Will O' The Wisq Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Reading Journey Into Darkness ( the book about the wrestler Kane) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW01 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Reading Journey Into Darkness ( the book about the wrestler Kane) Very interesting! I read the books on Foley, Flair, Hogan and Rock. On the last three, it felt a bit like time wasted, to be honest...but Foley's books - especially Foley is Good - were brilliant, in my opinion. They seemed a lot more real than the others... I'm still reading Master & Commander when I get time free from reading course texts. It is true that it helps to have a good operational knowledge of an 18th/19th cent. sloop (which I don't have but there is a handy drawing at the front), but it is still a great read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverNight Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Dang, Master & Commander was VERY good, I'd recommend it to anybody who has the free time to read. Now I'm going to be working on Post Captain, Hornblower and the Hotspur, and Lives, Vol. II. Thanks for pointing me in M&C's directions, SW01! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpentine Cougar Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 I'm getting back into Wheel of Time, just started Book 6: Lords of Chaos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Getting back?.... You'd throw away your sanity willingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpentine Cougar Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 ^ Yeah, but I want to know how it all ends... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Wait, did they finaly end it when the author croacked? In that case here is what happens in each book untill the final book, read once for each book you haven't read, except the last one, then read the last one. WARNING: if you find the wheel of time to be a serie of unpredictable masterpieces, with fantastic plot twists, kindly dont see below, instead, see a psychiatrist. Magic guy: jugles three girls successfully, kills/defeats another bad magic guy at the end of the book. Wolf guy: is unsuccessfully jugling two girls, but manage to set things straight with the "right" one in the end while doing some minor heroic deed. Smart/looser guy: is jugling no girls, yet end up in deep ****t because of one/some, also fails at setting things straight with said girl(s), fails to get away from the mess that surounds magick guy, yet end up failing/creating his own personal mess. Whor, err, sexually liberated yet sterotypical girls who shoot lightning: Despite spending 90% of the book working to get/getting saved by/looking at/sleeping with/killing others who look at/sleep with the men they love, they end up saving the other men/doing something which will save the men in the next book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_man Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Finished Dark Tower 1 by Stephen King, now I'm reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. OH YEAH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I'm reading Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind now, book 3 in the Sword of Truth series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serpentine Cougar Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Wait' date=' did they finaly end it when the author croacked?[/quote'] No, they're getting this guy to write the last one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltiades Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Finished Kafka's "The Trial" a few weeks ago, and also finished "This Fleeting World" by David Christian last week (non-fiction), which gives an (compact) overview of Human history, not from a western viewpoint but from a "worldly" viewpoint. Started with "Digging up the Past" by John Collis, which is also non-fiction, and a good starting point to learn about excavations. I actually read them for my studies, but they're books, so they count, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Been reading If this is a man (IIRC, it's named Survival in Aushwitz in the US, which, IMO, was the worst title adaptation ever. Nothing is farther from what the author writes about on his book), by Primo Levi. An excellent read, which I should have started years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blix Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Was trying to get into the "Twilight" Novel, I picked it up when I heard about the movie. I never made it passed the preface...I think I'll go through and re-read some of my old High School writings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Was trying to get into the "Twilight" Novel, I picked it up when I heard about the movie. I never made it passed the preface...I think I'll go through and re-read some of my old High School writings. Beware those sparkly vampires. I'm still waiting for Amazon to deliver my copy of Marlborough: His Life and Times, by Winston Churchill, so for now i'm re-reading The Nizam's Daughters by Alan Mallinson. It's about an aide to the Duke of Wellington going to India to handle some private business, which involves him being drawn into a war between two states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 I'm reading the graphic novel Watchmen, which is very good so far, as well as Ulysses by James Joyce. I might also be reading some of Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess (given to me by a friend) while trying to comprehend the latter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Been reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami on Bee Hoon's recommendation and I'm completely engrossed. I find the writing style the best I've read in a long while and the novel itself is a masterpiece. Murakami's easily in my top 10 now. >.> I didn't kno u wuz liek all postmodern bee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 I'm reading the graphic novel Watchmen, which is very good so far, as well as Ulysses by James Joyce. I might also be reading some of Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess (given to me by a friend) while trying to comprehend the latter... You're not meant to comprehend it. Simply roll over and drown, your screams muffled by the pages that form a fold on your lip. Joyce falls apart at the seams... rather like this dog. Modernism is like swimming in a beautiful lake and then touching the sea-bed with the tip of your toe and finding yourself reciting Geoffrey Chaucer in a field, standing atop a hovering cow. Modernists (a.k.a. people who are too clever for their own good) like to push the boundary of what's coherent and acceptable: why post-modernism is simply a failed off-shoot of a great literary movement. Excuse me while I go and stick something sharp into Tracy Emin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantzen Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read around the first 50 pages or something, and it seems interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 I've just started the epic fragment Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe; right now, the number of classical references is making my head spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 I'm continuing Kurt Vonnegut, currently reading Breakfast of Champions. To be honest, I don't find it as good as his two A+ works, Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, but it's still a read. Also resuming the Old Testament, and reading the Book of Judges. Genocide is always fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
True_Avery Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Working on Alice in Wonderland right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Working on Alice in Wonderland right now.Be sure to read Through the Looking Glass as well-- I can't decide which is better! TTLG has some excellent chapters but so does Alice! ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Buttercrust Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Currently I am reading Flyte, book two in the Septimus Heap series, which is quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Finished Breakfast of Champions, onto Neuromancer by William Gibson, the cyberpunk classic. I saw Blade Runner a few weeks ago and am playing System Shock 2 now, so I'm in a totally cyberpunk mood. >_< Reminds me a lot of the only other Gibson novel I've read The Difference Engine, and so it's a pleasant read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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