What are you reading?

[WolfensteinOdess]

It's the french title....

[OANST]

No.

[Steamer_KING]

I think he's LOST. IN. TRANSLATION.


Get it? AH!



/fuckingawfuljokes

[Crashpunk]

My mate lent me all the volumes of Scott Pilgrim and I've been reading them all week. I've just finished them and... I adore them. Probably my favourite book series (would you call it a Manga?) I am in love with the artstyle. It's simple, but has a cute style to it. The eyes especially , I love how big they are. I really love the characters too, pretty much all of them. Weirdly, I see a bit of myself in Scott. Unlucky in love, is a huge video game nerd and doesn't drink. (pretty sad if I'm honest).

I watched the movie when it came out and I really enjoyed it, but after reading the books, I've noticed they cut a lot of stuff out of from the book. Obviously that's because of the film length ect, but they cut A LOT of important stuff. Anyway this isn't a movie thread so I'll leave it here.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND series. Go read it sometime if you haven't already.

[Vyrien]

They're Graphic Novels (rather than Manga). Awesome series and the game is also very fun.

[Phylum]

I'm reading an Australian book called Jasper Jones in my English class. It explores some really interesting ideas and I'm enjoying it much more than any of the other books I've dredged through recently. It does an amazing job of making you feel for the main characters, and is paced beautifully. It's been described as the Australian "To Kill a Mockingbird".

[Crashpunk]

They're Graphic Novels (rather than Manga). Awesome series and the game is also very fun.

The game looks amazing. I really wish they bring it out to Steam.

[Mac Sirloin]

I've been reading Gantz. It's a manga I've heard about since I was aware of manga but never bothered with because it seemed way too over the top. I like it though, I found myself actually rooting for some of the characters and really hating others. There's one character who's been around for 100+ issues who committed a mass shooting that still hasn't received his comeuppance as opposed to the 500 or so characterswho have exploded for oggling the female characters. I don't really like the art, way too plain and learning that about 90% of manga is just computer generated backgrounds and 3D models with faces drawn on them really twisted how I feel about good 'artists' in the industry.

I would recommend it but it's basically nonstop gore and anime jelly tits strewn around like garbage in a trailer park.

[Auriel]

If audiobooks count, Dark Tower Volume 7 and The Fellowship of the Ring. Fellowship is amazing in that it takes them FOREVER to get to Bree! Tom Bombadil is a bit like the LOTR version of Chuck Norris so that's always fun. The songs are good at first but some of them go on far too long. If it was a book I'd just skip over it but with an audiobook it can be a pain to fast forward past those parts. Overall though it's fantastic. Some scenes play out completely differently.

I read the LOTR trilogy for the first time in grade 8 I believe, and while I did find the first half of book one painfully snail-paced I enjoyed the fact that it was very much reminiscent of the Hobbit. I guess Peter Jackson did not see the forest/barrow down sections as "epic" enough for the films but I really wish the movie trilogy retained them to incorporate a transition between a fairy tale-like atmosphere and the heroic fantasy of the majority of the story (as well as avoiding a plot hole)
In any case I'm in the process of reading through the James Bond [i]novels] and I guess you can wish me luck since I'm stranded in the middle of the Gardners.

[Slog Bait]

Reading the first issue of The Nightly News.

It's always nice when the first issue of a comic book series captures your interest immediately. At the same time it sucks because now I want to know what happens next and don't exactly have the money right now to spend to do so.

Also, has anyone here read Green Wake? I'm considering saving up to buy the only 10 issues available but it would really suck if it turns out to be complete shit.

[STM]

Read the Guardian today, I convinced my Mum to buy it instead of the Daily Mail, was quite proud of myself not gonna lie.

Other than that, I'm still working my way through Dominion. Slowly. I can't remember if I said I was reading it last time I posted here and I don't care to look, but it's still gripping me enough to keep reading on ever so slowly, which is saying something because I can hardly face reading at all right now for some reason.

[Auriel]

Well I just finished reading 1984 (yes, for the first time) and admittedly some of the events, particularly in the final third of the book, rather took me by surprise. It seems like Orwell's intention was to depict the most extreme end of oppressive totalitarian regimes possible. Personally, I may be a bit too optimistic, but I doubt that a global Orwellian government would survive for very long for several reasons.

[Wings of Fire]

There's several subtle implications throughout the book that it doesn't. Most noticeably is the past tense used in the section describing Newspeak, as if it were describing something from the past.

[Bullet Magnet]

Brave New world was disturbingly more plausible.

[STM]

There's several subtle implications throughout the book that it doesn't. Most noticeably is the past tense used in the section describing Newspeak, as if it were describing something from the past.

I never saw that part as being a suggestion of the Party's fall, just that it existed as an article outside of the novel. It is standard practice for pretty standard practice for authors to write in the past tense, after all. I mean, for all we know, the Party controls the entire world, and not just Oceania. It's not impossible considering the only source of information that says otherwise is constantly reshaping the truth.

[Bullet Magnet]

According to Orwell, Big Brother is me.

[Wings of Fire]

Rereading Sandman I've finished A Game of You. I certainly liked it more a second time round, but I still don't really get it or appreciate what (If anything) it was trying to say.

Also Thessaly is an awful character and I hate her.

[Nate]

Also Thessaly is an awful character and I hate her.

I disagree. I think Thessaly is an awful person and I hate her. But what makes her a good character is that I'm meant to hate her.

</split hairs>

[Wings of Fire]

I disagree. I think Thessaly is an awful person and I hate her. But what makes her a good character is that I'm meant to hate her.

</split hairs>

I do not appreciate the fact her and Morpheus's romance is entirely off-screen, there's no chemistry between them before and irregardless of this, she's still pretty crucial to his, well, you know.

[Nate]

I do not appreciate the fact her and Morpheus's romance is entirely off-screen, there's no chemistry between them before and irregardless of this, she's still pretty crucial to his, well, you know.

I'm not sure that showing the romance on-screen would be much better. Morpheus tends to be the least interesting character in any of his comics.

[OddjobAbe]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist. I can't get enough of it. It's the first fictional book I've read for a long time, but it's not really fiction - really, it's an account of real situations with the characters representing the kind of people the author, Robert Tressel, worked with as a painter and decorator. Read it before, but I love it even more now.

[STM]

Midnight's Children by the fantastic Rushdie. I'm in love with his writing style.


And. His, Grammar.

[StrangerEastwood]

I've finally gotten around to reading The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. For once, the hype didn't lie to me. Not much I can say that hasn't already been said, but it is fantastic.

[Wings of Fire]

Read Lucifer. It's not quite as good, but that don't mean much.

[Wings of Fire]

I just finished the first volume of the Vertigo comic Fables last night and I'm pretty sure I hated it. I have no idea why it gets so much praise.