I am Bookreading (and so can you)

[Skiiran]

http://www.eriposte.com/humor-etc/books/Franken_Lying_Liars.jpg
See it is funny because he is right and all the douchebags he disses are liars.

Next up is, hopefully, The King in Yellow.

What is everyone else reading?

[rossmum]

Flight of Eagles by Jack Higgins. For like the 20th time.

[Leiukemia]

Some random science fiction book called The Last Gasp, by some random author named Trevor Hoyle.

[Archon23]

A Confederacy of Dunces. I don't see the funny :gonk:

[Agamemnon]

The Communist Manifesto.

:eyesroll:

[n00b1n8R]

skiiran, that book is a joke right?

also I needs me a book D:
actually, I might go and get the last HP book out of the library again..

[Con]

http://www.orionsarm.com/books/dosadi.jpg

[Huero]

I Am America (And So Can You)

And Contact Harvest because Hornets

[Aerowyn]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n17468.jpg

[Leiukemia]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n17468.jpg

lol I was about to make a comment about it being a girls book then I saw it was you

[Agamemnon]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n17468.jpg
I thought the author was Anne Rice for a second there, and I figured something had to be wrong if the front cover had too much color and nice features.

[Aerowyn]

lol I was about to make a comment about it being a girls book then I saw it was you

Why thank you. :V

There's a scene in this book where these well to-do women of power castrate a man and cut off his penis and stuff like that..... for their own entertainment. They laugh about it.

Bwa ha ha ha.

[Rob Oplawar]

note to self: stay away from aerowyn.

I just finished reading Survivor Quest by Timothy Zahn. It's a Star Wars book, and judging by the title and the cover it looks like the cheesiest bit of Star Wars fanfic ever, but I got it cause I know Zahn's a good writer. Guess what? Twas a good book. =)

[Gamerkd16]

I was reading the first of the Halo books, but then got distracted with something.

[Pope]

Check anything by Micheal Crichton.

His books are sort of fiction based off real world issues of today. Excellent read in my opinion.

[rossmum]

Why thank you. :V

There's a scene in this book where these well to-do women of power castrate a man and cut off his penis and stuff like that..... for their own entertainment. They laugh about it.

Bwa ha ha ha.
That's just not fucking cool.

[Agamemnon]

Why thank you. :V

There's a scene in this book where these well to-do women of power castrate a man and cut off his penis and stuff like that..... for their own entertainment. They laugh about it.

Bwa ha ha ha.
You should read The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. One of the robots removes a woman's vagina. They laugh about it.

Heh.

Oh, and the robot also tosses her baby off a cliff too. While she's watching. They laugh about that as well.

[Skiiran]

skiiran, that book is a joke right?

also I needs me a book D:
actually, I might go and get the last HP book out of the library again..
Whatever do you mean? All those people on the cover are liars - Ann 'bitch' coulter, Bill O'Reiley, a bitg splotchy meany, Cheney...a bad dude.

[n00b1n8R]

the title makes it sound like a parody.

[ExAm]

I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert

[Skiiran]

the title makes it sound like a parody.
He is a comedian. Saying liars a lot produces chuckles from normals.

[nooBBooze]

kafka-and also, no shit i used to read the comunist manifesto too. marx had some good points when he was projecting socialism, but the utopia of comunism-meh. turns out it really is an utopia.

so yeah im generally more into books you cant find next to the shelter of my local game store. im way too uncool D:

[Patrickssj6]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n31/n158143.jpg

[Aerowyn]

You should read The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. One of the robots removes a woman's vagina. They laugh about it.

Heh.

Oh, and the robot also tosses her baby off a cliff too. While she's watching. They laugh about that as well.


And how exactly does one go about removing a vagina? :rolleyes:unless you're talking insides, he would basically have to tear all her skin off, and even that doesn't fully eliminate the use of the vagina because the functional part would still be there. *shrug*

Also, babies off cliffs doesn't make me all that depressed. Don't worry.

[Agamemnon]

And how exactly does one go about removing a vagina? :rolleyes:unless you're talking insides, he would basically have to tear all her skin off, and even that doesn't fully eliminate the use of the vagina because the functional part would still be there. *shrug*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterectomy


Also, babies off cliffs doesn't make me all that depressed. Don't worry.
Heartless you are, mhm. http://swg.stratics.com/content/lore/personas/images/yoda.gif

[Mass]

You should read The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. One of the robots removes a woman's vagina. They laugh about it.

Heh.

Oh, and the robot also tosses her baby off a cliff too. While she's watching. They laugh about that as well.
Don't get me started, I'm currently reading The Rape of Nanking. By far the goriest book I have ever read, and it's nonfiction. For those who don't know, its about the Sino-Japanese war, 1938. The Japanese captured the capital of Nanking in central China, And kill 300,000 people in 6 weeks, they torture huge numbers to death, engage in killing civilian competitions. When dealing with men they forced them to dig their own graves than efficiently kill them by the hundreds. They also enjoy lighting people on fire, bayonet practice on live victims, and nailing men to walls, castrating them, and eating their penis as a sexual enhancer. They also raped about 25,000 women, in six weeks. They unleashed 99% of the damage on the city through arson, 1% was months of air raids. Anyway, they blew women up by sticking explosives in their vaginas, bottles which they then shattered with gunshots, and tying women up, raping them three times a day for a month.

Disgusting, really sick. And it was for school.

[Agamemnon]

Don't get me started, I'm currently reading The Rape of Nanking. By far the goriest book I have ever read, and it's nonfiction. For those who don't know, its about the Sino-Japanese war, 1938. The Japanese captured the capital of Nanking in central China, And kill 300,000 people in 6 weeks, they torture huge numbers to death, engage in killing civilian competitions. When dealing with men they forced them to dig their own graves than efficiently kill them by the hundreds. They also enjoy lighting people on fire, bayonet practice on live victims, and nailing men to walls, castrating them, and eating their penis as a sexual enhancer. They also raped about 25,000 women, in six weeks. They unleashed 99% of the damage on the city through arson, 1% was months of air raids. Anyway, they blew women up by sticking explosives in their vaginas, bottles which they then shattered with gunshots, and tying women up, raping them three times a day for a month.

Disgusting, really sick. And it was for school.
Oh yeah, the robots do all sorts of despicable things, but the thing I'd like to point out is that mine is fiction and yours isn't, and yet things like that still go on and we still call ourselves civilized. :rolleyes:

[nooBBooze]

^^ Thats....man thats just....i mean guantanamo bay is like a holiday trip compared to that.

[rossmum]

The main reason there's still bubonic plague in China is because the Japanese tested their plague-filled artillery shells and bombs on nearby villages, too.

:|

[El Lobo]

The Otherland series (on book 3 right now) and The Wheel of Time series (waiting on book 12 to be released).

Really liking Otherland.

[Aerowyn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterectomy


Like I said, removing her uterus isn't the same thing as "removing her vagina." They're two totally different things. You'd know that if you've ever seen one. :awesome: Vagina = outside. Uterus = inside.

And being without a uterus would rock. Sure, you can't have kids, but HELL YES, no more bleeding for a week straight. And all the sex you want without the risk of pregnancy. :V

It's all good.

[Agamemnon]

I was talking about the concept of not being able to bear children any more, vagina or not. :|

[Rob Oplawar]

D= my virgin eyes have never seen such discussion. I guess I really am new to this internet thing.

I've been meaning to pick up Cryptonomicon. Anyone read/heard of it?

[Pooky]

Like I said, removing her uterus isn't the same thing as "removing her vagina." They're two totally different things. You'd know that if you've ever seen one. :awesome: Vagina = outside. Uterus = inside.

And being without a uterus would rock. Sure, you can't have kids, but HELL YES, no more bleeding for a week straight. And all the sex you want without the risk of pregnancy. :V

It's all good.

You could always saw off the vagina as a whole and leave a huge gaping hole in between her legs :downs:

Also,

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2248/bramstokersdracula1ld0.jpg

for like... the third time

Just finished Return of the King, and I picked up one of the few Chrichton books I haven't read; I'll start on that when I'm done with this.

[Leiukemia]

And how exactly does one go about removing a vagina? :rolleyes:unless you're talking insides, he would basically have to tear all her skin off, and even that doesn't fully eliminate the use of the vagina because the functional part would still be there. *shrug*

Also, babies off cliffs doesn't make me all that depressed. Don't worry.

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http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/Duncgs/ei_0351.jpg

[Rob Oplawar]

http://www.h2vista.net/forums/h2images/smilies/trillian/lmao.gif

[ExAm]

D= my virgin eyes have never seen such discussion. I guess I really am new to this internet thing.

I've been meaning to pick up Cryptonomicon. Anyone read/heard of it?I have it, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Also, Adequacy.org lists it as a "hacker manual" :awesome:

[Bodzilla]

Don't get me started, I'm currently reading The Rape of Nanking. By far the goriest book I have ever read, and it's nonfiction. For those who don't know, its about the Sino-Japanese war, 1938. The Japanese captured the capital of Nanking in central China, And kill 300,000 people in 6 weeks, they torture huge numbers to death, engage in killing civilian competitions. When dealing with men they forced them to dig their own graves than efficiently kill them by the hundreds. They also enjoy lighting people on fire, bayonet practice on live victims, and nailing men to walls, castrating them, and eating their penis as a sexual enhancer. They also raped about 25,000 women, in six weeks. They unleashed 99% of the damage on the city through arson, 1% was months of air raids. Anyway, they blew women up by sticking explosives in their vaginas, bottles which they then shattered with gunshots, and tying women up, raping them three times a day for a month.

Disgusting, really sick. And it was for school.
WHAT THE FUCK?!

[Pooky]

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http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/Duncgs/ei_0351.jpg


You could always saw off the vagina as a whole and leave a huge gaping hole in between her legs :downs:

I never get credit for my own ideas :awesome:

[Archon23]

Don't get me started, I'm currently reading The Rape of Nanking. By far the goriest book I have ever read, and it's nonfiction. For those who don't know, its about the Sino-Japanese war, 1938. The Japanese captured the capital of Nanking in central China, And kill 300,000 people in 6 weeks, they torture huge numbers to death, engage in killing civilian competitions. When dealing with men they forced them to dig their own graves than efficiently kill them by the hundreds. They also enjoy lighting people on fire, bayonet practice on live victims, and nailing men to walls, castrating them, and eating their penis as a sexual enhancer. They also raped about 25,000 women, in six weeks. They unleashed 99% of the damage on the city through arson, 1% was months of air raids. Anyway, they blew women up by sticking explosives in their vaginas, bottles which they then shattered with gunshots, and tying women up, raping them three times a day for a month.

Disgusting, really sick. And it was for school.

Oh yeah the reason why my parents hate the Japanese, also why its very awkward seeing as I'm learning the language and the culture.

[bobbysoon]

Oldies but goodies:
http://vx.netlux.org/lib/img/snowcrash.jpg http://www.seanparnell.com/Hyperion%20Cantos/Hyperion%20Cantos%20Images/Hyperion%20Front%20Book%20Cover.gif

[Rob Oplawar]

Arg, I keep forgetting that I need to read that. Man, so many good books out there to read.

[Leiukemia]

I never get credit for my own ideas :awesome:

Pshh, this is what came to mind when Aggy first said it. Besides, my picture was done with an electric knife not a chainsaw :P

[Emmzee]

http://subbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vonnegut-2.jpg

For like the third time.
:iia:

[Rob Oplawar]

Cat's Cradle is better.

No damn cat, and no damn cradle!

[Mass]

The main reason there's still bubonic plague in China is because the Japanese tested their plague-filled artillery shells and bombs on nearby villages, too.

:|
I read a 250+ page book on everything they did.
I was posting from school (lol tech "class") and so I now have some time to think of some the most memorable moments.

Person buried up to neck then head crushed by tank.

Girl who was tied up in prison then raped 3 times a day for a month straight.

Initiation ritual in which Japanese soldiers were taught to not value Chinese life was watching your commander behead someone with a katana, then being given a prisoner with which to do the same.

I mentioned the rape while being crucified one right?

Live burial.

They got everyone addicted to heroin intentionally before they left.

New drug/torture/execution methods by Japanese doctors upon live subjects.
(Hey dude, this sounds like an oppurtunity to get an excellent detailed discription of arsenic's effects!)

While attempting to burn people alive they ran out of gas and let people bleed/starve to death in a pit upon mounds of their dead comrades.

There was one instance where they made a platoon of captured Chinese soldiers jump into a frozen pond which they then lobbed grenades into.

Thousands of Chinese had thier joints dislocated during torture.

Not to mention (Zilla) this is normally refered to as The Forgotten Holocaust.
3 People were executed for war crimes. 3. Most Japanese deny it ever happened. They think they were the ultimate victims.

[jngrow]

I read a 250+ page book on everything they did.
I was posting from school (lol tech "class") and so I now have some time to think of some the most memorable moments.

Person buried up to neck then head crushed by tank.

Girl who was tied up in prison then raped 3 times a day for a month straight.

Initiation ritual in which Japanese soldiers were taught to not value Chinese life was watching your commander behead someone with a katana, then being given a prisoner with which to do the same.

I mentioned the rape while being crucified one right?

Live burial.

They got everyone addicted to heroin intentionally before they left.

New drug/torture/execution methods by Japanese doctors upon live subjects.
(Hey dude, this sounds like an oppurtunity to get an excellent detailed discription of arsenic's effects!)

While attempting to burn people alive they ran out of gas and let people bleed/starve to death in a pit upon mounds of their dead comrades.

There was one instance where they made a platoon of captured Chinese soldiers jump into a frozen pond which they then lobbed grenades into.

Thousands of Chinese had thier joints dislocated during torture.

Not to mention (Zilla) this is normally refered to as The Forgotten Holocaust.
3 People were executed for war crimes. 3. Most Japanese deny it ever happened. They think they were the ultimate victims.

I pretty much knew about all of what you just said, except for 3 people being executed for war crimes. WTF.

[ImSpartacus]

Check anything by Micheal Crichton.

His books are sort of fiction based off real world issues of today. Excellent read in my opinion.

I'm reading State of Fear right now. Just finished The Andromeda Strain. I loved that one.

[Emmzee]

They think they were the ultimate victims.
To be fair, they did get nuked by us, twice.

And, they're a bunch of xenophobic dicks.

[Mass]

To be fair, they did get nuked by us, twice.

And, they're a bunch of xenophobic dicks.
That's their excuse, but they killed more people in Nanking, you know, with blades and fire. I think I'd rather be obliterated by something invisibly bright and inaudibly loud.

Anyway, they think they were justified in invading Asia and the Pacific. Manifest Destiny type thing.

Furthermore, I think more people would have died in a long grueling invasion then in the instantaneous destruction of two medium sized cities.

[Emmzee]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Neuromancer_%28Book%29.jpg

/thread

[Emmzee]

That's their excuse, but they killed more people in Nanking, you know, with blades and fire. I think I'd rather be obliterated by something invisibly bright and inaudibly loud.

Anyway, they think they were justified in invading Asia and the Pacific. Manifest Destiny type thing.

Furthermore, I think more people would have died in a long grueling invasion then in the instantaneous destruction of two medium sized cities.
I agree on that last point too. I also think we should've nuked Vietnam and Korea, but that's besides the point.

The Bataan Death March alone could not be offset by a nuke or two.

[Syuusuke]

I remember that =(

But I am reading:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n11/n56679.jpg

[bobbysoon]

Neuromancers... a friend recommended that book to me

http://www.eckharttolle.com/revos2/files/Image/Books%20Pages/A%20New%20Earth/A-New-Earth-Hardcover-Web.jpg
I've been listening to the audiobook version. Here's the website's description of the book:
... an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.

Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic [un]consciousness to an entirely new one.

In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.

[Emmzee]

http://www.eckharttolle.com/revos2/files/Image/Books%20Pages/A%20New%20Earth/A-New-Earth-Hardcover-Web.jpg
If you think you need a self-help book, you really need more than just a book.

[Mass]

I agree on that last point too. I also think we should've nuked Vietnam and Korea, but that's besides the point.

The Bataan Death March alone could not be offset by a nuke or two.
Damn. I want to think this is sarcasm but I have some trouble doing so.

Either way you can be right or wrong. I won't pretend to have a legitimate opinion on the issue.

[bobbysoon]

If you think you need a self-help book, you really need more than just a book.
No doubt. I started listening to it because I could, and I found it interesting

[Skiiran]

That's their excuse, but they killed more people in Nanking, you know, with blades and fire. I think I'd rather be obliterated by something invisibly bright and inaudibly loud.

Anyway, they think they were justified in invading Asia and the Pacific. Manifest Destiny type thing.

Furthermore, I think more people would have died in a long grueling invasion then in the instantaneous destruction of two medium sized cities.
I know I am way too late to this party, but yes. Predicted casualties for an invasion were in the millions, collectively. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while scarred forever and very difficult decisions, ultimately saved the lives of many thousands more on both sides.

[bobbysoon]

too bad we didn't just douse them with a tsunami. It'd still get the point across (assuming the point isn't decimating their population)

[Bodzilla]

I read a 250+ page book on everything they did.
I was posting from school (lol tech "class") and so I now have some time to think of some the most memorable moments.

Person buried up to neck then head crushed by tank.

Girl who was tied up in prison then raped 3 times a day for a month straight.

Initiation ritual in which Japanese soldiers were taught to not value Chinese life was watching your commander behead someone with a katana, then being given a prisoner with which to do the same.

I mentioned the rape while being crucified one right?

Live burial.

They got everyone addicted to heroin intentionally before they left.

New drug/torture/execution methods by Japanese doctors upon live subjects.
(Hey dude, this sounds like an oppurtunity to get an excellent detailed discription of arsenic's effects!)

While attempting to burn people alive they ran out of gas and let people bleed/starve to death in a pit upon mounds of their dead comrades.

There was one instance where they made a platoon of captured Chinese soldiers jump into a frozen pond which they then lobbed grenades into.

Thousands of Chinese had thier joints dislocated during torture.

Not to mention (Zilla) this is normally refered to as The Forgotten Holocaust.
3 People were executed for war crimes. 3. Most Japanese deny it ever happened. They think they were the ultimate victims.
and people wonder why i'm such a Jaded sinical bastard.

i'm looking into the Road of Bones atm.
worst part of all is Russia did it to it's own people.

unbelievable.

[Rob Oplawar]

and people wonder why i'm such a Jaded cynical bastard.
ftfy.

Re-reading Outbound Flight atm. Pretty good book.
Grand Admiral Thrawn is awesome. =D

[ICEE]

I was talking about the concept of not being able to bear children any more, vagina or not. :|


Hey man people PAY to have that done to themselves. I think Aerowyns torture wins.

[Pooky]

ftfy.

Re-reading Outbound Flight atm. Pretty good book.
Grand Admiral Thrawn is awesome. =D

I read that a few weeks ago, it was indeed awesome. There was one thing I didn't get though. In the Thrawn trilogy he was a totally evil bad guy, but in Outbound Flight he's suddenly a completely benevolent good guy? What gives, he just one day said "hurr i wanna be evil"? I thought I would find out somewhere in the book but it never explains it :|

[m13120]

:ssh:http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9799/pksec6.jpgCensored for you little kiddies under 13

[n00b1n8R]

you should have put the censored out of the spoiler.

also wtf <_<

[m13120]

There you go :pervert:

[Hotrod]

I'm reading Fortress Draconis - Micheal A. Stackpole.

[Rob Oplawar]

I never read the Thrawn trilogy, did Zahn write that or someone else? I like Zahn's take on the Star Wars universe, where Imperials aren't necessarily evil and Jedi aren't necessarily good. I like the idea that Thrawn never really was a bad guy, even though he was an Imperial and, er, did bad things. Lol.

[n00b1n8R]

^same.

[Pooky]

I never read the Thrawn trilogy, did Zahn write that or someone else? I like Zahn's take on the Star Wars universe, where Imperials aren't necessarily evil and Jedi aren't necessarily good. I like the idea that Thrawn never really was a bad guy, even though he was an Imperial and, er, did bad things. Lol.

Yeah it was Zahn

[Rob Oplawar]

I'll have to pick that up then.
Man, I'm such a nerd.
e:Wait a minute, what am I talking about, I'm on a fan site for a videogame. Everyone here is a nerd. I am at home with my brothers! =P