Shittles..TasteTheAsshole Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Reading Plague Ship by Clive Cussler hard cover copy right now. A novel of the Oregon Files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 i still need to pick up a copy of 1984 and read it too. all i read from orwell was animal farm back in high school. but i keep seeing it popping up in this thread and also on "best 100 books of all times" lists...lol. im gonna go to the library and see if they have the "large print" version of the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 i'm about to cop a joint like this. real talk. i'm averaging like 6 pages per sitting. shits outlandish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 i bought the 60th anniversay edition of 1984 in high school, took me a long ass time to read, i kept putting it down every couple pages in the middle of the book, it was like trying to run through knee deep mud. never read any Tolstoy, thinking about reading some of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 i want to read war and peace one day...i actually downloaded it in pdf format either from manybooks or ebookee (i cant remember)....the girl im seeing also downloaded it...she has more time than me, but shes only made it into the first 20 pages or something lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 so i got about 1/2 way into snow falling on cedars, wasn't into it, saw it was on netflix, watched that and though, as a rule movies always suck in comparison to the book, i'm glad i didn't hang on for the second half of the book. currently reading its quite good, i like his style a lot, simple and on point. i don't remember if i posted about charles portis "norwood" being very good also up next, steinbeck "log from the sea of cortez" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 A family escaping communism in the soviet union are stuck in italy when their contact in Chicago changes their mind about letting the family stay kind of interesting... bit of a slow boiler thus far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 i want to read war and peace one day...i actually downloaded it in pdf format either from manybooks or ebookee (i cant remember)....the girl im seeing also downloaded it...she has more time than me, but shes only made it into the first 20 pages or something lol. HOWWW can you read shit on those things...? i couldn't do it man. so i got about 1/2 way into snow falling on cedars, wasn't into it, saw it was on netflix, watched that and though, as a rule movies always suck in comparison to the book, i'm glad i didn't hang on for the second half of the book. not true. as a movie nerd i have to disagree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gos Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Good read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Disagree with what? That the book is always better than the movie? It is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 i have yet to see a film maker capture the greatness of my imagination and soaring of emotion that i've felt reading a great novel on film. not even close. what would your arguments be? i'd really like to know what your examples are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 i want to read war and peace one day...i actually downloaded it in pdf format either from manybooks or ebookee (i cant remember)....the girl im seeing also downloaded it...she has more time than me, but shes only made it into the first 20 pages or something lol. i wanna check that out too, and anna karenina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 ^ more over, every time I watch the film version of something I've read it completely replaces my minds image of the characters with the actors who played them every time I read about frodo baggins I just see elijah wood goddamnit. I can't help it. edit: in reply to fist for fucks sake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 fuck i hate that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatjuggernaut Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Half way through this - it's very funny and disturbing at the same time. Football hooligans are a wild bunch - I liken it to HST's Hell's Angels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gos Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Hell's Angels was quite funny, might check that one out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NightmareOnElmStreet Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 i have yet to see a film maker capture the greatness of my imagination and soaring of emotion that i've felt reading a great novel on film. not even close. what would your arguments be? i'd really like to know what your examples are. not really arguments, rather a couple films i definitely didn't think "sucked" in comparison to the book. first and foremost. a clockwork orange. then movies like the hours, the crucible, and Malcolm X(based largely on the autobiographical book). idk. perhaps i haven't read as much as i've watched. more recently i'd definitely have to say i liked the book version of "let the right one in" and "youth in revolt" better than the movie. "let the right one in" did not by any means "suck" in comparison. neither the version of the film for that matter. point being. in closer attention. i haven't read enough to really make that call. but as for what i have seen and read i don't think they did any injustice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 i've only read and watched a clockwork orange and the crucible. clockwork was obviously a very good film, and probably the strongest argument that film can be done right to the book. i haven't seen any of the others you mentioned so i can't comment,but i think that it is generally impossible, they are two vastly different mediums that aren't capable of mirroring each other, and maybe they're not meant to. i particularly hate when great liberties or erasures are made, when the tone is changed (ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, wtf? what a disappointment) or characters are dropped (where the fuck was tom bombadil??????). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 anna karenina...yep, thats on my list too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Currently: Philip H. Dick is dead, alas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnout Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 For school but its pretty good, and I like guns awesome book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Finished A Dance With Dragons a few days ago. Started Blood Meridian today on my lunch break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 Finished A Dance With Dragons a few days ago. Started Blood Meridian today on my lunch break. ADWD is great. Blood Meridian is also great. I LOVE THIS POST! unrelated: Before ADWD was released I started a book called Lucifer's Hammer. ADWD was released before I was able to get through Lucifer's Hammer, so I put that down and started ADWD. Lucifer's Hammer is highly recommended to anyone that likes dystopian, apocolypse, end of the world as we know it stories. Now, the first 1/3rd of the book goes sort of slow as the story and characters are built (the disaster happens about a 1/3rd of the way through the book) but as soon as that shit happens, the book gets absolutely AMAZING. READ. THIS. BOOK. [/img] So Seriously You Guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 i just started reading this.. eat pray love dont judge me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 oh, i'm judging. i bet that will make great conversation with some heavy ladies WITH glasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 lol!....hey now....it was at the thrift store for $1.50 and its a #1 NY Times bestseller, so i thought fuck it, might as well read it..lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 hey man, do your thing, not hating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 you COULD have read that without admitting it to the internet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 no questions here caligula, i've read some pretty questionable shit myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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