Favorite books / What are you reading?

ManWithNoName said:
JAnd for school I'm about to read The Scarlet letter which is going to be awful, and its required. :(
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Don't underestimate Hawthorne. His writing is not bland. His stories all have an atmosphere of lurking, supernatural evil.

A couple of pages back I posted about some of his short stories I read. If you want to impress your teachers, check out some of those.
 
Started reading Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes but it doesn't seem particularily good so I'm already kind of giving up on it. It's fictive although based on Marlantes' experience in the Vietnam war.
 
Tuva or Bust! - Ralph Leighton

Just started it, interesting so far.

Also I'm rereading The Wheel of Time series for the 6th time - greatest series ever written IMO, currently on 'A Path of Daggers'
 
12 written, 2 more to go. One of which is due out in the next couple of months, hence why I'm rereading the series - you can't really pick up where you left off as it were, there is such a stupid amount of characters you have to reread the series just for a new book to make sense.

Oh yeah, and there's a prequel called 'New Spring' to. It's shit. Or the shit, depends really. There were supposed to be an additional two prequels, but then Robert Jordan died...

Still he's done pretty well, already written book number 12 from beyond the grave, he always did say he would finish the series if he had to do the impossible..
 
Yoshi525 said:
Tuva or Bust! - Ralph Leighton

Just started it, interesting so far.

Also I'm rereading The Wheel of Time series for the 6th time - greatest series ever written IMO, currently on 'A Path of Daggers'
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You're actually rereading that piece of shit series? Really?

It starts out as good, but standard, fantasy but it turns into unbearable shit so quickly.
 
War by Sebastian Junger. Pretty good, maybe the best book I've read about the war in Afghanistan. Junger went to live with the grunts on an outpost that was attacked and was even in a humvee that was IED'd.
 
While we're recommending good war nonfic,

Shots Fired In Anger

by Col. John B. George is like an encyclopedia of his time in the Pacific in WWII.

Published by the NRA i think. GODDAMN DIRTY APES!

I also have an original
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY FIELD MANUAL
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE TECHNICAL ORDER

US RIFLE
CALIBER .30, M1

Departments of the Army and the Air Force
October, 1951.

Inside, among your usual sighting, rangefinding, shooting routines, it also gives pointers on how to lead low flying transports, and how many man lengths at 400m to lead a helpless commie paratrooper falling into your AO. At 540 pages, you can learn to become a pretty good rifleman from this one book alone.
 
A friend at work has been trying to get me to read comics for a while so I'm reading Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men series. Also reading an awful awful young adult novel.
 
mobucks said:
While we're recommending good war nonfic,

Shots Fired In Anger

by Col. John B. George is like an encyclopedia of his time in the Pacific in WWII.

Published by the NRA i think. GODDAMN DIRTY APES!
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Seems interesting, might take a look at that. Not really into the whole NRA/gun-scene though. I did read Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed awhile ago, was good.
 
Since I tend to read - or at least try to read - whatever happens to fall in my path, I picked up Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice a couple days ago. I lasted about 45 minutes with it before I became convinced once and for all that stories about vampires are almost always lame.
 
UniversalWolf: There are very few non-totally-pieces-of-shit vampires.

First is Dracula. The original, the best, the 'i'm going to take the over the world by buying a whole lot of property and turning people into vampires selectively". He's a Bond villain with fangs.

Second, is Blade. Why? He's motherfucking Blade. There isn't anything else to say. All he does is be awesome and murderize vampires.

Third, Count Chocula. Count Chocula is the shit.

Fourth, pretty much any vampire from Trueblood. Pretty much the very definition of not sucking. Except the suck. But are awesome. And even the bitchy, emotional vampires make up for it by being completely batshitfuckcrazy. Or awesome.

Myself, I just discovered John Ringo. And OH JOHN RINGO NO is SO fucking true.
 
I started reading a penny dreadful from 1847 called Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. Reynolds. It's about an old peasant who makes a deal with the devil to live forever on the condition that he becomes a werewolf every seven years or something, and, of course, adventures ensue!
 
verevoof said:
I started reading a penny dreadful from 1847 called Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. Reynolds. It's about an old peasant who makes a deal with the devil to live forever on the condition that he becomes a werewolf every seven years or something, and, of course, adventures ensue!
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Every seven years? That's pretty lazy for a lycanthrope, no? I hope he's at least forced to do extra gory things in return.
 
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