That's every Woody Allen movie ever made.

-I dunno. I guess I just saw it differently than you did. Or maybe I'm just remembering the small comic relief moments and the rest slipped my mind.

Dune
The Foundation Trilogy
The Dark Tower Series (by Stephen King. 7 books, 4000+ pages of pure awesome.)

Fight Club, The contorsionists handbook, The Bourne Identity, Supremacy and ultimatum (but not the Bourne Legacy which is rubbish), and I've got to read the one about Ukranian Tractors and War reporting for cowards too.

The Scavenger trilogy by KJ Parker is a great read. The story is really easy to follow but has so many twists it's unbelievable. At certain points you think you've got everything and everyone sorted out, and you know how it'll end. And then it doesn't. But it might. Or it could be something else.

Also, the ending is incredible. I gaped at the last paragraph for about a minute.

Sartre - Nausea.

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A very enjoyable read set in a very enjoyable world with very enjoyable writing.

Shipping News - E. Anie Proulx
I had to read this book for English and I thought I was going to hate it. Oh how I was wrong. The writing makes you feel like crap every time you read it because it's so good. The plot moves really slowly, but you care about the characters a lot. Read it.




Also, READ HAMLET.

Masters Of Doom, God's Debris, Fight Club, beginning of The New Jedi Order series, The Phantom Tollbooth, and anything by Ronald Dahl.

I read Hamlet.

I was underwhelmed. Shakespeare has done better :|

Oh and I started on God's Debris but it was so hard to read it was almost a chore. I thoroughly enjoyed what I did read, but still.

I actually liked Hamlet - but the grave diggers were the best characters.

I like Othello over Hamlet. Maybe because Iago is a better character.

mm, I would probably agree with you there, but it always annoys me how easily Othello believes Iago.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]
Oh and I started on God's Debris but it was so hard to read it was almost a chore. I thoroughly enjoyed what I did read, but still.[/QUOTE]
Really? When I first started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I literally couldn't think of anything else until I finished it. Try it again!

Add Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick) and you're a winner.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]"OMG HE WAS SHOT WHILE JUMPING TEH GAP

OH NOES"[/QUOTE]

among many other things that was a BS part of the movie... the real kulikov was a student of zaitsev's and wasn't killed

during the crossing of the volga there were no german planes, no bombs, no artillery hitting the boats... zaitsev was not an uneducated farmboy but a well educated clerk in the russian navy... there was no love triangle thing going on... danilov only appears 2 maybe 3 times in the book (he also doesn't get killed)... none of that "the man with the rifle shoots the man without a rifle follows him" crap... should i continue?

That reminds me, I still need to get my copy of that back from a friend.

The lords of dus by Lawerence watt-evens. Best book(s) ever written.

The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

You seriously don't understand how badly you should read Life of Pi. I really think that guy Ziplock..Zloke..Zloce...whatever his name was, was onto something when he reccomended it.

I recently finished Tom Clancy's 'Without Remorse' in about 1 week, I literally could not put it down. I'm now reading another book of his called Rainbow Six, and damn its even better!

Currently reading "The King Beyond the Gates" by David Gemmell (had it on order) and good god it's good.

I've gone through 140 some pages since about 5 hours ago.

I'm about 50 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo (440 pages). Sucks that I'm a slow reader kinda, because close to 1.5-2 hours a night for 50 pages, and need it done by next Friday. I'm really into older books right now though. I read Jekyll/Hyde which I LOVED (seriously, that book was great. So very smart, and the last chapter is so true..).

But I just adore older 1800-era writing styles. It's so...awesome. It borders on very in-depth and confusing vocabulary, yet still understandable (Kidnapped! by Robert Louis Stevenson was a bit much though). It's also how everyone I know kinda refers to me as talking.

amendment:

Dune (whole series, -Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Andersons crap. Anderson should stick with star wars, where at least theres nothing he can screw up that lucas already hasnt. )

The Foundation SERIES, which in actuality is the culmination of three series that make up one series. the first being the Robot series(of which I, Robot is a part) the second being...i cant remember at the moment, and the final being the foundation series.

The Dark Tower - there is nothing else to be said that dud didnt.

Sword of truth series - i've read every book including Debt of Bones, and cant believe i have to wait 2 ****ing years for the last ****ing book. Phantom just ENDS, there is no satisfaction, there is no resolution it just ends. like in the middle of a conversation even. ugh. but its the second of the chainfire trilogy, so it gets the natural comparison to ESB, and it was a damn good book, but I WANT MORE.

ESB?

And we have to wait TWO ****ING YEARS FOR THE NEXT BOOK?

Oh good christ I'm going to go insane.

Also, is debt of bones worth paying for? I've got a staunch policy that I only buy books that I want to read anymore--I'm looking to further my library (and I have to complete the missing gaps in a lot of series at some point, which will take quite a bit of doing) and also it's nice to revisit books after a time.

Good god David Gemmell is better than just about any fantasy author I've read yet (with the exception of maybe Richard Knaack and Tracy Hickman). His books contain epics in very few pages, and not only that but he doesn't assume the reader is utterly retarded (which I find sometimes extremely annoying) and lets the reader figure out for themselves just exactly what is going on. In doing so the emotions he creates with his words are just awe-inspiring.

Get his books asap.

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

H.P. Lovecraft - Call of the Chtulhu and Other Weird Stories*

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty, Someday**



these are some I've read recently, except for the Hemingway, which I read last year but it's amazing.

*collection of Lovecraft's short stories. Includes Call of Chtulhu, Herbert West: Reanimator, Whisperer in the Darkness, Shadows Over Innsmouth, and Rats in the Walls, which are all of my favorites.

**One book, just a weird title.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Good god David Gemmell is better than just about any fantasy author I've read yet (with the exception of maybe Richard Knaack and Tracy Hickman). His books contain epics in very few pages, and not only that but he doesn't assume the reader is utterly retarded (which I find sometimes extremely annoying) and lets the reader figure out for themselves just exactly what is going on. In doing so the emotions he creates with his words are just awe-inspiring.

Get his books asap.[/QUOTE]
I know what you mean. The King Beyond the Gate is an awesome book, and I'd also reccommend Legend, which is the story of the Earl of Bronze and how he defended Drenoch (I think that's it. The big fortress, anyway). The Bloodstone trilogy is pretty good, too (Wolf in Shadow, The Last Guardian, and Bloodstone).

The only thing I dislike about Gemmell is that in nearly all of his books (the Bloodstone trilogy is good for not doing this), the hero and the heroine fall in deep, sincere love within about five minutes of meeting, even if they hated each other to start with. It's just so predictable in that regard. Minor gripe, though

I enjoyd Debt Of Bones. However, I also enjoyed New Spring and am usually ridiculed for it.



I heard that Stella is going to or did finish his last book or two. Hopefully Robert Jordan doesn't kick the bucket before he finishes "The Wheel Of Time" as well. "The Rigante" and "The Drenai Saga" or two of the best fantasy series' out there, in my opinion. I prefer George R. R. Martin to David Gemmell, but he's still one of the best.

i'm of the opinion, if you're not sure you'll like it, get it out of the library. you can always pick it up later at a bookstore.

Dune is amazing, I haven't really read much over the last few years, but a friend advised me to read it and wow, its pretty damn awesome!

The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R R Martin. I started reading the first book in January and by May I'd read all of the books so far. I'm not a huge fan of the fantasy genre but GRRM's attention to detail and strange sense of realism really appeals to me. Gotta love a series that avoids the typical fantasy element of almost immortal main characters. It's pretty harsh and brutal when a favourite character dies but that only helps you feel the suspense.

For a book that you won't manage to read in under a week, try Tolstoy's War and Peace. It's excellent, the first 80 pages tends to weed out quite a lot of people with its scenes set in Russian aristocratic dinner parties but once you get beyond that it's an amazing book that covers nearly all aspects of life.

Has anyone read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance?

The Dune series is good, but I couldn't tolerate Chapterhouse and ended it for myself, there.

*cough*

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]Thats a load of bullocks.[/QUOTE]
No. A van packed with my immediate family is a load of Bullocks.

I read Legend a long time ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, which was what prompted me to get The King Beyond The Gate. Just finished it a few minutes ago actually--excellent book, very worth my investment.

Now I just need to go to my friend's house and get Fight Club so I'll have something to do/read today.

As I Lay Dying