read any good books lately?

I read both of those books ages ago

BTW: Peter Straub’s Shadowland is brilliant




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i recently read do androids dream of electric sheep? and highly recommend it to everyone

 

I skimmed LOTF again. Great book.

And I just got a book yesterday free - Playwriting, A practical guide...

 

what is LOTF?

 

Ah, just the man then!
I've been told by a friend that it'd be a good idea to complete the dark tower series before getting into the talisman as there are a number of signifcant links between them, however I decided to take a risk and jump into the talisman (which looks like it could do well as a standalone novel) and so far have found no links between the gunslinger and the opening chapters of the talisman at all..
So can you shed a bit of light onto my friend's advise please??

 

When I said I read each book ages ago I meant the late 1980s early 1990s

While I enjoyed the talisman, the dark tower series is the lynchpin and intersects every novel and short story ever written by stephen king.

BTW: The picture of Roland from the dark tower is in the movie The Mist


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Meh, a few okay ones. Finished "Future shock" by Alvin Toffler, which is an important read none the less.

Going to read a book about the mysterious Khazar dynasty. And will finally get to Brave new world

 

Lord of the Flies.

 

LOTF (The next generation)





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Dammit man, I haven't read The graveyard book or Good omens, yet - I am HUGE Neil Gaiman fan. I am rereading Stardust right now.

I was reading through an old ass collection of Grimm fairy tales before that.

oh- and I was Reading Coraline again..vaguely sort of reading a chapter aloud at night to my 3 yr old-but she is too young and imaginative.She just starts telling her own endings half way through a chapter.

 

I love Lord of the Flies. I read it one misanthropic day after I quit university and enjoyed it muchly. I like the film too. I think how they kill the fat kid is horrifying.

I am reading this book right now:


Its interesting but annoying. They author seems a little tainted and bitter and the book doesn't really chime a chord with me...I quite like people, and I quite appreciate their efforts to understand and represent me despite my need to be alone. I quite LOVE people and feel an attachment to them you could say, and at the right time, given the right people I like being around them and being kind to them, if my right to solitude is respected. There seems to be too much of an "us and them" mentality in this book which is just not a good indication of a healthy loner...the genius loner against the ignorant mob. However, it could just be humorous and I don't get it, and the allusions to other famous loners are quite good.

 

hahaha.. "fat kid". I think you pretty much summed up how they treated him there; they never even bothered learning his name.

 

Piggy


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That's not his real name though.

 

I am in the process of reading "The Alchemist"... its enthralling.

 

no, i'm pretty sure that was his real name. or rather, a shortened version of his real name.

piggleton lardsworth, or just piggy to his friends

but yeah, lord of the flies was a pretty good book. it's been an awfully long time since i read it, though. i love all the outdated slang :cheers2:

 

never read coraline.

stardust is a great book, but a mediocre movie was made of it, and as i'd read the book several times before the movie was made i was thoroughly disappointed.

its not that it's awful, it was just a pretty big letdown. not so bad as the bbc miniseries "neverwhere," though (inspiration for the novel of the same name, both were written by neil gaiman)

 

Neverwhere is my all time fav. The 1st thing I ever read of his. I read it so many times the paperback I owned fell apart

 

one of the best and most intrigueing novels i've ever read, and very, very different from most "dystopia" plots. i don't think it qualifies as one, but has many of the same characteristics of these types of stories, and is often referred to as one.

once you finish it, let me know. there are a number of very interesting things about it

 

Great the first time, epic fail the second..