[Big Dumb American]

Werem00se posted:

I'm not a big fan of Stephen King, I tried reading a lot of his books but I usually didn't like them. The only two that I can remember liking you should read, because they don't suck.

and

The Regulators is a 'mirror novel'(Am I using that right? I think I am) to Desperation but published under his pseudonym.

Euggghhh!

I've disliked almost every book King has put out since the mid-2000's. Duma Key was an exception. I didn't actively dislike Duma Key, I just thought it was extremely mediocre. What made King great, in my opinion, was the breakneck pacing of his books. His best books wasted few words, but the older he gets, the more he drifts from that concept.

The Dark Tower series is the best example of this, because they stretch from near the beginning of his writing career until the mid-2000's. The first three books were great! They we appropriately lengthed, they didn't waste any time telling the stories they set out to. That's King at his best! However, each book past that point gets longer, windier, less succinct. Still entertaining, but still disappointing for their sloppiness. Beyond that, nearly every King book I've picked up has either been sloppy and uninspired, or simply a bad remake of one of his older, better books (Especially Cell and From a Buick 8).

You want King at his best, try:

Pet Sematary
Salem's Lot
The Shining
Firestarter
Desperation
Christine
Rose Madder
Misery

Some of his Bachman books are pretty good, too. The Long Walk and Running Man were both fun reads.

A lot of people disagree with me, but it's just my opinion! I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy them, just that I don't.

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Lately, I've been working through Christopher Moore. He's goofy, but his books are a joy. They always make me feel warm and smiley, and there are some good laughs to be had throughout. Here's what I've read over the past week or so:

Lamb
The real story of Jesus, told from the eyes of his best friend, Biff.

Practical Demonkeeping
An ancient man-eating demon named Catch, and his 100-year-old master, are wreaking havoc on a tiny coastal town.

Coyote Blue
A Native American criminal-turned-insurance-salesman finds himself dragged back into the world of spooky medicine magic when the indian god Old Man Coyote, the trickster, shows up to fuck his couch.

Fool
King Lear, retold with a lot more sex, murder, and codpieces.

[Werem00se]

Big Dumb American posted:

Euggghhh!

I've disliked almost every book King has put out since the mid-2000's. Duma Key was an exception. I didn't actively dislike Duma Key, I just thought it was extremely mediocre. What made King great, in my opinion, was the breakneck pacing of his books. His best books wasted few words, but the older he gets, the more he drifts from that concept.

The Dark Tower series is the best example of this, because they stretch from near the beginning of his writing career until the mid-2000's. The first three books were great! They we appropriately lengthed, they didn't waste any time telling the stories they set out to. That's King at his best! However, each book past that point gets longer, windier, less succinct. Still entertaining, but still disappointing for their sloppiness. Beyond that, nearly every King book I've picked up has either been sloppy and uninspired, or simply a bad remake of one of his older, better books (Especially Cell and From a Buick 8).

You want King at his best, try:

Pet Sematary
Salem's Lot
The Shining
Firestarter
Desperation
Christine
Rose Madder
Misery

Some of his Bachman books are pretty good, too. The Long Walk and Running Man were both fun reads.

A lot of people disagree with me, but it's just my opinion! I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy them, just that I don't.

I don't know what it is, but something about his writing just makes me lose interest really easily. I've tried to read most of those books, and the only ones I made it through were Misery, Christine and Desperation. I'd like to try and read the other ones now, but my dad kept all my books when he kicked me out.

I don't know why, but I prefer Dean Koontz over Stephen King. I like Denis Lahane too.

[Kaameron]

An amazing book,full of amazing details,stories and other information about the universe Tolkien created.Definitely worth reading.

[Zezibesh]

I never could get into Silmarillion but I might have just been too young at the time.
I started reading Return of the King when I was 8, on InterRail. We had just arrived in Greece with my dad and he was reading it for me as a bedtime story. Since I was 8 I just figured it had the coolest name, didn't know anything about trilogies or anything. Anyway, the bedtime reading was progressing too slowly so one day I just grabbed the book at started reading. Can't remember if I finished it while we were in Greece, but I picked up the rest of the books when we returned and loved the series. My dad had Silmarillion too but as I said, I couldn't get into it at all.
I think I'll try again (I'll have to read LotR again before though) since close to 12 years have passed now.
But fuck all those songs in the series, it's like a musical at times.

[Dopey Trout]

I was the same with Silmarillion, read it when I was much younger but the prose was so flowery I couldn't make much of it. Maybe with a more experienced eye I'd get more out of it. Need to read LoTR again too actually

[DainBramageStudios]

Killerjc posted:

fun fact: the hunger games are based extensively on ancient rome

funny i thought it was battle royale

[Tomethy]

Any Kindle owners in the house say ayooooooooooo

[DainBramageStudios]

ayooooooooooo

[Patriarch]

ayyyyooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooo
   I cannot find my charger cable ;_;   

[BlkDucky]

ayooooooooooo

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Patriarch posted:

ayyyyooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooo
   I cannot find my charger cable ;_;   

It's just a regular mini-USB cable, isn't it?

[Patriarch]

BlkDucky posted:

It's just a regular mini-USB cable, isn't it?

Sort of; one side is a regular USB, but the one for connecting to the kindle seems to be designed specifically for it.

[l33tkill]

Bought it just because of the title.

[Freakie]

Hey, I got this biography coming in soon:


Is it any good?

[Apollo]

I see some people talking about The Hunger Games. Not a very good series, IMO. Poor writing, especially in the first book, and I just hated the main character. She was like "I'm a fierce bitch, grrrrrr" the entire time. However, I do think the the second book, Catching Fire, was actually pretty good. Shame the third one was awful, even worse than the first. I do think the movies might actually fix a few major problems I have with the books, though, so I'm looking forward to them.

Right now I'm reading IQ84 because it sounded interesting. Really digging it so far. I also picked up some collection of short stories called Irregular Creatures off the Kindle (ayoooo) store. It was only 99 cents, and from what I've read so far, I'd definitely recommend it. It's pretty funny.

[Novangel]

Tomethy posted:

Any Kindle owners in the house say ayooooooooooo

ayooooo
Not really but app counts as something right
I should really get one.

[Apollo]

I bought a Kindle Fire a few months ago, I'd definitely recommend it.

[Smeetin]

Shadows in Flight was awesome.

[superstepa]

ayooooo

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Apollo posted:

I bought a Kindle Fire a few months ago, I'd definitely recommend it.

Not truly a kindle e-book though

[Apollo]

superstepa posted:

ayooooo

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Not truly a kindle e-book though

It reads books, good enough for me.

[Big Dumb American]

Werem00se posted:

I don't know what it is, but something about his writing just makes me lose interest really easily. I've tried to read most of those books, and the only ones I made it through were Misery, Christine and Desperation. I'd like to try and read the other ones now, but my dad kept all my books when he kicked me out.

I don't know why, but I prefer Dean Koontz over Stephen King. I like Denis Lahane too.

I'm sure I've read at least one Koontz novel, but I can't remember which one. I might try him out after I'm done with my current batch. I've got a few more Christopher Moore books to get through, and then five or six Neil Gaiman novels. Of Gaiman, I've only read Stardust, but it was just such a fun, happy book that I'm very excited to check out the rest of his stuff! Hopefully it's all just as good!

[ForgottenKane]

Tomethy posted:

Any Kindle owners in the house say ayooooooooooo

fuck your shit i got a rooted Nook tablet

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also an iPad 2

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but my mom hogs the fucking iPad

probably playing checkers or some shit as we speak

[Parja]

Freakie posted:

Hey, I got this biography coming in soon:


Is it any good?

Thought it said Mustache, looked at the photo, thought "something's wrong"

[GoDL1Kelol]

I'd get a kindle but I have too much of a boner for collecting books on my shelves

[MrJazzy]

When it comes to Stephen King I love Cell and The Ten O'Clock People, those are really the only ones I've actually enjoyed enough out of the few I've tried yet.

[BlkDucky]

Patriarch posted:

Sort of; one side is a regular USB, but the one for connecting to the kindle seems to be designed specifically for it.

MicroUSB, sorry. And it's not propriety, either. Something like this will work fine.

[Negrul1]

Started VALIS - Philip Dick and Crash - J G Ballard. They're both completely insane (literally), but in different ways. VALIS is quite a hard read when you know about how autobiographical it is.

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though Crash is surprisingly easy to get through for a book with long descriptions of how erotic car crashes can be

[junker|154]

Can anyone recommend me a book in the genre of Bernard Cornwell, for instance like the Sharpe, Arthur or Uthred series. Mostly a book about politics and warfare experienced by a soldier.

Those books are the shit.

[Mac2468]

Tomethy posted:

Any Kindle owners in the house say ayooooooooooo

ayooooooooooo

[sp00ks]

Freakie posted:

Hey, I got this biography coming in soon:


Is it any good?

i don't know if the book is any good, but mustaine is a horrible person and you shouldn't give him your money.

[Werem00se]

Big Dumb American posted:

I'm sure I've read at least one Koontz novel, but I can't remember which one. I might try him out after I'm done with my current batch. I've got a few more Christopher Moore books to get through, and then five or six Neil Gaiman novels. Of Gaiman, I've only read Stardust, but it was just such a fun, happy book that I'm very excited to check out the rest of his stuff! Hopefully it's all just as good!

I like reading his work. I'm trying to remember my favorite one, but I don't think I have one actually. I've been reading his books since 6th or 7th grade so I forget the names. Sometimes I'll read one and I won't realize I've read it until the ending. Watches was good, so was Demon Seed, Dragon Tears and The Longest Evening of the year .

[Snake7]

I was looking though books I read when I was little, and saw the author's photo in the Giving Tree.

Jesus Christ, he is scary looking.

[Saber15]

ayooooo

On the top of the Kindle, does anyone know if it's possible to use a Kindle's 3G wireless internet access on my laptop? I get 3G pretty much everywhere, but trying to browse the internet on the Kindle is a pain in the ass.

[Dr. Evilcop]

So I wrote a book, and I will shamelessly advertise it here. Most of you will already know all the information presented inside, but it is a beginner's book after all.

Here's the eBook cover.



Description -

Prepare to master the skill of building computers! It isn't as hard as you think. Soon you'll have your perfect gaming computer, your cheap office computer, or that general use machine for Grandma. This book focuses on to-the-point essential knowledge, so you can get to it right away. Note: The eBook does not include pictures like the printed book does.

eBook.
$2.99

Printed book.
$9.99

eBook preview.

I decided to be a jerk and make the prices slightly less than the other similar books.
It'll be up on Barnes and Nobles and the Apple book store soon, then Amazon later.

[gufu]

Dr. Evilcop posted:

I decided to be a jerk and make the prices slightly less than the other similar books.

Here come the burly men with crowbars.

[Dr. Evilcop]

gufu posted:

Here come the burly men with crowbars.

They'll throw CRT monitors at me.

[thelurker1234]

Dr. Evilcop posted:

So I wrote a book, and I will shamelessly advertise it here. Most of you will already know all the information presented inside, but it is a beginner's book after all.

Here's the eBook cover.



Description -


eBook.
$2.99

Printed book.
$9.99

eBook preview.

I decided to be a jerk and make the prices slightly less than the other similar books.
It'll be up on Barnes and Nobles and the Apple book store soon, then Amazon later.

why does the ebook gotta be 3 dollars but printed 10?

[ForgottenKane]

Why not? It seems reasonable.

[ROFLBURGER]

thelurker1234 posted:

why does the ebook gotta be 3 dollars but printed 10?

I guess because of the cost of the ink, paper, cover art, and everything else.

[Henzukaya]

Werem00se posted:

I don't know what it is, but something about his writing just makes me lose interest really easily. I've tried to read most of those books, and the only ones I made it through were Misery, Christine and Desperation. I'd like to try and read the other ones now, but my dad kept all my books when he kicked me out.

I don't know why, but I prefer Dean Koontz over Stephen King. I like Denis Lahane too.

maybe it's the fact that in almost every story, there's something perverse and we're just sick of it.

[JimJam707]

Reading the trilogy of five from the beginning again.