Music Banter

Music Banter (https://www.musicbanter.com/)
-   Media (https://www.musicbanter.com/media/)
-   -   What are you reading right now? (https://www.musicbanter.com/media/19733-what-you-reading-right-now.html)

Oriphiel 09-22-2018 04:56 AM

CYBERPUUUUUUNK

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/I8YAA...vYc/s-l500.jpg

Oriphiel 09-23-2018 04:44 PM

****, Synners is so ****ing awesome. Almost halfway through, and each new chapter is like a orgasm of bat****tery. I wanna travel back in time and kick myself in the balls for limiting my teenage Cyberpunk phase to the Sprawl trilogy and Snowcrash.

Weird. Funny. Creative. And just plain cool. Have no ****ing how it's going to end.

BassoonPlatoon 09-26-2018 03:13 PM

The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and his canon: A Study in Scarlet.

Watson's opener of his time as an Army Medic currently intrigues me because on Blue Bloods all of the law enforcement members of the family also have a military background, that they go to extreme lengths not to discuss.

spookn 09-28-2018 10:17 AM

Bible (no religion here)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (sci fi)
the alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Simply Learn Hebrew
The Time Keeper, Mitch Albom
and lastly, John Sandford (great cop books) (prey series)
OH yeah, I have to read my bills!
Good people go to hell
saved people go to the kingdom :)

Chula Vista 09-28-2018 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spookn (Post 2000791)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (sci fi)

Absolutely essential post-apocalyptic novel. Easily in my top 10.

Reading Uzumaki on Bat's rec. Starts out a bit slow but DAMN! Went from 0 to 90 MPH in just a few pages last night. SPIRALS!!!!!!

BassoonPlatoon 09-29-2018 04:35 PM

By "post-apocalyptic" do you mean dystopian or are they separate genres to you?

The Batlord 09-29-2018 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BassoonPlatoon (Post 2001263)
By "post-apocalyptic" do you mean dystopian or are they separate genres to you?

When talking about Uzumaki it's its own thing but post-apocalyptic eventually is warranted. Dystopian is not relevant.

Chula Vista 09-29-2018 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BassoonPlatoon (Post 2001263)
By "post-apocalyptic" do you mean dystopian or are they separate genres to you?

Dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

Post Apocalyptic: denoting or relating to the time following a nuclear war or other catastrophic event.

Two very different genres. Canticle for Leibowitz is 100% post-apocalytic.

The Batlord 09-29-2018 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 2001299)
Two very different genres. Canticle for Leibowitz is 100% post-apocalytic.

Never finished it but obviously. Calling it dystopian would be like calling a handjob an orgy.

Chula Vista 09-29-2018 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 2001304)
Never finished it but obviously. Calling it dystopian would be like calling a handjob an orgy.

Ever read On the Beach? Another classic post-apocalyptic novel. I had a terrible time reading the last chapter because of all of the tears streaming down my face. One of only a handful of novels to do that to me.

The Road and parts of Pet Cemetery being a couple others. (reading the latter about a month after Sherri was born was a mistake in hindsight)

Some other great PA books I've read:

The Stand
Swan Song
I Am Legend
World War Z
Lucifer's Hammer
One Second After
Wool
Childhood's End
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Blindness
Earth Abides


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:13 PM.


© 2003-2025 Advameg, Inc.