Last book you finished, Now I'm just trying to entertain myself. Options

[Madii]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Liked it growing up, felt like taking a trip down memory lane.

Book introduced me to people-watching.

Still not got round to reading that... Maybe it's because I kept forgetting the name of it. =o

Heh, I tried to read 'Breaking Dawn' from Twilight Series and that and I couldn't stand it D: Realized how terribly written it actually is and put it down after a few pages. 'Mark' was right. Stephanie Meyer = Racist bitch lmfao.
Soo... Last book I finished: A View From A Bridge - Arthur Miller (Again.)

[MonkeyKing]

The last book I finish was Anime Explosion!: The What? Why? & Wow! Of Japanese Animation

[Ingow]

a book about anime? any fun facts to share with the rest of us that you've learned?

[Black Erotica]

Kassandra

[MonkeyKing]

a book about anime? any fun facts to share with the rest of us that you've learned?

Well for what I remember I haven't read it in a while theirs was a chapter when the book was talking about a really old anime that was based on the Atomic Bombs named Fat Boy and Little Boy. After the bomb hit Nagasaki someone took the name of the atomic bombs and turned them into characters

[Vinum Sabbathi]

continuing japan's longstanding tradition of stealing language and ideas from other cultures and perverting it to be their own

[Anima]

I finished "Kill Your Friends" a week or two ago. It sucked so bad. It had a cool cover, and cool name. But that was about it. Just a massive rip off of American Psycho but done badly.

Gona start A Clockwork Orange in a few days.

[Anima]

Finished A Clockwork Orange. So much better than the film.



*Spoiler*




Why did Kubrick leave out the proper ending, where Alex grows up? Seems like he missed the whole point of the book being a coming of age kinda thing haha.

[Anima]

Now onto fear and loathing in las vegas. ^^

[aerotem]

just finished The Secret Life of Bees for school

HAH
motherhood
rofl

[Anima]

Finished Fear and Loathing ages ago, it was a fun read. I need to see the film now.

Also, I've just finished reading The Perks of Being A Wallflower. It was recomended by someone on here. It's amazing! I highly recomend it, especially to you people on DZ, that seem to have the same issues with being social etc that I do. =)

[Ingow]

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo



This has just as much "Napoleon blah blah" as Tolstoi's War & Peace, the difference is that the rest of the story is good. I never skip parts of a book, so when Hugo was writing 10 to 15 pages about the background history of monasteries in france, the architecture of cesspools or a description of a single house that now attracts tourism at the place where Waterloo happened I sometimes did feel like he was dragging it out for a bit too long. However the style was on a very high level and it always had a sense of poetry in the prose, so that even when he was writing about boring shit it felt kinda alive and interesting (completely in contrast to Tolstoi's writing style).

The story is about a heroic character that tries to atone for his sins by doing as many good deeds in his life as possible, at lots of parts I was reminded of Kenshin/Samurai X, especially since there is a police officer that is similar to Saito. But of course all the characters are original, and it does play in the time of post-revolution france. For the most part the novel just focuses on the fate of its characters and there isn't a single lucky one in the bunch - hence its title. I wouldn't say that there is any kind of deep symbolism or philosophy here, it's really just a very good story written like modern day TV shows like Prison Break or like oldschool anime. There is tons of surprising character development and much thought put into how to make it more exiting the closer it gets to the plots climax. The death scenes are tragic and sad and the happy parts are truly uplifting, but you're going to search for comedy moments because there are none.

In any case this is the most complex story in terms of just story and nothing abstract or surreal that I've ever read and the book itself took me as long to read through as none other. I do recommend it though, not because there are any astonishing things to be learned from it, but instead for its great writing style and awesome characters.

P.S.: I'm almost done reading House of Leaves, too. Review coming up next week probably.

[Black Erotica]

I actually read Twilight 1-3 and tried to read it without prejudices. The movies were all fucking horrible, but I think the books are actually quite good.

[Ingow]

I actually read Twilight 1-3 and tried to read it without prejudices. The movies were all fucking horrible, but I think the books are actually quite good.

But he sparkles in the sun...

I always thought that the german covers look fucking fantastic, there are those collector's editions with everything in one decorative box that looks classic as hell.

[AaronAMV]

Other than them sparking in the sun, the first three were decent at best. The fourth was fucking horrible though.

[Alexis]

i finished wayyy too many books this summer i actually lost count, but the most recent i finished was called "The iron king" it was kinda cocky but when your bored wut u gun do?

[Madii]

I actually read Twilight 1-3 and tried to read it without prejudices. The movies were all fucking horrible, but I think the books are actually quite good.

whut

This was my opinion on them about a year back. Tried to re-read a few weeks back, I could not finish any of them. They sucked.

Last book: Of Mice And Men.

Started on Lord Of The Rings, which I have found impossible to finish and Mein Kampf now.

[Ingow]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski



Full of gimmicks, this book is for the white as fuck nerds that love both lame fantasy and lame horror. Not saying that it is bad, but saying that it is great would be fucking stupid. None of the gimmicky stuff about "oh man this seems like it's an actual real horror thing like Blair Witch" is believable, and the main story reads like something by King instead of something by Lovecraft. Throwing in some Homer and Goethe quotes is possibly the best way to get attention in the world of literature so I'm not surprised that the average street guy would think that this book sure seems seriously intelligent. Now on to the good parts, and why this is a 3/5 instead of a 1/5: The typography is very well used to convey the atmosphere of the plot (for example the text gets more crowded in small dark spaces of the story). If you don't take any of the gimmicks seriously, they are entertaining and fun to read through. The characters are interesting enough, yet total cliches and shouldn't be taken seriously either. The only really well done stuff is everything about the darkness and/or the symbols of horror and terror that are used. Since this book is exploring them always in a very philosophical, poetic and spiritual sense. I liked that, it just wasn't very creepy, that's all. In terms of love story, romance etc.: Yes, there is a lot of that going on in here as well, but it also reads like something Stephen King could've written. So overall 3/5, only for the style and the poetic parts. The book's story itself as well as its hype are all pretty much terribly overrated.