Books!

Angrist · 05-01-2008, 05:01 PM

So I read some good books recently and I have a question about another book.

I read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. Really good book, and it even had me doubting global warming for a while.

Did any of you read The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster? I just read the first 3 pages and I love the writing style. But because the second book is called Ghosts, I'm trying to find out if it has any supernatural stuff in it. If it hasn't, I'll buy it. Does anyone know?

What are the latest books you've read?

Seth · 05-01-2008, 05:18 PM

I bought State of Fear randommly and rather liked it. A bit over the top kinda but Crichton did a good job of bringing it all together. Do you think he genuinely disbelieves in global warming or was it merely a put on?
The latest books I've read are Angela's Ashes, The Mastery of Love, and Anna Karenin. oh, and the Bible but that's never a past tense read.
I'm currently diving into The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. I watched the rather old hitchcock film based on the novel so I thought why not. Also, Desire of Ages by Ellen G White. I'm thinking about reading The Fifth Business because it was an assigned reading for my class which I never got to, anybody know if it's good?
I believe Ghosts by Paul Auster doesn't contain supernatural elements. It's about a private detective.

Fox 6 · 05-01-2008, 05:19 PM

I am re-reading 1984, its always a classic.

Swan · 05-01-2008, 07:30 PM

I am in the process of reading American Psycho right now. Quite a fun read though it can be pretty intense

Dyne · 05-01-2008, 07:53 PM

Hey wow Angrist, I did read the New York Trilogy. Well, the first one, City of Glass. It opened up a whole relationship with my World Lit teacher and I talked about MGS2 and the references in it.

I'm currently reading The Prestige by Christopher Priest, and The Pleasure of my Company by Steve Martin.

You say you like Crichton, Angrist - Are Jurassic Park and The Lost World good? I really, really loved Timeline and I'm looking into more Crichton.

Fox 6 · 05-01-2008, 08:32 PM

Jurassic park was a very well written book. Better than the movie. Cant vouch for the Lost World though.

Bube · 05-02-2008, 05:37 AM

Hmm.. never read the ones you mentioned Angrist..

I read The Island of Dr.Moreau and Brave New World recently. Currently reading Catch-22, and after that, Atlas Shrugged. I've got my hands full

Angrist · 05-02-2008, 06:46 AM

Thanks guys, I will put The New York Trilogy on my list.

Do you know Robin Cook? He's the writer of the famous Coma, but he's written a huge load of other medical thrillers. I read 2 of them: I really liked Terminal, but was unimpressed by Mindbend.

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Originally Posted by Dyne

You say you like Crichton, Angrist - Are Jurassic Park and The Lost World good? I really, really loved Timeline and I'm looking into more Crichton.

Yeah, Jurassic Park is amazing. Like Fox 6 says, it's better than the movie. Longer and a better atmosphere.
The Lost World is a decent sequel. The book is a lot better than the movie, although that isn't too hard.

I enjoyed TLW a lot more than most of Crichton's other books. Dinosaurs just own jungly gorillas and almost-out-of-space bacteria.

Bube, I don't know any of those you mentioned.

This is the booklist on my MSN space.

Fox 6 · 05-02-2008, 11:32 AM

Its so refreshing to see that people still read :P. When I was in scholl noone read for leisure at all. ONe time when my school basketball team went on a road trip I pulled out a book and started to read, everyone else literally asked why I was reading and gawked at me like I had leperacy. wtf?

Yoda9864 · 05-02-2008, 12:19 PM

Jurrasic Park and The Lost World are two of my favorite books of all time. I've read JP at least 5 times. I even had to re-buy it because it was getting so torn up. In general, I'm a big Crichton fan: Congo, Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Rising Sun. But I haven't read State of Fear yet.

I'm currently reading Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind. It's the 6th book in the 11 book Sword of Truth series. Widely thought of to be one of the best sci-fi/fantasy series. Heavy reading though, each book is 400-600 pages.

But I might take a break from that series after I'm done with Faith of the Fallen to catch up on the latest Star Wars offerings (mainly the Legacy of the Force line of books, and Outbound Flight).

Dyne · 05-02-2008, 01:48 PM

Ok, definitely picking up Jurassic Park at the very least.

The Germanator · 05-02-2008, 02:00 PM

I read a collection of short non-fiction stories compiled by Ira Glass of NPR's This American Life, and that was a tremendous read...Lots of variety throughout the stories.

I also read the novelization of Gremlins 2: The New Batch for fun. Some pretty heinous and ridiculous writing, but fun nonetheless.

Also read a book called The Tourists which was written my a high school friend's brother which was published recently. I enjoyed it enough to get through it, and it had some good twists and turns, but it wasn't my favorite...

Typhoid · 05-02-2008, 02:03 PM

The only books I've read under my own free will, as I always state, are the three George Carlin books; Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When will Jesus bring the porkchops?

I'm currently reading the entire 5-part series of The Hitchhiker's Guide, though.

Seth · 05-02-2008, 03:49 PM

Hitchhiker's Guide series is one of my favourites. I'm wanting to read the Chronicles of Narnia books again, haven't since age 12ish.
Has anyone read Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa? It's one of my favourite books.
Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility tetralogy is amazing. He committed ritual suicide cuz I guess he despised growing old or something but he had just finished the last book in the tetralogy prior to seppuka.

Swan · 05-02-2008, 07:44 PM

For some strange reason I want to read the novelization of Snakes on a Plane. I would love some snakes in words form