Do you read? / What are you reading?

RCSI · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

Finally got around to starting stuff by H. G. Wells. Not that much of a reader other than that.
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massive · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

I'm all about Tom Clancy for my fiction, Arthur C. Clarke (RIP) and Issac Asmiov for science fiction, non-fiction: various.

I'm currently re-reading 'Benjamin Franklin: An American Life' and believe it or not ' Rediscovering Abundance -- Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income, and Their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition' for a class.
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Wang Chung · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject:

I really ought to be raping the living shit out of the VT library (like we just raped Wake Forest in hoops), but here's my reading list I will never read:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9bnwhh_9gmwpw9hf&hl=en

Back to Dynamics.
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Bender · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:59 am Post subject:

lol funny this topic pops up now

I hadn't read voluntarily in what must have been years until about 2 weeks ago, and now i've been starting too daily

Right now i'm reading 1984
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Chronic · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject:

I read PC Gamer on the john now and then Thumbs up

Special Jimmy · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

Axeblind wrote:

Stephen King(I've read almost everything he has put out)

Have you chased the man in black with childe Roland as well?
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Wang Chung wrote:

MikeSty 22: they say Rome wasn't built in a day
MikeSty 22: but they never had the Fucking Cut Throats

AxeBlind · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

Hell ya, I finished the series finally this past year. I actually enjoyed the ending too.
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Special Jimmy · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject:

Me too, i thought it was fairly appropriate for the craziness of the series. Its my favorite book series. When Roland first meets Eddy and theres that gunfight while eddy is ass naked, all I could imagine was Quintin Tarrentino directing that scene some day.
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Wang Chung wrote:

MikeSty 22: they say Rome wasn't built in a day
MikeSty 22: but they never had the Fucking Cut Throats

AxeBlind · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:39 am Post subject:

Oh shit, that would be perfect. Tarantino would rule with those books if they were made into film. Alas they are too long and complex to make good films out of unless they do it Lord of the Rings style. I'm almost always disappointed with King's film adaptations, they are never as good as the novels. Exceptions include his short stories and shorter novels made into film and "The Shining" which deviates quite alot from the book.

Man the Gunsliger on film would be sweet, he based him on Eastwood from the Man with No Name trilogy, but Eastwood is too old now I think.
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Special Jimmy · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:11 am Post subject:

Yea. Apparently JJ Abrams, who made Cloverfield, Lost, fringe and the new star trek bought the film rights to the dark tower story. For $19, directly from stephen king. xD.

I think if it would ever be made into any kind of film it would be best if made how beowulf was made. Beowulf was pretty sick and there were a lot of parts that the CGI was so good it seemed real. And that way they could make roland look exactly like clint eastwood. Hell, maybe they could get him to play the voice.
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Wang Chung wrote:

MikeSty 22: they say Rome wasn't built in a day
MikeSty 22: but they never had the Fucking Cut Throats

Reaper247 · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject:

i have finished BEC and slawter both by Darren shan and now reading Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets for the 4th time

Drunken Monkey · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

read a lot of MCI's, fire arms mags, historical fictions (and just plane none fictional aswell)

currently reading a peace to end all peace
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Max Periculosus · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

RCSI wrote:

Finally got around to starting stuff by H. G. Wells. Not that much of a reader other than that.

I read that a few months ago. Neat read.

I'm halfway through Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell; I've read his book Blink as well. Both are fantastic, although I think I liked Blink more. I've been working my way through a huge book of short stories by Ray Bradbury - pretty much my favorite writer.

I think that's it for now, but I have a lot of books that are waiting to be read. Wish I had more time to read them.
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Special Jimmy · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

I'm the only person I know that read Fahrenheit 451 on my own time, opposed to as a school assignment. But it blew me away.

Right now I'm finishing up Duma Key by Stephen King. Next up is either IT by S.K. or Dune by Frank Herbert. It saddens me that it takes me at least a month to finish a novel now that school is in the way.
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Wang Chung wrote:

MikeSty 22: they say Rome wasn't built in a day
MikeSty 22: but they never had the Fucking Cut Throats

Messy Recipe · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

Special Jimmy wrote:

I'm the only person I know that read Fahrenheit 451 on my own time, opposed to as a school assignment. But it blew me away.

You also know two people who posted in the last three posts in this topic.
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