Fun Stuff > ENJOY

For lack of a better title, The Book Thread!

<< < (7/37) > >>

onewheelwizzard:
1984 is genius, pure and simple.  It's not for everyone, but it's airtight ... there's really nothing you can legitimately say against it as a work of literature.

Catcher in the Rye is a weird quandary ... it's so perfectly written that you realize how little it's actually saying (it is, after all, written from the point of view of an angsty adolescent, and therefore not particularly meaningful, all things considered).  It doesn't present any new ideas, what little social commentary it contains is hardly groundbreaking or particularly perceptive, and I didn't see any valuable lessons to be learned in it.  But it's such a 100% perfect rendition of what it's presenting that it's impossible to shrug at.  Salinger's a great writer, but I can't say his work interests me to any great extent ... I'm long past the stage in my life when Catcher in the Rye was anything approaching relevant.

To Kill A Mockingbird is excellent, but it's excellent in low-key conventional ways.  It's not something that will rework the way we think and act, but it is something that should be appreciated as a work of art.  It's sort of like the literary equivalent of a still-life done by an undisputed master painter.  Its quality is irrefutable, but it won't change any lives.

Life of Pi is the only one of those four I haven't read.  From what I've heard about it, it's like The DaVinci Code for people who like philosophy.  I'll get to it eventually, I hope.

If I could force everyone in the world to read one book, it would be Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins.  That book says more about life in 7 pages than 90% of literature could come close to saying in its entirety.

happybirthdaygelatin:
I've been working my way through both the Bourne and Discworld series.  Tis an odd combination.

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: sp2 ---
--- Quote from: Trollstormur ---the collected Justine by the Marquis De Sade.
--- End quote ---


Oh man, that was a sick sick sick book, albeit not as sick as Juliette.
--- End quote ---


People, people. 200 days of Sodom. Even though the last two sections are just outlines...the man deserves some sort of prize for evil.

happybirthdaygelatin:

--- Quote from: sp2 ---(Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, for example)
--- End quote ---


One of my favourite Lovecraft stories and one of my favourite fantasy quest type stories.

boeuf:
I LOVE NEIL GAIMAN, hence I love you.

I read all the time as well, which I pride myself in.

Since january I've prolly read over 30 books, which I think is pretty good.

Some of MY favorite authors are:

Neil Gaiman
Lesley Choyce
Arthur Nersesian
Kafka
Vonnegut
Yann Martel
Zadie Smith
Mark Haddon
Chuck Palahniuk

and more or less, much more.

Im actually reading a pretty interesting book called STEAL THIS BOOK by Abbie Hoffman, which is just full of ways to steal food from restaurants and how to be a young activist, more or less.

The only problem I have with it is  that the bastard is bloody confident in their methods, even when it comes to gun use :/

They talk about lifting from super markers and they're like 'and dont worry about those convex mirrors, cashiers never look at them'

Then again, the books been around for a looooong time, so unfortunetaly things have changed since then.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page