Summer reading...

[Mattchew]

Well summer's here and TV sucks (to some degree).

Anyone reading anything interesting?

 

[The Man Of 16]

I bought Seabiscuit about a month ago, I have yet to read past page 7.

 

[Mattchew]

just read a REALLY REALLY crazy book.

'Remainder' by Tom Mccarthy

It's a first person fiction about a guy who comes out of a comma after he's in a terrible accident, has to teach himself to walk again, and basically slowly unravels mentally when he becomes obsessed with using millions of pounds (he got in the settlement from his accident) on recreating a distant memory he can't quit place... In an effort to do so he buys an apartment build, staffs it with full time actors, etc.... It gets pretty disturbing.

Its basically about a guy who is REALLY unstable and how he kinda falls into really odd behavior because he's so rich people won't stop him...

the lead up to the end kinda makes the end predictable, but its still really uncomfortable to read.

really affecting book, imo.

i plan to read more of the author in the future.

 

[Visceral]

crime and punishment. amazing.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

These threads:

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=274440
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=276256

 

[Logan's Runt]

I was reading a book called 'Queering Christ' but I loaned it to a friend.

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Well summer's here and TV sucks (to some degree).

Anyone reading anything interesting?

yep my new collection

great reads

 

[Mattchew]

I bought Seabiscuit about a month ago, I have yet to read past page 7.

ha! bought it for my dad a few months back and he recently gave me the same report. supposed to be a nice light read though, so i heard.

 

[Addendum]

Posted by me in another thread about books, which is currently on page 4:

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

 

[shapeshifter]

:Hell's Angels: by Hunter S Thompson
and
"How the Universe Got its Spots" by Janna Levin

 

[MaskedManJRK]

The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman.

Why? Three words: Armored polar bears.

 

[Mattchew]

^ my bad.. I scanned like the first 7 pages inthe community thread looking for a book thread, but I must have missed that one.

just read 'World War Z' a few books before the book I just posted about...

Its a lot of fun for anyone who is obsessed with the whole Zombie genre, which I am to be sure.

I heard Brad Pitt bought the rights to a film version, but its so episodic I think it's would be PERFECT to make a miniseries out of it... Like a fake Ken Burns PBS-style documentary.

You'll have to let me know what you think of it when you get around to it... its a REALLY quick read.

 

[Mattchew]

The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman.

Why? Three words: Armored polar bears.

I've only read that one in the His Dark Materials series... My goal is to get though that and the rest of 'The Dark Tower' series this summer at some point.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

^ my bad.. I scanned like the first 7 pages inthe community thread looking for a book thread, but I must have missed that one.

Actually, you missed two.

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=274440
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=276256

 

[Mattchew]

Just started reading 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides.

I guess he wrote 'Virgin Suicides', but I've never read that one.

So far its PRETTY fascinating. The narrator is a hermaphrodite who was determined to be a girl at birth, but (based on 50 pages I've read so far) eventually learns of the truth about his/her condition (sorry... im sure that has the potential to offend someone) and eventually starts living life as a man.

Sounds heavy, but the writing is really fun and I've actually laughed a few times reading it.

Good so far, at least.

 

[Mattchew]

Actually, you missed two.

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=274440
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=276256

my bad.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

my bad.

I'll eventually find it in my heart to forgive you.

 

[Mattchew]

Anyone else salivating of 'Deathly Hallows'?

 

[thedeadite]

have 2 books i have to get to:
Fury's Hour - a (sort-of) punk manifesto
Days of War, Nights of Love - crimethink for beginners

hopefully i'll get to the first on my vacation.

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Anyone else salivating of 'Deathly Hallows'?

no....

 

[Addendum]

I hadn't heard of World War Z, until I found out that JMS is writing the script for Brad Pitt's movie company. But I'll eventually get to it.

The book I'm reading now- 500 pages.

The next three books on my list (The Poe Collection, Sherlock Holmes Collection, Lewis Carroll collection)- 1100 pages. Each.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

I've only read that one in the His Dark Materials series... My goal is to get though that and the rest of 'The Dark Tower' series this summer at some point.

Same here. I pretty much got stuck on the forth book--couldn't get through that flashback for the life of me.

Here's another great book to recommend:

Joe Pitt, the protagionist of the story, is your average private eye...'cept that he's technically dead. Pitt is a Vampyre who does favors for the Vampyre societies in exchange for money and the ability to stay neutral, even though every one of them wants him. Pitt's life becomes a lot more complicated when he has to find a zombie that's turning people and thus slice off it's head before the cops and press get their hands on it, meanwhile he's forced by the high-society Coalition to find some rich goth girl for their parents.

If the author sounds familiar, you might have read his recent run on Moon Knight, and that sure as hell wasn't no fluke. If you're interested in some gory, hard-boiled mysteries, then get your paws on this thing and ravage it like a zombie on a fella with a cracked skull.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Anyone else salivating of 'Deathly Hallows'?

Going to buy it soon after it's released. Not really salivating, though.

 

[Jack Rabbit]

Anyone else salivating of 'Deathly Hallows'?

Kinda. Not as excited as I used to be for the series, but I'll definitely read it. I need to re-read the Half-Blood Prince, first, though.

 

[Mattchew]

Same here. I pretty much got stuck on the forth book--couldn't get through that flashback for the life of me.

Here's another great book to recommend:

Joe Pitt, the protagionist of the story, is your average private eye...'cept that he's technically dead. Pitt is a Vampyre who does favors for the Vampyre societies in exchange for money and the ability to stay neutral, even though every one of them wants him. Pitt's life becomes a lot more complicated when he has to find a zombie that's turning people and thus slice off it's head before the cops and press get their hands on it, meanwhile he's forced by the high-society Coalition to find some rich goth girl for their parents.

If the author sounds familiar, you might have read his recent run on Moon Knight, and that sure as hell wasn't no fluke. If you're interested in some gory, hard-boiled mysteries, then get your paws on this thing and ravage it like a zombie on a fella with a cracked skull.

not SO ironically, I got stuck @ the same point... My bro says the sereis is like... CRAZY-AWESOME if you can just forge ahead, so that's the goal this summer. Book 5 is supposed to be great, from what he's said.

As for your recommendation, I just ordered it off of amazon! sounds freaking awesome!