Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 482974 times)

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #690 on:** Jan 20, 2012, 07:48:13 AM »

Yeah I really hope Rupaul wins the Republican Primary.

B E C K · « **Reply #691 on:** Jan 24, 2012, 08:06:47 PM »

That would be awesome.

IDE · « **Reply #692 on:** Jan 24, 2012, 11:08:54 PM »

I'm about to start atlas shrugged.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #693 on:** Jan 26, 2012, 08:05:42 AM »

Speaking of Ron Paul...

Rumble · « **Reply #694 on:** Jan 26, 2012, 07:02:31 PM »

Currently reading the travel diaries of Karl Pilkington

joe · « **Reply #695 on:** Feb 01, 2012, 01:50:20 PM »

I started reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts, a collection of his mostly horror-themed short stories. So far it's been pretty good.

B E C K · « **Reply #696 on:** Feb 02, 2012, 12:24:26 AM »

Read RuPaul's second book, which is mostly recycled content from his first book but written in bigger font with purty pictures. Quick, guess which one's RuPaul! They both are.

Rama · « **Reply #697 on:** Feb 02, 2012, 02:38:19 AM »

Interview with the Vampire -Ann Rice

The D · « **Reply #698 on:** Feb 02, 2012, 03:41:43 PM »

Quote from: IDE on Jan 24, 2012, 11:08:54 PM

I'm about to start atlas shrugged.

I hear that's painful to read and Ann Rand can't write fiction.

Supposedly it's just a vehicle to promote her "fuck everyone else, fuck religion, trample over everyone to get rich quick" radical libertarianism.

IDE · « **Reply #699 on:** Feb 03, 2012, 03:58:55 AM »

It's strange hearing that sort of agenda from a woman. She must be insane.

Fiero · « **Reply #700 on:** Feb 03, 2012, 06:31:16 PM »

The City and the City - China Mievelle

Rumble · « **Reply #701 on:** Feb 06, 2012, 02:37:31 PM »

Reading the Walking Dead novel Rise of the Governor

Fiero · « **Reply #702 on:** Feb 07, 2012, 08:20:25 PM »

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

IDE · « **Reply #703 on:** Feb 07, 2012, 08:55:50 PM »

Fucking love neverwhere
Read it at least 4 times

Im reading wuthering heights on my nook
Im also posting from my nook right now as i take a dump.
Take a moment if you will to picturee me sitting here pushing out poop, my uppdr body conpletely shorn. My lower body is covered in hair, like satyr sitting on the toilet.

Fiero · « **Reply #704 on:** Feb 07, 2012, 09:13:03 PM »

I'd likely stab you so I can sell your mystical pelt.

B E C K · « **Reply #705 on:** Feb 07, 2012, 11:18:32 PM »

Dibs on the flute.

IDE · « **Reply #706 on:** Feb 08, 2012, 04:49:56 AM »

How dare you even think of stabbing a mythical creature while its dropping the deuce.

Which im doing AGAIN right now actually.

Fiero · « **Reply #707 on:** Feb 08, 2012, 07:30:24 PM »

Quote from: IDE on Feb 07, 2012, 08:55:50 PM

Fucking love neverwhere
Read it at least 4 times

You might like China Mievelle's stuff.

Rama · « **Reply #708 on:** Feb 09, 2012, 02:35:52 AM »

The Vampire Lestat. Joe's Autobiography. Not as good as Interview, but better then Queen of the Damned....and pretty much everything that came after it.

Rumble · « **Reply #709 on:** Feb 13, 2012, 03:22:06 PM »

Reading Small Gods again, one of my favorite Discworld books

joe · « **Reply #710 on:** Feb 13, 2012, 09:07:54 PM »

Hey, maybe you can help me.

I've always wanted to get into the Discworld stuff, but I don't know where to begin. I started with the Colour of Magic, and it didn't really do it for me. But then I thought, hell, it's the first one, he wrote it God knows how many years ago, he's probably improved by leaps and bounds in the meantime. Are there any really good standalone stories that he's done more recently, or are they all pretty interrelated?

B E C K · « **Reply #711 on:** Feb 14, 2012, 12:26:16 AM »

If I can add onto that, where do you begin if you want to *watch* the Discworld stuff? There some of it on streaming but when I tried to jump into one, I got the feeling that I was missing A LOT within the first ten minutes.

Rumble · « **Reply #712 on:** Feb 14, 2012, 01:58:45 PM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Feb 13, 2012, 09:07:54 PM

Hey, maybe you can help me.

I've always wanted to get into the Discworld stuff, but I don't know where to begin. I started with the Colour of Magic, and it didn't really do it for me. But then I thought, hell, it's the first one, he wrote it God knows how many years ago, he's probably improved by leaps and bounds in the meantime. Are there any really good standalone stories that he's done more recently, or are they all pretty interrelated?

Yeah, the first two novels are still pretty much a figuring out of things for TP, things get better from then on tho. And its possible to read any novel standalone, but you generally want to read the books that star the same characters in order. Besides Rincewind the most commonly used characters are the witches, Death and the city watch.
First book for the witches is Equal Rites, first one for Death is Mort and first one for the city watch is Guards, Guards. Of those I'd recommend Guards, Guards to start with. The witches books get pretty epic too, but its not until the second book Wyrd Sisters till that really takes off.

Quote from: B E C K on Feb 14, 2012, 12:26:16 AM

If I can add onto that, where do you begin if you want to *watch* the Discworld stuff? There some of it on streaming but when I tried to jump into one, I got the feeling that I was missing A LOT within the first ten minutes.

Dunno what you've been watching. Some of the books were animated ages ago, but I've never seen those. More recently there have been some live action ones. Three of those so far: Hogfather, the Colour of Magic and Going Postal. Personally I like Hogfather best, but it's probably the most confusing one if you know nothing about Discworld. You might want to give Going Postal a try.

Rumble · « **Reply #713 on:** Mar 09, 2012, 03:49:12 PM »

Reading a bundle of some of Plutarch's biographies of famous Romans

Rama · « **Reply #714 on:** Mar 10, 2012, 12:04:20 AM »

I am well into Queen of the Damned now and already thinking of what I want to read next.

B E C K · « **Reply #715 on:** Mar 11, 2012, 12:57:44 AM »

I'm reading Tina Fey's book Bossypants after reading Pride and Prejudice for the 800th time.

Rumble · « **Reply #716 on:** Mar 11, 2012, 11:20:51 AM »

I've never read Pride and Prejudice.
However I did read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I probably win

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #717 on:** Mar 12, 2012, 09:32:14 AM »

Is that the Jane Austen book about a woman who has to chose between the responsible decision of marying a man who would provide her a life or priveledge and the poor man she loves?

IDE · « **Reply #718 on:** Mar 12, 2012, 06:18:06 PM »

The Dark Tower comics

Fiero · « **Reply #719 on:** Mar 14, 2012, 02:40:41 PM »

Quote from: Adam on Mar 12, 2012, 09:32:14 AM

Is that the Jane Austen book about a woman who has to chose between the responsible decision of marying a man who would provide her a life or priveledge and the poor man she loves?

Is that the plot of all Jane Austen novels?

This one has zombies.