Books you bought recently/are planning to read

Post by **Jackal** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:21 am

Max Brooks, "The Zombie Survival Guide".

Post by **4days** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:38 am

tnf wrote:I'm about to bust into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

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Post by **Dave** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:46 am

I don't think i'll be seeing the movie either... I am, however, reading this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080784 ... oding=UTF8

Post by **tnf** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:42 am

I'm 11 pages into Cryptonomicon, and its great so far. Very interesting style of writing...you can tell this guy is fucking brilliant.

Post by **dnoyc** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:20 am

tnf wrote:I'm about to bust into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

this is one of my favorite books of all time.

have you read his snow crash, that book is also brilliant.

right now i'm reading his baroque cycle, i'm half way through the confusion.

after i finish this series i'll probably read do androids dream of electric sheep?

Post by **Ryoki** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:45 am

tnf wrote:I'm about to bust into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

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Post by **l0g1c** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:30 am

tnf wrote:I'm 11 pages into Cryptonomicon, and its great so far. Very interesting style of writing...you can tell this guy is fucking brilliant.

Very good book. My ex describes it as "nerd crack" so I loved it.

I'm finishing up "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. Love Gaiman, so it's no surprise that I like this book.

Reading Moby Dick next. I got the annotated version, so I can get the most out of it.

Post by **Sevensins** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:45 am

Reading:
1984 - George Orwell
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams
The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby

Soon to read:
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
Men and Cartoons: Stories - Jonathan Lethem
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
How to Breathe Underwater: Stories - Julie Orringer

Recently finished:
Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford

Post by **Ryoki** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:56 am

dnoyc wrote:right now i'm reading his baroque cycle, i'm half way through the confusion.

Damn, i've been meaning to get that - and then i forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder. Is it anywhere near as good as cryptonomicon?

Post by **I cant spell u** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:08 am

Im going to read duke nukem does the internet.

Post by **busetibi** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:19 am

just finished Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn,
about to start on, August 1914 - same author

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:35 pm

dnoyc wrote:
tnf wrote:I'm about to bust into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
this is one of my favorite books of all time.

have you read his snow crash, that book is also brilliant.

right now i'm reading his baroque cycle, i'm half way through the confusion.

after i finish this series i'll probably read do androids dream of electric sheep?

Snowcrash ruled. I'm reading Quicksilver right now, but it's slowed down a good bit.

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:34 pm

Been thinking of checking out the Gulag Archipelago for a while, never heard of that Cryptonomicon but it sounds interesting :icon14:

I had to cancel the Encyclopedia of the Third Reich because it held up the delivery of the Rise and Fall by about a month.

Post by **4days** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:58 pm

Nightshade wrote:Snowcrash ruled. I'm reading Quicksilver right now, but it's slowed down a good bit.

it picks up again about 1.5cm from the end. halfway through the second one atm - is good stuff. lots of swashbuckling and piratey business, bit of politics and half-cocked jack mashing round morroco.

Post by **dnoyc** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:13 pm

Ryoki wrote:
dnoyc wrote:right now i'm reading his baroque cycle, i'm half way through the confusion.
Damn, i've been meaning to get that - and then i forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder. Is it anywhere near as good as cryptonomicon?

the short answer is no.
quicksilver starts off really slow. it's divided into 3 books, each about 300 pages. the first part is really slow, and actually took me much longer to read than the rest of the book. after the first 1/3rd it gets a lot better, especially the middle part.

the confusion is divided in two books, but they are interleaved so it's much more like cryptonomicon.

Post by **dnoyc** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:14 pm

Nightshade wrote:
dnoyc wrote:
tnf wrote:I'm about to bust into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
this is one of my favorite books of all time.

have you read his snow crash, that book is also brilliant.

right now i'm reading his baroque cycle, i'm half way through the confusion.

after i finish this series i'll probably read do androids dream of electric sheep?
Snowcrash ruled. I'm reading Quicksilver right now, but it's slowed down a good bit.

yeah the first part of quicksilver is really slow, but it gets a lot better starting with the second book.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:21 pm

i have about 10 billion books and i only read about 5 of them

theyre just for show, mostly

Post by **DiscoDave** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:30 pm

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:18 pm

MKJ wrote:i have about 10 billion books and i only read about 5 of them
theyre just for show, mostly

Lol, I don't have that many but I've read about half of what I've got, I'm not exactly well read, no stamina for it. It's like I want to acquire the information but I hate just fucking sitting there, unless it involves doing something as well as reading I find it a chore sometimes unless I really get into it. Hence working with a programming book is fine when I have to do it

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:40 pm

R00k wrote:
Tormentius wrote:I'm about to start reading Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan.
Just finished it a few days ago.

You are going to fucking love it.

Good to hear.

Post by **R00k** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:19 pm

I just finished Jordan's Knife of Dreams and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll - just started Alice in Wonderland.

Currently reading/in-use/put down for the time being:
The Brothers Karamizov and Crime and Punishment
Don Quixote (only about halfway through it)
MS Press VB .net core reference and two other VB .net books
And Sherlock Holmes always sits on my bathroom table.

Coming up next:
Just got the complete Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe for Christmas, which is probably what I'll be starting on next.
Still want to read Angels and Demons, and Deception Point by Dan Brown

I've got several more at home waiting for me to pick up, just haven't had enough time to read lately. =\

Post by **tnf** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:32 pm

R00k wrote:I just finished Jordan's Knife of Dreams and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll - just started Alice in Wonderland.

Currently reading/in-use/put down for the time being:
The Brothers Karamizov and Crime and Punishment
Don Quixote (only about halfway through it)
MS Press VB .net core reference and two other VB .net books
And Sherlock Holmes always sits on my bathroom table.

Coming up next:
Just got the complete Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe for Christmas, which is probably what I'll be starting on next.
Still want to read Angels and Demons, and Deception Point by Dan Brown

I've got several more at home waiting for me to pick up, just haven't had enough time to read lately. =\

I gave up on Jordan's books about 3 or 4 books ago. Went through the first 8 or so, then everything just hit a standstil. Can't remember which book it was, but one of them was about 900 pages of absolutely nothing. You read the whole book - waiting for over a year for it, and the plot is not furthered at all. He lost me after that. Bummer too, because the series started with so much potential. I think he almost created a monster he couldn't control with how many branching storylines he had going at once.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:36 pm

Here's a question -
When do most of you do your reading? I usually only read before going to sleep. I wish I could make myself do some more reading during the day - I get easily distracted with all the tech gadgets around the house though.

Post by **R00k** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:37 pm

Yea I totally agree. The last two books (and arguable the one right before), just completely stalled out the series.

I was almost ready to give up on them, and decided to pick up this one just to see if he'd picked up the pace again. I didn't even pick it up on release day like I usually do - it was about 3 or 4 weeks after it was released; I just couldn't get excited about it.

But man, let me tell you, all kinds of shit is happening in this last one. Even if you skip the previous two, you should read this. It ties up things you've been waiting for the last 3 books to find out, and some real action is going on - more than I hoped for.

I hate to say anything too specific, but Mat's story gets REALLY juicy, and so does Perrin's. And you find out Moiraine had left a message for Thom Merillin the day before she got killed.

And the war starts.

Post by **tnf** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:40 pm

R00k wrote:Yea I totally agree. The last two books (and arguable the one right before), just completely stalled out the series.

I was almost ready to give up on them, and decided to pick up this one just to see if he'd picked up the pace again. I didn't even pick it up on release day like I usually do - it was about 3 or 4 weeks after it was released; I just couldn't get excited about it.

But man, let me tell you, all kinds of shit is happening in this last one. Even if you skip the previous two, you should read this. It ties up things you've been waiting for the last 3 books to find out, and some real action is going on - more than I hoped for.

I hate to say anything too specific, but Mat's story gets REALLY juicy, and so does Perrin's. And you find out Moiraine had left a message for Thom Merillin the day before she got killed.

And the war starts.

Hrmm...maybe I'll start up the series again. Might start at about the 5th or 6th book and go from there.