The books thread

[i kill for fun]

piano lessons can be murder
say cheese and die....
....best book series ever made by humans, very deep

[i kill for fun]

William S. Burroughs - The Naked Lunch is fucking crazy, radical. Parts I don't get, but it flows well and is poetic.

I saw the movie in theater....that shit ain't right

[goldpony]

William S. Burroughs - The Naked Lunch is fucking crazy, radical. Parts I don't get, but it flows well and is poetic.

I saw the movie in theater....that shit ain't right

to quote nelson muntz: "I can think of two things wrong with that title".

[Zevaka]

just to say
i'm finishing Vorkosigan saga by L. M. Bujold
best saga inSF genre

[Fireal1222]

piano lessons can be murder
say cheese and die....
....best book series ever made by humans, very deep

attack of the mutant was amazing as well

[indychinoluv]

c'mon i know you guys read goosebumps when you were kids


what were some of your favorites

Yeah Bro. Welcome to ghost camp is my favouirite (proberley cause its the only one I have left).

...also Paul jennings was cool too. Even the most basic of classics are still good (where the wild things are is still cool)

[tarkil]

iI can't eally remember mab, I read all of taht years and years ago, all the books uof thw guys I could find, so I wouldn't  really be able to give youa story name,  I'm sorry.... But I do remember lots of fifferent stories that the guy talked about...... Everything crazy...

were you drunk when you wrote that ahahahhaahaahaha

Ha ha, as it was 3am here, I guess I was yes....
And while I'm reading my sentence again, it's nearly sure...

[theshadeisatool]

c'mon i know you guys read goosebumps when you were kids


what were some of your favorites

Hahaha yes I did, can't remember them that well. One about a girl moving to a new house in Florida or something and something being in the woods behind her house? LOL reader beware, you're in for a scare and all that...

[whodunit?]

just to say
i'm finishing Vorkosigan saga by L. M. Bujold
best saga inSF genre

Frank Herbert's "Dune" beats all other shit down.

[oldgentlovecraft]

iI can't eally remember mab, I read all of taht years and years ago, all the books uof thw guys I could find, so I wouldn't  really be able to give youa story name,  I'm sorry.... But I do remember lots of fifferent stories that the guy talked about...... Everything crazy...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[fire-fly]

Just finished Mark Bowden's "The Best Game Ever," on the 1958 Colts-Giants championship game that was excerpted in SI a few weeks ago.

As the SI excerpt showed, the in-depth profiles of Raymond Berry dominated this book. Not knowing much background about the guy, I thought that part of it was outstanding. And while there's a whole chapter dedicated to Sam Huff and the evolution of Tom Landry's Giants defense, the book is definitely focused more on the winning team. So if you're an old Baltimore Colts fan, you'll probably love it.

The TV broadcast of the game didn't survive, but NBC has the radio play-by-play intact and Bowden liberally sprinkles in the transcript during the course of the game.

Lot of great material from Berry, Artie Donovan (of course), Gino Marchetti, etc. I breezed through this thing in a couple of nights.

And of interest here: Bowden dedicated the book to David Halberstam, who apparently was researching the same topic for his own book when he died last year. Bowden explains that story in the epilogue.

Well recommended, and not just for football fans.

[fireflyry]

Colin Wilson - Spider World:The Tower.

Pretty cool Sci-Fi for his first attempt into the genre with some cool concepts and a great post-apocalyptic theme.

[Nailec]

read some Critical Theory over the last weeks and some other 68 texts.


Adorno`s/Horkheimer`s thoughts on culture industry are a must read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry

[theis]

bought some graphis novels today;

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Killing Joke (Deluxe Edition)
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
Watchmen

[whodunit?]

bought some graphis novels today;

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Killing Joke (Deluxe Edition)
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
Watchmen

LOLZ

[theis]

bought some graphis novels today;

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Killing Joke (Deluxe Edition)
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
Watchmen

LOLZ

ahh, ignorance is a bliss.

if you actually took some time to research what the hell you think you're talking about, you'd find out that those mentioned above are highly influential, groundbreaking and amazing graphic novels.

on-coming traffic. walk into it. fast.

[theis]

another pick-up today;

Batman: The Long Halloween

[oldgentlovecraft]

What's wrong with graphic novels?  I own the Hellboy volume, good shit.  Thought about getting into Batman again but we'll wait and see if the movie spurs me into doing so.

[goldpony]

the watchmen graphic novel is a must own

[oldgentlovecraft]

I'm a Hellblazer fanatic myself.