"I Totally Made That Up" Fiction Thread

[Zens7s]

Since I thought it would be hard to just start a whole new thread for each seperate book, I am going to make some categories where you can just post recommendations, what you are reading, what sucks, and fish for suggestions from others.

So here it is...FICTION!

[ratm1966]

I am not sure why, but your post sounds very familiar. It's like I've read it somewhere before.

[By-tor]

Finished The Historian awhile back. Not too bad, but very slow 'til the last few chapters, then she hurried the finish. Still, not a bad read if your into bloodsucking deviants.

There's a softball for someone. ;)

[Zens7s]

Finished The Historian awhile back. Not too bad, but very slow 'til the last few chapters, then she hurried the finish. Still, not a bad read if your into bloodsucking deviants.

There's a softball for someone. ;)I have also read that. I was suprised at how well it did keep my interest for being that long. I would agree, it could have used some editing, but overall I was interested in the progression of the story.

[jjcourtright]

The Fountainhead is one of my faves.

Just south of town is a business complex named The Fountainhead Business Park. Makes me laugh everytime I drive past it.

[Zens7s]

The Fountainhead is one of my faves.

Just south of town is a business complex named The Fountainhead Business Park. Makes me laugh everytime I drive past it.
God that is a wonderful book. In my top 2.

[By-tor]

I'm three-quarters though a book written by Jonathan Coe. The Rotters Club. It runs the gamut of emotions. Set in 1970's Britain. Wow, I just googled it and found out there's a sequel that updates the story in the 1990's called The Closed Circle. I know what my next read will obviously be. Has anyone read either?

[karmattack]

The Fountainhead is one of my faves.

Just south of town is a business complex named The Fountainhead Business Park. Makes me laugh everytime I drive past it. I had to come here and post this since I just read it. A Scanner Darkly pg. 186:

" [a certain character], becoming progressively more and more depressed by what was happening to everybody he knew, decided finally to off himself. There was no problem, in the circles where he hung out, in putting and end to yourself; you just bought in to a large quantity of reds and took them with some cheap wine, late at night, with the phone off the hook so no one would interrupt you.

" The planning part had to do with the artifacts you wanted found on you by later archeologists. So they'd know from which stratum you came. And also could piece together where your head had been at the time you did it.

" He spent several days deciding on the artifacts. Much longer than he had spent deciding to kill himself, and approximately the same time required to get that many reds. He would be found lying on his back, on his bed, with a copy of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead (which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by their scorn) and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card. That way he would indict the system and achieve something by his death, over and above what the death itself achieved."


Also, there are some apartments across the intersection at the end of my dad's street called "La Fonda." I always think of Napoleon Dynamite.

[phit_demon]

Also, there are some apartments across the intersection at the end of my dad's street called "La Fonda." I always think of Napoleon Dynamite.
Why is it that every person I show that movie to thinks that she's a man in drag?
I don't see it myself, but did anyone else make that assumption before she spoke?

[jjcourtright]

(which would prove he had been a misunderstood superman rejected by the masses and so, in a sense, murdered by their scorn) That alone makes me want to read A Scanner Darkly. It's on the list.

[karmattack]

I thought you'd appreciate it.

[Zens7s]

I just finished a book by a woman named "Lolita Files". [HAS to be a non de plume] called sex.lies.murder.fame: A novel

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060786809.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V55653242_.jpg

My librarian recommended it. The writing was surpisingly good for a book that didn't have a terribly high premise. If Bret Easton Ellis and Terry McMillian had a love child who wrote novels this would be the product.

If you are looking for something slightly sick and twisted, and also a decent commentary on what the public really wants from it's celebrities check it out.

[TLS]

I just finished reading Anansi Boys. Even though I don't like spiders, I enjoyed the book very much. :)

[Zens7s]

I just finished reading Anansi Boys. Even though I don't like spiders, I enjoyed the book very much. :)
OOH, spiders? I have that on my current read list. How much spidery stuff is in there? Will I have nightmares?

[TLS]

Nothing real creepy with spiders. It's more of a spider is your friend type of story. I liked it alot and I'm the type who screams bloody murder if I even see a spider. No nightmares.

[Omaru]

isn't anansi one of thos old african folklore characters always getting up to tricks, like their equivalent of Sgt. Bilko except he's a spider-man or man spider, or spider with human like qualities much like any animals or insects in cartoons.

[Dave]

To answer that question might spoil some of the book. Or not. I liked it alot too. and to answer Omaru's question. Yes.

[Dave]

So, i just started reading Ireland by Frank DeLaney (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EGEYSE/sr=8-1/qid=1144505527/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7288819-5123857?%5Fencoding=UTF8) and it's excellent so far. It seems to be about a Irish History, as told the old way thru the magic of story and not the cold "facts" that are written in history books. I'm just barely into it, but so far, i'm totally glad i actually bought this book and didn't get it from my library.

[Zens7s]

I just finished "Sharp Objects". I read it all in one day, then I loaned it to my girlfriend and she did the same thing. Although I predicted the first plot twist before it happened the second I didn't catch at all. Worth the price I paid in hard cover.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307341549

Here is the dust jacket description:
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.

NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg
Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.

HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.

With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable.

[marksiwel]

The thing I like best about Boston as opposed to Boston is the train. Now I can read on my way to and from work.

Lets see last couple of things I read
I read "The Scorpion's Gate" and sequel? "Breakpoint" by Richard A. Clarke who was on the Colbert Report awhile back, and also was one of the higher up in anti-terrosim in the goverment before and after 9/11

They are ok, Both books start out very slowly and then the last couple of chapters feel rushed. Though Scorpions gate does have a cool terrorist attack thats pretty damn smart. Also Breakpoint throws out some good ideas but the characters and actions are only so so. If he could put the action and ideas into one book then i will keep reading his books

Also about to finish
Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlen (The writer of starship troopers (the book)
KInda long, but I like it
Basically
Lazaurs Long has been alive longer than you, and he may have screwed your great grandmother, or her great grandmother, because he was born 2000 thousand years ago (1920's). IN the future cloning is ok, no one is "married" in the way we see it now, its socially acceptable to have sex with anyone willing even if you are "married". Being gay is fine.
The book kinda drags in the start, but the good parts are the stories from Longs past he tells the computer. But like I said, it takes awhile for the book to get anywhere.

ReRead The Preacher Comic Book series. Damn thats good, and it makes me miss Texas.

Picked up some books by Philip K Dick, and am most likely going to read that on the plane ride to Texas this thursday, oh yeah I'm coming home for a week

[Zens7s]

Texas missed you!

[sedriyke]

Well, im more of a Sci-fi Fantasy reader myself. I read alot of Dragonlance, Forgotten realms,Those types of books. Cant get much better after a long agonizing week of life, then be able to just escape into a comepletely different world.

[marksiwel]

Well, im more of a Sci-fi Fantasy reader myself. I read alot of Dragonlance, Forgotten realms,Those types of books. Cant get much better after a long agonizing week of life, then be able to just escape into a comepletely different world.

Trying to pick up more non-fiction.