What are you reading now?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:42 am

diego wrote: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.

I dunno, the book just entertains me and i feel its written well... Nothing specificly makes me go "omg gotta read more", just the book as a whole is good imo..

Its not for everybody, true, i just read it when i was younger, middle school or so, was required reading for history.. and i really liked the book...

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:05 pm

7zark7 wrote:
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.
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."

no mention of Choke?

It's his best

Post by **SplishSplash** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:09 pm

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins

Post by **menkent** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:30 pm

oh, forgot about Barthes' "Mythologies"... pretty dull read so far. never cared about french pro wrestling, not sure why i should start.

Post by **Jackal** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:58 pm

SOAPboy wrote:
diego wrote: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.
I dunno, the book just entertains me and i feel its written well... Nothing specificly makes me go "omg gotta read more", just the book as a whole is good imo..

Its not for everybody, true, i just read it when i was younger, middle school or so, was required reading for history.. and i really liked the book...

I'm picturing Soap sitting down in a coffee shop and coughing loudly to draw attention to himself as he pulls out his retarded book, thinking "Yeah, I'm so goth that I ligitimately read the works of Hitler". Then some older gentleman approaches and says "Do you know what the thesis statement of that book is?" and Soap says "........no, but I'm SO goth..."

Post by **Jackal** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:59 pm

or he holds the book up to "read" but instead of reading he's looking around at everyone else to see if they're recognizing how much of icor-bleeding goth he really is.

Post by **Hannibal** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:40 pm

Jackal wrote:or he holds the book up to "read" but instead of reading he's looking around at everyone else to see if they're recognizing how much of icor-bleeding goth he really is.

I actually conducted a mini-field study at a local Borders to document just that type of shit ('book posing' performances, not Gothness per se). Fun times.

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:49 pm

Jackal wrote:
SOAPboy wrote:
diego wrote: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.
I dunno, the book just entertains me and i feel its written well... Nothing specificly makes me go "omg gotta read more", just the book as a whole is good imo..

Its not for everybody, true, i just read it when i was younger, middle school or so, was required reading for history.. and i really liked the book...

I'm picturing Soap sitting down in a coffee shop and coughing loudly to draw attention to himself as he pulls out his retarded book, thinking "Yeah, I'm so goth that I ligitimately read the works of Hitler". Then some older gentleman approaches and says "Do you know what the thesis statement of that book is?" and Soap says "........no, but I'm SO goth..."

What's the book about anyways?

Post by **Jackal** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:52 pm

bitWISE wrote:
Jackal wrote:
SOAPboy wrote: I dunno, the book just entertains me and i feel its written well... Nothing specificly makes me go "omg gotta read more", just the book as a whole is good imo..

Its not for everybody, true, i just read it when i was younger, middle school or so, was required reading for history.. and i really liked the book...

I'm picturing Soap sitting down in a coffee shop and coughing loudly to draw attention to himself as he pulls out his retarded book, thinking "Yeah, I'm so goth that I ligitimately read the works of Hitler". Then some older gentleman approaches and says "Do you know what the thesis statement of that book is?" and Soap says "........no, but I'm SO goth..."
What's the book about anyways?

It's a skewed book on political philosphy that makes no sense at all.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:11 pm

from a psychological point of view i'd imagine it to be quite interesting, as a piece of literature i'd imagine it to be badly written trash

Post by **Jackal** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:14 pm

phantasmagoria wrote:from a psychological point of view i'd imagine it to be quite interesting, as a piece of literature i'd imagine it to be badly written trash

It's really not even that interesting from a psychological point of view. It's basically "all jews are fat sexual predators" "all good things come from the Aryan race", etc etc. I suppose it gives some insight into the man's insecurities but beyond that there's really not much there.

Granted I've also never read the whole thing, just various excerpts for certain classes here and there.

Post by **tnf** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:51 pm

Hannibal wrote:
Jackal wrote:or he holds the book up to "read" but instead of reading he's looking around at everyone else to see if they're recognizing how much of icor-bleeding goth he really is.
I actually conducted a mini-field study at a local Borders to document just that type of shit ('book posing' performances, not Gothness per se). Fun times.

Heh...I do the same thing every time I am at borders...looking around to see who is prominently displaying the title of their book, guys with "Advanced Gravitational Theory" or whatever...seen some guys that do a lot of coughing, etc, to draw attention to themselves.

Good stuff.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:54 pm

Careful Jackal, it looks like you trying to pass off you "opinion" as "fact."

Post by **sliver** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:25 pm

corsair wrote:

If I didn't know you were some 30-year old programmer cunt, I would assume you were 12.

I just finished The Da Vinci Code, which I persevered through only because I thought I should know what all the fuss was about. It was complete shit and I'm sorry I wasted the three hours to plow through it.

I also recently finished Faith of the Fallen, by Terry Goodkind, which is further evidence that his once-proud fantasy series is deteriorating.

Currently I'm between the covers on The Great Gatsby, as well as Cry The Beloved Country (by Alan Paton). As it happens, those books have two of the very best endings in the history of English literature.

Post by **sliver** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:29 pm

o'dium wrote:Careful Jackal, it looks like you trying to pass off you "opinion" as "fact."

It's pretty generally accepted that Mein Kampf is not a pillar of quality literature. If you're going to criticize Jackal, tell him to learn to spell ichor.

phantasmagoria wrote: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

I read a bunch of those when I was younger, and enjoyed them quite a bit. PA's "Phaze" series was pretty interesting too.

Post by **corsair** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:39 pm

lol get laid

Post by **sliver** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:12 am

haha right, this coming from the guy with STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY on his bookshelf

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:17 am

I've been reading some horror short stories online to kill some time here and there lately.

My only problem is that every time I've bought a horror/ghost novel I'm always really disapointed because they're never written well, are not scary, and seem to be pointed at a middle school aged audience.

Anyone have any suggestions for books that are scary?
No Stephen King suggestions please, I read Pet Cemetary a few years ago and it was trash. I told myself I'd never waste anymore time and money on him after that.

A friend suggested H.P. Lovecraft, which I may look into.

Post by **kapitalkev** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:26 am

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Post by **sliver** » Fri May 26, 2006 1:16 am

ctrlnuke wrote:I've been reading some horror short stories online to kill some time here and there lately.

My only problem is that every time I've bought a horror/ghost novel I'm always really disapointed because they're never written well, are not scary, and seem to be pointed at a middle school aged audience.

Anyone have any suggestions for books that are scary?
No Stephen King suggestions please, I read Pet Cemetary a few years ago and it was trash. I told myself I'd never waste anymore time and money on him after that.

A friend suggested H.P. Lovecraft, which I may look into.

"The Relic" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It's the only book that's ever actually scared me -- although that was in grade 10 or 11, but it's still worth a shot.

They also wrote "Thunderhead" and "Riptide" together, both of which are decent thrillers.

Post by **Hannibal** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:20 am

ctrlnuke wrote: Anyone have any suggestions for books that are scary?

A good collection of short stories is Clive Barker's "Books of Blood"...I think there's a single edition out now for about $10 which contains all 3 volumes. Scary? I'm not sure I'd use that word.....unsettling, disturbing----> you betcha.

Post by **menkent** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:35 am

some of those star wars books are pretty fun... they're like fast food - tastes good, but only in small quantities. i get them as audiobooks for road trips where i don't want anything too interesting to distract from driving etc but with enough intrigue to keep me awake ^o^

edit: and some (most) of them are total shit.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:50 am

Jackal wrote:
SOAPboy wrote:
diego wrote: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.
I dunno, the book just entertains me and i feel its written well... Nothing specificly makes me go "omg gotta read more", just the book as a whole is good imo..

Its not for everybody, true, i just read it when i was younger, middle school or so, was required reading for history.. and i really liked the book...

I'm picturing Soap sitting down in a coffee shop and coughing loudly to draw attention to himself as he pulls out his retarded book, thinking "Yeah, I'm so goth that I ligitimately read the works of Hitler". Then some older gentleman approaches and says "Do you know what the thesis statement of that book is?" and Soap says "........no, but I'm SO goth..."

You must of missed the clue train..

1) My opinion is that its a good book, you cant tell me i cant have an opinion

2) Im not goth, then again like most things you post, you just happen to be jumping on the bandwagon and trying to look cool trolling peoples posts

3) It wouldnt matter WHAT book i was reading currently, you somehow would find a way to make fun of it. Even assuming it was a widly accepted novel, you STILL would try to say something about it..

4) I dont goto and havent stepped into a coffee shop in years, at MOST when im at barnes and noble, ill grab a coffee on the way out. GO ME!

Then you turn around and say

Jackal wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:from a psychological point of view i'd imagine it to be quite interesting, as a piece of literature i'd imagine it to be badly written trash
It's really not even that interesting from a psychological point of view. It's basically "all jews are fat sexual predators" "all good things come from the Aryan race", etc etc. I suppose it gives some insight into the man's insecurities but beyond that there's really not much there.

Granted I've also never read the whole thing, just various excerpts for certain classes here and there.

You havent even read the whole fucking thing and you're trying push it off as a total crap book.

You fail at trolling. Again.

Post by **menkent** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:07 am

except that he's right. it's a shit book unless you're really obsessed with psychoanalyzing insecure demagogues, and even then it's a pretty painful read (unless you're reading a pretty forgiving translation) =\

Post by **SOAPboy** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:30 am

menkent wrote:except that he's right. it's a shit book unless you're really obsessed with psychoanalyzing insecure demagogues, and even then it's a pretty painful read (unless you're reading a pretty forgiving translation) =\

Again tho, its opinions..

Some people might think Stephan King is the writes the best books, while i think hes a total tool anymore...

Im far from wrong, since were not stating facts here..

And translations never bothered me, i still understand whats being said *shrug.