Ok, I just finished reading a series of good books. Heres a list,
1)Looking for Alaska
2)Impulse
3)Burned
All three are great. No lie, they're the kind of books that give you lessons and make you cry at the same time. Im not one to cry but at the end of Impulse and Burned, a single tear streamed down my manly face. And in the middle of Looking for Alaska I got pretty choked up. Number 2 and 3 are very intense. I dont suggest you read them if you cant face life's issues. And number 1 is just a flat out good book. One of the best Ive read in a long time.
Any who, if you guys want to discuss some good books you've read lately or ever, or just talk about the books. POST IT HERE!
Well, a topic I previously started was about Daniel Quinn's books. Therefore, I don't think I need to explain Ishmael to you guys. ;)
I'm slaving away to finish the Stephen King collection by 2009.
43 books left to go. I can put away the 400 pagers in a week or less, depending on my momentum.
But on to the specific book talk. I just finished Christine. It was a really suspenseful book.
I'm reading Russell Brand's Autobiography:
My Booky Wook.
It's great.
I read Acceleration by Graham McNamee. It was good. It had serial killers, child abuse, animal abuse, people dying... I personally really liked it. It was about a murderer who lost his diary on the Subway, and a kid who was helping to run the Lost and Found there found it. At first he thought it was a joke, but...
Oh, and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher was really good. It's about a girl who killed herself. She recorded 8 tapes, each side having a different reason for why she killed herself-different people. And they were to be shipped in order to the next person. It's from the point of view of her secret admirer.
I love Stephen King. I watch a lot of his movies but the only two books by him that Ive read are The Shining and The Long Walk. Acceleration sounded good! I might look for that one at Barnes and Noble. Impulse has a lot of suicide and death in it. The books by Helen Hopkins are usually very intense. Thirteen Reasons Why sounded cool too.
I got a collection of Poe, and man, I want to write just like him! I don't think need to tell you about his stories, they are the best!
I have a really thick book of Poe's writings, but I think it's in a box up in the attic. I ought to go up there and get it down some day. And while I'm up there, I can find the rest of my Calvin and Hobbes books.
I own so many Calvin and Hobbs books. And Poe is good too. I like Raven, that one with the still beating heart under the floorboards, and this other one about winged seraphs taking away his bride.
I like Junie B. Jones. Reading a book in which the main character uses horribly bad English improved my literary skills.
I used to read Junie B. Jones when I was younger.
Just finished with the Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix. Great read if you're in the mood for something a bit dark.
Just finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time," it's about a 15 year old autistic boy who's trying to solve the murder of his neighbour's dog.
Also, "Shark Girl." It's about an artist who gets her right arm amputated above the elbow.
And, "10 Things to do Before I Die." Pretty self explanitory.
Quote from: GLaDOS on May 04, 2008, 03:02:38 PM
Just finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time," it's about a 15 year old autistic boy who's trying to solve the murder of his neighbour's dog.
Ah, you read that? I love that book.
I hated that book.
Books are from the devil.
I finished rereading Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner last night. It's an interesting read into how the world works. It asks such things as "What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?" and "Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?"
So why DO drug dealers live with their moms?
Because the moms can get their hands on all the hardcore prescription stuff.
Quote from: Dr. Ian Malcom on May 04, 2008, 08:30:24 PM
I hated that book.
Books are from the devil.
The Bible is a tool of Satan.
Quote from: JQ Pickwick on May 05, 2008, 03:18:58 PM
So why DO drug dealers live with their moms?
Read the book and find out.
For those of more adult ages (older than me, for sure), I highly suggest A Clockwork Orange, which is my favorite book. I am also developing to become a fan of Stephen King novels, suggesting those for people who like a little scare in their lives.
I loved the book, and the movie.
However, neither of them are appropriate for people under the age of <9000.
.Like whocares.
What you doing watchin' porn, son?
It's not porn, it's ultraviolence and RAIP.
There's a difference.
Not to someone with a BDSM fetish.
All right, now it's getting to the point where we could be getting a little inappropriate... so let's move on to something else.
Just to clear things up so no one will think I'm a mega-perv...
Porn isn't nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. A Clockwork Orange was. (It lost all four of its nominations to The French Connection, though. Not that I'm saying the winner was a bad movie, either). I watched it because it was a Stanley Kubrick film, and he is my favorite director.
Also, I forgot to suggest the Redwall series, too. There are several good books in that series.
Marlfox was my favorite of the Redwall ones.
I haven't read Marlfox for a while now. Outcast of Redwall has my favorite character by far though. At least, in the fighting way. The funniest character...For me, would probably be Boorab. I think he was in...Hmm...Triss? Or the Bellmaker?
Boorab's in Taggerung. My favorite Redwall books are Mossflower and Pearls of Lutra. Gonff is the greatest little mouse of all!
I still haven't read a Redwall book yet. Then again, I still have the fourth book of The Wheel of Time waiting to be finished. ???
I don't know if anyone has ever heard of a book called Atlas Shrugged, but I finished it today and I must say that I really enjoyed it! It's a political novel (dull in some parts to be perfectly honest) but have very good morals in it. Of course, it's the 17th longest novel ever published so it took a while to read. :D
I definately recommend it... high reading skills required!!!
Where's that list of the longest books of all time and what's at the top?
Henry Darger, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
That's the longest. The name says it all. Should it be counted even though it wasn't published? "Typed single-spaced with 15,145 pages in 10 volumes. Discovered after Darger's death, the manuscript has never been published. The total number of words has been estimated; some believe this might be the longest novel ever written, [1]. 15,145 pages at 600 words per page (typical for old typewriters set to single spaced lines) would result in over 9 million words."
Yay Wikipedia. ;)
Doesn't count if it's divided in several volumes.
What's number 2?
Marienbad My Love is number three. #2 is also 10 volumes.
Quote from: Peka on May 14, 2008, 01:28:53 PM
Discovered after Darger's death, the manuscript has never been published.
Holy Canolie... who would spend so much time writing a novel and then never publish it? Maybe it wasn't any good...
I just read this awesome piece of fiction, by the way. You may have heard of it-- it's called the Bible.
Are you trying to start a debate simply because of what I said in the same-sex marriage topic? He asked for my opinion, and I gave it.
Me?
No, I was just making a joke. Don't be so defensive. If I wanted to start a flame war, I would do that in the same topic. >:3