I'm halfway through Into the Wild and I still don't know how to feel about the protagonist yet. I completely agree with the author's note at the beginning, I just don't know which way I'm leaning yet. Interesting case, nonetheless.
I'm halfway through Into the Wild and I still don't know how to feel about the protagonist yet. I completely agree with the author's note at the beginning, I just don't know which way I'm leaning yet. Interesting case, nonetheless.
I picked up Cormac McCarthy's The Road and JPod by Douglas Coupland today.
I've heard good things about The Road, but has anyone read JPod?
Quoting lovejuice (view post)
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
those covers are hot damn! they just don't do it like they used to.
Nice. I know I've mentioned it before, but I like this one a lot.Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
I haven't started it yet, but it'll be the next book I read. I should have time tonight.Quoting Spinal (view post)
I finished Dick's first book this morning, Solar Lottery. It's pretty good. Definitely a first book, as it suffers from on-the-nose dialog and it looses track of many of the great concepts he sets up in the first half, but it is still pretty good.
Next up I am going to re-read The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, and then the new Lansdale collection, Lord of the Razor.
It's a quick read too. I don't remember how long it took me, but I don't think it was more than 2 or 3 days.Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
anything to do with stallone's movie?Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)
Nope!Quoting lovejuice (view post)
It's a collection of some of Lansdale's earliest horror short stories that have been long out of print. It contains his novella, The Nightrunners, which is often cited as one of the best horror stories ever written. I've never read it before and I am really looking forward to it. Lansdale is in a class all by himself when it comes to prose, plot, and gripping narratives.
Is this the other cover you were referring to, lovejuice?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Well, not many paint like Breughel anymore...Quoting lovejuice (view post)
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
actually i'm referring to thisQuoting megladon8 (view post)
somehow i'm not sure anymore if it's an actual cover, since i've never seen it anywhere except in her unofficial website.
Considering I'm around books all day, I'm probably going to read a lot more (I can use Borders like a library anytime).
I'm thinking about reading Life of Pi.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
That would be a brilliant place to start. I've grown to love that book more and more since I finished.Quoting Watashi (view post)
What I've read in 2007 so far:
Books read in 2007:
A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
A Feast For Crows –George R. R. Martin
Teacher Man – Ian McEwan
The Mote In God’s Eye – Larry Niven & Pourelle
Good Life, Good Death – Gehlek Rimpoche
Dreams - C.G. Jung
The Horse & His Boy – C.S. Lewis
Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
The Hellenistic Age – Peter Green
Paradigms Lost – John Simon
The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga – Swami Vishnu-Devananda
Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
Galactic Pot-Healer – Philip K. Dick
Claw of the Conciliator – Gene Wolfe
The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books - James Garvey
Dreamers of Dreams – John Simon
Sword of the Lictor – Gene Wolfe
Citadel of the Autarch – Gene Wolfe
Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture
Venus In Furs – Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Meetings With Remarkable Men – G.I. Gurdjieff
I Heard the Owl Call My Name – Margaret Craven
The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
Beyond the Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
Wolf By The Ears – Ann Rinaldi
Abandoned books in 2007
Eva – Peter Dickinson (just not very engaging)
"Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth."
-Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Last night, I set up what will be my reading schedule probably through January. I finished Gaiman's American Gods and loved it. So, I've started on Plato's dialogues today and will start Wicked over the weekend.
Has anyone read Darkly Dreaming Dexter? Is it worth a blind buy?
It was terrible. And you know how much I love Dexter. I almost didn't finish it. Grab it from the library if you can't resist reading it.Quoting jenniferofthejungle (view post)
I just removed it from my amazon shopping cart and added it to my library queue.Quoting Kurosawa Fan (view post)
Quoting jenniferofthejungle (view post)
You won't regret it. I'm not the only fan of the show who thought the book was terrible. I lent it to a friend and he had the exact same complaints I had.
i know you can find all sorts of weirdo here, but i can't imagine anyone not liking this book.Quoting Watashi (view post)
Can you really? When I worked at Borders, despite the fact that our mall was on the verge of closing and our traffic was pretty much nill (seriously, I could work a six hour shift and ring five transactions), my store manager prohibited all of us from doing all reading of all kinds. And she'd essentially pace around the store, on the prowl for any ne'er-do-wells who might be brushing up on their Sophocles. So, I spent a lot of time either covertly trying to read Aesop's fables in chunk with one eye on the book and one eye surveying any approaching shapes, or simply behind my till, staring straight forward.Quoting Watashi (view post)
I'd resent any employee perving a book before I got to it.Quoting Sycophant (view post)