Samira wrote:
I love trippy books, it's all I look for now, in sci-fi/ fantasy, but I lost interest in that book about three fourths of the the way though. Maybe I should pick i up again and finnish it.
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I love trippy books, it's all I look for now, in sci-fi/ fantasy, but I lost interest in that book about three fourths of the the way though. Maybe I should pick i up again and finnish it.
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Vellum.
I think I've mentioned it before. Trippy, good read.
I think I've mentioned it before. Trippy, good read.
Trippy's a good description of it, very confusing book. Still intend to actually finish it one day. Just not sure when though.
Archfiend bodhisattva wrote:
I need a book to read.
The Four Agreements.
Very easy to read, but you'd like it.
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Warchief Demea wrote:
Recently, I started reading "The Bourne Ultimatum." I got about 150 pages into it before I put it down, never to touch it again.
For some reason, the way that Ludlum uses italics to stress words in his dialogue, and his overuse of the exclamation point, makes me envision all of the characters in the book running around in circles, waving their hands in the air and yelling "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Ahhhhhh!"
For some reason, the way that Ludlum uses italics to stress words in his dialogue, and his overuse of the exclamation point, makes me envision all of the characters in the book running around in circles, waving their hands in the air and yelling "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Ahhhhhh!"
/nod
I tried picking that one up about 2 months ago or so. I mainly wanted to see how different it was from the movies. It took me about 3 chapters before I came to the conclusion it was entirely different, and little remained of the book version in the movie other than some of the characters names and the basic synopsis of the plot. I did make it further than you, but never managed to finish it, and doubt I will.
Some people are like slinkies, they aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
Archfiend bodhisattva wrote:
I need a book to read.
You've more then likely all ready read it but I've always been a big fan of Stranger In a Strange Land.
Edited, Sep 20th 2007 3:58pm by Kaelesh
Kaelesh wrote:
Archfiend bodhisattva wrote:
I need a book to read.
You've more then likely all ready read it but I've always been a big fan of Stranger In a Strange Land.
Edited, Sep 20th 2007 3:58pm by Kaelesh
I read some Heinlein when I was in, I dunno, high school and thought it was good stuff. Went back a couple of years ago and tried to re-read him and thought it was absolute dreck.
Still like Vonnegut, though, so meh.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Kaelesh wrote:
Archfiend bodhisattva wrote:
I need a book to read.
You've more then likely all ready read it but I've always been a big fan of Stranger In a Strange Land.
Edited, Sep 20th 2007 3:58pm by Kaelesh
I read some Heinlein when I was in, I dunno, high school and thought it was good stuff. Went back a couple of years ago and tried to re-read him and thought it was absolute dreck.
Still like Vonnegut, though, so meh.
I agree, Stranger was my favorite book in my early 20's, now I'm not sure I would finish it if I picked it up new.
I don't remember the author, but..........
The Big U. RPGers, war gamers, commies, hippies, the mafia; all mixed together in a monolithic State University. FUNNY!!!
The Big U. RPGers, war gamers, commies, hippies, the mafia; all mixed together in a monolithic State University. FUNNY!!!
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Zieveraar wrote:
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Vellum.
I think I've mentioned it before. Trippy, good read.
I think I've mentioned it before. Trippy, good read.
Trippy's a good description of it, very confusing book. Still intend to actually finish it one day. Just not sure when though.
You have to sort of unhinge your brain the way a snake unhinges his jaw to swallow a meal.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I've been reading a lot of the Discworld series (I've gone through about ten of them. Currently I'm on one titled Nightwatch). It's the perfect mix of fantasy and humor.
A while back I read all nine books in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The tenth and final book "Confessor" is coming out this month. If you love fantasy, you owe it to yourself to read these gems. The Lizard Gods command that people read them.
The book "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski was a trip.
I recently finished "The Celestine Prophecy" and very much enjoyed it's "teachings."
Seriously though, Discworld and/or the Sword of Truth series.
A while back I read all nine books in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The tenth and final book "Confessor" is coming out this month. If you love fantasy, you owe it to yourself to read these gems. The Lizard Gods command that people read them.
The book "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski was a trip.
I recently finished "The Celestine Prophecy" and very much enjoyed it's "teachings."
Seriously though, Discworld and/or the Sword of Truth series.
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A while back I read all nine books in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The tenth and final book "Confessor" is coming out this month. If you love fantasy, you owe it to yourself to read these gems. The Lizard Gods command that people read them.
I should rate camp you back to the stone age for promoting that massive pile of Shit. You've heard the expression, no doubt, that someone could fUck up a wet dream? Well, Goodkind actually did it. His characters are beyond trite, sadomasochism passes for redemption, and his preachy and self-impressed writing style grates abominably.
Just jerk off with sand paper. It's the same experience without the resulting headache.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
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A while back I read all nine books in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The tenth and final book "Confessor" is coming out this month. If you love fantasy, you owe it to yourself to read these gems. The Lizard Gods command that people read them.
I should rate camp you back to the stone age for promoting that massive pile of Shit. You've heard the expression, no doubt, that someone could fUck up a wet dream? Well, Goodkind actually did it. His characters are beyond trite, sadomasochism passes for redemption, and his preachy and self-impressed writing style grates abominably.
Just jerk off with sand paper. It's the same experience without the resulting headache.
Go easy on him...I don't think he realizes this is a forum for adults. Besides, the first one wasn't terrible. He just should have quit while he was ahead.
Nexa
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
Go easy on him?
He's dam lucky.
Not many get to start out their day with a pebble of wisdom such as this in their pocket.
He's dam lucky.
Dear Samira wrote:
Just jerk off with sand paper. It's the same experience without the resulting headache.
Not many get to start out their day with a pebble of wisdom such as this in their pocket.
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Archfiend bodhisattva wrote:
I need a book to read.
Been reading a lot lately. Scifi/fantasy type stuff. Gotrek and Felix, finally picked up the first book in the Discworld series, Foundation by Asimov, Speaker of the Dead.
I need more, I need stuff that doesn't suck. Like the time DSD recommended George. R. R. Martin and that god awful series of books.
Been reading a lot lately. Scifi/fantasy type stuff. Gotrek and Felix, finally picked up the first book in the Discworld series, Foundation by Asimov, Speaker of the Dead.
I need more, I need stuff that doesn't suck. Like the time DSD recommended George. R. R. Martin and that god awful series of books.
dont whine. You loved the series until the last book, and I agree wholeheartedly the last one sucked monkey balls.
I didn't think it was that bad. I saw it as more of a cliffhanger, waiting for Daenerys to get there with the dragons.
Whatever, Martin on his worst day owns that silly boogereater Goodkind.
Whatever, Martin on his worst day owns that silly boogereater Goodkind.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I will check out a choice few mentioned. In fact I ordered one from Amazon just now so hopefully I have it by Friday at the latest.
Stranger in a Strange Land has been read and thoroughly grokked.
George R. R. Martin series, well wouldn't it be neat if he got you emotionally involved in a character then killed him, yeah thats kind of cool. However after the 100th time with remarkably less interesting characters replacing the dead ones it becomes flat out uninteresting. How about if he made characters you thought were bad guys and made them likable or something like that, yeah that gets tired after the 20th time as well. Worse the story completely falls to sh'it and becomes nigh unreadable.
Sword of Truth series starts off as good 'trash fantasy'. Not terribly well written but kind of a guilty pleasure. By book 3 or 4 it becomes perhaps one of the worst fantasy series to ever exist, ever. With books becoming hamfisted diatribes about the dangers of pacificism, minorities placing their rights over the majority due to past oppression by the majority and worst of all communism. What is this 1986? I half expected Ivan Drago of Rocky 4 to come out and challenge Richard to a boxing match to resolve American/USSR supremacy. I also can't picture the main character without thinking of Ted Nugent for Christ sakes.
Edited, Oct 2nd 2007 10:40am by bodhisattva
Stranger in a Strange Land has been read and thoroughly grokked.
George R. R. Martin series, well wouldn't it be neat if he got you emotionally involved in a character then killed him, yeah thats kind of cool. However after the 100th time with remarkably less interesting characters replacing the dead ones it becomes flat out uninteresting. How about if he made characters you thought were bad guys and made them likable or something like that, yeah that gets tired after the 20th time as well. Worse the story completely falls to sh'it and becomes nigh unreadable.
Sword of Truth series starts off as good 'trash fantasy'. Not terribly well written but kind of a guilty pleasure. By book 3 or 4 it becomes perhaps one of the worst fantasy series to ever exist, ever. With books becoming hamfisted diatribes about the dangers of pacificism, minorities placing their rights over the majority due to past oppression by the majority and worst of all communism. What is this 1986? I half expected Ivan Drago of Rocky 4 to come out and challenge Richard to a boxing match to resolve American/USSR supremacy. I also can't picture the main character without thinking of Ted Nugent for Christ sakes.
Edited, Oct 2nd 2007 10:40am by bodhisattva
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
Samira wrote:
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A while back I read all nine books in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The tenth and final book "Confessor" is coming out this month. If you love fantasy, you owe it to yourself to read these gems. The Lizard Gods command that people read them.
I should rate camp you back to the stone age for promoting that massive pile of Shit. You've heard the expression, no doubt, that someone could fUck up a wet dream? Well, Goodkind actually did it. His characters are beyond trite, sadomasochism passes for redemption, and his preachy and self-impressed writing style grates abominably.
Just jerk off with sand paper. It's the same experience without the resulting headache.
Marry me.
Archfiend bodhisattva wrote:
Sword of Truth series starts off as good 'trash fantasy'. Not terribly well written but kind of a guilty pleasure. By book 3 or 4 it becomes perhaps one of the worst fantasy series to ever exist, ever. With books becoming hamfisted diatribes about the dangers of pacificism, minorities placing their rights over the majority due to past oppression by the majority and worst of all communism. What is this 1986? I half expected Ivan Drago of Rocky 4 to come out and challenge Richard to a boxing match to resolve American/USSR supremacy. I also can't picture the main character without thinking of Ted Nugent for Christ sakes.
What killed me about the series is that it just got so stupidly dialogue-filled. The first book was good. The second and third were like "Ok". By the fourth book I recall actually stopping in the middle of some of the chapters thinking "when the heck are these characters going to stop talking about stuff and start doing something?". Look. Cathartic conversations are usually good in a novel, but not when that's all that seems to be happening. After page after page of reading about a character describe their feelings about whatever's going on in ridiculous detail, only to have him switch to another character's point of view on the same freaking stupid thing, I practically wanted to pluck my eyes out.
No one talks that openly with eachother. The real world is not a love-fest where everyone stops periodically to examine their feelings and talk them out with their friends. Especially not in a fantasty novel with magic and wizards and swords and lots of bad monsters out in the shadows trying to kill you and stuff. Um... Why not write about that instead? Sheesh!
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
I'm not a very discerning reader. I like much of the popular "trash" that is foisted on the market. Having said that, I'll add some items that may be worth your time if you get bored enough.
H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy (first in a series)
Tadd Williams - Tailchaser's Song (standalone story) I enjoyed some of his other works too but this is a very good juvenile novel.
Gordon R. ******* - Childe Cycle (series, first book I think is Dorsai!) I haven't read all the books in the series but I like what I've read.
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (hey, the classics should always be included)
I read a lot of Heinlein years ago and still remember fondly books like Starship Troopers, Puppet Masters, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and the like.
I actually enjoy a lot of Asimov's non-fiction work. He wrote a lot of essays and stuff.
H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy (first in a series)
Tadd Williams - Tailchaser's Song (standalone story) I enjoyed some of his other works too but this is a very good juvenile novel.
Gordon R. ******* - Childe Cycle (series, first book I think is Dorsai!) I haven't read all the books in the series but I like what I've read.
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (hey, the classics should always be included)
I read a lot of Heinlein years ago and still remember fondly books like Starship Troopers, Puppet Masters, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and the like.
I actually enjoy a lot of Asimov's non-fiction work. He wrote a lot of essays and stuff.
gbaji wrote:
I found twenty thousand leagues under the sea to be kind of boring. He spent a lot of time just talking about fish species. I mean you're underwater with Captain Nemo. Pull out some swords and fight a orc or something for christsakes
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Samira wrote:
I didn't think it was that bad. I saw it as more of a cliffhanger, waiting for Daenerys to get there with the dragons.
Whatever, Martin on his worst day owns that silly boogereater Goodkind.
Whatever, Martin on his worst day owns that silly boogereater Goodkind.
It wasn't bad, per say, but the fact he took all the characters you had a huge invested interest in and left them for the next book, while he took the less interesting characters and made a whole book of them. I wanna know what happened to Tyrian!
Mistress DSD wrote:
Samira wrote:
I didn't think it was that bad. I saw it as more of a cliffhanger, waiting for Daenerys to get there with the dragons.
Whatever, Martin on his worst day owns that silly boogereater Goodkind.
Whatever, Martin on his worst day owns that silly boogereater Goodkind.
It wasn't bad, per say, but the fact he took all the characters you had a huge invested interest in and left them for the next book, while he took the less interesting characters and made a whole book of them. I wanna know what happened to Tyrian!
Don't you, though?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
that dwarf rocked.
Did the book come out yet? I havent been keeping up
Did the book come out yet? I havent been keeping up
Mistress DSD wrote:
It wasn't bad, per say
Sorry it's your post I picked up DSD but this is the 3rd time I've seen this in a week.
It's "Per Se", Italian for "In itself" or "Of itself".
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