Anyone reading any good books lately?
Well, I've just started reading Airborn, which is turning out to be a pretty nice book. It basically takes place in an alternate version of the 1900's where air vehicles are used almost entirely for transportation, and it's basically an airborne version of a Pirates of the Carribean film. Only with a fifteen-year-old cabin boy instead of a Johnny Depp-lookalike captain, as well as other younger people.
Oh, yes, and I'm rereading the new Sam & Max Surfing the Highway paperback I got in the mail a few days ago
So I'm wanting to know, what are some other books you guys are reading? Anything the rest of us should keep an eye on?
Oh, yes, and I'm rereading the new Sam & Max Surfing the Highway paperback I got in the mail a few days ago
So I'm wanting to know, what are some other books you guys are reading? Anything the rest of us should keep an eye on?
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I don't know if I would recommend any of them, they were okay.
If anyone is looking for a nice, lengthy series to get into, I would suggest Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I must warn you that the series is a bit better if you've read most of his other stuff, because he drops a lot of references to his other works throughout the series, but it would also be magnificent as a standalone piece. Following Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, in his travels through Midworld, our world, and multiple others, in a quest to save everything (not just one world, but literally everything, in all worlds and all dimensions) which leads him to the Dark Tower. This 7-book series is some of the best stuff I've ever read.
Another great series to look into is Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. 5 books of hilarity ensue after Arthur Dent's world is destroyed to make way for an intergalactic highway.
Unfortunately, I fail to do justice to the awesomeness of these series.
Right now, I'm reading less exciting stuff - Inkdeath, the finale to Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series. I hadn't read ay of the series since Inkheart came out, and when I heard all three were released, I decided to read 'em all over again.
I've also been reading those because of the new sixth one coming in October. It's being written by Eoin Colfer of Artemis Fowl fame. I think he may have some explaining to do because at the end of the fifth book,
I heard about that, too. Didn't know it was coming out in October, though... I'll have to be through my pile of books-to-read by then. That thing's gotten way too big; I really need to catch up.
"reading any good books lately" is bad grammar.
"reading" means you are currently in the book, and "lately" means in the past.
So it's a PARADOX!!!!
I liked the first two-and-a-half books. After that, it just got downright confusing. I still read them though.
Anyway, I'm sure the new guy will do something. I wouldn't mind if he borrowed the radio play ending.
Hell, sounds better than my idea.
THE LAST FIVE BOOKS WERE A DREAM...
Right now I'm just reading some classic Agatha Christie stories.
Now Reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Soon to be reading: Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Want to read: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
I knew to expect the clichéd form of fantasy with staff wielding wizards I've come to detest (unless it's in the parody 'Pratchetian' form ;-)) but I'd seen the anime adaptation and my hopes were raised. (I had read reviews that the film was loosely based on the books, but some of the things said made me think it was a sort of 'Gonzo' adaptation, so I gave it a chance).
Well, I was right about the gonzo bit; the film's character's were highly close to the book's, the situations they get into are the kind they might have got into in the book and they react in the same ways as their counterparts. The difference is that the film is entertaining while the book completely lacks complexity; every step of the plot is strait forward one-step-infront-of-the-other journey.
The prose are nice but she (Ursula leGuin) frequently tries to hard to make her words sound pretty (but a lot of authors of this style of fantasy fall into this trap).
I don't know why I've been forcing myself to continue reading as I have done. It's been months. I actually find excuses not to read it ("Nah, I'd rather play some computer games", "No, I've been meaning to watch [...] for a while...", "No thanks I, err... Need to wash the dishes", "This is no time to read! The... Errr... Ummm... Toilet needs scrubbing!"). And I don't know why I don't just write it off as a bad job and give up but I'm determined to see it through.
Anything by Terry Pratchett is fantastic
You have a point there
No, I am not getting high while writing it...surprisingly.
I'm also reading a comic collection of Bloom County, of which my avatar comes from.
*cough*
I think this book might be an attempt to pull in the fans of his movies who had never read any of his written works. It was certainly a good medium for that quest, but beyond that, it hardly deserves to exist. However, I figured that since I had already purchased the book, I may as well read it. They're the same great stores that appeared elsewhere first, and it's always worth a re-read of any of his stuff.
My favourite was the third one, but I think the ending of the fifth was a bit sad. I'm looking forward to the Eoin Colfer's sequel. (I've read the first five Artemis Fowl's books by Eoin Colfer too.)
Recently I ordered online Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The long-dark tea time of the soul (Both by Douglas Adams.) and The Salmon of Doubt, but I haven't recieved them yet.
Coincidentally, I am currently reading The Salmon of Doubt, and own Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (but haven't yet read them). The Salmon of Doubt is definitely worth the purchase, and I'm actually saying this before the generally anticipated part (the beginnings of what was going to be either the 3rd Dirk Gently book or the 6th Hitchhiker's book). This guy has a sense of humor like no other.