrote one of my favorite comic book series of all time called Lucifer, which you shouldn't let the name scare you off.  It's really not that blasphemous, unless you are a super strict interpreter of the bible and is mostly just a modern retelling of religious dogma from many different religions but especially christian (obviously) and greek and roman stuff.  But anyways this series (2nd of two so far) is an intense detective noir story but set in a london plagued by ghosts and demons.  It's actually really good if you like Noir and detectives and ghosts and demons.

[ZargonX]

I actually just started re-reading Ringworld.  Larry Niven is one of my favorite authors, until he turned into a dirty, dirty old man...

[xlilkrissyx]

not really. Sometimes I will pick up a book here and there but not often. I guess I really just don't have the patience. The last book I read was a year ago called "Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts. I think there is a movie with Natalie Portman.

[Tragic Hero]

Just read "In the Woods" by Tara French I believe.  Book before that I read was the Hellenica by Xenophon, The Idiot by Dostoevsky before that, and I believe Ivanhoe before that.  I usually stick with the classics. 

[El_Fajitas]

Ah, a fellow who knows who Dostoyevsky is!  +1 ol' chap.

Last book I read was The Brothers Karamazov, in about a day. 
It's tough to sell your car in a outdoor car-selling parking lot... :-\

I haven't read The Idiot, but my library card has like, 30 dollars overdue charges so I'm techni-banned from there unless I cough up the dough.

In comics, I'm mainly keeping up with Lone Wolf and Cub and Ex Machina.  Fun  ;D

[KorJax]

I haven't read on my own in two years, but I just started reading again (about time )

Currently reading the Bartimaus Trilogy.  Technically it's a "Children Novel" I suppose, but it's very dark in message and has a pretty involved writing style.  I love the writing style.  Each chapter has a specific character focus, and the style of writing is slightly different for each character, as the perspective of the story is influenced depending on what character is the focus of the chapter.  Most of the characters are the standard 3rd person omniscient style of writing (with variations on their perspective), but Bartimaus's chapters are all done in 2nd and 1st person, and a pretty wittily written.

Anyways, it's a good book/series if you are a fan of fantasy.  Read them



Currently half-way through book 2.  It's pretty intense, one of those suspense-filled stories.  Hell, the entire 2nd half of the first book was the climax.  I've never seen a book's climax last for 10 straight chapters  :-X

*steps off the book nerd podium

[Mission Difficult]

I was really into the Captain Horatio Hornblower series and lately I've taken to rereading John Dies at the End.

[Tragic Hero]

Ah, a fellow who knows who Dostoyevsky is!  +1 ol' chap.

Last book I read was The Brothers Karamazov, in about a day. 
It's tough to sell your car in a outdoor car-selling parking lot... :-\

I haven't read The Idiot, but my library card has like, 30 dollars overdue charges so I'm techni-banned from there unless I cough up the dough.

In comics, I'm mainly keeping up with Lone Wolf and Cub and Ex Machina.  Fun   ;D

Dostoevsky is one of my favorite authors/philosophers.  Notes from Underground is a must read, I love his thoughts on humanity is (and how accurate it at some points).  But yeah go get "The Idiot".  It is quite a tragic tale.

[Vongore]

"100 años de Soledad" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for like fifth time. That book is awesome, i remember hearing that it was on english by the name "One Hundrer Years Of Solitude", you should give it a try, really

Here's the Wiki Page

[El_Fajitas]

"100 años de Soledad" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for like fifth time. That book is awesome, i remember hearing that it was on english by the name "One Hundrer Years Of Solitude", you should give it a try, really

Vongore, you better have read that thing in Spanish you sweet bastard you!  It's best that way.  ;D
So yes, thoroughly recommended.

I was really into the Captain Horatio Hornblower series and lately I've taken to rereading John Dies at the End.

I remember when I read John Dies at the End.  It was 11pm in the computer commons... I was wide awake after 2 en-o-gee drinks... Finished my programming assignment.... Read it until I finished at 5 am.  It was fun.

[dapngwnman]

"100 años de Soledad" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for like fifth time. That book is awesome, i remember hearing that it was on english by the name "One Hundrer Years Of Solitude", you should give it a try, really

Here's the Wiki Page

GOD DAMN THAT BOOK. I never ever ever ever EVER want to see it again.

After the like 20 page paper about the nature of time within the book, and then having to read it again in spanish class, I want to rip my eyes outta my skull. I HAVE TWO COPIES OF IT AND I DONT EVEN LIIIKE IT.

On the topic of books, um. Shit, I don't read books anymore.

[Vongore]

Lo lei en español hace años ya, no sabia que habia sido traducido debido a su idioma tan pesado

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"100 años de Soledad" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for like fifth time. That book is awesome, i remember hearing that it was on english by the name "One Hundrer Years Of Solitude", you should give it a try, really

Here's the Wiki Page

GOD DAMN THAT BOOK. I never ever ever ever EVER want to see it again.

After the like 20 page paper about the nature of time within the book, and then having to read it again in spanish class, I want to rip my eyes outta my skull. I HAVE TWO COPIES OF IT AND I DONT EVEN LIIIKE IT.

On the topic of books, um. Shit, I don't read books anymore.
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STFU :3, the book is awesome, i read it like once a year, always trying to memorize the whole family tree

[Greatbacon]

Nothing really kills the urge to read recreational like AP English, but since i've been on summer break for three months, I did get around to reading a few books. 

Freakanomics - Interesting read into how stuff affects other stuff in the world.
Lamb - A fairly humorous look at Jesus and the 30 year gap between his birth and crucifixion, also a good read.
Cryptonomicon - This is an odd book to describe.  It has like 3 or 4 major narrative lines taking place in WWII and the modern day and concerns itself with the nature of cyrptology in the past and present.  It's Xbox huge though (1130 pages in paperback.)
The Door Into Summer - A Heinlein books that deals with time travel in a very interesting way.
Steampunk - An bunch of short stories about, what else, steampunk.  Like most anthologies it has some really good stories, some really weird stories, and some really boring stories.  My personal favorite was "72 letters" a story about golems and their workings in society and vise versa.

Right now I'm trying to finish Pattern Recognition before school starts.  It's okay, but not really as cyberpunk as i was looking for.

[cbre88x]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOcMFeWUsuM

[Luca Shoal]

I've been reading Discworld books like...all year. Right now I'm reading The Thief of Time, since I misplaced Maskerade after I finished Soul Music & Men At Arms.

But yeah, I <3 Pratchett.

[Ianki]

not a lot of fans of literature?

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/14220

[Vongore]

If you like Comics, read "Maus", it's one of the best Comics i've ever read

[Luca Shoal]

If you like Comics, read "Maus", it's one of the best Comics i've ever read

I need to read everything after the first book, which I borrowed from the library ages ago.

Speaking of comic books, "The Killing Joke" is a good read. I need to read Dark Knight and Red Son for that matter.

[Tragic Hero]

not a lot of fans of literature?

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/14220

Just because I didn't read "That" im not a fan of literature?  That doesn't sound right at all.

[Ianki]

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not a lot of fans of literature?

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/14220

Just because I didn't read "That" im not a fan of literature?  That doesn't sound right at all.
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No, didn't say that :-(

Also, that's just my goodreads page so i can be lazy and not list anything i have read recently.