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[Criptfeind]

Ok so i got the Lovecraft books sitting in front of me ready to be cracked open, im scared.

Lovecraft is good. But he is not scary.

[Tellemurius]

Ok so i got the Lovecraft books sitting in front of me ready to be cracked open, im scared.

Lovecraft is good. But he is not scary.

i never read any of his books before.

[Criptfeind]

I suggest you don't read too much at once.

Pretty much every story of his is the same story with some variations: Man meets cosmic monster. Man ponders own worthlessness in a uncaring universe. Man goes insane.

[MrWiggles]

I'm currently reading Darkstar by Alan Dean Foster. I'm really enjoying it right now. I'm close to the end of it currently, and not looking forward to the ending.

The most recent book series I've gotten into is the Dresden Files. I'm impatiently waiting for book 13 to be released this July.

[Tellemurius]

I suggest you don't read too much at once.

Pretty much every story of his is the same story with some variations: Man meets cosmic monster. Man ponders own worthlessness in a uncaring universe. Man goes insane.

Sounds like the Ender series.

[Vector]

I suggest you don't read too much at once.

Pretty much every story of his is the same story with some variations: Man meets cosmic monster. Man ponders own worthlessness in a uncaring universe. Man goes insane.

Sounds like the Ender series.

Sounds like Watchmen =/

[Criptfeind]

I had no idea Ender had so much cosmic monsters.

[Vertigon]

Or so many insane people :I

[ChairmanPoo]

Been reading "The Tower" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. It sucks

[Nilocy]

Has anyone read Peter F. Hamiltons Commonwealth series? I preferred it much more than the Nights Dawn trilogy.

[ChairmanPoo]

TBH Peter Hamilton's books feel like he had no clear idea on what he was trying to add, which makes it read odd (some parts read like they were overextended far beyond their actual importance, others were overconstricted, and others feel like a shaggy dog tale). The ND is particularily guilty (albeit the Confederacy duology also has it to a lesser extent). And I think he did it in the Void once again.

(mind you, I'm not saying that they are bad. They are entertaining enough. But they have this unpolished feel)

[varnish]

Found a collection of fairly intact Little Blue Books at a local antiques shop. Most of them are from 1927-1929. Right now I'm going through "Life Among the Ants" and "Evolution vs Dogma". After that, who knows? I got about twenty of these things in a small box bound up with twine. Cheap old books are the best books.

[Cthulhu]

I have to agree that Lovecraft isn't scary.  Some of his stories are scary (The Rats in the Walls and The Colour Out of Space are scary, that's about it) but most are, to improve on Criptfeind's formula:

"Crazy shit just happened and now I'm crazy/suicidal"
"Now this is the story all about how--"
"Stuff was normal"
"Something weird but inconsequential"
"Normal again"
"Weird"
"Normal"
"Shit just got whack"
"Now I'm gonna kill myself"

[Tellemurius]

What i meant was that i had never read his books before so this will be a new experience, im not scared >_>

[fqllve]

I've been reading Goodkind's The Wizard's First Rule, and disappointingly it is better than I expected. I got it because I thought the television show, Legend of the Seeker, was hilariously campy and I was hoping the book would share that but it's really just a generic heroic fantasy.

I'm only about 200 pages in so far, and I've just started to see signs of anti-communism. Such as

"Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their suppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves."

The idea of a quasi-medieval communist kingdom is pretty ridiculous.