Reading List Thread

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Ok.
Just read Gaiman's Coraline a while ago. Good dark fairy tale. :) I really like Gaiman. Borrowed American Gods, finally in English, from the library today too.
Stoker's Dracula...supposed to read that for the 2nd time. When, I wonder, seeing as I have to read a ghastly boring Finnish novel (the first of its kind, incidentally) for school this week.
Read Jeff Smith's Bone comics, they're absolutely great. I'd like to describe them more, but I've been doing it everywhere else so many times already that I think I'll pass here. Cutely drawn comic that goes quite a lot darker in the end, though. Some/lots of humor too, just all in all a comic that I think I'll be reading many many times again.
 
ahh yes I've been told thats quite good, it was only 6eu but I didn't buy it :(
i've been wanting to read Gaiman since my friend gave me this great wonderful quote by him

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it oepns up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

amongst other funny ones she's given me. ah yes.
 
What book/comic is that from?
Coraline is a bit on the short side, that's the only minus really.
American Gods on the other hand is long, and it's damn good.
 
@Violet: I wouldn't be so drastic to say that Dragonlance is utter crap... but yes it's really clichèd and childish at times... I read it when I was 14 and liked it, but it's full of better fantasy out there (no need to say the usual three names you all know already)

I've been reading tons of comics lately: the new Sandman book (Endless Nights), Alan Moore's Watchmen, Miller's Sin City, Miura's Berserk... all great stuff, reccomended to all those who love complex and deep stroylines and great illustrations.

As far as Gaiman goes, he's quickly become my favourite writer both in the comics and in the novels world.
 
So I finished A Game of thrones last month (cant remember if I posted that). It was alot to chew on in one book but I really enjoyed it. I have Clash of Kings but Im reading Gardens of the moon by Steven Erikson. I plan on finishing that in about 30 mins. Its good but its not great... it crams loads of information in to short passages and my head just starts spinning, and being into song of Ice and fire seires just caused confussion. I should have had a break from the fantasy.

I plan on reading either a Novel verison of "Seven", which I started a while back and was enjoying thouroughly, then Im gonna move on to Clash of kings. If I love it Im sticking with the series till its done but if I need a break again from fantasy I'll probably pick up Cats Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. Ive heard great things, and sirens of Titan was gr-r-r-r-reat.
 
So I've gotten to the 4th chapter or so with Dracula. Had to borrow it again, got time till Christmas now. It's good, but a bit too long-winded here and there.

Obviously the main point of this post isn't that though. I decided it was a good time to get another Pratchett book, but as always, I didn't want to get one that I had already read. So I bought The Wee Free Men, and it's so good. And as always with Pratchett, too short. Like most of them, it's cute, exciting, funny and sad. I'm really looking forward to the 2 (or 3 (technically, possibly, 4, A Hat Full Of Sky hasn't been published here in paperback by Corgi (the HarperCollins covers blow))) upcoming Tiffany Aching books. I really like the character and it's a nice, fresh way of having some Mistress Weatherwax in there.

Seeing as I've learned from before (well, kinda), I'll now announce that here will be a spoiler (sort of, and actually the prime reason for posting this post):

I was really touched by this part in The Wee Free Men where Tiffany is reminiscing of her grandmother. Well, I won't ruin that little part any more than I have to for the ones that might have not read the book and plan to do so, but anyhow that part both makes me feel so emotional and also somewhat guilty.
"Them as can, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."
I dunno, it just floors me. It's obviously a moral thing I feel strongly about, but...
I mean, how often do we stop to consider "the weak"? I know I don't as often as I probably should.
This is definitely one of the reasons I love Pratchett. His work means something.

Of course, the Nac Mac Feegle are just absolutely hilarious.
Actually, that reminds me of another quote that, like the previous, made me a bit teary-eyed and was very inspiring.
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"
It's just so cute while pretty awesome. :)

Read it.
 
I didn't love Dracula, myself, maybe because I was quite obsessed with vampires when I was a kid, and the whole myth around the book led me to expect something more... dramatic or I don't know.
I've never read Pratchet, even though everyone talks wonders of him, no one's been able to recommend me a specific book a starter should begin with.

Last week I read: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, which was exactly what I thought it would be, and Neil Gaiman's Stardust, of which I was expecting more somehow. I'm finishing Tove Jansson's "The Summer Book" now, which is sweet, and after it I don't know what is next, as I rented so many books from the library to keep myself occupied during these winter vacations and I don't know what to start with. Maybe the collected plays of Ionesco, I feel a little absurdity would be welcome.
 
Book 8 of Terry Goodkind's Sword Of Truth series, called Naked Empire.

It's going to be hard to wait until January for the 9th book to come out :(

I love the philosophical/moral issues the book challeneges.
 
Hitori said:
I didn't love Dracula, myself, maybe because I was quite obsessed with vampires when I was a kid, and the whole myth around the book led me to expect something more... dramatic or I don't know.
I've never read Pratchet, even though everyone talks wonders of him, no one's been able to recommend me a specific book a starter should begin with.
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Watch Francis Ford Coppola's movie version of Stoker's Dracula, then. It's quite a lot more romantic and dramatic. Maybe you have.
I like the book.

On Pratchett, maybe a good book to start with would be, incidentally, the first one! The Colour Of Magic isn't as "good" as the ones to follow, but it's very funny and a good story. The Light Fantastic is the 2nd part of that story. They got me into Discworld well enough, should read them, along with all the others, again sometime. You could start with Mort as well, it's one of the first ones and a little bit (but not much) more serious.
I don't think there's really any book that a starter should read to be able to grasp the hang of things. I skipped some of the Watch/Witch books in the middle because a friend of mine didn't have those and they hadn't been translated yet, so I just read the old ones in Finnish first and some new ones in English. Of course you miss a lot of details (but you do anyway), but it's not that bothersome.

Now, a matter of slight confusion: I looked at VB's avatar and started writing this post in the reply to topic window, then looked at the replies below this box and then there's some Hitori person who posted. Confuzzling. Well, still the same person at least (I hope). :)
 
i've been reading silly books by silly comedians and A LOT of fanfiction this weekend. i have two juicy volumes waiting for me in the next few days, one of which is manuel vasquez montalbàn's "i, franco", which looks like it might give me a field day. ahhh the joys of reading. i'm almost tempted to pospone those two until the holidays, but i'll be bold instead and hope to find something i like even more before then.
 
@TFH
surprisingly enough, I have NOT seen that version of Dracula- stupid, since I've seen all cheesy crappy vampire movies other than that. I must.
as for the nickname, the books where I got it from were made into a movie starring Jim Carrey which is released in a couple of weeks, and as curious as I am to see how they ruined it, I don't want to be associated to the detested Jim Carrey in any way whatsoever. I'd been planning to do it for a couple of months now, and finally was bored enough to think of something new.
 
!!Spoiler Alert!!

Finished Clash Of Kings at the beginning of this week. I have to thank whoever it was that mentioned it on here, I think it was Northern lights that I heard it from first, anyway, I love it. Just the type of thing I can get into, where so much fucked up shit is going down and people are getting shit on form all directions. I only like a couple of characters. I think 'The Hound' Is awesome, and Tyrion just makes me laugh so hard, Shame he's been maimed. Catelyn Stark reminds me of 'the surfacer' from Atwoods' 'surfacing'. She pisses me off. Bran and Jon are pretty cool. but the thing I admire most about the book is how much George R. R. Martin manages to make you HATE some characters. Joffrey is the cruelest fucker ever, I want him to be real so I can kick his ass. I also Hate Cersei.

Anyway Im curious... did Petyr really take Catelyn's Virginity or is that rumour? cos its never stated, and I think in the first book Catelyn Denies it at one point, but now Im thinking she did Spread em for him when they were younger.

It has to be one of the most harrowing tales also, with the average of 1 rape every three pages or whatever, and main characters dying left right and center... Its a difficult emotional ride.

Anyway I got the prize for last year at my school, and its a book token... so I can go pick up the first part of the third book on saturday :).

quick question... is the second part of the third book the final installment or is he writing more as we speak?
 
King Chaos said:
quick question... is the second part of the third book the final installment or is he writing more as we speak?
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there's going to be 7 books total. number four (a feast for crows) is scheduled to be out next year, hopefully before the summer.
 
Seven? I was sure it was 6. Good!
as for the petyr-catelyn thing, I'd strongly suggest you don't ask anything, Martin's version of the events is much cooler than anything anyone here can offer

ps. I hate Joffrey with a passion. Cersei is horrible as well.
 
King Chaos said:
Im thinking she did Spread em for him when they were younger.
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this expression is totally disgusting.

by the way, the answer to your questions is fanfiction.
 
My we are testy here tonight. Sorry about the disgusting expression.
Edit: I wanna say I'm not really sorry. Any other night that wouldn't have offended anyone, but seen as though genders a topic tonight it seems something which normally would have gone to pass becomes an outrageous statement. I didnt think about how to articulate the phrase formerly, I also didnt think you were that pedantic. By 'the answer is "fanfiction"' did you mean to say... 'its not real, so the answer is insignificant'... cos we wouldnt have a thread about reading fiction, if we took that aproach to books would we?

@Rahv: thanks for the heads up. but christ, I didnt think there'd be so many, and such a wait for em, I like to read a series in one big go, Ill die waiting for the books to come out :(.
 
@kc: i was joking, sorry for being unwillingly offensive. :p

as for fanfiction, go look at http://www.fanfiction.net and you'll see what i mean. fans writing alternate adventures for the characters of existing books. most is total crap, but the good 10 per cent is my favorite form of entertainment (along with nonexisting pool clubs, but that's another story)
 
just read Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoyevsky. Quite depressing, I loved it. It was unavoidable that I would love it. It is always sad to realize that you could be a character from a book.
 
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