Super Cool

I do. That's why I don't read harry crack head.

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JhonCaves

uh. A lot of people give a shit. Just because you don't, doesn't mean it stops being important.

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Empathy

Super Cool, Harry Potter has no religious underlining whatsoever. In fact, most churches wanted to boycott the entire series. Way make yourself seem uneducated, again.

I just think people are too sensitive about everything now-a-days. If a book is a good piece of literature, does it honestly matter if the author had God in his mind while he was writing it? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say is an Islamic author wrote a book with slight underlining, but it was still literary excellence, I'd still read it and wouldn't whine about it online. People think because a book contains a higher being that it's an infringement of their rights and the author is pushing religion on them through fiction. Either don't read it, or enjoy the book for what it is: FICTION.

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Super Cool

I thought underlining meant that it was attacked by said religion. Harry crackhead deserves to be sued and burned.

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SRP76

Carrie - okay
'Salem's Lot - awesome
Dead Zone - meh
Night Shift - pretty good
Cujo - great
The Stand (Uncut) - awesome
The Shining - meh
Skeleton Crew - very good
Different Seasons - awesome (3 of the 4 were slam dunks)
Christine - okay
It - okay
Misery - good
The Eyes of the Dragon - awesome
Cycle of the Werewolf (Illustrated) - very good
The Tommyknockers - great
Four Past Midnight - very good
Needful Things - okay
The Dark Half - meh
Nightmares and Dreamscapes - very good
The Green Mile (Complete Serial Novel) - great
Insomnia - great
Dreamcatcher - very good
Cell - great

....and that's all I've read of his.

Super Cool

What makes a good great is if it is entertaining not how well it was written.


If a book has christian underlining it's instantly made of pure win.

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JhonCaves

*throws up*

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Empathy

Super Cool, you don't honestly believe the first part of your post, do you? Entertaining is superior to literary excellence? Anyone can write an entertaining novella. It takes a scholar to write an entertaining, yet literary perfect, novel. Good books have to be well written.

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Super Cool

If it bores me no matter how well it's written I don't like it.

If it entertains me no matter how bad it's written I likeit.

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SaiyajinPerfection

That is an interesting, yet simple way of looking at things; and I somewhat agree. Over-detailed writing is really good, but sometimes it gets boring and to a point where you find repetative points in the text. Then you start to wonder if the writer was just winging it, and aiming for a personal quota for page numbers.

Of course it depends on what the book's subject is too, even though a book can be crappily written, sometimes its subject is easier for the reader to understand or relate to than a well written book. But generally, it doesn't really matter what a well written book's subject is about, the subjects are often easy to relate to and even find appealing. It's rare to like a crappy written book over a well written one. The same goes for movies and stuff like that.

This post makes me cringe though. I find it hard to like books that have a Christian underlining, and this even includes the Bible. The intention of the Bible is not to be an actual depiction of historical events, but rather be a guide to moral values. Many of the stories in the Bible were inspired from legends believed by the people of Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Greece's legend about Pandora's Box and the Mesopotamian account of the creation of man are practically prototypes for Genesis, and those civilzations and legends existed hundreds, even thousands of years before Christianity and the Bible did.

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Super Cool

Except christianity is real and greece stuff is fake.

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Lord_Sloth

I hate most books because they just bore me but there are a few I have enjoyed.

Dragonlance
Autumn Twilight, Winter Night, Spring Dawning, Time of the Twins, War of the Twings, Test of the Twins, Summer Flame, Soul Forge, Brothers in Arms, Draconian Measures

Ender Saga
Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead

Star Wars
Fall of the Diversity Alliance

That's it for my book reading. I play to get more of the Star Wars and Ender books.

Of them all I underlined those that I liked more.

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Vegetunks

Hmm... I made a little list with my favorite books and I'm recomanding them to all members (if they don't already read them): "Frankenstein" written by Mary Shelley, "Justice League: Secret Origins" written by Michael Teitelbaum, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe and "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James. :)

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Vivi

I read often, I've read nearly all of Stephen King, a lot of Dean Koontz and hundreds, (Probably near a thousand) so I can't list them all out for you.

As for non-fiction, I like reading historical, scientific, or classic works.

Oh, and on the issue of Christian books, I personally find them corny. The extra little bit added in there is a tad overboard.

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Raven

Link me to some of those books when you can.

I'm looking to get into books but I want to read sci-fi stuff and not just...general readings.

Right now I'm reading "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. Rather enjoyable but I feel there's more out there for me. I read every day I go to work so I know I'll get through it.

Are there any books regarding the history of anime and manga or books on anime in general? I would love that. Please help me out people. :p I know you nerds got the info.!

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