Book talk.

Genghis Khant · Post by **Genghis Khant** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:35 am

qeee1 wrote:
alex_white101 wrote:i just finished reading a mr men book, about mr grumpy, it was alrite but i prefer mr happy hes cooler
I'm a fan of little miss easy.

On the weekends I like a bit of Mr. Rush.

Aries · Post by **Aries** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:00 am

I'm reading the "His Dark Materials" series. It's an extremely fast paced fantasy with a little bit of science fiction, if that's what you'd call it

MR. Nate · Post by **MR. Nate** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:15 am

heavycola wrote:
MR. Nate wrote:
heavycola wrote:MR. Nate there seems to be a common thread linking your recommendations, although i can't quite put my finger on it...
Except the elephant, you know you're curious about the elephant . . .
Yes! What is it with the elephant?

Sire begins the book with this anecdote:
On day, a little boy came to his father. "Today the teacher showed us a big round globe. She said it was a model of the world. She said it was just surrounded by space. How can that be? What holds up the world, Dad?" His father replied "A camel." The next day, after thinking about it, the boy asked "Dad, what holds up the camel" and the father replied "A kangaroo." The next day, after thinking, the boy asked "what's under the kanagroo?" and his dad replied "An elephant." the boy asked "What's under the elephant?" and his dad, realizing the wasn't going to stop said "It's elephant all the way down"

Sire's point is: We've all got beliefs and preconceptions under our "knowledge" and we need to be aware of them. It's a challenge to name your (meta) narrative / worldview.

I'll be free from the tyranny of syllabi in a week or so, and I'm REALLY looking forward to reading for myself again.

khazalid · Post by **khazalid** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:22 am

qeee my darling

murakami is alright, youd quite like him

the wind up bird chronicle is a sort of dichotomous metaphysical tract. there is a lot of interesting symbolism and references to war. very interesting book

ill say it again

Nabokov and Dostoevsky. read anything

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:57 am

has any1 ever read the tomorrow series by john marsden

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:57 am

spinwizard wrote:has any1 ever read the tomorrow series by john marsden

Yup. Good series, that one.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:00 am

i have read the 1st 1, (got up to 5) and am on the seconed, glad 2 know some1 else reads it

(u r ausse arnt u?)

fluffybunnykins · Post by **fluffybunnykins** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:08 pm

Maybe someone already mentioned this (haven't read the whole thread...) but I've read a couple of Cormac McCarthy's books, and they're amazing, in a bleak, disturbing, starkly beautiful, tragic, melancholic, harsh, kind of way. The two I've read are 'All the pretty horses' & 'the crossing'. I like 'em. And if you have seen Tommy Lee Jones' 'the 3 burials of Malquiades Estrada' you'd probably come to the conclusion that he'd read some of Cormac's work too...
Highly recommend them two, and might get round to reading some more of his sometime..

Skoffin · Post by **Skoffin** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:27 pm

I've been reading The Stand by Stephen King lately, is it coincidence that I now have a cold?

Before that I was reading A clash of Kings from the A song of ice and fire series by George R.R Martin. Very good books, I recommend them to anyone who likes fantasy type stuff.

wiggybowler · Post by **wiggybowler** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:58 pm

Skoffin wrote: I've been reading The Stand by Stephen King lately, is it coincidence that I now have a cold?

Before that I was reading A clash of Kings from the A song of ice and fire series by George R.R Martin. Very good books, I recommend them to anyone who likes fantasy type stuff.

I am reading the same thing.

Looking for the R.R. Martin series in Hardback, I want to read them but I only collect hardcovers

Guidocks · Post by **Guidocks** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:30 am

got tonkaed wrote:the poirot books are pretty good, i didnt like too much of her other stuff though.

I also think the stories with hastings are in general better than the ones without.

yes i completely agree

lduke1990 · Post by **lduke1990** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:25 am

I am 16, so here it goes:

Sword of Truth: While Soul of the Fire was essential to the plot as a whole it is the worst book in the series.

Robin Hobb: anything to do with the Fool or Fitzchivalry Farseer is a good read

Douglas Adams: 'Nuff said

HP

A Song of Ice and Fire (or whatever by George R R Martin)

Kushiel's (insert rest of title here): by Jaqueline Currie, some REALLY screwed up sex scenes, but a really good espionage story all told

Raymond E Feist

Rune lords

David B Coe: read his winds of the forelands series

neil gaiman: sandman and american gods specifically

R R Baker Scott

myriad of classics including CITR, LOTR + Hobbit, Frank Herbert's Dune (the original series, the prequels and the sequels), the great gatsby, and too many others to list

jay_a2j · Post by **jay_a2j** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:29 am

The Bible

lduke1990 · Post by **lduke1990** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:51 am

^ the world's greatest work of fiction, has the largest cult following of any other book ever printed

jay_a2j · Post by **jay_a2j** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:06 am

lduke1990 wrote:^ the world's greatest work of fiction, has the largest cult following of any other book ever printed

Ya, ok.... says you. If it was fiction you'd think they could disprove ANY of the writing within. But no, as much as they have tried, no one has ever succeeded in proving ANY of it as inaccurate. Wonder why? Wonder why it is the most printed book in history? Yeah, fiction... you nailed that one on the head!

Optimus Prime · Post by **Optimus Prime** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:09 am

Hmmm....I didn't read every post, so I don't know if anybody already mentioned Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, but it's one of my favorites.

Mormon Bible? Do you mean the Book of Mormon? What's wrong with that?

jay_a2j · Post by **jay_a2j** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:25 am

Optimus Prime wrote:Hmmm....I didn't read every post, so I don't know if anybody already mentioned Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, but it's one of my favorites.

Mormon Bible? Do you mean the Book of Mormon? What's wrong with that?

Um no...... the Bible. the Book of Mormon is a work of fiction.

Numia Kereru · Post by **Numia Kereru** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:32 am

lduke1990 wrote:Raymond E Feist

His book "Magician" is one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure to read.

My all time favourites:

"The Belgariad" and "The Mallorean" series by David and Leigh Eddings.
I also really like the later novels they wrote on "Belgarath the Sorcerer" and "Polgara the Sorceress".

David Eddings pwns!

Another random book that I really enjoyed was "Watchers" by Dean R. Koontz. Nice thriller from '87.

heavycola · Post by **heavycola** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:15 am

jay_a2j wrote:
lduke1990 wrote:^ the world's greatest work of fiction, has the largest cult following of any other book ever printed

Ya, ok.... says you. If it was fiction you'd think they could disprove ANY of the writing within. But no, as much as they have tried, no one has ever succeeded in proving ANY of it as inaccurate. Wonder why? Wonder why it is the most printed book in history? Yeah, fiction... you nailed that one on the head!

Jay I am pretty sure you meant to post this in your ill-fated ""logic"" thread, or perhaps you could start a whole new thread about fairytales and mythology specifically. But please save the biblethumping. Time and place, man.

Guilty_Biscuit · Post by **Guilty_Biscuit** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:39 am

Just finish reading The Trial by Franz Kaftka. Not great, one to avoid unless you are really bored. I mean it's not even finished.

I read Adam's Curse: A future without men by Brian Sykes before that and can recommed that to anyone interested in genetics.

If there are any maths or science or philosophy or computer nuts (if... yeah right) who haven't read Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstader then just stop what you are doing and get a copy right now.

http://www.amazon.ca/Godel-Escher-Bach- ... 320&sr=1-1

At the moment I'm reading Man's Fate by André Malraux it's started better than The Trial so I'll let you know if it's worth a read when I'm done.

gethine · Post by **gethine** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:13 am

Numia Kereru wrote:
lduke1990 wrote:Raymond E Feist
His book "Magician" is one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure to read.

My all time favourites:

"The Belgariad" and "The Mallorean" series by David and Leigh Eddings.
I also really like the later novels they wrote on "Belgarath the Sorcerer" and "Polgara the Sorceress".

David Eddings pwns!

Another random book that I really enjoyed was "Watchers" by Dean R. Koontz. Nice thriller from '87.

i got started reading the belgariad books and they are areally good entry point for younger readers (10+ i guess) i still own mine and read them occasionally, even though they are nearing 20 years old.
magician is good but i think it seems a little spoiled by some of the newer riftwar books out now(not sure why i feel this!)
koontz used too churn out formulaic horror books at a huge pace - and i must admit that i have probably read most of them

was watchers the one with the intelligent dog being hunted by some chimpanzee thing?

BelgarathGFRPG · Post by **BelgarathGFRPG** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:22 am

Numia Kereru wrote:
His book "Magician" is one of the best books I have ever had the pleasure to read.

My all time favourites:

"The Belgariad" and "The Mallorean" series by David and Leigh Eddings.
I also really like the later novels they wrote on "Belgarath the Sorcerer" and "Polgara the Sorceress".

David Eddings pwns!

Another random book that I really enjoyed was "Watchers" by Dean R. Koontz. Nice thriller from '87.

David Eddings does indeed pwn

luns101 · Post by **luns101** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:25 am

ALL ON FIRE is a good book about William Lloyd Garrison and the abolitionist movement against slavery...if you like history. It was written by Henry Mayer. I enjoyed it.

gethine · Post by **gethine** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:29 am

i quite enjoy some of the stephen e. ambrose books.
recommended as a toilet read as the book is written in short episodic memories of world war veterans, so you don't have to read whole chapters till your arse goes numb.

Luxurious · Post by **Luxurious** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:07 pm

This will show how nerdy I am, but I really like any book by Ayn Rand. "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" are two of the best books I've ever read.

Book talk.

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