Books

[LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow]

What do you mean there's a literature section? I don't believe you.

Anyway this is just talking bout books in general

I will never not use that pun.

 

Basically, how do you feel about books? Is the medium dead, dying, reviving? Is that good or bad? Are there still great stories being made or is everything lackluster? Discuss books.

You can throw in your favorites if you want.

[mitchermitcher]

general is so active today

 

Project Gutenberg is a funking godsend when it comes to books. There's so much free sheet they let you read it's amazing, I love it. Doesn't have everything but a lot of the classic stuff is there. Holmes, Dracula, Kafka, Christie, all good stuff I read from there.

 

Don't think I've read a recent English book in a long, long while. I kinda don't want to just sink money into a random new novel I've never heard about that just came out and risk getting something I can't read past the first chapter of. Meanwhile I buy an Agatha Christie mystery whenever I get the chance to. I don't get to them right away but I find myself enjoying them when I do.

 

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[Thar]

The Dark Tower series is by far the best series I've ever read so far.

 

A close second would be the Harry Potter series, cause I don't often read seven books to finish a series, but I did for this one.

 

The Inhumans trilogy is good as well from what I remember. I read the first book, the Eyes of God, and I loved it, then started reading the second book and got sidetracked. It sucks, cause I originally got into it from looking at the THIRD book in a library in the Fantasy section. I might actually continue it, depending on if there's an audiobook on Audible or not.

 

Then there's the Hellgate trilogy, similar to the Eyes of God, but in a post-apocalyptic scenario with demons and knights-in-armor and sheet. Entertaining, if not the best thing I've ever read, but willing to continue it if, again, I manage to find an audiobook of the series.

 

I recently started listening to an audiobook of The Count of Monte Cristo, a book recommended by Game Grumps during an episode of Super Mario Sunshine that sounded interesting, and so far it's pretty interesting.

 

Despite my interest in these stories, I like to save audiobooks for long car rides, cause that's usually when they're most valuable to me. Either way, books are something I wish I could appreciate more, cause the world of fiction is just too big to experience through movies and TV shows.

[Sethera]

I like books. Always have, always will. I eat them up like candy.

Atm reading Forgotten Realms and am loving it.

[Makο]

I don't read many books, though I do like reading. 'Couple of favorites include The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Hobbit, and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

 

I'm also sitting on Vol. 6 of Spice & Wolf. Waiting for a good time to start up again.

[VCR_CAT]

I've always really enjoyed books, and it's a medium I don't see dying out completely. Young Adult fiction might over-saturate the medium with utter garbage, but it won't kill the medium.

 

Actually I did a paper for English 105 a couple semesters ago about publishing, and how the rise in self-publishing is changing the face of the literary medium. Right now, self-publishing has never been easier, and this is a double-edged sword. This means that authors can more feasibly make money off of their work, but it also means that, in general, there's going to be a lot more in the market and that it'll be easier for their work to be overlooked. This also means that there's going to be a lot less quality control and that's generally not a good thing.

 

Of course, there is a rise in new publishing methods that are like focus groups (I honestly forget what they called them) that are like a middle-ground between corporate publishing and self publishing. Basically companies that give authors a means to distribute and market their work, but still provide the services of editing and such while still giving the author a good cut of the pay.

 

Book-wise, I haven't been reading as much as I have in the past. There hasn't been anything in the line of novels that has really taken my interest. Beyond Halo books and such, there hasn't been much. I guess I could look harder, but I don't know. It seems like in Elementary School, finding good books was really easy and there was a ton of solid stuff. Then, going to Highschool that number went down, and now in college life it's like "lolrecreationalreadingwhat'sthat"

 

 

In short, I wish that there were more books targeted for my demograp-- wait, what's that? Young Adults are a booming demographic for fiction? What's that? Most of the novels for that demographic are trash? Right...

[Fusion X. Denver]

I used to love reading, and I'm really sad that I haven't read as much in recent years. 

Harry Potter always had me spellbound 

and I loved the Pendragon series. I also enjoyed reading some Sherlock Holmes, reading through his deductions always entertained.

It's a shame though, there isn't really anything I want to read right now. I'd be open to recommendations if people have any.