Originally posted by: Ace of Spades

Who's read the Game of Thrones stuff? I got rid of HBO but the series looks awesome and everyone on here seems hooked. I usually like to read the books before a series like this. Is it fast paced (the books)? I need something new to read when I finish this 50 shades of smut series.

Yeah, anything but fast paced. I just finished the 5th book, and that alone was 1000+ pages and not all that much happened haha.

ahhh, that's what i was afraid of. still kinda interested to read it. i read the Outlander series last year (18th century scotland time travel love story).. and each one of those was 800-1000 pages of tiny print. i had to take a long break between each book though because it was a little much. every other book in that series was like a transition piece where nothing really happened. sounds like GoT is like that.

2 of 5 books felt to me that they existed soley to move the story along for major events.

Finally reading Game of Thrones...I enjoy it so far.


Also this:






I feel guilty about not reading it for class so I'm going to power through it.

Now reading Forrest Gump. So much different from the movie.

If you like Game Of Thrones I'd recommend checking this out.

Originally posted by: Craley

Now reading Forrest Gump. So much different from the movie.

The book just kind of gets ridiculous at some points, but it was decent. A rare "the movie is far better than the book" though.

I'm about 30-some pages into House of Leaves... and.. yeah.. I don't even know. I only read it on my lunch breaks at work, which probably isn't the best way to read this book.

Can't believe nobody is owning up to reading 50 Shades of Gray. I feel like im the only person i know not reading this shit

Not true, I posted about reading it... read all 3.

The satanic bible

The magician by lev goodman

i'm currently reading a book on terrorism.

excerpts:

10. After the bungled Glasgow International Airport attack, one of the terrorists was apprehended by a Scottish cabby who kicked a burning terrorist in the balls so hard he tore a tendon in his foot.

9. The Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shazhad, locked the keys to both his get-away car and his house inside the car-bomb he rigged. The car bomb consisted of a bunch of fireworks stuck in a bucket, and a bunch of fertilizer. Inert, non-explosive fertilizer that only served to muffle the blast.

8. While terrorist “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was hiding out in the Philippines, he kept a low profile by renting a freaking helicopter and making fly-overs of the building where the “cultural dancers” he wanted to date worked. They were impressed enough to allow him to take them on a date. He chose the local Wendy’s.

7. Terrorists in the cell caught by an FBI-NYPD sting in the Bronx were called “intellectually challenged” by their lawyer, said they were high when they were arrested, and claimed that the FBI entrapped them with fried chicken.

6. On 9/11, the terrorists who flew out of Logan – after having spent years preparing, months training, and tens of thousands of dollars on the attack – made it onto their flight with just six-minutes to spare.

5. Part of this close-call may have been due to being up late the night before. Hotel records show the night before they carried out what they saw as a sanctified assault against the forces of Evil – they rented a porno together.

4. The aforementioned Glasgow International Airport attack was originally thwarted by another unusual hero. The height of the airport’s doorway – the terrorists never bothered to check if it would allow clearance for the jeep they were driving, so they got stuck. Their bomb detonated anyways, lighting one of them on fire – the attack’s only serious injury (unless you count the cabby’s foot as well).

3. The terrorist in charge of the 1993 van-bombing of the World Trade Center waited until the night before the scheduled attack to find a Ryder van they could use, and someone willing to drive it beneath the Towers. They were ultimately all tracked down after one of them returned to the rental agency to noisily insist that he should get their deposit back – three separate times. The FBI was waiting for him the third time.

2. This 1993 World Trade Center cell was finally caught in Manila, where a policewoman – a grandmother wearing a flowered muumuu, hoop earrings, and rubber slippers – ran Abdul Murad down in the street, bound his hands with clothesline, and hailed a taxi to get him back to the station. Police were tipped off to his presence after he managed to light his apartment on fire.

1. A cell plotting a car-bombing in Southeast Asia were foiled when an issue arose with the guy they’d spent months recruiting and training to drive their car-bomb. When he got into the vehicle the morning of the attack he explained there was a problem: he didn’t know how to drive stick.