Hey guys! Hope your Sunday is going well.
LordZerome1080, whether you intended it or not, your post came off as insulting towards those religions (mostly due to the word “fictional”, which you should have known would set people off).
All other posters, you’ve made your point.
Everyone please shut up now, or I start issuing temp bans.
Thank you. And I am sorry if my comments did offend.
Anyway, mfm, have you tried the Song of Ice and Fire books?
Also a decent suggestion.
Not half way through yet, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lot’s of insight and fun stories within.
Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
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Not half way through yet, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lot’s of insight and fun stories within.
I wish Bruce would publish an updated edition or a second volume. His career’s really gone places since this was published.
Does anyone have any recommendations for an intelligently written yet extremely vulgar book? I really want to read another book filled with wicked violence, repugnant sexual deviancy, and revolting situations but that still tells a fantastic story and has some fascinating message on the human condition.
Apt Pupil
Though I imagine you’ve already read that.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
Not half way through yet, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lot’s of insight and fun stories within.
I wish Bruce would publish an updated edition or a second volume. His career’s really gone places since this was published.
He published a second book:
Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
Not half way through yet, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lot’s of insight and fun stories within.
I wish Bruce would publish an updated edition or a second volume. His career’s really gone places since this was published.
He published a second book:
Hot damn! My library better have a copy.
Not half way through yet, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lot’s of insight and fun stories within.
I wish Bruce would publish an updated edition or a second volume. His career’s really gone places since this was published.
I’ve been born since this was published.
Not enough people read the EU.
Not half way through yet, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Lot’s of insight and fun stories within.
I wish Bruce would publish an updated edition or a second volume. His career’s really gone places since this was published.
I’ve been born since this was published.
STOP REMINDING ME OF THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU CHRONAL ANOMALY!
Thank you all for the recommendations, I’ll take them into consideration. I haven’t read Song of Ice and Fire but they’ve been on my list for quite some time. I will be adding your suggestions to my must-read list!
Does anyone have any recommendations for an intelligently written yet extremely vulgar book? I really want to read another book filled with wicked violence, repugnant sexual deviancy, and revolting situations but that still tells a fantastic story and has some fascinating message on the human condition.
Apt Pupil
Though I imagine you’ve already read that.
I have read “Apt Pupil,” it’s the only suggestion here that I’ve read, but I’m actually not the hugest fan of it. I do appreciate that it’s one of the few non-supernatural stories revolving around an evil child but I have a lot of complaints about it, my main one being that it’s far too long given how obvious the outcome is. There’s no particularly surprising twist, so it gets tedious at its nearly 200 page length, which is real long for a novella. All in my opinion of course, for what it’s worth (which is nothing, by the way).
The Person in Question
Been reading a ton the last couple weeks.
-The Lost World by Michael Crichton - meh.
-Eaters of the Dead by Michel Crichton - delightful.
-Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer - interesting.
-Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami - much better than I thought it would be. I thought I hated Murakami, but I guess maybe I just hate Kafka on the Shore.
-The Croning by Laird Barron - only fifty pages into this one, but so far it’s checking a lot of my horror boxes.
In the interest of finding books I can someday read to my daughter, I’m currently listening to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It’s actually pretty good. Made me laugh multiple times so far.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
In the interest of finding books I can someday read to my daughter, I’m currently listening to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It’s actually pretty good. Made me laugh multiple times so far.
I hope you read/listen to other of Baum’s Oz books, they are a lot of fun. The 2nd one, The Marvelous Land of Oz is among the better of them. Baum enjoys puns and sneaks in many double meanings that are easily missed.
The blue elephant in the room.
My wife and I have started listening to The Lord of the Rings, sans music, as I have removed or replaced almost all of Rob Inglis’ annoying singing.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
I have been coloring in some coloring books lately.
^lol
Finished War and Peace. It was fascinating and entertaining, perhaps in the way that a well-made documentary is.
Tolstoy seems to take great issue with the way historians of his day had portrayed Napoleon, or war in general. He says that they give the people in power credit for certain events occurring, when one’s response to them (the leader and the troops) are just the natural flow of events that should obviously lead one to another. He also went on at length about how guerilla warfare screws up the “bigger army = more success in battle” equation, and tries to explain some formulaic method of calculating out the variables guerilla tactics creates.
I did not read the epilogues, as my understanding is they don’t add to the story.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
Finished War and Peace.
Do you mean War, What Is It Good For?
Finished War and Peace.
Do you mean War, What Is It Good For?
Dammit Elaine, that was just a joke!
The Person in Question
(whoops wrong thread)
Read the first four chapters. Quite readable, but I’m not yet engrossed. Perhaps I shouldn’t choose to read at the dead of night when I’m dog-tired.
^ The audio-book is better. Bruce Campbell’s voice makes everything better.
Finished War and Peace.
[Tolstoy] went on at length about how guerilla warfare screws up the “bigger army = more success in battle” equation, and tries to explain some formulaic method of calculating out the variables guerilla tactics creates.
Book 14, Chapter 2:
"That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict. Guerrilla war (always successful, as history shows) directly infringes that rule. This contradiction arises from the fact that military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers. Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength. Les gros bataillons ont toujours raison. Large battalions are always victorious.
"For military science to say this is like defining momentum in mechanics by reference to the mass only: stating that momenta are equal or unequal to each other simply because the masses involved are equal or unequal.
"Momentum (quantity of motion) is the product of mass and velocity. In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x. The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor—the spirit of an army—is a problem for science.
[…]
“This problem is only solvable if we cease arbitrarily to substitute for the unknown x itself the conditions under which that force becomes apparent—such as the commands of the general, the equipment employed, and so on—mistaking these for the real significance of the factor, and if we recognize this unknown quantity in its entirety as being the greater or lesser desire to fight and to face danger. Only then, expressing known historic facts by equations and comparing the relative significance of this factor, can we hope to define the unknown…”
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
^ The audio-book is better. Bruce Campbell’s voice makes everything better.
Yep! Probably the only audio books I’d ever recommend over the actual books!