What are you currently reading?

[the.doctor]

The premise of this thread is you can either post what book your reading, and talk about weather or not its good or if you would reccomend it. Or you can just throw your opinion out in the open on what other people are reading, and judge them and their taste in literature.

Given that I cant criticize myself in this first post, I will talk about

The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis

I never knew that C.S. Lewis wrote anything other than The Chronicles of Narnia, so the content of this book was totally mind blowing for me.

Its a series of letters written from the perspective of Screwtape (A high-ranking demon in Hell), sent to a tempter (whos job it is to subtly bring people to sin and land then in hell), basically discussing methods of undermining the church.

Talks about spirituality in context to a lot of different themes, like war (set during some sort of war in england), love, sex, and excess. But from a perspective I've never really heard of before. They are constantly doing research to find out why exactly god loves all people, and what he stands to gain from doing so, because they refuse to believe that he actually loves humans. Its hard to explain, but I'm really enjoying it.

IMO it wouldnt really matter if you are a Christian or not, you can still enjoy this book (its actually funny). I'd recommend it to anyone who, regardless of the consequences of their actions, is acting with the wrong intentions

*cough* jayX *cough*

[Phlintlock]

Everything by Kurt Vonnegut. I can't really even explain, just accurate analysis and parody of human culture and behaviour, extremely clever and funny and I absolutely love his blunt writing style.

[Diablo]

I'm not quite reading either of these, but they're sitting on my shelf and I've been meaning to start reading them.

[iLazz 2.0]

I'm halfway through this. I cannot put it down. An absolutely awesome read!

From Publishers Weekly

Known for his novels of international intrigue, Saul in his first work of nonfiction delivers a passionate jeremiad on the follies of our age. Reason, he argues, has run amok; instead of the enlightened utopia envisaged by Voltaire, the modern West is a soulless machine run by technocratic elites that promise efficiency but create disasters. The author targets the insane waste of our "permanent war economy," the perils of nuclear power, the co-optation of democracy by vested interests, the news media's focus on false events and manufactured celebrities, the "personality politics" of presidential campaigns. He critiques the Harvard Business School's management teachings, profiles such figures as Thomas Jefferson, Robert McNamara and Charles de Gaulle, flunks our colleges for failure to reward creativity and imagination. He blames novelists from James Joyce onward for "rendering literature inaccessible" and divorcing fiction from social concerns. He roams freely through history, politics, theology, art and film, challenging his audience on every page. This wonderfully provocative inquiry, a work of bold sweep and originality, may nonetheless leave some readers wondering whether misplaced faith in reason underlies all the ills discussed.

[Nihili2501]

both really good books :3

[rendezvous]

AmaZing reads.
Hilarious, and dirty.

[runestone]

[low tech]

Everything by Kurt Vonnegut. I can't really even explain, just accurate analysis and parody of human culture and behaviour, extremely clever and funny and I absolutely love his blunt writing style.

I knew you were one of the good ones. I'm in the beginning of Breakfast of Champions, but I have a shit attention span so it's hard for me to


Slaughterhouse 5 is up next, since I already own it.

[Diablo]

I knew you were one of the good ones. I'm in the beginning of Breakfast of Champions, but I have a shit attention span so it's hard for me to


Slaughterhouse 5 is up next, since I already own it.

Cat's Cradle is my favorite, then again I've only read a couple.

[LiquidoGimps]

Re reading. Love it.


Re reading also because it's hilarious.

[iLazz 2.0]

I knew you were one of the good ones. I'm in the beginning of Breakfast of Champions, but I have a shit attention span so it's hard for me to


Slaughterhouse 5 is up next, since I already own it.

I like his books. I've read Sirens of Titan and Player Piano. Both magnificent.

[Jaaykidd]

[dbx10]

Didn't find a picture of the first print, so i took one of my book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rauschning

[the.doctor]

Everything by Kurt Vonnegut. I can't really even explain, just accurate analysis and parody of human culture and behaviour, extremely clever and funny and I absolutely love his blunt writing style.

I've got slaughterhouse five on my shelf, waiting to be read. I fell in love with him after reading Hocus Pocus, it was written like the protaganist wrote the whole book on little scraps of paper after prisoners took over the school for upper caste kids with learning disorders. Really intense perspective of someone who came back from the vietnam war expecting to be a war hero, coping with the shame of having compromised his integrity for a cause he never really understood and just feeling like he was doing his job. Really fuckin good book, even though most people dont talk about it cause its not one of his most famous pieces.

[The Stupidest Angel] [Lamb] [A Dirty Job]/IMG]

AmaZing reads.
Hilarious, and dirty.

I tried to read a couple of books by him, Fluke and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Grove, but I couldnt get into it. I cant really describe why, but the style just seemed juvenile to me and the characters seemed only superficially developed. Have you read them? Would you say the books you listed are much better reads? Maybe I just picked a couple of his more average books.

[runestone]

[Phlintlock]

Hocus Pocus

That was the first one I read, and made me fall in love with him. I've only read breakfast of champions and slaughterhouse five since then but I have a bunch of chapters gift cards so I'm going to spend all of it on more of his books.

[Napalm]

ballerer

[the.doctor]

fuck chapters/indigo/fucklips. BMV is where true ballers shop for books.

[Phlintlock]

I don't even know what BMV is I'm just a kid who plays WoW and likes books



Edit: And smokes crack

[rendezvous]

I tried to read a couple of books by him, Fluke and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Grove, but I couldnt get into it. I cant really describe why, but the style just seemed juvenile to me and the characters seemed only superficially developed. Have you read them? Would you say the books you listed are much better reads? Maybe I just picked a couple of his more average books.

I've read The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Grove, and I've gotta say, that one wasn't that great.
My favorite, by far, was Lamb. It's Hilariously blasphemous.
The Stupidest angel was about an idiotic angel, a schizophrenic nudist woman with a katana, a pot smoking sheriff, and zombies. Intense and "BRAINS THEN IKEA".
A Dirty Job had far less humor (though it was still there) but still was an awesome read.