The Official SHH Literature Thread

[Eggyman]

Ok, let's talk books.

Post what you plan to read, what you are reading, what you have read. Discussion is key - listing off books is fine, but let's try and get a little more depth in this thread.

You got a favourite author - post about them. Favourite genre - go for it.

Anything at all concerning books.

Go on then.

 

[The Denialist]

I'm currently reading House of Leaves. Attempting to, at least. It's....a doozy. Let's put it that way.

There's two books I recommend to anyone who asks: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (easily the greatest book I have ever read) and The Stranger by Albert Camus. They are hands down my two all-time favorite books and both are excellent reads. Other than that, I love mostly anything by David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk. They're my two favorite authors.

 

[Eggyman]

I'm currently reading House of Leaves. Attempting to, at least. It's....a doozy. Let's put it that way.

There's two books I recommend to anyone who asks: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (easily the greatest book I have ever read) and The Stranger by Albert Camus. They are hands down my two all-time favorite books and both are excellent reads. Other than that, I love mostly anything by David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk. They're my two favorite authors.

I read Fight Club yesterday. I've read it before but I read that much that I honestly couldn't remember reading it. Loved it. He has such a great style - very snappy and witty.

I'm currently reading Richard Matheson's A Stir of Echoes, and so far it seems good.

Got a few books lined up to read after this to tide me over until Stephen King's new book comes out in November. He's not the writer he used to be, but not reading him for me would be like turning down sex with a girl because she has big feet.

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[Sentinel X]

Great thread. I LOVE literature. I like it a lot more than contemporary books actually.
I just finished reading The Great Gatsby.

Well, the book itself reminds me A LOT of the old film noir, Sunset Blvd. Like Sunset Blvd it basically shows how the life of the rich and famous isn't as beautiful as it might seem. I liked the charecters, they were very interesting. Favorite charecter in the book has to be Nick and Jordan (they are the only ones that are kind of sane).
Oh and it was really sad how:

Spoiler

Gatsby died, I didn't really expect that!

It was a pretty good book however. Not the best of literature but certainly a good addition

Next book I'll be reading: Ralph Ellison's Invisable man. I just got it at my local library. Strangely this entire time I thought the book was actually about an invisable man, like in science fiction

 

[AndThePickles]

Great thread. I LOVE literature. I like it a lot more than contemporary books actually.
I just finished reading The Great Gatsby.

Well, the book itself reminds me A LOT of the old film noir, Sunset Blvd. Like Sunset Blvd it basically shows how the life of the rich and famous isn't as beautiful as it might seem. I liked the charecters, they were very interesting. Favorite charecter in the book has to be Nick and Jordan (they are the only ones that are kind of sane).
Oh and it was really sad how:

Spoiler

Gatsby died, I didn't really expect that!

It was a pretty good book however. Not the best of literature but certainly a good addition

Next book I'll be reading: Ralph Ellison's Invisable man. I just got it at my local library. Strangely this entire time I thought the book was actually about an invisable man, like in science fiction

I wouldn't mind reading The Great Gatsby and The Stranger again. When I read them in high school I hated them both, but I might appreciate them now that I'm older.

Invisible Man is an amazing book...one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it!

 

[Gotham]

I'm halfway through Catch Me If You Can, the true story of Frank W. Abagnale.

It's an amazing book. I'm shocked at most of what he did. The film itself took liberties, but even so, his story is incredible.

 

[Nirvana]

Right now I have a pile of books that I need to get reading.

- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by the Great Douglas Adams: I read the first book and I've been wanting to read this for awhile, it's just sitting there collecting dust, I finally need to read it.

- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk: I've been wanting to read this book for awhile and it's sitting under End of the Universe. I definitely do want to finish off the Hitchhiker's stories

- The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer- I won this book in the SHH Podcast Contest, so I definitely want to read it too.

 

[SuBe]

I'm currently reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. Great book.

My favorite Fiction is 2001: a Space Oddessy.

 

[Silk Spectre]

Other than comics I read sci-fi. More specifically dystopian futuristic sci fi.

 

[Team Andino]

I bought 2 years ago The Once and Future King since Ive heard good things an from what Ive heard about it I really look forward to reading it but I know Im not prepared to read something like that just yet. I need to focus on being about to keep a normal pattern of reading on a regular basis so I dont get lost while reading. Ive recently been collecting the Indiana Jones books that were originally released in the 90's and re-released when Indy 4 came out. I might be starting "Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi" soon and hopefully complete the collection as Im missing 2 books in the set of 12

 

[SuBe]

I have to say that 1984 is also one of my favorites. I loves the Orwell.

 

[Brick]

Just finished The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson. It's about the US Army's application of paranormal technics during the war on terror. A very good read.

 

[JTHM777]

Just finished reading Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Hilarious book. Just started reading Animal Farm by George Orwell and will start The Corrections by Jonathen Franzen after that.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

The last two books I read were "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer, and "The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie. Loved them both.

 

[tzarinna]

I'm reading John Updikes Roger's Version, I've only read one other book by him, and so far it seems John likes to mix in a lot of sex. Tends to be mostly fornicators, infidelity and the like. Anyway, some super nerd is trying to use computers to prove that God exits. There's some tech talk that I vaguely remember from school, it bored me then too.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I'm currently reading House of Leaves. Attempting to, at least. It's....a doozy. Let's put it that way.

There's two books I recommend to anyone who asks: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (easily the greatest book I have ever read) and The Stranger by Albert Camus. They are hands down my two all-time favorite books and both are excellent reads. Other than that, I love mostly anything by David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk. They're my two favorite authors.

I love Palahniuk, have you read Snuff yet? What did you think?

 

[The Denialist]

I love Palahniuk, have you read Snuff yet? What did you think?

I have, and I'm not too crazy about it. I feel as though he's trying too hard to be shocking anymore. He went a little bit overboard with Snuff, I think, and wound up really mucking up a potentially good story.

 

[Max J Power]

Just finished reading Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Hilarious book.

Chuck Klosterman's nonfiction books are all great. I haven't read his new novel yet.

Anyway, I'm reading Slaughterhouse-Five right now. I like it, but don't love it. I won't be rushing to read more of Vonnegut's books, but I doubt this will be the last one. Any suggestions on which others are the best?

I think I'll read something by Philip K. Dick next. Probably Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, or maybe Ubik or The Man in the High Castle. Any opinions on which is best to start with?

 

[Exploding Boy]

Currently reading Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk....very raunchy. It's great

 

[Kaleb]

The Shack.

 

[Bill]

I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's very good once you get used to the way it's written.

 

[C. Lee]

I've been thinking about going back and re-reading a bunch of the books I read 30 or more years ago (stuff by ERB, REH, Bradbury, etc....).....the classics.

 

[lemmasaurus]

I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's very good once you get used to the way it's written.

God what a depressing book. The film version comes out at the end of this month, my mom and I are going to go see it and bawl our eyes out over Viggo.

I'm finishing up The Zombie Survival Guide to coincide with my Halloween costume, though that isn't much as far as literature. Did you know the author is Mel Brooks' son?

Before that, I read Towelhead, which is also being made into a movie. With Harvey Dent Although he's a creepy molestor D:

 

[Troy_Parker]

I read television... but seriously i'm reading HP And the deathly hallows...again

 

[Untilteld]

I'm reading what is the what, and I'm about half way finished. next up I'm reading thank you for smoking.