<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Apr 9 2007, 12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm reading <u>Hearts in Atlantis</u> by Stephen King too. I've read just about all his books, and I used to think he was just another popular horror writer, but after careful review, I can admit I was wrong. Dude is prolific and classic.I'm also rereading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I've read it twenty times and it hasn't gotten old. It's like a song I can listen to over and over. The difference between novels and literature is shelf life.</div> Stephen King books are incredable....I'm currently reading 'Wildfire' by Nelson DeMille.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (7Goat @ Apr 9 2007, 10:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Shake Hands With the Devil. It's about the Rwandan Genocide.And it's for school but I chose it myself.</div>oh yeah, I've been meaning to read that book for a while but it's been on my shelf collecting dust. Ever since I saw Hotel Rwanda I've been fascinated with the Rwandan massacres.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (7Goat @ Apr 9 2007, 12:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Shake Hands With the Devil. It's about the Rwandan Genocide.And it's for school but I chose it myself.</div> That sounds pretty interesting...African history/civil war has always interested me. I have a few books on the Somalian/UN situation.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Apr 9 2007, 12:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That sounds pretty interesting...African history/civil war has always interested me. I have a few books on the Somalian/UN situation.</div>the Somalian UN situation? You mean that the un isn't doing anything helpful there? Resolution 1724 (2006) was an awful piece of work.
I'm as guilty as the next man of not reading much, but I'll say that books are a dying breed, but ebooks might save them
I do enjoy reading books, but I usually go through stages of reading though. I'll read 7 or 8 books in one month and then wont read anything for the next two or three. Just depends I guess. The last book I read was a book by Chuck Palanuick, the writer of Fight Club. It was Choke. I've read almost all of his novels and they are all equally good, but Fight Club is head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion. I do read Rolling Stone every two weeks as well. They really are ultra Liberal over there, but I dont read it for the politics, but rather the music articles that arent on crappy emo sh*t. I think I'm gonna start reading the graphic novel Watchmen in the near future. Its considered one of the best written novels and is by the guy who wrote V for Vendetta.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pjcolpitts? @ Apr 9 2007, 02:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I do enjoy reading books, but I usually go through stages of reading though. I'll read 7 or 8 books in one month and then wont read anything for the next two or three. Just depends I guess. The last book I read was a book by Chuck Palanuick, the writer of Fight Club. It was Choke. I've read almost all of his novels and they are all equally good, but Fight Club is head and shoulders above the rest in my opinion. I do read Rolling Stone every two weeks as well. They really are ultra Liberal over there, but I dont read it for the politics, but rather the music articles that arent on crappy emo sh*t. I think I'm gonna start reading the graphic novel Watchmen in the near future. Its considered one of the best written novels and is by the guy who wrote V for Vendetta.</div>yeah, I'm a similar way. It's just reading is not a top priority for me I guess, but something I sometimes like to do.
:happy0144: :happy0144: I just picked it up again at about halfway through (I took a break from it for like 3 months)
Books will NEVER be a dying breed. When a movie is made from a book...only about 60% gets in the movie....books will never go away. they're just too good...and when yall get older, yall will probably read more.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (austingriz @ Apr 9 2007, 08:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Books will NEVER be a dying breed. When a movie is made from a book...only about 60% gets in the movie....books will never go away. they're just too good...and when yall get older, yall will probably read more.</div>They will probably never die altogether (well, until humans destroy themselves) but they are certainly endangered. People read a lot less books these days than they did 20 years ago because the internet has so much more easy to access info. Not saying it's a good thing that books are losing popularity, but they are.
<span style="font-family:Arial">Lately, I have been reading Allen Iverson's book 'Only the Strong Survive' I'm not much of a book reader. I might pick up a good book that has something to do with basketball, but that's all I'll touch. I have a hard time getting interested in any book that doesn't have anything to do with basketball, I can't help it.I do read alot of magazines though, I love them. Slam, Cosmo, Maxim, ect.</span>
You guys should all read the book about the Suns, ":07 Seconds or Less" by Jack McCallum. Really interesting behind the scenes look at an NBA team.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Legacy @ Apr 9 2007, 11:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'> :happy0144: :happy0144: I just picked it up again at about halfway through (I took a break from it for like 3 months)</div>I remember that book being a major disappointment. Everything else is vague, although I'm interested to hear your opinion of it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (KMart? @ Apr 10 2007, 06:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I remember that book being a major disappointment. Everything else is vague, although I'm interested to hear your opinion of it.</div>Well, I'll tell you when I finish it. Although it's taking me like 4 months and I'm only halfway through it.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shake_hand...romeo_dallaire/They're making a movie for the book I'm reading! Sweet.