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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:53 am
Behatzlacha-S Some must reads for the older people here: Anything by Franz Kafka, George Orwell, John Steinbeck and The Catcher in the Rye. Read all of those, but I've only read the Metamorphoses for Kafka- anything else he wrote that's good?
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:01 pm
darkphoenix1247 Behatzlacha-S Some must reads for the older people here: Anything by Franz Kafka, George Orwell, John Steinbeck and The Catcher in the Rye. Read all of those, but I've only read the Metamorphoses for Kafka- anything else he wrote that's good? If you can find a collection of his stuff, that ends up being the best way to see what people have thought was his 'best'...I got mine off a library reject cart. Steinbeck is my ultimate hero. Seriously, if any of you guys read Steinbeck books at all, I would love to talk about them. PM me or start a thread or something. I will haunt it. *puffs up* I have a FIRST edition, first printing copy of East of Eden...and Cannery Row. Bow before my AWESOMENESS. I really didn't understand Catcher in the Rye when I read it in high school-it makes sense now, and I really love it. I think, maybe, Behatzlacha and I read the same stuff. Plus good, yes? Another author I like is Dreiser ( An American Tragedy-warning-terriblyterribly depressing book) on a lighter note, my favorite book recently is The Book Thief by Zusak. It is the funniest, saddest, most beautiful book I've ever read. It is told from the perspective of Death, taking place during WWII. He runs into this little German girl a couple of times as people around her die and tells her story. But he (Death) is reallyreally personified and an all around good guy who is just doing his job. A funny guy, in that wry-old man kinda way. I'm not exaggerating guys, a book that takes me from classic American lit for any amount of time has to be good. It is amazing.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:07 pm
I'm a great philosophical reader, and I hunt down mad little books written by people in 1850, and then proceed to pay £400 for one book. I Am Mad. rofl
I really have a bizzare taste in books. I'm a Fanatic of Oscar Wilde. I want to go to Paris just to see his final resting place. Seriously, to be like him is my goal in life (minus homosexualilty bit). My favourite book of all time is probably the Picture of Dorian Gray. If you haven't read that, get a copy and read it at least 5 times.
On Franz Kafka: he doesn't actually have much work. He wrote in quality, not quantity. But I do recommend Amerika, and possibly the Hunger Artist works. The Judgement is a good one.
His short stories, though, are raw and untamable. If you can track down The Businessman, or Trees in the Snow; you have hit the jackpot.
Anyone who has read the Picture of Dorian Gray and fell in [Platonic] love with Dorian, please PM me so I can give you the biggest hug.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:29 pm
Behatzlacha-S I'm a great philosophical reader... Have you read Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic & Mau Mauing the Flack Catchers?" one book, two great essays... good thinking man's reading.
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:43 pm
Behatzlacha-S Some must reads for the older people here: Anything by Franz Kafka, George Orwell, John Steinbeck = on a lighter note, my favorite book recently is The Book Thief by Zusak. It is the funniest, saddest, most beautiful book I've ever read. It is told from the perspective of Death, taking place during WWII. He runs into this little German girl a couple of times as people around her die and tells her story. But he (Death) is reallyreally personified and an all around good guy who is just doing his job. A funny guy, in that wry-old man kinda way. I'm not exaggerating guys, a book that takes me from classic American lit for any amount of time has to be good. It is amazing. I love that book! I didn't think anybody else had heard of it! Behatz: Do I still get a hug if I loved the book but hated him as a person? blaugh
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:09 pm
Dorian Gray was meant to be the eptimome of beauty and innocence at the beginning, but we begin to despise him, especially if we are religious. So yes, you may recieve one hug.
*HUG!!!*
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:00 pm
Behatzlacha-S Dorian Gray was meant to be the eptimome of beauty and innocence at the beginning, but we begin to despise him, especially if we are religious. So yes, you may recieve one hug. *HUG!!!* I feel special now.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:02 pm
Words may be strange, but they are my mistress. xd
Anyhting else by Oscar Wilde you guys have read?
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:42 pm
darkphoenix1247 Behatzlacha-S Some must reads for the older people here: Anything by Franz Kafka, George Orwell, John Steinbeck = on a lighter note, my favorite book recently is The Book Thief by Zusak. It is the funniest, saddest, most beautiful book I've ever read. It is told from the perspective of Death, taking place during WWII. He runs into this little German girl a couple of times as people around her die and tells her story. But he (Death) is reallyreally personified and an all around good guy who is just doing his job. A funny guy, in that wry-old man kinda way. I'm not exaggerating guys, a book that takes me from classic American lit for any amount of time has to be good. It is amazing. I love that book! I didn't think anybody else had heard of it! Behatz: Do I still get a hug if I loved the book but hated him as a person? blaugh He also wrote I am the Messenger and that was...same style as the Book Thief, but modern day, everyday life kinda setting. A guy is obsessing over being useless and some crazy things happen to give him meaning. Any one here read stuff by Brandon Sanderson? It is technically sci-fi/fantasy, but not in the "unlikely hero gets sword, meets love interest, saves the world" sort of way. Very well thought out universe. Elantris was my favorite.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:50 am
Right now I'm reading Hemingway's Islands in the Stream. Till now it's a realy fun book.
My favorite book(s) is the series of The Wheel of Time, I think. It's hard to deside. Robert Jorden might not be the best fantasy writer but even if hes not, he is certainly one of the best, and I love his novel anyway.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:15 pm
At the moment I'm reading our Friends from Frolix 8. i'd recommend it to anyone who thinks humanity has problems NOW.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:27 pm
I'm reading INKDEATH, the last book in the INKHEART trilogy. Yes, it's in all caps.
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:19 am
I've heard of that! Is it any good?
Currently reading V for Vendetta, which is actually a sort of comic book type thing in text form. It's interesting.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:09 am
Anyone ever been assigned to read Faulkner?
(No one ever reads Faulkner for fun. I'm convinced of this)
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:00 pm
darkphoenix1247 I've heard of that! Is it any good? Currently reading V for Vendetta, which is actually a sort of comic book type thing in text form. It's interesting. Great book for Anarchists. Nearly turned me. Didn't though. The film... cheapened it.
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