I thought the first and second acts were pretty good, but the ending wasn't that good.Kadoodle said:
What is your "That Book"?
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I suppose the book I've read the most times would be Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, but not since I wrote a thesis on it almost four years ago. Just more proof that academia is indeed the death if passions, I suppose.
The genre work I return to the most often these days would be R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series. To me, it is the perfect symbiosis of high prose, philosophy & insight, and profoundly well-crafted characters and setting. From the perspective of an old literature & philosophy student, it is easily the most accomplished modern work of fantasy.
I see many of you also mention works of philosophy that have affected you more than most, and while I personally rarely return to a work of philosophy after I've worked through it as it were, I'd still mention René Guénon's Crisis on the Modern World. It truly opened my eyes to a broader spectrum of cultural awareness, and actually kinda helped me put my own life in context. It's not as intellectually stimulating as Wittgenstein, nor as funny as Nietzsche, it's a little pompous, yet still very rewarding.
The genre work I return to the most often these days would be R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series. To me, it is the perfect symbiosis of high prose, philosophy & insight, and profoundly well-crafted characters and setting. From the perspective of an old literature & philosophy student, it is easily the most accomplished modern work of fantasy.
I see many of you also mention works of philosophy that have affected you more than most, and while I personally rarely return to a work of philosophy after I've worked through it as it were, I'd still mention René Guénon's Crisis on the Modern World. It truly opened my eyes to a broader spectrum of cultural awareness, and actually kinda helped me put my own life in context. It's not as intellectually stimulating as Wittgenstein, nor as funny as Nietzsche, it's a little pompous, yet still very rewarding.
Hmm... That would have to be the only book series that I ever bought. It was 8 books, but some really smart person decided to compile them into 2 MASSIVE tomes. Hold on, let me get them...
It's called Deltora quest. But really, It's called Deltor a quest. But if you want to be really accurate, it's rotled. Wait. What? Ok, the book is kinda wierd with turning around words and mixing them up and subtracing them and eating them, but really it's just a sucession of puzzles with a bunch of boring road. And I like that. It's nowhere near as thought-provoking as Starship Troopers, which is far better, but I enjoy it all the same.
It's called Deltora quest. But really, It's called Deltor a quest. But if you want to be really accurate, it's rotled. Wait. What? Ok, the book is kinda wierd with turning around words and mixing them up and subtracing them and eating them, but really it's just a sucession of puzzles with a bunch of boring road. And I like that. It's nowhere near as thought-provoking as Starship Troopers, which is far better, but I enjoy it all the same.
Matt Stover's novelization of Revenge of the Sith.
Makes the movie look like utter shit by comparison and has some of the best written swordfights of any book.
Makes the movie look like utter shit by comparison and has some of the best written swordfights of any book.
There are dozens of them for me, but the ONE would have to be the harry potter series. 8th reading right now.
Colbert's "I'm american and so can you" is becoming a quick second as i read it now.
Colbert's "I'm american and so can you" is becoming a quick second as i read it now.
For me it's the Hitchhikker's Guide to the Galaxy ... trilogy ... yeah trilogy, that's it.
I just can't stop rereading/quoting/loving those books. I have a giant hardback of all of them, and it's like my bible or something, I love it.
I just can't stop rereading/quoting/loving those books. I have a giant hardback of all of them, and it's like my bible or something, I love it.
Everything by Zusak is absolute gold. I've read all of his books and there's not one I don't like.MostlyHarmless said:
OT: Hmmm I think Fight Club is one of the few books I've read more than once. Same goes for the movie, too.
The Stand by Stephen King. I've reread it multiple times.
And although it's a kid's book, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. I love it.
And although it's a kid's book, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. I love it.
The Road. I can not read that book enough.
Honestly, anything from Cormac McCarthy is endlessly engrossing for me.
Honestly, anything from Cormac McCarthy is endlessly engrossing for me.
The Magician's Nephew and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, both from Chronicles of Narnia. They're both very calming, surreal books.
