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Books? - Sasso - 03-13-2017
Let's start a thread about books and what we're reading, because a forum for an online sex mmo is the perfect place for that
I wanted to start this thread because yesterday my brother lent me a few books to read/finish reading (My brothers a pretty big reader. He just finished memoirs of a geisha). I slacked off on reading for most of 2015/2016, and my own personal reading will probably be a bit slow because I have to read my university books first.
Here's a list of things I have just read, am reading now, or will read when I finish something else.
Reading now:
-Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Will read:
-We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Most of the required readings for university are plays, because my degree is in theatre. Reading plays isn't nearly as satisfying as watching them. Plays are a blueprint for a show (I think Harold Pinter said that. Probably. He said a lot of stuff).
RE: Books? - Alexa_Darkness - 03-13-2017
I'm Reading the:- Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung
RE: Books? - Saeko-JP - 03-13-2017
Actually I'm reading this amazing book
-----> Voyage au centre de la Terre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaje_al_centro_de_la_Tierra, to more details and possible, read it n.n
RE: Books? - GuyByThePond - 03-13-2017
I'm currently reading "A song of Stone" by Iain Banks.
It's not a Iain M Banks, so it's not a "Culture" story (best Sci Fi there is !), but oh my god this guy writes so well...
RE: Books? - malod - 03-13-2017
in my life i read only sage "Witcher".
RE: Books? - Laudo - 03-13-2017
I love Bernard Cornwell's books, "The Saxon Chronicles" were excellent.
RE: Books? - carmyli - 03-15-2017
I'm currently reading Cold Harbour Jack Higgins -books-
(Thriller, espionage, mystery)
RE: Books? - GuyByThePond - 03-16-2017
#40 + Books I’d bring in a desert island
US :
- Cormac Mc Carthy : The road => a very big kick in your face
- James Ellroy: The L.A. quartet, Underworld USA trilogy, Killer on the road => best crime fiction
- Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama => capturing the 80’s and 90’s zeitgeist
- Robert Jordan: The wheel of time saga => best fantasy
- Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance => blow your mind in tiny bits
- Philip K Dick: A scanner darkly, Ubik => holy shit !
- Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates, On Stranger Tides => minor books, great fun
- Dan Simmons: Hyperion, Illium => second best Sci Fi
- Frank Miller: Dark Knight, Daredevil renaissance, 300, Sin City (graphic novels) => if Elroy had been a comic book author
- Terry Pratchett: discworld series, Good omens (with Neil Gaiman) => LMAO !
- Neil Gaiman: Good omens (with Terry Pratchett), American Gods, Neverwhere, Sandman (graphic novel) => modern mythology
- Iain M Banks: culture series => best Sci Fi
- Iain Banks: The bridge => best book of one of the best UK writers
- JRR Tolkien: Bilbo the hobbit, Lord of the rings => a fantasy classic
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter Saga => a fantasy classic that does not know it’s fantasy
- Alan Moore: V for Vendetta, Watchmen (graphic novels) => making comic books an art form
- Grant Morrison: Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles (graphic novels) => Tarantino gone comics
- Maurice G. Dantec: La sirène rouge, Les racines du mal, Babylon babies => the twilight of a millenia, the dawn of another… and another very big kick in your face
- Michel Houellebecq: extension du domaine de la lutte, les particules élémentaires => capturing the zeitgeist of the 00’s
- Antoine Buéno : le soupir de l’immortel => capturing the zeitgeist of the future
- Guillaume Dustan : Nicolas Pages => autofiction I liked
- Frédéric Beigbeder : L’amour dure 3 ans => a minor book with a major influence on me
- Joseph Kessel : une balle perdue => my first contact with “serious” literature
- Marcel Proust: à la recherche du temps perdu => so much style
- Albert Cohen : Belle du seigneur => best romance I ever read
- Albert Camus: L’étranger => ever felt alien ?
- Caryl Ferey: all his works => a fucking talented writer
- Daniel Pennac: La saga Malaussène => MDR ! (french for LMAO)
- Jean d’Ormesson : la douane de mer => I needed a writer from the french academy
- Alain Ayroles : de cape et de crocs (comic books) => Molière and Alexandre Dumas gone comics !
- Haruki Murakami (Japan): A Wild Sheep Chase => this guy will be nobel prize of literature
- Eiji Yoshikawa (Japan): Musashi => capturing what bushido is about
- Yukito Kishiro (Japan): Gunnm => Cyberpunk gone manga
- Kazuo Koike (Japan) : Lone Wolf and Cub => Bushido gone manga
- S.P. Somtow (Thailand) : Dragon’s fin soup and other novels => sanuk !
- Jose Saramago (Portugal): Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, Ensaio sobre a Lucidez => this guy is nobel prize of literature
- Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) : all his works ! => more than 50 writers in one guy
- Luis Sepulveda (Chile): Un viejo que leía novelas de amor => an easy and fun way to get in the world of south american literature
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia): El amor en los tiempos del cólera => another nobel prize of literature
- Rodrigo Fresan (Argentina): Mantra => Mexican pop culture gone big literature
RE: Books? - Allyn - 03-16-2017
Educational Book Included ?
RE: Books? - Sasso - 03-20-2017
Just finished Heart of a dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. I'd probably have a better opinion if it didn't take me months to read (It's not even very long, I just would forget about it for long stretches at a time).
In brief, a dog called Sharikov is subject of an operation by a doctor called Philip Philippovich Preobrazhensky, who removes and replaces the dog's testicles and pituitary gland with that of a human's. Sharikov then slowly over time begins to walk, then talk like a human, until he eventually transforms into a fully grown man and refers to himself as Poligraph Poligraphovich, and makes a right menace of himself in the doctors home.
Heart of a dog is often seen as a satairisation of the soviet union (the book was written in 1925) and how something can be created then lost complete control of. I personally would probably need a second reading to really appreciate the political meanings in the story, although in retrospect I can definitely see them there.
I'm looking to finish Metro 2033 next. I have it because my brother bought it for me in Australia because the game was pretty rad.