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What do you read?

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:35 pm
by Fireblade
I read Star Trek.

I'm a nerd :D

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:46 pm
by Natas
Mainly fantacy.
Eddings, Terry Brooks, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Margit Sandemo and so on.
And Im a sucker for fairytales: Br. Grim, Asbjörnsen og Moe...
and history books.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:53 pm
by browneyedgirl
Stephen King
Clive Barker
Some Classics(Wuthering Heights-my fav)
Books about Nutrition/Diets
Books about movies
I used to read Romance Novels but, thank God I outgrew that shit-its pure fantasy!
I also read controversial books like The Turner Diaries by Andrew McDonald(William Pierce)
Books about conspiracy theories, cults, and shit like that.
Biographies, unless it gossip-type crap.

Really, I'm not that picky---if it interests me, I read--if not, I don't.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:11 pm
by Beast_Pete
Stephen King, Battle Angel Alita and the books, that my Hungarian teacher tells me to read. :)
I sometimes read books in English, but not the original books; books, that are written again, with less word. I like the upper intermediate books, as they contain about 3000 different word.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:54 pm
by Beast_Pete
Who has read Stephen King's Dark Tower? I have read all the old four books, and I just can't wait to hold in my hand the next three.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:27 am
by streakchic
I'm into the fantasy genere. I usually stick to reading Dragonlance though.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:26 am
by Diablos
The name of this thread....

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:34 pm
by NordicStorm
I'm currently reading "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane (the novel was also recently turned into a movie, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins etc).

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:54 pm
by Veripalttu
Right now : Civics and ethics by Viktor Railas.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:14 pm
by Taim
Philip K. Dick - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

Colected Stories 1952/53

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:47 am
by HymnToLife

Re: Re: What do you read?

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:18 pm
by Norda
streakchic wrote:
I'm into the fantasy genere. I usually stick to reading Dragonlance though.
I am reading Dragonlance at the moment, too :D

Other books I like: Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, ElfQuest (well.. it's a comic.. hehe), DSA Books ("Das Schwarze Auge"), Wolfgang Hohlbein in general...
Well fantasy.. :eyes

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:04 am
by Rantanen
I read about 20 books a year. It's alright, but I hope to increase it to 30. I read mainly famous writers' books: Hermann Hesse, F. Dostojevski, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut to name a few. I'm not really into fantasy or science fiction, although Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is one of my favourites. My most recent reads have been Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick and Dostojevski's Notes From The House Of The Dead. Right now I am reading Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund, or whatever the translation is, I'm reading the finnish translation. I write stuff too, mainly short essays, self-exploration, deep thinking, that sort of thing. I have written some short stories but they are not really that good, quite amateurish stuff. I think you have to be well read to be a well-rounded writer. I think I will develop as I get older, and hope to publish something in the future. Maybe a novel.

I spend a lot of time playing guitar and thinking about music and band projects and so on, so music in my life is maybe more prevalent than literature right now.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:58 pm
by God Called In Sick T
I usually read philosophic books like Nietzsche's, Marx's, Plato's or Freud's ones. But I sometimes read humour books or sci-fi novels, horror stories, etc. I read almost everything except for romantic literature, Dragonlance shits (and these kind of books that are only written to sell) or other things I just can't (now) think of.

:)

I am currently reading Freud's "The Dream's Interpretation" (or something similar, I don't know how is it in English) and Nietzsche's "Ecce Homo". Excellent books, both of them.


NP: AFI - God Called In Sick Today

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:28 am
by MetalMusic
I use to look for books to read but then I found my life in a struggle, I couldn't just get up and feel like I was fixed ... so I started reading Spiritual material ... from the Holy Bible to books about growth, strength and better direction ... I must add that in my whole life not one book as touched me like books with great meaning such as the Holy Bible and many more!

www.16.betrayer.ca

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:36 am
by Fight4Freedom
I'm all into Latin literature. Ancient poetry, epics, and prose. I'm translating Tacitus for my class this semester. Other than Latin, I read about politics and history.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:43 pm
by Thierry
I'm on some American postmodernist stuff like DeLillo or Pynchon at the moment....
I'm also preparing a research work on HP Lovecraft's works... :)

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:20 am
by Rarsaqi
etcetera.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 3:41 pm
by Mormegil
I just finished the "five parted trilogy" of Douglas Adams and now I'm reading Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. 8)

Re: Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 4:08 pm
by Twilightsymphony
Mormegil wrote:
I just finished the "five parted trilogy" of Douglas Adams
I finished it too, a week ago :D
Its mainly great :)

Now reading: The Edda (is it called so in englisch?) nordic mythology....
and i started Goethe´s "Faust" again, because i stopped in the second part last time =P

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 5:00 pm
by khamael
Tolkien, Lovecraft, Martin, Hesse, Le Guin,Kafka, Baudelaire, Poe, Wylde,King, Kalogridis, Bradley... esotheric books, theological books on every religion, angeology's books, synth's manuals, mangas...newspaper...

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 6:12 pm
by Nica
i read different things i guess.. don't stick to a specifig type...i love stephen king, anne rice, but also stuff by marian keyes and helen fielding. also more classic stuff like jane austen and shakespeare. harry potter i really enjoy and also some books by jostein gaarder.

right now i'm reading the tale of the body thief (a rice)

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 7:43 pm
by Lucid Faia
I don't read nearly as often as I used to. I make up for it with the volumes I read online and in other places. The last book I read was Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" several months ago. It's just as good as the movie.

Re: Re: Re: What do you read?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 3:07 pm
by Mormegil
Indeed. Funniest book I've ever read. I btw heard that they are making a movie of Hitchiker's Guide To Galaxy. :eek:

Re: Re: Re: Re: What do you read?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 6:05 pm
by Twilightsymphony
Mormegil wrote:
Indeed. Funniest book I've ever read. I btw heard that they are making a movie of Hitchiker's Guide To Galaxy. :eek:
Yeah. I heard that too :buh:
Will be hard for them, i dont expect to much, because its mainly Adams writing style which makes it so funny. We´ll see...

Re: Re: Re: Re: What do you read?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:02 am
by Lucid Faia
Mormegil wrote:
I btw heard that they are making a movie of Hitchiker's Guide To Galaxy. :eek:
ARE YOU SERIOUS?! AWESOME. :D

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:23 pm
by Mormegil
;)

Re: Re: What do you read?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:36 pm
by Twilightsymphony
Humma Kavula ... John Malkovich

I´ve read that Adams has written a new character for the movie. Some kind of priest or something like that.
Anyway, John Malkovich is funny :)

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 2:02 pm
by Mormegil
I wonder if they are turning all five books into movies, or just the first part.

Re: What do you read?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 6:27 pm
by Faxon
Ilkka Mattila, Suuri Suomalainen Juopottelukirja
Jone Nikula, Rauta-aika : suomimetallin historia 1988-2002

In english:
Ilkka Mattila, The Great Finnish Book of Drinking
Jone Nikula, Iron-time : the history of finnish metal between 1988-2002