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Off-Topic => Chatterbox => Topic started by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 10:01:32 AM

Title: What books do you like?
Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 10:01:32 AM
I like the book 'Skellig', its beautifully written.

What about youse?
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: FOTEPX on March 02, 2011, 10:03:26 AM
Skellig is not beautifully written.

Checkmate and Of Mice And Men on the other hand...
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 10:07:37 AM
Skellig is not beautifully written.

Of Mice And Men on the other hand...
Is about a 'tard and someone with a temper problem, the tard kills mice and gets shot in the back of the head By the angry man. which i have to study for english literature!

BAAAW.

And skellig is an amazing piece of writing and i'd like to see you write anything better than it.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: SteveM4 on March 02, 2011, 10:10:43 AM
Jane Eyre

...

What, its a pretty calming read.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 10:11:42 AM
Jane Eyre

...

What, its a pretty calming read.
Twas a good read yesh..
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: FOTEPX on March 02, 2011, 10:15:53 AM
Honestly, nobody here has read Checkmate!?
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 10:21:49 AM
I personally havent.
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Post by: Jonzu95 on March 02, 2011, 10:30:51 AM
Kama Sutra :coolface
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Serge on March 02, 2011, 10:53:51 AM
Kama Sutra :coolface
Too bad you'll never be able to practice it.


Books? The "Dune" series, almost anything by Lovecraft, Pratchett's Discworld series, almost anything by Douglas Adams, Gibson's cyberpunk literature, Tolkien's "Silmarillion" and LotR, and of course "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman?" by Feynman and "A Brief History of Time" by Hawking.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 10:55:54 AM
Nice.
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Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on March 02, 2011, 11:50:46 AM
Of Mice And Men
:rage
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: 123savethewhales on March 02, 2011, 01:02:31 PM
I hate reading fictions in general.
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Post by: LiNcK on March 02, 2011, 01:07:56 PM
Somehow I read "What do books look like?" as title & Was expecting a troll or something xD

Well, I dont really like books, But I enjoyed one we had to read for school that included some peeps falling in love :3
It was cute... I guess... Specially reading "Then i felt his penis, It felt like a beating piece of ham" xD
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Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 02, 2011, 01:14:57 PM
LOL
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Post by: ty4er on March 02, 2011, 01:44:42 PM
Somehow I read "What do books look like?" as title & Was expecting a troll or something xD

Well, I dont really like books, But I enjoyed one we had to read for school that included some peeps falling in love :3
It was cute... I guess... Specially reading "Then i felt his penis, It felt like a beating piece of ham" xD
...

Anyway i quite liked Prowlers by whatsisnamefaceguy but i do have some books like
"A Brief History of Time" by Hawking.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Sparkey98 on March 02, 2011, 02:50:59 PM
Where the red furn grows.
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Post by: 090901 on March 02, 2011, 04:55:30 PM
Where the red furn grows.
It's a fern, not a furn.
"The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" are both awesome books.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: madman3 on March 02, 2011, 05:03:37 PM
Elizabeth Moon. Easy.
A good series of Dorothy Dunnett books will steal a couple of your years.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: G.K. on March 02, 2011, 05:41:26 PM
Malcolm Rose's TRACES are absolutely hilarious due to one of the main characters.

I'll read anything that's not too boring, girly, disgusting or stupid.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Hard Bot on March 02, 2011, 05:56:57 PM
Animal Farm, Lord Of The Flies, 1984, Johnny Got His Gun, The Call of Cthulhlu, Moby Dick, The Communist Manifesto, The Anarchist's Cookbook, A Curtain has Descended Over Europe. Old books mainly.
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Post by: Scrap Daddy on March 02, 2011, 06:00:25 PM
Where the red furn grows.
for some reason i always thought it would be awesome to hunt raccoons all days and sell the fur and meat.


also i love when someone bring up the topic of books and people say the books they had to read in school.
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Post by: FOTEPX on March 02, 2011, 06:04:17 PM
Where the red furn grows.
for some reason i always thought it would be awesome to hunt raccoons all days and sell the fur and meat.


also i love when someone bring up the topic of books and people say the books they had to read in school.

Ok, I'll be honest, I had to read of mice and men, but chekmate (the whole series of Noughts and Crosses, for that matter) was my choice. And they were awesome.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Natef on March 02, 2011, 06:15:00 PM
Catcher in the Rye
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Sparkey98 on March 02, 2011, 06:15:21 PM
Where the red furn grows.
for some reason i always thought it would be awesome to hunt raccoons all days and sell the fur and meat.


also i love when someone bring up the topic of books and people say the books they had to read in school.

I thought it was a good read though.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Serge on March 02, 2011, 07:06:29 PM
Catcher in the Rye

oh gods please no
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Meganerdbomb on March 02, 2011, 07:17:56 PM
 I prefer fantasy novels. Some of my favorites include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (of course). The Sword of Truth (and it's sequels) By Terry Goodkind, and any of R.A. Salvatore's Drizz't books.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Jack Daniels on March 02, 2011, 08:55:20 PM
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Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Enigm@ on March 02, 2011, 08:58:09 PM
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Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Meganerdbomb on March 02, 2011, 09:02:03 PM
Jonzu, start with this one first:
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Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Hydro on March 02, 2011, 09:23:04 PM
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Principles of Communism
Marx's General
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Doomkiller on March 02, 2011, 09:26:52 PM
Deltora Quest
The horrible history series :P

And the Dragon Lance and Forgotten realms series. Awesum set of books
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Sage on March 02, 2011, 10:53:56 PM
Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Hunger Games, Foundling, Last apprentice, Narnia, 'arry pottah, series of unfortunate events, alex rider, and redwall. all fantastic series in their own ways, some better than others. o and ender's game. AND BATTLEFIELD EARTH :D and septimus heap

as for non-fiction, Outliers was good, Eaarth too. But I don't read much non-fiction unless its for school.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Meganerdbomb on March 02, 2011, 11:02:12 PM
Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Hunger Games, Foundling, Last apprentice, Narnia, 'arry pottah, series of unfortunate events, alex rider, and redwall. all fantastic series in their own ways, some better than others. o and ender's game. AND BATTLEFIELD EARTH :D and septimus heap

as for non-fiction, Outliers was good, Eaarth too. But I don't read much non-fiction unless its for school.
This man has taste.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Reier on March 02, 2011, 11:20:19 PM
Far Side
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: J on March 02, 2011, 11:36:43 PM
@Rei: Farside is lulz

Eragon, Artemis Fowl, Hunger Games, Foundling, Last apprentice, Narnia, 'arry pottah, series of unfortunate events, alex rider, and redwall. all fantastic series in their own ways, some better than others. o and ender's game. AND BATTLEFIELD EARTH :D and septimus heap

as for non-fiction, Outliers was good, Eaarth too. But I don't read much non-fiction unless its for school.
This man has taste.
Now he just needs a slight pony obsession :3
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: 123savethewhales on March 02, 2011, 11:43:50 PM
I don't like to read, but here's some audio books I have listened to that helps me play RA2.

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
TTC Game Theory
TTC Chaos Theory
TTC Understanding Complexity
Sun Tzu the Art of War
The 33 Strategies of War

Though I wonder if anyone else who read them notice how useful they are in bot building.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Mouldy on March 03, 2011, 12:36:29 AM
Horrid Henry
Beast Quest
.....more Horrid Henry......
thats about it!
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Pwnator on March 03, 2011, 02:47:30 AM
Err...

Fight Club, Survivor, Lullaby, Less Than Zero, American Psycho (creepier than I expected), Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, Jailbird, Cat's Cradle, and Catch-22.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Naryar on March 03, 2011, 04:49:51 AM
Let us see...

Moby Dick, the Dune series (though I only read the first 2 books and the one when Leto II ascends to what can only be called godhood), Lord of the Rings, The Call of the Wild, Animal Farm, most of Jules Verne... What else...

On more realistic books, I loved both Machiavelli's The Prince AND Sun Tzu's The Art of War. And yeah, I can see how that last one can be useful even here. It looks like it can be adapted to any conflictual situation.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: TeamXtreemer on March 03, 2011, 09:57:31 AM
More of my books (they are mixed genres.)
Bunny suicides: just plain funny.
Horrible histories
Horrible science
Horrible geography
Murderous maths
The knowledge
Artemis Fowl
Blart: the boy who did'nt want to save the world.








Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: Scrap Daddy on March 03, 2011, 02:22:07 PM
Err...

Fight Club, Survivor, Lullaby, Less Than Zero, American Psycho (creepier than I expected), Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, Jailbird, Cat's Cradle, and Catch-22.
Yeah, Slaughterhouse-Five is one of my favorite books. Actually most Kurt Vonnegut is damn good.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: madman3 on March 03, 2011, 02:55:32 PM
Let us see...

Moby Dick, the Dune series (though I only read the first 2 books and the one when Leto II ascends to what can only be called godhood), Lord of the Rings, The Call of the Wild, Animal Farm, most of Jules Verne... What else...

On more realistic books, I loved both Machiavelli's The Prince AND Sun Tzu's The Art of War. And yeah, I can see how that last one can be useful even here. It looks like it can be adapted to any conflictual situation.
Hallo Mr. Classic reader. You like classic fantasy? Try Dorothy Dunnett. One of the best writers ever, if very challenging for the average reader.
Title: Re: What books do you like?
Post by: GoldenFox93 on March 03, 2011, 04:07:54 PM
I'm guessing that S_M's favourite book would be The Apes of Wrath   :coolface: