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Jan 04, 2010 20:46

As a second New Year's resolution, I'm going to read more. During school, I didn't make enough to to read, as I was always reading for class. When I did have the time, I mostly read a lot of fluff (Star Wars books, mostly) or did meaningless things like spend too much time online or playing video games I had played to death already. I let my public ( Read more... )

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maubach January 5 2010, 03:29:28 UTC

Tag the Scott Pilgrim series onto that. Really quick read, and full of in-jokes that guys like us get. Plus, it's really kind of Norm. I mean, the guy's a 23-year-old bass player in a band called Sex Bob-Omb, who's supremely badass. Also, Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold, if you haven't read it. Everyone I've recommended it to has loved it.

fuelingthefires January 8 2010, 02:13:15 UTC

Consider them both on the list.

it is a truth universally acknowledged that we all need to read more. zombres January 5 2010, 03:57:25 UTC

I just typed all of this up for my pal lastblazes, so I figured I'd copy and paste and be helpful. :D

World War Z by Max "Son of Mel" Brooks (I just got the awesome audiobook and my love for this masterpiece has been renewed fiftyfold).
Soul Music, Reaper Man, Thief of Time, Mort, Hogfather (aka the DEATH books) by Sir! Terry Pratchett.
The Stand by Uncle Stevie King.
Good Omens by Sir! Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
The Alienist by Caleb Carr.
Relic and Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl.
Sherwood by Parke Godwin.
Anything by Oscar Wilde.

Re: it is a truth universally acknowledged that we all need to read more. fuelingthefires January 8 2010, 02:14:07 UTC

More King was on the list anyway, I simply neglected to write it up.

purplejoy716 January 5 2010, 06:44:34 UTC

Don't forget the manly classics like "Treasure Island" or "Robinson Crusoe." Robert Louis Stevenson is pretty good. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a pretty fast read. Ooh, and more Edgar Allen Poe stories! I'm a classics freak...

fuelingthefires January 8 2010, 02:16:20 UTC

That's exactly the kind of classics I was talking about. And I was on a Poe kick a few years ago, but just kinda wandered aimlessly through a big complete works volume.

sarabeth985 January 5 2010, 16:02:38 UTC

I am trying to do the same thing. I have discovered, though, that there are a few authors with whom I don't connect well-Hardy, Hemingway, and really any of the Russian authors. I am trying to press on, but it seems like there aren't enough hours in the day to read and do anything else productive.

Pride and Prejudice and ZOmbies wasn't bad. But of course I will always love the original more. I really want to find Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters...

Good luck on your quest for knowledge. Maybe you will help kick start me again.

fuelingthefires January 8 2010, 02:20:03 UTC

Hemingway is very much a guy's author. Not many woman like him that much.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is good and the idea was original, but I would be a little afraid that the shtick wouldn't hold out through Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

sarabeth985 January 8 2010, 03:18:05 UTC

I also find it interesting that it is a different author that wrote both.

purplejoy716 January 9 2010, 07:03:17 UTC

Hemingway was awful! But maybe that was mostly because I studied his stuff in an 8am class, and then had a write a paper on him with sources I knew nothing about. "Hills Like White Elephants" was the only story I could muster any sort of good feelings toward.