Fiendish Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 survivor choke or invisible monsters. i'd go with choke first. just read one of them and then leave chuck p in the dust, because he really isnt worth reading passed these books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ape Shit Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 2 books I've finished recently: Holy shit, this is a must read. Your petty life problems are nothing compared to what these boys went through. I wish Wayne Dyer was my dad. Currently reading these: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 A couple articles I thought some of you might dig: http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=13045 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/mark-twain-super-mario-on-nintendo-ereade.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 choke is decent, but i'll add to the chorus, he's overrated. i recently read haunted and after slaughtering all those classics last year, it was like reading a tabloid. and i dunno, the road was a great book. i AM enjoying blood meridian more now that i've gotten into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8galicia Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 fuck yes. new season in May or March? but I can't wait :scrambled: :scrambled: :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 nice. nice fuckin attachment. sak jase. :haha: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 i AM enjoying blood meridian more now that i've gotten into it. don't give up! it's so worth it. my favorite mccarthy, so far. palahniuk is totally overrated. In the same vein, I think delillo is kind of over hyped as well. But I read White Noise a pretty long time ago, so. Reading Denis Johnson's Tree Of Smoke. Did this really come out in 2007??? People are still writing epic novels about Vietnam? s'crazy to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Palahiuk is a one trick pony it seems. I've only read Haunted though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8galicia Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Fight Club is an ok book, though its his only book I've ever read... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnneh7 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Hes a crazy fucker. My favorite writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest YEAHMANWORD Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 WHO CAN GIVE ME A GOOD HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK TO READ. (CAPITAL LETTERS TO GET ATTENTION, BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE A GOOD BOOK TO READ) PREFERABLY ABOUT JAPAN, OR WWII, OR ANY ANCIENT BATTLES/RULERS (I FUX WITH WHATEVER) Not about Japan or WWII, but definitely a good historical fiction book. I started it a few days ago and haven't been able to put it down. Almost through & I don't want it to end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serial rapist Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Just finished these You Can't Win by Jack Black (not the actor) Fucking great book. Autobiographical account of hopping freights all around the post civil war country, becoming a house burglar, prison, people on the road, jail breaks, travel, falling in with a honorable band of thieves - a funny, informative and entertaining look into a part of American history you won't readily find. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. Super quick read, not as wide a scope as his other work - and while he is still one of my favorite authors - this book is forgettable. In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake. Book felt like a bootleg Blood Meridian. Played up violence without the exploration into human nature. Army, Mexers, Indians, scalp hunting, whores, drinking and murder. If you like historical fiction and westerns it's worth picking up. Palahniuk has written some great books. Fight Club is just plain righteous, I thought it was a super pointed cultural critique on consumerism/materialism. Survivor was great as well, in the same vein. The rest of his work that I've read has been hit or miss - Rant and Lullaby were pretty rad stories while Diary and Choke didn't resonate the same way. He definitely relies on the same tricks to make his work edgy and superficially interesting but often it lacks the substance to hold it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucksoe Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 You Cant Win is fuckin awesome... Choke and survivor were great too.. the others not so much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Australian Author I satrted this weeks ago and got three pages into before deciding I didn't like it then I picked up last night and before I knew I'd read nearly 150 pages. Don't really want it to finish but I'll probably ahve doen it by tomorrow morning on my train to work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CALIgula Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 i hate starting a book and not finishing it...having a couple weeks go by because ive been too busy to read it, and then having to start all over again because i forgot mundane details. but...take two..action! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm Here is a link to Vonnegut's 2BR02B While downloading books to phone I came across this short story. I originally thought it was a novel, so when it ended it ended with an outburst of NOOOOOOOO! I just finished Kipling's Man Who Would Be King, also a timeless movie I very much enjoy. It took me on a great many emotions towards the end. I recommend reading it if you have a few minutes to spare. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8king10h.htm Although I love the convenience of downloading books and my wallet thanks me every time I open up Stanza instead of reaching for dollars, I miss the tangible thing about books. Oh technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serkiks Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 the idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, just picked it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mackfatsoe Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Man in the Dark by Paul Auster. It's ok. So far, in both the books of his I've read, he has mentioned 9/11 like 4 times? kind of annoying. Also, I've realized that I remember a book for like a week and then completely forget it. Unless I read it two, three times. I'm sad about it, it makes me feel fucking stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 anybody ever use ginko biloba? i'd like to sharpen my memory as well, i forget a lot of details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Man in the Dark by Paul Auster. It's ok. So far, in both the books of his I've read, he has mentioned 9/11 like 4 times? kind of annoying. You need to check out his New York Trilogy... 3 novellas packed together. Minimally read "City of Glass". His pre 9-11 stuff is a lot better, I think, and this falls right in there with the best of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thecarwreck Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 that's the last 5 weeks worth... 99% were damn good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuanie tuan Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 So far so good. Lots of street fams. in Portland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisetuxedo Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 both are great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 don't give up! it's so worth it. my favorite mccarthy, so far. palahniuk is totally overrated. In the same vein, I think delillo is kind of over hyped as well. But I read White Noise a pretty long time ago, so. Reading Denis Johnson's Tree Of Smoke. Did this really come out in 2007??? People are still writing epic novels about Vietnam? s'crazy to me. nah, i don't give up on books. Infinite Jest is the only onie i have and have not finished. i tried it twice. so dense. plus it [blood meridian] continues to draw me in, i'm really getting into it now that the characters are being developed more. it has such a sinister undertone to it. and without being graphic. great stuff. and yeah, people are writing about everything. still. ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 that's the last 5 weeks worth... 99% were damn good. I can only pick up like 5 titles in there. List of titles, or at least your favorites? Yeah New York Trilogy is on deck, for some reason I'm working backwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Rum Diaries was good. I used to recycle old books and rescued a first edition of The Godfater. Never read it and picked it up last night for the first time. i tried reading Omerta some time back and didnt much care for it it but The Godfather is pretty sweet. I measure the quality of a book by how long it takes me to read it. I do read pretty often and noticed that some books i fly through. Doesn't necessarily mean they are bad books but something that is truly remarkable i suppose i savor the text more. For example. Someone like John Grisham or James Patterson may take me 4 or 5 hours and im done with it. I must enjoy them because i wont hesitate to read one but this Puzo book. i sat down for 2 hours last night and got thru 50 pages. And its not like its difficult reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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