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SoulSociety · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:03 am

noodles wrote:

following the reaper wrote:

Been reading:

A History of Violence - John Wagner and Vince Locke

is the movie based on that book? if so i'd be interested in reading it

Yeah, the movie was good, starring Aragorn

But fuck it, I'm venturing off topic.

Rhys · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:13 pm

Wintermute wrote:

Yeah, the movie is based off of a (comic) book. Following the Reaper, how did you like Black Hole? I've been busy reading for school, mainly Red Hot and Righteous, which was a history of the Salvation Army, The Sheik which was a wacky rape fantasy that was popular for some reason, and currently I'm reading A Passage to India. I managed to work in some comic book reading by recently picked up the first Scott Pilgrim and Preacher. Scott Pilgrim was funny and, I don't know, heartwarming, I guess? I'm not too far into Preacher, though. I liked Garth Ennis's take on the Punisher, and I've heard good things about Preacher, so we'll see how it goes.

Black Hole is one of the best books I've ever read... I think I bought it and read it in one day, I couldn't put it down

Rhys · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:16 pm

On a semi-interesting side note, Road to Perdition is another well known movie based on a comic that wasn't marketed as such.

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

Well, I finally finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson after about a month. It starts off very well and has some great worldbuilding and explores some extremely interesting ideas, particularly concerning the nature of consciousness. Unfortunately, the characters are extremely flat and the plot only gets interesting about 750 hardcover pages in, making it a generally boring and disappointing read, which is too bad, because the world's premise is pretty awesome. 5/10

NR: Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind

Mintrude · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:12 pm

Just finished Batman: The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth

The Killing Joke is really good if way too short, Arkham Asylum needs a few more reads I think, it's a nightmare to follow 'cause of the art.

Skartasis · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:14 pm

Who's the artist on that one?

Mintrude · **Posted:** Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:00 pm

Skartasis wrote:

Who's the artist on that one?

Dave Mckean. It's great to look at, but I'll be damned if it doesn't make following the story a nightmare.

Rhys · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:15 am

Dave McKean has done a lot of stuff with Neil Gaiman hasn't he?

Mintrude · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:33 am

following the reaper wrote:

Dave McKean has done a lot of stuff with Neil Gaiman hasn't he?

Yeh, worked on Sandman. Did the Burn My Eyes cover too, for what it's worth.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:35 pm

Gonna start "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez soon, should be good. Although I'm reading it in German for school.
Also going to start The Scarlet Letter. It's about puritan hypocrisy, so right up my alley.

Finished Beloved. Great book, but the incessant symbolism and poetry got annoying sometimes.
Finished Andorra by Max Frisch. Incredible theater piece, really want to see it.

Goat · **Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:18 pm

Brahm_K wrote:

Well, I finally finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson after about a month.

Ooh, I started that the other day. Not bad so far, I keep expecting something epic to happen, but nothing yet. The Inquisitors have just arrived...

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

Zad wrote:

Brahm_K wrote:

Well, I finally finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson after about a month.

Ooh, I started that the other day. Not bad so far, I keep expecting something epic to happen, but nothing yet. The Inquisitors have just arrived...

Well, I'll definitely be interested to read your thoughts on it. Don't expect too much epicness, though, because its one of the slowest paced books I've ever read.

Azrael · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:26 am

i remember a while back i picked up "Quicksilver" by Stephenson, was barely able to finish book I.

still on "my name is red", after that i'll try to finish "american gods" (why the fuck not).

heatseeker · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:43 am

Azrael wrote:

after that i'll try to finish "american gods" (why the fuck not).

I found that difficult to finish as well. Never really hooked me in a way that I couldn't put it down, like a lot of books do. I still found it pretty decent overall, though.

Azrael · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:40 am

it's the "author's preferred text", probably unedited. now i know why there are editors in the first place

Goat · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:33 am

American Gods is pretty easygoing compared to this Stephenson chap. I found it fine, myself.

Rhys · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:05 pm

I got about three quarters of the way through Stephenson's Zodiac, really enjoyed it but gave up :S

Also Snow Crash rules :wub:

Wintermute · **Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:47 pm

Snow Crash is great. Main character's name is Hiro Protagonist who's a pizza deliverator for the mob and one of the villains is named Raven who has "poor impulse control" tattooed on his forehead, fights with glass knives, and rides around on a motorcycle where the sidecar is a hydrogen bomb that will go off when his heart stops. If that doesn't sell a book, I don't know what does.

Rhys · **Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:51 am

YT will sell books that's who :wub:

^_^

Seinfeld26 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:02 pm

traptunderice wrote:

Marcuse is but rarely do I get any time to read it while reading the other three for school. I hate Plato and I hate Kant.

Plato's dialogues are discussions that retarded monkeys would have. None of his rebuttals or arguments are legitimate while there are so many objections which could be made to what he is saying. Kant just rambles in the densest of wording whilst never actually saying based on empirical data just what he thinks how things are. I get that they are influential but it doesn't mean they aren't ridiculous.

Well, philosophy is a strange beast. Unlike science and especially mathematics, the word "proof" is basically non-existent in philosophy (the best you can have with it is "justification"). So what one person might deem "ridiculous" another might deem "completely reasonable and profound." Religion, which is a subset of philosophy, follows the same general principle.

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