New Topic; Of Reading

mang87

Just wondering does ayone here read? Not the internet, BOOKS! I read. I read lots of stuff, the best of which as got to be terry Pratchett. He is a GENIUS, pure and simple. Reading this book ATM called Feet Of Clay, by Terry Pratchett. Bloomin hilarious!


Anyone here read books? You know, the rectangular things with pages and words in them.... ? Anyone in particular heard of Terry Pratchett?


kk

"It was you wot dun it, own up, everybody seen you, we gt lots of people say you done it all right didnt you, own up." ~Detritus, the best Troll Watchman in the whole of Ankh Morpork. He has mastered policing as it is practised by the majority of forces in the universe, whichis, basicaly screaming angrily at people until they give in and "Own up", The only reason he's not a one-troll reign of terror is the ease which his though processes can be derailed by anyone who tries something fiendishly cunning, like an outright denial ~Terry Pratchett - Feet of clay


what are you favourite authors, books etc?

Lainey

never heard of terry pratchett.. am an unliterary fool.....
reading barry cummins -- missing (very scar) but brilliant book.. about the missing women in ireland.. so scary cos it's true and unsolved.. but it def freaked me out..

vorbis

Yeah I quite like Terry Pratchett as well. The watch books are the best I think. Just finished reading Monstrous Regiment. Its a bit weaker than the others I thought but its still good.

UnrealQueen

Yeah, i LUV books esp Stephen King, Ann Rule and James Herbert. I just started Rose Madder last night (King) with the intention of just reading a few pages but as with King, a few chapters later, the tiredness grew so great, and i was finally able to pry it from my hands.:p

Rabies

Arts -> Literature :dunno:

I don't read as often as I used to. But have a small collection of books. I have all of Roald Dahl books since i was a kid. Some Stephen King books and a some of Tolkien's work before the hype of LotR was around. The others I can't can't think off the top of my head right now.

From about the age of 5-13 I used to get the Beano and Dandy comic every week, does that count

I can't believe I gave them all away.

hedgetrimmer

I generally read 4-5 books a month. Pratchett os ok, but he can get tiring and formulaic after a while IMO. There is a literature discussion group on this site that you might find interesting

RossFixxxed

I read about 2 or 3 books a week, I don't sleep so well! Am a huge book fan, read anything I can get my hands on in the library/bookshop.


Some favourite authors (and my fav books of theirs)

Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke being the best of them)

Terry Pratchett (The watch books, the books with Death also, awesome)

Douglas Adams (The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, possibly the best books ever!)

Steven King (The Long Walk: Best Book EVER!, Pet Semetary, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Rage)

Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)

Bram Stoker (Dracula)

Am currently reading lots of sci-fi compilations, the James Bond books once and for all!


Also you guys should check out PJ Woodehouse (spelling?) for some of the best use of the English lanugage ever written!

penguinbloke

douglas adams' Hitchhaikers guide to the galaxy (the trilogy of five) would be my favourite.

But saying that I read the DaVinci Code recently and it really was quite splendid.

whosurpaddy

i generally read on average a book a month. id like to read more but im lazy and generally just read whatever the gf has just finished. she has great taste in books, no trashy romance rubbish.

just finished nick leesons book.

anything by dan brown is good.

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Douglas Adams' Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (Trilogy in Five Parts) is my Bible, I LOVE the books, and must have read them about 10 times each.

I have also recently gotten into Stephen King, I have read 'Salems Lot ( very scary ), Dreamcatcher ( the film of this book was a farce, and did the book no justice ), Insomnia ( I enjoyed this one ) and I am currently reading The Stand ( kinda an extra long version it says on the cover ) and I recommend it to everyone...excellent read.

Also, other books I recommend:

1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
A Clockwork Orange ( the film was ok, but left out the whole of the last chapter of the book, and entirely changed the meaning.)
The Catcher in the Rye ( for all you conspiracy theorists! )

tman

i've only really bothered with Iain Banks, Joe Landsdale & Carl Hiaasen books over the past year or so...
just about to start reading 'Whit' for the third time:)
used to love Terry Pratchetts discworld novels

pork99

Recently read and can recommend

"The Heart of a Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov

"A Devil's Chaplain" by Richard Dawkins


Just starting

"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

"Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Daniel Dennet

Big Chief

i used to read alot, colin bateman stuff, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series was also great, hunter S. Thompson stuff is also great, you shold take a look into some of his stuff (fear & loathing in las vegas, rum diarys etc..)

although i must admit that ever since i got my inet back on my pc (dsl) in my room my reading at night has went down dramatically, pretty much to none at all.. i should really start reading again..

favourite author would probably be colin bateman though, found his books hilarious

hedgetrimmer

One of the best books I have ever read is one I am reading at the moment "Tuesdays With Morrie".


On a suggested note (Hear me O Mods), how about a boards.ie book club, where we all read the same books, then post our reactions to it/ discuss it on here?


Whatdya reckon?

ixoy

mang87 - Why don't you click here to access the Discworld forum? I personally find him a little bit formulaic after the tenth or eleventh book, but he's still a pretty decent writer although not as humoros as he's sometimes made out to be.

Oddly enough, some of us do read, as you'd have probably gathered from the existence of the Literature boards and threads in other forums. For myself, I seem to be sticking to fantasy and science fiction primarily. My current novel is "Midnight Tides" by Steven Erickson - Book 5 of a mind boggingly epic series (currently spanning three continents, with events spread over many millennia). Next up is a Neal Stephenson novel, probably "The Diamond Age".
Oh and Stephen King's newer works are all terrible - the real gems lie in his classics. "The Stand", mentioned above, is one of them. If you're an ardant fan, then play the game of connecting all his stories as they all, more or less, take place in one shared reality (e.g. "Salem's Lot" connects to the latest story, "Wolves of the Callah". "Insomnia" connects to "Wizard and Glass" and "IT").

Kiith

The Malazan: Books of the fallen by Steven Erickson are without a doubt the best series of books ever. Midnight tides was released recently and it was nearly as good as memories of ice(which is the best of the lot). Erickson's also quite consistant with release dates, which is rare for a fantasy writer.

Chinafoot

one of my favourite writers is Roddy Doyle. unfortunatley with all the books i've to read for college i dont have much time to read books that are just for me. but this summer i'll definately be catching up.

also really like Nick Hornby's stuff and some of Stephen King.

hedgetrimmer, if ya head over to the literature board i think theres already been suggestions for a book club. could be fun.

twinQuins

Out of the myriad books I've read I'd have to say The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is the best. I've actually re-read it about three times, its fantastic.

I'd also like to recommend Philip K. Dicks, The Man in The High Castle, Kim Stanley Robinsons, Red Mars and of course Sun Tzu, The Art of War (I've found the translation by James Clavell to be the best).
Read a lot by Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan (for shame!), Thomas Cleary.

At the moment reading: Dune, 1984, Legends I, Pawn of Prophecy, Last and First Men.

blondie83

I've always loved reading. Roald Dahl was a brilliant writer, I've read pretty much every book he's ever written! His children's books were so magical, but I always thought his "grown-up" books were quite dark. Well maybe not quite dark, but approaching it anyway. They were very good though, read them years ago, and can still remember the storylines of each of them.
At the moment I've just finished reading a book on John Gilligan which was quite interesting, showed very well how he became so powerful and all that

Tusky

Irvine Welsh is my favourite writer , I reccomend Filth , Porno , Trainspotting and Glue. However all of them are really good.

Karoma

I read more than I should-should spend the time encouraging brainrot or studying.
Arts -> Literature is already dedicated to this sort of thread..