The Official SHH Literature Thread

[Eggyman]

Anyone read the Dexter books? They are awesome, witty, dark and, above all, good reads.

Just finished the three that are out and am now impatiently awaiting the fourth of the series.

 

[squeekness]

Anyone read the Dexter books? They are awesome, witty, dark and, above all, good reads.

Just finished the three that are out and am now impatiently awaiting the fourth of the series.

I read the first one since I liked the show so much. Are you saying that the rest are just as good?

 

[Watson]

I MUST check out Jurrasic Park. I actually think I'm going to buy it today.

Currently I'm reading Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A human rights prof I had last year recommended it to us but said it's hard to read it without becoming a vegetarian but since I already am one it's not really a big issue haha.

Jurassic Park is awesome, but if you really want to get into Chrichton's best stuff I would recomend Sphere and Timeline. Sphere had me at the edge of my seat the entire read, and Timeline was just a lot of fun (especially since I'm a big history geek)

Is Peter Singer the guy that started the peaceable farm that rescues animals bound for slaughter houses? His name sounds familiar.

Anyone read the Dexter books? They are awesome, witty, dark and, above all, good reads.

Just finished the three that are out and am now impatiently awaiting the fourth of the series.

Are the Dexter books original works or are they just novelizations of the TV show?

 

[Eggyman]

I read the first one since I liked the show so much. Are you saying that the rest are just as good?

Yeh, they are.

Are the Dexter books original works or are they just novelizations of the TV show?

Original works. I'm not very fond of novelizations.

 

[Watson]

Original works. I'm not very fond of novelizations.

Neither am I, which is why I never picked one of them up. I foolishly assumed they were novelizations. Now I'm interested.

 

[Hooded Justice]

Jurassic Park is awesome, but if you really want to get into Chrichton's best stuff I would recomend Sphere and Timeline. Sphere had me at the edge of my seat the entire read, and Timeline was just a lot of fun (especially since I'm a big history geek)

Is Peter Singer the guy that started the peaceable farm that rescues animals bound for slaughter houses? His name sounds familiar.




Are the Dexter books original works or are they just novelizations of the TV show?

Neither am I, which is why I never picked one of them up. I foolishly assumed they were novelizations. Now I'm interested.

The TV show was based on the novels.

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

I think we've all seen enough "takes" on the vampire genre...between the cliche laden Twilight and the utter smut of the Anita Blake series, I have had enough of vampires for a bit...

I'm actually surprised there are more different takes out there. You'd think they would have covered them all already.

 

[ttotheusher]

I just finished Slaughterhouse-Five, which is a science fiction anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Great read. I haven't been gripped to a book in a long time. I've now moved onto The Third Policeman by Flann O' Brien, and after that, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells.

 

[Watson]

I just finished Slaughterhouse-Five, which is a science fiction anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Great read. I haven't been gripped to a book in a long time. I've now moved onto The Third Policeman by Flann O' Brien, and after that, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells.

If you liked Slaughterhouse Five you will really like Catch-22. After reading it check out the movie, it's pretty decent.

 

[Star]

Jurassic Park is awesome, but if you really want to get into Chrichton's best stuff I would recomend Sphere and Timeline. Sphere had me at the edge of my seat the entire read, and Timeline was just a lot of fun (especially since I'm a big history geek)

Is Peter Singer the guy that started the peaceable farm that rescues animals bound for slaughter houses? His name sounds familiar.

I'll definitely get into some Chrichton.

I'm not too sure about Singer and the animal farm but I would definitely say it's likely. PETA loves him. I put off reading this book for quite some time now because I HATE Peta with a passion for many reasons but since a prof recommended it to me and so far it seems to be using actual utilitarian theory, as opposed to pure nonsensical ranting, I'm reading it with an open mind.

 

[taskmaster]

I was wondering if anyone here has read anything by the author Peter Struab. I just got finished reading The Talisman a book he co-wrote with Stephen King and I'm looking for some books that he's written on his own. I know there is a sequel to The Talisman called The Black House and I'll have to get around to that eventually.

 

[ttotheusher]

If you liked Slaughterhouse Five you will really like Catch-22. After reading it check out the movie, it's pretty decent.

The Slaughterhouse film or the Catch-22 film? I've heard there both decent.

 

[squeekness]

I was wondering if anyone here has read anything by the author Peter Struab. I just got finished reading The Talisman a book he co-wrote with Stephen King and I'm looking for some books that he's written on his own. I know there is a sequel to The Talisman called The Black House and I'll have to get around to that eventually.

I really liked The Throat by Straub. But the thing is, he is a bit long winded and it can take time for the book to get going, but once it does... it just isn't for those with a short attention span.

 

[Special Bear]

Reading A Walk in the Woods makes me want to buy a plane ticket to America and start hiking, yet not (so far, the cost, bears, rattlesnakes, and suchlike that come with hiking are the only things restraining me). I'm almost done with it, but I already want to buy another Bryson book. (Perhaps Down Under; it's, after all, where I hail from.) He has such a way with words that makes me keep on turning the page. I must've read a hundred or so pages on the bus yesterday, its being stuck on a particularly tenacious traffic jam notwithstanding.

Bah, am I neglecting my Discworld books. Damn Bryson.

That said, tell me, if you would, which Michael Crichton book I should read next. After Jurassic Park and The Lost World, I'm itching to read another one. Congo? The Andromeda Strain?

 

[Watson]

I'll definitely get into some Chrichton.

I'm not too sure about Singer and the animal farm but I would definitely say it's likely. PETA loves him. I put off reading this book for quite some time now because I HATE Peta with a passion for many reasons but since a prof recommended it to me and so far it seems to be using actual utilitarian theory, as opposed to pure nonsensical ranting, I'm reading it with an open mind.

PETA endorses a lot of folks who don't necessarily agree with all of PETA's politics. But I definitely understand why that might put you off.

 

[Watson]

The Slaughterhouse film or the Catch-22 film? I've heard there both decent.

Catch-22. I haven't seen the Slaughterhouse one unfortunately.

 

[ttotheusher]

Catch-22. I haven't seen the Slaughterhouse one unfortunately.

I'm gonna buy it in the next couple of weeks, because I heard Vonnegut said it was a very good adaptation of the book, so I'll let you know what I think.

 

[plastic_stars]

I just finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo, one of my all time favorite books.

I'm starting Platos Republic just for the hell of it.

 

[Matt]

So now that we have a books forum do we need a literature thread or can our favorites have their own threads?

 

[Brick]

We should have a sticky recommendation thread like they do over at the comics section.

 

[Eggyman]

So now that we have a books forum do we need a literature thread or can our favorites have their own threads?

Good point, Matt.

 

[mikethought]

I'm new, ( again I say this ) but I am a madman for sci-fi. Recently I ran accross a series by an author named John Scalzi that was easily among the best sci-fi that I have ever read. ( which means nothing since I am not known at all here on this board .

The first book in the series is called "Old Man's War" it takes place in a future setting where when you get to be seventy-five you can join the military.

The next book in the series is called "The Last Colony" and the last is called "Zoe's Tale".

Check these joints out if you like sci-fi, you won't be disapointed.

 

[pixeltastic]

I'm on a Chuck Palahniuk spree lately. I really want to read Pygmy. Anyone have any words on it?

I also have Batman: the Long Halloween that I recently bought. I've heard good things?

 

[squeekness]

Long Halloween is excellent. If you like that get Dark Victory, it's the same creative team.

 

[pixeltastic]

Oooh, thank you! I was actually googling Dark Victory too, but decided to buy Long Halloween first. I'll definitely get to it, though.