gaggle64 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 1984, Love Hina, An Actor Prepares, any of Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry books, Maus, Ruined City, Heart of Darkness, Letters from America, The Redwall series and I'm currently in the middle of Buddha by Osamu Tezuka, which is a truly first class manga. It makes for genuinly religous, enlightening reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Using your own argument against you... Have you ever read the Bible cover to cover? No, it's too badly written... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 No, it's too badly written... I think the word you're looking for is "touché". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I think the word you're looking for is "touché". No it's not. I'm arguing that it is badly written, and is too badly written to be read cover to cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 No it's not.I'm arguing that it is badly written, and is too badly written to be read cover to cover. To be fair I don't think the Bible is trying to sell itself as a novel! ...even though it is fiction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 The Bible can't be the "world's greatest story" as it's not one story. Its a collection of lots of stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ganondorflol Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Ever read The curious incident of the dog in the night time? If not, you're missing out. ps The catcher in the rye is brill too, gotta come in the top 50 books. What about the Kuran? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Yeah, the dead dog in the night time is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ganondorflol Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I love that book, you do not know how many times it made me laugh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Constantine Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I wanna read that book!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ganondorflol Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 The Torah/ It is the Jewish holy scriptures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Boo Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Ever read The curious incident of the dog in the night time? If not, you're missing out. i read that, was very good! I was gonna say Holes, but then i thought everyone would say 'bah overrated'. It seems occasionally that people say things are overated if it recieved good press, which is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ganondorflol Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Yeah, the kid has special needs, but you think to yourself: This guy is more like me than ever. He hates France, loves games and is a funny guy. What more could you want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Constantine Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Who is more like you than ever i am lost lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 with episodes, they give you everything... in specific detail.) Only like Friends and everyman programmes like that. The better ones leave things ambigious, let you decide what may or may not have happened. The last ever episode of Angel springs to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Only like Friends and everyman programmes like that. The better ones leave things ambigious, let you decide what may or may not have happened. The last ever episode of Angel springs to mind. Whether or not TV is a better medium than books (or just different), don't you find it annoying to be drip fed episode by episode? I would be so irritated if you could only get one chapter of a book per week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Whether or not TV is a better medium than books (or just different) Not what I was going for, I think you understand that but just wanted it to be clear don't you find it annoying to be drip fed episode by episode? I would be so irritated if you could only get one chapter of a book per week. Yeah at times, but then I watch so much TV the only one that pains me, as so to speak, is Veronica Mars. Tomorrow But then theres the pleasure of knowing a lot of people are in the same boat, and all share the same experience. Finales are fun because you know everyone will watch it in the same timeframe. Whereas when a book like Harry Potter comes out its a mess for at least a month while everyone reads it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyson Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Only like Friends and everyman programmes like that. The better ones leave things ambigious, let you decide what may or may not have happened. The last ever episode of Angel springs to mind. Like the ending of Trainspotting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Like the ending of Trainspotting? Maybe, its been years since I saw that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyson Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I'll see if I can find it for you, gimme a sec. Edit: http://youtube.com/watch?v=j8y2FKwynpc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Dare Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Are you serious? I have to read that book for English. I'm currently on about chapter 23/24. It's the worst book I've ever had the misfortune to read. Its page after page of mindless, depressing drivel. No wonder it made people kill people. They probably did it just to forget about that book. You're a goddamned heathen, obviously. Honourable mentions go to: Of Mice and Men- the only book I had to stop reading in public because I was honestly pages away from bursting into tears. Achingly beautiful portrayal of friendship. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving: This is a weird novel- it tells the story of a growth retarded boy with a voice box locked in a permanent scream. He becomes convinced he is the hand of God after the only good hit he ever lands on a baseball kills his best friends mother, and the novel charts his bizzare course in life as he is guided by dark prophetic visions of his own death. Utterly compelling weirdness. Wuthering Heights by Anne Bronte. The original dark gothic love story. It's vast, it's brilliant, it's pitch fuckin black and utterly incredible. Portnoirs complaint by Phillip Roth. Basically a 300 page Jewish Joke, it's the life story of a sex crazed Jew from Newark, New Jersey, and his massive innability to move on from his bizarre family. Goddamn hilarious start to finish.] Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. In my opinion, the funniest novel of the 20th Century. A brilliant, scathing black satire on the absurdity of war and the insanity of conflict. It's up there with Dr Strangelove and `Saving Private Ryan at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haver Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 It changes every day, what with the library here. So it was The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway) yesterday, Gore Vidal's Washington, D.C. today and it will probably be Tom Wolfe's The Pump House Gang tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Its really annoying! I've started reading Ghostwritten, so far so awesome, and I've finished the first chapter but I just can find the time to be in the mood to read it...if that makes sense! I would read it before I go to bed but I'm probably gonna watch House...oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I haven't got a favourite book, and I haven't really got a favourite game or favourite film either. There's always a handful that I hold close to my heart. The last book I read was The Subtle Knife, and I really couldn't put it down. It's one of these books that you just want to go on and on forever. I can't wait to read The Amber Spyglass. Just gotta find the right time. The right time will be...when I go out tomorrow to buy a bulb for my lamp, so I can read it in bed. Hehe, that's the right time. I also loved 1984, and Northern Lights. I'll probably read both again, and rightfully so, as they're both amazing books. Both beautifully written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxigen_Waste Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Only like Friends and everyman programmes like that. The better ones leave things ambigious, let you decide what may or may not have happened. The last ever episode of Angel springs to mind. Angel? lol... ok. Try and watch any episode of Six Feet Under. That's intepretitive. Same goes for Lynch and Takashi's movies... And yet, books will always be more subjective. Now if you're speaking of Angel... I'll stop arguing. Anyone who watches that series and takes it seriously is beyond reach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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