Books motherfuckers, do you read them?

[Eschatos]

I'm starting A Confederacy of Dunces and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.  Just finished Home From Nowhere by James Kunstler, it's an interesting book about a bunch of problems with America and their root in suburbs and cars.

[fyre]

I recently reread Chesterton's The Man who was Thursday. It's one of my favorites.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. 

Great book.

[Surf314]

I finished catching up on some trades.  Jack of Fables vol 3 was pretty awesome as usual.  Northlanders was epic.  Norse fiction done right.  The Black Dossier was Alan Moore being Hyper-intellectual as he has gotten lately.  Seems to be more about testing the bounds of media and different genres than writing a decent story lately.

Now I just started on Terry Pratchett's book Nation which seems to not be a discworld novel but has a pretty epic opening.  I wonder why more author's don't have the balls to write an awesome bit of origin mythology for their fantasy worlds.

[bjlsurfer]

We just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad this week in my AP Lit class.  Holy shit is this book packed with all sorts of symbolism and hidden meanings.  If you enjoy analyzing what you read, be sure to pick this one up, if not, well it makes a fairly short and interesting read.

Also read in ap lit.  QFT.

[Surf314]

Nation was really good.  I'd recommend it.

[Surf314]

Reading Dune, it's amazing how much shit was stolen from this book in sci-fi.

[copulatingduck]

Reading Dune, it's amazing how much shit was stolen from this book in sci-fi.

I will be surprised if you are not sick of Frank Herbert by the fourth book.  Great series for the first few installments though 8)

edit: knowing you, you'll probably like the later stuff :|

[Surf314]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1145.msg52808#msg52808 date=1228322285]
Reading Dune, it's amazing how much shit was stolen from this book in sci-fi.

I will be surprised if you are not sick of Frank Herbert by the fourth book.  Great series for the first few installments though 8)

edit: knowing you, you'll probably like the later stuff :|
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Whats that supposed to mean  >

[copulatingduck]

[quote author=CopulatingDuck link=topic=1145.msg52825#msg52825 date=1228328961]
[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1145.msg52808#msg52808 date=1228322285]
Reading Dune, it's amazing how much shit was stolen from this book in sci-fi.

I will be surprised if you are not sick of Frank Herbert by the fourth book.  Great series for the first few installments though 8)

edit: knowing you, you'll probably like the later stuff :|
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Whats that supposed to mean  >
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it's got metaphysics and shit yo

dunno. if you just google dune series goes downhill, tons of people were drawn in by the sci-fi of the first, but turned off by the lack of anything but semantics, metaphysics, and the most abstract branches of philosophy that herbert wanked about in later books. that and his son sullies the family name with those prequels he writes with anderson.

[Squishy3]

Okay, I just finished reading Deep Storm by Lincoln Child, and it's a pretty goddamn good book if I do say so myself.

[KarthXLR]

Just got done with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Extremely funny and insane. 5 outta 5.

[Chooly]

So latly I've been on a real post-apocalyptic kick (has nothing to do with fallout 3 and the map I'm making, I swear!) which made me wonder the books of that nature I should pick up... Graphic Novels as well if you guys know of any

[Surf314]

So latly I've been on a real post-apocalyptic kick (has nothing to do with fallout 3 and the map I'm making, I swear!) which made me wonder the books of that nature I should pick up... Graphic Novels as well if you guys know of any

WWZ of course, hmm I just can't think of anything else.  I heard The Road is epic.

[x]

I heard The Road is epic.

Kinda. Plot is minimalist in the extreme and the character 'development' between the boy and his father drags at points as it covers the same ground repeatedly. Still an enjoyable read.

I Am Legend was a cool book. Nailed that isolation thing perfectly.

[Eschatos]

So latly I've been on a real post-apocalyptic kick (has nothing to do with fallout 3 and the map I'm making, I swear!) which made me wonder the books of that nature I should pick up... Graphic Novels as well if you guys know of any

Try Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen.  It's kinda post-post-post apocalyptic though.

[fyre]

[quote author=Chooly link=topic=1145.msg57048#msg57048 date=1229810236]
So latly I've been on a real post-apocalyptic kick (has nothing to do with fallout 3 and the map I'm making, I swear!) which made me wonder the books of that nature I should pick up... Graphic Novels as well if you guys know of any

WWZ of course, hmm I just can't think of anything else.  I heard The Road is epic.
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I just read WWZ. It was good. I read The Road a few months ago, and I thought it was excellent.

[KarthXLR]

Finished up The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (Hitchhiker's guide part 2)

Just as funny and zany as the first book. I highly recommend.

[fyre]

Finished up The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (Hitchhiker's guide part 2)

Just as funny and zany as the first book. I highly recommend.

When you're done with the Hitchhiker's "Trilogy", you should read his Dirk Gently books.

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

[quote author=Karthmas link=topic=1145.msg57097#msg57097 date=1229828651]
Finished up The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (Hitchhiker's guide part 2)

Just as funny and zany as the first book. I highly recommend.

When you're done with the Hitchhiker's "Trilogy", you should read his Dirk Gently books.
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That and Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller (similar style of humor.)

[fyre]

[quote author=fyre link=topic=1145.msg57101#msg57101 date=1229829043]
[quote author=Karthmas link=topic=1145.msg57097#msg57097 date=1229828651]
Finished up The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (Hitchhiker's guide part 2)

Just as funny and zany as the first book. I highly recommend.

When you're done with the Hitchhiker's "Trilogy", you should read his Dirk Gently books.
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That and Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller (similar style of humor.)
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Yup. Also, anything by Terry Pratchett. Good Omens might be a good one to start with. It's not a Discworld book, but it is awesome. It's also a good introduction to Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote it with Pratchett.