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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 16:38:26 GMT -6
I've looked around, but not seen a book thread, so I decided to start one.
Favorite authors? Favorite books?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 21:27:52 GMT -6
I am big into sci fi. Love the Star Trek and Star Wars books. Love Auther C. Clark especially the Space oddessy series and the Rama series. I also love the Vampire Chronicles as well as Wayward Pines and Narnia, Lord of the Rings and many more.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Aug 16, 2015 16:02:40 GMT -6
I've got a bad experience with reading "books" in my adult life. Years ago, when I ran my life on my will instead of God's, I got some legal charges related to my substance abuse / addiction. When I was in jail, my only escape from jail was reading book after book.
Now that I've recovered and now focus on God, every time I try to get into a book, that "escape" just reminds me of the time I was in jail. ...which is strange because that was over 8 years ago...
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Post by blake on Aug 17, 2015 7:24:42 GMT -6
I dont really do alot of reading. In the event I do read its usually the Bible, but I dont read as much as I used to since I've been so insanely busy the last year or two. I am working on a book myself though, no telling when it will be done though, I probably have a few more chapters at least until I can comfortably "wrap it up"
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Post by Varg on Aug 17, 2015 12:29:13 GMT -6
I read a lot of weird stuff. I like fantasy like A Song of Ice and Fire, all the Tolkien stuff. I also read a lot of occult books. About devils and demons. That is something that really interest me. I also like to read biography's of cool people. Mostly musician's. And I read the Bible from time to time. I have actually read the whole thing from cover to cover.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2015 12:52:28 GMT -6
I mostly like science fiction, horror and nonfiction stuff myself. Arthur C. Clarke Douglas Adams Stephen King (mostly his older stuff) Clive Barker (again, mostly the older stuff) William Poundstone's "Big Secrets" books Charles Panati's "Origins" books "Take a Walk on the Dark Side" by R. Gary Patterson (Rock and Roll stories about Satanism and whatnot. I don't know how much of it is really believable, but considering that I read most of it in the dark whilst on a train stranded in the snow ... it was pretty fun) "Can You Trust a Tomato in January" "Death to Dust"
The latest author I have discovered is a guy named Randy Thornhorn who writes southern gothic influenced Appalachian religious horror stuff. It's very weird and admittedly it can be a bit difficult to get into, but once it does, it really sinks it's claws into you and keeps you there, or at least it did with me. It does leave a LOT of questions unanswered though and the endings to both of his novels are quite ambiguous.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Aug 17, 2015 17:29:57 GMT -6
What's your book on Blake?
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Post by drawnsword on Aug 18, 2015 20:52:54 GMT -6
I like books about Faith, art books with lots of info about the artist, art learning books, sci-fi graphic novels, fantasy and sci-fi novels and artist sketch books. Some favorite books recently have been...Noah Primeval Chronicles of the Nephilim Volume 1 by Brian Godawa, God's Favorite Place on Earth by Frank Viola, The Art of Ian Miller Hardcover, Prophet Volume 3: Empire TP, The Church in The Wilderness by Chip Brogden, From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God by Frank Viola, and Star Wars: Dark Times Volume 7—A Spark Remains TPB.
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Post by blake on Aug 19, 2015 9:03:15 GMT -6
What's your book on Blake? It doesnt have a name yet, but the best way to describe it is...a series of fantasy short stories written as poems (rhymed and metered) centering on the adventures of a few characters on their journeys. It draws some inspiration from Robert E Howard's Solomon Kane poems, of which he only wrote a handful of as poems (most of the Solomon Kane stuff were regular short stories, not poems). But its a series of poems, each individual adventures, but all linked together in terms of timeline. I still havent decided if I want to finish it on a cliffhanger and work on a "2nd" book. Or just wrap it up neatly in one edition.
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Post by _ on Jun 19, 2016 18:24:08 GMT -6
1) Blake, your book sounds dope. Good luck with the work.
2) Has anyone read Andrew Tompkins' book 'Within The Ancient Forest," off of which the Paramaecium album is based? I thought the book was captivating. It'd be great to hear thoughts from any folks that have read it.
3) Has anyone read or head of any other cool literature written by Christian metal folks? I have and am currently reading "Portal," the fantasy book written by Jason from Nokternal Hemizphear. Metallum notes that Azahel Frost of Frost Like Ashes is "Currently writing three books which will be titled, "Morning Star", "The Fall", and "Haunt of Jackals" ... but I do not know anymore than that.
4) Which literature/story/character, if any, inspires YOU? For me: Gandalf from LOTR (no further comment ha); and Kvothe, the protagonist in a fantasy book by Patrick Rothfuss called "The Name Of The Wind" (and in the other two books of the trilogy) because he is very dedicated to learning/practicing knowledge and discovering truth, he is passionate about playing music (the lute, specifically), he is incisive and courageous, and he is not perfect. ("The Name Of The Wind" is by far my favorite novel: it is the best written book, most captivating plot, and most engaging characterization I have experienced.)
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