Repug's book of the month club

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

What did you think of Child of God?

[Repugnant Abomination]

It was really good. It's one of those books that while you're reading it you can't stop thinking how fucked up it is, but after you finish it and have time to think about it you realize how good it was.

It's a quick read. I finished it in a day. So that's nice. It has McCarthy's trademark style, and combined with the content of a dejected hillbilly who is so mentally deranged and lonely that he resorts to murder and necrophilia, it makes for some strange, hauntingly beautiful prose.

I definitely recommend it.

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

i'll check into it.

[bald nerd]

Just got done reading this book. It's way too easy and fast too read, but did well. I would recommend reading it if you want something that isn't majorly long to read, but want a good story.

Has great dark overtones throughout the book, good moral conflicts... good if you are into post-apocalyptic stories.



Overall... 4/5 Booktits. About a 2-3 day read.

What's a booktit you ask???

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I didn't see this thread til now, I've been reading alot again so this threads going to be fun for me .

[Repugnant Abomination]

Yo,

The Road was the first book I read by McCarthy (I suspect the same can be said for most people) and ever since reading it I've been a big fan of his. If you liked The Road then you should check out his other books. Of his books I've read:

Blood Meridian
The Road
No Country for Old Men
All the Pretty Horses
Child of God

I consider myself pretty knowledgeable of his work at this point, so I feel confident in saying that if you liked The Road you'll definitely like Child of God. They have very similar feels to them.

[bald nerd]

Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination

Yo,

The Road was the first book I read by McCarthy (I suspect the same can be said for most people) and ever since reading it I've been a big fan of his. If you liked The Road then you should check out his other books. Of his books I've read:

Blood Meridian
The Road
No Country for Old Men
All the Pretty Horses
Child of God

I consider myself pretty knowledgeable of his work at this point, so I feel confident in saying that if you liked The Road you'll definitely like Child of God. They have very similar feels to them.

Hey thanks man, I'll grab Child of God after I'm done with "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" written by Phillip K Dick.

This book makes me wanna watch some bladerunner lol.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner (2005). The book's epigraph reads: "Sixty Million and more," by which Morrison refers to the estimated number of slaves who died in the slave trade.

In this novel, Morrison paints a somber picture of the brutal effects of slavery, especially from the point of view of the characters. It examines both the mental and physical trauma caused by slavery as well as its effect on survivors. The book follows the story of Sethe (pronounced "Seth-uh") and her daughter Denver as they try to rebuild their lives after having escaped from slavery.
124 Bluestone, the house they inhabit, is apparently haunted; poltergeist events occur there with an alarming regularity. Because of this, Sethe's youngest daughter, Denver, has no friends and is extremely shy. Howard and Buglar, Sethe's sons, run away from home by the time they are thirteen. Their primary reason was the fear of being killed by their own mother. They do not understand why Sethe murdered Beloved, and believe that whatever triggered the infanticide may happen again. Shortly afterward, Baby Suggs, the mother of Sethe's husband Halle, dies in her bed.

A survey of writers and literary critics conducted by The New York Times found Beloved the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years; it garnered 15 of 125 votes, finishing ahead of Don DeLillo's Underworld (11 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8) and John Updike's Rabbit series (8). The results appeared in The New York Times Book Review on May 21, 2006.
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

[Repugnant Abomination]

The Stranger or The Outsider, (L’Étranger) (1942), by Albert Camus, is one of the most famous French novels of the twentieth century and is among the most notable literary expositions of the absurdity of human existence in an indifferent universe. Philosophically, it is often labeled an existentialist novel, though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist; in fact, its content explores various different philosophical schools of thought, including (most prominently and specifically) absurdism, as well as atheism, determinism, nihilism, and stoicism.
The title character is Meursault, a French man (characterized by being largely emotionally detached, innately passive, and anomic) who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognizes in French Algiers. The story is divided into Parts One and Two: Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Set in Prague in 1968, the novel details the circumstances of the lives of artists and intellectuals in Communist Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Prague Spring, and the subsequent invasion by the USSR. The major protagonists include: Tomáš, a well-known, successful surgeon; his wife Tereza, a photographer in anguish over her husband's many infidelities; Tomáš' lover Sabina; Sabina's lover, Franz; Simon, Tomáš' estranged son from a first marriage.
The book centers on Nietzsche's idea of eternal return - that is, the idea that the universe and all the events therein have all happened before, and will continue to recur ad infinitum. Kundera challenges this idea, offering an alternative: each of us has only one life to live, and what happens once will never occur again. He calls this idea "lightness", and refers to the concept of eternal return as "heaviness" or "weight".

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[Repugnant Abomination]

The book traces the protagonist's feelings as he gets increasingly old and sick, and his reflections of his own past, which has included his share of misdeeds and mistakes, as he ponders his impending death.



The book begins with the funeral of Molly Lane. Guests at the funeral include the Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, newspaper editor Vernon Halliday, and eminent composer Clive Linley. These three share certain attributes: each has a very high opinion of himself, each was at some time Molly's lover, and each regards the dead woman's husband George with a mixture of amusement and contempt. Clive and Vernon muse upon Molly's death. It seems she had some kind of rapid-onset brain disease (not specified) that left her helpless and mad. Neither man can understand her attraction to Julian Garmony, the right-wing Foreign Secretary who is about to challenge the Leadership.

During the course of the book Clive and Vernon become mortal enemies bent on exacting revenge. The consequences of their decisions, and a pact made between them, lead them both to Amsterdam where the novel's dénouement plays out.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

whats a denouemnet?

[Repugnant Abomination]

Main Entry:
de·noue·ment
Variant(s):
also dé·noue·ment \ˌdā-ˌnü-ˈmäⁿ, dā-ˈnü-ˌ\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French dénouement, literally, untying, from Middle French desnouement, from desnouer to untie, from Old French desnoer, from des- de- + noer to tie, from Latin nodare, from nodus knot — more at node
Date:
1705
1 : the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
2 : the outcome of a complex sequence of events

[Repugnant Abomination]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of "Stalinist repression" been openly distributed.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

are any of these books on tape or were made into movies?

[Mr. Blonde]

Dude do you read all these in real time or are they just books you have read before? Do you currently have a job and/or life? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good book as much as the next guy but the fact that you have the time to read all these is astounding to me.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

how long does it take you to read a book, blonde?

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

I picked up McCarthy's The Road today as well as Pygmy by Palahniuk.

I'll write reviews when I'm done. I'm taking both of them to work, so speed is dependent on how busy I am at work. Will probably read The Road first.

[Mr. Blonde]

Originally Posted by THEINCREDIBLEdork

how long does it take you to read a book, blonde?

Depends how into it i am. I've always been more partial to fiction, but not necessarily a specific genre. For example, I finished enders game, enders shadow, shadow of the hegemon, and speaker for the dead all in like 2 weeks. Count of monte cristo took me like 2 months, while I think it was a great book, it was a lot harder to keep my attention than the enders saga.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

Dude do you read all these in real time or are they just books you have read before? Do you currently have a job and/or life? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good book as much as the next guy but the fact that you have the time to read all these is astounding to me.

No, these aren't books I've already read. I only post books here I've recently finished. I don't have a job right now which is a big part of why I'm able to read so much. I'm sure once I start teaching in Taiwan I'll drop back down to a book or two a month instead of five or six. Also, many of the recent books have been on the shorter side.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

i diddn't know ender's game had sequels, are they as good as the first?

[Mr. Blonde]

Yes, and they are fucking tits. Enders Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon are all about Bean (the little guy who joins his team really late) and how much of a fucking genius he is. Enders Shadow is all about Beans (way better character than Ender imo) experience and getting to Battle school, and it basically outlines all the crazy shit that was going on with him there that you only saw glimpses of in Enders Game. Shadow of the Hegemon is about him and the other battle schol kids going back to Earth after the Bugger war is over and all the crazy politics and wars that happen after. Speaker for the Dead happens 3,000 years after the events of Enders game and Ender is still alive thanks to the theory of relativity, and it is about the first intelligent life they find after he massacred all the Buggers.

The latter took me a bit to get into at first because of the 3,000 year thing, but I was willing to succumb to suspension of disbelief and really, really enjoy the book. There are a couple other books too but I stopped after Speaker.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

Reader

edit nvm apparently cant attach zip files anymore

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

So I downloaded and re-read Enders Game today. What a great book.

I first read it when I was like in 2nd or 3rd grade, and the most interesting part about re-reading it was how many visual memories and ideas in the dark corners of my mind were influenced by this book. While these vague visuals and ideas have recurringly shown up in dreams and subconscious thoughts over the years, I had no idea where they had come from. For example, I've had a recurring dream about a giants body decomposing into the landscape and exploring it and had completely forgot about where I had originally gotten the idea.

I also thought it was cool that this was written in 1985 and Scott had pretty much nailed the idea of "nets" and how memes would flow through them and influence peoples thoughts in the future.

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

So I started and completed The Road at work today. Overall, I liked it. Very easy read. It will be interesting to see how it translates to film. There were some scenes that could build up the tension of wondering what is going to happen. And some overall creepy/dark scenes regarding how fucked up civilization becomes at the end of it all.

Trailer for the film:

YouTube - The Road - Official Trailer [HD]

YouTube - The Road - Official Trailer [HD]