Book I am reading is Lord of the Flies. I need to read it for school, but the last book I read for recreational purposes was probably Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.
I’m actually planning on reading that when I’m finished with At The Mountains of Madness.
Yeah, it’s pretty good. Brings up the inevitable question of “Is man born good or evil or is man raised good or evil?” Bunch kids playing God.
I look forward to reading it.
:aah:
Anyone ever read Jung? I’m trying to decide whether I should buy a $100 book.
:fffuuu: The movie is NOTHING like the books, but then again, Adams deliberately made each version different from the other, for no other reason than he wanted to.
IMO Eoin Colfer is a pretty good writer, much better than some of the other turgid dross that oozes onto bookshelves, e.g. Twilight, which was so bloody dull I felt the will to leave seeping from my hands into the book, (because it’s a book about vampires? It’s a joke you see, I thought it was rather droll myself). Also Adams himself stated he wanted to write a sixth book because Mostly Harmless was too dreary and depressing (compared to the rest of the books) to end the series on.
They’re fascinating, although I’m a bit ambivalent about them. As high-concept science fiction, they’re incredible and my mind was blown by the ideas in terms of their grandeur, their imagination, and their solid scientific grounding. As prose and as character pieces though, I found them a bit of a chore and not terribly engaging emotionally. Consider it a recommendation with reservations.
I remeber flicking through Blue Mars once and just got fed up trying to picture it. Guess the writing style doesn’t fit with me.
I’m rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because I don’t remember anything but the illustrations.
I just started reading 1984 today. It seems really good so far, you can really tell how it caused so much impact judging by the time it was released.
I remeber that someone on GN used to have an avatar with the Big Brother eye and the text: “1984. We’re behind schedule.”
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett.
The book I’m reading atm is by far the best one yet:
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347
opening sentence:
“It is a truth universally known that a zombie in possession of brains is in want of more brains.”
…discuss :rabies:
1984 is an excellent book, and it just keeps getting better the farther you go in it. The ending is incredibly awesome as well. I’m going to read it again in British Literature later this year for school.
Brotherhood of Heroes - The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 - The bloodiest battle of the Pacific War
-Bill Sloan
I’m reading “The Alphabet of Manliness” by Maddox. It’s funny as hell, and I’m just reading it sort of on the side.
The book I’m actually reading for real recreation is Stephen King’s “It.” It’s a damn good book so far.
:brow: how that book is so memorable I remember the story more then the illustrations but then you are an artist and I am a writer so thats probably why.
I’m in the middle of Mast & Commander, the first Aubrey/Maturn novel by Patrick O’Brien (the really good film was made of a mixture of this book and the tenth in the series). REally good and surprisingly funny, although as a word of warning it is written entirely accurate to the time period at hand - the prose isn’t modern in structure and vocabulary like most historical fiction I’d read previously.
At some point soon I need to re-read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. Fucking astonishing book and since I know we’ve some fans of the (excellently adapted) film around here I thought I’d mention it again to try and persuade some folks to read it.
About halfway through Why does E=mc2? (and why should we care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. Very interesting and entertaining explanation of how the famous equation was derived and it’s consequences. A little more readily understandable than Brief History of Time.