Currently reading: "Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins

Currently playing: BRUTAL LEGEND

Band of Brothers

reading: forza motorsport blog

playing: russian roulette with a nerf gun

i read katawa shoujo

>implying anyone on /v/ has the mental capacity to enjoy reading.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Currently playing L4D.

Of course people read. What are you, a fucking idiot?

Reading A Matter of Honour, queer.

Blue War by Jeffrey Thomas

It's like Vietnam in a parallel dimension with a Grey Goo Apocalypse twist.

The Man Who Was Thursday
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy

Reading: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Playing: FFIX replay (Been 9 years since I played it first)

I'm reading Baulder's gate

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, then I'll move on to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

Reading A feast for crows and farenheit 451.

"The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories". Currently on "Herbert West - Reanimator".

I'm reading the Twilight books for the fifth time. I can't get enough :3

Anything William Gibson shits out.

The Guns of August

Fuck you forth grade book reports, you ruined reading for me.

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

I'm watching MGS 4, an adaptation to Hideo Kojima's novel.

>>40281440

What a coincidence, I've been reading Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters at work (convenience store, boring as fuck). I've found it to be quite enjoyable so far, how's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Atlas Shrugged. Because I just finished Angela's Ashes and I can't afford anything new.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I Will Fear No Evil by Robert Heinlein

Ringworld by Larry Niven

I just finished off volume 1 of the japanese-language Lucky Star manga. My god it is brutally difficult to read without furigana, but with any luck, I'll be plowing through them without trouble in a couple of years.

Just finished "The Purifying Fire", that new Magic Planeswalker book.

It was profoundly okay. It wasn't great, it wasn't awful, it was just extremely okay.

I finished the Lost Symbol a few days ago. It was alright.

I read well over 1,000 words every day on 4chan.

Just because I don't utilize an outdated source of entertainment doesn't mean I don't read.

Although I did recently read Treasure Island a few months ago. Fuck all of these high class 'deep' books, pirates are fucking awesome and easy entertaining books are the only good books

>>40281481
ive got the necronomicon big collection of all his works.
at least, i thin its all of them... well i only just read the first one. it seems pretty good, im going "wow" at his writing style more than im being creeped out.
and i am being decently creeped out.

>>40281481

Fucking loved ReAnimator.

>>40281489
Do you has a vagina?

I'm flipping between The Stand and Different Seasons, both Stephen King works. Currently on Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in Different Seasons.

Currently playing a mix of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, F-Zero X, and WipEout HD Fury.

Decided to finally read 1984 because I couldn't find my parents' copy of Farenheit 451.

Just got myself a Kindle 2, I read all the fucking time now.

Anytime I'm not playing the vidya or at work I'm devouring books like a fucking maniac.

I just read the entire Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Garth Nix's Seventh Tower series and The King Must Die, in the past WEEK

This thing is fucking awesome

The Count of Monte Cristo

Its good, albeit a little predictable.

In defense of food by michael pollan.

A Japanese master piece.

Reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Playing BRUTAL LEGEND

Currently reading: The Book of Other People

Is it any good: Fuck yes. Dave Eggers, ZZ Packer, Zadie Smith

Currently playing: Devil May Cry 3

reading neuromancer

Dean Koontz mother fucker, screw your fantasy books.

the Toradora light novel, vol. 1 in Japanese (because I am a weeaboo)

playing: Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Some China Miéville, Iain M. Banks, Terry Pratchett.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Plague by Albert Camus

The first 3 are GREAT books. The Plague is surprisingly shitty considering how good The Stranger was.

Deadhouse gates

/v/ - Literature

>>40281867
Clive Barker was here, Dean Koontz sucks dick.

>>40281911

Word up. Stranger ruled.

wow /v/ his awful taste in books

Triss of the Redwall series.

I'm trying to get through all of them. Goddamn hares and their scoffing.

Why would someone go onto 4chan if they can't read? To look at the pictures?

But anyway...I'm reading Dune and it's pretty damn cool.

I got a little bored this weekend and read all the hitchikers books.

clive barker's imajica series would make a good ps3 interactive movie

>>40281489

>>40281911
Let me guess, you hate The Plague because it has a lot more big words than The Stranger does?

Reading various stories by H.P. Lovecraft.

>>40281974
You are now imagining a literature board with all the trolling and implying of /v/.

>>40282231
> implying East of Eden had biblical allusions

Kinda reading: The Coming of Conan the Cimerrian. Fuck yeah Conan

>>40282231
>Implying Terry Pratchett is a good author

>>40282141

yeah awesome dune
dune is awesome

everyone in this thread is gay except this guy

Just finished reading "the descent" by jess long, was actually a pretty good read.
Now i am reading "the haunting of hill house" by Shirley Jackson.
I read allot as i am a loser with no life.

Last book I tried to read was Force Unleased.

shit got boring

>>40282300
no u r

>>40282112

What do you like faggot?

>>40282319
> implying any non-faggot hasnt already read it

I read it fucking ages ago man, where have you been.

Currently reading Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger and OH GOD YESS it's good.
Already read it once.
Manly tears were shed. That is all I will say... aside from the fact that you all should read it. It will touch even the blackest, most jaded Anon hearts ;_;

Currently reading: H.P. Lovecrafts necronomicon.

The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie.

Anyway, I'm hiding this thread until it gets spoiled by any of you assholes.

>>40281748

Have you read Wind-Up Bird Chronicle? It's good.

Finished the Inferno part of The Divine Comedy a couple of days ago.

Life Beyond Measure:letters to my great granddaughter

sydney portier

Niggas deep yo

some things that stuck out where the 'people who stop living at age 30' in terms of progress and questions asked, finding more to life instead of alling in the monotonous work work work pattern

and the 'why believe in an image of God and a religion created by other humans who know nothing more about him than I do, why does God even look human with two arms, two legs etc he's supposed to be without comprehension'

Also, the part about him being a petty thief...somewhat. Makes you realize that no one is born with malice, and yes, even gang members are human too.

Just finished the whole serie.... Liked the books, its like porn but with words.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's awesome, but all the useless info makes it seem like it's Ulililia: The Book.

>>40282436

LOL, VIRAL MARKETING GUISE!

I recommend looking into "the beach" by Neville shute.

/v/ =/= reading

>>40282348
good literature that isn't weeaboo or scifi/fantasy shit

Just finished reading Shamanslayer, book number 234,721,984,123 in the Gotrek and Felix series. A fun book, if a bit stupor-inducing.

Currently playing EVE while I read. Pic unrelated.

National Geographic, I feel somehow cheated for not having discovered this shit ages ago.

>>>/book/
/book/ is that way ^

Currently reading the Fletch novels by Gregory Mcdonald. Had to move on to those after finishing all the old Carl Hiaasen books I dug up. Both guys write "mystery" novels with humour incorporated into the story. Personally, they're my new favorite authors.


Other good things to read are short stories by H.P. Lovecraft and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Great books, all of them.

I finished up reading the Bible about a couple of months back.

I am interested in some HP Lovecraft though, same with the Halo books (at least the first one) and some 40k stuff (CAIAPHAS CAIN)

>>40282512

Sweet life bro. You still haven't named a book.

Nursing Textbooks and getting around to Warren Ellis stuff...which includes his novel as well as his (more famed) comic book work

Whats the difference between a graphic novel and a comic book?

>>40282543
You might as link to 7chans /lit/ board

reading through the 'series of the change' by Sterling

first books:
dies the fire - FUCK YEA, MODERN DAY KNIGHTS
Protectors war- FUCK YEA, POLITICAL INTRIGUE
Meeting at Corvallas - Uhh, More knights and stuff? Cool!

Sunrise lands - Uhhh, wtf?
Scourge of God - WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING?

>>40281472
>Farenheit 451

I hate pretentious literature and authors

I'm so lowbrow I couldn't even finish Heart of Darkness

So I read stuff by Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwall

At least I read

lol who calls it "literature" i bet you read john steinbeck and shit like that

>>40282599
nothing, its just a fancy term used to get the damn things stocked in more prestigious stores

Lullaby by Chuck Palahnuik.
I'm enjoying it very much.

dune guy wrote some other stuff too i read helstroms hive shit was so cash

>>40282599
SAUCE

rereading wheel of time for this year's release

aagh

>>40282677

That is okay. That book is a pile of horseshit. There are better classic literature books out there.

>>40282663
PRETENTIOUS IS JUST A WORD CREATED BY THE INFERIOR TO TAKE OUT THEIR JEALOUSY

>>40282599
Comic books are for anyone. Graphic novels are for mature manchildren who wouldn't be caught dead reading a comic book.

>>40282719
Ugh, that's gotta be the worst one he's written.

>>40282514
they're all black

I'm reading The Odyssey. Good shit. Maybe Beowulf next since I didn't read the entire thing in high school.

Playing Silent Hill 2 and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years and Touhou 8

>>40281579

Good taste, anon

>>40282141

Dune series is probably my favorite ever

I'm reading 2061: Odyssey Three. It's got it's merits but it doesn't make my thought whirl as much as the first two did.

Gotrek and Felix's First Omnibus by William King

Shit is cash, manlings

Fuck I hate reading shit.

Books are too long.

Holy shit I hate reading books.

Some are good though.

I've gotten bored of fiction books, I now read magazines like Popular mechanics

>>40282599
sauce

Currently reading City of Pearl

I had to write a paper comparing the application of Orwell and Huxley's models of dystopia to current society, and this sparked interest again, forcing me to read them (again).

i'm reading the house and philosophy book, because house is a badass

Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude.

If you haven't read it yet, FUCKING READ IT.

>>40282543
Fuck yeah, we need a /lit/ board.

I own about 200 books. Right now I'm reading "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" on recommendation from my lady. It's...all right.

>>40282806
Like I said, no difference

but if you have to, graphic novels are longer and are printed on more high quality shit than comic books

comic books are on-going and never end, graphic novels do

Bruce Lee - Jeet Kun Do - Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

Smart man. I'm learning some pretty good stuff from this book. I just need to apply what I'm learning now.

Currently playing Demon's Souls.

>>40282663
I hate pretentious faggots that pretend that they are in the author's head. "From this sentence, you can see that that author is obviously thinking..." and stuff like that pisses me off. You aren't the author, you aren't in his head, and you don't know for sure what he is thinking. You are interpreting a book, stop trying to push your interpretation onto me and then berate me for seeing it a different way. This is why English classes are bullshit. It's so subjective, it isn't even funny.

>>40282682
lol i bet you read george orwell and other 9th grade required reading shit like that

Reading: The Art of Deception

>>Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Hell yes! That is a great book! I was expecting a bunch of aspie virgin on here talking about all their cool Dawkins and Hitchhikers Guide and Zombie shit books. Surprisong to see something as good as Blood Meridian.

>>40282916
fuck yes this

>>40282968
What year is your book?
Im wondering if there is any new editions or the like sitting around. I have a copy from the 70's but its falling apart.(actually forgot the year, but it was from a collection of other books from the 70's so eh)

>>40283067
>I was expecting a bunch of aspie virgin on here talking about all their cool Dawkins and Hitchhikers Guide and Zombie shit books.
i love you

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pepper

Italo Calvno - If on a winter's night a traveler...

Playing - Arcanum

>>40283021

yeah kinda but mostly thats just cause the writer sucks

after you read a bunch you can kind of get a feel for things lol

hemmriods

Reading Lord of the Flies.

Before that I read The Canterbury Tales. Pretty fucking good for someone from the 14th century.

>>40282916

This is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I am thirding this.

no man orwell sucks shit

>>40281617
> Fuck all of these high class 'deep' books, pirates are fucking awesome and easy entertaining books are the only good books

I disagree strongly

>>40283280
1984 would like to have a word with you.

>>40283286
>im gay and get aids from fucking myself up my own butt in sanfrasco where i live with mall my gay freidns also i use book pages for lube in my ass

>>40283100

It says it was published in 1997. It also says it's Volume 3 of the Bruce Lee Library. To be honest I borrowed it from a friend, so I don't know much about where it came from. I just looked at the publication information to find this stuff out.

>>40283278
Tried reading it before

...I dunno, I never finished it.

Guess its cause I can never really find time for reasong, and when I read, EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE QUIET

This book. Go out and get it, it's not available online anymore.

>>40283366

ive read it dude its got some good parts but its mostly fucking unreadable

>>40282466
porn with words?

tell me more

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Not as good as Breakfast of Champions but I'm still enjoying it.

The chapters are all a page long so I can start and stop reading without forgetting whats going on. This is great since my job requires me to start and stop at random intervals.

>>40283383
Im not even american.

>>40283432
Unreadable? How so?

"Haunted" by Chuch Palahniuk. I've probably never been as disgusted/entertained in my life.

>>40283366
Sure is 9th Grade English in here

>>40283422
That is the book cracked made right?

I don't read books because movies and video gaems are the superior medium.

YOU NIGGERS WANT A GOOD BOOK?

GO PICK UP ONE OF THE DRESDEN FILES NOVELS. HOLY SHIT, YOU'VE GOT MAGICAN, SLEUTHAN, SEXAN, DEMON SUMMONING, GIANT SCORPIANING, MORE SEXAN; SHIT IS EASILY THE BEST SERIES I'VE EVER READ THAT ISN'T THE DARK TOWER

No, I mean it; it's really fucking good. A great series that I think most /v/irgins would love.

I am reading Olympos which is a sequel to Ilium by Dan Simmons. Check them out, they are quite good.

reading the ender's game series, tis great

Reading the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy...currently on book 3 of six.

Hoping to get And Another Thing...for Christmas.

>>40283422
>it's not available online anymore

O RLY?

>>>/rs/john+dies+at+the+end


Cool story bro.

It's OK, mr.wong. I know you want to make money off of your book, but some people know how to get things for free. no hard feelings, eh?

>>40283556
FUCK YES HARRY DRESDEN.

its fuckin depressing books are suposed to be fun

also the dialoge is like LOL? thts not how you talk dude. also the end only half made sense the rest is lol symbolism

>>40283542
That doesn't make it a bad book. Especially if you are actually in high school.

currently reading travel reports from some hardcore dude who travelled to the blue nile during the time there were nothing but gangs and bandits and shit there. He got in multiple shootouts with local gangs and spend a total of 5 years in different prisons all around the third world. Everyone thought he was a spy or saboteur eventhough he was just a globetrotter.

Fucking awesome.

Also everything is true story bro.

Black Company: Books Of The South.

Currently reading: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Currently playing: Saints Row 2 for PC. I want to hate this fucking awful port, but I can't. Even the horrendous frame rate and frequent screen tearing can't prevent me from enjoying myself.

Who's dissapointed the new Hitchhiker's was written by Eoin Colfer?
Who's gonna read it anyway?

>>40283785
The guy who wrote Artemis Fowl?

I recently reread Book 8,9,10 and 11 of the Wheel of Time, reading the Prequel of the series a second time now. Read newest Maximum Ride book just because I was recommended the first book and I like to finish a books series once I start it. Most of this has only been in the last month and a half. I read more then I vidya most times now.

Currently replaying through RE5 to try and get all the BSAA emblems and also Psychonauts. Thinking of playing Madworld soon as well.

yeah dude if the author dies that should be it no more books

i want to kill brian herbert and kevin anderson

My sister brought home 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'

it sounds utterly retarded, but I haven't read it

so..yeah, is it as BRAIN-DEAD LOLOL as I think it is?

>>40283545
Yessir, David Wong's a pen-name of the editor in chief of Cracked.
>>40283619
okay dude, way to be a hardass. I meant on his site.

The Brethren by John Grisham.

>>40283785
I was fucking pissed. Still am.

>>40283542
and? it doesnt make the book any worse.

Simone de Beauvoir.

>>40283981
Did you read it yet? Cause I haven't yet, but I'm still worried.

>>40283383
>im 12 and what is this?

Reading Dosteoevsky's - Brothers Karamazov, Pevear/Volokhonsky's translation because I could not stomach another Constance Garnett translation even if it's cheaper. Shit is hilarious even if Dostoevsky's whole "Fuck yeah, Russian Orthodoxy" irks me at times.

Currently playing - New Super Mario Bros and Crimson Skies.

>>40283661
Yeah most books I read throughout high school english were terrible. 1984 was a good break between shallow shitty books. I was also impressed by Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket.

Just started reading the new Hitchhiker's a few hours ago. Totally fucking jawsome. I was always a Colfer fan, but damn, I didn't think he would be able to pull this off.

I just find myself cringing every time I realize that I've already finished like 1/5 of it and there's no way he could ever be talked into writing another.

finished septimus heap:syren few days ago

I'm currently reading the Darkness the Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker. First book in the Prince of Nothing series. Pretty damn good.
Oh, and I'm trying to get myself to start reading Malazan again. I suddenly lost interest in the second book around 60/70something percent in. I don't know why, I loved the book so far. Great setting.

>>40284107
My friend and I choose to read 1984 back in high school, and we eventually got the rest of the class to read it for class, but some complained just as soon as they had to read the words "orgy-porgy", even though most of the offended hypocrites were fucking every weekend...

If a series has more than 10 books it is milking the franchise.

Reading:Time of the Twins
Next: The MGS Radio drama script

Playing nothing (waiting for way of the samurai)

>>40284110
I have trouble believing that.

There's gotta be no fucking way it can be as good as the originals.. that'd just be stupid.

As I Lay Dying

>>40284442
I didn't know Metal Gear Solid HAD a radio drama

>>40284243
lol literature about orgies and cannibalism where part of the curricilum for me. Gotta love europe.

>>40283021
Did you go to school decades ago? Can't be, this is /v/. Where the hell is eng lit still taught like that?

>>40284314
Franchise-milking standards are difficult to apply to literature as a whole.

I mean, we don't even have serials anymore for the most part. They've been replaced by shitty television shows.

>>40284520
JP only, I found the English script, I'm going to try to ready it with the radio drama playing

I am currently reading /v/ - videogames by anonymous.

>>40284631

Dumas is a nigger...

I'm currently reading
LEGEND OF LUKE
MOTHERFUCKING REDWALL SERIES

Phoenix Wright was a pretty good book, I highly recommend it

The Lighting Theif is good even if the main char is 12 years old.

im reading your moms vag LOL

>>40284714

MARSHANK! MARSHANK!

Best books I've ever read as a kid. Untouched by furrydom too because Cluny the Scourge was BADASS.

Currently reading: The Adventures of Jón Ólafsson, Indiafari

Really, really dry. But the subject matter is AWESOME.
First part reads like CSI: Denmark.
A half-drunk farmer was on his way out of town in the afternoon when a local man started hurling insults and dung at him. The farmer was enraged, so he hopped down from the seat of his cart, pulled a rusty sword from the back of it, and ran the heckler through, killing him. He got away with this murder because, back in those days, it was up to the relatives of the victim to pursue charges. They decided not to, because everyone hated that dick. His wife, too. So the farmer went on his way.

>>40284860
OH GOD THE FIRST BOOK
I read it back in like, fourth grade or something. I was like 'oh cool mice like looney tunes! :D'

Then the rats get boiling oil poured on them, and Cluny starts having nightmares about that one rat all covered in tar and disfigured.

shota me was like D:

Currently rereading Ender's Game.

Goddamn I can't believe I never before noticed how much of a mary sue Ender is. Though that's kind of the point I guess? Still a little irritating that he has to be a perfect god-child and his only faults are that he's 'too good'.

I'm reading the most famous Milan Kundera (dunno the title in english - reading in other language)

>>40284970
>>40284970

I meant most famous Milan Kundera book

I am reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

I reread Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins and I'm going to read the Count of Monte Cristo next.

>>40284965
Read that, then read "Ender's Shadow". Then he'll just seem like a douchebag.

Reading Silmarillion. For the 7th time.

Still can't get all the names right.