 Books, are you reading any? |
  |
 May 31 2004, 08:22 AM
Post
#26
|
|
 Worrying  Group: New Members Posts: 166 Joined: 7-April 03 Member No.: 233  |
I had to stop reading the Wheel of Time series, around about the 5th or 6th book. I forget which... I just got burnt out on those, I'll hopefully get back to them soon.
Anyone read the Terry Goodkind series, "The Sword of Truth", starts with Wizard's First Rule and gets amazingly deeper from there. That's an excellent series. --------------------  |
 |
 
|
|
May 31 2004, 08:50 AM
Post
#27
|
|
 Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
I really like The Sword Of Truth, but Goodkind seems to be losing his grip on it. Towards the end, I think from Faith of the Fallen, the books start to dissolve into rants against communism. I mean, I don't like communism either, but I know I don't like it and I know why, Richard can stop making speeches on the rights of the individual to succeed now because it's the same speech he made three chapters ago. The Pillars of Creation does this some more, mainly through straw-man arguments rather than Richard's preaching, though he does get some preaching in towards the end. I hear Naked Empire is more of the same, so I'm not buying it.
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
|
|
|
|
|
May 31 2004, 06:05 PM
Post
#28
|
|
 F*cking with the best since 1996 Group: Established Members Posts: 2,614 Joined: 24-February 04 From: Wiltshire. UK Member No.: 962 Gender: Female |
QUOTE had to stop reading the Wheel of Time series, around about the 5th or 6th book. I forget which... I just got burnt out on those, I'll hopefully get back to them soon. They are hard work. I read the first eight in a row and then just stopped - I really wasn't enjoying the series at all. I find that what he has done in nine books (and then some I believe) other authors have done in less and better. I love Terry Goodkind - although I do agree that The Pillars of Creation did seem to lose it a bit. I have Naked Empire but I haven't yet got around to reading it. I'm undecided on whether to bother or not? -------------------- Art should be an expression of what humanity is capable of imagining - not limited to representing that which surrounds us - Demetrios Vakras
funked)out_frog is my special Harem slave Harem count: Markslut, xkitsurabamix, Black - Wings, Candice, Moop, Daedalus, The Lorax, Franken - Sarah, Artemisia, Cath, Wyvern, Saucy Tara, PsychWardMike, JimiJimi, Fallen Element, Smiler, Korbin Dallas, laenan kite, Valerie, Faerieryn, trunk_girl26, Sir Psycho Sexy, Steam Roxxor, pgrmdave, monkey_called_narth |
|
|
|
|
May 31 2004, 06:36 PM
Post
#29
|
|
 Rabid Saskatchewanian Group: Established Members Posts: 1,026 Joined: 2-December 03 Member No.: 752 Gender: Male |
I'm back to an old one, but a good one. Magician, by Raymond E. Feist, and all the Midkemia and Empire books that follow. Read a good portion of them before, but I wanted to pick them up again, so started with Magician again. Fun times!
Who knew that I would miss reading for pleasure this much! -------------------- At the Left Hand of God
OMFG STEAM R0X0RZ TEH BIG ONE111! Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. Thou shalt do it standing up. Dominating Aries, e-hubby, since 2004. |
|
|
|
|
May 31 2004, 07:34 PM
Post
#30
|
|
|
Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Snugglebum the Destroyer @ May 31 2004, 07:04 PM) I love Terry Goodkind - although I do agree that The Pillars of Creation did seem to lose it a bit. I have Naked Empire but I haven't yet got around to reading it. I'm undecided on whether to bother or not? Well, apparently recaps of past plotlines and rants against communism take up most of it... -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
|
|
|
|
|
May 31 2004, 09:27 PM
Post
#31
|
|
|
Matazone acolyte Group: Established Members Posts: 994 Joined: 27-March 03 Member No.: 183 Gender: Secret |
QUOTE (CommieBastard @ May 31 2004, 07:33 PM) QUOTE (Snugglebum the Destroyer @ May 31 2004, 07:04 PM) I love Terry Goodkind - although I do agree that The Pillars of Creation did seem to lose it a bit. I have Naked Empire but I haven't yet got around to reading it. I'm undecided on whether to bother or not? Well, apparently recaps of past plotlines and rants against communism take up most of it... Damn i was looking forward to that myself. Currently reading Porno by Irvine Welsh, Damn funny so far. |
|
|
|
|
May 31 2004, 10:05 PM
Post
#32
|
|
|
F*cking with the best since 1996 Group: Established Members Posts: 2,614 Joined: 24-February 04 From: Wiltshire. UK Member No.: 962 Gender: Female |
QUOTE Currently reading Porno by Irvine Welsh, Damn funny so far. Good man *pats Spacehappy* Have you read Filth? I think it has to be my favourite, a really interesting concept. -------------------- Art should be an expression of what humanity is capable of imagining - not limited to representing that which surrounds us - Demetrios Vakras
funked)out_frog is my special Harem slave Harem count: Markslut, xkitsurabamix, Black - Wings, Candice, Moop, Daedalus, The Lorax, Franken - Sarah, Artemisia, Cath, Wyvern, Saucy Tara, PsychWardMike, JimiJimi, Fallen Element, Smiler, Korbin Dallas, laenan kite, Valerie, Faerieryn, trunk_girl26, Sir Psycho Sexy, Steam Roxxor, pgrmdave, monkey_called_narth |
|
|
|
|
Jun 1 2004, 12:29 PM
Post
#33
|
|
|
Worrying Group: New Members Posts: 166 Joined: 7-April 03 Member No.: 233 |
That's so true about Goodkind's books but, if you can read around that there's a lot more to them. I mean, yeah, Richard does come off sounding like Captain Kirk sometimes but, so? I mean, that never stopped Star Trek from being fun.
 Magician was one of the first novels I read in one sitting, that's a good book. Although after the 3rd book I lost interest. I guess that happens a lot with long series of books. Well, except for Anne Rice, I could just keep reading her books forever. If you want to read something that is almost a 180 of Goodkind's rants try reading some Spider Robinson. Stardancers is almost the opposite (and it's sci-fi rather than fantasy).
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
Jun 1 2004, 11:28 PM
Post
#34
|
|
 a hoopy frood who really knows where her towel is Group: New Members Posts: 1,203 Joined: 26-February 03 From: saskatchewan! Member No.: 46 |
i guess i'll put my two cents in...
wizards first rule was excellent, couldn't put it down. the next two were also quite good, and i loved them. after that.... it was like goodkind's thinking process was "ok, i know the characters have already suffered emensly, but how can i make their lives just that much worse? oh, and how can i rant about how much stalinist style communism sucks?" and i'm all for introducing new characters, but "faith of the fallen" ends with richard and kahlan in the heart of enemy territory... so for all of "pillars of creation" i'm waiting to find out what happened to them. they don't bloody show up until like the last chapter! and the plot was so predictable, it wasn't even funny! i didn't even know there was a new one out, i doubt i'll bother getting it. -------------------- i don't need eternal truth, i've got shadow puppets!
|
|
|
|
|
Jun 2 2004, 12:51 AM
Post
#35
|
|
 living in your basement, eating your candy hearts Group: Established Members Posts: 3,420 Joined: 23-February 04 From: cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 959 Gender: Female |
"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss
really funny. 
-------------------- Being corrupted by candice since 2004
teal and orange is the way forward |
|
|
|
|
Jun 2 2004, 03:43 AM
Post
#36
|
|
 Savior on the Blood Church St. Petersburg, Russia Group: Established Members Posts: 343 Joined: 1-March 04 From: Elizabethtown/Bowling Green, Ky Member No.: 978 Gender: Male |
I love to read books..
Here is a list of books I would like to finish reading over the summer: Ghosts Across Kentucky-William Lynwood Montell Arabian Nights-Translated by Hussain Haddaway The Obstinate Muse of Freedom: on the Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt-Krisztina Szalay A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking Osiris & the Egyptian Ressurection-E. A. Wallis Budge The Muslim Discovery of Europe- Bernard Lewis The Antichrist- Frederick Nietzsche The Norse Myths- Kevin Crossley-Holland The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson At the Table of the Grail edited by John Matthews The Holy Kingdom by Adrian Gilbert-Alan Wilson and Baram Blacket (A book about finding the real King Aurthur.) The Egyptian Book of the Dead Books I know I won't finish over the summer: The Catechism of the Catholic Church Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose -------------------- |
|
|
|
|
Jun 2 2004, 07:15 AM
Post
#37
|
|
|
Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (gothictheysay @ Jun 2 2004, 01:50 AM) "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss really funny. Don't you mean "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"? Yeah, I really enjoyed that book; it was good fun for a pedant like me. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
|
|
|
|
|
Jun 2 2004, 04:25 PM
Post
#38
|
|
 Wanted: Meaningful Overnight Relationship Group: New Members Posts: 245 Joined: 8-October 03 From: Earth. I think. Member No.: 634 Gender: Female |
I finished My Forbidden Face by Latifa for school.
Now I'm finishing The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. I think next I want to read the third book of the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton: Circus of the Damned. -------------------- Blog Site DeviantArt
Don't give me that kinkier-than-thou attitude! If you are feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. Prejudice is wrong; you should hate everyone the same! We are born naked, wet, and hungry, then things get worse. Get your mind out of the gutter, you're blocking my periscope! Some mornings it's just not worth gnawing through the leather straps. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me! People say that everyone has a few skeletons in their closet, but I don't. Not yet anyway. The bodies are still decomposing. We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there! |
|
|
|
|
Jun 3 2004, 10:45 PM
Post
#39
|
|
 Worrying Group: New Members Posts: 114 Joined: 1-June 04 From: Places.... Ireland, Canda, and USA Member No.: 1,153 |
Hm..... A really good book I read a little while ago called "Exodus" (I dunno who wrote it though) is a very good book, and I suggest it to many. Some parts you might want to skip depending on the level of gore and such you can handle (I skipped the part about the nazi's camps.... Very distuisting).
-------------------- Mazle
‡God-Like-Rabbit‡ ˆLet's pretend your a camel.ˆ „Blue and Blonde„ •I'm a blanker• _.·˜¯ª¯˜·._ Do the wave ^ |
|
|
|
|
Jun 4 2004, 01:55 AM
Post
#40
|
|
|
living in your basement, eating your candy hearts Group: Established Members Posts: 3,420 Joined: 23-February 04 From: cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 959 Gender: Female |
QUOTE Don't you mean "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"? Ahhh! It's the Oxford Comma! I got the book of all the books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series to read! -------------------- Being corrupted by candice since 2004
teal and orange is the way forward |
|
|
|
|
Jun 10 2004, 03:39 AM
Post
#41
|
|
|
living in your basement, eating your candy hearts Group: Established Members Posts: 3,420 Joined: 23-February 04 From: cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 959 Gender: Female |
Went to the library - still reading douglas adams - but picked up about 26 books. They will go fast, dude.
The Gospel According to Gracey - Susan Kingsbury And Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury again 
-------------------- Being corrupted by candice since 2004
teal and orange is the way forward |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15 2004, 03:26 AM
Post
#42
|
|
|
living in your basement, eating your candy hearts Group: Established Members Posts: 3,420 Joined: 23-February 04 From: cloud cuckoo land Member No.: 959 Gender: Female |
You're going to make me post three times in a row in this thread, aren't you.
Postcards From Berlin - Margaret Leroy -------------------- Being corrupted by candice since 2004
teal and orange is the way forward |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15 2004, 07:42 AM
Post
#43
|
|
 The Wrath of The MUFFIN Group: New Members Posts: 433 Joined: 27-December 03 Member No.: 821 |
my dad is reading the "The Dark Tower" series... he likes them.
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15 2004, 03:03 PM
Post
#44
|
|
|
F*cking with the best since 1996 Group: Established Members Posts: 2,614 Joined: 24-February 04 From: Wiltshire. UK Member No.: 962 Gender: Female |
QUOTE my dad is reading the "The Dark Tower" series... he likes them They're brilliant. Stephen King has managed to tie up all his books into one series. Amazing stuff!! -------------------- Art should be an expression of what humanity is capable of imagining - not limited to representing that which surrounds us - Demetrios Vakras
funked)out_frog is my special Harem slave Harem count: Markslut, xkitsurabamix, Black - Wings, Candice, Moop, Daedalus, The Lorax, Franken - Sarah, Artemisia, Cath, Wyvern, Saucy Tara, PsychWardMike, JimiJimi, Fallen Element, Smiler, Korbin Dallas, laenan kite, Valerie, Faerieryn, trunk_girl26, Sir Psycho Sexy, Steam Roxxor, pgrmdave, monkey_called_narth |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15 2004, 03:04 PM
Post
#45
|
|
 Super advanced member Group: New Members Posts: 81 Joined: 3-November 03 From: Ohio Member No.: 697 |
I'm reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson, currently, which is very amusing--much more amusing than my last book, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness .
-------------------- We chase misprinted lies.
|
|
|
|
|
Jun 15 2004, 03:25 PM
Post
#46
|
|
 Speed of Life Group: Established Members Posts: 694 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Leicester Member No.: 952 Gender: Male |
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire.
w/e |
|
|
|
|
Jun 16 2004, 09:05 PM
Post
#47
|
|
|
F*cking with the best since 1996 Group: Established Members Posts: 2,614 Joined: 24-February 04 From: Wiltshire. UK Member No.: 962 Gender: Female |
Chris Wooding - The Skein of Lament.
And mighty fine it is too. 
-------------------- Art should be an expression of what humanity is capable of imagining - not limited to representing that which surrounds us - Demetrios Vakras
funked)out_frog is my special Harem slave Harem count: Markslut, xkitsurabamix, Black - Wings, Candice, Moop, Daedalus, The Lorax, Franken - Sarah, Artemisia, Cath, Wyvern, Saucy Tara, PsychWardMike, JimiJimi, Fallen Element, Smiler, Korbin Dallas, laenan kite, Valerie, Faerieryn, trunk_girl26, Sir Psycho Sexy, Steam Roxxor, pgrmdave, monkey_called_narth |
|
|
|
 Jun 20 2004, 06:14 PM
Post
#48
|
|
 omno-ahhhhhhh! Group: Established Members Posts: 2,124 Joined: 20-June 04 From: London, England. Member No.: 1,174 Gender: Secret |
Ms Wyoming by Douglas Coupland. but it just doent seem to hit me like Gen X, Micro Serfs and Shampoo planet. are his other books soo, hmm easy to put down?- I still have Girlfriend in a Coma on my book shelf gathering dust.
-------------------- A society that takes itself too seriously risks bottling up its tensions and treating every example of irreverence as a threat to its existence. Humour is one of the great solvents of democracy. It permits the ambiguities and contradictions of public life to be articulated in non-violent forms. It promotes diversity. It enables a multitude of discontents to be expressed in a myriad of spontaneous ways. It is an elixir of constitutional health. J. Sachs in Laugh It Off Promotions CC v SAB International (Finance) BV t/a SabMark International (Freedom of Expression Institute as Amicus Curiae) 2006 (1) SA 144 (CC)
|
|
|
|
|
Jun 21 2004, 11:18 PM
Post
#49
|
|
 Fly me to the moon Group: New Members Posts: 284 Joined: 21-June 04 From: Los Angeles, California Member No.: 1,175 Gender: Female |
Right now I'm reading Memmnoch the Devil.. I've been stuck on page 385 for a few weeks. I haven't read much for a while. >< My favorite book of all time would have to be The Witching Hour. I <3 that book.
-------------------- |
|
|
|
|
Jun 22 2004, 01:40 AM
Post
#50
|
|
 ever-hopeful since 2003 Group: Moderators Posts: 6,037 Joined: 27-February 03 From: Midwest US Member No.: 54 Gender: Secret |
Just finished Orwell's 1984.
|
|
|
|
|
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
| Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 20th June 2013 - 07:03 AM |
Invision Power Board
© 2013 IPS, Inc.
| Use these links if you're going to shop at Amazon and a percentage of what you spend goes towards helping this site! | |
|---|---|
|
|
|