The books thread

[Fireal1222]

im currently reading "The Navaho's Pardinance of The Sans Peladia" by Montgomery Lakeshire

[Zevaka]

Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children (17 issues), great comics series, if somebody is interested



Size: 134 Mb
Format: .CBR / JPG
Official site: http://www.beautifulstoriesforuglychildren.com/
Number of issues: 17 of 30
Language: English

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is a comic book series written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Dan Sweetman, published by DC Comics under the Piranha Press imprint from June 1989 until September 1992, a total of 30 issues in the run (and a couple of anthologies published separately).

Samples:
Issue #1, page 6-7:


Issue #3, page 14


Issue #1: A Cotton Candy Autopsy,
Issue #2: The Dead Johnsons' Big Incredible Day,
Issue #3: Diary of a Depressed Tap Dancer
Issue #5: The Crypt of The Magi
Issue #6: Happy Birthday to Hell
Issue #7: Ricky The Doughnut Boy
Issue #8: Die Rainbow Die
Issue #9: By The Light of The Screaming Moon
Issue #10: Safari Jim's Last Chance Gas
Issue #11: The Daffodils of Plague Town
Issue #12: Death Takes A Holiday,
Issue #13: A Cotton Candy Autopsy II,
Issue #14: Dangerous Prayers
Issue #15: The Pagan Tourist
Issue #21: Dances With Cows
Issue #30: The Dream is Dead, Gone, Shot Off, All Squashed Flat,

Download Part 1
Download Part 2

[J.C. Costelluccio]

looks good.

[Nailec]

read some Franz Kafka recently. i cant recommend him. i couldnt take anything out of my interpretations for my life. except "The Penaly Colony" which was a great read. seeing what cruel shit kafka wrote before second World War is really disturbing since what he wrote and what must have disgusted everyone became true a few years later.

i read

In the Penal Colony
The Judgement
The Matamorphosis
The Trial

so go and read the penaly colony, allthough its brutality is nothing new for us as we know horror movies etc.

[goldpony]

iwas never a big fan of kafka either...i found him to be depressing. right now im reading the light of other days by arthur c clark. ive read it b4 but its pretty good. takes the big brother concept and places it a capitalistic society.

on an unrelated matter, has anyone checked out that kindle thing from amazon? seems like an oversized ipod for books. definitely not on my wish list

[oldgentlovecraft]

Metamorphosis was a bit sad but hilarious at the same time

[thesongyousang]

Just got a bunch of "Archie& the gang" and "Jughead" comics....

BUSY FOR HOURS YO!!!!!!!!!!!

[bebo]

The Walking Dead by Robert Kirman is an awesome comic. Pick it up.  0.o

[oldgentlovecraft]

I have the first two volumes, fucking amazing zombie story.

[bebo]

Indeed it is

[wither-I]

read "1984" last week and i was very impressed. the whole "doublethink" and "newspeak" was brilliantly manifested while believable. and i also finally got around to "a clockwork orange" just binged on it the last few hours at the campus library.. it was good, just a little sparse at times... though still refreshing because besides 1984 all ive read lately are textbooks!
thats all.

[i kill for fun]

the walking dead..i think i saw a vietnam-esque movie with that title..the dude from malcom and eddie was in it...yet very,very fucked up

[Necrocetaceanbeastiality]

Saw The Kite Runner a few days ago. Just picked up the book and I shall start reading it tomorrow.

[bright lights, big city]

read the Ruins last week. really a good book.
however, from what i've heard about the movie they absolutely butchered it.

[Fireal1222]

im currently reading "The Navaho's Pardinance of The Sans Peladia" by Montgomery Lakeshire

i lol'd at my own post.i forgot about that post

[theshadeisatool]

Any Palahniuk fans here at all?

[bright lights, big city]

Any Palahniuk fans here at all?

big time

[tarkil]

Me too... I like this guy's writings....
Not a crazy fan though, but it's definitely some good books...

[fire-fly]

I finished the second Edgar Wallace book in the 3-in-1 volume I have been slogging through. Started on the first chapter of the last one over lunch and decided I can't deal with another of his silly things for now. Tongue I need to dig through my boxes and find my other German books, try the Michael Ende book I have in there somewhere.... "Das Gefängnis der Freiheit", several short stories/novellas linked in theme, I think.

[fireflyry]

Just finished "Bringing down the house" by Ben Mezrich about some card counters taking on Vegas.

Awesome book.