| Of Mice and Men. For my English class, even though I read the book years ago. Maybe I'll just slack off and not read it again... |
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| Still reading Mass Effect Ascension, only this time I FOUND A TYPO. IN A PROFESSIONALLY PUBLISHED BOOK. How sad. |
| Andrej Kurkovs The Death and the Penguin - the title had me already. About a lonely reporter/freelance writer in a pretty run-down Ukraine, bonding with a penguin and writing eulogies. And other stuff. Pretty simply written, but it has a depressed penguin named Mischa so all's well! Murakami Harukis The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Took me a sweet while to start on this considering Murakami's one of my favourite authors. As great as always - as a swedish reviewer put it, "the style is clear as glass, the prose even as a snowbed and the unfolding of events completely unpredictable." Capable translation, too. And still going through Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49. Both very nice. Anyone care to recommend truly awful writers/books? I've found recently I only read stuff I like and find good, and would like to read bad stuff too. |
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| Today I went to the biggest book shop in the country and (after going with 20 different books to the cashier and changing my mind) bought The Book of the Dogs. It's a cute and simple collection of dog stories and things about dogs and comes in a format that I haven't seen for years... It's like a religious catholic handbook, but only about dogs. xD Kaiserpingvin said: Anyone care to recommend truly awful writers/books? I've found recently I only read stuff I like and find good, and would like to read bad stuff too. Thank goodness I had not many experiences like that, but I can name two international writers: Stephanie Meyer (yes, I love Twilight and I love Edward, I hate the way the woman writes and can't understand how a former Lit student can make such horrid mistakes) and Kymythy R. Schultze (this one writes dietetic books for dogs xD) I could name a couple more Portuguese authors, but those are most likely not available anywhere else (yay) Then there are the "repetitive" authors (which are almost all the female Latin American authors), who tend to pick on the same issues or do it in a very similar way every book. But they are not necessarily bad. ALSO! A badly written book is not necessarily an uninteresting book! The same way I recognize that there are fantastically written books that I just can't stand even though they are so well written. |
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| Animal Farm by George Orwell [if i don't read it, i'll get killed heh] Naruto and Bleach manga right now... |
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| Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Awesome book ~! |
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wannabescene said: I'm in the middle of two books (because I got disappointed with one, but I will finish it... once school/work let me.) Those two books are Breaking Dawn and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I didn't realize that Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was a book... hmm I'll read it after I see the movie, so the movie isn't ruined. :) |
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ladyxzeus said: Thank goodness I had not many experiences like that, but I can name two international writers: Stephanie Meyer (yes, I love Twilight and I love Edward, I hate the way the woman writes and can't understand how a former Lit student can make such horrid mistakes) and Kymythy R. Schultze (this one writes dietetic books for dogs xD) I could name a couple more Portuguese authors, but those are most likely not available anywhere else (yay) Then there are the "repetitive" authors (which are almost all the female Latin American authors), who tend to pick on the same issues or do it in a very similar way every book. But they are not necessarily bad. ALSO! A badly written book is not necessarily an uninteresting book! The same way I recognize that there are fantastically written books that I just can't stand even though they are so well written. Heh, thanks! I've actually long planned to read Meyer exactly for this purpose - I'm quite prejudiced against that kind of magic-vampire-romanticism. Never heard of this Kymythy though. Canine dietics sounds... "interesting" as a subject. Will check them out. Regarding badly written but interesting books, I agree (not so much on the reverse, because I can quite dig good language for good languages sake). Nearly all pulp ever written fits snugly into that and if there's something that's great to read it's pulp, though hard to find. It's a goldmine, I tells ya - W. E. Johns is probably the worst writer I'll ever count as a favourite, or even one of the worst writers I've read at all. Strongly recommended, by the way. |
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Kaiserpingvin said: ladyxzeus said: Thank goodness I had not many experiences like that, but I can name two international writers: Stephanie Meyer (yes, I love Twilight and I love Edward, I hate the way the woman writes and can't understand how a former Lit student can make such horrid mistakes) and Kymythy R. Schultze (this one writes dietetic books for dogs xD) I could name a couple more Portuguese authors, but those are most likely not available anywhere else (yay) Then there are the "repetitive" authors (which are almost all the female Latin American authors), who tend to pick on the same issues or do it in a very similar way every book. But they are not necessarily bad. ALSO! A badly written book is not necessarily an uninteresting book! The same way I recognize that there are fantastically written books that I just can't stand even though they are so well written. Heh, thanks! I've actually long planned to read Meyer exactly for this purpose - I'm quite prejudiced against that kind of magic-vampire-romanticism. Never heard of this Kymythy though. Canine dietics sounds... "interesting" as a subject. Will check them out. Regarding badly written but interesting books, I agree (not so much on the reverse, because I can quite dig good language for good languages sake). Nearly all pulp ever written fits snugly into that and if there's something that's great to read it's pulp, though hard to find. It's a goldmine, I tells ya - W. E. Johns is probably the worst writer I'll ever count as a favourite, or even one of the worst writers I've read at all. Strongly recommended, by the way. The diets lady is just plain incompetence and lack of writing talent. Not a sentence of what she says on the book is correct, it's quite a laugh if you actually studied a bit of the issue before. =p I could also name a couple more dog people, now that I think of it... As for well written bad books, I've found quite some. I love to read for the sake of reading, but two of the three books I ever dropped were very well written. One was just too hard and I quit it to read when I was older (I'm older now, I may as well retrieve it xD) and the other I found the issue so stupid, but so immensely stupid that I could not read more. I'll look for that W.E. Johns in my personal library and try him too. ^^ (also, the said book about dogs is just plainly cute and pretty. It gives me a smile every sentence.) |
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| Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist~ (Been trying to find that book since before the movie began production. FINALLY it was available) |
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| Alright, list ahoy: Book I'm Reading Because I Have To (exams are coming soon for me) is Regeneration by Pat Barker. It's alright, but I'm not too sure if I would read it if I wasn't studying it. Book I'm Reading Because I Want To is History's Great Untold Stories by Joseph Cummins which I'm enjoying. Good pick up and put down read, as it's cut up nicely into small sections. Currently reading about Filipino rebels in the 1700's. Book I've Just Finished is The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. It's good, it's short, it's intelligent. Book I'll Be Reading Next is Well Done, Those Men by Barry Heard. I saw him give a speech and got my copy signed; very interesting man and I can't wait to start reading the book. |
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| The 2nd book of the Twilight series and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. The Twilight books are way below my reading level so I needed something else too. |
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| I just finished reading I Robot (Asimov). I rather enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who likes Sci-Fi. |
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| I just finished the first of the Southern Vampire series (now known as the new HBO show "trueblood"), "Dead Until Dark". It was awesome - can't wait to see how they adapt it on the show. :D |
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OranSolus said: I just finished reading I Robot (Asimov). I rather enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who likes Sci-Fi. Now that you have read the book, what do you think of the movie? I believe the biggest difference is the way the main protagonist is portrayed. |
olliff said: OranSolus said: I just finished reading I Robot (Asimov). I rather enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who likes Sci-Fi. Now that you have read the book, what do you think of the movie? I believe the biggest difference is the way the main protagonist is portrayed. I'm just surprised at how different the movie is. I see that they had the world as being quite accepting of robots in the movie whereas in the book they weren't really very popular. In the movie, only the protagonist had the distrust of robots. As per usual, I enjoyed the book a lot more than the film. |
| Your search on "Oran Solus" returned the following quotes: "Oran Solus? I know him. What a wanker. He still owes me a tenner." Oscar Wilde "Oran, you're so intelligent and awesome <3" Bakayaro "Oran's sexy." LolitaDecay "Oran is a sophisticated penguin." Drybananna "Oran is a Hand-Eye you faggots." EddieSpaghetti "Oran for Prime Minister." the_prime_one "Oran is all that is stated in his sig and more." orbitzz |
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| I'm reading the Harry Potter series.. again. :D I'm also reading something called "Beast" that I randomly chose at the library. It's actually pretty good. |
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| Zetsubou Shi- I'm in despair~ Me being such a horrible fan in a world filled with so many anime and cool japanese internet meme-things, not to mention games, ect. has left me in despair!~ |
| OTK only cuz scool requires it, seriously it takes nothing less than a genuis to figure that book out |
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| PSAT Workbook (lol o__O) And Brisingr (book after Eragon and Eldest) |
| Reading now "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels And Stories" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Almost done with "The Valley of Fear".Then onto "His Last Bow". By far my favorite book. |
| I'm reading "The Six sacred Stones", a damn good book. It's the sequel to "Seven Ancient Wonders" ("Seven deadly wonders" in the US), which is also good as hell. And, really I have realised how many referneces it does have XD I mean, the first book is about Captain Jack, who does have an automail, trying to find "one piece" of a Pyramid, and they keep repeting it all the time XD "We have to find One Piece!" In the second book there is this dude with the automail trying to find the Philosopher's stone XD Great book! Read it! By Matthew Reilly! Buy it in your store TODAY! :''3 |
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| Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer Can't wait for the book Midnight Sun |
Pao-neechan said: Oh god. Don't you just hate Breaking Dawn?Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer Can't wait for the book Midnight Sun I can't wait for Midnight Sun but I thought the last book was a steaming pile of crap. |
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LolitaDecay said: Pao-neechan said: Oh god. Don't you just hate Breaking Dawn?Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer Can't wait for the book Midnight Sun I can't wait for Midnight Sun but I thought the last book was a steaming pile of crap. Agree! I was really disappointed. |
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Pao-neechan said: LolitaDecay said: Pao-neechan said: Oh god. Don't you just hate Breaking Dawn?Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer Can't wait for the book Midnight Sun I can't wait for Midnight Sun but I thought the last book was a steaming pile of crap. Agree! I was really disappointed. Breaking Dawn was pretty bad. ..Is she even making Midnight Sun? I think she decided not to after somone posted a lot of her draft on the internet....not sure though. |
| I am reading the Amber Spyglass for the 4th time lol. :) And Breaking Dawn was epicfailboat. |
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| Peace in the streets - Arturo Hernandez (school) Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer (stuck in chapter 2. XDD don't have time to read ~) |
FuzzyDemon said: Pao-neechan said: LolitaDecay said: Pao-neechan said: Oh god. Don't you just hate Breaking Dawn?Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer Can't wait for the book Midnight Sun I can't wait for Midnight Sun but I thought the last book was a steaming pile of crap. Agree! I was really disappointed. Breaking Dawn was pretty bad. ..Is she even making Midnight Sun? I think she decided not to after somone posted a lot of her draft on the internet....not sure though. Heard about it...but Im not really sure too. |
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