!@#$% Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 ^it's SO good though i really recommend it and it only took 3 months to read. *i will say, i was disappointed in the epilogue tolstoy added, years later, after he found god. i coulda skipped that part happily. i've prolly mentioned it a bunch already but the Millenium Trilogy is simply amazing read it now before the american movies come out and likely ruin it The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original Swedish title Män som hatar kvinnor, literally Men Who Hate Women) The Girl Who Played with Fire (original Swedish title Flickan som lekte med elden, literally The Girl Who Played With The Fire) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original Swedish title Luftslottet som sprängdes, literally The Castle in the Air That Was Blown Up) the wiki on this shit is ill. The Millennium Trilogy is a series of three bestselling novels written in Swedish originally by the late Stieg Larsson. The novels in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, were first published in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Larsson, who was disgusted by sexual violence, witnessed the gang rape of a young girl when he was 15. The author never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, whose name was Lisbeth – like the young heroine of his books, herself a rape victim, which inspired the theme of sexual violence against women in his books.[1] The primary characters in the series are Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Lisbeth is an intelligent, eccentric woman in her twenties with eidetic memory whose social skills are rather poor. Blomkvist is an investigative journalist, a celebrity in his own right, and has a history not totally dissimilar to Larsson's. Larsson wrote about three-quarters of a fourth novel before his sudden death in November 2004. His partner, Eva Gabrielsson, possesses the notebook computer with the manuscript. Outlines or manuscripts for one or two more books may exist.[2][3] now i'm reading all the harry potter's fuggit. it's not literature but it's a fun read and mos definitely takes me back to being a kid again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Biography of Arnold Rothstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 got a small program in mind i'd like to make. I have a month to learn as much as possible while making this program. if i get done with some extra time to spare, i'll try to make it into an iphone/android app. i dont really have any idea how to do that either, but whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunt sauce Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Yeah I have heard that Tolstoy is one of the greatest novelists of all time. Never hear of too many christian anarchists either.. I look forward to having enough time to read one of his enormous 1000 page novels one of these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardo Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 finished this epic undertaking just this evening: LOUIS I KAHN Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Although renowned for a number of seminal modern works, he came to question many of the precepts of the modern movement. He questioned with particular rigour the ability of the 'international style of modernism' to house the social spaces required by the latter half of the century. about to start: BREUER HOUSES Breuer, like many architects who work simultaneously on small- and large-scale commissions, used residential architecture as a laboratory for all of his design ideas. Not only is the quality and quantity of Breuer's residential output impressive, but when it is seen in sequence one can perceive a development of his spatial mastery and expertise. Because of their interplay of spaces and daring juxtaposition of materials, Breuer's houses have had a profound influence on residential architecture around the world and on many generations of young designers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silba Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 ANYBODY KNOW OF ANY GOOD WAR BOOKS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thecarwreck Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 ANYBODY KNOW OF ANY GOOD WAR BOOKS? depends on what you mean by "war"... but if you haven't already: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cro. Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 brave new world. i've been on some dystopia shit lately. even though the main character is a whiny little bitch i've enjoyed it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 ANYBODY KNOW OF ANY GOOD WAR BOOKS?[/color] kinda the same as thecarwreck. what kind of war book? "The Things They Carried", "Fallen Angels", both about Vietnam. "Generation Kill" is great, about the beginning of the current Iraq War. "Operation Dark Heart" is supposedly so good that the Pentagon bought as many copies as possible and burned them, but I have not read it yet. "One bullet Away" is written by a guy who is in "Generation Kill" currently reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 My Tank is Fight is possibly the best war book that has ever been written Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 the things they carried is very good. lots of hemingway is war. on killing is good. i can't think of the author. but you have google too, so you can find it as easily as i can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newer Bigger Better Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 wow thanks for all the recommendations! i actually have a copy of the poisonwood bible. never got around to reading it. maybe i will now. :) anna karenina was a beast to finish and i did like the book itself even if i thought the character anna karenina was a crazy. so maybe war and peace will have to be something i get my hands on. not to sure where you can pirate e-books but i like to raid libraries when they sell books for like 5 cents. my girl gave me this not to long ago. love it. the intro alone i was like fuck yeah i know what you are talking about! also reading i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelo. i laughed... first. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 keeping on the war stuff, and if you're down with poetry (yeah yeah, don't be ignorant), Brian Turner's Here, Bullet is brutally good. Dude was infantry in Iraq and came back, wrote a bunch, and blew people away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 there are videos of brian turner reading some from Here, Bullet on youtube. I think hearing poets reading their own work is interesting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 thanks for that. i don't know why i've never heard of that, seems like a lot of guys i work with could benefit from his words. edit: even more annoyed that i haven't heard of him since he deployed out of my post and have a lot of friends in his unit. weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldBench Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 thanks for that. i don't know why i've never heard of that, seems like a lot of guys i work with could benefit from his words. Agree'd , Def. Check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 ... I think hearing poets reading their own work is interesting. no doubt. if you want to know how a poem is supposed to sound, you need to hear it from the writer. 99% of the time it's the best way (of course I've heard more than my fair share of shit readers). Turner is the business in person, too... got people crying. /nopoemthread 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord patrick Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls Fantastic quick read. Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Ferreal Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 [/img] peep this joint this dude was crazy as fuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morton Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I just finished Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. A very good book that I highly recommend. One of those books that should be required reading for high school history class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Finishing up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silly_kelly Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 ha^ im on that too. the post office is good too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Been trying to find Ham On Rye at the local Barnes and Noble to no resolve. Can I presume you're screen name alludes to your gender being female? If so, how you diggin those slampigs in the story? I'm kinda thinkin you already braced yourself for his kinda shit haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieSNAPlin Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 reading books is for chumps. I write books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 reading books is for chumps. I write books This guy. Annie Dillard said something like "The more you read, the more you will write. The better stuff you read, the better stuff you'll write." I have a feeling your "books" are fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i eat babies Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Just finished reading this: Was surprisingly good. Deffinitely a page turner. Also read this recently: One of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Highly reccommend. About to start this: Looks interesting but it's pretty difficult to read as it's in a made up language! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 ^ have you read the rest of the stieg larsson trilogy? def worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 ANYBODY KNOW OF ANY GOOD WAR BOOKS?[/color] red storm rising. Probably my least favorite Clancy but it wasn't bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 It's alright so far. A buddy of mine is mentioned in the first chapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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