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read my first cormac mccarthy book recently, no country for old men. not the greatest book I've ever read but easily the best book I've read in a long f***ing time

 

i hope it was better than the movie - didn't like it and thought it was ridiculously overrated.

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it was better, although you wouldnt like the book either. it's got violence, and that's a downer, man.

 

i don't care about violence, but the movie just seemed so pointless. bad man kills people. big chase scenes. sheriff mumbles unintelligible nonsense. the end. i don't even know how that movie got good reviews, much less won best picture. worst best picture since unforgiven.

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Hard to choose just one! LOTR of course but a stand alone by Guy Gavriel Kay is wonderful, The Lions of Al-Rassan. Have read it multiple times and it is fantastic (an alternate type of fantasy world, think of spain at the time of El Cid). For non-fiction Unbroken by Hillenbrand, one man's survival in the face of the brutality of WW II. Edited by Rhyta
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it was better, although you wouldnt like the book either. it's got violence, and that's a downer, man.

 

i don't care about violence, but the movie just seemed so pointless. bad man kills people. big chase scenes. sheriff mumbles unintelligible nonsense. the end. i don't even know how that movie got good reviews, much less won best picture. worst best picture since unforgiven.

 

although I haven't seen the movie since it came out (what, 2007? 2008?) things like themes and actual points are a lot easier to spot when you're reading the book and get to see in everyone's mind, as opposed to just watching shit happen on screen

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read my first cormac mccarthy book recently, no country for old men. not the greatest book I've ever read but easily the best book I've read in a long f***ing time

Try this one. It's an SOCN favorite. :rfl:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/SeanHannity_ConservativeVictory_Cover_lowres.jpg

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it was better, although you wouldnt like the book either. it's got violence, and that's a downer, man.

 

i don't care about violence, but the movie just seemed so pointless. bad man kills people. big chase scenes. sheriff mumbles unintelligible nonsense. the end. i don't even know how that movie got good reviews, much less won best picture. worst best picture since unforgiven.

 

although I haven't seen the movie since it came out (what, 2007? 2008?) things like themes and actual points are a lot easier to spot when you're reading the book and get to see in everyone's mind, as opposed to just watching shit happen on screen

 

understood. it's rare that a movie based on a book approaches the quality of the book.

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read my first cormac mccarthy book recently, no country for old men. not the greatest book I've ever read but easily the best book I've read in a long f***ing time

Try this one. It's an SOCN favorite. :rfl:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/SeanHannity_ConservativeVictory_Cover_lowres.jpg

 

wow, i DO hope you're joking. :unsure:

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read my first cormac mccarthy book recently, no country for old men. not the greatest book I've ever read but easily the best book I've read in a long f***ing time

Try this one. It's an SOCN favorite. :rfl:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/SeanHannity_ConservativeVictory_Cover_lowres.jpg

 

:laughing guy: save it for the political books thread in SOCN...might get too heated in here

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read my first cormac mccarthy book recently, no country for old men. not the greatest book I've ever read but easily the best book I've read in a long f***ing time

Try this one. It's an SOCN favorite. :rfl:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/SeanHannity_ConservativeVictory_Cover_lowres.jpg

 

wow, i DO hope you're joking. :unsure:

 

unfortunately not, it's required reading for all SOCN members!

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it was better, although you wouldnt like the book either. it's got violence, and that's a downer, man.

 

i don't care about violence, but the movie just seemed so pointless. bad man kills people. big chase scenes. sheriff mumbles unintelligible nonsense. the end. i don't even know how that movie got good reviews, much less won best picture. worst best picture since unforgiven.

 

although I haven't seen the movie since it came out (what, 2007? 2008?) things like themes and actual points are a lot easier to spot when you're reading the book and get to see in everyone's mind, as opposed to just watching shit happen on screen

 

understood. it's rare that a movie based on a book approaches the quality of the book.

 

especially with movies now, they too often try to make a blockbuster out of a piece of work where a blockbuster simply isn't there.

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read my first cormac mccarthy book recently, no country for old men. not the greatest book I've ever read but easily the best book I've read in a long f***ing time

Try this one. It's an SOCN favorite. :rfl:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/SeanHannity_ConservativeVictory_Cover_lowres.jpg

 

wow, i DO hope you're joking. :unsure:

inside joke between me and bathory...

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I don't think that I could ever single out just one book as the greatest but here are some of my favourites;

 

The Prestige - Christopher Priest

Something Wicked This way Comes - Ray Bradbury

Weaveworld - Clive Barker

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman (I know it's aimed at kids but I still thought that it was a great read - In fact the whole His Dark Martierials trilogy is fantastic).

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A Tale Of Two Cities- Charles Dickens

Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates

The Island Of Dr. Moreau- H.G. Wells

War Of The Worlds- H.G. Wells

Never Let Me Go- name escapes me

Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell

 

Hhhmmm...more sci-fi than I expected!

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Really can't pick just one. Obviously everyone else is having the same problem. Here are some of my favorites. I tend to be a big fan of book series' and several of these are from my childhood.

 

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

The Jungle Books -I probably read these a hundred times when I was a kid.

The vampire novels by Anne Rice

The Chronicles of Narnia

Ringworld by Larry Niven

The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett

The Incarnations of Immortality books by Piers Anthony

 

 

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Really can't pick just one. Obviously everyone else is having the same problem. Here are some of my favorites. I tend to be a big fan of book series' and several of these are from my childhood.

 

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

The Jungle Books - I probably read these a hundred times when I was a kid.

The vampire novels by Anne Rice

The Chronicles of Narnia

Ringworld by Larry Niven

The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett

The Incarnations of Immortality books by Piers Anthony

 

 

:haz: :haz: :haz:

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I won't call this one of the greatest books I've ever read, because it isn't a novel, it's a book of poetry:

 

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, by Nikki Giovanni

 

It can be read from cover to cover in about an hour, but good God, it's powerful. I read it for the first time when I was about twenty, I think, and I picked up a first edition of it a couple of years ago.

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you mean lunar park? awesome book, have you read his others?

 

All of them. Bloody Dream Theater album confused me!

 

haha, I had a feeling that was what did it

 

I liked all of BEE's books except imperial bedrooms

 

nice trainspotting quote by the way

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