kkdalloway Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 and speaking of my beloved kate, I've never read wuthering heights either :( I love her too. Was listening to Hounds of Love in the car not two hours ago. You should read Wuthering Heights. It's bleak but marvelous. If you want a VERY good film adaptation of it check out the Ralph Fiennes/Juliette Binoche project. Wonderful stuff. dude I'm obsessed with kate bush, I'm responsible for anyone in my town liking her since I've shoved her down everybody's throat I've got the kick inside, never for ever, the dreaming and hounds of love on vinyl, I'm a member of 2 of her fan forums (one I actually post on, the other I just joined so I could see a bunch of hot pictures of her), I'm just so into her Damn, that's fantastic. I have everything she's ever done, the older stuff on vinyl. I started my obsession when Hounds came out. I wanted to be her for years. She is utterly amazing. Do you know her story beyond the music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkdalloway Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I think we're hijacking the thread over Kate. Back to the books. How about the Beat Generation? Jack Kerouac. Any takers there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 and speaking of my beloved kate, I've never read wuthering heights either :( I love her too. Was listening to Hounds of Love in the car not two hours ago. You should read Wuthering Heights. It's bleak but marvelous. If you want a VERY good film adaptation of it check out the Ralph Fiennes/Juliette Binoche project. Wonderful stuff. dude I'm obsessed with kate bush, I'm responsible for anyone in my town liking her since I've shoved her down everybody's throat I've got the kick inside, never for ever, the dreaming and hounds of love on vinyl, I'm a member of 2 of her fan forums (one I actually post on, the other I just joined so I could see a bunch of hot pictures of her), I'm just so into her Damn, that's fantastic. I have everything she's ever done, the older stuff on vinyl. I started my obsession when Hounds came out. I wanted to be her for years. She is utterly amazing. Do you know her story beyond the music? dude if I could be a chick it'd definitely be kate but yeah I know plenty of obscure facts about her, can name a lot of the bush family, know about her mom dying and her break-up with del palmer which is probably why the red shoes was such a mediocre album, I've read every single interview on gaffaweb, I'm a f***ing freak :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I think we're hijacking the thread over Kate. Back to the books. How about the Beat Generation? Jack Kerouac. Any takers there? sad to say I read on the road and was just totally bored I dig the parts with old bull lee because I actually like william burroughs, to me he's way more exciting than kerouac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkdalloway Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I think we're hijacking the thread over Kate. Back to the books. How about the Beat Generation? Jack Kerouac. Any takers there? sad to say I read on the road and was just totally bored I dig the parts with old bull lee because I actually like william burroughs, to me he's way more exciting than kerouac That's great that you know her that well. So do I. Very few folks know the reason behind The Red Shoes being so "off." On the Road is pretty chaotic. I was telling someone yesterday that Dharma Bums was the better book. Burroughs is totally messed up! Have you read any of his things? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 yeah I read naked lunch, didn't get what it was about but really enjoyed certain parts and had a fun time rereading things just because they were so "what-the-f**k" also read junky which is much easier, good read about doing heroin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I don't know if the cut-up technique is really for me though, so I haven't read the soft machine yet but before I die I plan on trying 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomesickAlien Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 (edited) no I mean I'm 17 and I don't feel like rushing through the sound and the fury, not understanding it, and then bragging to everyone I come into contact with about how I read the sound and the fury and TOTALLY GOT IT to show how I smart I am I decided a while back I'd never be one of those people who skims through ulysses when they're as old as me and try to act like it's not hard to understand just to seem smart I definitely challenge myself but I'm just not in the mood for anything too hard on the brain right now since I just recently read a few dostoevsky books Don't just read books you think will only reaffirm your current worldview, read books you feel will challenge it. Just some unsolicited advice. Edited January 12, 2013 by substancewithoutstyle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkdalloway Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 no I mean I'm 17 and I don't feel like rushing through the sound and the fury, not understanding it, and then bragging to everyone I come into contact with about how I read the sound and the fury and TOTALLY GOT IT to show how I smart I am I decided a while back I'd never be one of those people who skims through ulysses when they're as old as me and try to act like it's not hard to understand just to seem smart I definitely challenge myself but I'm just not in the mood for anything too hard on the brain right now since I just recently read a few dostoevsky books Don't just read books you think will only reaffirm your current worldview, read books you feel will challenge it. Just some unsolicited advice. I couldn't agree more. Books are food for your brain. The brain craves variety -- give it that variety and it will serve you well, gratefully!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 well I give it variety and I give it challenges but there's no point in wasting time reading something I'm too young and not nearly well-read enough to understand, like sound and the fury, ulysses, etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Spirituality: The Way Out Book - John-RogerRelationships: The Art of Making Life Work - John-RogerInitiation - Elisabeth HaichIllusions - Richard BachOut On A Limb - Shirley MacLaineSiddhartha - Herman Hesse Science-Fiction / Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. TolkeinThe Harry Potter series - J.K. RowlingNine Hundred Grandmothers - R.A. LaffertyReplay - Ken GrimwoodThe Best of Robert Silverberg - Robert SilverbergFahrenheit 451 - Ray BradburyChildhood's End - Arthur C. ClarkeDune - Frank HerbertStranger in a Strange Land - Robert HeinleinMore Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 You aren't a real reader of books until you've chucked a couple about the room. i read the entire series of carlos castaneda books when i was a teenager. a few years later i read them again, including a subsequent one that had been published in the interim. something in it pissed me off (let's just say i disagreed with what was written) and i threw it across the room in disgust. never read those books again, but i did learn a lot from them at the time... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 You aren't a real reader of books until you've chucked a couple about the room. i read the entire series of carlos castaneda books when i was a teenager. a few years later i read them again, including a subsequent one that had been published in the interim. something in it pissed me off (let's just say i disagreed with what was written) and i threw it across the room in disgust. never read those books again, but i did learn a lot from them at the time...Well, well, well if isn't Rushgoober in the book section, looking for beatnik book threads are we? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 grok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Ok, I'll add my two cents: Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuinFionavar Trilogy by Guy Gavriel KayPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenCount of Monte Cristo by Alexander DumasScarlet Pimpernel by C. Orczy Of course I would agree on LOTR, Farenheit 451 and others but I wanted to add some I have read recently. Kay's trilogy is as good as LOTR IMHO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I got left hand of darkness and earthsea on the reading list 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 You aren't a real reader of books until you've chucked a couple about the room. I have chucked a bunch. One of them was the first Lord of the Rings book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 hey that's a good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) It's a GOOD book probably even a great book. I read the hobbit and loved it. The Lord of the Rings series is definitely good, but I find that they're incredibly overrated. People talk about these the series like it's the Led Zeppelin IV or Abbey Road of literature. They're not for everyone because of how incredibly drawn out some parts feel. If you enjoy fantasy, sure then it's the best in the genre by a landslide but in my eyes the series has it's moments (the second book/movie lives up to the hype) but the series as a whole does not do anything for me. Then again, I was never bothered to finished reading Return of the King. Great books, but they don't crack my top 10 (except the Hobbit). EDIT: original post was harsher than intended Edited January 21, 2013 by USB Connector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 yeah I get what you mean, but even for fantasy fans it can be a struggle, especially modern fantasy fans tolkien was making norse sagas and german and english folktales accessible, and then guys like robert jordan and terry brooks came along and dumbed down what was already accessible, so there's a good many newer fantasy fans who just cant get into tolkien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I'm not sure if you just called me a modern fantasy fan who likes things dumbed down......I actually don't like fantasy in general. Old German folktales/epics are really neat (haven't read many but I enjoyed the few I have), but fantasy in our media just doesn't really appeal to me as much as scifi does. Then again, I did really enjoy those two games of D&D I played with random people at school a while back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 no you said "I'm sure fantasy fans love LOTR" and I was saying you'd be surprised how many had the same problems with it that you probably had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I do think it's a bit lame to write off entire genres though, there's plenty of fantasy out there which would appeal to someone who isnt a big LOTR fan people like ursula k le guin, michael moorcock, etc know how to write fantasy that non-fantasy fans can enjoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkdalloway Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I do think it's a bit lame to write off entire genres though, there's plenty of fantasy out there which would appeal to someone who isnt a big LOTR fan people like ursula k le guin, michael moorcock, etc know how to write fantasy that non-fantasy fans can enjoy Good on you for throwing Michael Moorcock in there! He's great! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkdalloway Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Anyone else read Patricia Kennealy-Morrison's amazing scifi/fantasy books? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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