Reading List Thread

Vampire = Horror, ~grins~

When i mean fantsay... Lord of The Rings and dragon books.... ~shivers~

But i kinda have growen out of it now... Hamiltons books went to shit after there was liek 600 pages of sex in a book and then the book only progressed like 150 pages.
 
UndoControl said:
New forum rule: From now on, there will be a single thread about DT and all album talk, bootleg talk, band-member talk, gig talk and everyhing-else-DT talk will only be posted there. There will also be only one music-that's-non-DT thread, and the NP thread, the check-out-this-band thread and any other music thread that doesn't deal exclusively with DT will be merged there. Furthermore, there will be no more than one non-music thread, where all talk that isn't strongly connected to music shall go. Thus, a forum with three threads. Oh, the joys of mindless moderation!
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Oh, the joys of mindless exaggeration.

Calm down, the mod decided to merge your thread with the reading thread. Big deal.
 
RampageSword said:
Oh, the joys of mindless exaggeration.

Calm down, the mod decided to merge your thread with the reading thread. Big deal.
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First, it wasn't my thread, it was Rayna's.

Second, what Rayna said.

Third, i really don't see a reason for this particular threadmerging. To me it just seems like another example of the the-less-threads-the-better philosophy/campaign rahvin has taken up lately and hyena is obviously happy with.
 
UndoControl said:
First, it wasn't my thread, it was Rayna's.
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Sorry for my confusion: Rayna's thread.

UndoControl said:
Third, i really don't see a reason for this particular threadmerging. To me it just seems like another example of the the-less-threads-the-better philosophy/campaigh rahvin has taken up lately and hyena is obviously happy with.
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What if she's happy with it? I'm sorry but you sound like you don't particularly appreciate hyena and thus tend to go against whatever she'll say just for the sake of it. Yeah you're against merging threads, it's your choice, whatever, I don't care and I'm not here to fight about such trifles. But that little ending there, "hyena is obviously happy with" reeks of sarcasm and is, IMO, useless in the defending of your point of view.



edit: Now, for the sake of it, what I have on my bookshelf (floor) I warn you, I'm from Québec, lots in french.

Sergio Kokis : Le maître de jeu; Le pavillon des miroirs; Les amants de l'Alfama
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt: La part de l'autre; Milarepa; Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran; Oscar et la dame rose
Emmanuel Carrère: L'Adversaire
Louis Ferdinand Céline: Voyage au bout de la nuit
Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
Suzanne Jacob: Fugueuses
Nicolas Dickner: Nikolski
Serge Bouchard: L'homme descend de l'ourse
Boris Vian: L'herbe rouge
Patrick Süskind: Le Parfum
Peter Schaffer: Equus
Jean Paul Sartre: La nausée; Huis Clos; Le mur
Ken Kesey: A Flight Over A Cuckoo's Nest
Gaston Miron: L'homme rapaillé
Prosper Mérimée: Colomba
Daniel Pennac: Comme un roman
Monique Proulx: Les Aurores montréales
Luke Rhinehart: The Dice Man
Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin
Michel Tremblay: Les Belles-Soeurs
George Orwell: 1984
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
 
Rampage said:
What if she's happy with it? I'm sorry but you sound like you don't particularly appreciate hyena and thus tend to go against whatever she'll say just for the sake of it. Yeah you're against merging threads, it's your choice, whatever, I don't care and I'm not here to fight about such trifles. But that little ending there, "hyena is obviously happy with" reeks of sarcasm and is, IMO, useless in the defending of your point of view.
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No, you got it wrong. That last sentence is there because it was she that made the two threads be merged by rahvin in the first place. There is some tension there, but 'tis not that that made me post what i posted.
 
Well, here are my latest victims :p

INA Schaeffler - Technical Pocket Book for engineers
Papula - Maths for engineers 1-3
Hoischen - Technical Drawing
Bronstein, Semendjajew, Musiol - Handbook of technical maths
Gross, Hauger, Schnell - Engineering Mechanics 1+2

:zzz:
 
eRraZib_ENo said:
Sorry for my confusion: Rayna's thread.



What if she's happy with it? I'm sorry but you sound like you don't particularly appreciate hyena and thus tend to go against whatever she'll say just for the sake of it. Yeah you're against merging threads, it's your choice, whatever, I don't care and I'm not here to fight about such trifles. But that little ending there, "hyena is obviously happy with" reeks of sarcasm and is, IMO, useless in the defending of your point of view.



edit: Now, for the sake of it, what I have on my bookshelf (floor) I warn you, I'm from Québec, lots in french.

Sergio Kokis : Le maître de jeu; Le pavillon des miroirs; Les amants de l'Alfama
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt: La part de l'autre; Milarepa; Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran; Oscar et la dame rose
Emmanuel Carrère: L'Adversaire
Louis Ferdinand Céline: Voyage au bout de la nuit
Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
Suzanne Jacob: Fugueuses
Nicolas Dickner: Nikolski
Serge Bouchard: L'homme descend de l'ourse
Boris Vian: L'herbe rouge
Patrick Süskind: Le Parfum
Peter Schaffer: Equus
Jean Paul Sartre: La nausée; Huis Clos; Le mur
Ken Kesey: A Flight Over A Cuckoo's Nest
Gaston Miron: L'homme rapaillé
Prosper Mérimée: Colomba
Daniel Pennac: Comme un roman
Monique Proulx: Les Aurores montréales
Luke Rhinehart: The Dice Man
Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin
Michel Tremblay: Les Belles-Soeurs
George Orwell: 1984
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
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GREAT books you have there mister Martin ;)
 
Books on my bookshelves:

First bookshelf:
P. K. Dick - Blade Runner (Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
Alan Dean Foster - Alien
Mel Odom - The sea devil's eye (The threat from the sea trilogy - book 3)
Richard Awlinson - Tantras (The avatar trilogy - book 2)
Elaine Cunningham - Elfshadow (Songs and swords - book 1)
R. A. Salvatore - Canticle (The cleric quintet - book 1)
R. A. Salvatore - In sylvan shadows (The cleric quintet - book 2)
R. A. Salvatore - The crystal shard (Legend about Drizzt - book 4)
Terry Pratchett - The colour of magic
Terry Pratchett - The light fantastic
Terry Pratchett - Mort
Terry Pratchett - Equal rites
Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
Terry Pratchett - Wyrd sisters
Tad Williams - The dragonbone chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - book 1)
Tad Williams - Stone of farewell (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - book 2)
Tad Williams - To green angel tower (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn - book 3(4))
Ernest Drake - Dragonology


Second bookshelf:
Christopher Paolini - Eragon
J. R. R. Tolkien - Tales from the perilous realms
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
J. R. R. Tolkien - Unfinished tales of Numenor and Middle-earth
J. R. R. Tolkien - The hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien - The lord of the rings: The Fellowship of the ring (2 different editions)
J. R. R. Tolkien - The lord of the rings: The two towers (2 different editions)
J. R. R. Tolkien - The lord of the rings: The return of the king (2 different editions)
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia: The magician's nephew
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia: The horse and his boy
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
Angie Sage - Magyk (Septimus Heap - book 1)
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon) - Brightness falls from the air
Michael Ende - The neverending story
Cornelia Funke - The master of the thieves
Michael Gerber - The Chronicles of Blarnia: The lying bitch in the wardrobe


Third bookshelf:
Elizabeth Kostova - The historian
David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Bobby Fischer goes to war
Piers Paul Read - The templars
James W. Hall - Blackwater sound
Matthew Pearl - The Dante club
Stephen King - It (1 and 2)
Stephen King - Bag of bones
John Dunning - Booked to die: A mystery introducing Cliff Janeway
John Dunning - The bookman's wake
Margaret Maron - Southern discomfort
John Grisham - A painted house
John Grisham - The rain maker
John Grisham - A time to kill
John Grisham - The pelican brief
Michael Crichton - The lost world
Ken Follett - A dangerous fortune
Ken Follett - Jackdaws
Dan Brown - The da Vinci code
Alice Hoffman - Practical magic
Alice Hoffman - Second nature
Alice Hoffman - The river king
Alice Hoffman - Blue diary
Enid Blyton - The famous five (books 1-14)


Fourth bookshelf:
Ulrich Klever - Big book about dogs
The big atlas of animals
Željko Panian - English-croatian informatic encyclopedic dictionary 1-2
Croatian-english dictionary
Croatian-german dictionary
William Shakespeare - Much ado about nothing
E. A. Poe - Selected tales
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Jack London - White Fang and the Call of the wild
Alber Camus - Stranger
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote
Ben Bova - The winds of altair
Robert Asprin - Mything persons
Anto Gardaš - Filip, boy without a name
Jozo Vrkić - Croatian fairytales
Truman Capote - In cold blood
Dominique Garnier - I'll wait day and night
Mario Krivić - Anecdotes about famous people

- I also have more than 200 books in another room, books my father bought me during his work (he's a seaman) and many highschool and college books that I don't have will to write and that are scattered all around.
 
Rayna said:
Is Stephen King actually a good writer? I have never actually read any of his stuff...
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If you want my opinion, he's not. Back in the days, about 25-30 years ago, he used to have three or four good ideas for horror/suspense stories. He ended up writing a billion books on those few good ideas, and none of them particularly exciting. Style-wise he's a bit of a one-trick pony: a very down-to-earth language for various laymen composing his cast of characters, and some appearances of "inner voices" or "streams of consciousness" that are really only interesting the first time around.

If you feel like you're missing out on something, try his most inventive - and older - works, such as It, The Stand (beware of the length of those two though), Pet Sematary, The Shining. However, I think you'll only be impressed if you've absolutely never read horror stories before, which is unlikely. Also, his vocabulary is extremely limited.
 
i cant participate here since most of my books are at my parents'.
I had to read a book from Stephen King once at school (running man) and I really didnt like it.

But I am currently reading "Allgemeine Geologie" (original american title: Understanding Earth) by Press and Siever. I am trying to get more familiar with all the specific vocabulary in German...
 
Rayna said:
Is Stephen King actually a good writer? I have never actually read any of his stuff...
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I agree with what Rahvin said.
I don't like him very much in general, I think there are few much better horror writers, really don't know why is he so popular. Still, he has some good books, It being on my first place.
Also, book I can't find anywhere here, and on which movie Secret window is based - Secret garden, secret window - looks actually to me like his best piece because movie is one of my favorites, and if movie is so good, I always take that the book is few times better.
 
@the stephen king debaters: i think i was profoundly hurt by reading king as a teen. i'm as anti-censorship as they come, so i'm not proposing that innocent children are shielded from his work; but i venture to say that teenagers should not be so stupid as to devote all their time to reading his books. in retrospect, it was traumatizing, and it has been a part in my current tendency to see all-black.
 
Ah, Thanks guys :). I was wondering why there was literally a shelf of all his books in the library, I have never picked up a book he has written but i have watched one of this things The Langoliers Which was a tv/movie and i remember as a kid that I loved that. (then again it was tv)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/
But yeah, I haven’t found one person who actually loves his books, for some reason, everyone I have spoken to has said the same things.
 
Rayna said:
But yeah, I haven’t found one person who actually loves his books, for some reason, everyone I have spoken to has said the same things.
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I've heard several times that Misery is brilliant (never read it or watched the film, though, even though i've had chances to do both), so there you go, more-than-one persons who love at least one book by King. ;)
 
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