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Print is dead [Book thread]

FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
edited August 2010 in Social Entropy++
Long live print.

What are you currently reading?

I don't read a ton of fiction, my job keeps me heavy into non-fiction, but when I go in I go deep:

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This book, 900 pages of sometimes incomprehensible narrative. But man, it is very well written.

Next will be Master and Margarita...

Any tips, suggestions to put on my queue?


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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    holy shit that book only cost $10?!

    good find

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  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I am currently reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

    I'm enjoying it.

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Just promise you won't become a dick after reading it. That sometimes happens.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    God+of+War.jpg

    because I'm fucking classy like that

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    chapter one: kratos learns the spin attack

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Oh Shoe, I have missed you. how have you been friend?

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Nuzak wrote: »
    chapter one: kratos learns the spin attack
    Chapter two: blood

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I been good, man. How's B-more treatin' you

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    holy shit why doesn't my Borders store sell that God of War book

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »
    I been good, man. How's B-more treatin' you

    Can't complain. The city is good, hot as balls the last couple of weeks. Last week off before year four of teaching starts.

    My little freshman, they graduate this year ::tear::

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i don't mean to be a killjoy, but

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=123860

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    it's funny, God Of War takes a lot of liberties with the structure of the video game to make it, you know, a good book

    whereass the Metal Gear Solid novelization went out of the way to detail all the patently ridiculous video gamey boss fights pretty much as they happened

    I'm surprised they didn't have Psycho Mantis tell Snake about how much he likes Castlevania and then have him plug his controller into port 2

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  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I just finished reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

    Will probably read Stardust (I think that's what it's called..) next.

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom try The Substance it changed my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    shit half the cutscenes in MGS4 could have been put in a book

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    there's also an mgs2 book that I haven't picked up

    I can't WAIT to see what they make of that game

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  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    FortyTwo wrote: »
    Just promise you won't become a dick after reading it. That sometimes happens.

    I'll try not to!

    Amazon keeps recommending me Infinite Jest.

    I might get it just because I need something to read after The Fountainhead.

    Though I will probably shoot straight into Atlas Shrugged afterwards.

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
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    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    FortyTwo wrote: »
    Just promise you won't become a dick after reading it. That sometimes happens.

    I'll try not to!

    Amazon keeps recommending me Infinite Jest.

    I might get it just because I need something to read after The Fountainhead.

    Though I will probably shoot straight into Atlas Shrugged afterwards.

    This is the problem, too much Rand in too little time can turn people into raging dickbags.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    infinite-jest.jpg?t=1282003999

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  • celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Right now: Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine. I love that man.

    Baroque, Infinite Jest is more of a mental commitment. Atlas Shrugged looks big but reads fast.

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  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    celandine wrote: »
    Right now: Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine. I love that man.

    Baroque, Infinite Jest is more of a mental commitment. Atlas Shrugged looks big but reads fast.

    I figured AS read fast. The Fountainhead certainly does.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    I am currently reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

    I'm enjoying it.

    It's a good book, and it's got good writing about architecture
    But the protagonist is a rapist and objectivism is stupid

    Also, Master and Margarita is probably the best book

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  • FortyTwoFortyTwo strongest man in the world The Land of Pleasant Living Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    I am currently reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

    I'm enjoying it.

    It's a good book, and it's got good writing about architecture
    But the protagonist is a rapist and objectivism is stupid

    Also, Master and Margarita is probably the best book

    I keep hearing this. My girlfriend read it on the advice of an English teacher friend of ours. It is sitting on our bookshelves right now. After Jest - I will tackle that.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It's the greatest thing I have ever had to read for an English class

    The Russian names are a bit intimidating but overall it's a trip

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  • SvidrigailovSvidrigailov Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    celandine wrote: »
    Right now: Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine. I love that man.

    Baroque, Infinite Jest is more of a mental commitment. Atlas Shrugged looks big but reads fast.

    I figured AS read fast. The Fountainhead certainly does.
    I like Any Rand's prose, but Atlas Shrugged drags a bit when you get to the motherfucking eighty-page speech that summarizes the book's message.

    God damn.

    [e]You know, I read both of those books as an impressionable young high school student, and somehow it never occured to me that, yeah, Howard Roark is a rapist.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I am reading the book thread we already had

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=123860

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