Rolling "Books Recently Read" Thread - Page 9

D. · 09-19-2008, 06:59 PM

Book-related:

I went back to Urban Outfitters and I guess, besides Great Gatsby and Catcher In the Rye, the other book shirts are on their way out.

So I was able to get a Catch-22 shirt for $10!!!!

Shapan · 09-19-2008, 07:13 PM

you're such a dork D

its a good thing

D. · 09-20-2008, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Shapan

you're such a dork D

its a good thing

I just like the fact that I'm really enjoying my renwed interest in reading and the fact that I'm in the know about things now.

Just tonight I was talking with some people I just met about A Farewell To Arms.

threetwooneZERO · 09-20-2008, 01:45 AM

I want to read this when I'm finished school. Mark Twain: The Mysterious Stranger

Currently reading: Plato: The Last Days of Socrates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger

D. · 09-20-2008, 02:54 AM

Mark twain was hilarious. I'm co-currently reading a book of all his short stories and there's some good stuff in it.

avsfan7733 · 09-20-2008, 03:18 AM

I'm going out to buy Dune tomorrow, I have to read it for my Science Fiction Literature course...

Anyone read it?

redbull · 09-20-2008, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by avsfan7733

I'm going out to buy Dune tomorrow, I have to read it for my Science Fiction Literature course...

Anyone read it?

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

gotta warn you the second and third ones are better though, first one is pretty slow at times

D. · 09-20-2008, 04:03 AM

I have a friend who is obsessed with Dune.

TuralyonW3 · 09-20-2008, 04:43 AM

Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus

D. · 09-23-2008, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by D.

After those, the next novel I'm going to read Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

So, has anyone read this? If so, does it get better? I'm 130 pages in and it seems kinda pointless right now. Not boring necessarily, but just makes me wonder if anything is going to happen.

mistle · 09-24-2008, 01:03 AM

i wish i would read more books

i dreamed i was bossed around by old mutant ladies. then a guy was possessed by satan (there was blood and fire and pentagrams and everything) and tried to kill me, but i pointed my finger like a gun at his head and went boom and it blew off like a real shot. then i was standing by the water next to a girl and we started swaying so we had to hold hands not to fall

Mo · 09-27-2008, 04:00 PM

Philp K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly

I'd never read this before, and I fell asleep while watching the movie (twice). So I was absolutely surprised to find out that this was actually really, really good. A bit trippy, of course, but that was to be expected.
A-

Douglas Adams - The (Ultimate) Hitchhiker's Guide

I've read this about twelve times by now, but never in English - and last week they finally released the complete hardcover version in Austria again. It was worth it for the sixth story ("Young Zaphod Plays It Safe") alone.
A+

severin · 09-27-2008, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by antipop

It was worth it for the sixth story ("Young Zaphod Plays It Safe") alone.
A+

which is also in "the salmon of doubt" which i could've lent you years ago (same with the guide in english, btw

) and which i'm actually currently reading.

but the guide is a book everyone should own anyway

Mo · 09-27-2008, 04:13 PM

Yeah, but I read that book like twice a year, so I wanted to own it myself. Also, I recently asked you about it, and you said you're reading it yourself (AFAIR).
Do you by any chance own any book of the Dirk Gently series?

D. · 09-30-2008, 10:11 PM

I finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and I found it boring and a chore to get through. Not at all my cup of tea.

Novels
01. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
02. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
03. The Stranger by Albert Camus
04. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
05. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
06. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
07. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
08. 1984 by George Orwell
09. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
11. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
12. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Novellas
01. Anthem by Ayn Rand
02. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
03. "The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories by Stephen Crane
04. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
05. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
06. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
07. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Next up is Cannery Row by Steinbeck and The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand. Can't decide which to read first, though.

Travis Meeks · 09-30-2008, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D.

So, has anyone read this? If so, does it get better? I'm 130 pages in and it seems kinda pointless right now. Not boring necessarily, but just makes me wonder if anything is going to happen.

I think I got that far and called it quits

D. · 04:51 AM

i loooooooooooved Cannery Row.

When i finished it last night at worki was going to start on Ayn Rand's Romantic Manifesto but, i gotta tell ya, I loved Anthem ... I really just wasn't in the mood for her at 5:30am.

so i picked out The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ... no i don't remember ever reading it.

D. · 10-07-2008, 09:14 PM

tom sawyer was gangster. next is huckleberry finn.

barden · 10-07-2008, 09:16 PM

D. it makes me happy that you take such positive potential away from netphoria, Literature being the latest.

mistle · 10-08-2008, 02:59 AM

david, teach me how to read

not ayn rand though. she's a cunt

D. · 10-08-2008, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mistle

david, teach me how to read

not ayn rand though. she's a cunt

lol, well i have a job where i sit for 8 hours a night; it's pretty easy.

i'd say maybe start with novellas and short stories.

and yeah, from what little bio of AR i have read, she does kinda seem like a pretty shitty person but I'm planning on conquering Atlas Shrugged next year because I kept seeing it sitting in the bookstore calling me out and daring me to tackle it.

mistle · 10-08-2008, 03:44 AM

oh right. i forgot you're a nightwatch. i like reading i just can only do it when there's nothing else. it'll be nice to have read ayn rand so you can call her a cunt with some weight behind it

D. · 10-08-2008, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mistle

oh right. i forgot you're a nightwatch.

awesome.

i'm totally gonna change my title to nightwatch and use nightwatch every time i talk about my job.

D. · 10-12-2008, 05:37 PM

huck finn was good, but not as good as tom sawyer. the liberal use of the n word made me kinda uncomfortable, but had no bearing on my opinion of it.

Next I will be reading A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickens

28if · 10-13-2008, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by D.

and yeah, from what little bio of AR i have read, she does kinda seem like a pretty shitty person but I'm planning on conquering Atlas Shrugged next year because I kept seeing it sitting in the bookstore calling me out and daring me to tackle it.

You should read The Fountainhead. It presents some really interesting ideas and changed the way I see things a little bit. Plus it's just a really good book. Ayn Rand was a crazy bitch though. I heard this weekend her real name isn't Ayn, she changed it because it sounds kind of like "Eins" as in the German word for "one" since she's all into the power of the individual and whatever.

Also Huck Finn >>>> Tom Sawyer and Dickens is really boring. IMO.

D. · 10-13-2008, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 28if

Dickens is really boring. IMO.

A Tale of Two Cities is starting out awfully dry

28if · 10-13-2008, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D.

A Tale of Two Cities is starting out awfully dry

Yeah I could never get into Dickens. Blah.

waltermcphilp · 10-13-2008, 01:25 PM

D. · 02:30 PM

I left A Tale of Two Shitties over at my parents' during my weekly visit, and I just noticed it before work today.

So, I grabbed No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July, the same lady that did the film You Me and Everyone We Know. I knew I could finish it in one sitting until I get my book back.

Yeah, it wasn't that great. Only one story, "Mon Plaisir", stood out and it's the third to last story. Bah. Waste of time.

EDIT: Still don't have my regular book, so I was able to quickly devour another one, Fake Liar Cheat by Tod Goldberg. It's basically one big rip-off of Chuck Palahniuk. In fact, I can't help but think it's the last 3rd of some lost CP novel.

redbull · 10-23-2008, 02:09 AM

Haruki Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - B-

09-27-2008, 04:00 PM	#252
Mo Immortal Posts: 20,988	So last week I finally got and read these two beauties: Philp K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly I'd never read this before, and I fell asleep while watching the movie (twice). So I was absolutely surprised to find out that this was actually really, really good. A bit trippy, of course, but that was to be expected. A- Douglas Adams - The (Ultimate) Hitchhiker's Guide I've read this about twelve times by now, but never in English - and last week they finally released the complete hardcover version in Austria again. It was worth it for the sixth story ("Young Zaphod Plays It Safe") alone. A+

10-03-2008, 11:04 PM	#257
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	i loooooooooooved Cannery Row. When i finished it last night at worki was going to start on Ayn Rand's Romantic Manifesto but, i gotta tell ya, I loved Anthem ... I really just wasn't in the mood for her at 5:30am. so i picked out The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ... no i don't remember ever reading it. Last edited by D. : 10-07-2008 at 04:51 AM.

10-21-2008, 10:52 PM	#269
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	I left A Tale of Two Shitties over at my parents' during my weekly visit, and I just noticed it before work today. So, I grabbed No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July, the same lady that did the film You Me and Everyone We Know. I knew I could finish it in one sitting until I get my book back. Yeah, it wasn't that great. Only one story, "Mon Plaisir", stood out and it's the third to last story. Bah. Waste of time. EDIT: Still don't have my regular book, so I was able to quickly devour another one, Fake Liar Cheat by Tod Goldberg. It's basically one big rip-off of Chuck Palahniuk. In fact, I can't help but think it's the last 3rd of some lost CP novel. Last edited by D. : 10-22-2008 at 02:30 PM.

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09-19-2008, 06:59 PM	#241
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	Book-related: I went back to Urban Outfitters and I guess, besides Great Gatsby and Catcher In the Rye, the other book shirts are on their way out. So I was able to get a Catch-22 shirt for $10!!!!

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Shapan Socialphobic Location: intellectual hobo Posts: 11,798	you're such a dork D its a good thing

09-20-2008, 01:45 AM	#244
threetwooneZERO Apocalyptic Poster Posts: 3,896	I want to read this when I'm finished school. Mark Twain: The Mysterious Stranger Currently reading: Plato: The Last Days of Socrates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger

09-20-2008, 02:54 AM	#245
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	Mark twain was hilarious. I'm co-currently reading a book of all his short stories and there's some good stuff in it.

09-20-2008, 03:18 AM	#246
avsfan7733 Apocalyptic Poster Location: neither here nor there Posts: 1,217	I'm going out to buy Dune tomorrow, I have to read it for my Science Fiction Literature course... Anyone read it?

09-20-2008, 04:03 AM	#248
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	I have a friend who is obsessed with Dune.

09-20-2008, 04:43 AM	#249
TuralyonW3 Immortal Posts: 25,567	Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus

09-24-2008, 01:03 AM	#251
mistle bonnie stars Location: saxophone Posts: 12,077	i wish i would read more books i dreamed i was bossed around by old mutant ladies. then a guy was possessed by satan (there was blood and fire and pentagrams and everything) and tried to kill me, but i pointed my finger like a gun at his head and went boom and it blew off like a real shot. then i was standing by the water next to a girl and we started swaying so we had to hold hands not to fall

09-27-2008, 04:13 PM	#254
Mo Immortal Posts: 20,988	Yeah, but I read that book like twice a year, so I wanted to own it myself. Also, I recently asked you about it, and you said you're reading it yourself (AFAIR). Do you by any chance own any book of the Dirk Gently series?

09-30-2008, 10:11 PM	#255
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	I finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and I found it boring and a chore to get through. Not at all my cup of tea. Novels 01. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 02. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 03. The Stranger by Albert Camus 04. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 05. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 06. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 07. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 08. 1984 by George Orwell 09. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 10. Animal Farm by George Orwell 11. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 12. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Novellas 01. Anthem by Ayn Rand 02. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson 03. "The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories by Stephen Crane 04. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway 05. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 06. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 07. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy Next up is Cannery Row by Steinbeck and The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand. Can't decide which to read first, though.

10-07-2008, 09:14 PM	#258
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	tom sawyer was gangster. next is huckleberry finn.

10-07-2008, 09:16 PM	#259
barden Braindead Location: The Ghetto Posts: 19,611	D. it makes me happy that you take such positive potential away from netphoria, Literature being the latest.

10-08-2008, 02:59 AM	#260
mistle bonnie stars Location: saxophone Posts: 12,077	david, teach me how to read not ayn rand though. she's a cunt

10-08-2008, 03:44 AM	#262
mistle bonnie stars Location: saxophone Posts: 12,077	oh right. i forgot you're a nightwatch. i like reading i just can only do it when there's nothing else. it'll be nice to have read ayn rand so you can call her a cunt with some weight behind it

10-12-2008, 05:37 PM	#264
D. Consume my pants. Location: Missouri Posts: 36,063	huck finn was good, but not as good as tom sawyer. the liberal use of the n word made me kinda uncomfortable, but had no bearing on my opinion of it. Next I will be reading A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickens

10-13-2008, 01:25 PM	#268
waltermcphilp Socialphobic Location: I DO C-C-C-COCAINE Posts: 11,142

10-23-2008, 02:09 AM	#270
redbull Immortal Location: like liutenant dan i'm rollin' Posts: 21,035	Haruki Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - B-