Books motherfuckers, do you read them?

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

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I'm reading Jurassic Park right now.

It's a lot different than the movie so far.

Spoiler: Its also a lot better 
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For sure. Sucks they didn't include the aviary scene in the film. That was my favorite part of the book

[Surf314]

Has anyone else read Battle Royale?  What a mind fuck of a book.  Better than the movie.

[exanimo]

Has anyone else read Battle Royale?  What a mind fuck of a book.  Better than the movie.

Mos Def.

[Master Shake]

Read it if you want to know about your brain and technology dealing with "real intelligence" compared to artificial intelligence.

[1Trace1]

Just picked up this

I believe it's the first part of the story involving Felix Castor, so before Vicious Circle. It's great so far, read it if you like horror mixed with humor and noir.

[Surf314]

Just picked up this

I believe it's the first part of the story involving Felix Castor, so before Vicious Circle. It's great so far, read it if you like horror mixed with humor and noir.

Hell yea!!!  This is the series I keep blathering on and on about.  I just finished book 3 which is only available in england and if you are lucky amazon re-sellers.  The 4th book is about to come out in England so I'm going to have to figure out the best way to import.  The third book is as good as the first and the second is better than both.

[hawtpawkithero]

BUY THIS BOOK.

It's narrated by Death, and it follows a German during the late 1930s and on as she grows up.
Death is intrigued by this girl, and so follows her, detailing her life in his own grim way.
The most fascinating things in this book have to be that:
A) Death is narrating it and he describes all he sees by the colors of the sky (In the one part he describes Stalingrad's sky as though it is pure-white like freshly bleached sheets, and every day it is soaked in blood, little bit by little bit, and then re-bleached over and over).
B) About the holocaust, but instead of the protagonist being a Jew, it's a German.

[Surf314]

Anyone read any "hard" sci-fi?  I wanted to check out Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov and didn't know where to start.

[Greatbacon]

Anyone read any "hard" sci-fi?  I wanted to check out Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov and didn't know where to start.

I'm rather partial to "hard" sci-fi.  My dad had a lot left over form his college days.  For Clarke I'd recommend starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and if you like it, there's 3 more books where that came from.  As for Asimov, I'm partial to his Foundation trilogy, which is like the fall of ancient Rome, but in space. 

[1Trace1]

I forgot to recommend Dune by Frank Herbert. Was one of the first scifi/fantasy books I read and still one of my favorites ;D Unfortunately I lost interest in the series after Dune   

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

Thinking of picking this up. Anyone know if it's as good as the game?

[copulatingduck]

I forgot to recommend Dune by Frank Herbert. Was one of the first scifi/fantasy books I read and still one of my favorites ;D Unfortunately I lost interest in the series after Dune   

Rofl. The first 2 are very good, the 3rd is shaky at best. The rest are shit as they're so ridiculously convoluted, I swear it takes a degree in philosophy to wrap your head around some of the later books. Once Frank died, his son picked up the franchise, and while I've never read one of them, I've heard those are garbage as well. But yes, early Dune = win 

[Surf314]

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Anyone read any "hard" sci-fi?  I wanted to check out Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov and didn't know where to start.

I'm rather partial to "hard" sci-fi.  My dad had a lot left over form his college days.  For Clarke I'd recommend starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and if you like it, there's 3 more books where that came from.  As for Asimov, I'm partial to his Foundation trilogy, which is like the fall of ancient Rome, but in space. 
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IN SPACE

[exanimo]

What I'm currently reading for school:

The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
Various Poems - William Blake (Really good)
William Wycherley - The Country Wife

[bjlsurfer]

Just finished Watchmen, fucking awesome.  Can't wait for the movie, even though I know it can't be as good as the book/graphic novel/whatever.

Next on my list:
Dubliners (for school)
Life of Pi
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

Anybody read any of these^ ?

[copulatingduck]

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[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1145.msg36701#msg36701 date=1220711603]
Anyone read any "hard" sci-fi?  I wanted to check out Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov and didn't know where to start.

I'm rather partial to "hard" sci-fi.  My dad had a lot left over form his college days.  For Clarke I'd recommend starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and if you like it, there's 3 more books where that came from.  As for Asimov, I'm partial to his Foundation trilogy, which is like the fall of ancient Rome, but in space. 
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IN SPACE
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This one is surprisingly good (reading it right now) :

[Eschatos]

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[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1145.msg36701#msg36701 date=1220711603]
Anyone read any "hard" sci-fi?  I wanted to check out Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov and didn't know where to start.

I'm rather partial to "hard" sci-fi.  My dad had a lot left over form his college days.  For Clarke I'd recommend starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and if you like it, there's 3 more books where that came from.  As for Asimov, I'm partial to his Foundation trilogy, which is like the fall of ancient Rome, but in space. 
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IN SPACE
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This one is surprisingly good (reading it right now) :


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Duck's a furry? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Squishy3]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Fuck yeah. These books royally screwed up my childhood, I still have no idea why they were in the childrens section at the library/Barnes and Noble. I need to dig these up again when I get home.

[Lia1878]

Seriously, the best zombie novel I have ever read. Trust me, when someone is called the Studs Terkel of Zombie Journalism, you know it's going to be good.

I'm surprised no one here mentioned non-fiction or philosophy.

Oh, and definitely, the Ender's Series by Orson Scott Card . I hear they are making this into a movie, but i'm too lazy to spend thirty seconds finding out the answer. *Ah, apathy...

[exanimo]

Ianki and I read philosophy.

I really <3 you Ianki.