Rate The Last Book You Read

[Daft]

agreed. that shit be fucked up, yo.

It's an interesting read and occasionally brilliant. It is, however, guilty of over indulgence. In this regard, I'd actually call the film adaptation the superior version.

 

I think that's part of the point. Just my reading though.

[Dan_Dare]

true enough in most cases but...rats? *hwwoorrf*

[jayseven]

American Psycho

 

Fucking stonking great read. First time a book has made me want to throw up...and this did it three times.

 

Only problem now is that while before I would ignore anyone who annoyed me, now I just want to nail them to the floor and rip out their tongue while violating them with a coat hanger...did I just say that out loud...

 

...did they hear me...

 

10/10

Whenever you feel the need, just remember the video tapes that need returning, aight?

[Daft]

true enough in most cases but...rats? *hwwoorrf*

 

lol, you've got to love it.

 

Whenever you feel the need, just remember the video tapes that need returning, aight?

 

I'm going to start using that as an excuse whenever I need to get away.

[Nolan]

My preferred excuse is that I'm driving through an asteroid field.

[Dan_Dare]

 

 

 

I'm going to start using that as an excuse whenever I need to get away.

 

I already do

[Beast]

I suggest staying away from twilight unless your a tween girl. I've heard nothing good.

 

Damn it, I've already got it now, lol. My mate said it was a good read so I grabbed it. He said it was a story about vampires killing other vampires and he falls in love or something. Oh well, might as well read it, if I like it, I like it. There's no harm in trying to read it, I suppose, lol.

[nightwolf]

Time travellers wife

 

Didn't quite get chance to finish it before I gave it back, but I liked it. It was interesting to read and I really felt for the story. Henry seems a strange individual and reminds me of someone

 

9/10

[jayseven]

... then why did you give it back? :P I'll get it back to you - you have to finish it.

[dan-likes-trees]

I read aboom about 2 years ago and it was brilliant. Bu for the life of me I can't remember the name.

 

It was about a group of teenagers growing up around drugs, one was called "Lily". Some tried to get off the drugs with meth etc aswell. The Lily girl has a kid I think too. It focused on one persons point of view though.

 

I'm sure it was called something like "flowers" or "drugs". (lol, both completly different words).

 

Anyone have any idea what book?

 

Junk - Melvin Burgess I suspect. Good book, I read it for school a few years back

 

Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami

 

Good book, full of the typical Murakami weirdness. I preferred both After Dark and Norwegian Wood to this though.

And Im currently halfway through a book by the infinately more fucked up Ryu Murakami

 

Edit: Ohh I forgot to score

WSC 8 / 10

[nightwolf]

... then why did you give it back? :P I'll get it back to you - you have to finish it.

 

I'll get it from the library.

[Pookiablo]

Junk - Melvin Burgess I suspect. Good book, I read it for school a few years back[/b]

 

I believe, although I could be wrong, that he went to my secondary school! I wasn't there though....think I might have read Junk too, although I'm having trouble remembering it

[Dog-amoto]

The Holy Bible

 

Written in 66 chapters, by over 40 different people, the Bible is the highest selling and possibly most recognizable book in history. Which I don't really understand.

 

The Bible starts out pretty good, despite a sort of twisted historical logic and many claims that are in direct discrepency with the generally accepted laws of physics. I mean, I know it makes for an exciting read, but are we really supposed to believe the entire universe was created in 7 days by some entity that thinks everything is good? Sort of juvenile, if you ask me. Also, what's with the Noah's Ark story? We're really supposed to accept the reality that one single dude rounded up two of every species in the world - including insects, birds and reptiles - and put them on a big boat and sailed around for 40 days? I've read Choose Your Adventure books with better plots.

 

And while I enjoyed all the stuff about the Jews' enslavement and subsequent liberation, with the plagues and locusts and what have you, I really just don't believe one dude with a stick could make an entire sea part. I mean, even if it did part, the fucking ground where the ocean was would be all wet and mushy. You'd get mud all over your sandals and it would take days or even weeks to sludge through it with millions of people in tow. Just doesn't jibe with me.

 

After the initial excitement of the world's creation and Adam and Eve and Moses and all that other stuff, things really slow down somewhere between Numbers and Deuteronomy. I mean, the whole text really just starts to read like the recorded rantings of a schizophreneic street preacher standing on top of a wine box, holding a protest sign and a bunch of poorly written pamphlets. It's incoherent and, after the initial novetly, pretty boring, with the one exception of the story of Jonah, where the dude gets swallowed by a whale, chills out in its belly for like three days, then gets puked up to shore, alive and well with nary a scratch (again, not big on the whole logic thing, but whatevs).

 

Around this point in the Bible, the names of the chapters start to get really weird and confusing. I mean, 1st and 2nd Maccabees? What's a Maccabee? Why do there need to be two of them? I definitely don't heart Maccabees. Some of my colleagues in the circles of literary elite are saying that Nahum is the new Habakkuk, but I'm not buying it. Habakkuk is a fucking classic and all throughout Nahum, I really just wanted to skip ahead and dive right into Zephania, or go back and re-read Hosea, which was totally dope and amazingly written. Also, Song of Soloman could be a cool name for a rock band that fashioned themselves as the Southern rednecky cousins of the Strokes or something, but it wasn't really working for me as a chapter in the Bible.

 

So then we get to the New Testament, telling the story of my man JC, and while a lot of it was pretty sweet (water into wine? for shizz), it seemed pretty redundant to me. I mean, Luke pretty much nailed the story of Jesus by his ownself, so I don't really see why Matthew, Mark and John had to crowd onto the bandwagon and cramp the nigga's style. Hell, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ nailed the holy spirit (no pun inten--okay, pun intended) better than anything in the Bible -- and Scorcese's "Last Temptation" is so good IT should be The Gospel. I feel guilty even mentionioning it in the same paragraph as these other hacks.

 

So then we get Corinthians and Ephesians and Galatians and Whateverians else, which are all the books written about Christianity by this dude Paul. See, this is where the Bible really went downhill for me. Before becoming Christianitiy's Publicist, Paul was the #1 murderer and torturer of Christians throughout the land. Then one day, he has some revelation on the road to Damascus and suddenly we forgive him for all the bad shit he did? I mean, that's the equivalent of a confessed serial killer or Hitler or someone being all like, "Look, I know I killed a bunch of people, but God spoke to me in a vision, and now I'm sorry and you should follow my teachings, for they are the word of God". I mean, WTF??? Could you imagine what the world would look like in 2000 years if the majority of its population is worshipping and studying the writings of Charles Manson? Also, Paul was a major woman-hater, and that just ain't cool me. He's all like, "bitches can't speak in church!", but we pretty much threw that one out the window a hundred years or so ago, when we seemed to collectively realize that it was retarded, yet we still take his other teachings and crochet them onto quilts. Don't get it.

 

Finally, we reach the end of this mammoth piece of literature: Revelation. Now, I've gotta say - the Bible ends strong. Revelation is all about hellfire, brimstone, whore-raping beasts and whole bunch of other badass apocalyptic shit. My favorite chapter by far, it almost made me forgive my problems with the middle 62 chapters or so of the Bible. To be honest, the Bible might be the world's greatest case for the powers of editing. It should have just been: Genesis, Exodus, Luke, Revelation. That would have been so much more concise, less boring, without nearly as much babbling bullshit. I know it had over 40 authors, but whoever edited this sucker should be banned from the publishing world permanently.

 

Overall, I have to confess, the Holy Bible is not much of a page-turner. While it has its moments of excitement and action, for the most part its just a bunch of variations on people chanting, "Oh holy God, we love you and praise your holy name, yeah, amen". That's pretty much it. However, I did hear that Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment has snapped up the film rights to the book of Jonah, with Russell Crowe set to star as the young hero who is swallowed by the whale and forced to overcome incredible odds (though word is Crowe is planning on playing the character as a retarded math genius, a bold choice that might just get him another Oscar).

 

2 1/2 out of 5 Thessalonians.

[jayseven]

I'll get it from the library.

 

Well that's just rude! Pft :P

[Supergrunch]

Syntactic Structures, by Noam Chomsky.

 

A nice piece of awesome for when it was written.

[Beast]

Twilight

 

I thought, from all the negative reviews I read, that it wasn't going to be a good book. But I ignored them and decided to read it and I'm glad I did. I thought it was a great book, it isn't as bad as everyone is saying it is. Sure it's got a little romance in it and, normally, I hate romance books but I'll make an exception for this.

 

8/10

 

Going to read the sequel New Moon next

[ReZourceman]

I'm not often tempted by books, but I am with the Twilight books.

 

 

 

Hmmm.

[Paj!]

I'm not often tempted by books, but I am with the Twilight books.

 

 

 

Hmmm.

 

You define "Oh No!" sometimes.

 

Seeing the film, giving it 8/10, then planning on buying the books?!

 

Why not just read a real book?

[ReZourceman]

You define "Oh No!" sometimes.

 

I am indeed a terror.

 

Why not just read a real book?

 

As a general rule I don't like books. Or anything that takes more than a few minutes to read. (apart from comics, with pretty pictures to distract me/attract my attention)

 

Im weird/idiot/etc yes yes.

[Beast]

I'm not often tempted by books, but I am with the Twilight books.

 

 

 

Hmmm.

 

ReZ, read it. Even though the book is written through the eyes of Bella, it's actually a really good book. I haven't seen the movie yet but I'm going to soon. If you liked the movie, no doubt you'll like the book too.

[ipaul]

Perfume - Patrick Susykind (sp?)

 

Loved it. Not too sure which part about the book i liked best, but the descriptions were often very creative and the ending of the book was a very fitting and also unexpected I thought.

 

9/10

[Daft]

As a general rule I don't like books. Or anything that takes more than a few minutes to read. (apart from comics, with pretty pictures to distract me/attract my attention)

 

Im weird/idiot/etc yes yes.

 

You are missing out.

 

Actually you are insane.

 

Go read Dune. I demand it. (Not sure why that book exactly but I have the sudden random urge to re-read it. (Bloody essays...))

[Paj!]

As a general rule I don't like books. Or anything that takes more than a few minutes to read. (apart from comics, with pretty pictures to distract me/attract my attention)

 

Im weird/idiot/etc yes yes.

 

I'm lazy in general, and so the idea of reading a new bok that doesn't immediatelt grab me is initially daunting to me, but I know that books are just outstanding as a medium.

 

I mean the books I've read in school (last few years) are revelatory. They require analysis, but I love that (except essay writing, but that's my laziness). I love finding meanings within things, meataphors, symbolism etc. That's why I love "mindfuck" films.

[nightwolf]

I'm lazy in general, and so the idea of reading a new bok that doesn't immediatelt grab me is initially daunting to me, but I know that books are just outstanding as a medium.

 

I mean the books I've read in school (last few years) are revelatory. They require analysis, but I love that (except essay writing, but that's my laziness). I love finding meanings within things, meataphors, symbolism etc. That's why I love "mindfuck" films.

 

 

But if it is a means for rez to actually read something, whether your opinion is to read something else or not..is great in my book. haha pun..! I'm tempted to buy it myself, hey I can get away with reading chick books once in a while.

 

Inkheart

 

I found out it's recently it's been turned into a film. YIPEE! I love this book and the one after it. Very pretty and a decent enough plot. So I decided to re-read it. I very nearly wrote an essay about it.

 

9/10

[Dan_Dare]

I just finished The Road by Cormac MacCarthy (No Country For Old Men)

 

This book is ridiculously good. Set some years after the apocalypse, a man and his son travel the road to the coast in search of a kind of salvation and safety, as such exists in the world they live in. MacCarthy's taunt, stripped down prose is perfect here; picturing a world long past the brink of total destruction. This isn't a society emerging from the dark to start over- this is humanity's last howl of feral despair before the engulfing nothingness of a secular, godless extinction takes the last scattered remnants of man forever. The destruction he imagines is total and irreversible, the depths to which the survivors sink to are unfathomable but at the same time there is a kind of hopeful humanity to the story in the relationship between the man and his child that comes through like the last candle light in the darkness.

This is the best book I've read all year. I read it in three sittings.