books

manwiththemachinegun

If you guys like historical fiction at all, you should really read Gods of Gotham. It's about the formation of the NY Police department and it's got some awesome writing in it.

Grey Ghost

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Are you like people who think that Tolkien is pouring out mega wisdom in the form of faux sagas and myths or is it just enjoyable to you?

It's just enjoyable to me and I really dig the world he created

Darmak

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Are you like people who think that Tolkien is pouring out mega wisdom in the form of faux sagas and myths or is it just enjoyable to you?

It's just enjoyable to me and I really dig the world he created

Same here. I also like how he writes, and I like that he loved languages and he wrote those books and made that world to fit the languages he made up.

Lost Salient

Same here! I was and still am really into philology and history, and I find it remarkable that he could create such a rich false backdrop for his world.

And @Legba, I totally had my bag on my lap or in the seat well next to me the whole time. I know I didn't step on it or squish it and neither did anyone else. Abloo bloo.

Which of these covers is better, since I'll have to get a new one.

Grey Ghost

I'd say the second one

Centipede Damascus

for me, reading the Silmarillion is like reading a heavy metal version of the Odyssey

Buttlord

guys i want to start a kickstarter to buy the complete LOA collection

prizes are just "i send you a picture of the book/pic of me with the book/pic of my dick"

Buttlord

$5: i send you a picture of a book

$10 me with the book

$20: i write you a nice letter to accompany the previous reward

$50 i read you an excerpt from the book of your choice

$100 i act out a selection of it, post it on youtube, then send you the letter and pictures

$500 i send you a series of tasteful nudes

$1000 i send you not so tasteful nudes

$5000 i will goatse myself

Legba

@Lost Salient Owls owls owls owls.

Legba

May I also suggest this? Or this?

Grey Ghost

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

for me, reading the Silmarillion is like reading a heavy metal version of the Odyssey

Are you familiar with Blind Guardian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth

Buttlord

hey book thread!

today i learned that sax rohmer's first three fu manchu books are on gutenberg and i'm gonna be editing them

so if you want some classic (super racist) pulp you know who to call

gutenbusters

get it

Buttlord

Reading the insidious fu manchu now

Incredible

And incredibly racist

Antimatter

Blake T

Is lovecraft's stuff now in the public domain?

Shorty

Blake T wrote: »

Is lovecraft's stuff now in the public domain?

it is

google that shit

Buttlord

Blake T wrote: »

Is lovecraft's stuff now in the public domain?

Yep. I have that compiled too, if people want it.

Blake T

Yes it is a thing that people (re: me) want.

This was the main reason I was asking shorty.

Other Gutenberg question. Is there an option to resubmit a work? Cause there seem to be a fair few dudes doing things to make them more readable but I was wondering if you could re upload them or something.

Buttlord

I have no idea, I just download, edit, and compile when necessary. Sometimes i find existing public domain comps people have cobbled together like ass and fix those (the lovecraft is this, i saved about three pages unedited)!

Sometimes i just download them and add them to my horde like i'm fuckin smaug

Anyway i'll get lovecraft up in the morning because im on the phone in bed now

Blake T

Thanks butt buddy!

Buttlord

No problem dogg

Lost Salient

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

for me, reading the Silmarillion is like reading a heavy metal version of the Odyssey

Are you familiar with Blind Guardian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth

This is

Sort of incredible

I can't decide if I want to get this album or not

Also @Buttlord I am all about some fuckin' Fu Manchu

Legba

Nightfall in Middle Earth is fantastic. It's basically the one album everyone I knew when I was 15 owned.

Buttlord

Lost Salient wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

for me, reading the Silmarillion is like reading a heavy metal version of the Odyssey

Are you familiar with Blind Guardian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth

This is

Sort of incredible

I can't decide if I want to get this album or not

Also @Buttlord I am all about some fuckin' Fu Manchu

alright i'ma hit you in a second, i gave up on chasing the elusive dragon known as sleep

Legba

Ooh, ooh, me too.

Feriluce

I will also add that Blind Guardian are great, and Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a fantastic album.

Lost Salient

I mean it is not my normal listening tastes at all.

But there's a first Middle-Earth themed metal album for everyone, maybe!

Legba

It's a good intro album for people who don't usually listen to metal.

Buttlord

no its not

a good intro album is Beyond Hell

because it's also The Best Album Ever

i used to listen to it on the way to school because screaming TAKE ME DEATH I AM YOUR SLAVE is a great way to wake up

Legba

No, it really is, because it's a bit more relaxed and melodic than most metal. Plus you can make out what the lyrics are.

Buttlord

counterpoint it's about hobbits and shit

boo to that

just go listen to an album about alien warlords getting killed and going to hell and killing the devil and coming back and smoking crack cocaine

the best possible things a story could be about

Lost Salient

But I prefer hobbits to crack cocaine!

Got no beef with the other stuff, really. (Except I am big on lyrics.)

Oh yeah and I meant to say earlier that last night I read the first volume of Chew, and it's totally awesome and now I'm staring at the price for shipping other volumes to me online. And crying.

Blake T

Speaking of inspired music, have you guys seen we are wizards?

captaink

I've seen Harry and the Potters live. As a HP nerd, it was awesome.

Legba

If anyone wants it, I just finished touching up an ebook version of My Man Jeeves, by PG Wodehouse.

(I mean the Project Gutenberg one was okay, but...)

Centipede Damascus

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

for me, reading the Silmarillion is like reading a heavy metal version of the Odyssey

Are you familiar with Blind Guardian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth

I have heard of them, but I've never actually listened to them

Legba

Okay, in case anyone loves reading Norwegian and Danish, here are a few ebooks I put together for my Nordic litterature class last fall. All in the public domain, of course.

Collett, Camilla - Amtmandens Døtre epub, mobi
Hamsun, Knut - Frøken Julie epub mobi
Hamsun, Knut - Sult epub mobi
Ibsen, Henrik - Gengangere epub mobi
Ibsen, Henrik - Peer Gynt epub mobi
Ibsen, Henrik - Vildanden epub mobi
Kielland, Alexander - Ballstemning epub mobi
Lie, Jonas - Familien på Gilje epub mobi
Undset, Sigrid - Jenny: Roman... epub mobi

And for good measure

Wodehouse, P. G. - My Man Jeeves epub mobi

Lord_Asmodeus

So, just finished listening to the audiobook versions of Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series and have just started on the Colonization series.

I wish they had kept the guy that voided the Worldwar series and I don't know why they didn't, it was the same company that produced it and everything.

Darmak

Lord_Asmodeus wrote: »

So, just finished listening to the audiobook versions of Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series and have just started on the Colonization series.

I wish they had kept the guy that voided the Worldwar series and I don't know why they didn't, it was the same company that produced it and everything.

The Worldwar series is the one that's like WWII but with magic and dragons and it rotates between like 50 character's points of view?

Lord_Asmodeus

Darmak wrote: »

Lord_Asmodeus wrote: »

So, just finished listening to the audiobook versions of Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series and have just started on the Colonization series.

I wish they had kept the guy that voided the Worldwar series and I don't know why they didn't, it was the same company that produced it and everything.

The Worldwar series is the one that's like WWII but with magic and dragons and it rotates between like 50 character's points of view?

It's WWII but it has aliens invading in 1941ish. And it only has like 10 different character's point of view. And I'm pretty sure whenever a character dies someone is added to the list, or at least usually.

Edit: I read the last book, Homeward Bound, before I started listening from the beginning. Sort of wish I hadn't but it also gives me some wry chuckles here and there.