Music Banter - What are you reading right now?

^I saw that in the bookstore the other day and thought about getting it but ended up waiting cause I have so many other books to read too. Have you read his other stuff? High Fidelity was one of my favorite books ever.

i have read all of his other still,....i didnt even know he had a new book out, monty sent it too me this weekend after he finished it in one sitting,...i didnt even know that hornby had a new book out, so i was very happily surprised and so far its been a very good read, though sometimes reading the character of annie is a but painful as i see much of my own stagnate life in hers

jackhammer

11-10-2009 05:47 PM

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n5/n25566.jpg

Part two of the trilogy and nearing the end of this. I go a couple of months with barely reading and within a week I'm nearly through 2 books.

FETCHER.

11-10-2009 06:36 PM

Pride and Prejudice, anyone know if it's good. I've started readingand so far it's alright, I'm just wondering if it drags or that?

Barnard17

11-10-2009 07:18 PM

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn sums it up. Women swoon, blah blah blah. Thanks Jane Austen, so glad you're mentally engaging me and creating interesting philosophical questions to explore within your literature. Chick lit, hundreds of years old. Monotonous stories remain equally monotonous no matter how cute their bonnets are.

FETCHER.

11-10-2009 07:24 PM

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I should have probably known that since its from 1813 :(. Well I've started now, so I will finish it. But cheers anyways. :)

Hype8

11-10-2009 07:27 PM

Lanark... have been "reading" this thing for a couple months now, I've gotten as far as 2 chapters. sadly i haven't read regularly since high school..

anticipation

11-10-2009 07:28 PM

Agreed, you should check out Wuthering Heights instead, at least some brutal **** goes down.

As for me, I'm just starting: Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. It's weird because this is by far the least developed books I've ever read by him. It's lacking subtlety and is very much a casual narration. Still, it delivers the goods.

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

11-10-2009 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog (Post 764832)

how is it, CC?

so far it is pretty decent. some interesting thoughts and imagery, specifically a cool chapter about how manhattan would end up without people living on it. i'm about maybe 70 or 80 pages in, so not too far. where i'm at its talking a lot about evolution and how animals could move in and evolve in our place... talking a lot about past stuff about how we evolved. which is necessary obviously. still i'd like it to get back to the humans not existing stuff

...guess i should stop posting and go read

boo boo

11-10-2009 07:44 PM

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Eh. Video games and sci-fi movies have the potential to set up a valid universe to explorer in literary fiction. Unfortunately they do conform to the law that 90% of everything is ****. For example, Warhammer books are mostly a load of sci-fi war porn rubbish but there's the occasional magic with deeper plot lines and character development of Eisenhorn. It's not bad by necessity, as long as the author has the scope to not just write about gun fights and battlefields.

There are video games that would make great source material for films or books.

But instead of making books on games that could really benefit from an adaptation it's just the most popular stuff like Halo, Gears of War, World of Warcraft.

Why not something with more of an actual story? There's a lot of RPGs that could make a good film adaptation. Hell even a Metal Gear Solid adaptation could be cool.

Besides, anyone who would even bother to write a book or movie based on a video game probably has no talent anyway and would just take a huge steaming sh*t on the source material.

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

11-10-2009 07:53 PM

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Hell even a Metal Gear Solid adaptation could be cool.

Metal Gear Solid (2012)

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Director Hideo Kojima confirmed in 2006 that a film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid was in development.[107] He also hinted that the movie may be set in Alaska, the original setting for the game.[108] Despite pitching his ideas regarding the movie, the voice of Solid Snake, David Hayter, will not be writing the final script, appearing in the movie or directing the film. However, a petition has been started by fans to get Hayter involved in writing the script.[109] The movie's producers hoped to invite Kurt Wimmer to write the movie, but the final decision has not yet been announced[110][111], but DeLuca dismissed the claim. According to an interview in Nuts magazine actor Christian Bale is interested in playing Solid Snake in the film. [112]

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