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Post by DracoRulz on Jul 21, 2007 21:21:28 GMT -5
George RR Martin is really good... that's a great series so far Agreed, but man it's tough to get into the characters since half of them end up getting killed or f'd up big time. |
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Post by Pete on Jul 22, 2007 0:23:13 GMT -5
In the past few weeks...
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, which I plugged in another thread.
Guided by Voices: A Brief History--Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock & Roll. Hopelessly obsessed GBV and Robert Pollard fan. Awesome stories about how a 35-year old schoolteacher who recorded songs in his basement with his drinking buddies somehow became an indie-rock god among men and (kind of, almost...well, tried to) hit it big. Plus the shocking revelation that some of those songs are about something...
Random Shakespeare. I've gone through most of his sonnets and have to pick out a play to go through soon. Maybe Titus Andronicus to confirm whether or not it's the trainwreck it's been made out to be.
Audition: Twelve Guideposts for Actors by Michael Shurtleff. This, the practical portion of our program...
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Sums up the severity of the mess quite well, and not in a "BUSH SUX" Rosie O'Donnell way--Rajiv very fairly goes through how the genuine hopes and dreams of many involved for a peaceful, sovereign Iraq have been shot down squabbling, political hackery, and cultural ignorance. It'd be funny, if only it were fiction...
Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists. From the literary magazine. Vital information on subjects such as "The Extended Family of Yahoo Serious," "Witty Quips to Utter After Relieving Your Bladder on the Subway," and "Comments Overheard at a Brainstorming Meeting Between Ted Nugent and the Editors of Gourmet Magazine Where They Were Discussing the Upcoming Book Gourmet Magazine's Vegan Cooking with Ted Nugent."
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Post by Trent Lawless on Jul 22, 2007 8:00:19 GMT -5
All McSweeney's stuff is gold. Anytime we get one of their books coming through at work, some narrator scoops it right up as soon as it hits the waiting-to-start shelf. We've never done any list book, though.
Just an aside: In my line of work (reading books and magazines out loud for fun and profit), it's actually kind of detrimental to your paycheck to get a funny book. We get paid by how many minutes we produce per recording session (kind of like piecework), and if you spend much of your time laughing at what you're saying, your wallet is thinner as a result! For that reason, I skip a lot of the comedy books. We have a guy who does improv comedy shows and has done stand up, so he's used to not cracking up outwardly at the microphone. He usually gets those titles to narrate.
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Post by dukedave on Jul 22, 2007 9:35:25 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Your Best Life Now: 7 steps to Living to Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen. Just kidding, I'm not going to read anything by that smily little weasel. I just finished Dry Ice by Steven White and Invisible Prey by John Sandford. I've read every book these two have ever written and it now gets expensive since I can't wait until the paperback comes out and get the hard cover. I just started Dragons of Highlord Skies: Lost Chronicles, Volume 2 by Margeret Weis and Tracey Hickman. I've read almost all of their work. For those who have read their Dragon Lance Chronicles, the Lost Chronicles Series falls within the events of the original three books. After I'm done with that I've got this book called The Dark Menace. It doesn't look very good though  |
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Post by Eliath on Jul 22, 2007 9:46:50 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Flight of the Einstein, Book 3 of the Horus Heresy (a Warhammer 40K saga)
Tomorrow I should start Book 4, Galaxy in Flames.
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Post by Trent Lawless on Jul 23, 2007 11:47:41 GMT -5
I just finished Dry Ice by Steven White and Invisible Prey by John Sandford. I've read every book these two have ever written and it now gets expensive since I can't wait until the paperback comes out and get the hard cover. At work, we're currently recording Dry Ice for the Library of Congress (but I'm not the one doing it), and we've done a lot of Sandford books, too. I did read one of the Stephen White books as a "proof-listener" years ago, but I can't recall which one. I liked it, though. |
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Post by Wildfire on Jul 23, 2007 13:40:59 GMT -5
George RR Martin is really good... that's a great series so far Agreed, but man it's tough to get into the characters since half of them end up getting killed or f'd up big time. True, you can't really get attached to anyone |
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Post by Wildfire on Jul 23, 2007 13:43:25 GMT -5
John Sandford's pretty good, I've read a couple of his books.
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Post by stephenvegas on Aug 8, 2007 16:44:01 GMT -5
Yesterday I finished "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi. It's a great book and now I'm rewatching "Goodfellas" which I haven't seen in awhile.
The book I am currently reading now is "Riding the Rap" by Elmore Leonard- a sequel to Leonard's book "Pronto" and when I get that done in th next few days I will probably start Terry Funk's book. Earlier today I also picked up "Three-Ten to Yuma and other stories" by Leonard which I will read before the movie "3:10 to Yuma" that stars Russel Crowe and Christian Bale is in the theaters in early September.
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Post by dukedave on Aug 8, 2007 20:07:13 GMT -5
I'm now on book two of five of the Belgariad by David Eddings. I like books that are either a 3-5 book set or ones where the main characters keep going like Steven White and John Sandford's. The bad things about it is when you here of a good author who has several books and then you read one and then have to read another 10-15 to catch up on all their work. I did it with White and Sandford and now it will be an uphill battle to do it with Eddings.
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Post by Knapik on Aug 8, 2007 20:22:47 GMT -5
Reading?
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Post by hofclemens on Aug 8, 2007 20:41:15 GMT -5
right now reading the Missing Link's autobiography.. not too bad so far
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Post by stephenvegas on Aug 8, 2007 21:18:12 GMT -5
right now reading the Missing Link's autobiography.. not too bad so far I read that book earlier this summer. It's pretty good. |
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Post by johnnyreb on Aug 9, 2007 5:22:06 GMT -5
Yesterday I finished "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi. It's a great book and now I'm rewatching "Goodfellas" which I haven't seen in awhile. The book I am currently reading now is "Riding the Rap" by Elmore Leonard- a sequel to Leonard's book "Pronto" and when I get that done in th next few days I will probably start Terry Funk's book. Earlier today I also picked up "Three-Ten to Yuma and other stories" by Leonard which I will read before the movie "3:10 to Yuma" that stars Russel Crowe and Christian Bale is in the theaters in early September. i've also read 3:10 to yuma it was pretty good. |
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Post by JamieOD on Aug 9, 2007 8:55:41 GMT -5
I'm now reading Blood Bowl, a novel based on the boardgame of the same name. Just imagine a fantasy Dungeons & Dragons like world where everyone plays a violent version of American Football. Kind of brings a new meaning to the term 'Fantasy Football'. Anyway it's pretty good so far. The humour is kind of like Monty Python. The lead character kills a chimera at the start of the book in an attempt to save a local village. In return the entire village now wants him dead because the chimera was inadvertantly protecting them from other monsters and they were happy enough just sending wannabee heroes to their doom to please the beast. Right now he's at a tryout for the Bad Bay Hackers team with his halfling agent and a friendly giant of an ogre.
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Post by Knapik on Aug 9, 2007 13:32:19 GMT -5
Jamie - thats sounds pretty funny!
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Post by Wildfire on Aug 9, 2007 14:06:49 GMT -5
This ones a great one for Python-esque fantasy: The Philosophical Strangler by Eric Flint You can't go wrong with a book were the Lord Almighty is Joe |
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Post by mikefortune on Aug 10, 2007 23:36:00 GMT -5
Hey Jamie I used to play Blood Bowl a long time ago and it sounds pretty funny. Right now I am reading "Walk this way" the Aerosmith bio. I really like the way the bio goes. It is little stories from difrent prespectives from all the band plus family, friends, roadies ect. After that I have the Eric Bischoff lined up.
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Post by Shon Maxx on Aug 11, 2007 5:44:52 GMT -5
I just finished 2 more Star Wars books; "Outbound flight" and "Survivor's Quest."
I just started "The Simpsons and Philosophy."
Take care,
Jay
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Post by Highway61Revisited on Aug 12, 2007 11:38:31 GMT -5
I've started a few books:
National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling by Tim Hornbaker
Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
Orwell's Essays by: the incomparable George Orwell
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