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Post by ET had AIDS on Aug 15, 2014 23:26:33 GMT -5
I was just curious if anyone still reads, and if so, what some people were reading? I didn't feel like this was a lounge post when I browsed the first two pages, and it seemed like 90% were relationship trouble posts or something related to....
I looked in here and there's a "What are you listening to" and "watching?" threads.... so I thought this might be the place to post about reading- but I don't know...?
(Reading can be whatever you want it to be... magazines, fanzines, books, novels, fiction, bios- whatever. WWF books even, I don't care.) I am just curious if anyone still reads, and if you do, what are some favorite books?- and, if anything- what are you currently thumbing through right now? Maybe someone might suggest something or there might be something interesting spoken of... I dunno- but I'd rather know what people are reading than which 2-4 minute song they have on while they reply over and over to that one post.
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Post by "The Gothic Superstar" Ronin on Aug 15, 2014 23:37:28 GMT -5
I still consider books entertainment for sure.
I recently finished rereading Mick Foleys first book and just started reading DDPs book, hoping to start working on my book again too
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Post by Robert69 on Aug 16, 2014 0:07:30 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd count books as entertainment, and I do my best to get in at LEAST 5 books a year. I wish it were more, as I could probably put a book a week away, but -- just not enough time (same with video games, for that matter)...
There for a while was going between Harry Potter, Physics of Superheroes, and Game of Thrones...now just on the Game of Thrones series.
Planning on reading the Hunger Games books soon, too, but I think I'm going to wait til after the movies end, so I can enjoy them separately. The GoT series, and it's fanboys' constant complaining about the changes, etc piss me off to no end. I can differ between a book and a show. I don't want to muddy the waters on HG...
I'm working on a concept to shoot a movie next year based on Poe's Cask of Amantillado (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) -- so I'll probably pick his stories back up by Halloween to start work on that, and start getting in the mind set (especially since my 4th Feature I'm hoping to shoot by the end of this year is along those same dark tones)...
I love books. And I'm one of those that can't read them on a Kindle or whatever. I have to have pages. As Giles said in Buffy "It's the smell". Books have character. The feel of the pages; the smell of them. They're tangible parts of the extraordinarily imaginative experience. And I love that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2014 2:38:04 GMT -5
I was just curious if anyone still reads, and if so, what some people were reading? I didn't feel like this was a lounge post when I browsed the first two pages, and it seemed like 90% were relationship trouble posts or something related to.... I looked in here and there's a "What are you listening to" and "watching?" threads.... so I thought this might be the place to post about reading- but I don't know...? (Reading can be whatever you want it to be... magazines, fanzines, books, novels, fiction, bios- whatever. WWF books even, I don't care.) I am just curious if anyone still reads, and if you do, what are some favorite books?- and, if anything- what are you currently thumbing through right now? Maybe someone might suggest something or there might be something interesting spoken of... I dunno- but I'd rather know what people are reading than which 2-4 minute song they have on while they reply over and over to that one post. I enjoy reading but admit that it's been a while since I dove into a book. My favorite book that I've read.. .WATERSHIP DOWN It's amazing. Imagine 'The Stand' meets 'Lord Of The Rings' meets 'Fraggle Rock' & 'Saving Private Ryan.' It's like 3 books in one to be honest & the pacing is flawless. It's the most satisfying fiction you will ever read. It's rabbits as characters..but not unrealistic. They communicate with one another, but are in the human world. Other than that, I'll keep quiet, but it's flawless storytelling. There is a cartoon movie based on the book, but the book is 1,000,000,000x better. A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints is also something I recommend. It's nothing like the movie; it's an autobiography that's funny, interesting, & reads like a self-help book with regard to how it makes you feel. I want to read it again anytime I need a little self confidence in taking risks in life. For anyone trying to get over a girl... Which Brings Me To You It is fiction & incredibly unique. It's 2 authors that wrote it together: couple meet, decide to write letters back & forth that explain their past relationships. The 'past' stories that they're telling back & forth are so good & give insight into mistakes made/why things didn't work out. It just works so well to let you look into why the reader's relationships have failed & helped quite a bit. My favorite 'story' of all time is Ichabod Crane & The Headless Horseman though. I'm absolutely fascinated with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow & actually got to visit the author's house as a kid.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Aug 16, 2014 5:21:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd count books as entertainment, and I do my best to get in at LEAST 5 books a year. I wish it were more, as I could probably put a book a week away, but -- just not enough time (same with video games, for that matter)... There for a while was going between Harry Potter, Physics of Superheroes, and Game of Thrones...now just on the Game of Thrones series. Planning on reading the Hunger Games books soon, too, but I think I'm going to wait til after the movies end, so I can enjoy them separately. The GoT series, and it's fanboys' constant complaining about the changes, etc piss me off to no end. I can differ between a book and a show. I don't want to muddy the waters on HG... I'm working on a concept to shoot a movie next year based on Poe's Cask of Amantillado (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) -- so I'll probably pick his stories back up by Halloween to start work on that, and start getting in the mind set (especially since my 4th Feature I'm hoping to shoot by the end of this year is along those same dark tones)... I love books. And I'm one of those that can't read them on a Kindle or whatever. I have to have pages. As Giles said in Buffy "It's the smell". Books have character. The feel of the pages; the smell of them. They're tangible parts of the extraordinarily imaginative experience. And I love that. I feel you, man! Even with the finding time for video games. Due to a prior connection, when it comes to those things- from all generations up into the last(360/PS3/Wii I guess?) at the least.... even if they were used, most were virtually free and in mint condition when I received them (legally, too!)... Thanks to that connect, I have some games that have either yet to even be opened (from the cellophane, that is!), or just open and played period, if it wasn't new but in good condition & used. Now at this point, so many go back to older generation's systems and so many have become collectibles (or worth enough for me to put it up on a site like eBay— even with some of my favorite Gamecube-era stuff having become rare i.e. Eternal Darkness, or some copy of Killer 7 I own- and that feels just like yesterday.... I wonder if I wouldn't just be better off selling this stuff since I can't even get around to some of the new games I do own, if I plan to go back and play all of the old games I never polished off. Figure while collectors on eBay are nuts, sell now... and if ever the urge to play —— or ___ again, just buy it from a virtual shop or STEAM seeing how many games are on there now...or any of the e-shops for the consoles too. But because of Amazon Prime (and I really do kinda blame my Prime membership...) and the ability to get 2nd-day free shipping on so many things I can't even find in book shops around here (or the nice ones or even places like Quimby's in Chicago, which has a lot of underground stuff and fanzines, independent and free handout stuff, etc.), I've bought up books and similar to video games, some are still sitting on the shelf, yet to be read. Right now I have two Lester Bangs readers sitting next to me, the new Ben Bradlee Jr. book about Ted Williams & a book about minor league baseball beside it at the foot of my bed, and a book one of my friends/favorite authors and just people as a whole just had published and sent to me on the left side (though I finished that one awhile back), and then a shelf full of more and a window seat with a bunch more stacked or wedged by the bed.... I need a better shelf and more time or some nice speed. That's cool about the Amontillado (I think that's how it's spelled, or no...?) movie idea. I actually have played two games that I *think* (?) were inspired by HP Lovecraft- someone I actually have never read at all, despite my Chicago/IL roots of nearly 30 years now- and they were both great video games for the single player genre (I think one was External Darkness from Gamecube, and the other was Call of the Cthulhu which was Xbox and PC too I want to say, each a Lovecraft-inspiration or a lot of elements having been lifted for the games which were great). I tend to "borrow" ideas or subplots and stuff when I write in similar ways, though I've had a hard time taking something and trying to remake its origins or ideas into a new idea (in the way you described). That sounds cool though- good luck with that man. I'm still finishing up TED which is a really good book on Williams' entire life and a lot of new stuff that I don't believe had been known until just prior to its release, and also reading through some crappy Bukowski book that I just want to read to have finished, since I'm already pretty deep into it and feel like if I've wasted this much time already... I also am re-reading or just thumbing through Deathtripping by Jack Sargeant which is about transgression in writing/film and independent transgressive films from the '80s and early '90s in particular. And Suicide by Durkheim is like my bible, so I can read it a lot or just find enjoyment in a book like that or books that deal with similar themes. I'm kind of at a standstill as far as a good "story-based" novel goes though.... just a bunch of sociology and crap I've found my liking of (and interest in) growing more and more lately. Sometimes I think I don't like to read fiction- or especially fiction that is based on non-fiction, when I'm trying to get into a place of mind where I can work on my own stuff that I've hit the writer's block with and left in a notebook or word document/file for too long without even taking a peek.... I think subconsciously I avoid fiction and books or stories alike, sometimes. I do tire of bios and memoirs quickly sometimes, maybe more quickly because of it even. Then again, when it comes to those things, only so much will fill my mind and want to keep filling space up in there unless someone is really interesting to me, and not too many individual people are. Even those I've had fascination with over the years or caricature-like individuals i.e..... Charles Manson (who still interests me, even though the well is just tapped 100% by now). Anyway, I read and write too much. It's all I know since I've lost too much weight to lift paper cups and started puking my guts + blood up and junk. It kills time until time just kills me, at least!
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Post by Yambag Jones on Aug 16, 2014 8:10:14 GMT -5
This summer I've read:
Super Gods by Grant Morrison (one of my favorites)
At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 16, 2014 9:42:13 GMT -5
The Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm. Over 700 pages. Took me a few months whenever I went to the laundromat. Crazy stories!
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Quite enjoyable, but I was a bit stumped when Jim would talk. I can't read phonetic words too well.
Han Solo's Revenge, Han Solo at Stars' End & Han Solo & The Lost Legacy. I've had these on my bookshelf for years & finally read them. Really good books. They all take place a few years before Star Wars.
Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina. This should be made into a short movie. It tells different stories about each person in the cantina after Han Solo shoots Greedo. Awesome read.
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Post by Self-Savior on Aug 16, 2014 10:47:32 GMT -5
Just finished rereading the original Star Wars Trilogy along with Shadows of the Empire in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
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Post by DIESEL on Aug 16, 2014 10:55:52 GMT -5
My favorite book, like ever is Holes by Louis Sacher.
My favorite series is Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
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Post by Robert69 on Aug 16, 2014 11:16:58 GMT -5
Favorite stand alone book -- EVER...probably the book on the making of Jaws.
Kevin Smith also notes the book as having a huge impact on becoming a filmmaker.
Series? Hard to choose...got into Harry Potter late (after the final movie was out, and in my mid 20s) Goosebumps comes to mind, though. Lot of good stuff in there. So a toss up between either HP, or Goosebumps.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2014 12:45:36 GMT -5
I got into Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson when I was younger.
From Jack London I have read; The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Star Rover and The Sea Wolf; it's still one of my favorite books, I've read it multiple times.
From RLS I've read Treasure Island and Kidnapped. I still need to read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde some day.
More recently, the last 20 years, I've read about 2/3rds of the Star Wars novels. I stopped right after the New Jedi Order. And I've read some wrestling book; the first two by Foley, The Stone Cold Truth and William Regal's. I'm sure there was a few more but I don't remember which.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Aug 16, 2014 22:22:34 GMT -5
I'm a HUGE fan of the Harry Potter series and have read them all multiple times. I've read the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Fight Club and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. I try to read Entertainment Weekly relatively often. Silver Linings Playbook Moneyball The Hunger Games Series
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Post by Danger10 on Aug 16, 2014 23:47:02 GMT -5
I love to read, mainly stick to biographies & leadership books. I just finished How To Sweet Talk A Shark by Bill Richardson and just started Kanyon's book. My favorite books include Jarhead, Eaters of The Dead & The Perks of Being A Wallflower.
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Post by Himmy! on Aug 17, 2014 8:29:30 GMT -5
I read a lot and am a very fast reader. Mainly non-fiction for me though.
Currently reading 'Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground'. Pretty hard going as it's incredibly diverse and detailed but interesting stuff nonetheless.
After that I'm gonna have a Stephen King sesh!
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Post by vampiroporvida on Aug 17, 2014 11:21:05 GMT -5
Just now reading a D.B. Cooper book. I am reading the small one now, but will read the FBI writer's version soon, then the D.B is my father book. I have the book about the assassination that Woody Harrelson's father did, as a pallet cleanser. I mainly read bio/true crime/conspiracy stuff, but I guess any non fiction could be up my alley, depending on the day.
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Post by JC Motors on Aug 17, 2014 11:53:39 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
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Post by Red Dragon on Aug 17, 2014 12:31:15 GMT -5
My favourite book is 'About a Boy' by Nick Hornby. I've never seen the movie or the new series but I expect it's nothing like them. Hornby is a great writer for the love of music and coming of age stories, I feel "Slam" in particular should be on the school courses.
But I've just graduated from an English degree so for the last three years I've been reading the classics. I found I can read most things and enjoy them, I loved Shakespeare (particularly "The Tempest"), "She" is a great underrated adventure oldie but best of the bunch is "Frankenstein". Just forget about a big green guy with bolts through his neck and it's perfect.
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Post by ICW on Aug 17, 2014 12:35:08 GMT -5
I'm about half-way through Star Trek: Seekers by David Mack.
I'm a big Trekkie and read all of the novels, which are usually phenomenal.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Aug 17, 2014 13:42:57 GMT -5
I've been reading the Game of Thrones series.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Aug 20, 2014 2:09:45 GMT -5
I got into Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson when I was younger. From Jack London I have read; The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Star Rover and The Sea Wolf; it's still one of my favorite books, I've read it multiple times. From RLS I've read Treasure Island and Kidnapped. I still need to read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde some day. More recently, the last 20 years, I've read about 2/3rds of the Star Wars novels. I stopped right after the New Jedi Order. And I've read some wrestling book; the first two by Foley, The Stone Cold Truth and William Regal's. I'm sure there was a few more but I don't remember which. If I am not mistaking, and i may be, but will confirm with a quick history look-up here when i go to check in a sec... I think I was reading about the unsolved New orleans' "Axe Murderer" / Axe Murders, when that book you mentioned (the Jekyll/Hyde novel) was introduced, it actually was said to give theory to detectives, that who(m)ever was executing these crimes (and it is unsolved to this day, dating back to the first known case in 2011-19 or somewhere like that I think- with over 10-15 claimed or more, i think too) lead a "jekyll/hyde" lifestyle, and that book loaned the first known theory to such form of investigating. ....unless this is a different or older J+H book I'm recalling. i'll have to search the history or page i was reading, but i'd never heard of it and then wanted to read it! let me know what you think, if it does turn out to be one in the same
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