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[CajoleJuice]

my love for film noir realized... incredible dialogue, pulpy stories, femme fatales. america's library is the best publisher, too - the quality of the binding is top notch.

I only have two PKD collections from them, but I want sooo many more from them. They are the best books in my collection.

 

[Salazar]

Ion Trewin's mammoth biography of my avatar, Alan Clark.

Terrific.

 

[jon bones]

I only have two PKD collections from them, but I want sooo many more from them. They are the best books in my collection.

oh yes, off the top of my head i know i need the steinbeck collection with east of eden, the second raymond chandler collection, the early works of f scott fitzgerald and the Kerouac collection (obviously)

brilliant stuff

 

[ShallNoiseUpon]

on this

 

[CajoleJuice]

oh yes, off the top of my head i know i need the steinbeck collection with east of eden, the second raymond chandler collection, the early works of f scott fitzgerald and the Kerouac collection (obviously)

brilliant stuff

I'm gonna go browse Amazon to add a bunch of them (including a couple of those you mention) to my wish list just so I can keep track for myself.

I can't believe Amazon has the ENTIRE COLLECTION on sale.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1598530003/?tag=neogaf0e-20

 

[jon bones]

I'm gonna go browse Amazon to add a bunch of them (including a couple of those you mention) to my wish list just so I can keep track for myself.

I can't believe Amazon has the ENTIRE COLLECTION on sale.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1598530003/?tag=neogaf0e-20

 

[Dwight Schrute]

Almost finished this one :

But I think I will like the 3rd most, I miss old characters

 

[British Monsoon]

Been reading Wise Guys/Goodfella's by Nicolas Pileggi and I must say it's brilliant to get a bit more backstory to one of my favourite movies - makes me wonder what other book to movie adaptions i've missed out on reading, anyone have any reccomendations? Wasn't Apocalypse Now a novel?

 

[Johnlenham]

Mrs got it for me for Christmas.

 

[slit]

Just got it for Christmas, pretty good so far.

 

[Bebedora]

I'd always heard this was one of the best biographies in the English language, so I've been working on it. It's interesting, but I'm thinking I should have gone with the abridged version maybe...

 

[Druz]

Can't paste images atm but I just started Carl Sagan's Cosmos and The Gunslinger

 

[Monroeski]

Just finished

And

, both of which I would definitely recommend.

Have now started -

 

[SteveO409]

Interesting book although I don't like how Chris Mccandless can be a selfish jerk by not letting others help him out. I'll read Name of the Wind or Feast of Crows after this because I know George RR Martin will eventually finish dance of dragons

 

[Chorazin]

Got a ton of books for Xmas, and a Kindle, so I am a reading fiend right now!

I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, such a good concept wrapped in some pointless meanderings and plots that could have easily been cut. Also, a rather massive fuck you ending annoyed me greatly, after what I thought was a pretty awesome climax.

Just started Wil Wheaton's Just a Geek today, so far it's pretty darn good.

 

[AndyD]

Drood at home. A fictional novel set around Charles Dickens and his last few years before death from the point of view of a "best friend". Interesting because it mixes real events in his life with fictional story plots. Also loosely based on/around his unfinished last novel. I also like the writing style of the "friend" because it manages to criticize Dickens' style while praising it and also copying it at the same time. Sort of a "You suck" out loud then secretly copying it because you know it is amazing.

At work I am reading The Monsters of Templeton. A semi-fictional novel that is sort of a coming of age story for a girl who comes back to middle of nowhere town pregnant and ashamed. Book features a loch ness style monster. Instant +1 when I was reading the cover at the library trying to decide which book to pick up.:lol

 

[Torhthelm Tídwald]

america's library is the best publisher, too - the quality of the binding is top notch.

I secretly wish Library of America would become Library of Everywhere so I wouldn't have to buy any classics from anyone else.

 

[sharkmuncher]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Book 1: Lord Foul's Bane

So far pretty good, though dark

 

[CiSTM]

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson yet again. I just find his writing hillarious. Currently reading Curse of Lono (1st. edition). Books has plenty of ralph stedman's art so it's only a plus Next I'm probably going to read Fear and loathing on campaing trail '72.

 

[Melhisedek]

Anyone read Tigana by Kay? How is it?

 

[Salazar]

Antony Beevor's Paris: After the Occupation.

Superb. As gripping, in its way, as his writing that treats the warfare directly.

 

[Tim the Wiz]

Anyone read Tigana by Kay? How is it?

I've heard good things, but it couldn't sustain my interest. The Lions of Al-Rassan is his true masterpiece, although I'm yet to read his Sarantine Mosaic duology - which I'm currently rectifying alongside some other long-overdue reads.