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 Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:58 am
Let's chat about our favorite books, books we've read, or books we're reading now.
Fill this little thing out to get the thread moving;
Favorite Book(s):
Favorite Author(s):
Favorite Genre(s):
Currently Reading:
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:17 pm
Favorite Book(s): Syrup, Jennifer Government, Paranoia, The Jester, Artemis Fowl Favorite Author(s): Max Barry, Eoin Colfer, Joseph Finder, James Patterson Favorite Genre(s): Satire, Thriller, Fantasy Currently Reading: The Spy Wore Red ... So far I am in love with this book (Spy Wore Red). It was recommended to me over a year ago but I had a hard time tracking it down. I checked my mailbox last night and there was a package in there addressed to 'Moki' from some company called 'Love Books'. I didn't make the order, and I have never once gotten post addressed to Moki (I mean everyone calls me such, and it is my middle name, but everything is usually marked with my given name). So I popped the box open, and there's the book I've been looking for. Awwwwwww, a friend who actually cares <3 lol Anyway, back to the book. I've only made it to the fifth chapter but I'm at already addicted. It's about a girl who is recruited to be a spy and where I'm in the book she has just finished her training and is about to be assigned her first mission. I'll talk more about this awesome title as I press deeper into its seductive paperback binding.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:03 am
Favorite Book(s):
Alice in Wonderland, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Auntie Mame, Freaky Friday, 1984, Notes from the Underground, Lord of the Rings, David Copperfield, The Last Unicorn, I am Legend, Lord of the Flies, Watership Down, Sense and Sensibility, Battle Royale, Dracula, Bleak House, The Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn, War and Peace, The Scarlet Letter, The Woman in White, Frankenstein, Stardust, Pride and Prejudice, Nicholas Nickleby
Favorite Book Series:
His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, various Fairy Tales, The Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy, The Wizard of OZ
Favorite Author(s):
Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen,
Favorite Genre(s):
Any and all if I like the story enough. Generally I don't go rootin' in the fantasy and science fiction sections though.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:36 pm
Favorite books: The End of the Road by John Barth, Smoker by Greg Rucka, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
Favorite Authors: Grag Rucka, Brad Meltzer
Favorite Genre: suspence
Currently Reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
What's sad is that as much as I love science fiction and fantasy, reading science fiction and fantasy novels bores the hell out of me.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:47 am
I is currently re-reading I Am Legend and thus ignoring Confederacy of Dunces which I will continue after Legend. For its amazing.
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:53 am
Jaeger_Ayers What's sad is that as much as I love science fiction and fantasy, reading science fiction and fantasy novels bores the hell out of me. It depends really for me, there are a few authors who can do fantasy real well...others who just bomb it. The fantasy books I really enjoy though are the Urban Fairy Tales, the ones who mix fantasy with an urban setting. I can't stand science fiction novels, period. Red Scully I is currently re-reading I Am Legend and thus ignoring Confederacy of Dunces which I will continue after Legend. For its amazing. Is that the one with the Will Smith re-make on the way?
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:41 pm
[PWG] Moki Jaeger_Ayers What's sad is that as much as I love science fiction and fantasy, reading science fiction and fantasy novels bores the hell out of me. It depends really for me, there are a few authors who can do fantasy real well...others who just bomb it. The fantasy books I really enjoy though are the Urban Fairy Tales, the ones who mix fantasy with an urban setting. I can't stand science fiction novels, period. [PWG] Moki Is that the one with the Will Smith re-make on the way?
Thats the one. The film looks like its going to be really different from the book, but as long as it keeps the basic premise and ending I shall be satisfied.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:21 pm
Favorite Book(s): Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevski
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Favorite Author(s): See above, and add Lewis Carroll, Sammuel Clemens, William Blake and Marcel Proust, among others.
Currently Reading: Right now I'm just re-reading The Real Frank Zappa Book, 'cause it always brings me a laugh or two.
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:53 am
I've been meaning to read Crime & Punishment! Gah! After reading The Woman in White and War and Peace directly after it, I haven't read a really long book in almost a year. I dunno, I guess I just need to get through a number of stories before I can invest so much time and emotion into just one story again? I think I might just be really weird. gonk
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:43 pm
Favorite Book(s): Ender's Game, American Gods, The New Jedi Order Series, Truce at Bakura, Cell, It, Enchantment, The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Stardust, Wicked
Favorite Author(s): Orson Scott Card, Stephen King, Timothy Zahn, R.A. Salvatore
Favorite Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror/Thriller
Currently Reading: The New Jedi Order (21 book series, currently on book 13- Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand)
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:37 pm
So I picked up Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby: True Adventures in Cult Fandom by Allyson Beatrice because I have no life.
Or more accuracy I enjoy reading things that are relevant to me. As I am, for all purposes, a "fandom whore." Active fandom ahoy!
I found this to be a simple but accurate observation:
Allyson Beatrice The group dynamics of an internet forum aren't so different than in high school. There are bullies and dorks, the popular clique and the people who are almost invisible. The internet forum version of being shoved in a locker is being ignored, or having one of the forum's more popular members you call you an asshat, troll, or jackhole.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:28 pm
Finished the Beatrice book on Tuesday and at the suggestion of writerserenyty I got Atonement.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:38 am
So I mangaed to read about 150 pages of the Chabon book on my trip. Why on Earth does it seem like every great "work of literature" that critics all hail seems to have a homosexual element to it? Don't get me wrong, it's still a good book, but the author spent a lot more page space on details of the homosexual retaionship than the heterosexual one.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:18 am
Jaeger_Ayers So I mangaed to read about 150 pages of the Chabon book on my trip. Why on Earth does it seem like every great "work of literature" that critics all hail seems to have a homosexual element to it? Don't get me wrong, it's still a good book, but the author spent a lot more page space on details of the homosexual retaionship than the heterosexual one.
I dunno? I haven't run into such a thing a whole lot in my reading experience. Only time I really noticed a homosexual element (I suppose) was in, oddly enough, Orson Scott Card's Enders Game.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:05 am
Thievery! surprised
I'm a bad bad man. The beach house we were doing some work at yesterday had many bookselves. These places usually have a "take a book, leave a book" policy where people who vacation their will leave whatever book they finish reading there and sometimes take one they start with them. They had three copies of The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer.
Well, they only have two now. ninja
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