@EatingCrayon: I take your point, the plot is pretty random until about half way through, if I remember. However it all ties up around 3/4 the way through, and I still like it very much so as a book. The last few scenes are really imaginative and eays to think up in your mind.
Mind you, the sequel's even weirder. But Pseudonymous Bosch's style of writing is what I like, I find it nice how he just starts talking to you.
@IcicleArrows: I tried reading The Name of This Book is Secret about two years ago, but it got pretty boring and I stopped after half of it. I think I'll try again..
Just finished The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.... (What a mouth full.) Lots of twists that I did not see coming, but the twist at the every end of the series completely ties everything together. Amazing books if anyone wants to read them.
Now I have to read 'A Separate Peace' for my Advance English class before school starts. Honestly, this is the most boring book on Earth.
To be honest, it's a book that just illustrates the appalling ridiculousness and absurdity of the world we live in. It's bleak and depressing but in a way that's intensely comical. You're just laughing at how incompetent and messed up everything is. There's ray of hope in the book. Subtly but they're still there.
[quote=mestalkyoufool]Hopefully I'll get to that part soon. So far I'm liking what I've read. I find it weird though; my taste in books is years ahead of my friends. The people in my school find stuff that was published this year entertaining, yet I find it bland. I seem to mainly enjoy classic books the most.[/quote]
Enjoy being alone b/c you enjoy higher literature lololol. But srs, don't be an elitist about wut you read and you should be fine. By page 173 it should have already been suggested what Milobro does. What do you make of him? Me, I think he embodies all the economists and people who use morality to further their own ends.
[quote=Shucker]I like Doc Daneeka. What happened to him at the end was hilarious.[/quote]
Oh man, the whole situation was pure gold. It's pretty funny how you feel some sympathy for the guy throughout the book even though he really doesn't deserve it. I still don't know what to make of him. The more I re-read the book the more I understand that he's not so much Yossarrian's enemy so much as just someone cynically burned out in life.
[quote=EatingCrayon]just re-reading books i loved as a child; nothing new for now. Currently on Roald Dahl's books and then on to A Series Of Unfortunate Events.[/quote]
Same as this. I've read Hacker and Ctrl-Z. Reading The Name of This Book is Secret, I'll read the sequel afterwards.
[quote=mestalkyoufool]Personally I like Milo the best although I have no idea why.[/quote]
How far are you into it? And I really love Milo in a really perverse kind of way. Guy's a bastard through and through. As much as I am fond of The Chaplain and Major Major Major Major, Dunbar takes the cake for being such a bamf. The part where he explains why he likes being bored sends chills down my spine everyteim.
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saint by ted dekkard. it's interesting.
@ak4allz:
I got the english translated in a pdf file.
From 1~9.
does light novel count ?
If so Sword Art Online.
The Age of American Unreason. Interesting stuff :O
@EatingCrayon: I take your point, the plot is pretty random until about half way through, if I remember.
However it all ties up around 3/4 the way through, and I still like it very much so as a book. The last few scenes are really imaginative and eays to think up in your mind.
Mind you, the sequel's even weirder. But Pseudonymous Bosch's style of writing is what I like, I find it nice how he just starts talking to you.
My Pretty Kitten
and
The Hobbit
@IcicleArrows: I tried reading The Name of This Book is Secret about two years ago, but it got pretty boring and I stopped after half of it. I think I'll try again..
jia, A Novel of North Korea.
Just finished The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.... (What a mouth full.)
Lots of twists that I did not see coming, but the twist at the every end of the series completely ties everything together. Amazing books if anyone wants to read them.
Now I have to read 'A Separate Peace' for my Advance English class before school starts.
Honestly, this is the most boring book on Earth.
The Valley of Horses.
The Mortal Instrument series
[quote=HolMyPole]Whats catch 22 about?[/quote]
To be honest, it's a book that just illustrates the appalling ridiculousness and absurdity of the world we live in. It's bleak and depressing but in a way that's intensely comical. You're just laughing at how incompetent and messed up everything is. There's ray of hope in the book. Subtly but they're still there.
[quote=mestalkyoufool]Hopefully I'll get to that part soon. So far I'm liking what I've read. I find it weird though; my taste in books is years ahead of my friends. The people in my school find stuff that was published this year entertaining, yet I find it bland. I seem to mainly enjoy classic books the most.[/quote]
Enjoy being alone b/c you enjoy higher literature lololol. But srs, don't be an elitist about wut you read and you should be fine. By page 173 it should have already been suggested what Milobro does. What do you make of him? Me, I think he embodies all the economists and people who use morality to further their own ends.
[quote=Shucker]I like Doc Daneeka. What happened to him at the end was hilarious.[/quote]
Oh man, the whole situation was pure gold. It's pretty funny how you feel some sympathy for the guy throughout the book even though he really doesn't deserve it. I still don't know what to make of him. The more I re-read the book the more I understand that he's not so much Yossarrian's enemy so much as just someone cynically burned out in life.
[quote=EatingCrayon]just re-reading books i loved as a child; nothing new for now. Currently on Roald Dahl's books and then on to A Series Of Unfortunate Events.[/quote]
Same as this. I've read Hacker and Ctrl-Z.
Reading The Name of This Book is Secret, I'll read the sequel afterwards.
just re-reading books i loved as a child; nothing new for now. Currently on Roald Dahl's books and then on to A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
[quote=mestalkyoufool]Personally I like Milo the best although I have no idea why.[/quote]
How far are you into it? And I really love Milo in a really perverse kind of way. Guy's a bastard through and through. As much as I am fond of The Chaplain and Major Major Major Major, Dunbar takes the cake for being such a bamf. The part where he explains why he likes being bored sends chills down my spine everyteim.
[quote=mestalkyoufool]Catch 22.[/quote]
Love that book to death. Fav char so far?
OT:
Dracula. Book is pretty rad when the dudes in the story aren't WKing the two girls.
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The Night Circus. =x
How To Kill a Mockingbird...summer assignment.
hunger games
@mestalkyoufool: OH, ive read 1984 (Senior reading project) and it was a really good book
I'm reading an auto biography on Sugar Ray Leonard
@mestalkyoufool: Sounds interesting
East of Eden
Whats catch 22 about?