Read any good books lately?

[Shakezulah]

Re: Read any good books lately?

I to have a habit of reading more than one book.

The book entitled, "A child called it" was exellent. I actually bought it. We also have the second one. My mom went through a phase where all she read about was abused children. All she used to read before that was books about amish people. Now she's starting to only read a mix of thrillers, and children growing up.

 

[Tsuyu]

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I think the most sad part was not the abuse itself, but rather how the poor kid saw this kind and loving person 'Mom' turn into this monster 'Mother'.

As a reader, I couldn't understand why she changed like this, imagine how helpless and confused he would've felt.

 

[Walker]

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I will ignore the "Child Called It" stuff because I've only seen it on the shelves at the library.

GAAAH!!!!! The Lord of the Rings a series??? Have you no reason? The three volumes of Lord of the Rings are a single story. The Hobbit is standalone, but the Lord of the Rings is the continuation of a wider tale that began in the Silmarillon and was vaguely referred to in Hobbit.

To the people who check out huge stacks of books: I hate you. I hate you so, so, much. Why must you make me work more? The guy doesn't think you don't read them, he thinks "**** me, I have to scan and stamp this huge stack of books." And even before I started working at the library, I never got more than four books at once-- I would usually be back by the time I finished them (usually around three-five days) and if I weren't then there was always my shelves-and-boxes full of books and the ever-cheap and ever-book-full Thrift Store.

Oh, and I forgot the Great Masters of sci-fi-- Arthur C. Clarke, Issac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein. Plus, of course, the Walker's Great Masters of Sci-Fi list, which consists of Timothy Zahn (contemporary guy, writes a lot of Star Wars, the Blackcollar series, and a couple other books and series) and Phillip K. Dick (old, dead guy, wrote Minority Report short story, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) novel, and at least one other made into a movie, as well as a bunch of other good ones-- like The Man in the High Castle alternate history.)

 

[Hexadecimal]

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More of my favourites would be the Remember Me series, the Science of Discworld novels, the Satanic Bible, and my Anthroplogy textbooks :wub:

 

[Tsuyu]

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the Satanic Bible

Good readin' that be. Got one copy on me at all times.

 

[Hexadecimal]

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Good readin' that be. Got one copy on me at all times.

yeah, it's definitely among my top books of all time, never get tired of reading it

 

[Tsuyu]

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yeah, it's definitely among my top books of all time, never get tired of reading it

Hmm.. was quite a while since I read it now, cover-to-cover. Think I'll do that as soon as I've got some time.

 

[Hexadecimal]

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Hmm.. was quite a while since I read it now, cover-to-cover. Think I'll do that as soon as I've got some time.

sounds like a great plan :thumbsup:

I would also recommend The Satanic Witch, if you haven't read it already

 

[Tsuyu]

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sounds like a great plan :thumbsup:

I would also recommend The Satanic Witch, if you haven't read it already

Puh-lease. Have some faith. Read it AND the Satanic Rituals to boot! Eventhough it is mainly aimed at girls, it can't help but to be ... prepared. You know, should some wicked witch try and becharm me! :ninja:

Not that it didn't contain some... tips, for the boys aswell.

 

[Hexadecimal]

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it can't help but to be ... prepared. You know, should some wicked witch try and becharm me! :ninja:

:ninja: :lol:

 

[Angel]

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Sorry Walker - but at least I read all my books that I check out :lol:

And I'd love to work in a library...that's a dream job for me

 

[Tsuyu]

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And I'd love to work in a library...that's a dream job for me

That'd be sweet - like living in a material manifistation of Wikipedia.

 

[Angel]

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But with more facts :lol:

I've nearly drained the library of the fantasy and sci-fi section...gonna have to head over to Andy's neck of the woods and raid the library near him now...

 

[Tsuyu]

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But with more facts :lol:

I've nearly drained the library of the fantasy and sci-fi section...gonna have to head over to Andy's neck of the woods and raid the library near him now...

I've probably sucked my crappy little town's mini library dry of any worthy books, the selecation is terrible small.

Thank satan for online book stores, too bad they cost money whereas libraries won't charge you... unless you mess up! :blush:

 

[Walker]

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Lemme tell you something-- if you get a job at the library, DO NOT be a clerical aid, or whatever your system calls the people who mostly shelve books. I ***** about checking out huge stacks of books, but it's nothing compared to the sheer monotony of shelving.

Well, that and I get distracted very easily. Nonfiction section-- end up reading about any of a billion subjects, usually get back on subject fairly soon, though. Children's section (picture books, etc)-- HEY! I remember that book, lemme read it. Juvenile-- same thing. Sci-Fi/fantasy-- I'm lost. Young adult-- I'm lost. The only things that I can resist are the recorded books (they're all mixed together, good with bad); hardcover (all mixed together, mostly bad ones); romance (touching them makes me want to vomit, let alone reading them); and mystery (usually romance in disguise). Oh, and paperback general fiction, I get distracted there, too, usually by Dale (NOT Dan) Brown and his ilk.

Speaking of Dale Brown, there's another good author. Milfic, mostly aviation and mostly bombers. And Stephen Coonts-- naval aviation and espionage, wrote Flight of the Intruder.

Oh, and by the way-- am I the only one who absolutely loves Thrift Stores (AKA Salvation Army stores, secondhand stores, etc)? "Five paperbacks for a buck," music to my ears. Half my huge collection came from there. Got some really good, I-think-are-out-of-print ones there, like Timothy Zahn's The Backlash Mission.

(Damn, Is it just me or am I really long-winded?)

 

[Angel]

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Second hand bookshops....my favourite...they even smell good...

Where I used to live they had this little shop full of winding staircases and endless passageways full from floor to ceiling with books...first editions that my mum wouldn't let me touch and signed copies of books which you can't get anywhere else...amazing store...

The only section of my library I have yet to try is the romance section - and I won't try it because I'd rather eat my own spleen. It's all full of blokes called Chad and Brad and they all do weird things to women called Marianna, Savanna and Cara....sometimes all at the same time...

Almost as bad are the sagas of war-torn London and how Susie sells her parents to survive, has her half-brother's baby and then flees to America to start a new life with some GI called...wait for it...Brad. They raise their demon baby who ends up mentally unstable and kills them both before shooting forward to the present day where he is sitting in the nursing home, telling his story to some young distant relative who needs to know her roots. Blah blah vomit blah.

 

[Tsuyu]

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The only section of my library I have yet to try is the romance section - and I won't try it because I'd rather eat my own spleen. It's all full of blokes called Chad and Brad and they all do weird things to women called Marianna, Savanna and Cara....sometimes all at the same time...

Are you sure you entred the Romance section, not the Adult section? :lol:

 

[Angel]

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Romance/adult/Mills and Boon -it's all the same junk to me. My sister reads that crap coz she reckons it makes her "cultured". I told her it makes her in need of a weekend away with her bloke...:ninja: :lol:

If things aren't being killed in the name of fighting the darkside of whatever land they live in, I'm not interested. The Abarat stories are pretty good...odd, but good...

 

[Tsuyu]

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Romance/adult/Mills and Boon -it's all the same junk to me. My sister reads that crap coz she reckons it makes her "cultured". I told her it makes her in need of a weekend away with her bloke...:ninja: :lol:

I bet he is secretly supplying her with them books... :shifty:

If things aren't being killed in the name of fighting the darkside of whatever land they live in, I'm not interested.

Amen. :lol:

 

[Walker]

Re: Read any good books lately?

Well... these days I'm reading fewer and fewer good/evil books and more and more good/good-but-misguided/good-but-opposed-to-other-good/good-but-ruthless/good-but-cowardly/evil books, or at least much as I can. For sheer fun though, you really can't get away from those good/evil.

But yeah, I agree wholeheartedly about the romance-- that's what I said already. Hell, just reading the titles as I slap them on the shelves makes me feel sick (and as if I was getting dumber by osmosis). I mean, even reading half the author's names (pseudonyms, more accurately) hurts.

I suggest jumping your sister and force-feeding her (metaphorically, of course) some of the more drivel-y sci-fi, fantasy, scientific fantasy, and fantastic sci-fi. After she has been cured, untie her and don't stand between her and the bookshelves. If that doesn't work, disown her.

What's Abarat? I've never heard of them. Fantasy, I presume, but what type, by who, about what generally, et the rest?