Books, CAN YOU READ?! Options

[Greifer]

Finished Harry Potter from 3 days ago. Ending is... meh.

Started reading the Maximum Ride series. Currently on the The Angel Experiment.

[Leyviur]

Harry Potter as a whole is pretty meh. Rowling's writing style is atrocious and I can't bear to read it for more than ten minutes at a time.

[Frisk]

Reading The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide and I Love You, Nice To Meet You.

Both are hilarious.

I finished the hitchhiker's books over the summer, and I thought they were really good.

This post has been edited by vahn14: Aug 24 2007, 01:52 PM

[Violently Happy]

books?
books!
books!!!!!!!!!
ahhhhhhh!
went *kencing*
ahh..


ohh!
Ehh!
ahh!
ugh!


quacK.

[H. Tsukiyono]

Finished Harry Potter from 3 days ago. Ending is... meh.

Started reading the Maximum Ride series. Currently on the The Angel Experiment.

Hehe. The Maximum Ride series isn't really all that brainpower-intensive, but it's a fun read. =D

Hmm... I went back and re-read Kushiel's Chosen, just for fun. ._.;; Even though I have no time to read.

This post has been edited by H. Tsukiyono: Sep 15 2007, 01:03 AM

[Liger]

Beowulf - Heaney Translation. One. Bigass. Poem. Can't say I'm having a miserable time reading it, but I'm not really getting into it either, honestly.

[Wally]

Well, I finished Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's Wacky Vietnam Adventure, and I can honestly say that I have no idea what the ending was all about.

Oh, and I've got a stack of Tom Clancy books that I'll probably start reading.

This post has been edited by Wally: Sep 17 2007, 12:05 AM

[Irysa]

I'm rereading The Haunted after browsing and bumping into Guts again.

3rd one is pretty memorable.

"the narrator describes an incident in which he sat on the water intake at the bottom of a swimming pool while masturbating. The suction caused his rectum and lower intestines to prolapse and become tangled in the filter, forcing the narrator to gnaw through his own innards in order to free himself and avoid drowning. The narrator's sister later becomes impregnated by semen deposited by the narrator in the pool, which results in her having an abortion.

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[Frisk]

I'm reading Sick Puppy right now for a couple of laughs.

[Feral Phoenix]

Because I'm working on Dum Spiro Spero and that's heavily magic-centric, I decided to "find" Roswell and Nessiah's characters by looking at similar magic-addicted mages. And dug out my Dragonlance books, starting with The Soulforge, to read some Raistlin for reference.



...and, dear God, he's invaded my brain and won't leave me alone.



Now switched over to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight trilogy in hopes of getting overly snarky lich-infested mages unstuck from my consciousness.

[DustyHaru]

Illium (by Dan Simmons)- Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Main character is a Genetically Reconstructed human (who was once a History Teacher on the "Illiad") and in the service of the Olympian 'Gods' to make sure that History is going as planned (It is an exact reconstruction by the quantumblah-distorting gods in a future century). He messes with the events of the Illiad and ends up turning the Trojans and invading Greeks against the 'Gods.' At the end of the novel he discovers that events taking palce are on a terra-formed Mars. (The heroes of the "illiad" are genetically-enhanced humans, due to the Intercession between humans and 'gods'; Zeus almost nukes everyone and Ares gets his intestines ripped out by Achilles). Meanwhile on Earth, 'post-humans' are relatively inept people (as they do not read or write, anymore), and live until they are exactly 100. Each time they reach a year that is a multiple of 20, (ie. 20, 40, 60, 80) they are sent up to the "rings" and retruned as their 20-year old self; at 100 they do not return. When a small group of them try and discover why, their robotic servants turn on them and try to kill them. Meanwhile (again) small androids/robots from the outer planets of the solar system try to discoverwhy there are so many quantum anomalies in the last couple centuries, (due to the activity on Mars and Earth; Mars mostly as the Gods make use of Quantum Teleportation etc.)

Olympos (by Dan Simmons) - Sequel to the Above. Main character continues his fight against the 'Gods.' Meanwhile, the gods fight amongst themselves and about half of them are killed in the unsuing fight. (Hera is blasted into smithereens by Zeus, her scorched body parts literally fall out of the sky; Thetis is shot through the heart; Posieden is thrown into Tartarus by Zeus; Apollo gets a lobotomy via spearhit). All three points of the previous stories come together (androids, post humans and humans of Mars). Zeus gets killed by Achilles; (Since Achilles can only die to exact circumstances, he is invicible otherwise) Achilles Impales Zeus on Odysseus' Bed- post, decapitates him, and feeds his still-living intestines to Odysseus' Dog. Great stuff eh?

-Dusty

oh and I laughed when I read about Rastlin, He's a funny character (albeit completely obssessed with his magic...). I've read a majority of the DragonLance books so...

-Dusty

This post has been edited by DustyHaru: Jan 14 2008, 10:52 PM

[H. Tsukiyono]

I'm rereading The Haunted after browsing and bumping into Guts again.

3rd one is pretty memorable.

"the narrator describes an incident in which he sat on the water intake at the bottom of a swimming pool while masturbating. The suction caused his rectum and lower intestines to prolapse and become tangled in the filter, forcing the narrator to gnaw through his own innards in order to free himself and avoid drowning. The narrator's sister later becomes impregnated by semen deposited by the narrator in the pool, which results in her having an abortion.

Palahniuk has a way with words to sort of get the visceral across (perhaps literally, sometimes), but I never could bring myself to finish The Haunted. I think I stopped trying to read it shortly after Lady Bag Lady commits suicide.

Although Guts' commentary on where people's college money goes instead of college is somewhat entertaining.

What am I actually reading right now? I should have finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad already, but I haven't. And watching Apocalypse Now for the group English project about Heart of Darkness has done little to improve my reluctance to finish it.

[Astraea]

Ah, not so many people here read books, eh?

I read all the Harry Potter books because I'm such a darned fan.
I also read The Kite Runner last month for my book report in Literature. cried like a baby.

Currently, I'm trying to absorb the words of 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. *having a major nosebleed*

[Epica]

I NEED books! They're a great way to escape the crappiness of reality.

The Deathly Hallows put me off Harry Potter entirely...she killed off practically the entire cast, and left half of the annoying characters alive...although I was glad to see Colin Creevey turn up in the body count. Hedwig was unneccessary, though. And, as for the ending...well, even I could write a better ending than that, and my fanfiction isn't worth mentioning. "Albus Severus" indeed...

At the moment, I'm re-reading Rise of a Merchant Prince, part two of Raymond E. Feist's Serpentwar Saga. I can't say I really like Roo Avery as a character, but its actually quite a good book on the whole...

This post has been edited by Epica: Apr 15 2008, 03:15 PM

[Astraea]

I'm over my Deathly Hallows disappointment. I tried not to think of the crappy epilogue but focused on the little fact that

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Snape was actually a good guy.

But I still can't get over the fact that she killed off Fred, Tonks and Remus.... grrr..

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