Ultimate Reading Madness 2.0

[Ben]

I am about to read the nursey crimes series from Jasper Fforde, just open the box received today from Amazon. I do hope this gonna be another good series from him.

oh cool that's the only one from him I haven't read, I've loved every other book he's had so let me know how it goes.

[mst3ktomservo119]

favorite books
1. abarat series- clive barker
2. american gods- neil gaiman
3. neverwhere- neil gaiman
4. boundary;s fall series (kinda obscure) bret funke
5.when will jesus bring the porkchops - george carlin
6. three musketeers- dumas
7. lemony snicket series- vfd
8. journey to the west
9.eragon series- paolini
... there are about a hundred others but i cant think of em right now. i read *alot* have since i was a kid. im pretty damn fast at it too can polish off a 300 page book at my usual pace in 2-3 hours, ( record was when i read deathly hallows in 4 and a half hours, couldn't put the damn thing down haha) and end up reading about 4-5 books a week when im not occupied. ive managed to piss off my local library by the amount i usually take out and managed to get thru an entire kids section there when i was younger. i love to read haha

[Ben]

One of our Thursdays is missing!

Fuck yeah, was a little worried at first cause the main thursday isn't the protagonist instead it's the written actor that plays her (It makes sense if you read the series... wich you should cause it's fucking boss) but the book is still great.
Loving it so far. Get that shit into ya.

[kleptoman]

One of our Thursdays is missing!

Fuck yeah, was a little worried at first cause the main thursday isn't the protagonist instead it's the written actor that plays her (It makes sense if you read the series... wich you should cause it's fucking boss) but the book is still great.
Loving it so far. Get that shit into ya.

Just what. Really. What.

[Agrajag]

Yeah you're going to have to back up and explain that a bit.

[Ben]

You guys don't read Jasper Fforde? Man you guys need to get on that shit.

Basically in the books, the main character is named Thursday Next, she can travel into book world which is were fiction lives. In book world there are people that basically act in books. The books work like plays and whenever someone reads the book they get up and act out the parts to transfer the images into peoples imagination.

Thursday becomes famous in the real world and has a series of books written about her. This book is written from the perspective of the woman who plays Thursday Next in the books that are written about her. This it the 6th book in the series though so this is all pretty well worn territory by the time you get up to this book.

Everyone seriously needs to go out and pick up The Eyre Affair. I haven't been this hooked on a series of books since Harry Potter.

Just finished it. Great fucking book.

[Agrajag]

I tried to buy a Thursday next book today, but they're only available in $16 oversized paperbacks which I feel is kinda a ripoff. So guess I'm not reading it for a while.

[Ben]

I tried to buy a Thursday next book today, but they're only available in $16 oversized paperbacks which I feel is kinda a ripoff. So guess I'm not reading it for a while.

They're totally worth it. Not sure how much books usually are in the US but I order all mine from
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/

[Agrajag]

They retail for about twice what normal paperbacks do here (most mass maret paperbacks are $7 or $8). Even on Amazon/Kindle they're still $3 or $4 dollars more. I'll probably still buy them eventually because they sound awesome, but I already have a backlog of half a dozen books to work through.

[Jim North]

I'm about halfway through Prey by Michael Crichton, and I'm enjoying it and being disappointed by it in turns. I hate to say this about an author who's death was a great loss to the world - both as a writer and as a human being in general - but perhaps it's best that his writing career was closed out. Prey seems to be largely derivative of his earlier works, extremely predictable, and highly repetitive.

And while there were, of course, several leaps of logic in his other books in order to allow the basic premise to actually happen, for those he at least tried to cover up the leaps with some sort of explanation or pseudo-explanation. Here it seems he's just ignoring several things that would make the whole thing fall apart if they were examined too closely. I'm hoping that isn't the case and these points are brought up in the second half, but I dunno . . . I almost get the feeling his heart wasn't in it with this one.

[pie]

Prey was pretty mediocre.

[Jim North]

Prey was pretty mediocre.

I swear that if I have to read just one more paragraph* about how agent-based programming emulates the behavior of biological swarms, I'm going to downgrade it from "mediocre" to "a complete waste of my time". And then I'm going to throw the book in the corner and leave it there forever.

*Though perhaps I should say "one more instance of the exact same paragraph only slightly reworded".

[pie]

But the nanobots are a swarm, Jim. A malicious swarm. Swarrrmmmmm.

[Jim North]

But the nanobots are a swarm, Jim. A malicious swarm. Swarrrmmmmm.

[Agrajag]

The only Michael Crichton book I've ever read is Timeline and it was pretty awful.