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Where do you guys read book reviews?  Looking for something that would have a large mix of new/old books (that isn't just Amazon user reviews).
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Mar 2, 2010 15:32
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Paragon8 posted:The worst is when the book you have to buy is written by your own professor. My school has a computer class cowritten by the professor with tear-out homework assignments. You also need the original code in the back of the book to do assignments online. This is a freshman computer class thousands of people take every semester because it counts as a science/math requirement for pretty much every major. The guy is fuckin' loaded I bet.
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Mar 4, 2010 03:19
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Viconia posted:An E/N on books... I wonder how an E/N thread would work here relating to books. Someone make a thread and let's see how it goes! "I read the whole Twilight series and I keep dropping hints to my man that he should be more like Edward. He just doesn't understand! I need man who is possessive, threatening, dangerous, and literally not a human! Please help, I might kill myself!!!!" God please no...
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May 9, 2010 20:33
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knees of putty posted:I would advise reading Atwood or Chabon or PD James type take on the genre, unless you're determined to go for some space opera type schtick. It's far more rewarding then revisiting Snow Crash, which was horribly flawed when it first came out, never mind now. How so? I just read it for the first time barely three months ago and nothing about was any less "rewarding" than the last Atwood or Chabon novel I read. There's twenty pages about Sumeria, but it's hardly a slog and aside from that the whole thing is extremely well put together.
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Jun 22, 2010 02:15
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maxnmona posted:Lick around the Outside of my Anus and also on the Inside of my Anus by Nietzsche I can't find this on Amazon or AbeBooks. 
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Jul 16, 2010 15:20
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Okay guys, pick the order I read the rest of summer reading please. I'll be finishing up A Clash of Kings and From the Left Hand of Darkness this week. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert Carrie - Stephen King The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson Perdido Street Station - China Miéville One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey I feel like that's a solid amount to finish in the next month and a half before school. DECIDE MY FATE: what's first?
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Jul 21, 2010 14:55
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Oh gently caress it, I'll just skip to reading New Moon and Atlas Shrugged. Was saving 'em for when I kill myself, but... (thanks, going with Kesey first)
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Jul 21, 2010 20:40
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What should my next Nabokov be after Lolita?
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Jul 23, 2010 22:38
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Aw gently caress, Barnes & Noble didn't have a copy of Pale Fire so I'm going to just get it off Amazon. Thanks! Cool Mathlete, gonna check it out. 
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Jul 24, 2010 06:10
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The new Gibson books drops in a couple weeks. Should I try and blast through Pattern Recognition and Spook Country til then?
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Aug 26, 2010 02:36
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The gently caress is a squiz?
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Sep 9, 2010 06:10
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I still cannot believe the "The Beatles, but ZOMBIES!  " book was published.
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Oct 12, 2010 14:22
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The irony... it kills me! 
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Oct 12, 2010 15:08
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LooseChanj posted:How about mentally unbalanced poets? So like, all of em?  You'd have to include Plath, possibly just The Collected Poems or The Colossus and Other Poems... something by her. A lot of Poe's stuff is easy to get for free, but I don't actually know if he was mentally unbalanced or just his work.
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Dec 13, 2010 21:09
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"He hosed all the gas out of her." I like this terrible F/SF theme you've got going on. I vote for a pointless recent movie novelization, like "Iron Man" by Eisner Award winner Peter David.
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May 7, 2011 22:15
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Something by Alan Dean Foster is a must. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen or Terminator Salvation would probably be good (terrible) picks.
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May 8, 2011 02:59
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Don't forget the novelization of the screenplay of the movie of the epic Beowulf.
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May 8, 2011 04:45
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I've still got to read Storm of Swords, but I was reading about how GRRM's A Dance With Dragons and Feast For Crows will intersect a lot. Should I expect some fan to compile a "proper" chapter order, splicing together both books? I'm assuming the answer is "yes, about 24 hours after ADWD hits the shelves," but I wanted to make sure.
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May 21, 2011 18:51
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I used to go to Barnes & Noble to read some books I wanted to pick up, and choose the one I felt I needed the most. I would usually sit behind the romance section because it was a little nook with tables hidden away from the main thoroughfare. Often, a large, older woman with hair like a grey, wispy shower cap and wearing a paisley dress that fit her girthy form a little too tightly would come lumbering over to the romance section from a table across from me, holding what looked like receipt tape, and eyeing various titles in the romance section, carefully checking off items on her long lists. She would come back to her table, which was otherwise empty except for a large Polar Pop mug, with these huge armfulls of romance paperbacks and stack them up until she evidently had what she needed before lumbering away, out of sight. I like to imagine she just placed them all around the store like she was part of a conspiracy, and then left the store with nothing but her list and her giant Polar Pop mug. I saw her consistently for about six months, but I haven't been back to B&N recently.
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Jul 13, 2011 20:25
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That sounds like the best addiction ever. I love reading, but I also love film and music and video games, so sometimes those things distract me from my 700 strong collection of books. I'm curious though, how do you get the books? Do you go to the library or buy them used or what? 
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Aug 16, 2011 12:06
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I've recently found that the fewer books I'm reading, the slower I get through them - and not in a "I'm trying to get the most out of this book as possible" kind of way, but such a way that I actually get bored only reading one thing so my mind wanders while I read. For me, it's best to keep 3-4 books on my night stand that I can switch between night after night. This also helps me get through huge short story collections, if I can read a story and then a few chapters from an novel or two.
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Oct 18, 2011 11:21
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I'd like to own a Kindle, but don't necessarily need one right now. Should I just wait to see what the next iteration adds? Or is the Kindle Touch pretty much all I need when it comes to e-book reading?
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Jul 22, 2012 01:43
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