The Dark Tower Volume 3 by Stephen King and Alta by Mercedes Lackey. Both really good books. Dark Tower is particularly gripping, especially during Volume 2.

I am suddenly in the mood to rant about how awful the last three Dark Tower books are.

I've been reading Discworld, aaaand Discworld, and even more Discworld. I love Discworld!

Started with Interesting Times. It was Interesting. Then, Men At Arms, which is my favourite. Followed up with Guards! Guards! and Nightwatch (Sam Vimes is just unparalleled levels of kickass). Currently I'm reading Small Gods, which I feel like Meech suggested to me. It's a bit different, but still shaping up really well. I buy them in pairs at the end of each Paycheque (one a week) so I'll be following up with The Truth (The 25th Discworld novel~, according to the cover) and I placed an order for Snuff, which is both Hardcover, the newest book and about Sam Vimes. Discworld is amazing, Discworld is amazing, oh my god, Discworld is amazing.

Welcome to the club.

Speaking of clubs, I'm reading Fight Club right now. Really good book, but actually quite different from the movie, which is good. Some interesting scenes that I'm surprised aren't in the movie. I'd recommend reading it.

Not finished it yet, though, so I can't compare it to the movie properly, but so far I think I prefer the film.

So did the author, apparently.

That probably wasn't me.

Wait....

Do I need to read? :/

And no I'm not a stupid person so if you're here to say that, please die!

Awful? Awful?!? No, sir! They were not awful. They are consecutively the worst thing to happen to print in well, ever. They are absolute shit. If I wiped my ass with them, my ass would be filthier than before I started. I am appalled that they were even published.

Man that sounds bad, son. :confused:

It sure does, dad.

Why are they so awful? I'm really curious now.

Doctor Doom, snitches, Stephen King is God, men with ferret heads, woman gives birth to spider, anti-climax with Father Christmas and worst ending ever.

Wellllllll......let's see. He at one point writes himself into the story. He seems to forget past events, and rules of his own world. They are generally boring. Punch out ending preceded by the dumbest victory over a villain imaginable. Weird people who think that human pus and snot is a delicacy. Robot werewolves. General stupidity. Roland becomes the pickiest, and lamest douchebag ever. Bad writing.

Edit: Also that stupid shit that WoF just wrote down.

Also the villain Stephen King has been building up as Roland's arch nemesis for the whole series gets his eyes eaten by a spider who then gets food poisoning and is killed by a badger thing.

Also that villain turns out to be the exact same person as someone else in the series when it was expressly stated that they are not the same person, and in fact Roland once saw them together at the same time but now they are the same person apparently.

Well, that sounds pretty awesome to me. Can't go wrong with robot werewolves and ferret-headed men.

Yes, you can. And he does.

Who is also the same person in another Stephen King book with a horrible ending. Specifically The Stand, where the whole of the main cast except a retard, a pregnant woman and a guy who couldn't be in the climax due to breaking his leg die when the Hand of God (No really) detonates a nuclear bomb and blows up Las Vegas.

Also said villain spends half the thousand page book trying to birth the anti-christ, when he finally succeeds he throws him out of a penthouse suite window in a fit of rage.

The Stand is a complete waste of time. The protagonist's struggle is completely worthless since god steps in and does all, and I mean all, of the work for them. They never needed to be anywhere near anything to win. They could have just napped all the time, and our dear lord Jesus Christ would have still have given them ridiculous victory.

Wait a minute, I heard The Stand was one of the best books ever. Have I been mislead? I kinda wanted to read it.

It's a piece of shit.

But not as bad as The Dark Tower.

I really really liked it until the main character died, then it sort of turned shit.

M O O N SPELLS STUPID!

Okay. How about It? I've got that lying around.

I just don't wanna invest a lot of time in a shitty book.

IT is pretty good until it's stupid ending.

Are we seeing a pattern here?

Still, though. IT is miles above both The Stand, and The Dark Tower.

I have to read War on the Western Front in English.

By which I mean I'm going to leave it sitting on my floor for another few weeks then freak out when it comes to writing about it.

I'm reading The Wind in the Willows.

I've started reading Raymond E Feist's books. Unless it's medieval fantasy, I can't bring myself to read it.

Steven King's stories seem decent. I guess they start strong and end weak. Like a lot of famous stories.

Still need to finish Lord of the Rings I. For some reason I can't be arsed to pick up my Kindle and read it...even though I really want to, which makes no sense at all.

as much as i like Lord Of The Rings, i really struggled to read it. at first i'd think "yeah, lets read LOTR, i wonder what crazy shit will happen next!" then i'd think "oh, hang on, the incredibly difficult to understand writing. i forgot about that." then i'd force myself to read it. don't get me wrong, i enjoyed it and think it's a great story, but at times i felt like i was reading a thesaurus. an interesting thesaurus.

oh i don't fucking know what i'm trying to say. it was good but i'm stupid is probably a better explanation.

Mein Kampf.

Yep.

It's actually quite badly written, lots of repitition and dancing around the same point. I think the final verdict will be that it's a load of fucking rubbish but it's still an interesting book.

Mein Kampf is actually written very shittily, and Hitler made tonnes of spelling mistakes. Can't say I'm particularly interested in reading beyond the extracts from my old German history text books.

I just read my failure, It's aboot a guy named Sheridan who can't fit in and no one will give him a simple straight answer or guide (like a book) as to get a good reputation or how to get into an "odd" sense of humour.

It's a fucking brilliant book, It was written by a place called OWF, I can't remember what it stands for but I want to join the place and see what it's about, maybe someone can help me clear this up.

Chapter 2: Spamming up other threads with your irrelevant bullshittery.

I've helped you via PM and on the forum, so has T-Nex, so has half the rest of the forum. If you haven't learn't by now you need to observe rather than post...for as long as possible.

I am currently reading "Word Bearers, The Omnibus" A collective of three books, it's very good, I love villans, I love evil characters. It's the only time when the critique on the back was right, I do feel swept from bloody scene to the next. Not too well written, but then i've never read a warhammer novel which I would describe as "well written"

Just avoid CS Goto!

Still reading Etymologicon. Today I learned that the tune of 'Star Spangled Banner' is taken from an bawdy English drinking song, and that the largest contributor to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was a criminally insane nymphomaniac who died shortly after cutting off his own penis.