What are you reading?

[mawk]

Insomnia by Stephen King.

I've been a King-whore lately. I'm halfway through the Stand, Insomnia, and the Dark Tower right now, and I expect I'll pick up more as time goes by. I'm not big on the classic 80s King horror, though.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

I'm reading a great sci-fi classic: War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. It's a really great book. (I've been into classic literature lately. Edgar Allen Poe is a poetic genius)

 

[e]

I liked his poems about the bells. Can't remember the title, but it made a big impression on me. His text about diddles was pretty funny too (his other comedy bouts were so-so imo).

I recently re-read Murders on the Rue Morgue, and I can't believe this shit. Worst ending ever

 

[Mundane]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

[Keegzilla]

I've only read 3 non-educational books and they are:

Harry Potter: Half-Blooded Prince
Worm Story
Deltora Quest: The Forest of Silence

 

[skirtboy]

Poe's poetry is good, but in the area of horror he's vastly inferior to Lovecraft.

 

[e]

I'm not sure Lovecraft would've been particularly appreciated back in Poe's time. Plus, I'm pretty Poe heavily influenced the guy, so its hard to compare them; it'd be like comparing Milton to Homer.

 

[kip]

twilight

 

[mawk]

I left my copy of hearts in atlantis somewhere, so I decided to stop messing around and finish the last 200 or so pages of dark tower 7. for anyone who hasn't read the septilogy, you really should. it beats most recent works (READ THIS SERIES INSTEAD OF TWILIGHT) and is generally just a very entertaining read. it's an interesting literary tool the way King ties most of his other works into the overarching story and backstory of the dark tower series -- insomnia, black house, hearts in atlantis, and a couple others all have very distinct ties to the magnum opus, whereas most of his other works just fit with it all. there are also a couple of neat ways he breaks the fourth wall to assert the series' realism instead of hurting it, but I won't get into that because it might spoil it.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

I'm reading like this huge bootleg collection of Sherlock Holmes and other known detective stories.  It's almost printed on like bible paper and that small font, it's so cheap.  It cost maybe a whole 4 bucks if that, and it's got like 20 short stories and several normal sized books in it, so fuck it.  It could printed on donkey ass, and it's still a good deal.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

I just finished reading War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, so now I'm reading Who has Seen the Wind. I'm at the part where the eight year old rips the taill off of a gopher and a ten year old attacks him and rips his skin off.

 

[skirtboy]

I'm reading like this huge bootleg collection of Sherlock Holmes and other known detective stories.  It's almost printed on like bible paper and that small font, it's so cheap.  It cost maybe a whole 4 bucks if that, and it's got like 20 short stories and several normal sized books in it, so fuck it.  It could printed on donkey ass, and it's still a good deal.

You do realize that nearly all of Doyle's work is no longer copyrighted (it's expired) and tus is freely available online, don't you?

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

You do realize that I'm a thief and I don't pay for anything, right?

 

[Anski]

Insomnia by Stephen King.

I've been a King-whore lately. I'm halfway through the Stand, Insomnia, and the Dark Tower right now, and I expect I'll pick up more as time goes by. I'm not big on the classic 80s King horror, though.

Read Dreamcatcher and Bag of Bones. Two of my total favorites.

 

[skirtboy]

I hated dreamcatcher. The best King works were his five short story collections, IT[/t], and his Castle Rock stories.

 

[Anski]

I don't think they were his best works, don't talk like it's fact and not opinion fag.

Edit: ~ Don't be an asshat.

Edit: I can't make any promises.

 

[Mundane]

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

 

[skirtboy]

I never liked Thoreau. Something about his writing is a soporific to me.

 

[色å]

Catch-22
The world is mad,isn't it？

 

[moog]

The cat in the hat, dr suess