Tell me what the fuck you're reading

Quoth

guys

the nightside books are terrible

or at least the first one is

freakish light

Lost Salient wrote: »

Silven wrote: »

Book thread can I ask you about junkfood reading?

Because it is the best kind of reading and I need some more books to read

Man I read so much junk literature it's ridiculous. Temeraire I guess would qualify. The Dresden Files. Uhh, Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! books are hilarious to me. Anne Perry's William Monk series and also her WWI series. Umm... The Shadow short stories. Sarah Vowell. Jasper Fforde. Sometimes I troll the YA fantasy section for crap or reread things like The Dark is Rising orrr anything by Patricia C. Wrede.

I also like Patricia Briggs and basically anything Robin McKinley has ever done, although one of those is far more junkfood than the other. Umm... Neil Gaiman? Terry Pratchett? Douglas Adams? I have things way more embarrassing than this that I have read, but at some point you just have to refuse to admit to it.

I had forgotten somehow that Sarah Vowell is an author. I've gotta read her stuff, I love her pieces on This American Life.

Ooh, maybe in audiobook format. I love her voice and inflection.

celandine

I like Sarah Vowell. Not really junk though.

You want good junk? Conan the Barbarian. It never gets old. Also (for raygun adventure instead of sword adventure) Leigh Brackett's Mars stories.

Hobnail

Stephen King makes the most delicious of popcorn books. Especially the short stories, The Mangler is about an industrial clothes folding machine that is possesed by Satan and ends up chasing a dude down the street.

Silven

Quoth wrote: »

guys

the nightside books are terrible

or at least the first one is

The first is admittedly awful. It suffered a lot from Green's need to overexplain every little thing. That particular annoyance continues through the series because most of them are supposed to work standalone.

However the series gets progressively less cringe-worthy as it goes on.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I read one nightside book and one of his magic james bond books.

Well, I tried too. I quit halfway through both. Complete utter shit, and that's coming from someone who frequently reads and enjoys books that would merit a hearty round of elitist sneers from this thread.

Silven

I avoided the magic bond series from the start because the summary is basically "guy is a secret agent and has magic armor that makes him perfect and invincible and he knows all languages and is great the end".

I do have standards.

Quoth

i actually found the bond book infinitely more readable than the nightside one, whose principle merit is that it was about 100 pages shorter

KrunkMcGrunk

Wassup fanti-dorks.

Just finished Generation Kill. Moving on to Cat's Cradle.

I'll just be over here, reading my :smug: college Freshman books.

Silven

Well crap. It appears I am a dirty heathen, then

Also, I wondered if anyone could help me identify a book. It's a take on the prince and pauper but with an assassinated tyrant and an circus performer and his swordswallowing sidekick. I can't remember much beyond that except that the cover art was a guy with a sabre and a fez hat standing next to a dragon.

Familiar to anyone?

A Dabble Of Thelonius

No, but I want to read it based on that description.

Quoth

Silven wrote: »

Well crap. It appears I am a dirty heathen, then

Also, I wondered if anyone could help me identify a book. It's a take on the prince and pauper but with an assassinated tyrant and an circus performer and his swordswallowing sidekick. I can't remember much beyond that except that the cover art was a guy with a sabre and a fez hat standing next to a dragon.

Familiar to anyone?

lord valentine's castle?

captaink

I'm reading Iron Council and sometimes I can't tell whether a word is made-up or just really obscure. Makes me wish I had a kindle.

Orikaeshigitae

i don't know what that book is, but it reminds me of Monsieur Leotard, which is awesome and which everyone should read

Silven

Quoth wrote: »

Silven wrote: »

Well crap. It appears I am a dirty heathen, then

Also, I wondered if anyone could help me identify a book. It's a take on the prince and pauper but with an assassinated tyrant and an circus performer and his swordswallowing sidekick. I can't remember much beyond that except that the cover art was a guy with a sabre and a fez hat standing next to a dragon.

Familiar to anyone?

lord valentine's castle?

Nope. This book was newish in... 2005-06ish, I believe.

Silven

Found it!

I read it years ago but I remember it being a pretty great read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Inch_a_King

Meissnerd

Butler wrote: »

Skull Man wrote: »

I read american gods last week while selling fireworks in NC

I love that book because it's like anytime you don't like the plot, just wait about fifty pages and he'll start another

I liked the overall plot but the vignettes at the end of each chapter were even better. I think he could have trimmed down the part where Shadow was just hanging out in Lakeside though, if it was anyone but Gaiman writing it I would have got bored and given up at that point.

The one with the ifrit was my favourite, so awesome.

Dr. Frenchenstein

I'm reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I am probably way late to the party, but it's pretty awesome.

I don't know why it was in humor though, i mean the concept is funny but he plays it straight as can be.

DeliciousTacos

So, who else thinks The Road is the best book ever? Because holy fuck damn it is good

Hobnail

Well that's pushing it, but it totally did make me cry a little.

captaink

It's the best book I will never read again.

Peen

Dr. Frenchenstein wrote: »

I'm reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I am probably way late to the party, but it's pretty awesome.

I don't know why it was in humor though, i mean the concept is funny but he plays it straight as can be.

Doc you reminded me to look and see if this had come back to my branch yet and it has and it's so mine.

Quoth

captaink wrote: »

It's the best book I will never read again.

hey dude, did you know some guy plagiarized your taco bell rant

captaink

Quoth wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

It's the best book I will never read again.

hey dude, did you know some guy plagiarized your taco bell rant

what taco bell rant

Quoth

captaink wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

It's the best book I will never read again.

hey dude, did you know some guy plagiarized your taco bell rant

what taco bell rant

wasn't this you

http://www.ideali.st/2009/02/23/taco-hell/

captaink

Quoth wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

It's the best book I will never read again.

hey dude, did you know some guy plagiarized your taco bell rant

what taco bell rant

wasn't this you

http://www.ideali.st/2009/02/23/taco-hell/

must have been the other Captain K

PiptheFair

Quoth wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

captaink wrote: »

It's the best book I will never read again.

hey dude, did you know some guy plagiarized your taco bell rant

what taco bell rant

wasn't this you

http://www.ideali.st/2009/02/23/taco-hell/

different k

Quoth

it was

why the hell do you have his name

captaink

Why does he have my name?

Quoth

well

you see

Artreus

You have his name

captaink

(I have an earlier join date, oooo)

ChicoBlue

You didn't write a song about me and that means you are a fake.

captaink

I truly have failed you

Quoth

you did not make an a capella version of the tale spin theme song which i currently use for my husband's ring tone

edit: OR DID YOU, I AM SO CONFUSED

SithDrummer

For some dumb reason or another I started a third book while still in the midst of my other two

On the plus side, it is Slaughterhouse V, it is my first time reading it, I am 6 chapters in, and I am really liking it.

Penguin Incarnate

So it goes.

Dublo7

SithDrummer wrote: »

For some dumb reason or another I started a third book while still in the midst of my other two

On the plus side, it is Slaughterhouse V, it is my first time reading it, I am 6 chapters in, and I am really liking it.

Is that your first Vonnegut book? You should go on to read Cat's Cradle. It's my personal favourite Vonnegut book.

I just got a copy of Borges' Fictions. I just read the first story (Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius) over a coffee, and my mind is blown to pieces. Incredible.

Grey Ghost

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Hobnail

Dublo7 wrote: »

SithDrummer wrote: »

For some dumb reason or another I started a third book while still in the midst of my other two

On the plus side, it is Slaughterhouse V, it is my first time reading it, I am 6 chapters in, and I am really liking it.

Is that your first Vonnegut book? You should go on to read Cat's Cradle. It's my personal favourite Vonnegut book.

I just got a copy of Borges' Fictions. I just read the first story (Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius) over a coffee, and my mind is blown to pieces. Incredible.

I just got done God Bless You Mister Rosewater, I think there's only a few left for me to pick up. So fine.