Books... y'know... the ones with no pictures.

[TheDemon'sHead]

Does anyone read any regular books on these boards?

I'm a comic reader and yes, an avid book reader as well but there isn't a section for books so I figured I'd put it here

The reason that I'm writing about this is that I just finished a superhero themed book called, "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. It's told from the perspectives of the Lex Luthor-esque vilian and a rookie hero who joins the Justice League-type of team. It's interesting enough that I blew threw it in 3 days. It's a bit Powers, JLA, The Authority and Venture Brothers all rolled into one.

I'd recommend it to the lot of you on the Hype boards. The Onion A/V Club gave it an A- and that's coming from snobby hipsters.

Anyone read anything else worth of interest though? I read tons of other stuff too...

Here's the Editorial review from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Soon-Will-Be-...0390265?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182393550&sr=8-1

From Publishers Weekly
The realm of comic book heroes and villains gets a dose of realism in this whimsical debut from game design consultant Grossman. The story shifts between the perspectives of Doctor Impossible, a brilliant scientist turned world's greatest menace, and Fatale, a lonely cyborg and the newest addition to the venerable group of heroes known as the Champions. Though he's been out of commission for a while, Doctor Impossible hatches a scheme to knock the planet out of orbit ("As the Earth grows colder, my power becomes apparent, and the nations submit," he reasons). Meanwhile, Champions leader Corefire goes missing, and Fatale has to learn the ropes of superherodom as the conventional climactic showdown (at Doctor Impossible's secret lair) draws near. However fantastical, the characters (including a "genetic metahuman" and "an elite fairy guard") are thoughtfully portrayed, with Fatale—stuck in a perpetual existential crisis—bemused over the Champions' purpose, and Doctor Impossible wondering "whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life." Grossman dabbles in a host of themes—power, greed, fame, the pitfalls of ego—in this engrossing page-turner, broadening the appeal of an already inviting scenario. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserve

Sorry for the double post. I just realized that this would be a better place for this thread.

 

[tzarinna]

There have to be at least 100,000 threads on books around here.
Yes, we read books with no picutres.

 

[JTIZZLEVILLE]

There are books with no pictures?

Where?!

 

[Immortalfire]

I read real books all the time.

 

[vindrow]

You mean there are other books out ther other than comic books and coloring books

 

[Rac]

Yep. I do. Right now Gavin Baddeley's Goth Chic.

 

[JTIZZLEVILLE]

I read the outside on a bag of potato chips.

My head hurt really bad after that.

 

[JP]

You mean comic books? Yeah, I read those.

 

[TheDemon'sHead]

There have to be at least 100,000 threads on books around here.
Yes, we read books with no picutres.

After a perusing the boards real quick I saw only one other book thread and it was on the OJ killing his wife and her lover book.

 

[Ghostvirus]

There have to be at least 100,000 threads on books around here.
Yes, we read books with no picutres.

LOL! Some of us do anyway.t:

 

[nosebleed.]

Last good book I read: Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son)

Last bad book I read: Everything's Eventual by Stephen King...I was so bored.

 

[BlackLantern]

im reading the ice and fire books by george r.r. martin and i just read the black order by james rollins

 

[Bathrat Begins]

Currently reading: The Name of the Rose

 

[Mr.Webs]

Reading Beyond Band of Brothers by Maj. Richard D. Winters. One of the best memoirs I've ever read. Anyone interested in WWII or leadership should pick this one up. Much better than his biography, Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Last bad book I read: Everything's Eventual by Stephen King...I was so bored.

I really liked The Shining, and some short stories, but I can't get into a lot his stuff. Which is annoying, because The Shining was the first thing I read by him and love, and like him as a person from any interviews/nonfiction I've run into from him.

 

[imdaly]

Moving to the Book Sub-forum...





Oh wait...we never did get that...

 

[Leto Atrides]

Moving to the Book Sub-forum...

Oh wait...we never did get that...

There was one one April Fool's Day, and it had a lot better posts in it than most of the sub-forums around here.

 

[Addendum]

Currently reading: The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 2 (One Lonely Night, The Big Kill, and Kiss Me, Deadly) all by Mickey Spillane

Books I bought still waiting to be read:

These collections I got at Barnes and Noble for 20 bucks each:
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

World War Z by Max Brooks
The god delusion by Richard Dawkins
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
The Plot against America by Philip Roth
Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
Chasing Ghosts by Paul Rieckhoff

 

[nosebleed.]

I really liked The Shining, and some short stories, but I can't get into a lot his stuff. Which is annoying, because The Shining was the first thing I read by him and love, and like him as a person from any interviews/nonfiction I've run into from him.

What other books have you tried to read that you couldn't get into? If it was Dreamcatcher then I'm sorry...that book AND movie blew chunks.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

Does anyone read any regular books on these boards?

I'm a comic reader and yes, an avid book reader as well but there isn't a section for books so I figured I'd put it here

The reason that I'm writing about this is that I just finished a superhero themed book called, "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. It's told from the perspectives of the Lex Luthor-esque vilian and a rookie hero who joins the Justice League-type of team. It's interesting enough that I blew threw it in 3 days. It's a bit Powers, JLA, The Authority and Venture Brothers all rolled into one.

Looks like you need to read more.

But seriously--yeah, I read real books. I got a whole mess of books waiting for me to take a crack at them. I'm reading We Were One, right now. Amazing.

 

[ComicChick]

im reading the ice and fire books by george r.r. martin and i just read the black order by james rollins

i'm reading his book Map of Bones, pretty good so far. had never read anything of his before.

How is Black Order?

 

[Leto Atrides]

What other books have you tried to read that you couldn't get into? If it was Dreamcatcher then I'm sorry...that book AND movie blew chunks.

I never finished "It", and I couldn't get into The Stand or the first Dark Tower book in the first place. I don't know, It may his style. I read a lot of Regency Era and Victorian stuff , so I'm not used to people cursing a lot in dialog, and pop culture references, even if they're from the 60s or 70s.

I don't know if his earlier stuff is much different, but it seems like I that better. I love The Shining, and I really like the movies(/miniseries) of Salem's Lot and Carrie.

And I'd agree, the 20 minutes or so of Dreamcatcher I've seen were terrible.

 

[Tangled Web]

I really really really suggest "Idecision" by Benjamin Kunkel. Great read.

I'm makinga dent in US v. Bush et al. by Elizabeth De la Vega. Really good if you want to learn something. Very much of the current event interest.

 

[Leto Atrides]

I'd recommend Capatin Blood by Rafael Sabatini.

It's about pirates, it was made into a great Errol Flynn movie, and is the best Adventure novel I've ever read by leaps and bounds. And it's even under 250 pages for those of you guys out there who aren't big readers.

 

[pavlovs dogfood]

I love books. So much so that this post excited me. Ah, an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. So wonderous.

I am finishing up Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake, and started The Glass Menagerie 'cause I love Tennessee Williams like no other. I'm also a good way into the Bible and Mein Kampf, because I'm just that strange, quirky type of girl that likes to juggle several books at a time.

Try it. It's great.