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 Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:12 pm
One of the last books I read was Cause of Death, memories of a forensic pathologist... Pretty good.
BTW, I didn't know I liked these kinda books until last year! confused
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:18 pm
I'm reading the His Dark Materials trilogy right now. About halfway through the second book. The first 100 pages or so of the first book are a bit hard to get through, but then it gets awesome. I'd recommend it to people who were already long time fans of fantasy, but probably not to newcomers to the genre.
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:29 pm
Lomedin One of the last books I read was Cause of Death, memories of a forensic pathologist... Pretty good. BTW, I didn't know I liked these kinda books until last year! confused What kind of books do you normally read then?
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:35 pm
oh, well... sci-fi mostly... although i got some fantasy, as well as plain fiction... anything with a metaphysic twist basically.
i read some "real" stuff in the past and i hated it, so i didnt think i was gonna like the rest of reality... i guess the gruesome stuff is the gruesome stuff after all =)
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:14 pm
You should try reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. It's full of qrotesque humour and very macabre at times. Talks about this 17 year old boy whos got some strange rituals for protecting his territory if you like. He sort of has his own little religion. So it's a "from the real world" book about what seems to be quite an insane boy. If you can stand all the detailed violence it's quite a facinating book. You should at least read what it says on the back =D: 'Two years after I killed Blyth I killed my younger brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my younger cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and I don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.' (You can also read the beginning of the book on Amazon)
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:25 pm
Heart_FFF You should try reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. It's full of qrotesque humour and very macabre at times. Talks about this 17 year old boy whos got some strange rituals for protecting his territory if you like. He sort of has his own little religion. So it's a "from the real world" book about what seems to be quite an insane boy. If you can stand all the detailed violence it's quite a facinating book. You should at least read what it says on the back =D: 'Two years after I killed Blyth I killed my younger brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my younger cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and I don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.' (You can also read the beginning of the book on Amazon) Ow, thanks FFF, sounds interesting. i'll try get it after finishing The Republic (i used to like Plato, now I want to strangle Socrates and eat Glaucon!). i can stand detailed violence to humans, thats not a problem =) anyway, if i get traumatised, i know whom to blame blaugh
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:58 pm
I am going to start reading Children of Hurin by Tolkien, soon.
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:01 am
spirit bear is a very deep book, and it actually speaks to those with bad experiences, or "other" problems.
the dark series, "dark demon," and dark prince", but my favorite series are the vampire books by amelia-atwater rhodes.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:37 pm
im sure some ppl do not consider graphic novels a good read, but hey... i took WATCHMEN from an old box and, wow man, its awesome...
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:51 pm
I really like Dan Brown (DaVinci Code, etc..)
And I also really like old, 14 century writers like Dante and Faust. biggrin
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:09 pm
First time picking up a book in a long time, but right now I'm reading through The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert Howard.
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:19 pm
i recommend The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
if u like biological thrillers
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:30 pm
a good one is the schwa was here, or the book of the damned
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:18 am
I have been reading this Sci-fi booked titled Clone, it has an interesting plot.
These four boys are brothers and their biological parents had a gift. The gift was that they remembered every single thing they ever saw or ever read. So they boys were separted at birth and never knew about each other.
So one day the scientists put them all in the same room and sent the female scientist in. Somehow they started to change stuff on her. First they replace her head with a dog's head. Next they took off her clothes, gave her 6 boobs, gave her extra arms. And she had no idea why they were laughing. They somehow managed to do this with their mind.
That's as far as I got, but the book is intertaining.
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:26 pm
My Hollow I have been reading this Sci-fi booked titled Clone, it has an interesting plot. These four boys are brothers and their biological parents had a gift. The gift was that they remembered every single thing they ever saw or ever read. So they boys were separted at birth and never knew about each other. So one day the scientists put them all in the same room and sent the female scientist in. Somehow they started to change stuff on her. First they replace her head with a dog's head. Next they took off her clothes, gave her 6 boobs, gave her extra arms. And she had no idea why they were laughing. They somehow managed to do this with their mind. That's as far as I got, but the book is intertaining. WTF In their minds or literally?
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