Re: Book Club
PhilistineEars;342223 said:
I was covering myself in the case they published a book based off of the movie. I couldn't find it myself, but that does not mean it wasn't done. If you never heard of it either, then I would say that it most likely wasn't.
I wanted to elaborate and specify that I was speaking about the first book published in the series and not any made from movie version they may have synthesized.
Too many instances of seeing a book adapted from a movie that was adapted from a book. The Green Mile comes to mind, which was originally S. King's work, then made into a movie that was then republished into a novel based off of the movie.
Really? I'd never heard that. I don't see why they'd do it, when they could just republish the original. When I just glanced at Wikipedia it didn't mention it, but [shrugs].
Tyloric;342232 said:
Books I've finished in the last month:
Weather Warden Series (All of them)
Outcast Season: Undone
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
Life of Pi
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Daemon Eyes
Daemon: Book 1
Star Trek Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
Ghost in the Mirror
Haunted America
The Zombie Survival Guide
What? I like to read.
Weather Warden... I think I've seen that at my library, or at least one of them, but I neve read it. How is it?
The Doctor Who books are pretty good, though not entirely my area, and I keep having people tell me that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is great. And the other one, too.
Haunted America? What's that? Anything like the "Weird [insert state name here]" books?
Angel;342303 said:
Book Club...sweet
Pre-ordering the latest Wheel Of Time book soon - just hope it's not an epic let down. I read Dune, Dune Messiah and the third one (Children of Dune, is it? Can't remember) recently and although I spent much of that time going "what??", I did enjoy them.
Haven't read Cole Protocol yet although I have all the other Halo books - re-read Sabriel yesterday and also all the Splinter Cell books (I read a lot and I read fast :lol
I'd pick reading over any other form of entertainment, given the choice
Yeah, when's the next Wheel of Time coming out? I know they had... what, somebody they hired or his wife or something finishing it.
The Splinter Cell books are pretty good, even if Tom Clancy is getting on my nerves these days.
So would I... if college wasn't eating my life.
Trawgdor;342327 said:
Right now, I'm reading The Sea of Trolls for my Language Arts Class.
The "theme" is The Journey of the Hero, or protagonist, 'cause the main character isn't always a "hero".
Have you guys got any Post-Apocalypse books that are good?
EDIT: Or Realistic Fiction?
Sea of Trolls... rings a bell-- it's by Nancy Farmer, right? I don't think I ever read it, but I've considered it a few times.
My favorite post-apocalyptic stories are probably "The Postman," by David Brin (way better than the movie, I swear) and... well, there's a few Philip K. Dick short stories and novels that deal with outright post-apocolypse scenarios or just really ****ed up worlds.
"I Am Legend," the book, is also pretty good, even though it's really weird. By something-or-other Mathieson.
Oh, and Shade's Children, by Garth Nix.
EDIT: Oh, and for realistic stuff, I just read a few short stories by a guy named Anthony Doerr, for one of my classes. He has a few short story collections and a novel coming out. I really liked them. Junot Diaz is another one-- I actually haven't started the one book of his (hers?) I got, "The Brief and [something-or-other-I-don't-remember-maybe-glorious] Life of Oscar Wao," but my classmates have told me it's really good, and the short story I read was... entertaining. Not really my kinda thing, but realistic, if that's what you're looking for.
