Stick with it. The trilogy is awesome - but not everybody enjoys the ground setting.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I read half of Ender’s Game a few months ago and for a guy who is against homosexuality there sure were enough scenes of nude boys and things like boys sending penis pictures to each other.
By the way, I stopped reading because it felt like an endless amount of the hero training in the zero G room. Like 50 fucking times. The damn book is only 250 pages for fuck’s sake.[/quote]
nards you big dummy. The point of all that was that he wasn’t actually training that whole time he was actually fighting battles thinking he was training. Kind of like drone warfare today.
I’m about half way through NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. I’m really liking it so far.
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I read half of Ender’s Game a few months ago and for a guy who is against homosexuality there sure were enough scenes of nude boys and things like boys sending penis pictures to each other.
By the way, I stopped reading because it felt like an endless amount of the hero training in the zero G room. Like 50 fucking times. The damn book is only 250 pages for fuck’s sake.[/quote]
nards you big dummy. The point of all that was that he wasn’t actually training that whole time he was actually fighting battles thinking he was training. Kind of like drone warfare today. [/quote]
Oops.
Well I know the ending now.
About halfway through Neuromancer, its really good if you can ignore how badly its aged.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
I read “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy and “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini this summer. Both excellent books with some very disturbing scenes in them. I’m currently reading “Cold Mountain” by Charles Frazier. I liked “Thirteen Moons” even though some critics panned it. The Civil War and indeed anything set in the 19th century appeals to me.
Someone mentioned “Lolita”. I haven’t read it in awhile, but from what I remember, you should question Humbert’s sanity and reliability as a narrator. Setting is very important in Nabokov’s writing. The novel is set in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Humbert is the “old world” Europe and Dolores (Lola, Lolita) represents a “young and brash” America of the period…
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly - WOW that is a great book. Nothing like what I thought it would be like.
Moonwalking with Einstein by Josh Foer - This book is great on memory improvement, and really entertaining
A bunch of Neil Gaiman short stories - Good to pass the time while commuting
The Antiquities of the Jews by Titus Flavius Josephus having recently finished his Wars of the Jews. After two decades of reading Greek and Roman history; Gibbon, Livy, Tacitus, Caesar, Sallust, Seutonius, Arian, Xenophon and of course Thucydides and Herodotus it’s time for something different.
The Ancient Giants described in Josephus’ book sound scary…scary to look at AND hear…‘‘FEE FI FO FUUUUMMMMM’’,
lol.
‘‘There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men.’’
Go read Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield. Its a historical fiction novel about the battle of Thermopylae. Excellent read.
[quote]IFlashBack wrote:
Just watched World War Z. Nothing like the book. I would suggest reading the book, it’s much better.
Re-reading the 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens. I read it first when I was 13 and now when I am 19. Wanted to see how my perspective changed. Honestly I can’t believe how much this book has helped me.
Gave an honest attempt at the Graveyard Book. Couldn’t finish.
Am Halfway through The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Also having a hard time getting invested in the story. [/quote]
Now invest in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” - I read it as a teen and re-read it recently. All Steven Covey’s books are excellent.
The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson. About john Johnson who robert Redford’s Jeremiah Johnson is loosely based on. This dude had an ongoing battle with the entire crow nation. Just a badass mountain man
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson. About john Johnson who robert Redford’s Jeremiah Johnson is loosely based on. This dude had an ongoing battle with the entire crow nation. Just a badass mountain man[/quote]
Read this about 30 years ago and loved it.[/quote]
So far its a great one. You read much on john Colter? He was more around your current neck of the woods I think. Equally badass too. I picked up big sky by Guthrie from your recommendation. I should start it over the winter.
The most interesting book I’ve read in a while was on how 9/11 has changed cinema since then. Currently I am reading studies on how to improve immigration.
Also in the middle of Scorpion’s Gate, I like those mindless type of fictional spy gov agency spec ops and international relation books.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I read half of Ender’s Game a few months ago and for a guy who is against homosexuality there sure were enough scenes of nude boys and things like boys sending penis pictures to each other.
By the way, I stopped reading because it felt like an endless amount of the hero training in the zero G room. Like 50 fucking times. The damn book is only 250 pages for fuck’s sake.[/quote]
I guess different strokes for differen… better not go there.
Anyway, sorry that you did not care for it - one of my favorites. I read it for the first time in high school though. I personally prefer the ‘Bean’ books that followed.
I highly recommend Starship Troopers by Heinlein. Fascinating discussion on citizenship and society. Really wish this were required reading in public schools.
Tom Clancy passes away at age 66.