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  On 6/9/2013 at 10:08 PM, vletrmx said:

I'm reading "Why The West Rules For Now: The Patterns Of History And What They Reveal About The Future by Ian Morris, You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier, and Musicophilia: Tales Of Music And The Brain by Oliver Sacks." You know, just kinda occurred to me.

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  On 6/9/2013 at 2:31 PM, Ceerial said:

 

  On 6/9/2013 at 7:38 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 6/6/2013 at 9:56 PM, Ceerial said:

The Road

What do you think of it? I personally liked it, also has a great film adaptation. Been meaning to read more Cormac

 

 

I was just going to write it's the best book I have ever read.

 

It's really incredible. I'm definitely going to check out some more by Cormac McCarthy.

 

I really like the film adaption too. It's actually quite a underrated movie I think, also the reason I was interested in this book in the first place.

 

I saw the film first and was really happy when my English class was assigned to read the book. The minimalism just fits so perfectly for a story like that i probably wouldn't say its my favorite book of all time but it's up there

I'm currently read the shining by stephen king and them by jon ronson.

the shining because I love the film and I wondered how the book was different. so far its more in depth (obviously) but not that different. enjoying.

I think I may be a bit late on reading them. extremism has come along way since the book was written. or maybe it hasn't. only 1 chapter in. the first guy made me think of four lions. been meaning to read this for ages as i"ve read everything else ronson wrote.

I was bullied into reading Skeleton Crew by Stephen King and have almost finished. There's a lot of fluff in between some pretty good short stories. After that, The Upanishads.

The more I think about Blood Meridian, the more I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. I'm going to re-read it soon. I recently finished All The Pretty Horses. I enjoyed it, and I think I'll continue on to the other two of this trilogy soon. I want to read Suttree too, per Iain's recommendation.

Now reading Dune. I've never read it...

  On 6/12/2013 at 5:17 PM, Ron Manager said:

The more I think about Blood Meridian, the more I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. I'm going to re-read it soon. I recently finished All The Pretty Horses. I enjoyed it, and I think I'll continue on to the other two of this trilogy soon. I want to read Suttree too, per Iain's recommendation.

 

Now reading Dune. I've never read it...

The entire Borders Trilogy was very good, imo, but The Crossing, particularly the first half, is outstanding. Apart from that, the only McCarthy I've read is The Road; I keep putting off Blood Meridian, I'm almost afraid of how good it's going to be.

Dune is very good. I need to read at least the rest of the original series, as I've only read the first book once through.

edit: I'm currently reading Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, and am enjoying it so far.

Blood Meridian is one of those books where it suddenly clicked for me. The first half of it I couldn't quite decide what I thought of it, but from a certain point maybe halfway through (don't think this is a spoiler, but when the gang seizes control of the ferry crossing), I just couldn't put it down. For whatever reason, I think it was at that point that I realised how desperate and depraved they had all become, and how raw the narrative was. Holden is one of the most amazing and terrifying characters I've ever encountered.

a kindle.

(this one, it's great).

im about halfway through the crosing by cormac its ok, i think i liked pretty horses better. sometimes the spanish bits leave me a bit puzzled and the cowboy dudes never suck each other off but its ok

I too use a kindle. seems to have upped my reading habit by about 2000%

About half way through Capital by John Lanchester. I wanted another Have A Look At 21st Century London novel after finishing NW, but this is tedious wank.

  On 6/17/2013 at 10:46 PM, doublename said:

About half way through Capital by John Lanchester. I wanted another Have A Look At 21st Century London novel after finishing NW, but this is tedious wank.

Read Hawthorne and Child by Keith Ridgway in that case

  On 6/18/2013 at 9:31 AM, Iain C said:

 

  On 6/17/2013 at 10:46 PM, doublename said:

About half way through Capital by John Lanchester. I wanted another Have A Look At 21st Century London novel after finishing NW, but this is tedious wank.

 

Read Hawthorne and Child by Keith Ridgway in that case

Thanks, this sounds promising.

Read 'Salem's Lot and The Stand while I was on holiday. There's something about Stephen King books that's like getting into a warm bath. They're just so readable and there's no pussying around the supernatural stuff, which some writers tend to do as though they're embarassed about writing about that sort of thing. His books are like China Mieville's in that you can just tell as you're reading them that he just really, really likes monsters and stuff and ain't ashamed to show it.

SK FTW!

His books are such a pleasure to read without (97% of the time) insulting your intelligence.

They are my comfort blankets. I'm sure I've said that before ITT.

+1, SK - Salem's Lot is brilliant.

reading:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/143917779/The-Tao-of-Alchemy

did anyone read under the dome? tv show starting soon based on it

  On 6/23/2013 at 3:47 PM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

did anyone read under the dome? tv show starting soon based on it

Oh really? I fear it will be awful, as all most SK adaptions are.

The book was great, very entertaining and suitably epic near the end:

But after that the book turns into shit. It should have ended there.

Leafing through the book of Matthew from the New Testament in the original Greek, and I'm impressed at how much I can understand given I've only been learning the language for a few months. With enough glossing it's actually fairly intelligible. Like many religious texts it's quite repetitive and uses a limited vocabulary. It's great though. Fuck all atheists.

given up on the crossing and am reading "we were soliders once and young" about killin some damn gook vc bastards

  On 6/25/2013 at 11:57 AM, Iain C said:

Fuck all atheists.

good fuck or bad fuck

need 2 know how to prepare myself for this

  On 6/26/2013 at 6:16 AM, baph said:

 

  On 6/25/2013 at 11:57 AM, Iain C said:

Fuck all atheists.

 

good fuck or bad fuck

need 2 know how to prepare myself for this

 

Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions.

  On 6/26/2013 at 7:24 AM, auxien said:

 

  On 6/26/2013 at 6:16 AM, baph said:

 

  On 6/25/2013 at 11:57 AM, Iain C said:

Fuck all atheists.

 

good fuck or bad fuck

need 2 know how to prepare myself for this

 

 

Us atheists are the best fucks. We do all the dirty shit that's not allowed by religions.

 

Haha if you only knew. You atheists are just like Protestants in so many ways, including a characteristic porridge-scoffing sexual inadequacy. You are austere, self-flagellating, and to a man rubbish in bed. Iconoclasm is anti-sex. And you will never know the true carnal pleasures known to Catholics, Muslims and other people who are actually able to unite the spiritual and the physical.

Lord of the Flies.