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Started reading Snuff last night. About half way through it ... not really sure how I feel about it. It's no 'Rant' that's for sure. I guess I'll see how it goes.
 
It's by Chuck Palahniuk, I would probably pass. It's fairly short, and not as good as his past stuff. A lot of his books (most that I've read) have some pretty big twists, and this one, they were all pretty predictable. One I got from several chapters ahead and the next was kind of a "hmm... I wonder if it'll be this way" and it was - and I was like: Oh, -__-

I tend to really like his books, but not this one so much
 
9to5cynic said:
It's by Chuck Palahniuk, I would probably pass. It's fairly short, and not as good as his past stuff. A lot of his books (most that I've read) have some pretty big twists, and this one, they were all pretty predictable. One I got from several chapters ahead and the next was kind of a "hmm... I wonder if it'll be this way" and it was - and I was like: Oh, -__-

I tend to really like his books, but not this one so much
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Humm I have never herd of him what are some of his other titles?
 
Xyro said:
I got The Black Prism for Christmas, so that's next up for me.
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I frikkin love Weeks but have been putting that one off till the 2nd gets a little closer.....

Prolly gonna stay in the Star Wars universe for now... think I have 1 more Old Republic book left... then i'm not sure what is next
 
9to5cynic said:
He has written several novels, most notably Fight Club, and Choke... both of which have had movies made after them.

(I am particularly fond of Rant ;))
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Ahh I am am. The kind of person that if a book has a movie and I haven't read the book before the movie comes out I won't read the book Idk I think movies just ruin good books
 
^ very true. Though, at least with fight club, there are enough differences between the movie and book that it still is fresh (kinda). It's like, "Oh, that part is different...", and with Fight Club, David Fincher directed it, and he's pretty damn good ;)


Started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... saw a preview for the movie and it looked kinda interesting... not sure how to pronounce half the names - but whatever ;) Seems pretty good so far (admittedly, I'm just starting it).
 
9to5cynic said:
He has written several novels, most notably Fight Club, and Choke... both of which have had movies made after them.

(I am particularly fond of Rant ;))
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I just finished reading Full Dark, No Stars yesterday and began Fight Club this morning. So far so good!

9to5cynic said:
^ very true. Though, at least with fight club, there are enough differences between the movie and book that it still is fresh (kinda). It's like, "Oh, that part is different...", and with Fight Club, David Fincher directed it, and he's pretty damn good ;)


Started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... saw a preview for the movie and it looked kinda interesting... not sure how to pronounce half the names - but whatever ;) Seems pretty good so far (admittedly, I'm just starting it).
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GREAT GREAT trilogy. I can't wait to see the American-based films. I saw all the Swedish ones with Noomi Rapace (she's strikingly sexy in a weird way lol) and they were legit films. I was a little skeptical as to how the American-based ones would pan out.
 
NYCHitman1 said:
I just finished reading Full Dark, No Stars yesterday and began Fight Club this morning. So far so good!

GREAT GREAT trilogy. I can't wait to see the American-based films. I saw all the Swedish ones with Noomi Rapace (she's strikingly sexy in a weird way lol) and they were legit films. I was a little skeptical as to how the American-based ones would pan out.
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I really enjoy fight club. There's something about Palahniuk's writing style that I really (for the most part [pygmy excluded]) enjoy. He writes the way I speak to myself in my head. :D

I'm looking forward to these books, I'm not very far, but I am really enjoying the characters so far.
 
Fincher is directing the Dragon Tattoo movies, so they should be interesting. The Swedish ones were pretty good, especially the first one. Kind of hard to look forward to the remakes when the originals are so recent, though. Let Me In was a pretty good remake of the Swedish film Let The Right One In, but the Swedish one was a little better IMO. That might just be because I watched it first, but I hate how American movies think they have to dumb things down for the audience like we can't figure anything out for ourselves. I don't need a monologue to explain it to me.

I'm about 250 pages into 11/22/63 by Stephen King. (out of about 850) I like it so far. Without giving too much away, it's about a guy who finds a wormhole into the past, but it only goes to the exact same place and time every time (1958 Maine). He decides to go back to try to stop the Kennedy assassination (I think, anyway, haven't made it that far yet). The catch is, the past doesn't like to be changed...
 
Gmash said:
Fincher is directing the Dragon Tattoo movies, so they should be interesting. The Swedish ones were pretty good, especially the first one. Kind of hard to look forward to the remakes when the originals are so recent, though. Let Me In was a pretty good remake of the Swedish film Let The Right One In, but the Swedish one was a little better IMO. That might just be because I watched it first, but I hate how American movies think they have to dumb things down for the audience like we can't figure anything out for ourselves. I don't need a monologue to explain it to me.

I'm about 250 pages into 11/22/63 by Stephen King. (out of about 850) I like it so far. Without giving too much away, it's about a guy who finds a wormhole into the past, but it only goes to the exact same place and time every time (1958 Maine). He decides to go back to try to stop the Kennedy assassination (I think, anyway, haven't made it that far yet). The catch is, the past doesn't like to be changed...
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I was actually very interested in that book. I guess I'll have to pick it up once I finish reading my 2 other books.
 
Gmash said:
Fincher is directing the Dragon Tattoo movies, so they should be interesting. The Swedish ones were pretty good, especially the first one. Kind of hard to look forward to the remakes when the originals are so recent, though. Let Me In was a pretty good remake of the Swedish film Let The Right One In, but the Swedish one was a little better IMO. That might just be because I watched it first, but I hate how American movies think they have to dumb things down for the audience like we can't figure anything out for ourselves. I don't need a monologue to explain it to me.

I'm about 250 pages into 11/22/63 by Stephen King. (out of about 850) I like it so far. Without giving too much away, it's about a guy who finds a wormhole into the past, but it only goes to the exact same place and time every time (1958 Maine). He decides to go back to try to stop the Kennedy assassination (I think, anyway, haven't made it that far yet). The catch is, the past doesn't like to be changed...
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I heard it was a Fincher film, that's what got me interested in the series to be honest. And I loved Let the right one it, haven't gotten around to seeing the remake yet though...

Hmm... that book sounds pretty interesting... I'm always one for time travel theories :)
 
9to5cynic said:
I heard it was a Fincher film, that's what got me interested in the series to be honest. And I loved Let the right one it, haven't gotten around to seeing the remake yet though...

Hmm... that book sounds pretty interesting... I'm always one for time travel theories :)
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Let Me In is good, too. It has the girl from Kick-Ass as the girl, and she it's good in it. The only thing I didn't like is they had to make a big deal about explaining that the old man had started out as a little boy too. I think most people could figure that out for themselves. I like how most foreign films don't feel like they have to beat you over the head explaining everything like we're too dumb to understand it lol.
 
Gmash said:
Let Me In is good, too. It has the girl from Kick-Ass as the girl, and she it's good in it. The only thing I didn't like is they had to make a big deal about explaining that the old man had started out as a little boy too. I think most people could figure that out for themselves. I like how most foreign films don't feel like they have to beat you over the head explaining everything like we're too dumb to understand it lol.
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I really enjoy the subtleties of foreign films. Hahh, yeah, they definitely think we're too dumb to catch on... I remember the ads for the american version, I thought they really played it up as more a 'horror' movie than the original (which was a horror film, but there was way more story than I would have thought...)

Perhaps if the american version is on sale I'll pick it up sometime.
blkbeltkid17 said:
Guys why are we talking about fight club out side of fight club?
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His name was Robert Paulson.
 
Book two in Game of Thrones. I'm a fan of the chapters being from each characters perspective and the variety that brings.
 
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (the pen name of fantasy author Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, George R.R. Martin's assistant). A few chapters in - not great, but better than expected so far.
 
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