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Posts: 1956 (03/18/08 16:01:17) Wussy |
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Posts: 3764 (03/31/08 13:32:54) Kirby Fanboy |
Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. That was....different. It's written from the perspective of an autistic boy trying to write a novel about his attempts to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog. So it's very straight forward, detailed, and at times likes to wander off into rants about mathematical equations and such. Kind of hard to read for long periods (but that didn't stop me from reading it all in practically one day). Not sure I like it or not, on the whole....
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Posts: 3764 (03/31/08 16:32:47) Kirby Fanboy |
I was reminded that I read Mary The Cat in the Hat the other day
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Posts: 3764 (04/24/08 08:11:32) Kirby Fanboy |
Was 'forced' to read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I couldn't help drawing a lot of parallels with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (autistic-ish kid tries to solve a mystery and goes on a journey way out of his comfort zone), but as this book came first I'm gonna say the other one ripped it off
 Was pretty good, on the whole. Oskar was an interesting character, and I genuinely cared about his journey by the end. The stuff with his grandparents was a bit overly-depressing, but it all kinda came together in the end. I'm curious how a movie version of this will turn out. Which I'm sure it will, being a big seller and given that the author's last book was adapted (Everything Is Illuminated) Again opting to count comics as books in this topic, I also read a couple of Frank Miller's famous Batman books, Year One and The Dark Knight Returns. Loved the hell out of both, I can see why they're so consistently popular. |
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Posts: 3729 (05/11/08 11:37:52) Kirby Fanboy |
Read the early Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End. It's about how aliens show up right as the Space Race was about to begin, and proceed to force
humanity into world peace. Of course there's more to it than that, but I ain't about to spoil it. It was a very interesting book, dealing with a
variety of themes and ideas that are relavent to things outside of science fiction. He also delves into ideas and predictions about where technology would go
that really shows his insight into such things, as a number of future advances (it was writen in 1953) came to pass. Ending was kind of...depressing, but that
was the point I suppose. Good stuff.
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Posts: 811 (05/19/08 08:55:14) |
hoping between Anee rices the vampire chronicles jus finished the tale of the body thief and memnoch the devil,both awesome
and Phillip Pullmans Sally Lockhart quartet also pretty awesome so far anyone wanna discuss either?  |
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Posts: 1949 (06/14/08 18:54:23) Wussy |
I'm reading It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. It's pretty disturbing stuff. It's a fictional narrative that makes the argument that
America is more ripe for fascist dictatorship than most citizens think. It was written during World War II, but in the earliest of days, a few years before
America entered. Even now, it's an appallingly insightful and prescient book (the part where sauerkraut was called Liberty Cabbage because America wanted
no truck with Hessian devils was sickeningly reminiscent of the Freedom Fries nonsense a few years back).
Back in the 80's, NBC wanted to make a miniseries of this book, that was a best seller in it's publication day, but it was decided that the subject matter was too controversial for an American network television audience. So the story was subtly changed in that the fascist dictators were no longer homegrown, but were instead alien invaders from another planet and thus, more comfortably to be hated. That was still a pretty good show though, the miniseries was V, if anyone saw that one. Still about half the book to go, but so far I'm really liking it. After I finish it, I bought Aldous Huxley's final novel, The Island and Gore Vidal's memoirs Palimpsest. They should also be pretty good. Dunno why, but I just can't read enough lately about courageous outsiders being trampled beneath the tyrannous bootheel of conformity. XD  |
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Posts: 3748 (06/16/08 18:00:21) Kirby Fanboy |
Read the surreal House of Leaves. One of the most bizarre and indescribable books ever. I've never seen a book where the text goes inside out, up the page,
upside down, in the corner, and various other weird patterns to match with the hectic pace of what you're reading. For stretches it's literally
'turn the page, flip the book over, turn the page, flip the book back' and craziness like that for lots of stretches. And I can't say I've seen
a narrative that jumps between a fake author, a fake editor, and occasional imput from the 'real' editor. It's something that has to be read to
understand. And even then you won't completely understand it.
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Posts: 1953 (06/20/08 18:34:35) Wussy |
The Island is doing funny things to my head. It's a really great book, but it makes you think about things that maybe shouldn't be thought. Can't
seem to put it down, though.
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Posts: 3754 (06/20/08 18:58:13) Kirby Fanboy |
What kind of things?
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