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ichihollow 21 Vice Captain
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 Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:33 am
Hey does anyone one of our crew read, like on a regular basis. Not so much manga but fiction and stuff.
If so what's your favorite series, or book and author? Plus you can suggest books to people.
(I read an article and was dissapointed that most people where I live don't really visit bookstores and buy books but like instant gratification. Means on the web they buy books, or read the newspaper online)
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:44 am
I read books! Real ones that I buy and use my borders rewards card to purchase. Right now, I'm reading the Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards 2000. Good for if you have a short attention span. My favorite short story in there is Bones of the Inner Ear.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:37 pm
I read! *Raises hand* I like action adventure books. One of my favorits is a book called The Game of Sunken Places by M. T. Anderson. Its a good book.
Also a good one is A Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story By Mary Downing Hahn. My top 2 books that arnt a series.
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:38 pm
I'm a voracious reader and my major demands me to read a lot anyway.
I generally read thrillers, mysteries, history, and humour. I dabble in other genres, but not often...unless it's Star Trek Original Series adaptions and some other scifi... Most of what I read is from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries because I am, after all, an aspiring Victorian historian.
My favourite series thus far has to be all the novels and short stories that make up the canon of Sherlock Holmes. Excellent read for those who like a more cerebral experience, mysteries, action, and humour (lots of it). The latest Sherlock Holmes movie actually did try to convey to the viewer the essence of the stories...even the cerebral part (although I take issue with Irene Adler and the overall fail!cliche plot).
I also rather like the Jeeves and Wooster novel series by P.G. Wodehouse. It's basically the adventures of a young, bumbling aristocrat in the early 20th century with his miracle-working, genius valet, Mr. Jeeves. Those stories are one of the few that will actually make me laugh out loud, sometimes uncontrollably. You learn a lot of old-school English slang, too.
Harry Potter was a good read. Not my favourite, but I am a fan. I much prefer the characters (a select few) over the writing. However, it is fun reading them over again to pick up all the clues Rowling left laying about and the many literally allusions peppered into the text.
Pride and Prejudice is my favourite novel, though. People think "ew, it's a Regency romance", but that isn't all it is. People often forget that Austen was a satirist and not a romance-writer. The reason why I like P&P over her other works is because it's story isn't tedious (winter aside) and I like the characters a lot. It's also rather funny.
As you can tell, I prefer smart reads that make me laugh over the more serious reads.
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:54 pm
i read for hours at a time, i like to read Halo books (when you cant play read is what i say) Author: eric nylund
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:41 pm
I absolutly love adventure novels, i'm a fan of the works of Jules Vern, and Frankenstein is a masterpiece.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:08 pm
Yay! I just got the final book in The Dark Tower series <3 . It's by Stephen King, and it's actually not overrated 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:55 pm
Tasn Zheng My favourite series thus far has to be all the novels and short stories that make up the canon of Sherlock Holmes. Excellent read for those who like a more cerebral experience, mysteries, action, and humour (lots of it). The latest Sherlock Holmes movie actually did try to convey to the viewer the essence of the stories...even the cerebral part (although I take issue with Irene Adler and the overall fail!cliche plot). DUDE! I just got every one of the Sherlock Holmes stories/ novles. I didnt realize a lot of the stuff that the film makers put in the movie about the books untill I started reading the stories. Sherlock Holmes is awesome.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:47 pm
Kozmo6 Tasn Zheng My favourite series thus far has to be all the novels and short stories that make up the canon of Sherlock Holmes. Excellent read for those who like a more cerebral experience, mysteries, action, and humour (lots of it). The latest Sherlock Holmes movie actually did try to convey to the viewer the essence of the stories...even the cerebral part (although I take issue with Irene Adler and the overall fail!cliche plot). DUDE! I just got every one of the Sherlock Holmes stories/ novles. I didnt realize a lot of the stuff that the film makers put in the movie about the books untill I started reading the stories. Sherlock Holmes is awesome. See? People always thing Sherlock Holmes as an armchair reasoner or some stupid crap like that. Holmes was a complete Victorian rebel genius!
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:11 pm
Tasn Zheng Kozmo6 Tasn Zheng My favourite series thus far has to be all the novels and short stories that make up the canon of Sherlock Holmes. Excellent read for those who like a more cerebral experience, mysteries, action, and humour (lots of it). The latest Sherlock Holmes movie actually did try to convey to the viewer the essence of the stories...even the cerebral part (although I take issue with Irene Adler and the overall fail!cliche plot). DUDE! I just got every one of the Sherlock Holmes stories/ novles. I didnt realize a lot of the stuff that the film makers put in the movie about the books untill I started reading the stories. Sherlock Holmes is awesome. See? People always thing Sherlock Holmes as an armchair reasoner or some stupid crap like that. Holmes was a complete Victorian rebel genius! I totaly agree with you there. I also have some stories by the brothers grimm. They are good to. Totaly different than what disney turned the stories into.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:18 pm
Well, Disney likes to sugarcoat everything lol
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:22 pm
Captain Clockwork Well, Disney likes to sugarcoat everything lol Too true. However, at least we got the hooka-smoking caterpillar for Alice in Wonderland. Speaking of Alice, those two novels were a complete headache to read. Anyone like them?
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:39 pm
Captain Clockwork Well, Disney likes to sugarcoat everything lol Yeah good point lol Tasn Zheng Captain Clockwork Well, Disney likes to sugarcoat everything lol Too true. However, at least we got the hooka-smoking caterpillar for Alice in Wonderland. Speaking of Alice, those two novels were a complete headache to read. Anyone like them? I never made it all the way through them.
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:15 pm
I like to read, mostly scifi stuff but I do read some other genres occasionally.
But in class we are reading a play called view from the bridge by Arthur Miller.
In case some didn't know he was married to Marilyn Monroe, quite a small shock when I found out, though they weren't married for long(bout 4 years) and didn't have any children. I haven't finished the play yet, but it's a good read
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ichihollow 21 Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:10 pm
Tasn Zheng Captain Clockwork Well, Disney likes to sugarcoat everything lol Too true. However, at least we got the hooka-smoking caterpillar for Alice in Wonderland. Speaking of Alice, those two novels were a complete headache to read. Anyone like them?
Now do you mean the books, from the recent movie that came out, are based on? I think they are called something like seeing through the looking glass, seeing red, and some other book?
Or the original books?
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