Author Topic: books to read (Read 507407 times)

HairyCunt · « **Reply #1380 on:** September 20, 2012, 11:59:08 AM »

Quote from: weedpop on September 19, 2012, 10:43:41 PM

Ya, it's definitely a literary ABD. Hemingway's ideal of masculinity is impossible to live up to anyway, no matter how much drinking and fucking you do.

Could be fun though...

Goddamn, I can smell your halitosis through the screen! You don't deserve to read his books. Tosser.

Bitter · « **Reply #1381 on:** September 20, 2012, 01:34:20 PM »

I wasn't completely happy with the ending, but really enjoyed the overall concept. It's basically Cabin In The Woods set in a corporate office.

weedpop · « **Reply #1382 on:** September 20, 2012, 03:09:40 PM »

Quote from: HairyCunt on September 20, 2012, 11:59:08 AM

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Ya, it's definitely a literary ABD. Hemingway's ideal of masculinity is impossible to live up to anyway, no matter how much drinking and fucking you do.

Could be fun though...
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Goddamn, I can smell your halitosis through the screen! You don't deserve to read his books. Tosser.

So, when do you start your bullfighting apprenticeship?

Bitter · « **Reply #1383 on:** September 21, 2012, 06:14:08 AM »

Quote from: HATE! on September 20, 2012, 02:09:07 PM

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I wasn't completely happy with the ending, but really enjoyed the overall concept. It's basically Cabin In The Woods set in a corporate office.
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Whoa, really? Just that sentence has me very curious!

Replace teens in a cabin with employees in an office, and scary monsters with psychotic bosses, and the rest is very similar.

BRIX SKWIKZ · « **Reply #1384 on:** September 21, 2012, 09:35:53 PM »

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Moist · « **Reply #1385 on:** September 22, 2012, 12:44:13 AM »

Only 100 pages in but I'm loving it.

brycickle · « **Reply #1386 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:30:54 AM »

The movie(s) are great, the book is even better.

Laban Fetus · « **Reply #1387 on:** September 22, 2012, 11:53:00 AM »

Love this guy to death. (terrible pun)

Greg Ostertag · « **Reply #1388 on:** September 28, 2012, 01:27:56 PM »

Incredible, of course. Don't know why I'd never read Joe Conrad before this. What do y'all think about his other stuff? Any recommendations?

I've been into reading shorter novels and novellas lately. It might just be laziness, but I'll take a pared down, powerfully written novella over a fluffy, narcissistic epic any day.

A.J.K. · « **Reply #1389 on:** September 28, 2012, 01:37:21 PM »

Just finished rereading it. Not the most challenging read, but one of my favourites by far.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #1390 on:** September 28, 2012, 10:27:23 PM »

Quote from: A.J.K. on September 28, 2012, 01:37:21 PM

Just finished rereading it. Not the most challenging read, but one of my favourites by far.

Yeah, great book.

JABRONI · « **Reply #1391 on:** October 01, 2012, 10:40:16 AM »

Anybody have this? worth the $50?

Jojo · « **Reply #1392 on:** October 01, 2012, 11:58:59 AM »

Love the way he describes things!

filter · « **Reply #1393 on:** October 01, 2012, 09:31:00 PM »

just started

Matze · « **Reply #1394 on:** October 02, 2012, 12:37:33 AM »

finished this one yesterday. I thought it would be something like everything is illuminated, but a book that brings me closer being a vegitarian.

now I started this classic by hermann hesse, let's see how it turns out.

Alan · « **Reply #1395 on:** October 02, 2012, 01:39:34 AM »

Currently reading this. It's good, but I can't seem to find the time to read bigger chunks of it, just get through 20 pages or so per day...

Bloody Matt · « **Reply #1396 on:** October 02, 2012, 03:00:38 AM »

Quote from: Greg Ostertag on September 28, 2012, 01:27:56 PM

Incredible, of course. Don't know why I'd never read Joe Conrad before this. What do y'all think about his other stuff? Any recommendations?

I've been into reading shorter novels and novellas lately. It might just be laziness, but I'll take a pared down, powerfully written novella over a fluffy, narcissistic epic any day.

I have Lord Jim on the shelf but haven't seemed to be able to get into it. Supposed to be a good one, though.

Bloody Matt · « **Reply #1397 on:** October 02, 2012, 03:03:10 AM »

I never read this when I was 16 like most do. Russell Banks is nice, though. I especially enjoyed the beginning of this. Bone rules!

Bitter · « **Reply #1398 on:** October 02, 2012, 06:41:34 AM »

Just finished this. Pretty gruesome stuff, but I loved it. It's interesting how McCarthy makes you feel compassion for such a depraved character. Interesting take on the anti-hero archetype.

Very curious to see what James Franco does with his adaptation.

StabMasterArson · « **Reply #1399 on:** October 02, 2012, 08:53:28 AM »

I loved child of god. On one of James Franco's websites they are doing a bunch of behind the scene clips. I can't think of a film I've anticipated more than this one.

Greg Ostertag · « **Reply #1400 on:** October 02, 2012, 10:46:31 PM »

Quote from: StabMasterArson on October 02, 2012, 08:53:28 AM

I loved child of god. On one of James Franco's websites they are doing a bunch of behind the scene clips. I can't think of a film I've anticipated more than this one.

Amen.

escapistfool · « **Reply #1401 on:** October 08, 2012, 12:55:04 PM »

Not my books but I am on this. Giger is amazing. (It's a collection of his artworks.)

Lance Meowntain · « **Reply #1402 on:** October 08, 2012, 05:26:18 PM »

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but this plus the follow up are great. Havent read the third yet though.

malibu hamish · « **Reply #1403 on:** October 08, 2012, 05:27:47 PM »

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

kilgore. · « **Reply #1404 on:** October 08, 2012, 06:10:32 PM »

swagdragon123 · « **Reply #1405 on:** October 08, 2012, 10:52:28 PM »

Quote from: Greg Ostertag on September 28, 2012, 01:27:56 PM

Incredible, of course. Don't know why I'd never read Joe Conrad before this. What do y'all think about his other stuff? Any recommendations?

I've been into reading shorter novels and novellas lately. It might just be laziness, but I'll take a pared down, powerfully written novella over a fluffy, narcissistic epic any day.

I would recommend watching the movie "Apocalypse Now" and compare the themes in Heart of Darkness.

The Human Condom · « **Reply #1406 on:** October 08, 2012, 10:56:11 PM »

Quote from: Bitter on September 20, 2012, 01:34:20 PM

I wasn't completely happy with the ending, but really enjoyed the overall concept. It's basically Cabin In The Woods set in a corporate office.

Such a great recommendation! I needed a book like this. Highly entertaining, witty, and fun. Thanks a mil!
Have you read his other two novels?

swagdragon123 · « **Reply #1407 on:** October 08, 2012, 11:16:37 PM »

oyolar · « **Reply #1408 on:** October 09, 2012, 12:04:46 AM »

Reading Georges Bataille's Guilty right now, as well as Michel Surya's biography of him. Guilty is written in a journal format, so it makes it hard to get super into, although it's interesting to read Bataille's thought-processes and see the beginnings of his themes and obsessions.

Both of them are taking me a while to get through though. I've read a lot lately (these are my fifth and sixth books for fun since the middle of June, not including extra readings while I was finishing schoolwork), so I think I might need a break or something quick and easy to read after these. Maybe I'll be get a copy of Colbert's new book and read that.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #1409 on:** October 09, 2012, 02:17:22 AM »

I should probably read better books but there is a new Halo book and I am reading it.

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