What are you reading right now? - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > Media
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-02-2011, 11:53 AM   #3151 (permalink)
Still sends his reguards.
 
bob.'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Trying to get out of the cat town....
Posts: 5,039
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post

Ringworld—Larry Niven
On my continuing sci-fi kick. This is great, super-geeky, very strange stuff. I'm almost done and really enjoying it.
Ringworld is such a good book....its been years since i read it....and for what ever reason although i loved it i never continued with the series....think i'll re-start

for now i just started re-reading The World Inside by Robert Silverberg



one of my favorite books....
bob. is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 01:17 PM   #3152 (permalink)
eat the masters
 
debaserr's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 5,470
Default

just started:

__________________
Last.FM
debaserr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 02:39 PM   #3153 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
zachsd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 347
Default

^^^I feel sorry for you.
__________________

zachsd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 02:56 PM   #3154 (permalink)
Killed Laura Palmer
 
ThePhanastasio's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ashland, KY
Posts: 1,679
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by eric generic View Post
just started:

I actually really enjoyed that one. I know a lot of people hate Ayn Rand, but I think she's A-Okay.

***

About to start:


Currently flipping through:
__________________

It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
ThePhanastasio is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 03:42 PM   #3155 (permalink)
Still sends his reguards.
 
bob.'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Trying to get out of the cat town....
Posts: 5,039
Default

i never read The Fountainhead....but i did read Atlas Shrugged and some manifesto...The Romantic Manifesto i believe....i disagree with a good portion of her "philosophy" and agree with other points she makes....one thing i can defiantly say about her is that she really was a talented writer
bob. is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 04:39 PM   #3156 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by bob. View Post
Ringworld is such a good book....its been years since i read it....and for what ever reason although i loved it i never continued with the series....think i'll re-start

for now i just started re-reading The World Inside by Robert Silverberg



one of my favorite books....
Funny, I just checked that very same book out of the library on Friday!
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 05:19 PM   #3157 (permalink)
Still sends his reguards.
 
bob.'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Trying to get out of the cat town....
Posts: 5,039
Default

have you read it before?!
bob. is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 06:02 PM   #3158 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
zachsd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 347
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by bob. View Post
i never read The Fountainhead....but i did read Atlas Shrugged and some manifesto...The Romantic Manifesto i believe....i disagree with a good portion of her "philosophy" and agree with other points she makes....one thing i can defiantly say about her is that she really was a talented writer
Yeah, well her writing style is what really got to me. When I read Atlas Shrugged, I actually agreed with her politics to a certain extent (I was going through a teenage-angst phase, not thinking clearly, etc.), but her writing style completely put me off. I see Atlas Shrugged as the product of an author attempting to write a political piece via literature. As a result her characters are dry and the whole thing is extremely melodramatic, not to mention it rambles for 1000+ pages. It basically suffers from the same flaws that come with political propaganda and state censorship. Fountainhead is definitely a better literary work, but still nothing particularly amazing in my opinion. In addition her ideology is pretty horrendous.
__________________

zachsd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 08:58 PM   #3159 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
storymilo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,845
Default



I'm reading this at the moment. Only a few chapters in but it's a very interesting and engaging read. I really enjoy his writing style so far, but I've heard it can get kind of tiring. We'll see.
storymilo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-02-2011, 09:07 PM   #3160 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros
Posts: 3,234
Default

That is an EXCELLENT book

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is great too
Sansa Stark is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.