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The Book Thread

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BayernBoz

Senior Squad
ok, now i don't know if this will be a popular thread and if it will keep goin' but i'm sure we've got some book readers in here. Same as the movie and music threads, just post your favorite book, least favorite book or what book you're currently reading. I'll start off....

currently reading Franklin Foer's 'How Soccer Explains the World'......only a couple of chapters into it but so far it's looking like a good book.
 
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Parra Power

Manager
my english teachers turned up with two fat fat fat books each for us to read over the summer holidays..... one of them makes LOTR and war and peace look like kids books :( so i won't have much choice over what i'm reading over the next few months.

last book i read was All Quiet on the Western Front, because its sort of related to the Western Front of WWI stuff we're doing in Modern History at school.

favourite book is 1984....... i just really liked it (Y)
 
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Moron

Fast Breeder
Life Ban
I'm currently reading a few books by Franz Kafka. "The Metamorphosis and other Stories"--"The Trial" and "Kafka's Diaries".
 
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BayernBoz

Senior Squad
Parra Power said:
my english teachers turned up with two fat fat fat books each for us to read over the summer holidays..... one of them makes LOTR and war and peace look like kids books :( so i won't have much choice over what i'm reading over the next few months.

last book i read was All Quiet on the Western Front, because its sort of related to the Western Front of WWI stuff we're doing in Modern History at school.

favourite book is 1984....... i just really liked it (Y)
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I had to read 'All Quiet on the Western Front' for my english class. I only read about 1/4 of it because I wasn't much of a reader back in high school. I will go back and finish it though........one day.
 
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Andreas

Senior Squad
I can't stand books, the only books I've read are the one's which I've been "forced" to read in school: Fever Pitch (which was good), Herman, Beatles, Naiv.Super, L., Fakta om Finland (all Norwegian books). My favourite one will have to be Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. Probably because it was about football.
 
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Yossarian

Fan Favourite
^^^ hurhur. Same here, bro, same here. My main reason really being that I can't read worth a damn.....very ironic that my parent's home is practically like a library in itself too, eh?

I suck ape at reading, probably takes me a good month or so to finish your average 250-300 pager.....maybe 21 days if I put my full devotion and effort to it.

I really envy folks who can brush off 3-4 books in a couple of week's time with ease.

I'll just stick to comics for the time being.
 
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Seán D

fm prodigy
reading a few Shifty brown books. finish angels and demons (brilliant) and the da vinci code. im going to start the other two that i have soon, digital fortress and the other one i cant remember the name of.
 
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::shinji::

Min


Been working on 'Tecumseh: A Life' by John Sugden for the past couple of weeks. Very interesting, especially if you're into history, but kind of a heavy read so I can't seem to get past only reading 10-15 pages at a time.
 
ShiftyPowers

ShiftyPowers

Make America Great Again
The Fall Semester's done, so I now get a month of leisure reading. I'll probably finish up Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn and start on my Basic Works of Neitzche.
 
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rony31

Team Captain
I'm hoping to read the DaVinci Code... anyone know if it's possible to finish the entire book during an 8hr flight to England? :p
 
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Jambo Den

Fan Favourite


Just finished "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo.

I remember watching the Metallica - One video (which took its inspiration from the movie adaptation of this novel) when I was younger and that genuinely disturbed my poor wee brain like no other experience in my life (perhaps because the concept of being awfully maimed and then having little or no senses is a haunting one in the extreme). This book brought that all back. Some of the moments in the book are as heartbreaking and as horrifically conjured mentally in the book as they are in the One video. Over the past few years I have become increasingly desensitised to the terrible plight of some unfortunate people in society; Johnny is an extremely emotive depiction of the horrors of war which left me very distressed.

And believe me, if a text can manage that, it's gotta have something behind it. :(
 
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Ubik Valis

Croatian Viking
Jambo Den said:


Just finished "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo.

I remember watching the Metallica - One video (which took its inspiration from the movie adaptation of this novel) when I was younger and that genuinely disturbed my poor wee brain like no other experience in my life (perhaps because the concept of being awfully maimed and then having little or no senses is a haunting one in the extreme). This book brought that all back. Some of the moments in the book are as heartbreaking and as horrifically conjured mentally in the book as they are in the One video. Over the past few years I have become increasingly desensitised to the terrible plight of some unfortunate people in society; Johnny is an extremely emotive depiction of the horrors of war which left me very distressed.

And believe me, if a text can manage that, it's gotta have something behind it. :(
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Yeah, knowing you as the sick fu*kbag that you are, that book sure must have something in it that makes quite an impact. :jambo:
 
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