What are you reading?

[scrabface]

first thing I would do is come to visit you and cut you in four pieces. you damn motherfucker

[OANST]

Sounds like a hell of a book.

[Mac Sirloin]

Rise Up, O Young Men of The New Age! by Kenzaburo Oe. It's fucking good, but The constant reminder that THE MAIN CHARACTER READS WILLIAM BLAKE AND LIKES WILLIAM BLAKE AND GETS THINGS FROM WILLIAM BLAKE is so, so boring.

[Alf Shall Rise]

Well, I haven't started reading it yet, but soon I will be reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I've read the short summary at the back of the book, and it seems like it's going to be interesting.

[Wings of Fire]

And Tehanu? How's Tehanu coming, fuck ass?

After my exams, faggot breath. Comics are far easier to pick up and read.

[PalezQkkeli]

I'm reading Ghost Rider, By Neil Peart. He's the drummer of the band Rush. The book's about how he loses his family and starts driving his motorcycle to ease the pain. The book's really good. He uses a lot of complicated words and I like to find out what they mean.

[Strike Witch]

I just finished Star Wars: Death Star. It's an interesting little EU novel.

Basically, it chronicles about ten characters as they come together and get wrapped up in construction of the Death Star. They all seem kinda separate but they overlap and eventually meet up and try to desert. The interesting thing is that the book actually rather seamlessly segues into the events of the first film and happen around it, so it's quite clever.

Not brilliant, but thoughtful I guess.

Also the guy who fires the Death Star laser ends up having a huge mental crisis after wiping out Alderaan. nice touch.

[enchilado]

I'm just over halfway through The Fifth Elephant, of course by Terry Pratchett. It's just as good as any other Discworld novel I've read so far, and rather better than some. Vimes is spiffing, and Igor ith jutht ath thplendid ath ever. Vetinari is cool, Detritus is fick, Gaspode is wossname and, to cut a long story short, I'm really enjoying it.

[Wings of Fire]

Since I never got to see the movie I bought Kickass the other day and read through it fast like. It was eh.

It was just trying way way too hard to be a deconstruction and at parts it was unbelievably, even stupidly, cynical. It was cool and it was edgy but I wouldn't call it anywhere near great.

[T-nex]

I read this psychological thriller named "Piercing", written by Ryu Murakami.
It was on sale and had an interesting cover and summary so I thought why not.

I finished it in a day(It's only 180 pages of fairly largely written text). But man, it left me really in a weird mood X_x It's about some guy who becomes obsessed with wanting to pierce his own baby with an ice pick, but instead he decides to kill a random hooker from an S&M agency... He also decides he wants to slice her Achilles Tendons... Blargh. It's quite the sickening book at some parts, but it kept me interested and entertained at least.
Both the main guy and the girl he wants to kill have their fucked up past and stuff haunting them.
The ending was odd. I guess I should read more weird psychological thrillers.

Actually, I've been wanting to read more books lately, but I always spend hours in the book store, not really knowing what to buy.
Do any people here have good ideas? I like exciting books... Sometimes Sci-fi, sometimes fantasy ... But also normal books. Or historical books... They can also include romance, but I absolutely hate books revolving only around romance.
So does anyone has good suggestions? Pleeze =D

[Nate]

Read American Gods by Neil Gaiman. You won't regret it.

[Wings of Fire]

Read American Gods by Neil Gaiman. You really won't regret it.

[T-nex]

Why not?

[Mac Sirloin]

Fool, the new Christopher Moore book. (new being relative)

It's okay.

[OANST]

I'm reading Seeing, by Jose Saramago. Despite his hatred of both punctuation and grammar, it is still a fascinating read. Great book.

[scrabface]

@ T-nex

Maybe you could try out Max Barry

Company or my fav 'Jennifer Government' - combines science fiction (please don't call it sci-fi ~) satire, love story and really great humour.



you can also get a daily page of his latest book machine man sent as an email
http://www.maxbarry.com/

[Wings of Fire]

combines science fiction (please don't call it sci-fi ~)

Someone is feeling pretentious.

[Disgruntled Intern]

Lightfall. Well, I already finished it. But it was good. Amusing. It was written by my Algebra professor, so I felt obligated to buy it.

Religious/Political Satire. Some of you might like it.

[Nate]

Someone is feeling pretentious.

Nah, he's not pretentious until he starts using the phrase "Speculative Fiction".

[Wings of Fire]

Magical Realism!

[Nate]

Is there a name for the genre of Fantasy which is set in the real world but where the general public aren't aware that magic exists? Examples: Harry Potter, The Dark is Rising, American Gods, etc.

[Disgruntled Intern]

"Silly".

[scrabface]

I don't think that there is any specific name for this.

[Phylum]

"Silly".

Are you blind?

[OANST]

No. That's the other Saramago book.

[Disgruntled Intern]

Are you blind?

Yes. All of my books are in braille. I browse the forums via text to speech software. Thanks for bringing it up.

[MeechMunchie]

Is there a name for the genre of Fantasy which is set in the real world but where the general public aren't aware that magic exists? Examples: Harry Potter, The Dark is Rising, American Gods, etc.

Wainscot Fiction.

[OddjobAbe]

I'm currently reading "Beyond the Planet Earth" by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. What I have read so far has been briefly describing Tsiolkovsky's work on interplanetary travel.
I've been getting interested in the history of communism recently, so I've ordered a copy of the Communist manifesto and a biography of Che Guevara that I hear is unbiased.

I've also been looking at a daft book called "100 Things to Do When You're Dead". I couldn't recommend it enough.

[scrabface]

lol fail

[OANST]

That sounds like a very interesting book.