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House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski or whatever the fuck. crazy book, was amazing until disappointing ending

Isn't there already a thread about books?

yes

The Old Man and the Sea. I LOVE this story. it's not a full novel but the story is my favourite. the cold hard determination of Santiago, the main character, really struck me as a kid. i actually listened to the novel on BBC radio back in the mid 80s when i was like 5 or 6. i could feel the fishing line cutting his hands like it was my own.

I read The Trial a couple of weeks ago. At times it was a bit frustrating to read, but it was quick and there were some really cool scenes, like near the ending when he's at the cathedral and the only other person who's there is the priest who turns out to be the prison chaplain and tells him a mindfuck parable from the pulpit. It also was pretty easy to tell that it was an unfinished manuscript pasted together by some other guy who didn't write it.

Right now I'm reading The Brothers K (an obvious-to-the-point-of-being-silly reference to the Dostoevsky novel) which is turning out to be amazing. There's lots about growing up in the 60s, political/religious ideology, and baseball. I was a big bitch and shed tears of happiness at one point in it, which I swear is the first time I've shed tears reading. I think anyone who reads it will enjoy it, and you don't need to have read The Brothers Karamazov, though you'll miss a few references as one always does.

I'm reading If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi. He was there for aobut a year, currently at October 1944, which is about halfway through the book. Amazing book, I can't really describe it. There's so much in it.

I'm listening to 2-3 cantos off of The Divine Comedy audiobook every night before I go to bed. Its awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes mythology.

I only have like 5 or 6 chapters left in Rainbow Six. I'm determined to have it finished by next week.

my books-of-all-times list is currently:
1.Dune
2.1984
3.Pipes ( by Edgar Keret)
4.The Hobbit
5. any book by Feynman

Copypasta'd from The Cheshire Cat:I'm listening to 2-3 cantos off of The Divine Comedy audiobook every night before I go to bed. Its awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes mythology.

I started reading my Oxford Classics edition of this a couple of days ago, after plodding my way through an incredibly dry and informative introduction. Does your translation rhyme? After I'm done The Brothers K I'm going to try to read at least Inferno, possibly the entire Divine Comedy if I can dig it. I'm not particularly interested in mythological-style epic poems in translation, but I am interested in modernism, and most modernist writers seem to constantly express their reverence for classical monuments of literature in large-scale allusions or subtle retellings.

I also have been ordered to read The Old Man and the Sea, and TMP has now bolstered the hype. I could probably squeeze that in between TBK and Inferno.

Finished Lunar Park, worst Bret Easton Ellis book I've read so far. Or maybe I don't have enough distant father issues to appreciate it.

Just ordered House of Leaves on amazon.

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Copypasta'd from The Cheshire Cat:I'm listening to 2-3 cantos off of The Divine Comedy audiobook every night before I go to bed. Its awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes mythology.

I started reading my Oxford Classics edition of this a couple of days ago, after plodding my way through an incredibly dry and informative introduction. Does your translation rhyme? After I'm done The Brothers K I'm going to try to read at least Inferno, possibly the entire Divine Comedy if I can dig it. I'm not particularly interested in mythological-style epic poems in translation, but I am interested in modernism, and most modernist writers seem to constantly express their reverence for classical monuments of literature in large-scale allusions or subtle retellings.

I also have been ordered to read The Old Man and the Sea, and TMP has now bolstered the hype. I could probably squeeze that in between TBK and Inferno.

Inferno is by far the best part of the Divine Comedy. My translation is in triplets, with the first and third lines rhyming. One of my favorites reads.

Right now I'm reading the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm halfway through Prince Caspian. I love C.S. Lewis' work.

Just finished the Halo series. There great SciFy books.

I gotta figure out what translation of the divine comedy I own when I get home, it's absolutely amazing. I plummeted through the inferno

I don't think it rhymes. He reads it like a story, not like a song, which I appreciate.
Also I don't really understand how come they're nearly at the devil's lair and I'm only close to finishing the 2nd canto. I wonder what the other 2 are about. (Please don't spoil it though)

tried to read Pygmy, the new palahnuik (sp?) one. was incredibly irritating, didn't get past the first couple of pages.

same, tom. totally annoying to read

Copypasta'd from fully aquatic turtle:Isn't there already a thread about books?

Yes, and this is the new one.

I'm currently reading the Private Life of Chairman Mao. It's... interesting. Mao was quite the ladeez mayn!

i heard he had hot young chinese girls from all over the country sent to him so that he could sleep with them and prove that he was still virile at his old age. too bad he was ugly as fuck and and apparently smelled like shit cus he never showered. a doctor of his was quoted as saying that you could barely stand being in the same room as him.

do you mean doctor Li Zhisui? He was Mao's private physician, and the one who wrote the book I'm reading

Copypasta'd from TheMightyPeon:i heard he had hot young chinese girls from all over the country sent to him so that he could sleep with them and prove that he was still virile at his old age. too bad he was ugly as fuck and and apparently smelled like shit cus he never showered. a doctor of his was quoted as saying that you could barely stand being in the same room as him.

Well, it seems someone has communist world domination on his mind. Brushing up on the study guides eh?

not sure the doctor's name. my history prof was quoting him in passing as we were going through the sino-soviet split.

EDIT: screw communism. when i dominate the world, i'll rule it through an iron fisted theocracy. until some noobs cry imba and they take it out like they did in Civ 4 or 5 or whatever it was.

Still reading Tell All & it's such a fail it's beyond me.

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/files/images/books/tell-all-med.jpg

i love how this turned in to a chuck p hate forum

Copypasta'd from The Cheshire Cat:I don't think it rhymes. He reads it like a story, not like a song, which I appreciate.
Also I don't really understand how come they're nearly at the devil's lair and I'm only close to finishing the 2nd canto. I wonder what the other 2 are about. (Please don't spoil it though)

Some translations try to rhyme, but IMO it makes more sense for a translator to forget about the rhyming and focus on the meaning. And shouldn't there be thirty three cantos in each section?

Reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's good so far.

What's with the hate on Palahniuk?

:(

But did anyone read Choke or Survivor, hell even Fight Club?

i've read fight club and choke. honestly I think he's a bad writer with cool ideas

I read Haunted and really liked it. Much to my discredit I never finished it though, which is pretty much par for the course for any book I read :-/

Chuck palahniuk is one of my favourite authors but as of late, it's absolutely getting to his head how big of a phenomena he has become.

Just look at what he's wearing here & you'll udnerstand what I mean:

"This video contains content from Canadian Broadcasting Corp., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

Ameri-fail =(

I have a little over 100 pages left in my book! Determined to have it finished by Wednesday!

I don't think he knows what jabberwocky is and I don't like the way he's wearing that hat, but if I wanted to read one of his books, which should it be?

Hey, did anyone pick up "Starship Troopers"? If you havnt, you really should. Great book.

Copypasta'd from 3 Ball Wonder:Hey, did anyone pick up "Starship Troopers"? If you havnt, you really should. Great book.

And you still need to give it back to me, faggot.

I dont have it brah. Kevin does.

Copypasta'd from 3 Ball Wonder:I dont have it brah. Kevin does.

Fucking shit dicks. Why don't you guys ever tell me when you let someone else borrow my books?

I gave it to leland, who gave it to kevin. The cycle goes on. I think kevins going to mail it to bryce or something.

Copypasta'd from 3 Ball Wonder:I gave it to leland, who gave it to kevin. The cycle goes on. I think kevins going to mail it to bryce or something.

No it goes like this:

I let Leland borrow it, who gave it to you with my consent, who gave it back to Leland apparently, who gave it to Kevin.
Fuckin' magnets.

If you say that one more time, im really gonna bitch slap you.

Copypasta'd from 3 Ball Wonder:If you say that one more time, im really gonna bitch slap you.

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/c/c0/Fuckin_magnets.jpg/800px-Fuckin_magnets.jpg

Mother fucker. Next time i see you damnit, Knee to the balls.

Why do you always resort to the knee to the balls? That's the douchiest thing to do ever.

Because it works ya magnet fucking freak.

Also, get on warcraft later. I just woke up and im gonna eat, then get on.

Someone ban them both. Quick.

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Copypasta'd from Eterna1:I don't think he knows what jabberwocky is and I don't like the way he's wearing that hat, but if I wanted to read one of his books, which should it be?

Haunted. Or Imaginary Monsters. Both very good & older, thus they have some genuine Palahniuk from before his ego trip.

Here's the same video for all you Americans:

tnx, is it worth the watch?

ans: yes