Book thread: Distractions welcome

Kusuguttai

BusterK wrote: »

Kusu, you deserve to become to the book thread what Wiggin was to the music thread

i am not the one who likes the scarlet letter here
my tastes vastly outweigh your own

Bucketman

The Scarlet Letter was OK, but it was slow and I didn't really care about the characters.

Also I much prefer my scarlet in pimpernel form

Monkeyfeet

uhhh

Kusuguttai

i prefer my scarlet in street form

shame a silly goose new rule stole him from me

Alpine

I finished the new Wheel of Time book last night

I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it

I really liked it

Bogey

Balefuego wrote: »

Bogey, A Fire Upon the Deep has my MASSIVE SEAL OF APPROVAL

and if you like it (which you will) you should check out A Deepness in the Sky by the same author.

Awesome! Okay, I will definitely put that on my list.

Fiz

I liked The Man in the High Castle

Kusuguttai

Fiz wrote: »

I liked The Man in the High Castle

oh the far side's autobiography came out already?

Bucketman

VoproSTEIN wrote: »

Alpine wrote: »

I finished the new Wheel of Time book last night

I know, I know, braid tugging and sniffing and skirt smoothing, but the best thing to happen to that series was Robert Jordan dying, the new writer picks up the pace and runs with it

I really liked it

new WoT book is in my top 3 now.

I read the first one years ago and I guess it was ok. I dunno maybe I'll start reading those after Percy Jackson.

What I really want are some good Mystery books.

Kusuguttai

also i need to someday finish goethe's faust

Balefuego

no do not read those Bucketman

save yourself

Wallhitter

Kusuguttai wrote: »

Fiz wrote: »

I liked The Man in the High Castle

oh the far side's autobiography came out already?

day 1: smoked weed

day 2: reversal of fortune.avi

SwissLion

Kusu why is Dracula in your most hated books list? Just curious.
I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.

Alpine

Isn't Percy Jackson the novelization of that new teenage greek gods movie?

celandine

Reading Eric Foner's history of Reconstruction. So good.

Fiz

Kusuguttai wrote: »

Fiz wrote: »

I liked The Man in the High Castle

oh the far side's autobiography came out already?

How dare you. That is like calling a black person silly goose to their face!

Kusuguttai

SwissLion wrote: »

Kusu why is Dracula in your most hated books list? Just curious.
I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.

it's because i cannot stand that there is little to no tension in what, 70% of the book because it's just letters?

"oh man last night somethin creepy happened better stay here to find out more

love

silly goose"

Monkeyfeet

Teefs isn't even posting in this thread. What a pot shot

Bucketman

Alpine wrote: »

Isn't Percy Jackson the novelization of that new teenage greek gods movie?

other way around. Basically a friend described it to me as "Harry Potter but with Greek Gods" like 2 years ago and now that I see the movie trailer at work all the time I decided to check it out. It was a good read and way more violent then Harry Potter.

celandine

The thing about Dracula is that in the novel, Dracula is a Szekely.

Which is pretty fricking absurd.

Kusuguttai

Monkeyfeet wrote: »

Teefs isn't even posting in this thread. What a pot shot

it was too perfect

Lockout

heh

one of my creative writing professor's short stories is in one of the collections he assigned

bowtiedseal

Bucketman wrote: »

Alpine wrote: »

Isn't Percy Jackson the novelization of that new teenage greek gods movie?

other way around. Basically a friend described it to me as "Harry Potter but with Greek Gods" like 2 years ago and now that I see the movie trailer at work all the time I decided to check it out. It was a good read and way more violent then Harry Potter.

phew, glad I've heard a few people say it doesn't suck, I have to read it for work (I work in a bookstore and they are having a party for the movie release so I have to know what's what I suppose)

Karnack

While we're on the topic of poe (three pages/a thread ago)

I like The Conqueror Worm more than The Raven, but my favorite stuff of his is the C. Auguste Dupin stories(plus the balloon-hoax, which is hilarious in a it happened a century and a half ago way)

PiptheFair

woah hey bits you're alive

Dead Legend

i thought roland barthes just took a lot of acid when he wrote about the death of the author and that's why i had difficulty understanding it

turns out he was just french

bowtiedseal

PiptheFair wrote: »

woah hey bits you're alive

yep, as far as I know

I just saw your thread from earlier, that is awful D: I hope it all works out for the best even though it really really sucks right now!

PiptheFair

thanks

hopefully!

SwissLion

Kusuguttai wrote: »

SwissLion wrote: »

Kusu why is Dracula in your most hated books list? Just curious.
I haven't finished it because I went on a Vonnegut binge but I've picked it up again and I find it enjoyable.

it's because i cannot stand that there is little to no tension in what, 70% of the book because it's just letters?

"oh man last night somethin creepy happened better stay here to find out more

love

silly goose"

I can understand this. Every time a new passage started and something plotty was going to have happened I thought to myself "How is he going to make all this suspenseful and exciting, it's already happened." But somehow I always felt he kinda sorta pulled it off.

I think he would have done better to avoid all the letter and Diary bullshit and just write a story, but yeah.

Zyrelax

celandine wrote: »

Reading Eric Foner's history of Reconstruction. So good.

Is it the abridged or un-abridged version? Foner has managed to publish that book (or some iteration of its thesis) something like seven or eight times.

This is why he has a chair at Columbia, and I will be teaching at the local community college for the rest of my forseeable career.

Grey Ghost

I really like Conqueror Worm and Annabel Lee

BusterK

If we're talking about favorite Poe poems
My favorite is El Dorado

Grey Ghost

Oh, that's a good one too

Kusuguttai

i really like masque of the red death

but that's not a poem

also not a poem

fall of the house of usher

also what is that one byron (i think) story about the baron dude who killed his wife (wives?) and is all bragging about it

Kusuguttai

also i really like faulkner's a rose for emily but not much else

Kusuguttai

also the yellow wallpaper

Sars_Boy

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I really like Conqueror Worm and Annabel Lee

conqueror worm is so great

Kusuguttai

literary post hat trick suck on it all y'all

Grey Ghost

Kusuguttai wrote: »

i really like masque of the red death

but that's not a poem

also not a poem

fall of the house of usher

also what is that one byron (i think) story about the baron dude who killed his wife (wives?) and is all bragging about it

My Last Duchess, probably

But it was Browning

Kusuguttai

oh yes thank you
knew it started with a b