Have any of you read any novels about immortals THAT AREN’T VAMPIRES? That’s a tough google search.
Lord of the Rings
Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
Dorian Gray.
Second time through Cryptonomicon. :tup:
Mystery of the Haunted Trail (Hawaiian spiritual theme) is pretty good. Years later I went to Oahu for the first time and it’s exactly how I imagined it from the book…
I finished Jared Diamond’s Gun’s germs and steel, it was about how technology and the different cultural reasons that certain cultures didn’t develop weapons and the advantages of food producing vs hunter gatherer societies when it came time for warfare. He made interesting cases for tribal people actually being much brighter than westerners on average because they are not protected from foolish decisions. You make a bad decision in remote New Guinea you will probably die. I am currently reading “The world until yesterday” which is a follow up by that same author about the different mentality of people from tribal cultures vs modern cultures and how completely different the mindset of people from those societies are from our own.
Diamond needs a ghost writer because as great as all that info is he delivers it with the excitement of a gay dick in a vagina.
I’m currently finishing Animal Farm and getting ready to start Notes From the Underground. I have to give props to my Ethics 101 professor for turning me on to Dostoyevsky. After Bros. Karamazov and Poor Folk, I was hooked.
tight ass book, read it like 7 time by now
@DGod205 If you haven’t read 1984 yet, do so at some point. Orwell’s works are must-reads as a general rule.
I read 1984 in high school. I liked it, but the only thing that mildly annoyed me about it was the level of preaching in certain parts where I tuned out. Overall, I liked it, but not something I would read on the daily. Authors like Dostoyevsky, Lovecraft, Stephen King, Chomsky, Milton, Vonnegut, Salinger and the occasional Sylvia Plath (I like how her work details her madness) are people whose works I read on the regular.
The White Mountains and the 1st six Dragonlance novels (Chronicles Trilogy and Legends Trilogy) are awesome
@DGod205 Yeah, it’s preachy, but in the context of topics like the kind 1984 covers, subtlety is usually counter-productive.
The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner.
Eisner’s last graphic novel; a historical look at how a Russian official, serving during the rule of Tsar Nicholas II, took an obscure political satire from France, plagiarized it, wrote and presented it as a manifesto on how the Jews planned to take over the world. This publication has been proven to be bogus numerous times, but antisemitic groups still declare that it’s a legitimate piece of work.
OH SHIT WE BACK
Hmm, I just read The Luminaries, How to Set A Fire and Why, and now I’m on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
That Luminaries book took me damn near a month to read (this as fuck and sooooooooooooooooooooooo much shit about fucking boats and gold digging) but so good.
Never let me go bored the shit out of me
I went to an antique store and found a handful of first-edition hardcover Stephen King novels, and I bought them all because they were in such good condition for good prices ($8 - 15). I used to read King when I was growing up, but haven’t read anything by him in a while. It kinda kicked up my nostalgia and I’m going through reading the ones I’ve missed. I’m almost finished with The Dead Zone and will start IT next. Any of you guys like Stephen King? I’ve got a friend who’s a literary snob and he kind of makes fun of me, but I enjoy his stories.
I’m on page 50 or so and won’t front, I’m almost on that boat. It’s intriguing me enough that I’m going to continue reading, but fuck do something exciting already.
I feel like such a shlub lately. In the middle of four separate books and no momentum toward finishing any of them.
Think I’ve only read one book cover to cover since January. :-/