What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

[buxfan4life]

Anyone read 50 Shades of Gray? A woman down the hall is trying to convince me to buy it but it seems like a chick-flick book.

Look between your legs the next time you shower . If you see something pointing down towards the drain (or towards the shower head depending on...well...nm....), then you don't need to read that book.

 

[knapplc]

Look between your legs the next time you shower . If you see something pointing down towards the drain (or towards the shower head depending on...well...nm....), then you don't need to read that book.

If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles... if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. - Sun Tzu

 

[OHSportsFan]

Anyone read 50 Shades of Gray? A woman down the hall is trying to convince me to buy it but it seems like a chick-flick book.

From what I gathered it's nothing more than something a guy could read in an erotic Hustler article?

Don't see the big deal.

 

[Buckeye513]

Anyone read 50 Shades of Gray? A woman down the hall is trying to convince me to buy it but it seems like a chick-flick book.

Read about a library in Florida banning it or some shit a few months ago. Apparently it's about bondage.

It's also doing well with the female folk, which is funny to me considering I got fired from a major book-sellin' chain for recommending Story of O by Pauline Reage to a soccer mom.

 

[buxfan4life]

If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles... if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. - Sun Tzu

I bet you read Playboy for the articles.

Al Gore invented internet porn so men don't have to read to get off. Ask him. Its not like he invented it to stay married.

 

[knapplc]

I bet you read Playboy for the articles.

Al Gore invented internet porn so men don't have to read to get off. Ask him. Its not like he invented it to stay married.

Didn't I see you sitting outside the Gas 'N Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?

 

[muffler dragon]

Didn't I see you sitting outside the Kum 'N Go on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?

FIF Geographical Relevance.

 

[BayBuck]

Anyone read 50 Shades of Gray? A woman down the hall is trying to convince me to buy it but it seems like a chick-flick book.

Pretty sure you can fake your way through a conversation with any one of the millions of moms/teenagers who have been encouraged by their friends to read the trilogy-length version of a Penthouse Forum letter...

Here's what I just learned from Wikipedia, and it's all you need to know to never pick up one of those black books:

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon".

And here are some of the literary lowlights from the series:

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/15732562-fifty-shades-of-grey

?Why don't you like to be touched" Ana whispered, staring up into soft grey eyes.
"Because I'm fifty shades of fucked-up, Anastasia?

Indeed.

 

[buxfan4life]

Didn't I see you sitting outside the Gas 'N Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?

Nope. I pick my women up in bookstores near the 50 Shades of Gray table. You must have mistaken your own reflection as someone else.

:p

 

[IronBuckI]

Was greatly disappointed by the ending to The Game of Thrones. Truly let down by the lack of ending(s) to the characters. Was a bit put off by the separate chapter threads per character, but grew to enjoy them. Had a hunch when I got down to the last hunnerd pages that the author was trying to make a deadline to publish and not do justice to the other 4.75 books he wrote.

Hope the TV series ends better. You're right Bay Buck, I got too wrapped up in the argot, and lost interest. I'll try again, as those that gutted it out were pleased. Never did find out who's in the prickly suit of armor......

:gobucks3::gobucks4:

The sixth book is still being written, and a seventh is also planned.

 

[Muck]

Firearms of the American Revolution 1775-1783 - George Neumann

 

[THEWOOD]

Finished the 1st, now on to the second.

 

[Crump's brother]

 

[OneBuckeye]

I'm on to the next and safe to watch the second season of the HBO series, unfortunately it probably won't come out until christmas or later.

 

[knapplc]

Lately I've been reading the "Continuing adventures of Sherlock Holmes" series from Titan Books. They're interesting, but most definitely not canon. The twist with these series is that they put Holmes in contact with characters/situations from other stories of the time. So far I've read:

Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds (Holmes battles the Martian invaders, and has an affair with his landlady Mrs. Hudson while Watson remains oblivious) - Manly Wade Wellman
Sherlock Holmes: The Angel of the Opera (Holmes meets the Phantom of the Opera; "written" by Holmes' cousin Dr. Henry Vernier, who throws Watson completely under the bus) - Sam Siciliano
Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver (in which Watson is again thrown under the bus by Dr. Vernier and Holmes falls desperately in love but it remains unrequited) - Sam Siciliano
Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire (In which Holmes investigates the vampiric "rape" of a young woman, aided by his distant relative, Count Dracula) - Fred Saberhagen

There are many more. I've read eight or ten of them, and have another dozen or more to go. They are sometimes maddening, as they totally change the character of Holmes and/or Watson. Some of the authors try to recreate the whole story, with a notable example being Sam Siciliano, whose Holmes openly derides Watson, states that they were never friends, and basically denounces Watson as a hanger-on, almost a groupie or stalker. His Holmes is an ardent lover of women, and Holmes' life-long celibacy is explained in The Web Weaver as a pining for a married woman he cannot have.

Currently I'm reading Sherlock Holmes: The Stalwart Companions, in which a very young Holmes meets and befriends a very young Teddy Roosevelt in 1880 New York - and they solve a dastardly crime together. This book starts out with the author, H. Paul Jeffers, writing in first-person as a Holmes skeptic, only to find in the NYPD archives notes and letters from Holmes himself written to Roosevelt which describe the "adventure" they had together before Roosevelt became the NYPD Commissioner.

I'd recommend this series if you're a Holmes fan, but be warned - this is NOT Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. And each book is different, and some are more miss than hit. But they're entertaining.

Finished these the other night. Overall worth reading because they're not terrible, but the first two I listed here, Angel of the Opera and War of the Worlds, were by far the best. The last few were a bit of a slog to get through, and the very last one, Breath of God, in which Holmes meets Aleister Crowley, was simply absurd. Do not read this book.

I'm on to something about Oscar Wilde, wherein Wilde is himself, but does detective work as well. It's slow so far. Arthur Conan Doyle is a character in this thing.