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Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:28 pm

I'm about halfway finished with The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. This is a great book. Looking forward to starting on The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy.

Also reading Miracles by CS Lewis. Not one of Lewis' easier reads, I must say. But a great one nonetheless.

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:01 pm

traptunderice wrote:

And also Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

I don't know if anyone has read Infinite Jest but this is sad. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... pstoryview

It's a shame, he was an amazing writer.

Blade · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:44 am

Just finished Crossfire by Andy Mcnab. Quite realistic with plenty of action. I liked it.

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:27 pm

rio wrote:

SoulSociety wrote:

I just read Mao - The Untold Story, an incredible book, makes Hitler look like Gandhi.

Started The Hades Factor by Robert Ludlum. Meh, nothing groundbreaking, another thriller where the main character always evades death by an inch/is indestructible who has to stop a virus which is incurable and the release of which is masterminded by a shady character in high places.

Yeah I have been reading quite a lot about Mao recently too.... I am reading Wild Swans (by the same author as the Unknown Story I think- Jung Chang) What a nut... She talks about how during the famine in the early 1960s Mao told every family to go out every day and beat pans under trees to scare sparrows away... so the sparrows wouldn't have anywhere to sleep and so would die of exhaustion. This is because the sparrows were eating a lot of grain in the fields.

GET A SCARECROW YOU FUCKING PSYCHO

I also just got "Zizek Presents Mao", which is actually a selection of Mao's own writings on politics. Should be quite interesting to read.

Yeah not to mention making everyone burn down their houses to get the iron from them to use in steel factories, only to find out that the iron is too shit in quality and so millions became homeless for nothing. Unbelievable.

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:29 pm

Also just finished reading the Thomas Harris trilogy of Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. They leave you fucking speechless, some of the best fiction ever created.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

SoulSociety wrote:

Also just finished reading the Thomas Harris trilogy of Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. They leave you fucking speechless, some of the best fiction ever created.

Silence of the Lambs is awesome, and Red Dragon is pretty good, but I thought Hannibal was pretty weak- I think the character works best when he's not center stage.

Christopher Moore- Lamb

heatseeker · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:34 pm

Reading "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison...

This book is redonkulous

Goat · **Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:20 am

NR: A Snowball In Hell by Christopher Brookmyre

traptunderice · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:01 am

So The Road is being produced into a movie to come out the day before Thanksgiving here in the states with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis doing the musical score. Viggo Mortenson plays the dad and Charlize Theron is in there somewhere as well.

I haven't read The Road yet but my copy is in the mail and I think I'm going to rush read it before I start school once I get it.

PS: Not really sure where to put it so I threw it in here being about a book and all.

noodles · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:39 am

traptunderice wrote:

So The Road is being produced into a movie to come out the day before Thanksgiving here in the states with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis doing the musical score. Viggo Mortenson plays the dad and Charlize Theron is in there somewhere as well.

I haven't read The Road yet but my copy is in the mail and I think I'm going to rush read it before I start school once I get it.

PS: Not really sure where to put it so I threw it in here being about a book and all.

yeah, if it's in theatres here i'm definitely gonna go see it. which will make it the first movie i've seen in theatres since the fountain.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:17 am

noodles wrote:

which will make it the first movie i've seen in theatres since the fountain.

That movie failed to meet your and everyone else's expectations so much that you thought it was the movie theater's fault?

Thomas · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:50 am

The Chronicles of Narnia. One hell of a thick book.

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:45 pm

Brahm_K wrote:

SoulSociety wrote:

Also just finished reading the Thomas Harris trilogy of Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. They leave you fucking speechless, some of the best fiction ever created.

Silence of the Lambs is awesome, and Red Dragon is pretty good, but I thought Hannibal was pretty weak- I think the character works best when he's not center stage.

Christopher Moore- Lamb

I completely disagree, Hannibal was the best of the lot, like when he killed Pazzi just like his ancestor had been killed, when Lecter removes the top of Krendler's skull and when Starling is shouting directives to the people about to feed Lecter to the pigs, he translates for them. Too many other instances to mention, besides the actual dialogue.

Mintrude · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:28 pm

Reading 1984. Makes for cheery reading, haha. I'm enjoying it so far though.

December Flower · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:25 pm

Mintrude wrote:

Reading 1984. Makes for cheery reading, haha. I'm enjoying it so far though.

I finished 1984 a few days ago. Very good book. If you're enjoying it so far you will probably enjoy the rest as well. I found the first part to be a bit boring at times.

Now reading Relato de un Naufrago (The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for spanish class. It's quite interesting though, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:34 am

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

Zad wrote:

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Great book.

Neal Stephenson- Anathem

SoulSociety · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:13 pm

The Most Evil Dictators/Murderers. Interesting stuff.

Azrael · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:29 am

finished The Blade Itself in the train today, it was okay like Brahm said. i'll ask for Before They Are Hanged when the next visitor from england comes.

now i'll focus on The New New Thing.

i have a €10 vouched, i'll try to visit fnac in the weekend and get something by Cormac McCarthy. where should i start with him?

EDIT - lol, while putting The Blade Itself away in the closet, i found The Peleponnesian War, which me cousin lent me a few weeks ago. will try to pick it up, heard it's a heavy read.
alsot maybe i'll get My Name is Red instead this weekend.

Brahm_K wrote:

Zad wrote:

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Great book.

lol, wonder if i'll ever finish it. i fist started it in February, quit 150 or so pages from the end. over 3/4 of the way through and still no fucking clue of what was going on. i'll try to finish it, but i'll be damned if i'm every buying an "author's preferred text" again. BOOKS ARE EDITED FOR A REASON, NEIL GAIMAN!

heatseeker · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:33 am

metal_xxx wrote:

The Chronicles of Narnia. One hell of a thick book.

You know that's like 100% Christian literature, right?

And regarding The Road movie, I will definitely see it.

And regarding American Gods, I thought it was pretty good but not spectacular.

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