What are you reading right now?

simplephysics · 08-09-2009, 07:44 PM

Haha, sounds awesome.. think I've seen you mention it around here, I'll check it out.

LoathsomePete · 08-09-2009, 08:53 PM

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Haha, sounds awesome.. think I've seen you mention it around here, I'll check it out.

Yeah I've mentioned it a few times, almost always as recommendations because of how good the series is. It's being reissued now so Borders and Barnes & Noble will have the first couple of collections, however if you live in city that has a decent comic store (i.e. one that carries more than just the basic Marvel and DC) they should have it. So far this summer I turned my mom onto it, two of my friends, and I'll be lending my collection to another friend in a weeks time. Every single person I lent it to said it was one of the most amazing things they've ever read.

adidasss · 08-10-2009, 02:22 AM

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Ashley if you like Hunter S. Thompson then there's a comic series called Transmetropolitan that you have to read. The main character is called Spider Jerusalem and he's essentially Hunter S. Thompson in the future but he's armed with a gun that makes you shit yourself. Incredibly well written and it's being re-issued.

I've tried reading that but found the drawing to be too dense (too much going on in each frame). I want to give it another go at some point...

adidasss · 08-10-2009, 04:03 PM

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I've also started The Lovely Bones after seeing that Jackson was adapting it into a movie......:\

Yeah no, I managed to get through about a third of it but anything more would just be sadistic. This is fucking awful. No idea why it's become a bestseller, it's fucking drab and filled with every possible cliché about loss and grieving. Hopefully Jackson will manage to make something out of it..:\

LoathsomePete · 08-10-2009, 04:10 PM

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I've tried reading that but found the drawing to be too dense (too much going on in each frame). I want to give it another go at some point...

That's the greatest part of the series though, there's so much to look at which is incentive to go back and re-read the series just to find all the hidden hilarious drawings in the background. Not only that, but when the series takes a serious tone, that's when to start looking at the pictures because usually that's when Derrick Robinson goes all out.

NumberNineDream · 08-12-2009, 10:49 AM

i began Mary by Nabokov, never heard of it before ... I loved Nabokov's Lolita so i though of trying one of his short stories.

dollarsandcents · 08-12-2009, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Ashley if you like Hunter S. Thompson then there's a comic series called Transmetropolitan that you have to read. The main character is called Spider Jerusalem and he's essentially Hunter S. Thompson in the future but he's armed with a gun that makes you shit yourself. Incredibly well written and it's being re-issued.

I'm going to check this out, looks like something I'd like.

Not sure if it's available in the UK yet, I'll get on eBay.

adidasss · 08-12-2009, 10:51 AM

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Akira · 08-12-2009, 11:01 AM

^^Either 'good luck' or 'enjoy'....unfortunately you won't know until the end, lol.

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