Poll: BOOKS!!!
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Excellent book. Typically, mandatory school reading sucks enormous genitalia, but that one was an exception.revolutionaification said:
So, yeah, I like to read. I picked the "enjoy a good book" option, but I haven't been reading a lot lately. I started The Count of Monte Cristo, but I stopped and haven't gotten around to continuing it. What with Christmas coming up, I'll have other books to read anyway.
As for book recommendations, I'm going to go with 'The Killer Angels'. If you are even remotely interested in history, it's a great read. It tells the tale of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the commanders on both sides. Even though you aren't American, it's still worth checking out.
Not for the sake of this argument. They are books the same way a script for a movie is a book. They tell a story through text, but not in the same manner a novel would. The novel has to base its plot, characters, atmosphere, everything, on words alone.CrashBang said:
A graphic novel, while a wonderful medium, isn't the same. I dont mean its 'not as good' by some arbitrary ranking system, but I do mean it's different. It relies heavily heavily on visual aspects. It can be just as much a series of paintings as it can be a book, depending on the artist and the way he chooses to go about it.
Comparing the amount of text in a graphic novel, and a regular novel, on average you're going to get more text in an old fashioned book. They traditionally take longer to get through reading. 100 pages of Frankenstein, is definitely not the same as 100 of any manga/graphic novel of your choosing. Reading them each is a different experience.
Well, in all honesty, it's a little of both for me. I honestly love finding a book that is gripping, that I really love reading. However, some books, like The Count of Monte Cristo, I read just because I feel like I need to read them in order to be a well-rounded person. I guess there's a bit of "I'm better than all these non-reading imbeciles" in there. Not proud of it, but it's there.Aerowaves said:
However, a book that definitely falls into the former category is a book called "A Fighter's Heart", by Sam Sherridan. It's a documentary of sorts, as a guy writes about how he traveled the world learning about fighting arts and, more importantly, just why it is we feel compelled to fight as a sport. It's awesome, and will definitely put hair on your chest.
I love a good supernatural or sci-fi story (Moongazer and Changeling being my favorites but aren't very popular). The problem is I tend to like the pacing and fantasy worlds found in the young adult books and want more mature characters and deeper plots.Koroviev said:
Heh. I just discovered his blog/columns after I read the book. It's truly great stuff he and his wife are doing. Half the Sky should be required reading for...oh I don't know, everyoneKoroviev said:
I do enjoy reading. I spend my waking time playing games or sitting on the com in my free time, then I read at night.
I'd give Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World a look. It's by Haruki Murakami and it's a surrealist affair. What I found compelling, and continue to find compelling, about Murakami's work is his emphasis on the main character's thoughts. I've also heard great things about The Book Thief, which is a young adult novel in America, however, was targeted at adults in its native Australia.TehCookie said:
The First Law series by Joe abercrombie is fantastic. So are the first 5 books of the Dark Tower Series. The last 2, especially book 7, kinda die.
Yup. I usually carry a book and my DS in my bag for spare time. Lately, the book's been gaining favor over the DS, though.
I'm awful at reading books quickly, which usually results in me not finishing them. Between the internet and well... the internet, I have enough media to keep me intrigued when I'm at home or in my dorm at college.
However, when I'm separated from all that, it becomes much easier for me to read.
When I was in Peru for two months with no available or crappy tech, I managed to read through Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead which is quite the behemoth in under three weeks.
(If your wondering, I read it because of Bioshock, thought it was amazingly intriguing at the time, loved how addictive the writing was, understood the metaphorical significance of the sexual content, but still thought it was awkwardly handled, and several months ago debunked its theory as humanism bastardized by neoliberalism which amounted to a wet dream for the return of oligarchy.)
Besides that, I've only managed to read the first three books of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Money Secrets by Dave Barry.
Everything else has been mandatory school reading. I still enjoy reading, its just that its hard for me to dedicate enough time to reading anything that doesn't have me either totally intrigue me or make me laugh a lot.
However, when I'm separated from all that, it becomes much easier for me to read.
When I was in Peru for two months with no available or crappy tech, I managed to read through Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead which is quite the behemoth in under three weeks.
(If your wondering, I read it because of Bioshock, thought it was amazingly intriguing at the time, loved how addictive the writing was, understood the metaphorical significance of the sexual content, but still thought it was awkwardly handled, and several months ago debunked its theory as humanism bastardized by neoliberalism which amounted to a wet dream for the return of oligarchy.)
Besides that, I've only managed to read the first three books of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Money Secrets by Dave Barry.
Everything else has been mandatory school reading. I still enjoy reading, its just that its hard for me to dedicate enough time to reading anything that doesn't have me either totally intrigue me or make me laugh a lot.