Scorp Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 hmm i pretty much enjoyed reading: - Robert Silverbergs "Lord of Darkness" - Noah Gordons "The Medicus" - Alexander Solschenizyn "Archipel Gulag" - Various dramas from Seneca the younger Gulag is so bad book, in terms of both writing and facts distortion... That guy deliberately wrote such extreme things to get an approval and protection from USSR. Other 2 are good ones, read them too time ago. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy My favorite sci-fi book. The prose is fucking hilarious and yet the story itself is a masterpiece. 2001: A Space Odyssey The story of an expedition to a moon of Jupiter in order to follow a signal left by a mysterious monolith found in the Moon. That's the ones I can think of for now, I'll edit in more later. I do not like "hilarious" prose, so Pratchett, Adams and similar authors are out of question. 2001 Space Odyssey is another example of a novel which should remain in a short story form, at least I think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakajou Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Anyone reading Brent Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbro Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy My favorite sci-fi book. The prose is fucking hilarious and yet the story itself is a masterpiece. I have to agree, I loved the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy so much, I loved the other books in the so called "trilogy" as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtraMana Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Currently reading: Black Lagoon: Shatiane Badi Welcome to the NHK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxel Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Anyone reading Brent Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storyteller Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Finished Hibike! Euphonium 3. Probably Side Stories next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loze Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I'm reading some short stories by Lovecraft on and off alongside The Book of Five Rings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjriedstra Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 My personal favorite novel of all time is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's not exactly approachable or accessible, but if you can appreciate Stephenson's unique prose, it's one of the most interesting and varied works of fiction out there. For sci-fi, I'd say Orson Scott Card's Ender series, though I still feel that Ender's Game was the best even though it was the first. For overall favorite series, probably Lincoln & Child's Pendergast series, or Kellerman's Alex Delaware series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B0X0R Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I'm reading some short stories by Lovecraft on and off alongside The Book of Five Rings. I have also been reading some Lovecraft. I'm currently going through The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Funyarinpa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 So I read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. It was a bit meh, not as good as I was hoping. Started reading Stephen King's The Gunslinger, a friend really liked it and recommended it to me and I have to say it has utterly blindsided me a few times so far, interesting to see where it goes. After this I will likely reread The Alchemist (school assigned reading I originally did in June). After that, I am planning on starting Kafka's The Castle, Asimov's short stories, or Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Also read The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin, big disappointment, didn't grab me like her other works did at ALL. IDK why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtraMana Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I've read the blurb of 'Mobile Suit: Gundam Seed'. I'm working up to reading it proper, I'll need another 2 weeks to emotionally and physically prepare myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronIsCrunchy Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Don't have much time for recreational reading at the moment due to having to do preparations for my history course and Grisaia, but I'm reading Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go' - my flatmate has given me fair warning that it might break me, but we'll just see. I mean, I only cried at The Fault In Our Stars, like, 4 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I am halfway through The Gunslinger, it's pretty good so far but the sudden flashbacks to the past are more than a little jarring. Ordered a beautiful but highly expensive (20 USD) copy of Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage, the book better be good. AaronIsCrunchy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Started Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion on my phone because I don't want my parents to get suspicious that I am an atheist. Pretty interesting so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayana Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Ahh... What is this? I can't believe what I am reading right now. I've even purchased a physical copy of this behemoth on a spur of the moment, so I must in theory be directly attributing myself to something dangerous here (dangerously perpetual). I'm reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a famous Important nonfiction book about.. something inexplicable, yet, really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storyteller Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 (edited) After reading Renai Chuudoku (Loveholic) by Yamamoto Fumio, I liked it enough to pick up a few more of her works. Just finished Rakka Ryuusui, and I'm convinced I liked this author. Also finished Season II Book III of Oishii Koohii no Irekata (How to Brew Tasty Coffee). Edit: Finished Planaria by the first author above. Reading Yoake Made 1 Mile (1 Mile to Dawn) by the second author above. Edit: Finished that too. Where to go next? Edited September 17, 2015 by storyteller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronIsCrunchy Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Just read Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill. If you like dark fantasy (Neil Gaiman springs to mind) then I can't recommend it enough. Probably one the best books I've ever read. Onto the sequel now, Queen of the Dark Things. Can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklord Rooke Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Peter F. Hamilton is a sci-fi God! I'm buying all his damn books, they're too good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Reading Kafka's The Castle and I have been convinced since like the fifth page that I am too young to remotely even comprehend this shit. After I stop reading after a 30-minute session, my mind is in a garbled, murky state of confusion. Everything written makes sense, but you never feel you have an actual grasp on anything. Deceit upon deceit brings you down. There's a never before seen depth to everything buried under a murky layer of complex affairs. AaronIsCrunchy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronIsCrunchy Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Reading Kafka's The Castle and I have been convinced since like the fifth page that I am too young to remotely even comprehend this shit. After I stop reading after a 30-minute session, my mind is in a garbled, murky state of confusion. Everything written makes sense, but you never feel you have an actual grasp on anything. Deceit upon deceit brings you down. There's a never before seen depth to everything buried under a murky layer of complex affairs. Nah dude, Kafka does that. Part of the reason his work's so amazing really, makes you think far beyond what you normally would do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Nah dude, Kafka does that. Part of the reason his work's so amazing really, makes you think far beyond what you normally would do. It's so fucking disorienting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyrt Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 I'm waiting for my copy of this to come in; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storyteller Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Finished Tsuki Dake ga Watashi no Shiteiru Koto wo Miteiru. Didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the last few books as I read it, but I totally missed all the hints the author was dropping throughout the novel, so she was probably a better writer than I gave her credit for. Ended up being a bit more enjoyable for that, but still, not nearly as good as the last few books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Great book, might be the third best book I read all year (after The Dispossessed (#1) and 2010: Odyssey Two (#2)). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beato Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Just finished The Catcher in the Rye, I don't really know what to say about it honestly. I was pretty neutral during most of it but the ending tied it up pretty well so I guess that I ended up kinda liking it in the end. I think that the first two thirds could have been a bit shorter though (not that it's a long book) since it mostly just makes the same points all over. It's pretty easy to see how it came to be so influential at least. Probably going to read something in japanese next, I borrowed Nemuri by Haruki Murakami from the international library a while ago and it needs to be returned soon so I should probably get to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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