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You're 16 and still reading childrens books?
When I was 12 and read my first Stephen King book I realised how awesome reading can be.
I was forced to read **** by Cornelia Funke at school
Note: I said favs.
Note: I said alot.
O **** those books are awesome, and they also take eons to read. Robert Jordan is a lightweight compared to this guy.
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Haven't been reading much, I want the new Pynchon novel to come out.
Of late I've been devouring Sarah Vowell, a humorous essayist who also does stuff for NPR. I've recently read Take the Cannoli, The Partly Cloudy Patriot and Assassination Vacation (which is a book rather than a collection of essays like the other two), and they all rocked.
~Jason
~Jason
Read I am Legend recently.
I was surprised how strangely upset I get when Ben Cortman is killed. The story was really effective in sucking you into Neville's world, and the strange dependency he had developed with his vampire neighbor was damn heart wrenching.
Lizard Of Oz
Demented Avenger
"With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa"
by E.B. Sledge
8/10
The up-coming HBO series "The Pacific" is based partly on this book.
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by E.B. Sledge
8/10
The up-coming HBO series "The Pacific" is based partly on this book.
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The Andromeda strain 7.5/10
It just didn't turn out how I expected it to be, it ended too quickly.
Good read, though.
It just didn't turn out how I expected it to be, it ended too quickly.
Good read, though.
I agree. Especially the bit with neville laughing so hard, when he compared cortman to oliver hardy. Off all the things he could think off, at that moment, with this person, in that desperate situation. And finally how stricken he is with it all. Neville is a strong character in the book, compared to the movie. Don't get me wrong, it's not that will smith does a bad job.
But it's so diferent. Neville isn't military (anymore), he isn't a scientist. He's all alone. Day in, day out. The same tedious chores, worries. The same headaches, desperation, continuation of a seemingly neverending nightmare.
How he spends each evening, the same rituals over and over again.
And the bit with the dog. That struck me. It's much more intense compared to the movie version. It's a poor stray neville tries to look after, and when he finally gets the chance... It's already too late.
Or Neville's watch which has stopped, and the sudden intense feeling of fear and horror. Him barely making it inside, but his feelings of anger pushing him back out there. And before it's almost too late, his survival instincts finally kick back in. Fantastic.
The ending is also WAAAAY better. The movie ending was very weak and unsatisfying. The book is total opposite, afaic. It's just perfect.
It's the whole, really. I've read "I am legend" at least three times in a couple of months. And I would do it again.
But it's so diferent. Neville isn't military (anymore), he isn't a scientist. He's all alone. Day in, day out. The same tedious chores, worries. The same headaches, desperation, continuation of a seemingly neverending nightmare.
How he spends each evening, the same rituals over and over again.
And the bit with the dog. That struck me. It's much more intense compared to the movie version. It's a poor stray neville tries to look after, and when he finally gets the chance... It's already too late.
Or Neville's watch which has stopped, and the sudden intense feeling of fear and horror. Him barely making it inside, but his feelings of anger pushing him back out there. And before it's almost too late, his survival instincts finally kick back in. Fantastic.
The ending is also WAAAAY better. The movie ending was very weak and unsatisfying. The book is total opposite, afaic. It's just perfect.
It's the whole, really. I've read "I am legend" at least three times in a couple of months. And I would do it again.
read quite a bit of French books, but I don't think it would fit in here, so here's the latest english book I've finished reading :
Silence of the lamb
very good read, you can feel how each character acts accordingly to his situation/principles... Much twists, lots of smart thinking, and a couple of dead ends in the investigation making it feel more believable.
In comparison, I might say that the book feels like the extended version of the movie. The movie was really well done, very faithful to the book but changing things to be considered a good movie.
I'd recommend reading the book, as well as the rest of the hannibal series.
I've just begun reading the millenium books, it should take a while
Silence of the lamb
very good read, you can feel how each character acts accordingly to his situation/principles... Much twists, lots of smart thinking, and a couple of dead ends in the investigation making it feel more believable.
In comparison, I might say that the book feels like the extended version of the movie. The movie was really well done, very faithful to the book but changing things to be considered a good movie.
I'd recommend reading the book, as well as the rest of the hannibal series.
I've just begun reading the millenium books, it should take a while
Hans Weiss - Mein Vater, der Krieg und ich
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Hermann Kant - Kino
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Andrzej Szczypiorski - Die schöne Frau Seidenman
Jakob Hein - Formen menschlichen Zusammenlebens
H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
Harvey Pekar & Anne Elizabeth Moore - The Best American Comics 2006
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
James Joyce - Dubliners
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
John Steinbeck - The Red Pony
Imre Kertész - Ich, ein anderer
Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook
Rudyard Kipling - The Light that Failed
Tennessee Williams - Four Plays (Summer & Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Sumer, Period of Adjustment)
Friedrich Schiller - Kabale und Liebe
Leander Haußmann & Boris Naujoks - Die wahre Geschichte von Kabale und Liebe
Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man
Rainer Maria Rilke - Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Paul Auster - The Brooklyn Follies
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Henry David Thoreau - Walden and Other Writings
August Strindberg - Am offenen Meer
Anna Seghers - Das siebte Kreuz
Theodor Storm - Geschichten aus der Tonne
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Hermann Kant - Kino
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Andrzej Szczypiorski - Die schöne Frau Seidenman
Jakob Hein - Formen menschlichen Zusammenlebens
H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
Harvey Pekar & Anne Elizabeth Moore - The Best American Comics 2006
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
James Joyce - Dubliners
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
John Steinbeck - The Red Pony
Imre Kertész - Ich, ein anderer
Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook
Rudyard Kipling - The Light that Failed
Tennessee Williams - Four Plays (Summer & Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Sumer, Period of Adjustment)
Friedrich Schiller - Kabale und Liebe
Leander Haußmann & Boris Naujoks - Die wahre Geschichte von Kabale und Liebe
Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man
Rainer Maria Rilke - Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Paul Auster - The Brooklyn Follies
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Henry David Thoreau - Walden and Other Writings
August Strindberg - Am offenen Meer
Anna Seghers - Das siebte Kreuz
Theodor Storm - Geschichten aus der Tonne
The Stand
Stephen king book, and a long one at that (I read the Longer Uncut print from 1990). I enjoyed it, but I can't help but feeling that the Las Vegas Climax was a little rushed. Some things about the ending didn't work for me, but overall it's a fun read. King knows how to tell a curious story, that's for sure.
I'll probably continue my trend of reading Stephen King books (since I've only ever actually read a few in my time, and I kind of regret that).
Stephen king book, and a long one at that (I read the Longer Uncut print from 1990). I enjoyed it, but I can't help but feeling that the Las Vegas Climax was a little rushed. Some things about the ending didn't work for me, but overall it's a fun read. King knows how to tell a curious story, that's for sure.
My favorite segment was the meat of the Boulder section, starting from when Harold reads the diary and flips out to the housebomb that kills Nick. I don't think the Randal Flagg section got enough of a duration, though. And the "Yay, God happens!" ending was kind of a cop out. Throughout the story there was this constant feeling of underlining dread, but once the housebomb part that kind of dissolves. Kind of lost the tension after that and I was surprised how predictably everything played put.
I'll probably continue my trend of reading Stephen King books (since I've only ever actually read a few in my time, and I kind of regret that).
Strangely I prefer his Bachmann outings more, especially 'The Running Man' and 'The Long Walk'.
Well I recently read The Dragonlance Chronicals -
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Great trilogy. Came out in the 1980's, and based out of D&D characters.
Right now, I'm finishing up book three of the Legends trilogy, also by Dragonlance. This is the end of the Saga, as the Chronicals are unofficailly the first.
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins.
Once I'm done with Test of the Twins, I'm going to be reading The Immortals.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Great trilogy. Came out in the 1980's, and based out of D&D characters.
Right now, I'm finishing up book three of the Legends trilogy, also by Dragonlance. This is the end of the Saga, as the Chronicals are unofficailly the first.
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins.
Once I'm done with Test of the Twins, I'm going to be reading The Immortals.
Rate the Last Book You Read
Carl Sagan's Billions and Billions - 8/10
It's a nonfiction book in which Carl Sagan covers a wide range of subjects from space exploration, to military expenses, to thoughts on abortion. Even though it is a rather scientific book, Sagan is surprisingly eloquent, and it was a pleasure to read.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - 7/10
This book was weird. I wouldn't really call it a story either, because none of the characters felt like a protagonist, and there wasn't an antagonist either. It was more an exploration of feelings, tones, and ideas (similar to Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket or 2001 in that regard). The writing was enjoyable, but the newspeak lexicon felt too limited—"pneumatic" and "surrogate" were particularly common—especially in comparison to the variety in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Still worth reading though.
Carl Sagan's Billions and Billions - 8/10
It's a nonfiction book in which Carl Sagan covers a wide range of subjects from space exploration, to military expenses, to thoughts on abortion. Even though it is a rather scientific book, Sagan is surprisingly eloquent, and it was a pleasure to read.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - 7/10
This book was weird. I wouldn't really call it a story either, because none of the characters felt like a protagonist, and there wasn't an antagonist either. It was more an exploration of feelings, tones, and ideas (similar to Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket or 2001 in that regard). The writing was enjoyable, but the newspeak lexicon felt too limited—"pneumatic" and "surrogate" were particularly common—especially in comparison to the variety in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Still worth reading though.
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We had some kind of book thread, I guess it died when the servers did and no one cared enough to remake it.
It's still here:
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=173869
Want me to merge the threads?
And done...
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=173869
Want me to merge the threads?
And done...
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