Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 483022 times)

Rama · « **Reply #540 on:** May 09, 2011, 01:12:20 AM »

The Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #541 on:** May 09, 2011, 07:11:04 PM »

Just got Neon Genesis Evangelion, volume 12 in the mail. I wish they'd hurry up and finish this thing already. By the time Sadamoto's work on the last two movies ends and he finishes the title, it will have been twenty years since it first debuted.

IDE · « **Reply #542 on:** May 09, 2011, 11:54:05 PM »

The Pearls of Lutra by Joaquin something or other. Same guy that wrote all the redwall novels.

B E C K · « **Reply #543 on:** May 14, 2011, 08:27:24 PM »

Finished another wuxia novel: "The Eleventh Son" by Gu Long. Liked it but damn was it sad. Started "The Water Margin".

spooie · « **Reply #544 on:** May 14, 2011, 08:30:30 PM »

Trade Paperback of Captain America: Operation Rebirth. It's the original printing from the late 90s which is missing the prelude chapter and "Man Without a Country" that the newer ones have.

IDE · « **Reply #545 on:** May 15, 2011, 01:22:21 AM »

No Acting Please

Rama · « **Reply #546 on:** May 18, 2011, 11:45:11 AM »

Cold War in a Country Garden by Lindsay Gutteridge

It's about little naked men that kill and eat insects. I think there is something about trying to spy on the Russians, but you wouldn't know it. Miss Gutteridge seems more intent on talking about how to kill bugs and the tan lines of the naked men, who for reason can't have shrunken slacks but can have shrunken radios and machetes.

Rama · « **Reply #547 on:** May 26, 2011, 02:03:40 AM »

About 3-4 days into Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

B E C K · « **Reply #548 on:** May 26, 2011, 10:47:32 PM »

I couldn't finish "Water Margin". It just wasn't keeping my attention. Been reading part of something called "Rascals and Rogues" or some crap like that that has stories about British, er, well, rascals and rogues.

Rama · « **Reply #549 on:** May 27, 2011, 12:16:03 PM »

I finished Tarzan, and at the end of the book one thing is clear; Jane is a bitch. Alright, first she goes to Africa with her father and drags this poor guy that wants to marry her with them, but she is stringing him along and won't answer him. So then of course she runs in Tarzan and he like takes care her and rescues her dad and then kills a Gorilla with just a knife to save her. Then she sails back to America and leaves him, but he walks out of the African jungle, learns how to behave in civilization, learns to talk, and also learns that he is Lord Greystroke and has money and title back in England (and the other guy Jane was stringing along is the current Lord Greystroke, which is very serendipitous.) Then he sails across the ocean to find her, where she is suppose to marry yet another guy who her dad owes money too. He of course is a total dick, and she doesn't want to marry him. So Tarzan gets her out of this by bringing back some Treasure with him that her Dad was looking for in Africa. Of course he wants to marry her, but what does she do? She is free for like 5 mins before she agrees to marry the other guy! So then not only does she break Tarzan's heart, but then Tarzan gives up his money and title so as to not take it away from her would be husband. It's all the whole "Oh your happiness is the most important thing to me." Yeah...but she didn't give two shits about his happiness. So fuck Jane!

Oh and I'm reading Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Fiero · « **Reply #550 on:** May 27, 2011, 04:16:45 PM »

I like Foundation.

IDE · « **Reply #551 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:19:41 PM »

Reading Marlfox (another redwall novel...I got like tons of them for 1$ each at some temporary bookstore).

Rama · « **Reply #552 on:** Jun 14, 2011, 01:23:41 AM »

"And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer

This is the 6th Hitchhiker's Guide book that was based on notes left by Adams after his death. It is really lacking something. I didn't really like how Adams wrote, but this just shows why someone shouldn't write someone else's characters.

Fiero · « **Reply #553 on:** Jun 14, 2011, 04:22:27 AM »

I didn't even know that existed. I'll have to chell it out ... but I can see being disappointed.

joe · « **Reply #554 on:** Jun 14, 2011, 12:21:44 PM »

I started reading the first Wheel of Time book weeks ago, and right around the time they got their little party together and set out on their quest, I got really fucking bored with it.

I can't help but feel that if I had gotten into the series back when it debuted, I'd be a big fan today, but now all this time has passed and I've read so much other fantasy crap in the meantime that Wheel of Time just comes off as really hackneyed and rote.

Then I started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and I'm not quite halfway through, but God is it ever dry. It's not very long, so I can probably slog through it, but what's the point? I read to be entertained.

Between those two and another one that was just plain awful, that's three books in a row that I couldn't get into. I don't know if I just made a few bad picks, or if I've suddenly developed ADHD.

IDE · « **Reply #555 on:** Jun 14, 2011, 09:56:02 PM »

Yeah I never finished the wheel of time shit either and I read like 7 or 8 of them maybe 6 who fucking knows I wonder if he finished them before he died...he's dead right? NO i can't be bothered to look it up.

B E C K · « **Reply #556 on:** Jun 14, 2011, 11:02:43 PM »

Quote from: Rama on Jun 14, 2011, 01:23:41 AM

"And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer

Hey, it's the Artemis Fowl guy.

Rama · « **Reply #557 on:** Jun 15, 2011, 01:05:35 AM »

Yeah...they tote that fact all over the book. Never read of those myself.

B E C K · « **Reply #558 on:** Jun 15, 2011, 08:23:00 PM »

Merla reads them. I only have enough patience for the graphic novels. Of which they've only done two so I'm pretty far behind.

Rama · « **Reply #559 on:** Jun 16, 2011, 01:04:16 AM »

After reading this I don't know if I'd bother...I mean maybe if I saw them at the library and didn't have anything else to read.

B E C K · « **Reply #560 on:** Jun 17, 2011, 10:29:45 PM »

Just hold off and by the time you remember, all the graphic novels will have been out. For, like, ten years.

Rama · « **Reply #561 on:** Jun 20, 2011, 02:10:51 AM »

I tend to like to read things in book form better. Plus I zip through comics something fierce and it won't sustain me. I might read the Graphic Novel, but only after reading the novels first.

And now I'm on to "Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks. It is a James Bond novel, but the thing is that under Faulks name it says "Writing as Ian Fleming" which is funny cause this guy's style is nothing like Fleming's. I think it was probably a cheap way to get Flemings name on the cover. Another strange thing is that at no point does this book tell you when it takes place. I figured out it to place in the 60's due to a few world events that were talked about briefly, but anyone that didn't know their history would be lost as to when this was.
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B E C K · « **Reply #562 on:** Jun 21, 2011, 11:49:16 PM »

I'm reading Butterfly Lovers based on the Chinese legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, which is basically Chinese Romeo and Juliet. She falls in love with him while attending a school disguised as a man after they dormed together as sworn brothers for three years. I love the blurb on the back of the book that redundantly asks "what is their inescapable Romeo-and-Juliet-type fate?" Ho ho, I think they live happily ever after!

IDE · « **Reply #563 on:** Jun 22, 2011, 12:40:01 AM »

I'm almost out of redwall books

Fiero · « **Reply #564 on:** Jun 22, 2011, 04:27:00 PM »

Rama · « **Reply #565 on:** Jun 23, 2011, 12:41:48 AM »

I'm looking for the "like" button, but I'm not seeing it.

Fiero · « **Reply #566 on:** Jun 23, 2011, 04:24:31 PM »

Welcome back to 2008.

B E C K · « **Reply #567 on:** Jun 23, 2011, 10:59:25 PM »

The "Like Button" is an Owl Pellet.

Fiero · « **Reply #568 on:** Jun 24, 2011, 01:02:44 AM »

Quote from: B E C K on Jun 23, 2011, 10:59:25 PM

The "Like Button" is an Owl Pellet.

For reals. Give me some poops.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #569 on:** Jun 24, 2011, 08:50:28 AM »

So ... we're doing it German style where we shit on things we like?