Which books are your favorite?

Post by **halfnhalf** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:43 am

Buzkashi wrote:So i bought vampire chronichles one and two. "interview with a vampire and the vamire lestat" They're pretty good so far.

w/e you do, ive you have to for some reason watch the movies only watch interview with a vampire, all the rest of the movies suck balls.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:44 am

Interview with a vampire is one of my favorite movies.

Post by **Skullkracker** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:30 am

Yeah, the guy's a ... a ... - ran out of English words

- he's cool!

Anyway, I read that he may he have been involved in the murder of a girl, and wrote a story about it.

Nasty...if true. And on one of those scientific channels it was also discussed weather he was murdered, or simply drunk himself to death...

And I almost forgot:...

...Kafka (The Trial, Metamorphosis (if that's what they're called)). Freaky!

Post by **raziel** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:21 am

i haven't read the trial but i loved the Metamorphosis.

Loved LOTR and Count of Monte Cristo.

Currently reading and loving SHerlock Holmes and Lovecraft's stuff.

Post by **halfnhalf** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:12 am

raziel wrote: i loved the Metamorphosis.

that was a weird book. Had to read it for english.. had the best essay of all time, liek i made soo many freakin connections. It was deep shit and my english teacher gave me a C on it because my connections were "not true."

either way i enjoyed that book.

PS I FINALLY FOUND MY FIGHT CLUB BOOK AGAIN!! (fucking brother stole it from me and he lost it... in his freaking draw the whole time..)

Post by **Skullkracker** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 11:29 am

I saw Fight Club on TV.
It was awesome...two things bothered me though:
a classmate has already told me what it was about...
the tape ended before the film did.

Really sucks to be having to wait for a film to be onTV again just to see THE LAST 5 FUCKIN' MINUTES

Post by **Shaka Zulu** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:02 pm

MrFelony wrote:i just finished Oryx and Crake by margaret atwood. and am about to start About A Boy and High Fidelity. gotta love having an English major for a brother.

Sens you seem to be into Nick Hornby,you should try "How To Be Good".A very good book.Much better then High Fidelity.Regarding High Fidelity,I think thats the only book I have read were I found the movie to be the better of the two.About A Boy is excellent though,love Nick Hornby's style,very well written,intelligent and funny.Can recommend Fever Pitch too even though its about a Football Fan.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:14 am

raziel wrote:i haven't read the trial but i loved the Metamorphosis.

Loved LOTR and Count of Monte Cristo.

Currently reading and loving SHerlock Holmes and Lovecraft's stuff.

So you came out of hybernation just to make a comment on a book.

Post by **MrFelony** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:42 pm

I dont know if any of you have seen the movies "about a boy" or "high fidelity" but about a boy the book (by nick hornby) is pretty good so far

Post by **Skullkracker** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:30 pm

Had the Big Read yesterday...among the top ten I see:
1984
Winnie the Pooh
...
the rest was either mentioned or Hungarian...but hey:
if anyone wants to read a very exciting adventure, and is a little bit interested in history: Géza Gárdonyi: Stars of Eger

Post by **Darnoc** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:33 pm

Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

If you haven't read that then start reading it!

Post by **Starlore** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:08 am

Femto wrote:I don't really read books, but I plan on getting Guin Saga in a couple of days. If Miura likes it so much, then it has to be decent at the very least.

Hell yeah...I remember trying to track those damn books down when I'd first heard Miura mention them & to my dismay, there were no english versions! Happy me is picking the new English releases up asap...but it kinda sucks that they won't do the whole damn saga AGH. Ah well...

You guys really like getting on topics that I'm liable to babble over, don't you? lol suit yourselves

I read ALOT of different shit, some of which you'll be familiar with, some of which you won't, but these are some authors I just have to credit & likewise, some books that stand out in my ailing memory...

Titles:
The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying (Sogyal Rinpoche)
The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Hot Zone (Richard Preston)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
The Fox Woman (Kij Johnson)

Authors:
All of the Above...
Timothy Zahn
Kevin J. Anderson
Michael Stackpole
Carl G. Jung
E.A. Poe
Clive Barker
Tim Leary
R.A. Salvatore

I'm leaving out ALOT, but my senility owns me so, bleah

Post by **Libaax** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:29 am

Femto where did you buy Guin Saga?

I wanted it too since my fav mangaka like is so much.

Post by **Skullkracker** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:18 pm

Darnoc wrote:Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

If you haven't read that then start reading it!

I hear it's bullshit...I mean I know what it's about and it kinda freaks me out, but I heard some experts talk about what stupid statements the writer made.

Post by **Libaax** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:33 pm

It is good fiction and history mixed screw what the experts say,they are probably jealous cause they didn't write the book.

Post by **Skullkracker** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:42 pm

Still, it's a screwup idea if you ask me.
But even I don't believe that papyrus dissolves in vinegar...

Post by **Libaax** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:58 pm

Have you read the hole book? cause it not just about that.

At least i thought it was very good for a detective story.

Who cares if some of his facts aren't accurate,its fiction.

My brother who just finished high school got two Mario Puzzo books as a gift. The Sicilian and Omerta,they sound like two good Mafia stories.

Post by **Starlore** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:57 pm

Libaax, Guin Saga is currently a new hardcover release written by Kaoru Kurimoto (I'm pretty sure it'll go paperback also, at some point), you should be able to pick it up at -most- book stores, but just for shits & giggles, here http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookse ... 4519&itm=4

(sorry for the ugly link, I know basic html, but not BB codes to make it prettier

)

Oh, there are currently 5 novels from the saga, in print. No word however, whether they'll decide to go the whole nine yards & print the other 95+ hah. Bastards

Anyway, hope that helps some

Post by **Libaax** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:00 pm

I just finished reading Hard Rain by Barry Eisler.

A book about an assassin called John Rain who does his work for whoever pays including the the Yakuza,the police,the japan FBI,CIA. He works and lives in Tokyo.

I dont normaly read books like this one but i enjoyed this one a lot cause it was very realistic,all the places he visits in the book are real places. Also since the story is in Japan,the main char talks alot japanese and translate it for us to english in his mind.

I know that there is a book before this one,so i'm gonna go and read that to understand more og Rain's story.

Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:22 pm

Read "dude who stole my country?" again. It just gets funnier everytime I read it. Especially when he is talking about the whooper lies and he looks like a giant whooper himself

.

Post by **TheDarkness** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:01 pm

i have the Da Vinci Code code lying here... gonna start reading soon so i'll stay out of this here topic in case there are any spoilers

edit: best book thus far: Dune!

Post by **dos.azn** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:59 pm

i liked most of the books from crichton. so far i read congo, rising sun, jurassic park, lost world, and andromeda strain and so far they all been very good

Post by **Tempest** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:04 pm

isse-pisse-päron-pung wrote:Read "dude who stole my country?" again. It just gets funnier everytime I read it. Especially when he is talking about the whooper lies and he looks like a giant whooper himself .

I enjoyed reading "Stupid White Men, and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation". He brought up some interesting points, though soem of the chapters were a little much, especially the one entitled "Kill Whitey".

Post by **PosseINeedYou** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:19 pm

Took til page 3 for some Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman props? =(. I worked in a book store before the video store, and basically... we didn't get much business. So I got to read a lot. I've read everything written by Shakespeare, Stephen King, Weis/Hickman, Salvatore, Jordan, Terry brooks. I've read the classics. But give me chronicles trilogy, or legends trilogy of dragonlance and I'm a happy camper. I haven't read Crichton since 6th grade, and me getting in trouble because I read "too fast." I haven't had anything good to read in months (aside from berserk ^_^) and it sucks, because when I do get something good to read, I'm done that day.

Also a book I enjoyed was Swan Song by Robert McGammon, call me lame, but I did.

Post by **Loeviz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:20 pm

I can Recommend almost all books that Robin Hobb has written "The Asssasin apprentice" for example...
Can honeslty say Hobb has written all off my top 3 books of all times.
Like the new one "Shamans crossing", maybe a little to much off indian in it, but who cares