Books are good for you.

[Falcom Director of Fanservice]

Yeah that shit looks sweet, is it out yet? I'll have to scour the Neohio library system for it.

Edit: Hmm, there's a library in Cleveland that has it, but they don't seem to be participating in the exchange program.

Fuck, I'll try anyways.

[Aa Wat Kay]

I agree with everything this thread stands for. I'll need to see if I can find wherever my copy of Battle Royale got off to and re-read it one of these days.

[Incog Neato]

NECROPOSTING.

Just to show that a book thread did exist and that I wasn't imaging things.

[AllenSmithee]

I might be reading The Passage. I started it, and liked it, but I can't be sure.

[Lenalia]

...Well, this saves me the trouble of starting one, then!

I've been... meaning to read Dave Duncan's Past Imperative (part one of "The Great Game"), on the recommendation of a friend. I say "meaning to read" only because I'm used to reading books when I go to bed, and I've been tired enough by the time I go to bed lately that I just fall asleep pretty quickly instead of reading first, usually. I'm not far enough in to comment very much on it, except that it seems pretty good so far.

[AllenSmithee]

I just finished reading Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, and before that I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

[RyuKisargi]

I read a majority of the titles by John Grisham quite regularly, as well as an old copy of Tom Clancy's Red Rabbit.

Right now I'm re-reading The Rainmaker, by Grisham.

[Raison D'etritus]

GRRM's A Storm of Swords, book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire. I'm not loving it like I did the second, but then, I didn't love the first as much as most seem to. The constant shifting from character to character reminds me too much of a soap opera, when all too many of the characters don't interest me too much. If the book focused more on the characters of Arya, Tyrion, and Daenerys, I'd be happy. And if the war would erupt back into the boiling pot of book II, it would hold my interest better (ME LOVES WAR!)

Also neglecting Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations in lieu of doing the final edit of my own manuscript (which is quite taxing). Gotta say: Wittgenstein = overrated. The book's a thousand times better (and more coherent) than the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, but it seems very Aristotlian, in that everything Witty says is either blatant common sense to those with a high logical faculty, or. . . wrong.

[Gamemusicfreak]

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld is a phenomenal book I just finished. I encourage everyone to read it. Here's a quick synopsis:


As you probably already guessed, it rules!

[AllenSmithee]

I'm reading Idoru by William Gibson for a novel study at school. I've also gotta read The Great Gatsby, and Catcher in the Rye. For school.

Good thing they're all good books!

[Raison D'etritus]

Part II of Goethe's Faust.
The English rendering isn't as good as Kauffman's handling of the original, and the contrivances to force a rhyme (or near rhyme) really sting sometimes.

Of course any poem loses a lot when taken out of its native tongue, but the second part of Faust is usually critiqued for being trash compared to the first. . . so my expectations aren't too high.

[Lenalia]

Speaking of The Great Gatsby, I'll just let this link speak for itself...

[AllenSmithee]

Gatsby was good... but my teacher kinda ruined it by making me hate everything ever done.

Luckily, I enjoyed life again, rereading the Berserk volumes I own (1-6) because I should be getting 7-13 for my birthday. Pretty whacky, cannot wait!