|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
|
|
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009 |
My job, aside from the occasional outage, is a pretty low-stress job. It gives me a lot of time to read, and I average between 2 and 4 books a week. Last week, I read HG Wells' "Time Machine" and "Invisible Man", both of which I enjoyed (surprising, because I'm not a huge Science Fiction reader). Today I started Joe R. Lansdale's "Captains Outrageous" and, one chapter into it, I know I'm gonna burn through this within a day or two. I'm also re-reading "The Shining" at home.
So...what are you reading?
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock ![[Linked Image from i6.photobucket.com]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/JoeMama13/RedSoxBanner05.png)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 19,546 Likes: 1
living in 1962 15000+ posts
|
|
living in 1962 15000+ posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 19,546 Likes: 1 |
The most evil men and women in history by Miranda Twiss.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
|
|
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308 |
I just finished reading the Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy.
I will have a review up shortly.
I'm going to start reading The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer later.
November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 507
500+ posts
|
|
500+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 507 |
I'm finishing up The Da Vinci Code. Interesting stuff. Won't spoil it for anyone, but it brings up a lot of fascinating points about the early Church and pagan symbology.
Bringing a little order to message boards everywhere!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
|
|
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308 |
I wrote a review of The DaVinci Code. Have you read Angels and Demons yet? I thought it was a better book.
November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 40,854
Schlub 15000+ posts
|
|
Schlub 15000+ posts
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 40,854 |
michael moore's dude, where's my country
stephen king: desperation
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack.
2,506,410.81 CAD Rack points
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 5,305
kung-fu treachery 5000+ posts
|
|
kung-fu treachery 5000+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 5,305 |
Dante's Inferno
Aesop's Fables
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,342
Peacock Teaser 3000+ posts
|
|
Peacock Teaser 3000+ posts
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,342 |
"You're either lying or stupid."
"I'm stupid! I'm stupid!"
Megatron and Starscream
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
|
|
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308 |
Quote:
Cowgirl Jack said:
Atlas Shrugged
I bought this a couple weeks ago and have been putting off reading it. I've heard only good things about it.
November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 4,205
fudge 4000+ posts
|
|
fudge 4000+ posts
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 4,205 |
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
And Legacy of the Drow by R. A. Salvatore
good stuff
 Racks be to MisterJLA
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,080
He tastes of America 15000+ posts
|
|
He tastes of America 15000+ posts
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,080 |
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
The Sword of No Sword: Life of the Master Warrior Teeshu, by John Stevens
The Tao of Jeet Kun Do by Bruce Lee
He fixes the cable?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 16,240
Kisser Of John Byrne Ass 15000+ posts
|
|
Kisser Of John Byrne Ass 15000+ posts
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 16,240 |
Rise To Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938..by Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley
The Burma Road... by Donovan Webster..the story of the china-burma-india theater in WW II...
Both are excellent although I'm only halfway done with each...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,028
2000+ posts
|
|
2000+ posts
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,028 |
The Cell ( science journal)
and a shit load of comics
The Leg Breakerer: Kung Fu Masta!!!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081
... 10000+ posts
|
|
... 10000+ posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081 |
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
|
|
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009 |
I had to read Sophie's World for a Communications class I took years ago. I didn't want to read it, then I didn't want to like it. I tried desperately to hate it, but I failed...it was a lot of fun. Edu-ma-cational, too. I might have to drag it out of my paperbacks shelf and re-read it...
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081
... 10000+ posts
|
|
... 10000+ posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081 |
I've been trying to read it for over a year now, but, as I have a tendency to read several books at a time and not finish them, I've never actually gotten all the way through. It's very frustrating...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 33,920
devil-lovin' Bat-Man 15000+ posts
|
|
devil-lovin' Bat-Man 15000+ posts
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 33,920 |
Quote:
Chewy Walrus said:
Murder Mysteries by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell
The comic? I read the short story and loved it. How is it?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081
... 10000+ posts
|
|
... 10000+ posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081 |
The comic is great! I'd really love to see it adapted into a short film. I'd go see it and/or buy it...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
|
|
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009 |
Sure enough, I plowed through Captains Outrageous. Good book! Too bad it's probably the last Hap Collins/Leonard Pine novel that Lansdale will write...  I'm just starting The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume One. Big book...big, thick ol' book...
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081
... 10000+ posts
|
|
... 10000+ posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081 |
That's nothing! Pick up a Russian novel like The Brothers Karamazov or War & Peace! Or, better yet, try and find the complete works of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
|
|
Inglourious Basterd!!! 15000+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 28,009 |
Volume One taps in at 700+ pages, including endnotes. Volume Two seems about the same. I'm not complaining. Just stating a fact. This won't be my standard "two days and done" reading.
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081
... 10000+ posts
|
|
... 10000+ posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,081 |
Brothers Karamazov was well over a thousand, not including endnotes. I read the first one hundred pages but stopped when I realized the story hadn't even started yet...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 12,353
Award-Winning Author 10000+ posts
|
|
Award-Winning Author 10000+ posts
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 12,353 |
Right now I'me re-reading the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, 'cause I'm a big ol' dork!
Knutreturns said: Spoken like the true Greatest RDCW Champ!
All hail King Snarf!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 1,978
1500+ posts
|
|
1500+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 1,978 |
I've finished Broken Summers - Henry Rollins' diaries from around the time he was raising money in support the West Memphis Three, by touring a lot of old Black Flag songs.
There's an upward curve with Henry's writing - it gets better and more insightful with each new publication. I remember reading his early books when it seemed like he was writing at the limits of his ability to express himself. He was having to drag those words out of himself and then hammer them down on the page and I admired him for it. Henry always gives it 100%.
New Scientist comes out Thursday and the August issue of MOJO. I've been given this scary CD ROM to review which is full of mantras and rituals aimed at disrupting the flow of linear time. Completely not my thing, but I've got to make notes on that and try not to be too flippant
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 23,091
The Once, and Future Cunt 15000+ posts
|
|
The Once, and Future Cunt 15000+ posts
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 23,091 |
It's this gigantic paperback.
It's called the Phone Book.
Apparently, they release a new one every year.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 578
500+ posts
|
|
500+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 578 |
"The Tall Stranger", Louis L'Amour
"First Lensman," E. E. "Doc" Smith
Last edited by Nonoxynol9; 2004-07-14 3:03 AM.
I got soul but I'm not a soldier.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 12,353
Award-Winning Author 10000+ posts
|
|
Award-Winning Author 10000+ posts
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 12,353 |
I've been meaning to pick up Palahniuk's new collection of essays & interviews. Chuck is a literary genius!
Knutreturns said: Spoken like the true Greatest RDCW Champ!
All hail King Snarf!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 19,546 Likes: 1
living in 1962 15000+ posts
|
|
living in 1962 15000+ posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 19,546 Likes: 1 |
Quote:
backwards7 said:
I've finished Broken Summers - Henry Rollins' diaries from around the time he was raising money in support the West Memphis Three, by touring a lot of old Black Flag songs.
There's an upward curve with Henry's writing - it gets better and more insightful with each new publication. I remember reading his early books when it seemed like he was writing at the limits of his ability to express himself. He was having to drag those words out of himself and then hammer them down on the page and I admired him for it. Henry always gives it 100%.
Is it as good as his spoken word stuff?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 4,205
fudge 4000+ posts
|
|
fudge 4000+ posts
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 4,205 |
eeeek, you all are so into high litterature, and I'm sitting here reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy, I fee so illiterate, or inadequate 
Racks be to MisterJLA
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
|
|
Who will I break next? 15000+ posts
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 46,308 |
Quote:
Chant said:
eeeek, you all are so into high litterature, and I'm sitting here reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy, I fee so illiterate, or inadequate
I have an unhealthy obsession with Star Wars books so don't feel bad.
November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 578
500+ posts
|
|
500+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 578 |
Quote:
Chant said:
eeeek, you all are so into high litterature, and I'm sitting here reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy, I fee so illiterate, or inadequate
Then read E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" saga. It's the LOTR of sci-fi. "Doc" Smith practically invented the space opera subgenre. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, from Buck Rogers, to Flash Gordon, to Star Trek, Star Wars, and (especially) Babylon 5, lifted ideas, concepts, and characters directly from E. E. Smith's stories.
Seriously, if you can get past the 30's-40's retro-tech (vacuum tubes instead of transistors and circuits... and the computer was a cute blonde who used a slide-rule) and the pulpishness of the dialogue, you will find a series of novels more action-packed than any James Bond story, more fast-paced than a Louis L'Amour page-turner, more militaristic science than all of David Weber's Honor Harrington series, and more grand and cosmic in scale than anything ever conceived by Tolkien... E. E. Smith invented not just a whole galaxy, but two whole galaxies, and even went beyond space and time altogether. And not just that, but the way he descibres fleets of massive, gargantuan superdreadnoughts, maulers, cruisers, battling it out like Armageddon in the void of space... his space battles are more vivid, intense, and exciting than ANYTHING George Lucas -- or anybody, for that matter -- EVER put on celluloid.
The are six books in the Lensman saga:
1. Triplanetary
2. First Lensman
3. Galactic Patrol
4. Gray Lensman
5. Second-Stage Lensman
6. Children of the Lens
The first two, Triplanetary and First Lensman, are essentially "prequels" that tell the back-story and lead up into the third book, Galactic Patrol, where the real story really begins. Think Star Wars. George Lucas was probably more than subconsciously influenced by these books: "I'll write the main story first, then go back and make movies about the history and back-ground later."
Just an example of some of the stuff Smith invented and/or pioneered:
1. deflector shields (called "defensive screens" in the books)
2. the inertialess drive (one of the VERY FIRST -- and definitely one of the most influential -- FTL space drives in science fiction)
3. the Galactic Union (the very first galaxy-wide government)
4. pirates in space
5. anti-matter bombs
6. secret organization of telepathic warriors
7. the "patrol" organizations of space
8. mental battles (telepathic combat)
9. "artificial planetoids" (think hundreds of Death Stars... not just one)
10. artificial gravity for spaceships
11. realistically-alien aliens
12. hyperspace/wormholes/boom tubes (called "hyper-spatial tubes" in the novels).
All of these things he either envisioned first, or made popular... and all of this in the mid-30's and early 40's.
I CANNOT, C-A-N-N-O-T recommend these books enough. If you claim you're a sci-fi fan and you've never read these books, than fucking shame on you. How can u say you're a fan of fantasy and never read Tolkien? It's the same thing. E. E. Smith is the fucking GOD of action sci-fi.
Non
I got soul but I'm not a soldier.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,080
He tastes of America 15000+ posts
|
|
He tastes of America 15000+ posts
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,080 |
So E.E. Smith was before Frank Herbert?
He fixes the cable?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 7,587
7500+ posts
|
|
7500+ posts
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 7,587 |
I recently finished Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.
Last night I finished The Crucible by Arthur Miller and began Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 578
500+ posts
|
|
500+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 578 |
Quote:
TK-069 said:
So E.E. Smith was before Frank Herbert?
Oh, fuck yeah. His first series, Skylark of Space, which consists of four books, began in the late 1920's.
In these books, a professor discovers the secret of converting mass directly into energy, and immediately sets about designing a space-drive based on this principle. Half-way through the story he's on the other side of the galaxy and getting sucked into a dark star (black hole, before that term was coined). By the end of the book, he comes home in a spaceship over half the size of the original, armed to the teeth with alien weapons and protected by "dazzling screens of pure force" which can bend, refract, and even absorb electromagnetic energy. This was back in 1928 or 1929, I believe.
The "Skylark" series began space opera. The "Lensman" saga, however, defined it.
Robert Heinlein was a good friend of E. E. Smith's, and Heinlein even had one of his hero's accidently stumble into Smith's Lensman universe in one of his short stories. Heinlein has stated on more than one occasion that it was Smith's stories that partly inspired him to write sci-fi.
J. Michael Strazynski (sp?) worships Smith almost as much as me. In the forward of each book (the latest editions, from Old Earth Books), there are quotes from notable sci-fi authors like JMS, Asimov, David Weber, Frank Herbert, all heaping massive amounts of praise onto Smith. JMS has also stated Babylon 5 is the closest he could ever get to even TRYING to re-create what Smith did w/ the Lensman saga.
Herbert's use of force fields is based on the rules laid down by Smith: fast-moving objects, such as bullets and particles traveling at lightspeed, cannot pass thru a force field; on the other hand, something that moves relatively slow, such as a sword blade, knife, or ax, could penetrate a field, if the incoming strength and aim was just right.
Believe me, every contraption and contrivance of modern-day science fiction, from ray-guns, to Death Stars, on down to flight-belts and "speeders", came from Smith.
He IS the GOD of SCI-FI. Believe in him.
Non
I got soul but I'm not a soldier.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 40,854
Schlub 15000+ posts
|
|
Schlub 15000+ posts
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 40,854 |
just starting kings dark tower series....should make for some morbid dreams.
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack.
2,506,410.81 CAD Rack points
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 33,920
devil-lovin' Bat-Man 15000+ posts
|
|
devil-lovin' Bat-Man 15000+ posts
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 33,920 |
I can't read and I can't write down
I don't know a book from countdown
I don't care which shadow gets me
All I've got is someone's face
Money goes to money heaven
Bodies go to body hell
I just cough, catch the chase
Switch the channel watch the police car
I can't read shit anymore
I just sit back and ignore
I just can't get it right, can't get it right
I can't read shit I can't read shit
When you see a famous smile
No matter where you run your mile
To be right in that photograph
Andy where's my fifteen minutes
I can't read shit anymore
I just sit back and ignore
I just can't get it right, can't get it right
I can't read shit I can't read shit
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 1,978
1500+ posts
|
|
1500+ posts
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 1,978 |
Quote:
Grimm said:
Is it as good as his spoken word stuff?
It's along the same lines but his spoken word material is condensed down into annecdotes. The book consists of diary entries from 2002/2003 so it's more spread out. I've got a lot of Rollins spoken word CDs and I've seen him live on a couple of occasions, so whenever I read his books, I can hear his voice. There are some great moments in the book when he recalls his early days on the punk rock scene.
Some of the material is hard-going - Henry sets himself very high standards and expects everyone else to do likewise. When people fail to live up to his expectations he'll spend the next few pages complaining. Under the circumstances I suppose it's justified because a lot of the book deals with his efforts to raise money in support of The West Memphis Three who were convicted of killing three eight year old boys, but who were sent to jail on some very shakey evidence.
Last edited by backwards7; 2004-07-16 3:38 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 529
500+ posts
|
|
500+ posts
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 529 |
Real Ultimate Power--The Official Ninja Book by robert hamburger
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,080
He tastes of America 15000+ posts
|
|
He tastes of America 15000+ posts
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,080 |
You're reading a Ninja handbook written by a man named Hamburger?!
He fixes the cable?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 529
500+ posts
|
|
500+ posts
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 529 |
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
Pariah186 (7:19:40 PM): Resident Evil 2 powns
|
|
|
|
|
