Metal Reviews

I just bought Clockwork Orange and Naked Lunch and a Terry Pratchett book... I gave up on The English Patient because Michael Ondaatje's style annoyed the fuck out of me.

a friend of mine lent me Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha". i'll have to finish it, i can't tell her i hated it so much i couldn't even get to the end

the writing style really annoys me.

I thought Siddhartha was really good. 0.o

Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

bought "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman, i reached chapter 2 but stopped because there's still "Siddhartha" to read.

Invisible Monsters was fucking awesome.

NOW:

hm, i saw that for sale today for 1.50€. tell me if it's worth reading, eh?

Judging from the few chapters I've read so far, it's pretty dense, emotive, and it's beautifully written. Since you liked Heart Of Darkness, I'd wager to say you'd dig this one... the premise is pretty disturbing though, since the book is about a pedophile.

no, that was Brahm_K i think.

...Shit, you're right...

Well, there ya go. If you like that kind of artsy lit. stuff, you'd probably like that book. I know I do.

Right now I'm reading:

Fritz Leiber - The First Book of Lankhmar (Fantasy Masterworks Series)

This is a long book and because it is fragmented in shorter stories it takes me longer to read (and I'm a very slow reader).

Fritz Leiber's work is classic medieval themed sword and sorcery fantasy in its early form (most of it was written about 30 years ago). If you like fantasy litterature then this is a very nice change from the unending series and the cliché writing styles of modern fantasy writers. This guy is very original, fresh, uses a lot of realism and avoids clichés (and if there are any, you can be sure that he was one of the first to ever use them in fantasy litterature). This book deals with the adventures of Fafhrd (a big barbarian warrior) and the Gray Mouser (master thief and swordsman) in the land of Nehwon and more often in the capital city of Lankhmar.

If you don't like fantasy litterature then this won't make it any different. But if you do and would like a change from the modern "page-turner" endless and sometimes boring series/trilogies then give it a try, you might love it.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk#Nobel_Prize

Zad and Kathy had already said nice things about "my name is red" so i might just have a look at that book now

Finally finished The Fionavar Tapestry by Kay (don't read) and Hard Times by Dickens, onto The History of the Wars by Procopius, dealing with the Persian, Vandal and Gothic Wars of Emperor Justinian of Byzantium.

I just finished the last Preacher collection after reading them all on and off for about a year and a half (stfu, Zad). Good, but it started going downhill about halfway through (the series, not the last book). It all felt a bit anticlimatic.

Tacitus- Agricola and Germania

I just finished my first Discworld book, The Colour of Magic, not as funny as I expected, I didn't really enjoy the humour that much, though I liked the story overall.

Anyway, I'm thinking about getting some Dungeons & Dragons books, like the ones about Drizzt, anyone know what book would be good to start off with?

Some are much better than others. I reccomend Small Gods; definitely my favourite.



In short, don't.

Fight Club. Its good, very easy to read unfortunately so I'll need to line up another book lined up for when I finish it.

Check out Servant of the Shard, it doesn't have Drizzt in it but its my favourite book by R.A. Salvatore. If you need a Drizzt book, I started and ended with the Dark Elf Trilogy... they were enjoyable but I don't really want to read any more of his books.

Maybe read Choke or Lullabye next, unfortenetly the rest of his books I have read are god awful shit, but you might like them.

The Black Dhalia - James Ellroy. excellant.