Maplifiers :: View topic - Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.

The assistant day manager of the Comfort Inn was named Vincent. He liked his job. The speed was just right, leaving him plenty of energy at night for cruising the clubs, where he dealt Ecstasy, roofies, and bootleg Cialis. Somehow the money was always gone by dawn, so Vincent was grateful for his gig at the motel.

He was slouched in front of his laptop, downloading some particularly extreme porn, when a street person appeared at the check-in desk. The man was quite tall and he had a fake eye that looked like it came from a stuffed moose. He was dressed in a crusty trench coat and wore two ratty grey braids growing at odd angles from his shaved scalp. The braids were garnished with colored plastic cylinders.

"Good morning," the man said.

Vincent smiled neutrally. "I'm sorry. We have no rooms available."

"I don't need a room. I need information."

"We're not hiring at the moment," Vincent said, at which point the street person reached over and confiscated Vincent's laptop, which was by far the most valuable thing he owned. Vincent hopped to his feet and said, "Give it back or I'll call the cops!"

The man asked Vincent if his boss was aware that he was jerking off to gang-bang videos on company time.

Author:	El-Todgo [ Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:38 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Just finished Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Really good read. It's a thriller set in the cold war era Russia. Good shit

Author:	teh_bleeding [ Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:54 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Reading Enders Game. yes i'm very late to the party. Anybody else find this book to be surprisingly, for lack of a better word, gay? It makes me uncomfortable how sexual he makes little boys. And Orson Scott Card (author) is an outspoken homophobe. I don't get it. After this I'm going to go back to William Gibson and the Battletech novels.

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Sun May 05, 2013 4:47 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Stand tall, Bipedal Ape : Yes, he has an outsized rep for his religion-bashing. But the man is a top-tier scientist, and not a bad writer to boot, and this is a collection of essays. I've read a number of his books. They are good, and worth reading. And I am about to start this momentarily: ...which I found in the used book whatnot at the library near my parents' house going to visit. The original edition is from 1940; this is expanded through 1960. I've aquired a few older military history textbooks in the past year or so and they're invariably good.

Author:	chris_d [ Thu May 30, 2013 6:40 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Just arrived today: Have had it in digital form for a spell, but definitely prefer a proper book thing to have.

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:07 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Humour!

Maplifiers http://maplifiers.net/forum/

Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread. http://maplifiers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=970	Page 16 of 20

Author:	Unstrung [ Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:10 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:26 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Good stuff there. I like the cover art too.

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:16 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Read this cover-to-cover earlier- it was a dull day so I just read it straight through: Some of you might be familiar with this as Tarantino's "Jackie Brown". I am of course going to watch the flim version with dinner. I haven't seen it in a while. Why not?

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:48 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
All in all, Tarantino's version is a good adaptation. It does change a few details (including the last name of the titular character, but it does have a better ring to it. And he made her black, which she isn't in the book- I think it actually works better in the film.) and removes some of the subplots. Much of the dialogue from the book is kept intact. It's still about two and a half hours, and I think he did as good a job as one could to knock it down to that. The story's there. Mr. Tarantino is a good writer, though; I'd expect his adaptaion to be as faithful to the source as one could get given the general time constraints of a feature film. For the evening, I'm on to this: Scored it at a thrift store for twenty-five cents. Most of my reading material- though not all; there are authors I follow- is thrift store or library book sale finds. I've paid as much as a dollar for really desirable things such as all the military history textbooks I've been reading. Most of the non-fiction I've been reading, for a few months now, I have been dog-earing pages for quotes and particularly good lines.

Author:	Devtron [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:33 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Which reminds me of one of my favorite Futurama gags, that the head of Richard Nixon is the president of Earth and his vice-president is the headless body of Spiro Agnew. "NAB 'EM AGNEW!"

Author:	chris_d [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:15 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
These should keep me busy for quite a while:

Author:	El-Todgo [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:36 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:19 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Well, no one ever accused this bunch of having dull or pedestrian tastes in things.

Author:	chris_d [ Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:35 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
These Audels guides are fucking crazy. I knew something was up when i kept seeing them mentioned, and now that i have skimmed through a couple of them, i am seeing where a lot of handtool information that foalks write, is coming from. Another of those things that was written right on that line before shit got too mechanical. In 1923, there really wasn't that much in the way of portable powertools, so most of the things that got built were built by doods with handtools. These four are like a multivolume bible for how to make buildings go up, and stay up. For the level of information in them, they are also surprisingly readable, the potential dryness of certain sections offset by the author's conversational tone, and indeed, by the illustrations, many of which are as much for amusement as instruction. "How Not To Drive A Nail" "How Not To Saw" and "How Not To Use A Chisel" all being classy. You kind of get the feeling that it would be interesting to apprentice with the guy. And that one would quickly have to become accustomed to being told what for.

Page 16 of 20	All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group http://www.phpbb.com/

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:04 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
I actually laughed reading the captions there. "How not to drive a nail, or method employed by greenhorns and some amateurs" starts it off with a bang. A friend of mine would rather appreciate these. I'll pass them on.

Author:	chris_d [ Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Hits Nail (Accident) Has got to be a song title, no?

Author:	Snaxocaster [ Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:43 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Feed Your Head: the "what are you reading" thread.
Pass'd on the books to the relephant authorities. The Nixon And Agnew stuff is really interesting so far. Nixon was a very strange man. It might just be the way the author puts things, but there are somewhat homoerotic undertones from Nixon throughout that are slightly creepy as they are coming from Richard Nixon.