ZA Furries

There are threads for doing and listening, but not for reading, so I'm making a place where we can discuss books, novels, comics and everything else to do with the literary arts.

I'm reading "The Dead Zone" by Stephen King. I've read it at least three times before, but it's one of those books that stay good no matter how many times you read it. The ending gets me every time...

Also reading Naruto Manga (I'm only on Chapter 280, so no spiolers please!)

Terry Pratchett - Snuff
I love his stuff and I'm ashamed of myself. I got this book in December and only started reading it last week

Curtis Jobling WereWorld bk. 3 - Shadow of the Hawk.
its about werewolves... at first. basically every animal in existence has a were form. there are werewolves, otter, lions, boars and all. not really furry but close enough for me

Just finished "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown.....not sure what to read now...

Second-last book in the Wheel of Time series.

Actively I'm reading "You can't read this book" by Nick Cohen. It's all about freedom of speech and censorship (and self-censorship) in the modern world.

Less actively I'm reading "Robinson Crusoe" by Defoe. I say less actively because I started a few years ago, it's hard reading and I've stalled.

Do ebooks count? If so then I am busy working my way through "C++ for everybody".

Fiction wise I am re-reading "Kraken" by my favourite author, China Mieville.

Differential Equations with Boundary-Value problems by Dennis G.Zill

Wouldnt Recommend it

During holidays im gonna finish The Age of Fire Series (which i started beginning of semester and got halfway before work hit)

Just finished Fear by Michael Grant. From his Gone series.

Getting started on BZRK by the same author.

the tv guide, it's all my brain can stomach right now....

though im also reading the art of ray harryhausen, his autobiography of sorts...

and inbetween that im also reading "from foal to full grown" because i need to be 100% certain of my friends foals gender so i can win that damned bet

Floating Dragon, by Peter Straub. He's a friend of Stephen King, but this book isn't very good. Very slow pace.
*Yawn*

Like a book i once tried to read, 1000 pages or so long and by page 150 i still hadnt been introduced to the main protagonist. Also non important characters were talking bout a very long and tedious history of manners and etiquette in magic

I decided it wasnt something i could finish within 20 years

Hehe, in that case you should probably avoid the "Braided Path" trilogy. It's an utterly fantastic trilogy once you reach page 192, but before then it's real effort to read. I read quite a lot, and those first 191 pages took me about 2 to 3 weeks to overcome, but once i'd reached page 192, I flew through the rest of the 1st book and the 2 sequels in roughly the same time. Anyone else found any books like that?

I once read a book (i know, Punk read something!) forget the name now.... but it took me roughly four months to get through the damn book because the first 100 pages were like a snail pulling a steam engine backwards up everest.... and then there were three damn awesome pages giving you some hope for the future.... then another snail came along and said that the first snail was on the wrong side of the mountain so we started again for another about 80 pages....and so forth and so forth....

Artist most common for that style of writing is Robin Hobb, stories always start off brutaly slow and end on a high, I've read about 6 of her books and all followed the exact same path. She writes really well though so only reason i made it to the end each time

My own books are way different. I know I can't really talk, since none of them have come out yet, but I try to grab the reader's attention with the very first paragraph, then I try to put a climax on every page (or at least something interesting or funny). I don't think I've ever written a single page where something doesn't actually happen. Carla Potgieter, the editor at Kwela, complimented me on my super-fast pace. It was the first positive feedback I ever got. (They still rejected me, though.)

@Obsidian....Robin Hobb is amazing! Try "The Soldier Son" trilogy (my personal favorite of hers) and tell me those books start slow. And also the biggest cliffhanger ending/awesome start to books 2/3 that iv'e ever seen. Dammit, if you're coming to the braai on Sunday, I will bring the entire trilogy for you...

Funny thing is... I have them all here on my shelf

I did love them but the beginning of 2 was a little tedious for my liking, ending was like another person had taken over

Woman authors do tend the look at things from emotional side rather than keeping stroy driven by bullets and katana's

I do like fast paced though, just personal preferance ^^

so you got at least one person keen for ur book contrast

I just finished the fourth chapter of Two Kinds. It's not the most sophisticated of comics, but I do find it hugely entertaining nonetheless.
Plus, that Flora is super-sexy!

Thats a great comic, if a little revealing at times , pretty funny too

The artist does like to make all his characters sexy, so no one minds when they strut around without clothes xD (not that u can actually see anything mind you, artist keeps it all tasteful)

I love TwoKinds. I am a huge fan(hence the backing of the printing drive, lol! My favourite character is Natani!

~TC

Haha, Twokinds was my inspiration and the final tipping point that made me define myself as a furry. As, TotemCoyote agrees above me, Natani is definitely my favorite, her struggle with her sexuality was probably the best comparison to my own confusion over my sexuality i've found. Note my species is listed as wolf-keidran rather than just wolf .

Just out of interest, those incredibly addicted to Twokinds might notice my signature at the bottom. It's from this pic, which my reading of was the singular moment of my becoming a furry, that quote has become my inspiration in life and the best explanation of my pansexuality I have ever found.

That's brilliant, hey? TwoKinds contributed to me being a furry.

Also, Grayhound, you may notice that I am also not simply coyote but coyote keidran(not that their's such thing... yet. I may have slightly hinted it to Tom himself, lol).

I guess it really links us and what it would be like to be a an anthro in real life, and what consequences it may hold.

~TC

I told one of my non-furry friends about TwoKinds (he loves all kinds of manga), but he hasn't told me what he thinks about this one yet. Maybe he's beginning to suspect something...

I just finished the 9th chapter of TwoKinds (no spoilers please). It just keeps getting better and better! I'm not entirely sure why, but Keith is quickly turning into my favourite character.

Keith will always be my fave , funniest parts include him. Told my friend bout two kinds yesterday, he finished it hour ago, dont think he slept xD

Put him on a course of slightly dammed now

I'm finaly up to date with TwoKinds. The first page of chapter 15 (20120509a) was so emotional I nearly lost it right there in the library!

The idea of waiting days, even weeks for each new page is going to be torture.

Don't worry Contrast, thanks to kind caring rich people like TotemCoyote, Twokinds will soon be updated twice a week. While you wait, you can do what I do and read xkcd cartoons (updated three times a week) which is what I am reading right now.....(cheating here a little I know but I still cant find a decent proper book to read).

Started the Hunger games. Or trying to. Made it to page 4 then I got a notification.

Grayhound wrote:Don't worry Contrast, thanks to kind caring rich people like TotemCoyote, Twokinds will soon be updated twice a week. While you wait, you can do what I do and read xkcd cartoons (updated three times a week) which is what I am reading right now.....(cheating here a little I know but I still cant find a decent proper book to read).

Aww, thanks Grayhound. I am too much of a fan not to helped with the fundraiser for TwoKinds. Tom Fischbach will be having a run of the Hardcover copies for sale for $40 each(I think) as soon as the rewards for the fundraiser have been completed and shipped out. I am jealous for the person who payed $5000 to be immortalized as a main character in TwoKinds... but I couldn't and cannot afford to pay that much. lol

~TC