rushgoober Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 it was better, although you wouldnt like the book either. it's got violence, and that's a downer, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) 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. Edited September 2, 2013 by rushgoober Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) 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 September 2, 2013 by Rhyta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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 timeTry this one. It's an SOCN favorite. :rfl: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/SeanHannity_ConservativeVictory_Cover_lowres.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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 timeTry 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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 timeTry 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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 timeTry 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. unfortunately not, it's required reading for all SOCN members! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 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 timeTry 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. inside joke between me and bathory... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gangsterfurious Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Red Water by Judith Freeman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginos Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 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 PriestSomething Wicked This way Comes - Ray BradburyWeaveworld - Clive BarkerAmerican Gods - Neil GaimanThe 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). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatLightInYourEyes Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Truman by David McCulloughThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair 1984 by George Orwell Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dosteyevsky Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutSula by Toni MorrisonAnything by Henry Miller or Voltaire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 A Tale Of Two Cities- Charles DickensRevolutionary Road- Richard YatesThe Island Of Dr. Moreau- H.G. WellsWar Of The Worlds- H.G. WellsNever Let Me Go- name escapes meCloud Atlas- David Mitchell Hhhmmm...more sci-fi than I expected! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Watership Down - Richard AdamsIT - Stephen KingThe Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim EdwardsLord of the Flies - William GoldingAnne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Watership Down - Richard Adams Awesome book. I've read it probably 10 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 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 trilogyThe Jungle Books -I probably read these a hundred times when I was a kid. The vampire novels by Anne RiceThe Chronicles of NarniaRingworld by Larry NivenThe Discworld books by Terry PratchettThe Incarnations of Immortality books by Piers Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 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 trilogyThe Jungle Books - I probably read these a hundred times when I was a kid. The vampire novels by Anne RiceThe Chronicles of NarniaRingworld by Larry NivenThe Discworld books by Terry PratchettThe Incarnations of Immortality books by Piers Anthony :haz: :haz: :haz: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) 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. Edited February 21, 2014 by Blue J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony R Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Luna Park - Bret Easton Ellis. USA - Jon Dos Passos A tie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 you mean lunar park? awesome book, have you read his others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony R Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 you mean lunar park? awesome book, have you read his others? All of them. Bloody Dream Theater album confused me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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