I'm just about to finish Lee Child's Without Fail. It's actually really freaking good. I'm gonna start reading Starship Troopers when I finish it.
I'm reading Iskander's Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.
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I'm rereading the Twilight series for when New Moon comes out, and also The Zombie Survival Guide
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Iskander the Great.
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just finished On the Road, which I actually really enjoyed from a stylistic standpoint and i loved the spirit of the book, although it still felt like something was missing, and I don't know what.
On to Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Despite being such a small book it'll probably take me a while because the chapters/paragraphs are very long and that rarely bodes well with my short attention span.
Joseph Conrad isn't exactly a page-turner, so you can't be blamed for that
I am currently watching all of Battlestar Galactica and it is essentially a novel. Which I cannot put down.
That counts, yeah?
i'm currently reading simonj as life itself is also a sort of abstract narrative so etc. etc.
I just bought:
Under the Dome by King
Year of the Flood by Atwood
and preordered
Pirate Latitudes by Chrichton
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I recently finished reading The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks and am purchasing World War Z later this week.
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I remember thinking LOTF was excellent but I did read it 5 years ago and my opinions on other 'excellent' books has changed wildly in that time so who knows?
LOTF is one of my all-time favorites!
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Mang, no! Lord of the Flies is a great book! It's one of those few pieces of great literature where everything is structured and symbolic and is an easy(ish) metaphor exploring the darker side of humanity. It's not an adventure story about kids getting stuck on a novel, it's almost a dissertation on the inherent savagery in man and how it manifests itself through different people. Every character is representative of people with various amounts of morals, in spite of societal constraint, every action is a logical step into the realm of savagery and the only thing in the book that doesn't fit in, the little bit of deus ex, is the very end, but by that point the fact that he uses deus ex has no impact on the impact of the novel, because it's very clear that the boys are going to do something pretty terrible once they get their hands on Ralph, and it serves as a sense of comparison for them to see just how far they've fallen. It's not a thriller, but it's captivating nonetheless.
What a coincidence. I just started re-reading Lord of the Flies a few days ago.
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well it is a personal thing in the end. i enjoy books i've read that don't entertain me, but i still found very interesting for one reason or another. for me, i'm reading fifth business, which isn't a particularly entertaining story, but it's still interesting in spite of that. literature isn't generally for people who are reading for entertainment, so might i suggest some dan brown or stephen king?
You tell me The Stand isn't literature.
How dare you even use both authors in the same sentence. Get off your disillusioned high horse.
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point taken
i'm still on my high horse nonetheless - the vast majority of king's work is cheesy pulp horror
touche, sycld
oh come off it togs
coq is completely right about stephen king
sycld, people started writing because they found that there was a special magic in telling stories -- then, over time, people developed it into an art
not all art is "entertaining"
i'm not defending LOTF because i haven't read it and to be honest based on coq's description i'd hate it and think it was shitty but my point is that people do not write just to entertain (well artists don't anyway)
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