Book Reccomendations?

[WeedGuru_Flow]

Yeah King's not bad, bought a series of short stories bundled at an airport when our flight got delayed, good reading.


Just finished Alastair Reynold's House of Suns, sci-fi, but the story gets fleshed out incredibly and the larger morale is quite deep.

[andriaSRH]

Books r fer n3rds

[JokersAce]

If only andria could read books well, maybe she would type well too.

[logically]

Books r fer n3rds

don't be jealous andria.

i can give you some tutoring and pretty soon you will be able to read too.

[zERo~Chronic]

John Dies at the End

[Gorecore]

I wish I could say I am a well-read person, though I'm not. I've been reading Stephen King books since I was 12, and have read most of his stuff. I've read a few Clive Barker books. I read the odd fantasy book when I was in high school...like the Death Dealer books and a couple about Elric.

I also really enjoy reading books about my favorite bands or music artists. The last one I read was the biography of Dave Mustaine from Megadeth.

I'm currently reading Stephen King's collection of short stories called "Full Dark, No Stars".

[Fergus_84]

Recently worked my way through Robert Ludlums "Covert one" series which held my attention.

Made a move to non-fiction in Nicholas Goodridge Clarke's "Occult roots of Nazism",

Thankfully it has very liitle to do with Nazism as the title may indicates (or the front cover for that matter-which depics a huge swastica-you can imagin the looks one gets while reading this in public)

It gives insight to the cultural identity of the 'pan-germanic' peoples from the early 19th Century, the ideologies and adopted symbology drawn from hinduism and norse mythology.

Its extremely interesting as it allows the reader to aknowledge the underlying events to why and how so many millions of every day folk could be drawn to and support the nazi regime, cultural psychology assessing a nations reluctance to adapt in a changing world (1900-1930's) and how the views of certain influencial academics at the time were skewed by their own anti-semitic & racist tendancies.

This book also 'puts things straight' with respect to the effect these occult ideologies had on hitler and indicates that hitler abolished many occult lodges when he came to power, and there is very little proof that hitler even associated himself with the occult other than in passing interest in his younger years.

I need to stess i have no interest in nazism other than from a historical standing in cause and effect.

Damn good read though!

[weedguru_animal]

creative reading is much more useful for a wannabe wordsmith than creative writing studies...with that in mind, I prescribe, to ANY budding wordsmith, the following useful tomes:

Hunter s thompson- great shark hunt, proud highway, rum diary, fear and loathing in america
dostoyevsky- crime and punishment, the idiot, the brothers karamazov
william burroughs- junky, the place of dead roads, naked lunch, the job
bukowski- pulp, women, factotem, post office
donleavy- darcy dancer, the ginger man
tom robbins- skinny legs and all, fierce invalids home from hot climates

[cutthecashflow]

Thank You Dan.

[JokersAce]

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is the greatest book I ever read, and I'm not sure if there will be a better book. It's also the only book i read in a single day... just 200 pages of non stop reading... a great book that's hard to put down with it's perfect mix of artistic detail, plot thickness... and since it's all mixed with scientific realism it makes it perfect. The funny part is that the author hated the English translation... I couldn't possibly imagine how something so good could be better if I were to read it and understand it in it's native Polish.

[cutthecashflow]

Yeah King's not bad, bought a series of short stories bundled at an airport when our flight got delayed, good reading.


Just finished Alastair Reynold's House of Suns, sci-fi, but the story gets fleshed out incredibly and the larger morale is quite deep.

I don't know, I've read so many Stephen King books that I can feel where they are going. Then, just when the book is making logical sense, it shifts to some parrallel dimension and I just don't have a feel for King. Although I did enjoy Black House and Hearts in Atlantis.

[omnific.dc]

After early 18, I get too excited and lose focus too quickly. So I haven't finished a book since..

[Ikku]

You? Lose focus? Naaaaaaah

[omnific.dc]

literally, i lost focus.

[Weedguru_Fire_Inside]

You? Lose focus? Naaaaaaah