The Book Thread

[Lunar Still]

I've found myself reading more history than fiction lately. I'm re-reading The Fall of Rome by R.A. Lafferty, which is one of my all-time favorite books, and also reading Auschwitz by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli. I'm now looking at buying a couple of books about Genghis Khan and the Salem Witch Trials. Weird combinations, I know.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

im about 3/4ths of the way through a work of historical fiction (emphasis on fiction) about the life of elizabeth bathory - the blood countess by andrei codrescue ... hehehe ... cod rescue.

 

[Rebourne]

I really don't like reading...

I listen to audio books instead...

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

i <3 words in all forms

 

[Captain Beard]

Even horridly rhymed and nearly unintelligible rap music? What about emo poetry with bad spelling?

 

[Lunar Still]

Haikus are especially amusing, when the right subject matter is utilized...

...or rather, I suppose it would be the wrong subject matter...

Hit you in the face
Slap you 'cross your fucking face
With my huge penis

 

[EricT]

I dodge your phallus
And whip out my own penis
You fall to your knees

We totally should make a thread which every post has to be a haiku.

 

[Lunar Still]

Eric you have failed
That thread already exists
It is haiku thread

 

[MajestikMoose]

clearly you faggots are too much of n00bs to know of the Tofutti thread.

 

[MajestikMoose]

lolz jewspeak

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clearly you forgot

 

[EricT]

Edit:

I am indeed an idiot.

Especially considering its in my fucking bookmarks under "Threads that need to be read all the time".

 

[Burti]

I read some crazy obscure book.

Like so obscure, not even I know the name.

 

[Captain Beard]

If it involves a cat and a hat, I think I know what it is. That seems to be about your reading level anyway.

 

[Burti]

It was actually Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Quite the brutal pictures.

 

[Malergion]

Hardly obscure. Every ten year old has read it!

 

[Chromatose]

I just read Death of a Salesman. *has to take a test on it tomorrow* pshaw

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

that's such a great play.

 

[Will @ work]

audio books rule

 

[Karmic]

Finished The Dark Tower: Wizard & Glass, gonna venture on The Books of Blood

 

[MegadeV]

I've been reading Dark Tower since 1995. Oddly though, I still need to finish Wolves of the Calla and up.

He promised he'd finish DT before he retired officially, and luckily he delivered, though he has a new one out called Lisey's Story.

I've read everything by Stephen King and love the Dark Tower series. I even re-read the entire series right after finishing book 7 the first time, and have read it all again since then (this time mostly for research for a game I made based on the series). There is a Dark Tower comic book series detailing Roland's rise as a Gunslinger and the events leading up to where the book series starts off. It is being done in several short series and I think there will be 30 issues total. The first 7 issue arc didn't really cover any new ground (Roland earning his guns and the events that took place in Wizard and Glass), but the rest is supposed to cover a lot more of the war against Farson (the Good Man)'s army and the battle at Jericho Hill. The next issues are due out in February.

I just finished Lisey's Story a couple months ago. It was pretty damn boring until about half way through. I actually stopped reading it and read a couple of other books before coming back to it. But, by the end of it, I was pleased. It wasn't on par with The Stand or the DT series, but it was decent enough.

I am now tearing through a bunch of Battletech novels I picked up on ebay.