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Post by fatmenace on Dec 17, 2012 13:11:49 GMT -6
i'm going to stay away from religious books, but what are some you've read that you think others should read? sports, fiction, non fiction, whatever.
i'll add to in the following days
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Post by mayor on Dec 17, 2012 13:21:35 GMT -6
I'm reading the Sepinwall book right now and enjoying it. However, I've been skipping chapters for the shows I haven't watched yet.
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Post by grubbi on Dec 18, 2012 20:02:02 GMT -6
Sadly, I don't read no where near as much as I use to. Currently I'm reading the Lord of the Rings (which I haven't read since high school). Finished The Hobbit a few weeks ago just in time to go see the first of the new trilogy...
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Post by mayor on Dec 19, 2012 8:37:24 GMT -6
Finished The Hobbit a few weeks ago just in time to go see the first of the new trilogy... I know this is the wrong thread, but how was the Hobbit movie? |
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Post by "Redneck" Johnson on Dec 19, 2012 17:32:39 GMT -6
Loved the Hobbit movie. I had some minor nitpicks with it, but I felt it paid good service to the book. Can't wait for the next two!
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Post by "Redneck" Johnson on Dec 19, 2012 17:39:04 GMT -6
I'll throw out some of the sci-fi classics here:
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Dune by Frank Herbert
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
I just finished
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman
Great look at the outbreak of the First World War
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Post by fatmenace on Jan 23, 2013 7:27:58 GMT -6
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Post by grubbi on Jan 23, 2013 19:53:31 GMT -6
Wait a minute!!... I thought North Korea didn't have prison camps. So it's a work of fiction, right? |
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Post by "Redneck" Johnson on Jan 24, 2013 22:03:42 GMT -6
Just finished "The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis. Really enjoyed it- well thought out and written.
Also polished off "A Memory of Light" by Robert Jordan (and finished by Brian Sanderson). Wheel of Time was an excellent series, but the length means its not for the faint of heart.
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 25, 2013 9:17:27 GMT -6
Jack Handey (yes, that Jack Handey), wrote a book called the Stench of Honolulu. I've seen several people, including comedians, say it's the funniest thing they read. So I bought it.
Couldn't even finish a quarter of it. Awful. Literally every paragraph ends in a joke. A very unfunny joke. There's a few spots where I laughed, but not many.
Anyway...avoid this.
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