Favorite Books and Current Reads

YouTube · Postby **noodles** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:11 pm

ideally a short story is designed to be complete as a short story

when you have a complete idea, and you successfully write it, and it ends up as a short story, it was probably not meant to be a novel.

Somewhat related: I have enjoyed some of Asimov's nonfiction as well, describing the amazing workings of the universe.

negzee · Postby **negzee** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:32 pm

On Robot Laws:

YouTube · Postby **noodles** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:43 pm

robots are incapable of disdain!!!!

Kinokokao · Postby **Kinokokao** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:24 pm

YouTube · Postby **noodles** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:30 pm

Kinokokao · Postby **Kinokokao** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:02 pm

scy · Postby **scy** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:06 pm

I don't mind one-shot (i.e., one volume) Manga stories assuming they CLOSE THE DOORS THEY OPEN. Same for other short stories but I'm not sure where to draw the line for "short story" since, to me, a single book that starts and ends the entire plot counts for that yet I'm pretty damn sure the "actual" definition is ... much shorter.

Rain · Postby **Rain** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:20 pm

I like short stories.

I'm reading The Wide Sargasso Sea. It's kind of weird.

YouTube · Postby **noodles** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:21 pm

Kimiko · Postby **Kimiko** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:42 am

YouTube · Postby **noodles** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:48 am

yeah and then you waste money on every damn book that comes out in a series just to see if anything cool happens with the characters you love

Twat · Postby **Twat** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:50 am

I read a lot of stuff but I'm too tired for another multireview.

I'm currently going through piles of my grandmother's romance books. These are really bad.

I love them!

Kinokokao · Postby **Kinokokao** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:20 pm

Are there Georgette Heyer books in your stack?

Sampson · Postby **Sampson** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:35 am

So...I finished The Gunslinger. And I'm starting on The Drawing of The Three.

[spoiler]The Gunslinger was definitely good, a bit vague at parts with information/backstory reveal, but that should be explained more in the sequels.

And I now know where noodles's siggy comes from. The picture, anyway. Silly Walter o' Dim.

It's pretty interesting how Roland loses three (I think) phelanges in the course of the second book's prologue. So I guess this means no more two-handed gun wielding. Unless he gets prosthetic fingers or something.[/spoiler]

Rain · Postby **Rain** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:51 am

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