TheLastColdBeer Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Posted September 26, 2014 Been lazily sauntering through the classics on my nook. Ivanhoe, Uncle Silas, The Count of Monte Cristo, Alice's Adventures Underground, Peter and Wendy, but I always return to Dickens for a treat. Finished David Copperfield the other day. Few books have ever brought tears to my eyes, but this one did. Can't say I've enjoyed all his works. Tale of Two Cities was a chore, and I gave up on Bleak House. Great Expectations is still my favorite, although Copperfield runs a close second. Bout' a hundred pages into Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, and I'm hooked. When that's finished, going to que up The Pickwick Papers. Amazing quantity of books are available for download from the project Gutenburg. All at your fingertips, enjoy! Sonovabich 1 Awards
Sonovabich Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5198 Achievement Points: 131537 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 8 Device: Windows Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) Been lazily sauntering through the classics on my nook. Ivanhoe, Uncle Silas, The Count of Monte Cristo, Alice's Adventures Underground, Peter and Wendy, but I always return to Dickens for a treat. Finished David Copperfield the other day. Few books have ever brought tears to my eyes, but this one did. Can't say I've enjoyed all his works. Tale of Two Cities was a chore, and I gave up on Bleak House. Great Expectations is still my favorite, although Copperfield runs a close second. Bout' a hundred pages into Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, and I'm hooked. When that's finished, going to que up The Pickwick Papers. Amazing quantity of books are available for download from the project Gutenburg. All at your fingertips, enjoy! Think we may have to kick you out of the clan for being to clever m8 lol, seriously though i was lucky at school to have a teacher who made us read most of the Dickens stuff, if you can find it somewhere the BBC did a dramatisation of Bleak House around 6 or 7 years ago, Gillian Anderson who played Scully in the Xfiles starred in it, it was really good, it will probably be better for you than the book was, the characters Dickens created were amazing. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and a Christmas Carol are 3 of my favourites, every Christmas i always watch at least one version of a Christmas Carol. Edited September 26, 2014 by Sonovabich
little_old_man Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted September 26, 2014 I never cared for Copperfield's writing too much. He's a much better magician than an author. Awards
hxtr Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted September 26, 2014 I can't find the video. What are you all talking about?!? Damage_inc- and TBB 2
7Toes Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted September 26, 2014 read a book.............what the hell are you crazy lmfao TBB 1 Awards
mouselad Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 20902 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1279 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 819 Achievement Points: 9614 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/16/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 15, 2016 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Posted September 26, 2014 I'm currently reading the demolished man by Alfred Bester. fantastic book. I'm more of a scifi guy and like my classics full of dystopian fun. TheLastColdBeer 1
mouselad Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 20902 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1279 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 819 Achievement Points: 9614 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/16/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 15, 2016 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Posted September 26, 2014 thug notes does great expectations Scoarch 1
Sonovabich Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5198 Achievement Points: 131537 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 8 Device: Windows Posted September 26, 2014 I never cared for Copperfield's writing too much. He's a much better magician than an author. David Copperfield is just a character in a book lol, Dickens was the author. TheLastColdBeer 1
DEEJAYKEG Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted September 26, 2014 My current reading material is Sniper One by Sgt Dan Mills: "We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach ..." http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sniper-One-Blistering-British-Battle/dp/0141029013 TheLastColdBeer 1 Awards
TBB Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20575 Content Per Day: 3.67 Reputation: 22609 Achievement Points: 148513 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 397 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted September 26, 2014 I can't find the video. What are you all talking about?!? @@hxtr is the only honest one here - >IDIOTS< are not known for their ability to read - currently reading " Pacific Payback" - history of carrier pilots from Pearl Harbor Day till the end of the war - I just look at the pictures. Awards
JohnnyDos Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.31 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted September 26, 2014 I read "My Bank Book" all i get is withdrawls.LOL Sonovabich, BUDMAN and TheLastColdBeer 3
little_old_man Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted September 26, 2014 Yeah SOB, I completely blew that joke. That's what I get for typing it on my way out the door and not checking what I typed. TheLastColdBeer and Sonovabich 2 Awards
mouselad Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 20902 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1279 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 819 Achievement Points: 9614 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/16/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 15, 2016 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Posted September 26, 2014 Yeah SOB, I completely blew that joke. That's what I get for typing it on my way out the door and not checking what I typed. i got the joke.
TheLastColdBeer Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Author Posted September 26, 2014 All in the delivery...... Loved Christmas Carol & Oliver Twist too SOB. I'll check out the movie version of Bleak. Silent Victory by Clay Blair was a great book relating the history of American submarines in the Pacific during WW2. little_old_man and Sonovabich 2 Awards
little_old_man Posted September 26, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted September 26, 2014 Oh God don't get me started Beer. Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted September 27, 2014 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Author Posted September 27, 2014 Did I mention The final series of Thomas Covenant, by Steven R Donaldson? I luv science fiction too. Fav book, if you can understand it, is Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny These will give you a different view, if your vision isn't twisted enough already. Awards
mouselad Posted September 27, 2014 Member ID: 20902 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1279 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 819 Achievement Points: 9614 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/16/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 15, 2016 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Posted September 27, 2014 Did I mention The final series of Thomas Covenant, by Steven R Donaldson? I luv science fiction too. Fav book, if you can understand it, is Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny These will give you a different view, if your vision isn't twisted enough already. I love Zelany also. Haven't read the new Thomas Covenant books. I read the first 2 series. One of my favorite classics is Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, though my favorite Hesse book is probably Steppewolf. I would say my current favorite book of all time is another book by Alfred Bester. The Stars My Destination. It's Finally back in print and on kindle. For awhile it was up around 80 bucks for a copy. It's about a man who has no skills, no anything, can barely even speak. he is the last survivor in a spaceship that has been floating around for 6 months. the only place still airtight is a little airlocker. When he is making a supply run in the rest of the ship he sees a ship pass so close by that he can see the peoples faces. he sets off all the flares and the ship just ignores him. This fuels a hatred in him that he is driven and he must get revenge on that ship that ignored him. Really good. Bester was a pulp sci fi writer so his writing style is kind of rough but unique. I really enjoy it. Also have you read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Cyberpunk america where the only corporations that exist anymore are pizza delivery which is run by the mob and information gathering by programming/hacking. The main character is a samurai sword wielding pizza delivery driver named Hiro Protagonist lol.
Damage_inc- Posted September 27, 2014 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Posted September 27, 2014 bleak house is on netflix.8 episodes.enjoy Awards
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