SPS Book Club

SPS Book Club
Topic Started: Jan 9 2009, 12:48 AM (239 Views)
Finalsight618	Jan 9 2009, 12:48 AM Post #1
Sexually Perverted Sicko Posts: 1,850 Group: Clan Member Member #24 Joined: Jan 3, 2008	Just had an idea about starting a book club sort of thing. Every month or 2-weeks we all decide on a book to read, read it and then discuss it. I think its a nice way to get to know each other more, broaden our horizons, add a little culture (well maybe not when i think about what sort of things meaty might read), prove The Times wrong by showing that gamers have brains enough to read, etc. So what do you guys think?



the mighty coco	Jan 9 2009, 02:08 AM Post #2
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,425 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	i'd pay money to see what daz thinks of some of the books you might suggest reading. i read quite a lot when i'm offshore as t.v is shit....... unless you download whole series of stuff at a time and give it the time it deserves. i'll give it a whirl.



cybadaz	Jan 9 2009, 09:04 AM Post #3
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	i really do read , :) so long as its not about pointy headed elfs and shit im in .... i dont really do fiction thats all ... here are a few to throw at you that are good books , Longitude - Dava Sobel Inverting the Pyramid - Jonathan Wilson Hitchhickers G 2 Galaxy - Douglas Adams Forgotten Voices - Max Arther the world without Us - A Weismen A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson Oddballs and eccentrics - The Elegent Universe - Brian Greene theres a few books ive read , and some ive read again :)



MeatyFiend	Jan 9 2009, 01:27 PM Post #4
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	i'd do it but i only read fiction and shit like that, i will not read anything else because i won't make time for it



cybadaz	Jan 19 2009, 01:29 AM Post #5
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	whats happening here ??? i love watching shit movies , not movies that are shit coz the storys shit , but shit because its unintentionally funny ... now i dont think i can read a shit book , so if it cant grab me within 3 or 4 pages its lost me im afraid .



the mighty coco	Jan 19 2009, 10:22 AM Post #6
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,425 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	book decided....windows vista for dummies.



MeatyFiend	Jan 19 2009, 12:45 PM Post #7
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	i'm up for discussing books, just not ones i don't like lol



Kiltedmuff	Jan 20 2009, 02:42 PM Post #8
The Kilted One Posts: 1,578 Group: Clan Member Member #8 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	Whats a book????!!!!



the mighty coco	Jan 20 2009, 08:06 PM Post #9
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,425 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	that thing the wife throws at you when you're snoring



Johnny	Jan 20 2009, 08:09 PM Post #10
Well look happy you stupid bastards... Posts: 3,362 Group: Clan Member Member #118 Joined: Sep 18, 2008	I've read quite a few of stephen king books and james herberts



the mighty coco	Jan 20 2009, 08:54 PM Post #11
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,425 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	lets make the 1st one a bit of light reading. everybody have a look on amazon for something they fancy then throw in a suggestion or two on here.



MeatyFiend	Jan 20 2009, 10:19 PM Post #12
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	anything pornographic then i'll get it



dodmaster	Jan 20 2009, 11:51 PM Post #13
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008	for the admins and the betting men



cybadaz	Jan 21 2009, 09:02 AM Post #14
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	that 2nd one actually looks interesting --- :) i am searching for a book describing How and why things were discovered / invented and not so much how they work , but how someone figured a way of discovering how something worked eg - the weight/mass of the earth , for me its not enough to say it weight such n such , or explain HOW you work it out , more interesting is discovering how people figured out how to figure out how it is so :) -- oh im confused now, and OT



Kiltedmuff	Jan 21 2009, 02:46 PM Post #15
The Kilted One Posts: 1,578 Group: Clan Member Member #8 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	the mighty coco Jan 20 2009, 08:06 PM that thing the wife throws at you when you're snoring Actually Coco she doean't throw books at me when i snore, she just hits me.



redrooster555	Jan 24 2009, 04:47 AM Post #16
Posts: 237 Group: Clan Member Member #148 Joined: Jan 21, 2009	Kiltedmuff Jan 21 2009, 02:46 PM the mighty coco Jan 20 2009, 08:06 PM that thing the wife throws at you when you're snoring Actually Coco she doean't throw books at me when i snore, she just hits me. be grateful, books are okay unless the spine hits you first. Then it's bruise time for your face



Finalsight618	Jan 29 2009, 08:52 PM Post #17
Sexually Perverted Sicko Posts: 1,850 Group: Clan Member Member #24 Joined: Jan 3, 2008	I'm going to start reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis in the next couple of days. Anyone else going to give it ago? I saw the film years ago and was a bit this way and that on whether i liked it or not but i've heard that the book it way better so i'm giving it a go.



cybadaz	Jan 29 2009, 10:21 PM Post #18
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	thats the one where the DVD cover has a bloke with a mask on ? - ive not seen it tho ,



the mighty coco	Jan 29 2009, 10:37 PM Post #19
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,425 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	yeah can do, tho i don't usually read much at home. more when i'm away offshore. i've heard this is a pretty damned good book so i'll see how i get on with it. hope my library has it now. lol.



Finalsight618	Jan 29 2009, 11:23 PM Post #20
Sexually Perverted Sicko Posts: 1,850 Group: Clan Member Member #24 Joined: Jan 3, 2008	I've got the pdf if you want it. Basically the only thing i use my PSP for nowadays is for reading ebooks. Its annoying, for some reason (probably because i keep seeing trailers for the next underworld film) i've got the wanting to read a good book based around werewolves as protaganists but after searching google, wiki and amazon the only ones i can find are either young adult or romance.



MeatyFiend	Jan 30 2009, 12:15 AM Post #21
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	i've currently got american psycho the film and book, i liked the film but i've heard its no where near as graphic as the book.



cybadaz	Jan 30 2009, 08:22 AM Post #22
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	Revolutionary Road a book by Richard Yates is meant to be good , the film sounds like it could be worth watching too - Rich Kline whos reviews i follow a lot as i tend to agree with them rates the movie quite highly . ---- It may be the first novel i read . What do you think a person should do first , a book or the Movie ??? im thinking book first as your imagination should create the scenes and not the director in the movie you see .... what u reckon ?



dodmaster	Jan 30 2009, 10:59 AM Post #23
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008	depends on how good your imagination is. if you have no imagination and a short attention span, then go see a film.



Finalsight618	Feb 2 2009, 02:19 PM Post #24
Sexually Perverted Sicko Posts: 1,850 Group: Clan Member Member #24 Joined: Jan 3, 2008	Ok i'm giving up on American Psycho. I've given it 50 pages and i'm totally not liking it. I normally give a book i'm not into a chance until 30 odd pages then leave it, but as i was trying it for the sake of this thread i gave it another 20 pages until i finally said fuck this shit. On the subject of reading a book before or after seeing the film, I'm of two minds about it. Although i generally like to read the book before hand because they are usually better than the adaptions in the sense that they are a whole instead of a watered down version by hollywood. However i find that if i watch the film first i don't get half as annoyed because when reading a book you imagine things in certain way and most of the time the film is totally different, so you spend alot of the time thinking things like whatshisname should be played whoisit or things like Harry potters eyes are supposed to be green not blue, Duddits is not a fucking alien!!!!! (Stephen King's DreamCatcher film adaptation was an abomination) etc



redrooster555	Feb 2 2009, 02:25 PM Post #25
Posts: 237 Group: Clan Member Member #148 Joined: Jan 21, 2009	i'm reading endless drivel.



MeatyFiend	Feb 2 2009, 03:34 PM Post #26
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	i've just got the hannible lector trilogy



Finalsight618	Feb 2 2009, 05:26 PM Post #27
Sexually Perverted Sicko Posts: 1,850 Group: Clan Member Member #24 Joined: Jan 3, 2008	Shoudn't that be a quadrilogy: Red dragon, Silence of the lambs, Hannibal and Hannibal rising.



MeatyFiend	Feb 2 2009, 08:52 PM Post #28
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	yea only got 3 of them at the mo though



dodmaster	Feb 27 2009, 02:44 PM Post #29
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008	OK I just finished the night angel trilogy by brent weeks. it kicks ass and is the first trilogy i've read since the last dragonlance one, which was ages ago. if you like ninja assassins and magick, then this book will suck you in... I read it in under a week!



cybadaz	Feb 27 2009, 04:51 PM Post #30
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	trilogies ??? - if the author cant think up an ending after on book then ...... well ..... " thats just sloppy " , as my english teacher would probably say.



MeatyFiend	Feb 28 2009, 12:26 AM Post #31
Posts: 5,344 Group: Admin Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007	which dragonlance trilogy did you read dod, i've got fucking loads of them, currently readin the black magician tril before i read the age of the nine tril, both by trudi canavan, both about......... magic and shit lol



Finalsight618	Feb 28 2009, 02:06 AM Post #32
Sexually Perverted Sicko Posts: 1,850 Group: Clan Member Member #24 Joined: Jan 3, 2008	Never tried any of the dragonlance book, was never really into fantasy (D&D like fantasy i mean) fiction i'm more into horror/sci-fi like Stephen King and Dean Koontz. However i have read all the terry Pratchett books (several of them multiple times) but they are in a genre of there own. I'm also quite fond of john Grissum books. A few of years ago i came across a fantasyish book series i liked by someone called Lian Hearn (not sure thats spelt right but doesn't matter as its a psudanym for some other auther) and is set in feudal japan and features characters with magic ninjaish powers. They were called "Across the nightengale floor" "The grass for his pillow" "The brilliance of the moon" there is a 4th but i can't remember its name. i'm currently in the middle of the Dexter trillogy of books and have to say that so far they are one of those rare occurances where the TV(/film) adaptation is better than the book.



cybadaz	Mar 26 2009, 08:45 AM Post #33
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	didnt want to start a new thread for this , but ... im getting the book "the pluto files" anyone know of it and the author " NG Tyson " ???



Gee	Mar 26 2009, 08:56 AM Post #34
Posts: 3,704 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 23, 2007 Xbox Live Gamertag Gee2909	I've not read it but I've heard of it, it's a book about the planet Pluto and about how Americans got pissed off when it was announced that it was no longer a planet.



cybadaz	Mar 26 2009, 09:09 AM Post #35
Self Pleasuring Simian Posts: 5,813 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: Dec 24, 2007	yeah , i heard a review on the radio at work about it and it sounded interesting , theres still an argument as to how pluto should be classified (planet , planetoid , asteroid , baguette) ive ordered it from amazonononon now so hopefully its a good shitter reader



the mighty coco	Mar 26 2009, 10:47 AM Post #36
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,425 Group: Admin Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007	i read uncut in the shitter. bit of lighter reading.



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