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6 hours ago, EternallDarkness said:

 

 

The Don Winslow novel? I have that sitting on my shelf. I need to get around to it one of these days. 

Yep! The book is great. Looks like a doorstop, but it reads extremely fast. Can't wait to see the film version.

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Just finished Dark Tower II: Drawing of the Three. Wow I enjoyed this so much more than the first book. It also felt like his writing style evolved a lot between the two. After the first one I took a break from the series and read Good Omens but after finding book 2 I’m going right into book 3 as I’m totally hooked on the story now. 

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19 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

Just finished Dark Tower II: Drawing of the Three. Wow I enjoyed this so much more than the first book. It also felt like his writing style evolved a lot between the two. After the first one I took a break from the series and read Good Omens but after finding book 2 I’m going right into book 3 as I’m totally hooked on the story now. 

 

 

I freaking love Drawing of the Three. I can still remember the first time I read it. Read it in a single day nonstop. 

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I just started House of Leaves and am about 40 pages into it so far, which feels like a lot given that it is a behemoth. I don't generally read books that could be classified as horror, and while I occasionally dip my toes in post-modern bullshit, I had yet to cross the threshold of ergodic fiction. My initial impression could not be more positive.  The horror so far is very corner-of-the-eyes type stuff and uncanniness, which I generally find far more effective than the general stalkers and slow-walkers that are more prevalent in horror media. The story itself is also just compelling. I am working my way through the section that describes The Navidson Record, and I really just want to watch the movie. Between this and watching The Hill with the Haunted House , The House on the Haunted Hill, The Haunting of Hill House, I'm starting to feel a little pressed in by the dark. 

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8 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

Just finished Dark Tower II: Drawing of the Three. Wow I enjoyed this so much more than the first book. It also felt like his writing style evolved a lot between the two. After the first one I took a break from the series and read Good Omens but after finding book 2 I’m going right into book 3 as I’m totally hooked on the story now. 

The Waste Lands is the peak of the series though Wizard and Glass is fantastic in its own right.

 

But you can stop there and just pretend books 5 to 7 simply don't exist.

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41 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

The Waste Lands is the peak of the series though Wizard and Glass is fantastic in its own right.

 

But you can stop there and just pretend books 5 to 7 simply don't exist.

 

I will say, being only 2 1/4 books into the series i can now fully appreciate how utterly terrible the movie was. I mean if Starz can make an absolutely bat shit crazy book like American Gods into a show I don’t see why The Dark Tower(or The Stand for that matter) isn’t already in production. 

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1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

Interestingly enough, I just re-read it and came in here to post that. 

What did you think? At this point I'm around 100 pages in and still enjoying it, though relatively little is happening. :lol: Wilde certainly has a way with words. 

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32 minutes ago, Nokra said:

What did you think? At this point I'm around 100 pages in and still enjoying it, though relatively little is happening. :lol: Wilde certainly has a way with words. 

I personally love Wilde and appreciate his decadent rants. I've read the book several times since my teen years. 

 

Are you on a classic Gothicism type kick or just reading it in general? If you're interested in this general era, I'd highly, highly recommend Melmoth The Wanderer. It's a brilliant albeit challenging read. 

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5 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I personally love Wilde and appreciate his decadent rants. I've read the book several times since my teen years. 

 

Are you on a classic Gothicism type kick or just reading it in general? If you're interested in this general era, I'd highly, highly recommend Melmoth The Wanderer. It's a brilliant albeit challenging read. 

I wasn't intending to read more than just this one classic; I just realized that I had never read anything from Wilde before and wanted to rectify this since he's a classic. But after reading the description of that book on Wikipedia it does sound interesting. I'll add it to the list. Thank you! 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Nokra said:

I wasn't intending to read more than just this one classic; I just realized that I had never read anything from Wilde before and wanted to rectify this since he's a classic. But after reading the description of that book on Wikipedia it does sound interesting. I'll add it to the list. Thank you! 

 

 

Like I said, it's a hefty chunk to read nowadays considering it was written in 1820. Imagine the absolute gulf of culture and writing norms between that and what we're used to now. In that sense, it takes some patience but the prose, story and atmosphere are fucking brilliant if you like Gothic atmosphere. 

 

One of my favorite books overall actually. Writing out the title alone makes me mentally jizz just a tiny bit already. 

 

PS: I also love Umberto Eco if you've never read him. The Name Of The Rose  and Foucault's Pendulum are great novels. Name... is like a Sherlock Holmes novel set in a medieval Italian monastery, who can resist this?

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Had been reading the Farseer Trilogy, but took a break after book 2. Mostly because work doesn't allow electronics (kindle) in the building past employee lockers, but I've always owned a copy of Dune, but never actually read it. So I started taking that to work and read it, just started Dune Messiah.

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I finished Dorian Gray this afternoon and gave it 5/5 stars on Goodreads. By the last third one knows what's going to happen but the journey of getting there was supremely enjoyable to me. It is a very simple but elegant tale of morals and character; I can absolutely see why it's considered a classic of English literature. 

 

Have you read anything else by Wilde, 

@CastlevaniaNut18 ?

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41 minutes ago, Nokra said:

I finished Dorian Gray this afternoon and gave it 5/5 stars on Goodreads. By the last third one knows what's going to happen but the journey of getting there was supremely enjoyable to me. It is a very simple but elegant tale of morals and character; I can absolutely see why it's considered a classic of English literature. 

 

Have you read anything else by Wilde, 

@CastlevaniaNut18 ?

Glad to see you liked it. I always love seeing people sink their teeth into some classics despite vastly differing standards compared to our modern story-telling styles and so on.

 

I just broke out the following due to the autumnal season:

 

Woman In Black by Susan Hill

 

The original novel the rather semi-shitty (well, the sets were amazing at least) Daniel Radcliffe film is based on. Perhaps not considered a masterpiece but I personally love it. Very atmospheric, eerie and an absolutely fantastic setting. I'm a sucker for this type of almost folklore based Horror so it's a 5/5 from me. Almost my third time reading it. 

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1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

Glad to see you liked it. I always love seeing people sink their teeth into some classics despite vastly differing standards compared to our modern story-telling styles and so on.

 

I just broke out the following due to the autumnal season:

 

Woman In Black by Susan Hill

 

The original novel the rather semi-shitty (well, the sets were amazing at least) Daniel Radcliffe film is based on. Perhaps not considered a masterpiece but I personally love it. Very atmospheric, eerie and an absolutely fantastic setting. I'm a sucker for this type of almost folklore based Horror so it's a 5/5 from me. Almost my third time reading it. 

 

It's a good book. 

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8 hours ago, Nokra said:

I finished Dorian Gray this afternoon and gave it 5/5 stars on Goodreads. By the last third one knows what's going to happen but the journey of getting there was supremely enjoyable to me. It is a very simple but elegant tale of morals and character; I can absolutely see why it's considered a classic of English literature. 

 

Have you read anything else by Wilde, 

@CastlevaniaNut18 ?

Nope, that was the only one I read.

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I've been reading Beren and Lúthien  by J.R.R. Tolkien, which is a collection of the multiple versions of the legend of Beren and Lúthien as told in the Silmarillion. As was often the case, Tolkien changed details of the story over the years and had several versions of the story, including both prose and verse versions of the story, as well as some in which Beren was also an elf. J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher published this collection of the stories in 2017 and I'm finally getting around to reading it. I don't recall having read a prose version of the legend so this has been really fun. As a Tolkien fanatic, I'm in heaven. :daydream:

 

After taking a break from them, I'm also reading Foundation and Empire, the second of the Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov. I'm following the order suggested by @legend earlier in this thread. I'm really enjoying them a lot more on my second reading. I think I was probably in too much of a hurry last time and missed out on a lot of the connections between and politics of the characters, which of course is where so much of the excitement comes. Definitely enjoying it a lot more this time. 

 

For the book club I go to here I read No Good Deed by John Niven, about a man who passes an old friend of his who is begging on the street and decides to try and help him out. It was a pretty funny book at times, though sometimes the writing seemed a little off to me somehow; inauthentic or contrived, I think. But it was entertaining in any case. 

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Finished Dune Messiah, I still liked the book, but it felt quite a bit more boring that the first book.

Just started Children of Dune, it almost feels like Messiah was just a build up book for this. I kind of spoiled myself a couple things by wandering out on the internet looking things up. Somethings I really don't like, but I guess we will see how they turn out.

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