Dusty Chalk Posted April 2, 2008 Report Posted April 2, 2008 Yeah, me too! (First time I saw the list, myself; I was looking for a more comprehensive list.)
Salt Peanuts Posted April 2, 2008 Report Posted April 2, 2008 Reks, have you read the Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis?
Salt Peanuts Posted April 3, 2008 Report Posted April 3, 2008 nope. i'm guessing that i should. Yep. I highly recommend the series. I also really like the Planetary series by Ellis as well (the series is even more fun when you have a decent knowledge of DC & Marvel characters), but I'd recommend you wait to pick that up until they actually finish the series as I've been waiting for few years now for Ellis to finish the series and release the last book (or two).
postjack Posted April 3, 2008 Report Posted April 3, 2008 will wrap it up tonight. glad I got to read the book before I see the movie. great read! entertaining and thought provoking.
kpeezy Posted April 9, 2008 Report Posted April 9, 2008 I read the first two books in that very long series of his. Is this part of it? Anyways, I had no urge to continue the series after those two..they were good Have you read the rest? -Kyle
Dusty Chalk Posted April 9, 2008 Report Posted April 9, 2008 Just finished...Are those any good? "Buffy starring Philip Marlowe" sounds enticing.
Chekhonte Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 The Rise of Life on Earth by Joyce Carol Oates.
postjack Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 dusty, the Dresden books are great fun, I've read about the first four. I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This book is terrifying in its totality of vision, the most pure & horrific post apocalyptic tale I've yet come across. I'm not finished yet, but I can already give this book my highest recommendation.
kpeezy Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 POSTJACK - My new job is boring and I have nothing to do most of the time so I started reading Garden of the Moon! I have to go buy the next one tonight because I've been tearing through this book Good call.
postjack Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 POSTJACK - My new job is boring and I have nothing to do most of the time so I started reading Garden of the Moon! I have to go buy the next one tonight because I've been tearing through this book Good call. Fantastic! GotM is great if a bit obtuse, but the next book, Deadhouse Gates, is pure win. But in GotM, don't you meet Kruppe? I love Kruppe.
Dusty Chalk Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 dusty, the Dresden books are great fun, I've read about the first four. I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This book is terrifying in its totality of vision, the most pure & horrific post apocalyptic tale I've yet come across. I'm not finished yet, but I can already give this book my highest recommendation. Appreciate the opinion; and: (wishlisted).
kpeezy Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 Fantastic! GotM is great if a bit obtuse, but the next book, Deadhouse Gates, is pure win. But in GotM, don't you meet Kruppe? I love Kruppe. Haha.. that fatty. He's great. The first time Crokus comes into the book... that was so awesome I have about 100 pages left so I should be starting the next one tomorrow or tonight.
slwiser Posted April 10, 2008 Report Posted April 10, 2008 I read the first two books in that very long series of his. Is this part of it? Anyways, I had no urge to continue the series after those two..they were good Have you read the rest? -Kyle Yes this is the latest of a long line of books in the series. This one may be somewhere around 12 or something?
Thelonious Monk Posted April 11, 2008 Report Posted April 11, 2008 Great haul from the bookstore. Highlights are Death in Venice and a bunch of Borges. Andrew Hurley is a horrible translator. I have been comparing these James E. Irby and Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations of Borges to the Hurley ones I had before and the difference in serenity of language is astounding. Like, Harry Potter vs. The Great Gatsby.
Dusty Chalk Posted April 11, 2008 Report Posted April 11, 2008 Highlights are Death in Venice ...Have you read Death in Venice?
n_maher Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 Read this on the way to and from CanJam, pretty typical of the genre but an enjoyable read nonetheless.
en480c4 Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 The People's Act of Love by James Meek Interesting...
riceboy Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 American Theocracy - The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury by Kevin Phillips
Thelonious Monk Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 I haven't finished a book in a while. This summer I'm going to read every Hesse novel. And get started on more Nabokov than Lolita, Pale Fire and Invitation to a Beheading. And probably re-read Pale Fire. Have you read Death in Venice? Sorry for the late reply, but yes. I saw the film version first, however.
Contrastique Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 Still reading "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Too bad I have little time doing extensive reading sessions because this book is really intriguing to say the least.
Contrastique Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 Yeah..but it's so marvelously written I just have to get going to the end. By the time I reach that point I might just start reading it again to see how it did start again lol! What was The Idiot like? Haven't read it yet but I think that's next on my list.
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