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At 3/6/09 03:01 PM, SilverRose516 wrote: what do you guys think about all the Obama books being released before the man has even done anything in office?

Well its not like he's trying to become a celeb trying to gain as much money as he can from some brief success, the mans going to be huge for another few years at least. So based on that I'd say he actually has some story to tell.

At 3/4/09 06:20 PM, Chime wrote:

At 2/25/09 08:57 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 2/25/09 07:28 PM, Chime wrote:

At 2/23/09 10:33 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 2/23/09 07:57 PM, Chime wrote: Remember me? I'm really wrapped up in The drow legacy book.

Either way, I'm only reading this book. This thing is a really good book! I don't own it, though. I might not finish it all! But when I'm finished, I don't know what I will read next...

Uhhh...Maybe the 21 other books about Drizzt? I mean, that's only common sense

I don't really get to go to the bookstore a lot, and the person I borrowed the book from will probably be long gone before I can read another.

Then there's little point in reading it if you can't continue the story. It's simply too good to just toss away like that and not know his fate

At 3/6/09 03:01 PM, SilverRose516 wrote: what do you guys think about all the Obama books being released before the man has even done anything in office?

I am an Obama man all the way, but what kills the whole experience is all the people saying that "Oh, Obama will fix all the problems in the world, and everyone will scream hallelujuia in the streets!" and stuff along those lines. I read his autobio and it was pretty good, I'd suggest it to anyone who's interested in him.

Hey, i like Obama too.
BY the way, im reader and writter as well and would like to share my imagination with you, guys.

I can writte everything , but mostly fantasy and sci-fi.
English is not my native , so dont expect Shakespeares.

Currently,im working on dark fantasy trilogy(three main stories, each tale will be different in lenght,timeline and events tied by one single world based on various mythologies,mostly native american.

At the moment i cannot reveal more,but ill update this post soon enough.

Please post your expectations.

Heres my trilogy coming...

1st part of Trilogy- strange mystical world- is facing its doom.Mysterious mist consumes time&space.
Group of fearless explorers travels over the monser infested seas to discover land even more dangerous than everything they have encountered before.

Soon they shall uncover the secrets hidden for thousands of years and find out their destinies.
Follow young Hurrakan's journey into the unknown to discover your own fate.

This story is no supposed to be just another epic phantasy piece, but will also have some philosophical text hidden in it to question about things that have been bothering humankind since the very beginning.

Well I like Obama and I do think he is good for the country, i just think he should have the chance to prove he is good and not get all the glory before he has proven himself. n borders i see so many different books about him it was insane!

In my town we have a borders and a B&N, but I see more books about Obama at B&N than in borders. And, I don't know if anyone notices this, but, it seems B&N carry more of those Oprah book club books than borders or others.

Its a conspiracy I tells ya ! ! ! !

At 3/8/09 09:17 AM, sachrem wrote: An idea for a story.

Very nice idea, i think it'll be like a twist of The Odyssey and Journey to the center of the world. it sounds like a very good idea, putting in the philosophical things that are mysteries to people. can't wait till it's posted :)

If anyone in here has read 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' and 'Catcher in the Rye' has anyone besides me thought that Perks was just an updated version of Catcher in the Rye?

Don't get me wrong, I loved them both, but they were both so similar.

Hey guys, be more acive.Looks like ill have to keep this thread alive.

More about my trilogy.
Ill call it Legend and firs part of it will contain dark world based on native american(mostly aztec) mythology.Youll agree ,there arent lot of books about their myths.Ill still need some research to really writte these books(i really hope to visit continent of America one day to see native american indians wih my own eyes and more understand their culture).Currenly, i can write down only few chapters(and im still afraid to post some parts of them).

Since im quite productive, lo of ideas come in my mind all the time,so its hard to focus on one project.

I have problems with naming my characters and finding titles for books ,so maybe u have some ideas.

Finished Subtle Knife. Its a cracking book. I'm slightly annoyed that I can't jump straight into Amber Spyglass as thats back home and I'm at Uni. Oh well, Dostoevsky it is.

At 3/10/09 08:28 PM, agustana wrote: If anyone in here has read 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' and 'Catcher in the Rye' has anyone besides me thought that Perks was just an updated version of Catcher in the Rye?

Don't get me wrong, I loved them both, but they were both so similar.

Never read 'Wallflower', 'Catcher' was awesome, though! I'll have to read the former sometime and compare the two.

Anyone ever read any of Chuck Palahniuk's books?

I've read Fight Club, Snuff, Diary, Choke, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, Haunted, Rant, and Strange Than Fiction: True Stories.

I'm excited for Pygmy.

At 3/11/09 10:21 PM, agustana wrote: Anyone ever read any of Chuck Palahniuk's books?

No but I've been meaning to as Fight Club is one of my favourite films.
However the fact I enjoy the film is also one of the reasons I don't want to read that particular book. Reading books of films you enjoy seems stupid to me, doubling up the story when I could be reading something else.

At 3/11/09 10:36 PM, Nev wrote:

At 3/11/09 10:21 PM, agustana wrote: Anyone ever read any of Chuck Palahniuk's books?

No but I've been meaning to as Fight Club is one of my favourite films.
However the fact I enjoy the film is also one of the reasons I don't want to read that particular book. Reading books of films you enjoy seems stupid to me, doubling up the story when I could be reading something else.

I read the book after I watched the movie, and I'm really glad that I did. It made the book more fascinating. Though, in my opinion, the movie was way better. And Palahniuk himself even said he was embarrassed of the book after the movie came out. It's the only movie to film adaptation I've really every gotten into.

I just finished the chapter where Bloom was first introduced in Joyce's Ulysses, and have to say I was impressed. I know how people claim it to be a 'behemoth of a novel,' but that's not true. I'll admit it is long, but I'm enjoyed it still.

I'm thinking about reading Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, or Wallace's Infinite Jest next. What does NG think?

At 3/11/09 11:56 PM, towelie101 wrote: I just finished the chapter where Bloom was first introduced in Joyce's Ulysses, and have to say I was impressed. I know how people claim it to be a 'behemoth of a novel,' but that's not true. I'll admit it is long, but I'm enjoyed it still.

I've read a few chapters of 'Ulysses', and it was entertaining to say the least. It annoys me too when I'm in class and reading a 'behemoth' novel, ad someone always pipes in and says,
"ZOMG!
How could you read that! It would makes my brains hurt!" A novel can be massive and still enjoyable, its just the stereotype that ALL big books are boring and complicated that deters others from reading.

I'm thinking about reading Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, or Wallace's Infinite Jest next. What does NG think?

I've read 'Gravity's Rainbow'. The writing is really different and avant-garde, and can be confusing, with all the narration perspectives switching an stuff. Read at your own risk!

At 1/19/09 01:38 AM, djconnect wrote: What do you think the best movie made from a book was?

Fight Club.

At 1/22/09 11:20 PM, djconnect wrote: Although I do love the library and E-Books have been making a huge impact lately, there is nothing like owning a hard copy. I currently own 49 book's, I am going to create a news post with a list and a picture of my bookshelf. My favorite book store is Borders. They always have great deals and there online shopping is great. I buy 3 - 4 books a month from there. I hope to fill my 5 shelves soon. I have 2 filled now and I will start on the 3ed ASAP.

I need to start buying books. As of right now I've just been ordering them from the library, and then returning them when I'm done. I'd like to invest in a couple of Chuck Palahniuk's books that I've really loved, and a couple of other books that I wouldn't mind reading again.

Hey I haven't posted in awhile so here I am now. I have been working threw a few programming books and Steal this computer book 4.0.

I also need to start buying more books. I am working on my 3ed shelf to fill and cant wait to get the entire thing completed.

At 1/19/09 01:38 AM, djconnect wrote: What do you think the best movie made from a book was? I say The harry Potter movies were the best. The followed the book almost perfectly, and had great production quality.

I'm sorry, but I couldn't follow the hype that came along with this series of books. I think that it started off alright, as the kids were getting into reading. I tried to read one myself once, but found them incredibly hard going to sit through, so I stopped. I watched the first Movie and found it poor. My parents wanted to go and see the second one, so I agreed - the most entertainment I got from it was when I spilled my popcorn over my brother.

Good movies made from good books. Look to Lord of the Rings, though they did miss things like Tom Bombardil (Would have made it slow and boring for Fellowship) and the Scouring of the Shire (That would have added something to the movie, I don't doubt) - you were never going to end up with a film that was totally faithful to the original text, considering how epic it was.

Now, I've watched Shogun, a TV adaptation of the book of the same name, made in the 1970s - it stayed faithful to the text, didn't have a massive budget for special effects, though being set in feudal Japan, it didn't really need much of one. Here is something that portrayed the life of the Samurai and the Bushido code better than Tom Cruise could possibly hope to in The Last Samurai

And another one bites the dust... seriously, though. Another book down. I finished "Thieves of Blood" in school yesterday, it was pretty good, but it was only 347 pages. Next book is "Forge of the Mindslayers," then "Sea of Death." They're all part of the Blade of the Flame trilogy, which is turning out to be a promising series, but there are some serious grammar flaws... like when it says "witb" instead of "with".

I love to find errors in books when reading them. Gives me a bit of a chuckle.

Well I just read a walk to remeber and it's a pretty horrible romance novel.

At 3/17/09 06:18 PM, thelittleemo wrote: Well I just read a walk to remeber and it's a pretty horrible romance novel.

You speak as if most aren't horrible

At 3/17/09 06:21 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:18 PM, thelittleemo wrote: Well I just read a walk to remeber and it's a pretty horrible romance novel.

You speak as if most aren't horrible

lol, well it's just the ending that got me. I'm about to post spoilers about the book, so if you haven't read it yet, don't read on! The thing that got me, was that he was in love with a girl, who's dying. Now that is good because it would usually lead to a stronger bonding, and then eventually something cheesy would happen where the cure is found at the last moment, but NOOOO! Apparently the dude does one of the most romantic things ever, by marrying her before she dies...but she still dies? Why would he do this to the main character, leaving him alone for the rest of his life without his love? I mean in Romeo and Juliet, both of them at least died together!

At 3/17/09 06:25 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:21 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:18 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

lol, well it's just the ending that got me. I'm about to post spoilers about the book, so if you haven't read it yet, don't read on! The thing that got me, was that he was in love with a girl, who's dying. Now that is good because it would usually lead to a stronger bonding, and then eventually something cheesy would happen where the cure is found at the last moment, but NOOOO! Apparently the dude does one of the most romantic things ever, by marrying her before she dies...but she still dies? Why would he do this to the main character, leaving him alone for the rest of his life without his love? I mean in Romeo and Juliet, both of them at least died together!

That...is.....the....most....absolutely.
...gayest ending ever created. Why the hell would someone write that shit? that's gayer than twilight's vampires, and that's pretty gay

Thats a realistic ending and more profound because of it. If they both lived it'd just be another shitting fairy tale. And life isn't about happy endings.

If you need such bullshit conclusion read childrens books.

At 3/17/09 06:37 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:25 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:21 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:18 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

That...is.....the....most....absolutely.
...gayest ending ever created. Why the hell would someone write that shit? that's gayer than twilight's vampires, and that's pretty gay

yeah, all the first part of twilight is about it "Oh i love him, but does he love me, BUT I LOVE HIM!" then the second part is, " OH I love you, but i might kill you, but I love you, but I might kill you, BUT I LOVE YOU!!

At 3/17/09 06:40 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:37 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:25 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:21 PM, Soldierofhentai21 wrote:

At 3/17/09 06:18 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

That...is.....the....most....absolutely.
...gayest ending ever created. Why the hell would someone write that shit? that's gayer than twilight's vampires, and that's pretty gay

yeah, all the first part of twilight is about it "Oh i love him, but does he love me, BUT I LOVE HIM!" then the second part is, " OH I love you, but i might kill you, but I love you, but I might kill you, BUT I LOVE YOU!!

I hate all those fangirls, they actually based my school shirts on that twilight font on the covers, I was so fucking pissed

Okay, so, I deleting everything from my story, including the files on my computer. As in, they're gone forever. It was the same problem with all my other stories, I had nowhere to go; though I admit this is the farthest I've gotten on any story... which isn't saying much, I was only on the fourth chapter.

I'm starting a new one tomorrow afternoon, but I can't think of a name. In the Wake of Sin was a pretty bad name, and I was desperate enough to accept any title, even if was bad (like the old one). I also deleted all the chapters from my news posts.