Ultimate Reading Madness 2.0

[Joopac_Badur]

So I've started reading The God Delusion and Slaughter House 5. So far I'm enjoying God delusion more and i'll probably wait to finish SH5.

The God Delusion is good, but after awhile Richard Dawkins sounds just as preachy and bitchy as the people he is denouncing.

Slaughter House 5 is great and one of my favorite time-travel (sort of) books. I should probably read more Kurt Vonnegut.

[kleptoman]

Yeah I was going to say that you're about the only person who I know who has read the book and liked it.

[Bronze]

I should probably read more Kurt Vonnegut.

Read Welcome to the Monkey House. It is fantastic.

[MrSquishyDBC]

I found a copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in my room yesterday. No clue when or how it got there, but I'm excited to read it. I've been looking for something of Vernes' to read for a while, now.

[Tekkactus]

I found a copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in my room yesterday. No clue when or how it got there, but I'm excited to read it. I've been looking for something of Vernes' to read for a while, now.

Tip: Whenever the main character starts looking out of his cabin window, skip that chapter. Verne dedicated a bunch of time to simply making lists of "This is the part of the ocean they're in and this is what lives there". One particular example goes on for 8 pages about kelp. It's duller than watching paint dry and it adds nothing to the story.

[Joopac_Badur]

I love it when authors do that! Need to fill a few pages to meet your quota and/or get a few extra bucks? Let's talk about the scenery and/or the background history of this one bar that has jack shit to do with anything other than that it was where the main character likes to get a drink every now and then.

/sarcasm.

[Ben]

I love it when authors do that! Need to fill a few pages to meet your quota and/or get a few extra bucks? Let's talk about the scenery and/or the background history of this one bar that has jack shit to do with anything other than that it was where the main character likes to get a drink every now and then.

/sarcasm.

Or as other people like to call it, the complete works of Tolkein.

I'm up to the fifth book in Jasper Fordes, Thursday Next series. Everyone needs to read these.

[Agrajag]

Thursday Next looks cool. I'll check it out after I finish the stack of books I already have.

[Ben]

Thursday Next looks cool. I'll check it out after I finish the stack of books I already have.

The first book is all right, but its mainly a detective story with some of the weird meta book references thrown in, from the second book on though he starts exploring the world a bit more and they become fantastic.

[alfanzo]

A few days ago I finished reading The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon'. I must say it was great, I could not put it down. It's the type of book that you must read every single word and sentence.

[Bronze]

As opposed to books where you just skim the beginning and end.

[Matador]

Pfft. Words. I just get books with lots of pictures.

[Ben]

Finished reading the first of the sequels (The latest in the thursday next series) these books are just so fucking good.

Gunna see if I can pick up either shades of grey or the nursey crimes series by the same guy next.

[Joopac_Badur]

Recently picked up a book called Flashman at one of the used bookstores around town on a whim. Looks like it could be good. The author, George Macdonald Fraser, took the character, Flashman, from Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays and created a series around him.

Essentially, Flashman is an unapologetic prick in 19th century Britain who through luck and good timing, he becomes one of Britain's most decorated war heroes while banging every loose woman he comes across.

[Jim North]

Essentially, Flashman is an unapologetic prick in 19th century Britain who through luck and good timing, he becomes one of Britain's most decorated war heroes while banging every loose woman he comes across.

You are no longer my personal hero, Joopac. I have found another.