NLSC book discussion thread

[Mark.]

I thought "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King was amazing, one of the best series ive ever read.

Im currently in the middle of reading Bernard Cornwell's "The Pale Horseman" the sequel to "The Last Kingdom". It seems to be a great series so far.

[Oznogrd]

Dark tower: amazing first 3 books, kinda drags in the next 3, and then good for about half of 7. King shouldve left himself out of the damn books and just told the fucking story.

[Andrew]

I just ordered a bunch of books from Amazon:

"The Time Machine Did It" - John Swartzwelder
"Double Wonderful" - John Swartzwelder
"How I Conquered Your Planet" - John Swartzwelder
"The Exploding Detective" - John Swartzwelder
"Dead Men Scare Me Stupid" - John Swartzwelder
"Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith" - Kevin Smith
"Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash" - Eric Bischoff
"WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling (WrestleCrap series)" - R. D. Reynolds
The Death of WCW: WrestleCrap and Figure Four Weekly Present . . . (WrestleCrap series)" - R. D. Reynolds
"The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! (WrestleCrap series)" - R. D. Reynolds
"My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith" - Kevin Smith
"Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling" - Bret Hart

I'm looking forward to finally reading Swartzwelder's novels as I've heard they're hilarious if you're a fan of his work with The Simpsons. Hearing that one of his books opens with "As my exciting tale begins, I'm being punched in the stomach" sold me on that recommendation.

[el badman]

The Kite Runner - Khaled Houseinni

Have you seen the movie Jackal? The author of the book was very much involved with it, and it's a great flick. Not sure how it compares to the book though.

[Abctest123]

I don't exactly read books in my spare time (most of my reading is just random articles and stuff, not books), but I had to read "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess for an English Independent Study Project, and as a unit for my English class, we read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. "A Clockwork Orange" was alright, but understanding what's actually being said and what's going on in the book takes some time since it's written in a dialect called "nadsat" (apparently a dialect where it Russian influences are prevalent). BNW IMHO was just so messed up. Yes, so people might enjoy reading about the sex in it, but I found the book to be too twisted.

[Lean]

Only read one in my entire lifetime. Star Wars: The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes.

Though before I've read (only a chapter) from an X-Files book by Charles Grant, way back '97. Whirlwind was the title of it I think.

[Jackal]

The Kite Runner - Khaled Houseinni

Have you seen the movie Jackal? The author of the book was very much involved with it, and it's a great flick. Not sure how it compares to the book though.

I have seen the movie, despite being very involved...I felt the movie lacked in many ways compared to the book. But I have that a lot, in my mind the places and situations are much more lavish than the vision of a director who chose to put the book to celluloid.

Another case of book > movie for me. It was just a lot more indepth and because the "emotions" a person is going through at that time and point is actually "described"...you get more of a sense of what's happening. In the movie it's left to the actors to make you feel what they're feeling through expressions and bodylanguage...which didn't always translate.

None the less...a nice effort.

[Andrew]

as a unit for my English class, we read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

I studied that in high school English as well. I didn't much care for it, though I'm not sure how any novel can be enjoyed when you're forced to deconstruct it and write essays on themes it shares with the other texts you're studying. It's like those newsgroup people back in the day who scribbled down notes while they watched Simpsons episodes before going online and giving them a D+. There's no way you can enjoy a TV show if you're watching it with a notepad in hand.

I once heard that there were preliminary plans to turn Brave New World into a musical. That would have been one bizarre show.

[Liveguy7]

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[Eich]

wtf a book?
what century are you living in?

[Patr1ck]

Merged with the NLSC Book discussion thread.

wtf a book?
what century are you living in?

Idiocracy may have been a comedic film, but it is on it's way to being a prophetic documentary.

[Fresh8]

Dan Brown's new book is coming out soon! After a 7 (?) year wait?

[ixcuincle]

The last book I read was one about Jordan by David Halberstam. Good read.

[cyanide]

I want to read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. I've heard too many good things about it.

So I've read it, and I can say it's easily one of the better books I've read. A "modern day Dickens" is very fitting.