Fist 666 Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 That's weird and terrible. but this is the age. Nigger Jim is now Slave Jim... Rewriting of history to sanitize us of our shame and our minds. Fucking stupid. It's easy enough to find first/early editions of Orwell's stuff for good prices. A good hardback always looks better on your shelf than a recent edition soft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon sandleshit Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Just finished the second volume in Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series. really good.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Been meaning to reread that and Animal Farm, but haven't gotten to it. Have also noted many complaint on Amazon that the versions being sold now are abridged and some of the more subversive concepts have been diluted of edited out. Almost seems like a pun, if not ironically Orwellian for big brother to edit a book like 1984. that's fucked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 that's fucked Read the Amazon reviews of those books... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 The Quiet American 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 ^^^ Definitely on my to read list - as is Max Havelaar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar - another in a fine series of books that explores colonialism. I did read Heart of Darkness not long ago and was thoroughly unimpressed, maybe my expectations had been unreasonable given its fame. I've prob said this before in this thread or another, but read A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens. Probably my fav book to date in the way that it covers class divide and despotism as well as revolution and brutality. Gripping shit, a real can't-put-downer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Quiet American is fantastic. Realistically, I'd give a plug for any of Greene's writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Book title is a bit misleading, this mainly deals with the Unabomber and Eric Rudolph. 1st author pats himself on the back and holds his friend's dicks a number of times, his story telling is repetitive and could have been said in less pages. 2nd author takes over for the last third of the book, a little more interesting, more focused on character/personality, but there's a lot missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Back to re-reading Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, The Book Thief, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and Metro 2034 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misteraven Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Anna Kendrick "We Eat Our Own. Tad Williams"Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" Damn, thought that first one was going to be a good zombie book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 If you ever need motivation for suicide hit up Tolstoy's "The Slavery of Our Times". Shit is crrrrrushing and I'm only about 30% done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Oliver Twist. Hardcore depressing in the first 10 chapters. Not a children's story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 A less hippie, modern version of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." Good writing. Good critique of education and consumer culture. @misteraven I feel like it might speak to you with your move to the boonies and simplification of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boodah Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 The Magic Mountain, stopped halfway through, when I realized that I read it in fifth grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Just finished up The Shining starting on Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. I've been struggling to pick books up lately so I'm just going through as much easily digestible stuff as possible. Shining was the first time I've read anything by Stephen King aside from On Writing. I had also never seen a movie adaptation of one of his books, so I threw the shining movie on directly after finishing the book. The movie was dog shit terrible in my opinion, but you just can't transfer the psychological aspect of the book all that well, I think. Most of the book is in everyone's own head which is impossible without some shitty narration decisions in a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boodah Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 1-2-3-4 The Outsiders Why did I just count to four, because of the outsiders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcruisemom'sshoes Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child. Part of the Jack Reacher series. Just completed the whole Alex Cross series by James Patterson as well deff a good series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 i went to the book signing for david relin, the guy who co-authored the book "three cups of tea" he was really cool...when talking about the book, he made a reference to "cheese wit" a reference to cheesesteak sandwiches in philly...nobody in the room understood what he was talking about, because most of the people there were old farts. so when i met him, i talked to him about cheesesteaks and how he made funny of one of his characters in his book by calling the guy "jiffy pop head" he laughed...i think talking to me was a breath of fresh air compared to doing signings for a bunch of geriatrics that were there. I just found out a few months ago that this author i met (David Relin) committed suicide in oregon a few years ago by throwing himself in front of a train. heres his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oliver_Relin oh and btw I just finished gandhi's autobiography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Revisited A Catcher in the Rye for the first time since I was probably 21 or 22 I think. Book did not hold the weight it once did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Have a bunch of books and am not reading any. Need to get my ass in gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Wife just picked up Diplomacy by H Kissinger for me today. I married the right woman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 The drawings, the stories/info, the how this book came to be, all pretty fresh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBarret23 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 The shinning, its great! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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One Man Banned Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 What do you mean by "however adjusted"? *Edit, well, that was weird. A spammer that actually made an interesting contribution. And then got deleted and banned. D'oh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Didn't even see the post only saw the name and the homepage. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Yeah, was weird. Clearly a spammer but that was a real post. Go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CALIgula Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Finished the autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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