Books?

[Sasso]

Let's start a thread about books  and what we're reading, because a forum for an online sex mmo is the perfect place for that

I wanted to start this thread because yesterday my brother lent me a few books to read/finish reading (My brothers a pretty big reader. He just finished memoirs of a geisha). I slacked off on reading for most of 2015/2016, and my own personal reading will probably be a bit slow because I have to read my university books first.

Here's a list of things I have just read, am reading now, or will read when I finish something else.

Reading now:
-Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Will read:
-We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Most of the required readings for university are plays, because my degree is in theatre. Reading plays isn't nearly as satisfying as watching them. Plays are a blueprint for a show (I think Harold Pinter said that. Probably. He said a lot of stuff).

[Alexa_Darkness]

I'm Reading the:- Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung

[Saeko-JP]

Actually I'm reading this amazing book

-----> Voyage au centre de la Terre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaje_al_c..._la_Tierra, to more details and possible, read it n.n

[GuyByThePond]

I'm currently reading "A song of Stone" by Iain Banks.
It's not a Iain M Banks, so it's not a "Culture" story (best Sci Fi there is !), but oh my god this guy writes so well...

[malod]

in my life i read only sage "Witcher".

[Laudo]

I love Bernard Cornwell's books, "The Saxon Chronicles" were excellent.

[carmyli]

I'm currently reading Cold Harbour Jack Higgins -books-
(Thriller, espionage, mystery)

[GuyByThePond]

#40 + Books I’d bring in a desert island
US :

• Cormac Mc Carthy : The road  => a very big kick in your face
  
• James Ellroy: The L.A. quartet, Underworld USA trilogy, Killer on the road => best crime fiction
  
• Brett Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama => capturing the 80’s and 90’s zeitgeist
  
• Robert Jordan: The wheel of time saga => best fantasy
  
• Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance => blow your mind in tiny bits
  
• Philip K Dick: A scanner darkly, Ubik => holy shit !
  
• Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates, On Stranger Tides => minor books, great fun
  
• Dan Simmons: Hyperion, Illium => second best Sci Fi
  
• Frank Miller: Dark Knight, Daredevil renaissance, 300, Sin City (graphic novels) => if Elroy had been a comic book author
  

UK:

• Terry Pratchett: discworld series, Good omens (with Neil Gaiman) => LMAO !
  
• Neil Gaiman: Good omens (with Terry Pratchett), American Gods, Neverwhere, Sandman (graphic novel) => modern mythology
  
• Iain M Banks: culture series => best Sci Fi
  
• Iain Banks: The bridge => best book of one of the best UK writers
  
• JRR Tolkien: Bilbo the hobbit, Lord of the rings => a fantasy classic
  
• JK Rowling: Harry Potter Saga => a fantasy classic that does not know it’s fantasy
  
• Alan Moore: V for Vendetta, Watchmen (graphic novels) => making comic books an art form
  
• Grant Morrison: Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles (graphic novels) => Tarantino gone comics
  

France:

• Maurice G. Dantec: La sirène rouge, Les racines du mal, Babylon babies => the twilight of a millenia, the dawn of another… and another very big kick in your face
  
• Michel Houellebecq: extension du domaine de la lutte, les particules élémentaires => capturing the zeitgeist of the 00’s
  
• Antoine Buéno : le soupir de l’immortel => capturing the zeitgeist of the future
  
• Guillaume Dustan : Nicolas Pages => autofiction I liked
  
• Frédéric Beigbeder : L’amour dure 3 ans => a minor book with a major influence on me
  
• Joseph Kessel : une balle perdue => my first contact with “serious” literature
  
• Marcel Proust: à la recherche du temps perdu => so much style
  
• Albert Cohen : Belle du seigneur => best romance I ever read
  
• Albert Camus: L’étranger => ever felt alien ?
  
• Caryl Ferey: all his works => a fucking talented writer
  
• Daniel Pennac: La saga Malaussène => MDR ! (french for LMAO)
  
• Jean d’Ormesson : la douane de mer => I needed a writer from the french academy
  
• Alain Ayroles : de cape et de crocs (comic books) => Molière and Alexandre Dumas gone comics !
  

Other:

• Haruki Murakami (Japan): A Wild Sheep Chase => this guy will be nobel prize of literature
  
• Eiji Yoshikawa (Japan): Musashi => capturing what bushido is about
  
• Yukito Kishiro (Japan): Gunnm => Cyberpunk gone manga
  
• Kazuo Koike (Japan) : Lone Wolf and Cub => Bushido gone manga
  
• S.P. Somtow (Thailand) : Dragon’s fin soup and other novels => sanuk !
  
• Jose Saramago (Portugal): Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, Ensaio sobre a Lucidez => this guy is nobel prize of literature
  
• Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) : all his works ! => more than 50 writers in one guy
  
• Luis Sepulveda (Chile): Un viejo que leía novelas de amor => an easy and fun way to get in the world of south american literature
  
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia): El amor en los tiempos del cólera => another nobel prize of literature
  
• Rodrigo Fresan (Argentina): Mantra => Mexican pop culture gone big literature
  

[Allyn]

Educational Book Included ?

[Sasso]

Just finished Heart of a dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. I'd probably have a better opinion if it didn't take me months to read (It's not even very long, I just would forget about it for long stretches at a time).

In brief, a dog called Sharikov is subject of an operation by a doctor called Philip Philippovich Preobrazhensky, who removes and replaces the dog's testicles and pituitary gland with that of a human's. Sharikov then slowly over time begins to walk, then talk like a human, until he eventually transforms into a fully grown man and refers to himself as Poligraph Poligraphovich, and makes a right menace of himself in the doctors home.

Heart of a dog is often seen as a satairisation of the soviet union (the book was written in 1925) and how something can be created then lost complete control of. I personally would probably need a second reading to really appreciate the political meanings in the story, although in retrospect I can definitely see them there.

I'm looking to finish Metro 2033 next. I have it because my brother bought it for me in Australia because the game was pretty rad.