heard the movie is better
- shvingter88

stfu, you know i refuse to see that mess

heard the movie is better
- shvingter88

All movies are better. Much faster to finish also.

plus i don't work well with deadlines. I know the library gives me 3 weeks but some days I just don't want to pick it up again. right now i'm reading Ulysses S. Grant his triumphic final year Biography...

Read 80% of Fraser's book and haven't picked it up since.
- phi1671

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~Douglas Adams

Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon is a pitch-perfect historical fiction novel.

And House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a reading experience unlike any I've ever had since Joyce's Ulysses. Truly incredible.
- countreeman28

stfu, you know i refuse to see that mess
- Crimsoninja

i still stare at the Mason & Dixon copy on bookshelf and ask myself whether I will ever actually crack it open. Crying of Lot 49 was great.
- wilsonecho91

same here. i love lot 49

gravity's rainbow is awesome too. i'm working my way through v. right now

i'll get to mason & dixon eventually

same here. i love lot 49

gravity's rainbow is awesome too. i'm working my way through v. right now

i'll get to mason & dixon eventually
- FlyerMike18

it's been years, but I read V. Never read Gravity's Rainbow.

While I think the E reader is a good idea I cant use it. Its hard on my eyes.

Nothing will ever beat the smell of a good book.
- flyer_nutter

I agree, but the Fire doesn't have the same screen as the other Kindles. It's backlit, which for some reason foils me from getting sleepy as opposed to reading a book. Sad, but true. I was nodding off in the middle of my book last night. Never happened with the Lankhmar book on my Kindle Fire.

I sometimes pause and realize my "to read", "to watch", and "to play" lists are insurmountably long, I'll never finish any of them. Great problems to have.
- BulliesPhan87

Agreed

i'm out for a bit, but to those interested, John Barth's End of the Road is also a great book.

i will check it out. thanks. i'm a huge Nabokov fan (not the goalie). Dostoevsky's shorter work, Note from the Underground, was a favorite of mine when I was younger. Bulgakov too.
- wilsonecho91

i'm a huge cooperalls fan. can i borrow yours? mine have stains all over them.

All movies are better. Much faster to finish also.
- stveshdy

In your opinion. I know many folks, including my 9 y/o son, who say the first Harry Potter book is MUCH better than the first movie.

Thanks. I got my wife (who reads alot) a nook but she wanted a kindle. I screwed that up but I think thats bc she uses amazon products and now it makes sense. Women and their pickiness.


- stveshdy

This might be good for you but with the nook if anything goes wrong you take it back to the barnes & nobles. If anything goes wrong with the kindle you have to mail it back to amazon.

In your opinion. I know many folks, including my 9 y/o son, who say the first Harry Potter book is MUCH better than the first movie.
- Flyskippy

No question about it. My wife is a person who thinks books are better than movies. I tend to disagree with her bc she is wrong!

This might be good for you but with the nook if anything goes wrong you take it back to the barnes & nobles. If anything goes wrong with the kindle you have to mail it back to amazon.
- ob18

Did not know that. However, she didn't keep the Nook bc she didn't like it. So guess who has to go back out and get what she wants (which is a kindle)? You got it, ME.

Some of my favorite writers had a penchant for producing the short story. Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, etc. In the same vain, although an acclaimed novelist, I think Haruki Murakami is one the best living writers out there today.
- BoomGoesTheCoburn

You know, that's another thing. If you want to start easy, reading short-form--short stories, essays, magazine articles--can be a gentle transition to the reading bug.

Jhumpa Lahiri has 2 amazing books of short stories out featuring the first generation experiences of Indian (in particular Bengali) immigrants to the U.S.

I have a tablet, couldn't imagine reading on it for an extended period of time. I'd like to give the Kindle a shot though, what with the whole "e-ink" thing.
- BulliesPhan87

yes, I have the regular Nook, e-ink is so much easier on the eyes that a Fire or Nook Color, which are backlit. I have enough trouble with eyestrain from keeping up with Butsy on Twitter.

Any recommendations for a good nonfiction and a good fiction book to read? I've read some Vonnegut here and there but not much else. Sad, I know.
- funmaster18

Try The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It's pretty dark, but I felt the imagery was so unusual. Set in WWII Germany. YA fiction. But I don't understand how a teen would really be able to take it all in.

nonfiction, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. You'll know so much and feel very smart after finishing it. But you'll laugh your way through when you aren't Ah-HAH-ing. I hate to say this, because it may turn you off, but it's a history of science. And yet, so much more. I'm not a science geek. So it was just enough science with plenty of story around it to get me from the big bang to now.

No battery life concerns, either. They're cheaper to replace when stolen, too, making them good for a commute.
- BulliesPhan87

A lot easier to carry around a 1200-page book in a nook than in a briefcase or tote.

In your opinion. I know many folks, including my 9 y/o son, who say the first Harry Potter book is MUCH better than the first movie.
- Flyskippy

A movie can't really include everything. The subtext, the inner lives of characters, so much is lost. They can tell the main story arc, with maybe a little subplot here or there. But it can't be the full picture.

For example, see both versions of the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. Both are good (I think the U.S. one does a better job of getting from one end to the other) but both leave out, by necessity, the depth of the friendships and romantic relationships outside of the main protagonists.

This might be good for you but with the nook if anything goes wrong you take it back to the barnes & nobles. If anything goes wrong with the kindle you have to mail it back to amazon.
- ob18

And when I fell and broke my Nook, I had a new one in my hands the next morning because of this. (And even though it was an accident, not a technology failure, they covered it under warranty.)

Ahh, the Friday night flight. And I've got to sit here and work.

By the way, ran into one of the denizens of this place today. He's started work for my employer yesterday.

So if you guys were Nashville fans, would you accept Radulov back with open arms, or would you rather not have him back at all?

Interesting reading about books and authors. Very intelligent conversation going on today.

True Crime and American History are my favorite genres. Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Vincent Bugliosi are three of my favorite authors.

Anything to do with JFK I find fascinating. The Warren Commission report had me riveted, although it's up for interpretation if it's fiction or non fiction.

My all time favorite book would have to be Green Eggs and Ham

Interesting reading about books and authors. Very intelligent conversation going on today.

True Crime and American History are my favorite genres. Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Vincent Bugliosi are three of my favorite authors.

Anything to do with JFK I find fascinating. The Warren Commission report had me riveted, although it's up for interpretation if it's fiction or non fiction.
- PLindbergh31

Military (fictionalize) history. (The Killer Angels is amazing.)
Regency Romance. (There, I've gone all girly on you!)
Literary fiction from before WWII. The Forsyte Saga has paragraphs that are little jewel boxes of language.

But a well-written book in any genre can captivate me.