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Dare I start a literature thread in a gaming forum?
Just wanted to get a thread going where people can share the boks they are reading at the moment with others, possibly recomend books as well and what have you.

Right now i'm reading
Cry the Beloved country (for my AP lit class)
Dante's Inferno (highly recomended, it's great)
and
Intensity by Koontz is next on my list.
 
Currently, I'm doing a play to honor my high school theatre teacher, who will be retiring this year. As such, I'm concentrating on memorizing lines. However, when that's done, I'll be reading "The Simulacra" but Philip K. Dick

Oh, and check out my Shelfari shelf
 
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Rereading Shakespeare plays. Right now, "Twelfth Night."
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Go Shakespeare!
I intend to read Macbeth somtime soon
 
Finishing up "The Great Hunt" by Jordan, then moving on to "The Dragon Reborn".
 
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Rereading Shakespeare plays. Right now, "Twelfth Night."
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stop. I read it and it's gay. I nearly died of boredom. The movies are even worse.

Ok, time to be more descriptive.

1. There is no action (of any kind -- to me, dueling is not considered action)
2. The type and style of humor used is seriously outdated...
3. The plot is frikken ridiculous! I mean, who would not be able to tell a girl from a boy even if they had an entire Hollywood makeup and costume department on the side? I mean really now, be serious.

But then I guess this is what Elizebethian's settled for in the humor department.

In the 21st century, we have Jeff Dunham!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go[/ame]

it is teh funniezorz!
 
[link=http://www.shelfari.com/o1518232679/shelf]My Shelfari Shelf[/link]
 
I'f anyone needs a good series (fantasy-esq) to read i can HIGHLy recomend "A song of ice and fire: by George Martin. The first book is called A Game of Thrones. It is for a mature audiance though.
 
I am currently reading...

[blockquote]Dare I start a literature thread in a gaming forum?
Just wanted to get a thread going where people can share the boks they are reading at the moment with others, possibly recomend books as well and what have you.

Right now i'm reading
Cry the Beloved country (for my AP lit class)
Dante's Inferno (highly recomended, it's great)
and
Intensity by Koontz is next on my list. [/blockquote]

By Odin's Will.
 
Right now, I'm reading this thread.


Seriously, why am I the first one to post this?!

Honestly though, I need to force myself to finish [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_22]Catch-22[/link]. That's the most hilarious book I've ever read, and I never even finished it.

Edit: Crap, I just got the joke in Thor's post. BEATEN. Well done, Thor... well done.
 
Well I'm currently in a trance at the genius that is H. P. Lovecraft. The man can perfectly tap into the very nature of the human soul and see what scares us at our core. Perfect for quick light reading, seeing as how they are all relatively short stories, but you will not be able to stop thinking about them afterwards. Read "Colour out of Space" and of course "Call of C'thulhu" in particular.
 
Stephen King Dark Tower series. On book two waiting to get the ambition to start and finish it. The first was excellent, so I expect the whole series to be.
 
I am currently reading "Captain's Fury" the fourth book in the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher.
 
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Well I'm currently in a trance at the genius that is H. P. Lovecraft. The man can perfectly tap into the very nature of the human soul and see what scares us at our core. Perfect for quick light reading, seeing as how they are all relatively short stories, but you will not be able to stop thinking about them afterwards. Read "Colour out of Space" and of course "Call of C'thulhu" in particular.
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The best stories, in my opinion, are "The Whisperer in Darkness", "The Outsider", and "Pickman's Model" - although it's a hard distinction to make, because he was an amazing author.

Also, if you want to read an interesting book, try his (now out-of-print) biography by deCamp. He harps on Lovecraft's racism a bit, but it's tempered by a keen understanding of how the man worked. (And how his racism began to fall by the wayside towards the end of his life).

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I've always thought that this biography would make a great movie, intermixed with bits of his fiction brought to life.
 
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Just finished "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman. He's so awesome.
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Don't forget Terry Pratchet as well. The two of them crafted one of the funniest books I've ever read.
 
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Don't forget Terry Pratchet as well. The two of them crafted one of the funniest books I've ever read.
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Have you read them all? Which was your fave? Saw Stardust at the theater and had to learn more about the writer. That was really one of the coolest, funniest, fantasy type, love story movies I've seen in a long time. Read Neverwhere and LOVED it. About to start American Gods.

I tend to go through entire author's works when I find one that I really like. Other favorites I've completed: Douglas Adams, Maeve Binchy, and Carl Hiaasen (<-he is a sick freak and I love him for that!) :)

Never really could get in to Shakespeare. :(
 
I've not read Stardust, although I loved the movie. I'm just getting along my journey into Neil Gaiman's world, but American Gods positively blew me away. Good Omens was a fine introduction, and (as I've mentioned) one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I'm planning on reading Sandman at some point soon, and I also want to read the Discworld books by Pratchett, as I hear they're just wonderful.
 
Right now I am reading The Pilgrim's Progress and I have just finished reading Paradise Lost by John Milton, not to mention Dante's Inferno, Purgatario (Purgatory), and Paradisio (Paridise). Though I think the best book I ever read was "Quo Vadis" by Henryk Sienkewicz.
 
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