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Brainsurgeon
Sweden359 Posts
On March 24 2013 02:32 DoctorHelvetica wrote: how is 1q84 so far to anyone reading it, im thinking about picking it up cause i liked wind-up bird chronicles a lot I liked it a lot, but I prefer his books without so much the supernatural theme. | ||
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FMStyles
Germany162 Posts
![[image loading]](http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/A_IMAGES/DeathByBlackHole.jpg) Only at the beginning but digging his humor and his ways of explaining things. Having some problems understanding somethings from time to time, since english isn't main motherlanguage, but i'll manage :d | ||
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123Gurke
France154 Posts
On March 20 2013 00:02 YoucriedWolf wrote: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Neuromancer_Brazilian_cover.jpg/220px-Neuromancer_Brazilian_cover.jpg) Neuromancer Super average. Don't get the hype. Really? In my opinion there is definitely not enough hype around it. I can understand some people not liking his books, but I do not understand how one can find them average. On March 20 2013 00:06 xAdra wrote: Going to hunt down more Phillip K. Dick books and read them all That is a very god idea  Make sure to read The Three Stigmata of Palmer EldritchReading: ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410bjZ%2BQCJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) So far I am enjoying this more than I thought I would. I will probably read more of Lovecraft in English when I have finished this collection. His books are in public domain, so I can freely copy them to my ebook reader. | ||
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SeinGalton
South Africa387 Posts
Some of my favourites so far: Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon - my all time favourite book ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347614178l/27196.jpg) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov - an almost perfect little book ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1276275700l/1393373.jpg) Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth - funniest book I've ever read ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327929440l/43945.jpg) Currently reading: Catch-22, Joseph Heller ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347348987l/187880.jpg) To read: (Well, way too many to mention, but I'm particularly looking forward to these) Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327248482l/2457487.jpg) Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312005006l/413.jpg) I'm also looking forward to: Underworld, Don DeLillo Tenth of December, George Saunders JR, Walliam Gaddis The Public Burning, Robert Coover Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth and and and... | ||
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elt
Thailand1092 Posts
On March 24 2013 05:59 Brainsurgeon wrote: I liked it a lot, but I prefer his books without so much the supernatural theme. In my opinion The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is his hardest book to get through (because it's more than just a story), so if you enjoyed that you'll enjoy all his other stuff. Personally my favourite book of his is Dance Dance Dance. I don't think 1Q84 is his best work personally, but it's still a good book. | ||
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maru~
2345 Posts
On March 24 2013 20:19 elt wrote: In my opinion The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is his hardest book to get through (because it's more than just a story) Can you elaborate? | ||
Flicky
England2674 Posts
Have moved on to The Player of Games which has a really interesting premise to start with. Looking forward to getting through it. | ||
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
On March 22 2013 09:10 dmnum wrote: Well, I finished Farewell, My Darling by Raymond Chandler and I can safely say that I prefer Marlowe to Holmes. Also, I finally read The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Sallinger. Liked it quite bit, wish I read it during my teen years. Now I'm halfway through For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway. It's amazing, but it's Hemingway so I already expected it. I absolutely love The Catcher in the Rye and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Glad to see you enjoyed them too. ^_^ I think For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of my favorites by Hemingway. I enjoyed it more than his other novels, except maybe The Sun Also Rises which is also fantastic. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On March 25 2013 04:54 ghrur wrote: I absolutely love The Catcher in the Rye and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Glad to see you enjoyed them too. ^_^ I think For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of my favorites by Hemingway. I enjoyed it more than his other novels, except maybe The Sun Also Rises which is also fantastic. I finished yet friday, I may have enjoyed it more than A Farewell to Arms, but I my favourite is still The Old Man and the Sea. - Now I'm starting Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. I only read The Brothers Karamazov by him but it was amazing. | ||
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Bunn
Estonia934 Posts
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ghrur
United States3786 Posts
On March 25 2013 05:38 dmnum wrote: I finished yet friday, I may have enjoyed it more than A Farewell to Arms, but I my favourite is still The Old Man and the Sea. - Now I'm starting Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. I only read The Brothers Karamazov by him but it was amazing. Lol, we seem to read the same books or something. I've also read Brothers Karamazov but not Crime and Punishment. It was incredible. I loved the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, and The Grand Inquisitor especially. Please tell me what you think of Crime and Punishment. Meanwhile, I'll be working on the latest ASOIAF book: A Dance with Dragons. ^_^ | ||
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wptlzkwjd
Canada1240 Posts
On March 25 2013 04:54 ghrur wrote: I absolutely love The Catcher in the Rye and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Glad to see you enjoyed them too. ^_^ I think For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of my favorites by Hemingway. I enjoyed it more than his other novels, except maybe The Sun Also Rises which is also fantastic. I actually liked A Farewell to Arms a lot better than The Sun Also Rises mainly because there was more action and harder to put down :D P.S If you like Catcher in the Rye, you'll also like The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On March 14 2013 12:39 packrat386 wrote: Ender's Game is such an excellent book. I think that the way that Card creates the ethical dilemmas and other important constructs in the story is really masterful. If you like that book I would definitely recommend Enders Shadow. Enjoy the read! How do you feel about books 2-5 versus Ender's Shadow? The beginning of book 2 seemed kind of boring and I didn't continue reading after that. Apparently I have Big Fish lined up. Also reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, and 7 habits of highly effective people, plus dabbling in a bunch of other books I can't recall the names of. | ||
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taromo
4 Posts
Just finished Santa Olivia. | ||
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Antares777
United States1971 Posts
I'm going to read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I've been meaning to read this one for a while and just got a copy from my friend's dad. After that I'll probably try to finish Cryptonomicon. I got about 200 pages into it before I ran out of steam. That book and Reamde had a lot of exposition. Nothing really essential to the plot happens until you're like halfway through the book. | ||
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Syn Harvest
United States191 Posts
On March 25 2013 08:13 Antares777 wrote: I finished reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and before that I read Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I'm going to read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I've been meaning to read this one for a while and just got a copy from my friend's dad. After that I'll probably try to finish Cryptonomicon. I got about 200 pages into it before I ran out of steam. That book and Reamde had a lot of exposition. Nothing really essential to the plot happens until you're like halfway through the book. How was All The Pretty Horses compared to McCarthy's other work. I have read most of his other work except for The Border Trilogy. Is it thematically similar to Blood Meridian but with a different set of characters and situations. I know it is set along the Texas Mexico border like many of his books. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On March 25 2013 07:13 Blisse wrote: How do you feel about books 2-5 versus Ender's Shadow? The beginning of book 2 seemed kind of boring and I didn't continue reading after that. Apparently I have Big Fish lined up. Also reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, and 7 habits of highly effective people, plus dabbling in a bunch of other books I can't recall the names of. Xenocide was probably my favourite book out of the first four that I read, yes, I liked it more than Ender's game. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On March 24 2013 20:19 elt wrote: In my opinion The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is his hardest book to get through (because it's more than just a story), so if you enjoyed that you'll enjoy all his other stuff. Personally my favourite book of his is Dance Dance Dance. I don't think 1Q84 is his best work personally, but it's still a good book. It was just okay imo. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=299540¤tpage=53#1041 | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On March 25 2013 12:38 Cambium wrote: Xenocide was probably my favourite book out of the first four that I read, yes, I liked it more than Ender's game. The books focused on Bean, are much more similar to Ender's Game, than the sequels involving Ender. They are centered around strategy, and involve a similar power struggle, and so they are very much in line stylistically with it. The books involving Ender are very different in style, more delving into feelings and ethics. I personally really enjoyed them, but they are definitely written in a different pace than Ender's Game, so some people don't really like them, while others find them way better. I would recommend that you finish book 2, and see if you like this style, storywise. If so, read on with Ender's saga. If not, just read more of Bean's quartet. | ||
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Raptor4790
United Kingdom5 Posts
On March 24 2013 20:09 SeinGalton wrote: Currently reading: Catch-22, Joseph Heller I love that book. Fantastic read. | ||
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