What are you reading? [Book Discussion Topic]

ryanhw12 wrote:Reading
Dead or alive by tom clancy 240 pages in about 700 pages to go.

Ya man my Tom Clancy book is fucking huge, way bigger than any book I have ever seen. (Novel Wise)

The Art of War sounds cool and all but I'm not sure I'd appreciate it much, being an avid pacifist D:

I should also mention that I'm arbitrarily taking suggestions from the books you've all posted. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Negative) looks pretty sweet so I'll read that soon.

ryanhw12 wrote:Reading
Dead or alive by tom clancy 240 pages in about 700 pages to go.

A Dance with Dragons is JUST bigger than that, only by 10's of pages.

Dexta117 wrote:

ryanhw12 wrote:Reading
Dead or alive by tom clancy 240 pages in about 700 pages to go.

A Dance with Dragons is JUST bigger than that, only by 10's of pages.

The two largest books I've ever read were about 1100 pages each, both by Stephen King. One was Under the Dome and the other was the final book of the Dark Tower series called The Dark Tower.

Super Mega King wrote:The Art of War sounds cool and all but I'm not sure I'd appreciate it much, being an avid pacifist D:

I should also mention that I'm arbitrarily taking suggestions from the books you've all posted. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Negative) looks pretty sweet so I'll read that soon.

As I said, even though it is meant to be applied to warfare, warfare can be used as a metaphor for many conflicts. (Sniper business anyone?)

Read it if you please, at the least, the enemy of a pacifist is a war mongerer, and if you know yourself and know your enemy, you will subdue your opponent every time. If you know yourself and don't know your enemy, you will lose every other battle, and if you don't know yourself and don't know your enemy, you will succumb to him every time.

I'm reading rangers in Korea, right now I'm on a chapter on a sniper who up in the mountain side would shoot into a Bally taking out a betalion with fear, he was so efficient that he gave them a sense of security to run to a village that was called in and Bo bedrock artillery

I recently finished The Body Of Christopher Creed, and now I'm moving on to The Outsiders (Believe it or not, I have only watched the movie.), I'm trying to get The Road from my English Teacher, so that'll be next as I hadn't got to read all of it the last time I had it.

I'm also trying to get a hardback copy of John Dies at the End, which I will most likely read again.

[January 15] - Glasshouse by Charles Stross

Glasshouse was a pretty good sci-fi book, though I wouldn't recommend it to non-fans of the genre. In a future where technology has accelerated beyond belief, a group of people willing undergo memory surgery and enlist in a program that places individuals in a recreation of a 1990-2000 suburban town. From there, naturally, things go pretty south. Nice read.

Old topics like this make me happy.

JUST READ:Fight Club good book but I still prefer the movie from the way it was told and cinematography,Scott Pilgrim VS The World it was a good book for day for reading it.

Currently Reading:I am on the second book of Scott Pilgrim and currently liking it better than the movie version (i kind of hate Michael Cera) has more backstory.

Want To Read:I want to read all the next Scott pilgrims next but for a book series it has to be the Hunger Games,it reminds me of battle Royale in a way.I want to read graphic novel such as Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Watchmen but one caught my eye it was called "Interview with a serial killer" and the artwork of the guy looked like John C Reilly and the artwork looked spiffy as well but I won't get into much detail. so yeah that is me for my books

Haven't gotten a book to read in a while. Think im gunn head over to the bookstore after work, or tomorrow. Im just gunna go by what everyone in this topic has said and pick one or two of the books you gents have read.

Johnny got his gun is an amazing book.

I just realized, I have a $25 gift card for Chapters. I should probably use it on one of these books.

Which one should I read first ?

I would have thought you'd have read V just from looking at your avatar and sig.

[Reading]
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

[Read Recently]
"4th of July" by James Patterson
"Choke" and "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
And for school
"Lord of the Faggot Flies who all fucking suck and eat pig heads" by Some guy
"Odepius the mother fuckin Rex" by Sophocles


I am not too far into "Catch-22" but, can someone tell me if it gets any better or ends up going anywhere anytime soon? I just understood how sarcastic and neurotic Yossarian is but, aside from that I am lost.

I just read Replay by Ken Grimwood. I give it a "thumbs up", but who cares what I think. It's a good book.

Excerpt from Wikipedia, for the lazy:

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