Books!

[Funyarinpa]

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Anyone read House Of Leaves?

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Anyone read House Of Leaves?

[suikashoujo]

IIRC he has a book about a woman who fucks 600 men consecutively on camera

[ExtraMana]

still reading the resident evil novels.

Its not high art but my days of reading acceptable literature are long gone.

[Funyarinpa]

That he does. Haven't gotten to it yet, but I have to admit I'm curious.

[Funyarinpa]

Finished The Scorch Trials, then went and binge-read The Death Cure in two days.

 

SC was nearly as good as I remembered, 8.5/10.

 

DC was disappointing, 6/10.

 

Also, the prose was VERY annoying:

 

*X happens*

 

Thomas: "OH SHIT NO X HAPPENED"

 

End of chapter:

 

"X had happened". 

 

Annoying, but I guess that is what I deserve after diving into YA books after trying to read Hyperion.

 

Started Socialism: A Very Short Introduction.

[suikashoujo]

Finished The Scorch Trials, then went and binge-read The Death Cure in two days.

 

SC was nearly as good as I remembered, 8.5/10.

 

DC was disappointing, 6/10.

 

Also, the prose was VERY annoying:

 

*X happens*

 

Thomas: "OH SHIT NO X HAPPENED"

 

End of chapter:

 

"X had happened". 

 

Annoying, but I guess that is what I deserve after diving into YA books after trying to read Hyperion.

 

Started Socialism: A Very Short Introduction.

 

That's why I've pretty much stopped reading YA fiction at this point. All of them feel the same to me, and the writing is so dry compared to other books out there.

[Funyarinpa]

That's why I've pretty much stopped reading YA fiction at this point. All of them feel the same to me, and the writing is so dry compared to other books out there.

 

I have read Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Lord Of The Rings (Favorite part being the Appendices at the end of RotK), Foundation, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and Dune over the last year (not only those). All of them had damn good prose. (Though LotR and DADoES were a bit slow for me)

 

Now I can't go back to YA, I just can't. I like their over-the-top stories, full of action, etc. but the prose is SOOOOOOO BLAAAAAAAAAAAND. 

 

I can tolerate it if the story is real good (The Hunger Games blew my mind in sixth grade, maybe Battle Royale to an extent(not sure if this counts as YA), The Knife Of Never Letting Go was uniquely amazing, GONE (by Michael Grant, look it up, great series, changed my life when I found a fan group related to it on Facebook in sixth grade) is superb, etc.), but when the story is slow this simplicity of the writing sticks out, and painfully so.

 

I am almost completely ignorant as to what communism/capitalism/socialism are (though I just did a little research on Reddit), hence why I am reading a book on introduction to socialism (and will later read a book from the same series for capitalism). To be frank, I am not sure I am understanding half of what I read. 

[Quark]

I forgot to mention, but I'm a big fan of mystery. Mostly Agatha Christie works, specially the ones including Poirot.

And Then There Were None (also goes by two other archaic names) is definitely one of my favorite mystery/thrillers of all time. Took quite a while to get started, but once it picked up... man...

 

 

That's why I've pretty much stopped reading YA fiction at this point. All of them feel the same to me, and the writing is so dry compared to other books out there.

They are all very similar. :/ I completely agree. Once the Hunger Games hit the shelves dozens of copycats popped up.

[suikashoujo]

And Then There Were None (also goes by two other archaic names) is definitely one of my favorite mystery/thrillers of all time. Took quite a while to get started, but once it picked up... man...

Oh yeah, I read that not too long ago for the first time. I would second your recommendation; it was a lot of fun to read.

[Funyarinpa]

Oh yeah, I read that not too long ago for the first time. I would second your recommendation; it was a lot of fun to read.

 

I read the comic book adaptation of that (foolishly), it was pretty damn good even in that format. The ending man, the ENDING

[Quark]

I read the comic book adaptation of that (foolishly), it was pretty damn good even in that format. The ending man, the ENDING

There's a comic book adaptation? *googles furiously*

 

I even enjoyed the old black and white movie. Parts of it were a drag, but they switched up the ending a bit.

[Autumn13]

I haven't read a novel in a while. Though my favorite series when I was younger was the Warriors series by Erin Hunter.

[Funyarinpa]

Just finished Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams.

That ending... God dammit. God fucking dammit.

[Rabbit]

The amount I read differ on the books I read, if they are interesting or if I get into it early, I could read my all time favorite book series "Imperium" in a month, its like 7 books with 300+ pages on each book, and it's just because I enjoy it so much, there are some books that i read and never get into so i allmost never pick the book up until it's done, so I can go months with the same book, or spend a weekend on one book that i really enjoyed.

My types of genres would be drama, romance and war stories from the antique era.
My favorite book is as stated above Imperium, the first book, if i'd have to choose one book, I really recammend it for people who enjoy antique war stories with romance in it.
My favorite autor would either be the imperium author, Sam Barone or John Green, ive read all of his books unless a new one has come out recently.

[krill]

i just started the daughter of smoke and bone trilogy by Laini Taylor, im nearly finished book 1 and its decent though her build up is really slow i mean she don't reveal any real setting relevant info till the first book is 2/3 done then she kicks the pace in to high gear and starts slamming you with it all in bursts. the characters are really enjoyable though and the descriptions a action in the last half are really good. the only negative im seeing is its just a lil long winded.

[Funyarinpa]

borrowed Kafka On The Shore from the library

 

we'll see how that goes

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borrowed Kafka On The Shore from the library

 

we'll see how that goes

It's a kinda polarizing book, but it's definitely interesting at least.

[Wonderfullyevil]

I started Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and just bought The Count of Monte Cristo. Admittedly I don't read that much, but I would like to.

[Quark]

 

I feel this video belongs in this thread. 

[Funyarinpa]

I am enjoying Kafka On The Shore.

[Funyarinpa]

...I find it sad that in a forum dedicated to text-heavy games, so few people are interested in conventional books.

[Bolverk]

The books I've read the last few weeks I enjoyed was.

 

The Great Gatsby
The Prince
A Clockwork Orange
The Problems of Philosophy
The Gospel in Brief

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...I find it sad that in a forum dedicated to text-heavy games, so few people are interested in conventional books.

It's probably just that it's not necessarily the place where you wanna talk about books. I personally don't talk about every book I read here.

 

Well I'm also not too much in a book mood, although I'm reading some LNs.

[BookwormOtaku]

Came across the first two volumes of Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers if anyone's curious which one) at my local library so I decided to give them a look since I've heard good things about that line and I'm curious about the character since she'll have a debut movie in a few years. After reading them I can say they've both been pretty enjoyable. Good character writing plus some fun stuff going on in the story like time travel in the first volume and in the second book dinosaurs show up in New York. Sadly the third volume isn't in the library system so I'm going to have to buy it myself since volume 2 ends in a bit of a cliffhanger .