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Post by solocityElectricCyan on Apr 3, 2008 22:06:57 GMT -5
I am in the process of reading many books. A feat I never thought possible.
1. The Night Watch > What I was reading during my plane trip home. I'm at pg 248, after 9 months or so.
2. Driver's book > I gave up on it because I'm a retard.
3. The Kite Runner > I fucking hate you Mrs. Davis.
4. Macbeth > English Class shit.
Also, I just finished reading Great Expectations. I feel accomplished too, because I read it within 36 hours; taking into account that the book has 250 pages, 14 pt font, with a picture on every other page. So it wasn't that much, nonetheless, it was a good book. I recommend it to all.
Do I smell toilet?
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Post by Hauskaz on Apr 3, 2008 22:28:01 GMT -5
I liked the Ontario Rider's Handbook (lol same information as the driver's one) because I like to read manuals and stare at diagrams. That staggered motorcycling pattern and those traffic light diagrams were pretty pro. Too bad I already Goddamn knew everything, and the book was pretty simple.
I need to start reading stuff. The last book I tried to read was Mein Kampf, and I couldn't even get past chapter 2 because it was so awful.
Hitler may have been one of the most brilliant politicians of the 20th century, but he sure is a literary failure.
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Post by lily on Apr 3, 2008 22:36:42 GMT -5
Hitler wasn't a bad painter.
Macbeth was passable.
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Post by Hauskaz on Apr 3, 2008 22:42:48 GMT -5
It would have been pretty awesome if Hitler became an artist, but someone else would have replaced him anyways, given Germany's situation. A cold war or quick defeat would have probably been brought upon Germany though.
Hitler was a sadistic pro.
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Post by lily on Apr 3, 2008 22:44:53 GMT -5
 Mein Kampf |
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Post by Hauskaz on Apr 3, 2008 22:51:56 GMT -5
My cover looks different.
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Post by lily on Apr 3, 2008 22:52:39 GMT -5
sigh.
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Post by solocityElectricCyan on Apr 3, 2008 23:00:00 GMT -5
So Tyler, wanna borrow some Great Expectations?
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Post by hellomeow on Apr 3, 2008 23:52:00 GMT -5
The last few books I can remember reading would be Macbeth for English class, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, The Brother's Karamazov, the first volume of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Crime and Punishment, Cryptonomicon, at the Mountains of Madness, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Cults in Context, a crapload of manga, and I started reading Snow Crash at the library but I was too busy simultaneously studying for a physics test at the same time to get very far. I've probably read a ton of wiki articles as well as various essays on the internet, but right now I am mainly focused on reading Xenocide and the second volume of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Note that this is all over the course of about since September I would approximate.
Also, Macbeth was the badass.
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Post by Hauskaz on Apr 4, 2008 6:12:51 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed reading Macbeth out loud.
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Post by Finn on Apr 4, 2008 19:02:09 GMT -5
you guys like shit books, i just read The Road by Cormac Mccarthy and it owned
on a side note, i also hate your miserable life
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Post by Dirty Tampon! on Apr 4, 2008 21:02:43 GMT -5
You've all got to read good books... I have to read Wicked for English...
Gayer than Richard Simmons at EuroDisney...
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Post by hellomeow on Apr 5, 2008 11:34:56 GMT -5
I actually forgot to list some of the books that I read, I've also read the Lord of the Flies and Death of a Salesman for English class, and before then I read Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess, And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess, the 7th Harry Potter, some book at the library about math, astrology, and physics (can't recall the title, written by some programmer/physicist guy), a crap load of short stories by H.P. Lovecraft on the internet, a few short stories that friends have written (mostly about math savants having gay sex with one another), I read half a book about programming in Scheme, and I read Idoru by William Gibson as well. That is pretty much all I can think of that I read.
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Post by Hauskaz on Apr 5, 2008 11:41:41 GMT -5
Lord of the Flies was okay, but To Kill A Mockingbird was easily the best book I've ever been forced to read. I actually liked it. I need to read something else like that.
Of Mice and Men in grade 9 was hilarious. I laughed in class when Lennie got shot in the back of the head, much to McFarlane's disapproval.
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Post by hellomeow on Apr 5, 2008 13:02:11 GMT -5
LOL, of Mice and Men was pretty funny, however when it comes to funny books I like Twelfth Night best, mostly because of the cross-dressing and the odd Shakespearian perverted jokes. Also, I enjoy to Kill A Mockingbird too as it was one book I found it easy to write essays about.
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