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--- Quote from: Ishotdanieljohnston on 28 Jul 2008, 19:05 ---I love Gaiman but I couldn't get through American Gods... just didn't do it for me.
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I think I can see that.
I love Gaiman and think American Gods is nothing short of archetypal for him.
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From context, I think you're using "archetypal" incorrectly. I love American Gods, but I far prefer The Sandman, which is up there with my favourite works of literature (yes, literature) of all time.
--- Quote from: blankfile on 30 Jul 2008, 22:02 ---*A brief history of time: From big bang to black holes - Stephen Hawking
Really awesome book, wrote by a pure genius. But yeah, this is not your usual kind of novel.
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It's not a novel, you twit. Also, it should be "written by a pure genius". Maybe stick to Dan Brown and other lowest-common-denominator stuff.
Also, they say that A Brief History Of Time is one of the most bought-but-unread books in publishing history. Are you sure you read it? Or are you just dropping names to sound smart?
--- Quote from: blankfile ---*The Silver Key- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Yeah, i'm a Lovecraft fan. But this one in particular is just awesome. Words, however, cannot describe it.
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Try these: not nearly as good as The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, At The Mountains Of Madness, or a solid third of Lovecraft's later work. It is short, though! Maybe that's why you found it appealing.
I'm currently re-reading Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon, which is basically my all-time favourite book. (Some bunch of talentless musicians released a song recently by the same name, that has no connection to the book whatsoever.) Reading it is like removing your brain, turning it inside-out, rubbing it vigorously with a soft leather whip, and reinserting it through your nose (but in a good way). It's difficult in the extreme to get started, but once you get through the first fifty-odd pages, it suddenly becomes simple and natural - I think maybe it takes that long to forget the concepts of a cohesive narrative and plot and simply enjoy the ride.
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Wow, just wow. Did you get your daily dose of flames? I hope it did make you happy, for I will not even bother answering or justifying myself to this kind of behavior.
Have a good day.
imagist42:
I think there must be some sort of irony in him questioning whether you read A Brief History of Time and then claiming his favorite book is Gravity's Rainbow. It's not possible to actually read that book, is it?
(Please note the lightly flavored sarcasm, as it is definitely possible to read and enjoy both of these.)
tomselleck69:
Clearly, in the spirit of making the thread more interesting, elcapitan applied a substitution cipher to a humble list of favorite books (mostly Michael Crichton novels) and posted the results. That it took the form of the worst thing ever written was just pure chance.
Wayfaring Stranger:
Anything by Haruki Murakami
Anything by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange
On the Road
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters
Sons and Lovers
The Lord of the Rings
The Count of Monte Cristo
Winnie the Pooh
jessco:
Ha, for a second as I was browsing I thought you were going to say "The Tao of Pooh".
And then you would have been one of THOSE people.
You know, the kind that read Siddhartha 5 times to find the true meaning.
Those people make me itchy.
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