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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2010 4:22:32 GMT -5
I am currently on the 6th book in the Dark Tower series (Song of Susannah) by Stephen King. He may be a bit vulgar at times but it is his imagination that amazes me and really makes me feel as though I'm living the stories. As for books I've read already (apart from random fan fiction for various movies) I've mentally devoured Stephen King's Cell and All of the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlene Harris which were semi OK if not lacking IMO. I have had the misfortune of reading the Twilight series, the first one sounded interesting but I soon realized that it was nothing but pure fluff and... Sparkly...Vampires...I held a candlelight vigil as I mourned the death of the 48 odd hours of my life reading the Twilight series.
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Post by scarface on Nov 30, 2010 12:55:05 GMT -5
How to learn english in 3 steps
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2012 10:04:32 GMT -5
I recommend the Game of Throne Series by George RR Martin. It's an epic fantasy series, now an HBO series too.
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Post by defiance on Oct 18, 2012 12:25:40 GMT -5
I recommend the Game of Throne Series by George RR Martin. It's an epic fantasy series, now an HBO series too. Agreed. I'm on the 4th book now and loving it.
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Post by Sgt. AWOLaLot on Nov 14, 2012 16:17:58 GMT -5
Currently in class we're reading a book called The Things They Carried. It's a book based on the Vietnam War, but it's not your average war book. It is probably one of the most interesting books I've read. The author, Tim O'Brien, uses his experiences in Vietnam to create several short stories that takes you into the mind of the soldier; what they think about, the quirks they have, what they feel when they come home, etc. The title fits is perfectly, because soldiers carried many things, both physical (equipment) and mental.
We're almost done with it, and while many of my fellow classmates may not enjoy the book, I found it to be very stimulating.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Jan 4, 2013 19:29:42 GMT -5
King is good... he has the style of old classics on its gender.
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Post by Cowboy{QAW} on Jan 22, 2013 1:16:56 GMT -5
Louis L'Amour...nough said. I own every book he wrote and have probly read them all multiple times, but i never get tired of them...or any other westerns. At the same time he is an author who actually lived the life he wrote about.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Jan 24, 2013 19:21:22 GMT -5
Been reading the "Divine Comedy" (I don't if the translation is right, I read it in spanish)... As far as I've gotten, I might say Dante has a very eclectic style, It is very rare in his time literature.
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Post by Sgt. AWOLaLot on Jun 7, 2013 14:38:16 GMT -5
Hmm, I think I'll give this post some life again. I'm currently reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert. If you don't know, it's a science fiction story mostly taking place on a desert planet called Arrakis, nicknamed Dune. It concentrates on Paul Atriedes and his family. I'm on the third book now. At first, I read the first book nonchalantly, but then I started to blitz read it. I think it has a very cool story. It's basically a battle for thrones with a little mysticism intertwined with it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 15:32:33 GMT -5
I have just finished my second run through of the "Warrior of Rome" series by Harry Sidebottom. Fire in the East - King of Kings - Lion of the Sun - The Caspian Gates - The Wolves of the North I am interested in the roman era and that coupled with a good author and relative historical accuracy (in regards to customs, places, events etc) with fictional padding making up the social interaction between the characters results in a very good read. As it turns out I have only just realised there is a sixth book out called The Amber Road...so glad I browsed this forum now EDIT: Spell correction
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Post by H0neY {QAW} on Sept 17, 2013 16:39:46 GMT -5
if you like Roman history and have the ability to listen to podcasts, check out 'The History of Rome' by Mike Duncan. The website is here: thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/He goes in-depth for each emperor and the surrounding events, throwing in a little dry humor. It is very well researched and the show notes should be on the website.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 11:25:54 GMT -5
Sounds good, I will have to go and have a look/listen to it when I can. Thanks for the heads up.
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Post by Cowboy{QAW} on Nov 24, 2013 2:18:33 GMT -5
Just finished The Rhinemann Exchange. Kind of hard to get into in the beginning, but like all of Robert Ludlums books, it turns out very good. His books are so much better than any of the movies they've turned them into, and since i just bought about eight of his books at the library..I think I'll go on a Ludlum binge.
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Post by Cmdo.Delta on Apr 3, 2015 10:43:59 GMT -5
I'm stuck with Glenn Cooper books! Read 4 or 5 of them so far! I have 2 to read left!
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Post by hendrix on Apr 4, 2015 2:27:56 GMT -5
Just started Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon hopefully I get time to read
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Nov 21, 2015 3:07:17 GMT -5
Reading: Goethe's Faust (for the 5th time in life) Baudelaire's Flowers of evil (2nd time) Seneca's On the shortness of life (2nd time); and, Zizek's Welcome to the desert of the real (1srt... cause i never realy liked postmodernism, but contemporary facts make you do it)
Fact 1: Hoff has never been able to read one book at the time. Fact 2: Hoff has finished a handful of literature's book. Fact 3: Cause all make perfect sense. Fact: we are just monkeys.
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Post by Sgt. AWOLaLot on Nov 21, 2015 9:14:07 GMT -5
I haven't chimed in on this post in a while. Lately all I've had time to read is college text books... But over the summer I finally managed to finish Lord of the Rings. It is definitely one of the greatest stories ever written. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields was probably my favorite chapter because I loved that whole scene in the film, starting with Theoden's speech, and the chapter itself was amazing. Another thing is that I know there's quite a few novel purists who greatly disliked the movies because of the changes made. But after reading those books, I am even more impressed with what Peter Jackson pulled off with his films. He had a lot of source material to fit into the movies, and I think he did it the best way he could.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Jan 2, 2016 0:47:03 GMT -5
All done... now I ordered 3 biographies for my vacations (i don't really go out for vacations): Alice in Chains by De Sola... very good one concerning to data... not an amazing piece of literary work. Caught in the Crossfire... Stevie Ray Vaughan's one... im in the midle, very well written... lacking of hard core sources though; and- Tony Iommy's My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath.... which i'll leave for midle february.... I'll be posting, ofc hehehe.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Feb 10, 2016 17:21:52 GMT -5
Just finished... so I'd give my apreciation of them for what is worth, in 3 aspects: Sources of info, literary quality and clarity.
Alice in Chains: Sources of info (4/5 Has a great work concerning interviews to relatives, friends and acquitances, plus others such as rare documentaries. De Sola even takes the time to refute some other biographies, specially a Staley's one. The problem is that the actual Alice in Chains remaining members wouldn't perticipate in this untold story)
Literary quality: (2/5 Well written, but has not literary interest. It's just a journalist work, more inclined to facts than to write a master piece)
Clarity: (5/5 Excelent chronology, you can perfectly grasp the evolution of the band, as long as De Sola uses a year-to-year kind of story)
SVR Caught in the Crossfire:
Sources of info: (3/5 Even though you can find an excelent endind with lots of references, you cannot quite acknowledge this throughout the book. Very few quotations on what the authors are telling they heard or in what they say other said)
Literary quality: (5/5 The book is very well written, is fun to read because of the saucerful of meaning, slang and literary resources they use)
Clarity: (1/5 It's just plain aweful, they have very little order, sometimes they are talking about something and they introduce a couple of old events that took place even 15 or 20 years back in SRV's life, which makes it very confusing)
Tony Iommi's Heaven and Hell:
Sources of info: (5/5 It's himself speaking of himself! What could be a better source?. Plus, when talking of something he heard or knew about, he always states that he isn't sure about it... even though this must happen in just a couple of instances; the rest is just personal life facts or thoughts)
Literary quality: (2/5 Just any fella talking about himself, not much to to say about this. He is not a writer, shouldn't be judge in this aspect, even though he was helped on writing this)
Clarity (3/5 Eve though he goes in a year-to-year basis, sometimes he skips events and comes back to tell them, recalling something he missed before. But this is not such a big a a deal in comparison to SRV's one, cause in this case is the very guy who is telling an intimate story)
That's it, I hope that if you like any of this bands/players or just the biography books this help you choose.
Greatings fellas.
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Post by muuufle on Mar 4, 2016 13:20:35 GMT -5
I'm reading some of Terry Pratchett's novel, part of the Discworld series. They are fantasy novels, quite funny, I like it!
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Apr 25, 2016 15:42:17 GMT -5
Just read "The Sound of the Mountain" by Yasunari Kawabata... I had never read any japanese authors, but really enjoyed this one. IMO, Kawabata succeeds in showing the experience of an old man's desires and frustrations related with his son and dauhter. Quite a biography Kawabata has also...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 22:09:29 GMT -5
Just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and just started A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan.
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Post by dancingmad on Jul 24, 2016 0:09:43 GMT -5
Fatherland.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 22:24:26 GMT -5
A group of friends decided it was a good idea to reread "The Infinite Jest". So yeah, reading it. Again.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Nov 11, 2016 17:19:33 GMT -5
Just finished "Comfortably Numb: The inside story of Pink Floyd" by Mark Blake... for the 'real PF fans' (whatever I mean with this) there won't be any novelty, except for a couple really cool stories concerning the relation between Waters and Gilmour. But for those who haven't really got into PF and do want to, it's the perfect book- fun to read and very well writen. Gotta say that "Inside Out: A personal History of Pink Flyod" is way better, but not as Ilustrating Now I'm starting "White Line Fever: Lemmy Kilmister Autobiography"... so far so good, more fun that Iommi's autobiography mentioned in a previous post. Well, Lemmy seemed more fun overall.
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Post by dancingmad on Nov 12, 2016 18:14:04 GMT -5
I'll have to check out that Alice in Chains book. Sounds dizzope.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Nov 15, 2016 18:42:50 GMT -5
I'll have to check out that Alice in Chains book. Sounds dizzope. I remeber you were using AIC aliases... the cover and actual book (hardcover is nice ) for future reference.
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Post by dancingmad on Nov 17, 2016 10:42:04 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan. Just bought the book off Amazon.
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Post by GerbilZ on Dec 4, 2016 23:28:55 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(novel)After an hour of listening to this on audio book on my phone, the irony of that act, and the plot of the story became quite dreamlike whilst working my way through one of the most difficult days I've had at work all year.. PS. The main characters name is Clayton. I had to post this here :-D Plot Clayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine, has just landed a graphic novel deal in Boston when "The Pulse", a signal sent out over the global cell phone network, suddenly turns every cell phone user into a mindless zombie-like killer. Clay is standing in Boston Common when the Pulse hits, causing chaos to erupt around him. Civilization crumbles as the "phoners" attack each other and any unaltered people in view. Amidst the chaos, Clay is thrown together with middle-aged Tom McCourt and teenager Alice Maxwell; the trio escapes to Tom's suburban home as Boston burns. The next day, they learn the "phoners" have begun foraging for food and banding together in flocks. Clay is still determined to return to Maine and reunite with his young son, Johnny. Having no better alternatives, Tom and Alice come with him. They trek north by night across a devastated New England, having fleeting encounters with other survivors and catching disturbing hints about the activities of the phoners, who still attack non-phoners on sight. Crossing into New Hampshire, they arrive at the Gaiten Academy, a prep school with one remaining teacher, Charles Ardai, and one surviving pupil, Jordan. The pair show the newcomers where the local phoner flock goes at night: they pack themselves into the Academy's soccer field and "switch off" until morning. It is clear the phoners have become a hive mind and are developing psychic abilities. The five survivors decide they must destroy the flock and, using two propane tankers, they succeed in doing so. Clay tries to get everyone to flee the scene, but the others refuse to abandon the elderly Ardai. That night, all of the survivors share the same horrific dream: each dreamer sees himself in a stadium, surrounded by phoners, as a disheveled man wearing a Harvard University hooded sweatshirt approaches, bringing their death. Waking, the heroes share their frightening dream experiences and dub him "The Raggedy Man". A new flock surrounds their residence, and the "normies" face the flock's metaphorical spokesman: the man in the Harvard hoodie. The flock kills other normals in reprisal and orders the protagonists to head north to a spot in Maine called "Kashwak". To stop their main objection, the flock psychically compels Ardai to commit suicide. Clay and the others bury him and travel north, as Clay is still determined to go home.
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Post by hoff{QAW} on Dec 6, 2016 20:16:25 GMT -5
Lemmy Kilmister Autobiography "White line fever" is an outstanding "experience". Co-writer Jannis Garza manages to make the writing as if Lemmy himself would be speaking, which is not something common in this sort of books. Best autobiography I've read in a couple years.
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