ButteryBiscuitBass: Intense Novels

ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	David Foster Wallace - The Infinite Jest.
menawati 11.30.12	Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
andcas 11.30.12	twilight series.
ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	'twilight series.' Deep.
MichaelSnoxall 11.30.12	Currently reading LOTR. Then I'm gonna read Dracula. Most intense novel I've read is probably Blood Meridian.
AGuyIsWatchingYou 11.30.12	House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski I also picked up Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I've actually read a bunch of his short stories, but never read this for some reason) so I'll probably get to one of those next.
ViperAces 11.30.12	ASOFAI
ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	@ A guy is watching you - David Foster Wallace's writting style is something else. Check it when you can.
Keyblade 11.30.12	DUUUUUUUUNE
ThroneOfAgony 11.30.12	reading is so damn terrible
ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	You are a terrible human being.
dimsim3478 11.30.12	Allen Ginsberg.
SharkEthic 11.30.12	George Orwell - Animal Farm
Xenophanes 11.30.12	the wind up bird chronicle
Strider 11.30.12	World War Z
BlueW 11.30.12	Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami nice cat scene in it
ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	@ SharkEthic - good choice bro.
Ecnalzen 11.30.12	The last book I read was The Child Thief by Brom. It's a messed up take on Peter Pan. It was pretty cool.
ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	@ Ecnalzen - sounds interesting, I'll take a look.
baldymort 11.30.12	The Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
ButteryBiscuitBass 11.30.12	Getting good responses here. Well read Sputnik!
SCREAM! 11.30.12	Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk Really been digging the guy's work recently
AtomicWaste 11.30.12	Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore It's pretty funny. My favorites are all Kurt Vonnegut novels. Cat's Cradle is probably my favorite.
lyon1535 11.30.12	Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.
sixdegrees 11.30.12	It by Stephen King
klap 11.30.12	best book^
Atari 11.30.12	dreamcatcher by steven king was a great book too then they slaughtered it with that awful movie
sixdegrees 11.30.12	most stephen king adaptations have been mediocre-to-awful. I just don't think his writing style lends itself that well to film.
Atari 11.30.12	yeah the movie IT was terrible as well
wacknizzle 11.30.12	Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
demigod93 11.30.12	i dont read much but i'm reading Fight Club right now, almost done it's pretty good but I think I prefer the film tbh
andcas 11.30.12	"yeah the movie IT was terrible as well" THANK YOU!
demigod93 11.30.12	i saw half of it and i thought it was entertaining. mostly because the core story that Stephen wrote was pretty great. everything else was pretty bad though
peaks40 11.30.12	The Silence of the Lambs
Calc 11.30.12	The Giver The Giving Tree
Ecnalzen 12.01.12	Stephen King is too meticulous in his writing to really make qualitiy movies out of his novels. The only ones that I've seen that really work are when they make movies out of his short stories, like 1408. I enjoyed Dreamcatcher, but some of it is just hard to get through. He is a little too detailed sometimes, and I just start glazing over a little when I read through those overly detailed sections.
GnFnRs87 12.03.12	Late comment .... Ah well I love reading Moon by James Herbert I just finished Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (props for the guy who said Animal Farm) and after this I'll probably move on to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my all time favourites. I have 'Useless things are beautiful' (gay, I know) tattooed on my chest, which is my interpretation of the preface! Enjoy it. And yeah, most Stephen King books don't work very well as films. What the fuck is up with 'Thinner?'
GnFnRs87 12.03.12	On the subject of Stephen King adaptions- might I add that The Shining worked so well because it was Stanley Kubrick taking King's story and making it his own and Jack Nicholson's performance was outstanding. I've read the book and I actually think the film holds its own amazingly well for an adaption
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	^ Agreed with you on that one. So many have been turned into films though. The Shawshank Redemption being another good one.
eleventhsun 12.03.12	IT was probably the greatest, followed by The Shining. The Road, 1984, Survivor, Fight Club. Most of Bukowski's work.
GnFnRs87 12.03.12	Forgot about that one, The Green Mile was good too- usually the quality of an adaption depends on the actors by the sound of it Have you guys read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson? I loved that book
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	Never read it mate, interested though. The Green Mile was top quality. I rate Tom Hanks highly though bro. I need to read fight club as well, apparently that's killer.
GnFnRs87 12.03.12	IT's first half was really good but the second half let it down in my opinion. Still enjoyed it but it doesn't touch the quality of The Shining Carrie also deserves a mention as one of the best too
GnFnRs87 12.03.12	I'd strongly recommend Jekyll and Hyde, one of my favourites Tom Hanks is fucking incredible, even his rom-coms are good (and I hate rom-coms) but Saving Private Ryan was only as good as it was because of his performance
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	The Shining is special though :-) Agree with you on that one too. I need to read more Stephen King. My flat mate has nailed shit loads of his stuff. You checked the Dark Tower series? They're supposed to be good.
eleventhsun 12.03.12	^ The Green Mile was excellent, such a profound statement about humanity. I would like to read the novel too.
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	That is was. I was shocked when I discovered that it was Stephen King.
GnFnRs87 12.03.12	They're on my 'to do' list man, I haven't even got round to his new one yet- friend of mine bought it for my birthday, I need to get on that shit soon I agree eleventhsun, one hell of a film and my favourite Hanks performance (SPR is 2nd and Apollo 13 3rd)
eleventhsun 12.03.12	Me as well. He really is a fantastic story teller. Really one of the best.
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	For sure.
Winesburgohio 12.03.12	The Unbearable Lightness of Being, it's pretty stunning so far Also mad props to whoever's reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, one of my favourite things in existence
omnipanzer 12.03.12	I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter - Carlton Mellick III
omnipanzer 12.03.12	I'm also reading A Confederacy of Dunces for the third time.
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	Sounds interesting, will have a look and add to my list.
VheissuCrisis 12.03.12	LOTR trilogy in one handy book. Bit of a mission.
ButteryBiscuitBass 12.03.12	Tell me about it. Very rewarding though.
omnipanzer 12.03.12	Hate lotr, so dry imho.
SCREAM! 12.03.12	yeah I love the story but have such a hard time making it through the books the hobbit is the only one I truly enjoyed reading
VheissuCrisis 12.03.12	I appreciate how well they translated the latter half of twin towers to film after wading a bit through the book. Almost on the third.
americanohno 12.03.12	I'd recommend "The Hunter" by Richard Stark (the psuedonym of Donald Westlake) It's on Kindle for 4 dollars and it's really great crime story. A sociopathic theif gets fucked over and left for dead in a heist and he's out for revenge. It's a real simple (and short) story that's told very well. It's been adapted into a film 4 times. Point Break in '67, the chinese film Full Contact, and Payback starring Mel Gibson. There's a movie coming out in 2013 called Parker starring Jason Statham that's also and adaption of the novel. The trailer doesn't look promising.
omnipanzer 12.03.12	Thoroughly enjoyed reading A Song of Ice and Fire series.