Correction, V was a GREAT movie!

I just finished reading Factotum by Charles Bukowski again.I had read it a few years ago but i picked it up last night and read it in about three hours.Its loosely based on the authors life but he calls the character Henry Chinaski.It was first made into the movie Barfly(1987) starring Mickey Rourke as Henry.Faye Dunnaway was also the second main lead.The they actually released a "slight" remake called Factotum with Matt Dillon which was a huge disappointment.But the book is a great funny read.Maybe a bit crude for some readers.

I just finished reading the Kurt Cobain journals.Its a book of photocopied pages taken from his diary's and journals.Now im not a Nirvana fan,but i loved this book.Screw a biography when you have his most private and intimate thoughts right there in front of you.Its a really great read and i recommend it to anyone who likes his music,or anyone who has interest in the guy.You even get to see how much he changes as time and success progress.

A great read.

A fantastic early story by my favorite comic book guy himself, Mr. Frank Miller. Although nothing of his I don't think will surpass his SIN CITY series, I'd put RONIN up there with 300. It's an action/sci-fi novel which blends the two beautifully. I'm definitely looking forward to the movie, although I think it might not be released until 2009. If you like Frank Miller, read the book before the movie.

Are those books or comic book/magazines you are reading?

1.21 gigawats.

Graphic novel. The series composed of 6 seperate comic books but what I was physically reading was a giant novel with all 6 books together as one.

Cool

I think this was a lot more interesting than BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Unfortunately, as was the case with 300, the book should have been longer. The story really could have delved into Batman's past and pyshe more. I guess that's where BATMAN BEGINS comes in. From reading this novel, I definitely have a new appreciation for the film. Again, this book was great.

At first I felt the book had too much fluff in it. I wanted it to stop beating around the bush and get to the meat of the problem. And even though I felt the end wasn't as explored as well as I would have liked it to have been, I did enjoy the ending probably more than I expected. I can definitely say I enjoy this series more than the Lord of the Rings trilogy and it's just sad now that it's over. If you've never read any of these books before, do yourself the favor, borrow, rent or buy them and begin reading!

Books
1) The Half-Blood Prince
2) The Deathly Hallows
3) The Goblet of Fire
4) The Prisoner of Azkaban
5) The Sorcerer's Stone
6) The Order of the Phoenix
7) The Chamber of Secrets

Movies
1) The Sorcerer's Stone
2) The Order of the Phoenix
3) The Goblet of Fire
4) The Prisoner of Azkaban
5) The Chamber of Secrets

These past two days I started and finished Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre. If anybody here's read it, I suppose it won't surprise that I absolutely loved it.

I'd recommend it, quite vainly (though self-consciously vainly), to anybody who wishes to understand one of my basic outlooks on life.

The definitive biography Just finished this book,a great insight to the early life of the King,where he grew up and his high school years and then his road to fame.This book is the first of two,this book end just as Elvis leaves for the army.







This book starts from the army up until his death and after..

Also finished this recently.

A true legend,not just for his music but for his contribution to many things over the course of his life..

I'm half-way through The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor. It maintains that Jeus was actually a follower of John and that between them they had a plan to implement the Priest and Messiah predictions of the Old Testament.

How did you enjoy it? I've been thinking about reading Cash's autobiography. Does it mention or expand on anything from the movie? And yes, I realize the book was released first for those wishing to correct me

Sounds interesting. Very interesting. Worth checking out?

This biography is awesome,i would advise you to read this being a Johnny Cash fan.

Have you read this one DE NIRO?

I actully picked this one up first in the shop,but i choose the top book as it was more updated.i think yours in 97 mines is 2004.

I may get this,how is it?

I don't know, I haven't read it. I was thinking about it though.

Ive just finished reading a book by Charlie Owen called Horses Arse,

its set in the 1970s and horses arse is the affectionate name for Handstead new town in a dump in Manchester,the police use it as a penal posting all the bad coppers end up there.Worst amongst the residents on the estate are the park royal mafia a gang of thugs who terroise there estate,this is a story about the group of police officers who work there,the grim brothers,psycho,pizza and piggy these guys are more thugs than the residents it is an excellent book which captures what england is really like and street crime in england, i really enjoyed the book and recommend it to anybody else.

heres a link for anyone interested

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horses-Arse-Charlie-Owen/dp/0755336836

for the above post

Ok, now I see what the big deal with this novel is. It is one of the best I've read. While I wouldn't consider it the undisputed greatest ever (I'd have to put BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN up there as well), it's definitely unique. The story was absolutely fascinating and nothing like I've ever read before. It was fantastic to be able to see superhero's doubt themselves, not want to save people all the time, feel underappreciated. Basically this is the opposite of every other comic book out there. My favorite part, probably more towards the beginning, is when a character would be doing a voice over and the reader would be switching between two different panels at the same time. My biggest beef with the book was the stupid TALES OF THE FREIGHTER comic book within it. I really hated that story and found it a lazy way of telling the current story.

I'm reading two histories. One is world history by Susan Bauer; the other is Longest Night about the Civil War by David Eicher. The former is a great read because the author uses some humor to make her points. The latter is really detailed. Eicher devotes many words to the organization of north and south armies and it really goes int why things happened the way they did. It kind of demystifies certain battle outcomes and the decisions that preceded them.

By the way, I'm writing a novel that has a vampire theme. Any posters into vampires so that I could use you as an information source?

Notes from Underground- (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapìski iz pòdpol'ja, also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, but meaning something more like Basement Memoirs in Russian) (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is considered the world's first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.

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

Recent reads over the past couple of months:

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (as posted briefly above). My kind of thing. If anybody's read it you'll know why. It's tremendously written. Nothing provokes me like existential angst, day-to-day inertia. It's the adolescent in me, I suppose. I've been flirting with that sort of stuff for years now, but you might say I'm courting full-on nihilism these days. It's liberating, it's refreshing. I am Antoine Roquentin.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. I dived into the deep end of Joyce's dense waters a while back when I started Finnegans Wake, and, submitting to defeat, I met a similar end when I ventured into Ulysses a short time after. So this is the first Joyce I've got all the way through (Dubliners awaits, and to be fair I attempted the other two a while before I left high school). This is good stuff, though; craving out a character in a mixture of styles (according to his age; it begins in baby-talk and ends in quite dense lexis), but not only a character, but the whole notion of the "Artist" as a cultural concept, a historical figure which outlives the forgings of time. I loved it; I related to Stephen's transformation from inherited Catholic to self-aware sceptic.

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Woolf's legacy hasn't really done her justice. She's a fantastic linguist, shrewd humanist and powerfully articulate intellectual. Her stream-of-consciousness writing darts from one character to another in the turn of a page, or even in the same sentence; it's in the same style as Mrs Dalloway (masterpiece), but remains somehow more difficult; it might also be more ambitious. A success on all accounts, at any rate. Fans of Robert Altman's cinematic aesthetic (roaming, flexible, casual though disciplined and always omniscent camera) would like Woolf's literariness.

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. Little-known writer and seemingly little-known short novel, at least until fairly recent rediscovery by academics. It's brilliant; it's conducted mostly in present tense but unfolds as a sort of mirage of dreamy memoirs; what's being told has already happened. Beautiful, tragic, funny and perceptive. It is at once realistic in its depiction of poverty, but Rhys invokes in it a sort of attraction, one which I for one was seduced by.

Currently reading Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Having seen the film (which needs a rewatch), it's telling of Mann's incredible evocation of time and place through detailed imagery that Dirk Bogarde with thin-rimmed specs sitting in a striped deck-chair on a lonely beach is a distant memory. Lovely stuff. I expect to finish it later tonight.

3rd book in a series. I'd highly recommend it to anyone. Hit Man is the first book.

That's a great series, Longneck. For a lighter read, you should check out his "Burglar" series, with Bernie Rhodenbarr as the main character. He's hysterical.