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Eraser wrote:
Don Carlos wrote:The World According to Clarkson
Clarkson as in Jeremy "GT40" Clarkson?
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Post by diego »

SOAPboy wrote:Whats funny about that? its a good book..
No, it's definitely not.
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Post by mik0rs »

Having read a bit of it and planning to grab a copy eventually, I wouldn't be using the word "good" either... interesting, intriguing... but not good.


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Post by diego »

exactly mike - it's interesting from a historic point of view, but nowhere near "good".

Currently reading Nietzsche's collected works since I currently suffer from a pretty bad Insomnia.
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and also, just finished reading Nyarlathotep, by H.P. Lovecraft;

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lo ... thotep.htm
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Post by o'dium »

I dont read enough. I re-read Jurassic Park a year ago, simply because compared to the film its amazingly well done. If the film had even half of what the book had it would of owned.

But i dont really read as much as i should I have a lot of books, i just never seem to get the time.
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Post by SOAPboy »

diego wrote:
SOAPboy wrote:Whats funny about that? its a good book..
No, it's definitely not.
Its interesting
It keeps me entertained
Its well written

Id say thats "good"

did i say it deserves all kinds of awards? no. did i say it was ZOMG BEST BOOK EVER? no.

Its a "Good" book, no more no less.
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Post by werldhed »

Tales of the Arabian Nights (which isn't nearly as good as everyone seems to make it out to be)

Devil In the White City by Erik Larson
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Post by diego »

"Mein Kampf" well written???

Dude, that says alot about your age, experience, whatever.
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Post by Jackal »

diego wrote:"Mein Kampf" well written???

Dude, that says alot about your age, experience, whatever.
It's the classic amateur approach of "This book is controversial so it must be good", when in fact it's terribly written and filled with misinformation and contradictions.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/093175 ... e&n=283155

this guy give me the bumps since i was a tyker :drool:
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Post by Ryoki »

Jackal wrote:in fact it's terribly written and filled with misinformation and contradictions.
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I thought it was a ridiculous book.
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kinda like the author then
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Astrophysics :(
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Post by diego »

Okay Soapboi, I wanna delve into this a little further: What exactly is "well written" and what "keeps you interested" in that book? Is it its complexity of twisted and distorted "historical" facts which A. Hitler put together quite randomly?

I'm just posting this to get a stab at you, so feel free to show off.
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Post by 7zark7 »

Home Book:

Layer Cake by J. J. Connolly

Havent seen the moovie, herd it was good, I figured I read the book first.

Work Book:
Porno by Irvine Welsh. The sequal to trainspotting... Its my second reading of it.

I like english writers. :shrug:
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you should pick up a book about UBB coding >:E
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MKJ wrote:you should pick up a book about UBB coding >:E

fuck it :mad: :confused: :mad:
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*smooch* :D
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**Lubes and re-inserts.
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Post by phantasmagoria »

I'm reading the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony, they're not brilliantly written, but I like the way all the books relate to each other and the family relations and ties between characters. Plus I really like the girl that's lent them to me <3

Next I'm going to read The Magus by John Fowles
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Post by ScooterG »

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.... FanTAStic ending!!!!

I want to read Choke and Survivor next....
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ScooterG wrote:Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.... FanTAStic ending!!!!

I want to read Choke and Survivor next....
Im a huge Chuck fan.. got most of them in soft and hard cover...Always buy both, and reprints for alt. covers.


Survivor is great... Its actually his first book.
Beautiful monsters should be the next one in line to be made into a film afaik.
I highly recommend his newest book, Haunted.
its a bunch of short stories woven through a larger story... I say its one of his best of all.

Diary is fucking stellar too. If youre an art student. :paranoid:
It has my fav chuck line of all time.

" Everytime some well meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent, and that you are a failure at the one dream you ever had....take another drink."

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Post by Dek »

Just got done reading

Much ado about Nothing.
Othello
War of the Worlds
and
Frankenstein


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Post by menkent »

finished reading tom clancy's "Rainbow Six" last week... cute stuff, fun read.
next up, once i finish writing a paper, is John Stewart's "America: The Book" and then I'ma finish translating Brussig's "Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee" into engrish (for fun really, nobody gives enough of a shit about that book to publish a translation, despite the film etc).
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