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[The Uncanny]

[mousestalker]

[Giant ambush beetle]

 

This book does not glorify the war or any of the participating parties, its a simple diary of a German engineer who received one of the rarest and hardest to get military decorations of the second world war, the Nahkampfspange (close quarter combat medal) in gold.

Its incredible what that guy went through, one night he fired 24.000 rounds (160 ammo cans!) through his MG42 to defend a position from the advancing Russians who attacked in all night long in wave attacks, in the Russian plains in winter they made a wall, 200 meters long and 3 meters high out of fallen enemies covered in snow and ice to make their position somewhat bullet proof because there was no natural cover.
The book is full of madness like that, hard to believe things like that actually happened. 

[Dominus]

Into the first 40 Pages, a pleasant surprise.

[Fishy]

Wikepedia.

[Fiddles dee dee]

 

Just to remind myself why I love modernism and postmodernism ever more.

[Beerfish]

Reading and chess?  Well thanks for making the rest of us look bad!

[Monster A-Go Go]

Wolves of Calla by Stephen King

The Awakened by AC Collins

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

I usually have two to five books going at a time.  Strange that I don't have any non-fiction at the moment, actually.

[mousestalker]

[The Uncanny]

[Ren Roche]

 

Chose it for my literary book analysis

[Jorji Costava]

 

Part video games criticism, and part autobiography (nay, confessional might be the best word here), Tom Bissell's Extra Lives remains readable and engaging throughout. One of Bissell's consistent themes is the conflict between games' narrative aspirations and their interactivity. Anyone who's run a table top game knows full well that the first casualty that results from the players' actions is the plot, and that goes just as well for video games. That isn't to say that games need to be less interactive; maybe it's their storytelling ambitions that need to be jettisoned, or maybe that perfect game will come along that resolves all of those tensions and achieve everything a game can achieve all at once. Bissell doesn't know, and neither do I.

 

I haven't finished the book yet, but I thought I'd conclude by quoting one of my favorite passages thus far, wherein the author details how the original Resident Evil is simultaneously one of the greatest and also one of the dumbest games ever made. While discussing the game's questionable dialogue and voice acting, Bissell writes:

 

"It is as though the actors have been encouraged to place emphasis on the least apposite word in every spoken line. Barry's 'He's our old partner, you know,' to provide but one example, could have been read in any number of more or less appropriate ways, from 'He's our old partner, you know' to 'He's our old partner, you know' to 'He's our old partner, you know.' 'He's our old partner, you know' is the line reading of autistic miscalculation this game goes with."

[Dominus]

Finished Re-Reading The Giver, and was reminded why it's one of my Top 5 Books. Almost done with Memoirs of a Geisha, and it's surpassed my expectations. That first 100 pages though, yeesh.

[Obadiah]

Thought I'd share these. They are short stories published in the New Yorker magazine in their fiction section. They're both hilarious in their own quirky ways. Good for a bit of bite-sized laughter:
http://www.newyorker.../09/01/referees - A guy tries to get a reference for a co-op.
http://www.newyorker...4/08/11/picasso - A genie offers to give a someone a Picasso painting, or make him Picasso.

[Regular Wise Guy]

Excellent question!

 

     When the right side of my brain demands exercise, I am currently engaged with the novel: Shogun by James Clavell. When a both sides want to engage in all out war, I am currently enjoying: The book of 5 rings by Musashi Miyamoto.

 

     But, when it inevitably turns to base imagination, utter epic epicness and awesome nergasims, well then I am a total geek for: DC's Batman, Batman Eternal and Detective Comics!

 

     Yes, I totally get my nerd on!

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Nothing in particular, but I read:

 

- Wikipedia

- Geography books

- Politically Incorrect books

 

I have no time for pesky novels.

 

Come at me bro.

[AutumnWitch]

Excellent question!

 

     When the right side of my brain demands exercise, I am currently engaged with the novel: Shogun by James Clavell. When a both sides want to engage in all out war, I am currently enjoying: The book of 5 rings by Musashi Miyamoto.

 

     But, when it inevitably turns to base imagination, utter epic epicness and awesome nergasims, well then I am a total geek for: DC's Batman, Batman Eternal and Detective Comics!

 

     Yes, I totally get my nerd on!

I read the Shogun novels in year 6 and did a book report on them. My teacher didn't think I could finish the first book in a month. Phhttt...I loved it. However, now that I've spent some time in Japan (where I got a black belt in karate BTW) and dated a very lovely Japanese woman I realised how "off" the novels really were. But they were still fun.

[The Valiant Misanthropist]

A few books on the Maltese language, which I'm learning atm.

[guitarmouse]

Circus of the Damned  -  Laurell K. Hamilton

[AutumnWitch]

Circus of the Damned  -  Laurell K. Hamilton

 

Great book and fabulous writer. She was one my inspirations to become a writer. Her, Kim Harrison and especially Jacqueline Carey and Anais Nin.

[Dermain]

I am still struggling to get through the fourth book, Midnight Tides, in the Malazan Books of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.

 

I was enjoying the series up until that book. I generally dislike "prequel-esque" novels in the middle of a book series, and it's taking me FOREVER (about two years now) to actually finish it.

[mousestalker]

[Dutchess]

Just finished The Dwarves and now on to part 2:

 

[The Uncanny]

[TruthSerum]

I'm on the last five or six pages of "Once Dead" by Richard Philips.

Its a prequel to the insanely awesome Rho Agenda trilogy.