The Literature Thread (Yes, some of us still reed)

Try comic books. Might be more your speed. :stuck_out_tongue:

Did you ever find a replacement for KickAss torrents for your comic book habit, btw?

Last US comic I was following regularly was Saga, and I lost track of that a few years ago.

I did. Rock hooked me up.

Anyone else reading the new Harry Potter ‘book’? It still has the charm imo but goddamn I wish this was written as a novel like the rest and not as a play; so many details missing etc. I’m digging the plot so far.

Harry Potter sucks.

I finished Something Happened after like a month and a half and then I finished The Invoice two days later.

Could not be more different books.

Something Happened is probably the most miserable book I’ve ever read. Wow.

Amazon’s holding a kindle 99 cents sale (across ALL genres this time, not just romance/science/nonfiction/children). I highly recommend Graeme Reynolds’ High Moor trilogy (if you like werewolf novels…claws, blood, death and mayhem, not girly romance, mates-for-life bullshit women like).

Been going through Common Sense and Rights of Man, and man, Paine hated Edmund Burke.

Reading a lot of Howard Zinn lately. I especially like “Nicked and Dimed”.

wish amazon threw pdf’s with the purchase of physical books. i can usually find the pdf’s online anyway but it would be a nice convenience.

Pdf’s suck. Epubs are preferable.

I can’t believe there are no sites with release lists of novels by genre and/or year. Say you saw a book that seemed good at an airport bookstore, but your funds were low. You later could have the ability to track said book down, if only you could do a year and genre publish search.

I read both and they are the same shit to me honestly.

Just ordered count of monte cristo

You could just add the book to an Amazon list so you don’t forget it…

…? Only reason why i was talking about the amazon pdf was because my storm of swords book ripped.

I’ve been dividing my reading up based on place and time of day, allowing me to get through a lot more books, but also kind of scattering my focus. Anyone here juggle books or do people generally get more out of reading them one at a time?

I’ve got American Apocalypse (rereading) on my nightstand, which covers nicely the role the popularization of apocalyptic thinking played in shaping American culture and politics.

On my daily commute I’ve got Kierkegaard’s Work’s of Love and Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. The first one’s a slog, but I like Kierkegaard’s style, even if I don’t always understand what he’s getting at; the second is just useful to help tighten up my leaky writing.

I’ve been spending more time in libraries lately too, and am sporadically going through Eco’s History of Beauty and a French translation of Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.

Juggling books is usually a sign of advanced reading (imo). That said, i cant do it.

That wasn’t directed at you, I just hate quoting. And here you fucking go making me do it.

Lmfao

I just finished this book: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Betray-Gripping-Betrayal-Courage/dp/1439189684/ and it was one of the most intense books I have read in a long time. Reza Khalili saw the torture put upon members of his own community at Evin prison in Iran he grew to have complete contempt of the government. left Islam and started spying for the CIA. This is one of the most intense books I have read in a long time, but I was personally more interested in the story since my in-laws lived through the revolution.

If you’re interested in historical/research books like that I’d recommend “a plague against humanity.” Its about Unit 731.