dumb thread and op is dummmb.

I'm the guy who burned 24 or so copies of Ayn Rand's bullshit. Shit was so cash. Beach Parties rock.

The only positive thing I have to say about Anthem is that it was the shortest book I had to read for school.

Which makes it better than The Great Gatsby

SOME ONE MUST HAVE READ IT

ITS A POST APOCALYPTIC BOOK, WHERE EVERYONES DEAD BUT CHILDREN, AND EVERYONE ELSE IS A PISSED OFF ROBOT

ONE DUDE ROUNDS UP THE KIDS AND TRAINS THEM OR SOME SHIT

AWKWARD SEX SCENES AS I READ IT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

IT WAS "_____'S CHILDREN" OR SOMETHING

[Thanks for making a new thread]

K thanks /v/ for helping me for the most part of setting up my book list for now.

To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Great Gatsby
Count of Monte Cristo
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses

I currently have access(as in I have them right now) to the first 2 books on my list so I thought I would get them out of the way. Can someone tell me if I will need any background knowledge on the Odysseus to understand Ulysses? Also how long is Ulyssess and the Divine Comedy?

Looking for some light funny reading during a plane trip
The new Douglas Adams book, or the new Discworld book?

>find some obtuse fantasy book in the library and take it out
>holy shit this is awesome
Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea

Also some Aussie guy in the last thread mentioned Deltora Quest.

It has an anime version.

>Let students pick out a book of their choice to read for Highschool English reading credit
>About half of the girls choose Twilight
>Class I am disappoint

polite sage for not vidya related

>>41662835
neil gaiman AND terry pratchet

>>41662977
Books are so good for being short and meant for children.
Fuck yes solving our fights by tricking giant monsters into being retarded for a second and/or running away from them rather than getting ourselves killed retardedly!

Attention everyone.

Your attention, please.

Please read One Hundred Years of Solitude.

I repeat.

PLEASE READ ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.

>>41662835

The Monkey Wrench Gang isn't funny, but it's damn good, and relatively light.

>>41662829
some one has to fucking help me out with this though i'm desperately trying to remember it

Anyone else think The Road was fucking terrible?

>>41662833
Ulysses will run you about 700 pages give or take. If by Divine Comedy you mean all three books (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) then it might break the 1000+ range.

>>41663090

Cien años de soledad

original spanish motherfucker

>Attend three different High Schools

>Re-use 1984 report in every English class

Did anyone ever read Parcifel's Page, and the sequels?

I remember them being fucking awesome, and I've wanted to reread them again.

Same with some book I read in like, 7th grade called Crusader

Reading How to Eat a Dinosaur because I am a hipster faggot

>>41662656
Fail.
Read Rand's horrible shit and explain in detail why the teacher would've been considered a "looter" under her shitty pseduo-philosophy.

I just read "And then there were none", and shit was VERY, VERY cash.

I'm now reading "The man in the brown suit". It's not THAT good compared to the first, but it's awesome.

>>41663187
No no, the new Hitchhiker's book.
>>41663067
Already read it, twas awesome

I am about to start reading "Orxy and Crake" but i'm too lethargic right now to start it and instead here i am wasting the day on /v/.

>>41661755
>>41661755

THIS.

Oh fuck you /v/ I already posted all my shit into the other new thread. Hang on.

>>41662829
Shade's Children, by Garth Nix?

>>41662833
If you haven't read The Silmarillion, get on that, too. Imagine Lord of the Rings, but less character development, and more "HOLYSHITTHISISAWESOME" (and it's by Tolkien, and is canonical to the series)

Sage for non-vidya

/b/ swears by Crime and Punishment, although I prefer the Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot

>>41663217
>>41662833

The divine comedy was the world's first crossover fanfic...

>>41663290

Sorry, I don't speak Spanish because I took German instead. :<

>>41662833

You're gonna be pretty disappointed. Fuck The Great Gatsby. It's barely relevant today. Read 1984 and Animal Farm. Shit rules.

Ender's game series is top tier

Oh, also Catcher in the Rye. That book is absolutely fantastic.

fucking hate that cunt
i cant understand how anyone can read this and take it seriously

Dune is the best series I've read in a while.

Then again, I'm a sucker for anything revolving around a false religion

>>41663393

>No no, the new Hitchhiker's book.
>Douglas Adams is dead
>You mean Eoin Colfer's new book in Douglas Adam's universe

Read Fight Club and Choke for English class. Shit was unbelievably cash.

>>41663548

Because casual philosophers are casual.

>>41663572
Oh. Right then, that.

>>41663517
Some asshole doing anything to get rich and live like a king isn't relevant today?!

>>41662829
Shade's Children. Garth Nix

I don't consider myself an objectivist though I do share some similar views with the common specimen. However, I do enjoy Rand's books, I'm disappointed at your teacher for trying to push her beliefs on you if that's what actually happened.
>>41662719
You're a douche, dude.

>>41663445
well god damn done my friend

I don't know why but it doesn't surprise me that people who browse /v/ read daily.

Also I just finished The Catcher in the Rye. I'm a bit confused, I mean it was a good read. Kept me busy, it wasn't so bad that I would of had to put it down. But is he telling his story in a mental hospital from the start or is that just in the last page? Houlden just seems like a douche, like a guy who people can be nice to but still acts like a fucker over stupid shit. Really, really, you don't like me because of my suitcase?

>>41663535
How are the others in the series? I only ever read Ender's Game, just because it felt like it would be all downhill afterwords.

I've been wanting to reread it for a bit now though, should I go for the sequels? What's the main story driving the next one?

My favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo

I've read it at least twice a year for going on 4 years now

>>41663545
>NO ONE GETS ME, I'M JUST LIKE HOLDEN! AW THIS IS SO DEEP!

>>41662829

Thats a Terry Brooks book, Apocalypse Children or some shit.

It was alright.

>Find the Belgariad on some old shelves
>Read it for the nostalgia
>Have fun with it, decide to look up David Eddings
>Find out he died a few months ago.
Feels bad man, his shit was nice escapism.

>>41662827

The reason you hate The Great Gatsby is because it's Livejournal, circa 1920s

Worst book I read in High School: Deadly, Unna? (Australian book so Australian school had a hardon for it. It's about a wimpy kid in a town that's racist and then an aboriginal kid gets shot while he's burgling a house.)

Best book I read in High School: 1984

Favourite book series: Song of Ice and Fire (FUCK YOU MARTIN YOU FUCKING FUCK)

Recently finished books: Dune, Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, Watchmen

Currently reading: Necronomicon. The style is just so "classic".

Gulag Archipelago and Dark Tower series are my favorite.

Fantasy is for little kids
Adventure lacks content
Non-fiction has no storeys

>>41663602
but its just a goddamned bad book regardless of the philosophy being retarded or not

You must identify if you've read the revised/extended edition of The Stand. All 1,200 small print pages of it. Took me about a damn year.

>>41663290
>>41663090

Hell yeah! Gabriel García Marquez up in this motherfucker!

Also, read Rayuela (Hopscotch) for some more latinamerican goodness

Okay, /v/. Help me out here.

When I was a kid, I had a book I loved. I can't remember the name, though. My problem is that, during a scavenger hunt I turned the book in, because a mole was on the cover, and that was one of the items we needed.

Help me find the book. It was about a mole, of course. His culture is being wiped out be some illness, so he goes to find the cure in the outside world. In the end, the find out that the disease is boredom, and the moles need adventure so they have a reason to truly live. Any ideas, bros?

Best book I read in school (english class): Hamlet
Best book I read in school (biology): The Demon in the Freezer - smallpox is fucking fascinating

Worst book I read in school: Things Fall Apart

no. fight club was overrated, and fucking retarded after watching a second time.
actors fine though.
book gayer

I had to read Margret Atwood books all through high school

Fuck Canadian schools

So you all suggest 1984? If someone can persuade me a bit of why I should pick it up then most likely I will read it after I finish To Kill a Mocking Bird and The Great Gatsby

>>41663548
Because it appeals to that special kind of retard that likes to think of the world as 'sheep' and 'me'.

>>41663654
>wikipedia it
>realize how fucked up it was

The Wheel of Time just got another book.

Thats like, what? 12 One thousand page books now?

>>41663728

Oh shut the fuck up. Just enjoy a book for once. He's a hilarious character. I just love the way he acts. He's not an outright asshole to people, really, but the way he talks about them afterwards is funny. He's just such a strange, unique, and humorous character.

>>41663809
Representin'

Read it in 2 weeks during High School. I never payed attention to any class ever, in retrospect.

Also, The Stand was the shit~

Trying to push through Moby Dick.

I really like the ideas of omnipotence that've come up, fun to think about.

>>41663797

Lets put it this way.

You know all those people who love Johnnen Vasquez comics? If you haven't heard of them then let me give you the over view.

>stupid writing with no plot
>everyone loves it because it is trying to be angsty misanthropes "just like them"

>>41663645
>owever, I do enjoy Rand's books.
Her political tracts you mean.
>You're a douche, dude.
Him being on /v/ makes him a douche by default. Him burning Rand's horseshit (if he didn't pay for them) makes him a decent human being.

>>41663861

>no. fight club was overrated, and fucking retarded after watching a second time.

Don't mind me, I'm just being the best war novel of all time.

>>41663809

Read this four years ago. Took about three or four months to finish. I proceeded to spend the next 2 years reading the library's collection of stephen king. This, Rose Madder, and Dark Tower are some of my favorite books

>read text 5 minutes before class

teacher chastises everyone but you for lack of preparation, try not to look smug.

>>41663730
David and Leigh are dead?
I... I didn't know that... ;_;

>>41664028
FUCK YEAR THAT BOOK IS AWESOME

>>41663915
He's a shitty character and you're a bad human being for liking him, eat my opinion.

>>41664028

Don't mind me, im just being better

>>41663685
Unsung hero, you are correct about the series getting weird after ender's game. i would say this weirdness culminates in Xenocide, which is still great. as for the rest of the series, ive heard great thing about the "Ender's shadow" series with bean as the center character. But yeah give the other enders game books a try, and if you dont like it then w/e

>>41663893

1984 is amazing, fantastic, original, and a total mind-fuck. It's really thought-provoking, too. Skip The Great Gatsby, seriously. It's boring, irrelevant nowadays, and is only enjoyed by pretentious douche bags who enjoy over-analyzing everything.

>>41663865

HAH. We never had to do that in my school. Well, in university I have one course where I have to read a Margaret Atwood book, but it'll probably be better than that piece of shit The Trial we just had to finish reading. Ugh, the editing was absolutely fuckawful, and the story was boring to boot.

>>41663915
Not quoted but Catcher in the Rye was horrible.
Just like reading whiny teenage livejournals.

>>41664037
>Dark Tower
That series has all but killed reading for me. Since the last book came out, nothing has even come close to hooking me like the Tower books.

It's very depressing.

>>41662656
>Didn't compromise integrity and write for teachers bias
>Expected good grade

>>41663994
Whatever, you don't need to whine.

Am I the only one who has read this book? I certainly hope not.

>>41663838
Well it's unsurprising you found Hamlet to be the best book you read in class. It's considered the best work in English literature by a large number of literary critics (taking a couple poetry classes in high school, I can tell you what a bitch it is to get the stuff in metre and rhyming, let alone do it to the subtle professional skill Shakespeare does, whilst adding in numerous metaphors and analogies).

>>41664145
Best book on bureacracy. EVER.

>>41663561
This, The Dune series (Frank Herbert's, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are good Science Fiction writers, Dune is more then Science Fiction though) was excellent. Though, I didn't like how I liked every character, there were no antagonists and protagonists in my view.

>ctrl f
>vonnegut
>no findings

I AM DISAPPOINT

Why do people bash Rand so much? She just stole everything she could from other philosophers. It's hilarious and saddening to see people bash Rand in one sentence and talk about Nietzsche with respect in the next.

>>41664217
pfft. Not this garbage.

>>41664217
oh god.

>>41663809
I read the extended version in 3 weeks. Fucking AMAZING book.

I'm currently doing a 7 page report over A Clockwork Orange. Excellent read.

Also, anybody read Cell, by Stephen King?

>>41664284
>good science fiction writers
No, they're horrible fanfiction writers.
>Dune was more than sci-fi
agreed.

>>41664149
I'll definately give them a try, if it isn't straight up horseshit. My local used book store has the entire series for $5, so if they are meh, it's no real loss.

Hopefully, they are fun.

>>41664217
I read it. The only thing that pissed me off was that it would be like: "Read excerpt here if you want" and i HAD to get every last drop of content so i would, and Pelfania's letters were like 40 fucking pages.

This especially killed me considering how intense Johnny Truant's story was getting. Also I got bored a bit by the Navidson record but read it in order to get the full effect of the book.

>>41664149
The ones with Bean are good, but very different. They're very centered on Peter (that's Ender's brother name, right? I read them like three years ago), and on politics on Earth (with a character named Achilles being a major rival of Bean). Plus, when Bean becomes fucking enormously tall, it becomes interesting.

>Forced to read a Jodi Picoult book in high school literature class.
>It's about a girl who gets high at a party and some guy fucks her.
>Her dad is a MYSTERIOUS AND BROODING comic book artist.
>There's stupidly obvious symbolism to "The Inferno."
>She spends the rest of the book moping and her mom murders the guy who fucked her.
>The guy is portrayed as a villain, we're supposed to feel sympathetic for the girl.

>>41664217
I read it! Fucking amazing book, I would definitely suggest it to anybody who wants to be fucking terrified of the dark for a couple of months.

Also, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.

>fat lesbian feminist English professor

>write soppy feminist bullshit in every paper you write to get good grades

>teacher is moved to tears by having "a man who 'gets it' in her class" and wishes you teary heartfelt good luck with the rest of your college career at the end of the class

>feel too guilty to tell her you don't actually believe a word you wrote

In this case, am I a pussy for lying about what I believe in order to get a good grade, or just playing the system intelligently?

>>41664154
Hm I'm going to add it to my book list but I don't plan to knock off the Great Gatsby. Sooner or later I know I'm going to have to end up reading that book so I might as well get it out of the way.

[New book list]
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Great Gatsby
1984
Count of Monte Cristo
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses

How fast do you all read. Like let's say 100 pages a day? I don't know my exact number but I take my time since I re-read pages often.

>>41664487
Speed reader here. 600 pages in a day on average.

>>41664217
Navidson and Karen are Zampano's and Pelafina's parents. Pelafina marries, has a kid, goes nuts. Zampano resents the child. The child's father takes Zampano for one of his truck drives and somehow ends up crashing. Zampano survives. The child goes through several foster homes, is severely abused in one, and when he comes of age, travels across Europe before returning to California. Becomes acquainted with a drug dealer.

what do you think

>>41664468
You are being intelligent. God bless you.

>>41664468
Somewhere in between the two.

>>41664468

Ask yourself this

What would lawful evil do?

>>41664297
Because her cobbled together crap is loved by certain kinds of retards. Her books are little more than political tracts. Her "philosophy" can't stand up to even basic stuff like Hume's test.

>>41664396

Fucking...

Stupid...

>>41664468
You're a disgusting human being with no spine.

>>41663776
>Favourite book series: Song of Ice and Fire (FUCK YOU MARTIN YOU FUCKING FUCK)

Same here, it wouldn't be so bad if the last book wasn't the first part of a two parter.

>>41663819
Fuck Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude might be good, but Love in the Time of Cholera is utter shit.

One of the main characters is in love with the other main character for 50 some years. He keeps track of how long it was since they met to the day. He proposes to her right after her husbands funeral, but she rejects him obviously. During those 50 years, this guy fucked all sorts of prostitutes and milfs. One of his nieces or some relative came to live with him, and he fucks her too. Anyway, the other main character finally gives in to him on a boat ride, and they have 70 year-old sex. What a terrible book.

>>41664217
I've been using that book as a mousepad for a while now.

I need to get off my lazy ass and read it.
>>41664306
No, how was it? It honestly seemed like it would be The Stand Lite to me, but I could certainly have been wrong

I personally think King stopped trying after the last Tower book

>>41664468
some people deserve to be lied to

>>41664487
100 pages a day?
That's...pretty pathetic.

AMERICAN GODS
shut will fuck you up
in a good way

ATTENTION: READ THIS BOOK

>>41664468
but john, you are the feminists.

>>41662977
MUST. FIND.

I had to read The Beautiful and the Damned over the spring. It was an interesting book, but it would've made a better 2-page summary than a 600-and-some page borefest.

>>41664527
Daisy=/=Pelafina
Chad=/=Zampano

The Navidson Record was supposed to have been filmed in the early to mid 90's, and Johnny discovered Zampano's transcript in the late 90's.

>>41664653
No that was just an example, if I would have to guess I would say I read 200-300 pages a day. I was planning to actually record how many pages I read but I keep on forgetting.

No mention of Terry Pratchett?
He's more /v/ related than most authors. He mods for Oblivion in fact.

I read Warren Ellis's novel "Crooked Little Vein" last month.

For what it was, it was good, it had a real Transmetropolitan vibe, but a lot dirtier.

>>41664487
Add The Dark Tower series. It's 4000 pages total, but might be the most captivating fictional universe ever.

how did...why is this on /v/....

what happened to this place...

THIS THREAD IS NOT VIDYA RELATED!!!

The only book you faggots should be reading thats anywhere near vidya related is Roadside Picnic, which Stalker is loosely based off of.

>>41664720
You have to remember that the film never actually existed. Zampano wrote it. Whether any of it was true or not he definitely used elements, if not entire events, from his own life. His writing it makes the children being Z and P entirely possible.

The only book by Rand that's worth reading is Anthem. Everything else is a bunch of self-important masturbation on her part.

>>41664562

>Bringing up skeptiicist arguments in topics not directly related to skepticism

Enjoy not getting anything accomplished.

>>41664784

#1 American Pratchett fan reporting in. I own everything in original hardcovers.

>>41664820

green text happened.

So am I the only one who's read Harlan Ellison?

"Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman" is my favorite short story.

>>41662977
WHAT THE FUCK

NO REALLY, WHAT THE FLYING FUCKBALLS IS THAT

THAT IS NOT THE CHILDHOOD I REMEMBER

GRAGH

>>41664938

forgot my sage.

>>41664784
Lol. He says he does it because the normal Oblivion is "rather dull otherwise".
Smart man.

>People defending Ayn Rand
What the fuck /v/?

Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living author.

>>41662656
>Atlas Shrugged
>Atlas
Would you kindly turn /v/-literature and books part 2. back into /v/ vidya games, nostalgia and crap.

>>41662977

Oh dear god no.

Although I did hear that the Japs loved the series for some reason. It is pretty cool. And Barda looks fucking manly as shit.

Reading this right now. Shit's awesome.

>author talks about ayn rand biography she wrote on NPR
>prompter asks why people hate rand
>author says they don't get it

hahahahahahahahhahaha

>>41665020

Uh

>>41665076
HERP DERP, YEP, THAT'S WHERE IT CAME FROM, SMARTASS

We need a lit board, gat damn.

>>41662656

I wonder how really shitty amerikan universities have to be so teachers are allowed to force their students to read that crap.

>>41665076
I also might add that the character 'Atlas' from Bioshock is based (or the name is taking from) the book. That is why I found it humourus to point out.

>>41665039
It creeps the shit out of me that he's like 74, and his son is like 5.

This book is fucking awesome. The illustrations alone are worth the cover price. Too bad I never have time to read anything besides audiobooks these days.

Just finished The God Delusion. Better than I thought it would be, even if the ending was a little strange.

>>41664946
>>41664946


I have the anthology in my car actually, its huge. Its good for stopping into a coffee shop and breezing through a story while you eat. Elison is the man. I named my band after one of his characters.

>>41665018

What the hell, what has he made for Oblivion?

>Reading Catch-22
>Shit gets confusing
>Fast.

>>41664396
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tenth_Circle

The movie was a peice of shit, too

There have been 3 lit thread so far.

No one has once seriously mentioned all those popular modern series that the masses love.

I am so proud of you /v/

>>41665143
HERP DERP shut the fuck up tripfag

>>41665250

What a massive fucking hipster.

>>41665125
ughh

>>41665250
I'm looking for that collection since it is all his stuff in the last 50 years. He is so prolific with the art of the short story.

>>41665330

lol u disturbed at my pointing your unfunny and less than clever joke out?

>>41665240
No it was corny and unfunny as fuck, and the rest was just Pride and Prejudice.

>Rand
>Objectivism
Cool story bro.

>>41664468
I always write for my teachers bias

Feels good man.

>>41662833
no matter what you will not understand Ulysses

>>41665250
And the most hipster post of the year award goes to...

In grade 12 we had to read some letter thing she wrote for our one assignment.

It was so fucking pompous. The whole thing was basically "LOOK I KNOW THESE THINGS EXISTED AND SHALL REFERENCE THEM DERP DERP"

>>41662719

I saw you on youtube, and loled at all the ass pained Randians.

MOAR LIEK ATLUS SHRUGGED AMIRITE?

CUZ ITS BORING DRIVEL

>>41665454

I don't. I told my teacher -- who was in love with Fitzgerald -- that I didn't like The Great Gatsby or The Beautiful and the Damned (although I wasn't too harsh on the books) and I still got an A+ in his course :3

>>41665277
No, I mean he uses mods. I don't think the internet could take what he could make.

Matter and energy had ended and with it, space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.

All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.

All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.

But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.

A timeless interval was spent in doing that.

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.

But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.

For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.

The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.

And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

And there was light----


Asimov is god tier.

>>41665504
Really? I heard so many good thinks about it I want to read it.

>>41665513
>>41665342

I don't mind being called a hipster

Awesome.

>>41665600

brb watching 2001 a space odysee.

Trying to help out /v/.

sage

>>41665566

>>41665736

Oh look its someone else who think sage is a nega-bump

>>41665555
DAT POST NUMBER

Anyways, samefag here. I was referring to Atwood.

Just got this book today as background reading for my uni course, whilst it's not fiction it is a total mind fuck as the author predicts the future.
It's beyond awesome.

>>41665676
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

We had to read that book. Not bad but my god all the analysis we did was such bullshit.

The only book I read in high school was this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_%28novel%29

Rand a.k.a baby's first sexually repressed Nietzsche rip-off.

>Have to read Atlas Shrugged
>Teacher is an Objectivist
>You're not
>Write bullshit that I know will get me graded well, like I do on every other occaision I have to write something
>20/20

>>41663730
WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHATW WAHT WATJAS;GHASO;IGNSAK GUGFVGUCVFUCK

>>41665875
What class/course are you reading this for? I'm just wondering.

>>41665731
whats that got to do with asimov? or was that a troll attempt?

>>41665575
It depends on the subject though. Usually in Lit classes i'll speak my mind but if its about a partisan issue ill lie like a rug

>read dante's inferno
>oh well this doesnt look too interesting it's probabily the olde bullshi..
>HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME I'M THE MOTHERFUCKING DANTE ALLEGHI

>>41666139

I was talking about hard sci-fi that doesn't suck

I find the lack of Robert E. Howard's Conan disturbing.

Also sage for non-vidya.

>>41666174
I'll do that unless the other side is a total moron(s).

>book is set in The Middle Ages

> Actually, it's in post-nuclear-apoctolyptica, but it's like the middle ages, where the Catholic church is the preserver of knowledge.

>People worship a shopping list because they don't understand the significance.

>Mankind ends up going through the apocolypse, the dark ages, and then bombing themselves all over again

Written by a depressed Catholic who had faith issues and eventually committed suicide (a BIG no no in Catholicism). Shit was awesome, I'm glad I was forced to read it.

>>41665875

The predictions on the cover sound fucking ridiculous. Turkey and Poland are super-powers? Not India and China? My ass China's gonna fall apart any time soon.

>>41666273
>Catholic church is the preserver of knowledge.
But did they supress all the stuff they didn't like/that went against their preaching?
If no, then it wasn't very Catholic now was it?

>>41666125

International relations.

In the book he goes on to analyse the next future powers in the world (Hint: Mexico, Turkey and Poland). The reasons why America is the undisputed superpower and why it will continue to be for the rest of the century and why China is likely to decend into medicocrity + more.

This guy has been right in the past and it's likely he'll be right again.

>>41665875
>Poland
>great power

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>41665383
I see it in most Barnes and Nobles. His stuff has become significantly less hard to find in the last year or so.

>>41666240
MOHTERFUCKING
CONAN
FAFHRD AND THE GREY MOUSER
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN
MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN
THE STARS MY DESTINATION
PLANET OF ADVENTURE

>The Red Badge of Courage

>>41666423
Hm, so you would suggest this book to someone who is interested in International relationships or is this just something YOU wanted to read to get ahead of your class?

>>41666423

>International relations.

*makes jerking off motion and rolls eyes*

Get a real major you fucking loser.

Hole in the Sky, fuck year.

>>41666423
>(Hint: Mexico, Turkey and Poland)
bwahahaha
>The reasons why America is the undisputed superpower
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
>and why it will continue to be for the rest of the century
Not further decline, amirite?
>and why China is likely to decend into medicocrity + more.
Right, it's almost as if they where the ones ruining their shitty war economy by going to unprofitable (For the government rather than privately owned companies) wars.

>This guy has been right in the past and it's likely he'll be right again.
Suuure he will be.
Enjoy your wisful thinking Amerifag.

>>41666598
INTERTEXTUALITY ON A MESSAGE BOARD

FUCK THAT'S POSTMODERN

>>41666328

Chinas weakness lies in it's inability to project power. Whilst it is a major economic power and that power can only grow in the next 10 or so years, the uneveness of wealth distribution only means one of two things taking place; China reinvesting its wealth in social policies which it is very unlikely to do, or; Social upheaval due to poverty.
Chinas history is laced with cycles like this. Whenever it closes its borders it is a poor rural state, whenever it opens its borders to trade, the ports of Han China become very rich very quickly whilst rural china stays poor. Eventually the poor rise up and close the borders again. Mao did it 60 years ago and it's very likely to happen again within the next 20 years.

Not to step on the toes of the hardcore lit talk in there, but...

how about that lovecraft

>>41663561
Dune is essentially 40k but with out the bolters

>>41666713
As long as it stays with him and doesn't bring in any of the other hacks who used the Mythos.
Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard are notable exceptions.

>>41666894

CTHULHU'S ELEMENT IS WATER AND HIS DOMAINS ARE MADNESS AND HORRIBLE FAN STORIES

unseen academicals was so cash.

>>41666713
How about him? He pretty much defined a subgenre of horror fiction the same way Howard popularized Sword 'N Sorcery.

Fuck, don't know what they passed around back in the day, but I want it.

Any Micheal moorcock fans here? :3

>>41666713

More like Rapecraft amirite

>>41667009
I couldn't get into it but then I finally found a copy of reaper man and enjoyed the ever loving shit out of that.

>>41666670

Do the slightest bit of research before posting inane bullshit.

Polands power will come from American reinvestment to defend it against a resurgent Russia. Poland has the population, the natural resources and the workforce to transform itself into a great power.

Turkeys strength comes from its relative stability. Considering its surrounded by the biggest array of fuck up nations on earth Turkey has remained solid.

Mexico has the strategic position of being able to project power into both major oceans, is currently the worlds 17th largest economy yet it is without any kind of real industrial base. With further investment from the outside world Mexico will be in an incredibly strong position.

>>41667044

Its called horrible mind raping nightmares bro, that was his inspiration.

Also why is it that no one is willing to make cthulhu mythos esque aliens anymore? In other words why is it ALWAYS the human like stuff that lovecraft tried to move us away from

>>41666422
It's been a while since I read it, but I'm pretty sure in the book they did. There was a lot of political corruption.

>>41666638

It's a good book no matter what. Certainly very interesting.

>>41667061

Read more books, watch less movies.

>next future powers in the world
>Mexico

>>41666868
And well written, consistent and not filled with retarded shit.
Oh, and there are no likeable characters in any Dune book. At all.

>>41666990
FUCK OFF DERLETH
AND LUMLEY TOO YOU LITTLE SHIT

>>41667046
Was a bit past the "angsty special guy is really cool" phase when I read it. Was decent.

>>41667411
Which book? Guessing it's The History Runestaff series.

I only read what Oprah tells me to read.

>>41667279

when nobody else can...
MEXI-CAN!!

>>41666273
I was forced to read this too. It was so awesome reading it. It's basically the phrase "history repeats itself" in book format. The linking of the main characters in each part was pretty cool too.

Also, H.P. Lovecraft. I grew obsessed with him after playing Call of Cthulhu DCotE. He's such a messed up guy, what's not to like?

>>41668015

Maybe the fact that he was a convicted pedophile (read that as "pea-dough-file, please)?