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Reading this summer
Uber Ritter:
When I saw the trailer for the Twilight movie, I laughed out loud. I mean, vampires -and- werewolves? It's like a fricking white wolf LARP.
Vampires are too good as villains to go to waste as mopey protagonists. Fuck Anne Rice. (yes, there may be exceptions to this--I liked the vampire priest in Astro City, for instance, even though I never finished the comic and I was in 8th grade).
Jackie Blue:
Underworld had vampires and werewolves.
Also, that White Wolf based TV show was remarkably good, too bad it only had like five episodes.
Eris:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 31 Jul 2008, 20:27 ---They are freakishly addicting. They're written well enough, but at the same time they're complete cheese and entirely too predictable. But I still cannot wait for the fourth one, it comes out tomorrow at midnight...
--- End quote ---
Certain people tease me about my love for cheesy predictable teenage trash novels. And my love for vampire stories. This series combines the two in such a way that I get excited over them, but at the same time feel a bit dirty for enjoying them. They are terribly predictable and clichéd, but for some reason I have to read them all. The movie looks like it's not going to be an excellent piece of cinematic genius, but the books aren't great literary works either, really.
I have to read :
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
New York Trilogy
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
Guilty Pleasures - Laurell Hamilton (another cheesy vampire book)
Dead Girls' Dance - Rachel Cane (another teenage cheesy vampire book)
The first two are for uni and therefore I can't remember who they are by. I probably won't read any of those other books until the uni break in september, and even then I have assignments due that I will be working on. Stupid uni not letting me read.
est:
I have just finished the first 9 books in the Dresden files. They slump and get a bit samey in the middle, but then Butcher finds his legs again and starts coming up with interesting plot developments in the last couple. I am looking forward to the 10th book (Small Favour) hitting paperback in the cover style I have the other 9 in :)
Currently reading Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I am only a few pages in, but it's pretty good so far. It's supposed to be a big work on censorship, but at the moment I am reading it as an allegory to waking from ignorance.
At home I currently have awaiting my eye-lookin':
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Aready half-read this. It got a bit slow and I wanted something else at the time, ie: the much faster-paced Dresden series)
- Voltaire's Bastards - John Ralston Saul (Already half-read this. It is a fairly thick philosophical essay. While I like it I wanted a break)
- The Scar by China Mieville (heard good things about this)
- The Beach by Alex Garland (ditto, I think Han was reading it a while back)
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (bought during my "classics" period)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (ditto)
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (ditto ditto)
I also recently picked up Naked Lunch by William Burroughs and was turned off almost immediately by the encounter with the rube on the train. To me it was basically Burroughs explaining that the reader was the rube and he was shining us on. I didn't really appreciate it, so I put it down. I may attempt to read it again at some point, but the style of writing was pretty shit in my opinion so I am not sure if it'll go any better than the first attempt.
Wayfaring Stranger:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 01 Aug 2008, 03:47 ---Actually, that would be Dan Motherfucking Brown, if one is to call his books literature.
--- End quote ---
I don't think you should call his books literature. I think they're adventure stories. They shouldn't be taken in the same vein, in my opinion.
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