What We're Reading

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

I'm reading Cormac's "The Road". Pretty good. The minimalist leanings are nice, particularly when he gets poetic with his descriptions of things. Very apt metaphors, and the language gets nice and rhythmic at times. Sexy.

Some of his "experimental" tendencies are not sexy. No quotation marks and almost no dialogue attribution are occasionally cause for confusion, and the dialogue's terseness word-wise contradicts its relative length line-wise. I almost get the impression of characters woofing or barking at each other, back and forth.

Woof.

Bark, bark.

Woof?

Meow.

Also, some of his sentences are just straight up run-on's. It comes off as excessively artistic. Special snowflake writing. "I don't need your stupid rules! Fuck English!"

But I'm just a gumpy asshole who likes sticking to the rules unless there's a damn good reason for breaking them I highly suggest the book, though, if only for its poetic leanings.

[CrazyCracka420]

I'm reading Cormac's "The Road". Pretty good. The minimalist leanings are nice, particularly when he gets poetic with his descriptions of things. Very apt metaphors, and the language gets nice and rhythmic at times. Sexy.

Some of his "experimental" tendencies are not sexy. No quotation marks and almost no dialogue attribution are occasionally cause for confusion, and the dialogue's terseness word-wise contradicts its relative length line-wise. I almost get the impression of characters woofing or barking at each other, back and forth.

Woof.

Bark, bark.

Woof?

Meow.

Also, some of his sentences are just straight up run-on's. It comes off as excessively artistic. Special snowflake writing. "I don't need your stupid rules! Fuck English!"

But I'm just a gumpy asshole who likes sticking to the rules unless there's a damn good reason for breaking them I highly suggest the book, though, if only for its poetic leanings.

I just finished that book myself, and had the same thoughts as you.  I think at least a half dozen times I had to re-read a dialogue to determine who said what.  It's easy to tell who's saying what when the conversation is short, but when they each have 6+ responses to each other, it can get confusing who's saying what.  I liked how he was able to convey the feel of the environment and their situation.  Only other comment I'd have to make, is there were probably a half dozen to dozen words he used in the book that I had never heard of before and had to look them up.  I have always read a lot, and have considered my vocabulary to be quite robust (even if I don't necessary display it online or in conversations with people in person).  English and grammar have always come easy to me, so I thought it was a little odd word choice to use a few of the words he did.

[Radament]

I've just preordered The entire Lovecraft's Collection from 1897 to 1936 

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Reading Wolves in the North by Harry Sidebottom

Would recommend Insurrection by Robyn Young, very good book along with her Brethren Trilogy

[Grumbs]

Been meaning to read Foundation by Isaac Asimov for years, now half way through and it seems worth a read.

[Gravoth_iii]

Inheritance (fourth book in the Eragon series) s'good.

[Tagora]

rereading betting on the muse

[Umbra]

Bookstore in my City had a great sale this month. Bought the whole Elric of Melibone saga By Moorcock. Will update if its good

[FleetFox]

Just Finished Last of the Mohicans by James Cooper. One of my favourite books for sure, and its really surprising how it differs in many parts with the film. Great read, highly recommend. Also yeah the Road by Cormac McCarthy is very good too.

[darmaster]

i usually read books to entertain myself, just to relax nothing more. need cool horror stories possibly, if not books are fine too, just to spend free time. NIED SUJJESTIONS

[Falka]

Bookstore in my City had a great sale this month. Bought the whole Elric of Melibone saga By Moorcock. Will update if its good

I've tried to read it a few times, never went through more than few dozens of pages. Not my cup of tea, within fantasy genre there's a lot of better novels. According to me ofc

i usually read books to entertain myself, just to relax nothing more. need cool horror stories possibly, if not books are fine too, just to spend free time. NIED SUJJESTIONS

Twilight?  :

[Umbra]

Read the 1st book. Interesting writing style. The landscape is usually dark and grotesque, the enemies outlandish, putrid daemons, elementals or some hellish combination of animals, even the people are mostly described as being ugly.

The main protagonist Elric is a depressed and brooding anemic albino, last empreror and destroyer of his race, who is, at the same time, a weaking without Stormbringer, the sword he hates, and a powerful dark sorcerer. The book itself is composed as a series of adventures, usually with Moongloom, his diminutive, oportunistic but loyal companion.

Its different, dark, the adventures mostly end badly and Elric is a wretched and cursed man. I like it so far 7/10

[Count_Grishnackh]

Nice we have a thred like this, I haven't noticed it yet.

I read dozens of novels by hungarian authors, most likely belletrists' works. And as they are rather unknown, I'll just list some of my favourite works from world literature.

Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment, The Gambler
Kafka's Trial
Bulgakov's Master and Margaritha
Márquez's Hundred years of solitude
Kudera's Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality
Irwine Welsh's Trainspotting
Huxley's Brave New World
Badbury's Fahrenheit 451

gimme recs D':

[_Morgana_leFay_]

I've just preordered The entire Lovecraft's Collection from 1897 to 1936 

hes awesome .. almost a bit to much for me XD !! but just almost i love the way he writes ..

Atm Im reading Terry Pratchett
Books from the Discworld

Hes amazing & so much fun
everyone who likes fantasy books shoud try one of hims .. 

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Bookstore in my City had a great sale this month. Bought the whole Elric of Melibone saga By Moorcock. Will update if its good

oh, sweet, sweet memories. Was one of my first fantasy trilogies I read when was about the age of 16. Will always remember the dark, wicked atmosphere all over the books as well as Elric himself and his drugs and all those crazy ventures and thoughts about chaos and order.

Just finished Adam Zamoyski's 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow. Oh man, this is great. It is actually a historical book but it goddamn reads like a novel. Really strong recommendation, this march is an incredible part of human history on so many layers, what they had to endure! Also it is incredible to see how tactical masterstrokes, plain failure, subordination and pure luck and fate interacted in this whole thing.


on a side note I wish Georg Martin would be able to learn a thing or two from Abercrombie http://www.joeabercrombie.com/2014/02/27/progress-report-feb-14/ Will read those books for sure, someday.