Book Thread

ilJuventino wrote:

Roloman4 wrote:

I would say so, in addition to Portuguese, Galician, and a tad of Italian.

Hah, nice.

That previous post seemed like a blend of a few of those.

That was Galician my friend.

Interesting.

Roloman4 wrote:

BladeGunner wrote:

You undermine films, my friend. I hear they're quite different anyway. They're not even set in the same war-zone.

Well, obviously.

One's set in Vietnam while the other is set in the Belgian Congo at the end of the 19th century.

I didn't say films were bad, but just that you can't compare a book to a movie, they are different.

As in adaptations? Lord of the Rings is comparable, as epic as it is in text.

Only beef I've got is no fucking Tom Bambodil.

Is Lies of Silence a good book? Have to read it for my English diploma.

My friends, Markus Heitz is an up and coming German author. His translated works are fantastic.

Finished The Kite Runner yesterday. What an ungrateful little bitch Sohrab is. Amir should have left him in that bath tub, or better yet, left him with Assef so he got raped in the butt even more. Assef reminded me of a Taliban Malfoy. Must have been the blonde hair and the mud blood/Hazara hate each character had.

Started reading Small Island today.

Going to buy Pigeon English and Perks of being a Wallflower (credit to Sean and Luke) after.

What's pigeon English?

It's Number 1 in Nottingham Waterstones book chart, seems pretty good.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/13/pigeon-english-stephen-kelman-review?cat=books&type=article

Sean, you know Lies of Silence?

No, never heard of it. Good?

That's the correct understanding of that book.

Sean wrote:No, never heard of it. Good?

Thought you did since it's about Norn Ireland and all . No idea if it's good, I have to read it for school.

reading that Dragon Tattoo book

Finished 5 of 9 divisions in 'The Histories'. Completely different way of writing, seeing as Herodotus had no guidelines to follow. Book II, Ancient Egypt

The ending of Grapes of Wrath.

Finished most of the Drenai series in one week. Not Pulitzer prize material, but good enough for a fantasy junkie like myself.

Started reading The Hunger Games the other day.

Looking forward to the film coming out too.

When do you guys read?

Downloaded a ton of Chekov short stories earlier, gonna try and get through them over time.

Has anyone read the Night Angel or Mistborn trilogies? Really good books

Got the Black Hawk Down book somewhere.

Gonna read it when I have some free time.

NZG wrote:When do you guys read?

For pleasure? Not very often, unfortunately.

I do read a lot in the summer, though.

NZG wrote:When do you guys read?

Pretty much constantly.

Rarely.

Adam Mansbach is a good author.

Do you guys read EBooks often?

As in on the computer or on a reader?

Got a kindle, so use that sometimes. However a lot of the books I have to read aren't on there, which is a bitch.

Computer.

Anyway, I need some decent books to read. Need to branch out a bit. Any books that anyone finds interesting?

The Alchemist is supposed to be good.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein
The Forever War
The Strain
Ender's Game

You could check those out.