 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 Now online (1)big ...and 159 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2613449 Today 2 Topics 127500 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
does anybody read anymore? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i should... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
what are these book things you talk of? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i do. i'm currently reading hubert selby jr.'s last exit to brooklyn and i am reading kurt v.'s slaughterhouse five |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you know... books... with words instead of pictures, printed on paper? not porn. what authors do you like if you have read a book? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Yeah, everyday before i go to bed. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I like reading... but I'm not into the "deep, intellectual" books... I want a good, interesting story when I read... Stephen King is always good, and right now I'm into the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan... in the middle of book six now... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I NEVER read novels. Only one I've ever read is Bram Stoker's Dracula. I just can't seem to sit down and devote time to long novels. I like coffee table books, with lots of pictures and small articles and captions, but I don't have the time to sit down with a huge story. I read any magazine I can get my hands on, though. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, I used to be like that... but if you give it a shot, and find a REALLY good book, you'll be hooked... there is nothing like a really good book... it's way better then any movie you'll watch... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
currently reading "fear and loathing in america"; the letters of hunter s thompson 68-76. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Love books, though I don't get much time to read them currently. I usally read before I go to sleep but lately I've been to tired. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is amazing. About a girl who almost never speaks to anyone. She used to have a group of friends and everything but over the school holidays something happened to her and now everyone hates her. I highly recommend it. And anyone who has ever been made fun of or been teased at school will find a higher emotional cord with the book. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I'm actually reading "Wang". A f***ing good sf book, by Pierre Bordage. Talks about survival, Uchronik games, Big electromagnetic wall that cut earth in half dividing East and west. north adn south, occident and orient. Find it at all cost! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I read subtitles on tv. I haven't read a whole book in years |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I remember I went to my grandmothers house one time, so I needed a book (she doesn't have cable)... I picked out It by Stephen King, and away we went... I started reading it, and my goodness I couldn't put it down... the book is like 1100 pages or something, and I must've read it in like 9 or 10 days... The Wheel of Time series is already 8 or 9 books, and is still not finished, and each book is upwards of around 900 pages long... but yet, it's not boring at all... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
my favorite books are fahrenheit 451 1984 animal farm |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
oh and communion |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Yeah books are great, much more descriptive then any movie, and not yet have i seen a movie derrived from a book that was better then the book itself. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i haven't read too many books...now i'm reading an analysis of Scorsese's films...quite interesting. And I really like Hunter S. Thompsons' "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas." alienworkshop: have you seen the movie (fahrenheit 451) i really liked it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I´m now reading Frank Herbert "Dune", and I read graphic novels as well (these are similar to comics but better). |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I just haven't got the time or the patience to read books! I know that you get more out of a book in terms of story detail etc.etc...but I find it more satisfying to watch a film (the way a director means you to see it..), and get it over with in 2 hours.. I buy lots of hardback coffee table books of film/sci-fi/art - but they have lots of pictures in them! And I do 'look' at them quite often, but I've never read any of them! I just think I could be doing so many other things as opposed to sat there just reading! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hehe thats the one where they burn books, good movie. I ment to say also that i was reading the lord of the rings triolgy for the second time. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I've been reading the adam and joe book, by, you guessed it, adam and joe. Everyone must read the home alone guide. Funny shit. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Hey Vader! I like Frank Herbert's Dune. It's my favourite book. Have you read the new ones by his son? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
shortcircuit, I have Brian Herbert&Kevin J.Anderson "Prelude to Dune" as well its really hard to find the Dune books around here I´m hoping in buy´em all someday, really great books I´m enjoying reading the Dune one very much I just love the mix of SF with fantasy the movie his amazing too one of the best along with Blade Runner. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
So ... i think i should be lucky. I even got the really rare Dune encyclopedia. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Depends if you´re buying the originals in English or some translation I cant find neither Portuguese nor English ones :-( I will try to order on the net hopefuly :-) the ones I have were bought in London by a friend of mine. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I had no problems finding the german translation. I don't know how hard it is to get the original. in my opinion it's a little bit difficult to enjoy a book in its original language if it is not your mother tongue. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i've been reading 'the restaurant at the end of the universe' by douglas adams... well..its actually at the library now...i had to return it...but when i get the chance im going to take it back out and finish it... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I agree with you its harder to enjoy, I read those with a good dictionary it helps, its harder but this way the reading wont suffer I think some parts are just lost with translations the best would be to read both version the original and the translated :-) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Good final word, Vader. I'm going to bed now (because I have to get up very early) and read a little bit. Good night everyone! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i love reading but havent been able to for a while..my gif says it all:) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
if you like well written science fiction with an edge, try iain m. banks. his books are incredible. i'm reading wuthering heights at the moment, though. it's not too bad. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah i read loads, i'm reading Peter F Hamiltons "Nights Dawn" trilogy, which is excelent so far. Though the books are extremely long, book 1 is the shortest at 1225 pages! Anyway some of my faves are Dune, Enders Game, His Dark Materials Trilogy and anything by Neil Gaiman. Oh and if you like fantasy you "have" to read the "a song of fire and ice" books by George R R Martin, better than Lord of the Rings imho. Anyone else reading this series? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Ubik are you a Philip K Dick fan? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I read a lot. I just finished The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen and Atonement by Ian McEwan, and The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman. Books are second only to music in my view. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Loads, always 3/4 on the go. Currently some Hunter S. Thompson, The Bible, some Wodehouse Just finished American Psycho. Good stuff. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
ive been reading: laboétie "discours de la servitude volontaire" herman hesse "demian" nietzsche "beyond good and evil" montaigne "de l'amitié" i read alot. i have also recently discovered that philosophy suits me more than i could imagine. ive been thinking about majoring... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i should read... im silly... just if i get spare time im more likely too mess around making tracks or something... i love 1984... i have been reading this book about the morals of genetic engineering, i stole it from school years ago... its really interesting |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
