Books

Penguin Incarnate

Let's talk about them, yes?

Right now I'm reading The Men Who Stare at Goats in between sessions of being pissed off at the second volume of The Walking Dead hardcover. After that I'm going to reads me some James Joyce. Because that's what winners do.

Apparently some people like to use Library Thing.

Recommendations (name your recommendation and I'll put it here):

Penguin Incarnate:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

YaYa:
Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

Anjin-San
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

bowtiediesel
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

Teefs
Nonfiction: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Fiction: Jailbird

A Short List of Recommended Books That Are Not Comic Books by the Forumer That is Known to Most as Koshian: The Recommendation List of Koshian (That Are Books) Mk.II-- Now With Authors!:
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by: Bill Bryson
Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Quoth
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
"It is made of win, but possibly just for girls, I don't know."

Tossrock
The Icarus Hunt, by Timothy Zhan
"It's a stand alone science fiction / mystery novel; also, really good."

Centipede
Everybody should read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke
I cannot stress this enough

snap
The Road by Cormac Mccarthy

Urian
THE ROAD

YaYa

Thread lacks content.

Abracadaniel

PI we have a poorly named book thread already

sorry duder

potatoe

i just finished this book called "blue nowhere" that was about a hacker that was killing people and they needed another hacker to come track him down and it was pretty cool

Koshian

it's cool, PI

I got this covered

World as Myth

yeah other other book thread is pretty hard to find because of its crap title

World as Myth

World as Myth wrote: »

yeah other other book thread is pretty hard to find because of its crap title

the title is crappy is what I'm saying

QuestionMarkMan

I like to read

I enjoy books

Abracadaniel

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

QuestionMarkMan

also fuck WaM for getting tickets to walking with dinosaurs

Penguin Incarnate

World as Myth wrote: »

yeah other other book thread is pretty hard to find because of its crap title

It needs to be longer, I think.

naporeon

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Except it should have "Olde-Timey" in the title, and every other word should have an unnecessary "e" on the end.

YaYa

I recommend the Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas under Red Skies, both by Scott Lynch.

Penguin Incarnate

Let's support this thread as a protest to Koshian's horrible goddamn title.

The Far Side

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Yeah, and some brackets too! Because taking the whole of 3 seconds to find out what a thread is about by reading it is stupid!

Javen

World as Myth wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

yeah other other book thread is pretty hard to find because of its crap title

the title is crappy is what I'm saying

Are you saying the thread title is crap

Is that the message you're trying to convey, here

Abracadaniel

naporeon wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Except it should have "Olde-Timey" in the title, and every other word should have an unnecessary "e" on the end.

Quite so.

Also I'm gonna throw it out there before someone else does

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

Koshian

.

Abracadaniel

The Far Side wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Yeah, and some brackets too! Because taking the whole of 3 seconds to find out what a thread is about by reading it is stupid!

Cram it up your faux-vag, shemale

Anjin-San

Dumb Hero you dick!

Alright, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, son.

The Far Side

Dumb Hero wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Yeah, and some brackets too! Because taking the whole of 3 seconds to find out what a thread is about by reading it is stupid!

Cram it up your faux-vag, shemale

a bloo i'm smart hero and i can't figure out threads unless its blatantly obvious in the title a bloo

World as Myth

QuestionMarkMan wrote: »

also fuck WaM for getting tickets to walking with dinosaurs

two tickets cost me $110

it better be fucking awesome

(it will be)

Abracadaniel

The Far Side wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Yeah, and some brackets too! Because taking the whole of 3 seconds to find out what a thread is about by reading it is stupid!

Cram it up your faux-vag, shemale

a bloo i'm smart hero and i can't figure out threads unless its blatantly obvious in the title a bloo

more cramming

less posting

Centipede Damascus

I support Koshian's thread

but only because it was here first

The Far Side

Dumb Hero wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

Dumb Hero wrote: »

kosh you should give it a less dumb name

something like

the SE++ Literary Discussion Thread

I said that with my pinky out, it was so fancy.

Yeah, and some brackets too! Because taking the whole of 3 seconds to find out what a thread is about by reading it is stupid!

Cram it up your faux-vag, shemale

a bloo i'm smart hero and i can't figure out threads unless its blatantly obvious in the title a bloo

more cramming

less posting

come on switch to puppetmastery already

that is the next step

Penguin Incarnate

A title is supposed to be a short-cut to understanding the contents of something. If I have to wonder what it means, then it failed.

And that goes for books and especially for short stories.

Abracadaniel

man what

And yes, what PI said

koshian's thread had an overly long title to be funny, but clearly it didn't describe the thread very well

or this thread wouldn't have been made.

Penguin Incarnate

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

I support Koshian's thread

but only because it was here first

That ain't a good reason.

Do what's right.

Anyways, enough of this noise, let's talk about books, damnit.

Koshian

ok, I'm pretty happy with the new thread title

it's staying

Penguin Incarnate

So why is everyone so in love with The Men That Stare at Goats? I'm not saying it's bad, but this might be served better as fiction than the what it actually is.

bowtiedseal

recommendation - my name is red by orhan pamuk (translated into english by erdag goknar)

potatoe

what if i want to read it in russian?

World as Myth

Penguin Incarnate wrote: »

So why is everyone so in love with The Men That Stare at Goats? I'm not saying it's bad, but this might be served better as fiction than the what it actually is.

everybody loves a good conspiracy!

also, everybody loves goats

the stories in it are pretty interesting

bowtiedseal

potatoe wrote: »

what if i want to read it in russian?

be my guest

it's originally in turkish though

The Far Side

Koshian wrote: »

ok, I'm pretty happy with the new thread title

it's staying

make sure you put books into brackets and capital letters, kosh

nobody will be able to find it unless you do that!!!

Penguin Incarnate

World as Myth wrote: »

Penguin Incarnate wrote: »

So why is everyone so in love with The Men That Stare at Goats? I'm not saying it's bad, but this might be served better as fiction than the what it actually is.

everybody loves a good conspiracy!

also, everybody loves goats

the stories in it are pretty interesting

No. Nobody loves goats, that's why it's about goats.

Koshian

aw dang

I guess I lose

oh well

Penguin Incarnate

The Far Side wrote: »

Koshian wrote: »

ok, I'm pretty happy with the new thread title

it's staying

make sure you put books into brackets and capital letters, kosh

nobody will be able to find it unless you do that!!!

But then it wouldn't be so dang clever!

Abracadaniel

The Far Side wrote: »

Koshian wrote: »

ok, I'm pretty happy with the new thread title

it's staying

make sure you put books into brackets and capital letters, kosh

nobody will be able to find it unless you do that!!!

will you quit bitching already, you cunt

several people in this very thread also voiced the opinion that it was a poorly named thread

nobody needs brackets

just not an ambiguously named thread

World as Myth

Penguin Incarnate wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

Penguin Incarnate wrote: »

So why is everyone so in love with The Men That Stare at Goats? I'm not saying it's bad, but this might be served better as fiction than the what it actually is.

everybody loves a good conspiracy!

also, everybody loves goats

the stories in it are pretty interesting

No. Nobody loves goats, that's why it's about goats.

it has a cute goat on the cover

goats sell

Abracadaniel

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever are also a fantastic series.