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What are you reading? End of summer edition.
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Kestastrophe
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I am mostly through this
And I have just started reading this
And I have just started reading this
WrathOfOtaibah
Banned
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
I've read this book perhaps a half dozen times. Times are tight and I got to save money. So I'm re-reading a lot of my books. They're all good reads.
I've read this book perhaps a half dozen times. Times are tight and I got to save money. So I'm re-reading a lot of my books. They're all good reads.
CajoleJuice
Member
Just finished:
Much better than the movie (like it is 99% of the time)
Gonna start reading:
Got them both as gifts.
Much better than the movie (like it is 99% of the time)
Gonna start reading:
Got them both as gifts.
Red Blaster
Member
Started this:
And finished this about 3 weeks ago:
And finished this about 3 weeks ago:
Jade Knight 08
Member
I just got done reading "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows" last week.
I think I'll move onto the next books called "A Song of Fire and Ice" series. (<----How many books are already written?)
Are there anymore 7 parts series that's seems good to me that i might check it out?
I think I'll move onto the next books called "A Song of Fire and Ice" series. (<----How many books are already written?)
Are there anymore 7 parts series that's seems good to me that i might check it out?
Femmeworth
Banned
I'm reading it for school.
I know after the quake wasn't among the recommended Haruki Murakami books mentioned in past threads, but I read that one before my current read. Can't say I was very fond of it. Seemed superficially pretentious... or pretentiously superficial... or something. Like Garden State or other similar indie movies. Any chance I'd still like his novels?
Lessig's update. Still a very interesting work, but I do wish it went heavier on the law and lighter on the tech in v2 rather than the other way around.
Smith is one of the most entertaining travel writers around, especially if you have an interest in air travel (duh, I suppose). Mostly updated columns but still a fun breeze.
echoshifting
Banned
coldvein said:
I didn't read Feast for Crows because I am now convinced GRRM will be dead before these books are finished. I'll read the rest of the series if he manages to release them all. The wait after Storm of Swords was too long and bitter.
The rest of my summer looks like it'll be going like this:
Don Quixote new translation
Book 3 of Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
Book 4 of Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Fathers and Sons by Tugenev
Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
and that'll be September. only 6 books Sucks that school is starting up again.
Don Quixote new translation
Book 3 of Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
Book 4 of Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Fathers and Sons by Tugenev
Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
and that'll be September. only 6 books
Sucks that school is starting up again.I started reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series at the beginning of the summer and have been steadily working my way through 'em ever since. I'm currently on book six, Blood Rites, and thoroughly enjoying myself. The hook, for anyone who doesn't know: Harry Dresden is a wizard working openly in Chicago as a detective - he's in the Yellow Pages under "W" - who deals with all manner of supernatural shit. They're a bit fluffy but enjoyable and the characters have been developing nicely as the series progresses.
Once I've finished up the series I'll be getting back to Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star, the sequel to Gorky Park.
FnordChan, a sucker for serial fiction
Once I've finished up the series I'll be getting back to Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star, the sequel to Gorky Park.
FnordChan, a sucker for serial fiction
I've never read any of his books before, but I picked it up on a whim. I'm normally particular about the scifi I read (while being a pretty indiscriminate fantasy whore) but it grabbed me very quickly. After a bit I was worried I was missing out not having read his earlier books but a few googled reviews seemed to indicate this book happened before the others set in Reynolds persistent universe so I'm sticking with it.
Next up:
Wish it was a Takeshi Kovacs novel, but it sounds like pretty much the same thing just without everyone's favourite uber-bitter, cynical former Envoy. Looking forward to it.
Oh and I finished Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch and freaking LOVED it. So much so that I reread The Lies of Locke Lamora immediately after. Such a great start to a new series.
I never got through this book the last couple of times but this time I'm going to make it.
It's about the theory that the gods were flesh and blood. In particular, his theory is that the gods lived for a long time (like hundreds of thousands of years) which was preserved by marrying sisters etc... and that initially humans had a similar lifespan but it has been reduced to our current lifespan by dilution / deliberate genetic manipulation.
I like reading these kinds of theoretical works and this isn't the best-written one I've ever read, but it's an interesting theory.
After that will be something a bit lighter:
As in, sequel to Ring.
Nameless said:
Desperately needed something to read, stopped at the grocery store and after 5mins of looking(close to being late for work) I spotted the named Stephen King and bought the book without even reading the description.
Pretty boring so far, but hopefully it picks up.
Like a lot of King's recent work that book didn't appeal to me, but if you have the time give Cell a try. I found it very enjoyable! It probably came out less than 4 years ago max.. should be easy to find in paperback.
rereading the brothers karamazov. i was thinking of it for reasons it'd be pointless to into. i don't really like dostoevsky -- so often his novels seem like disembodied voices railing at each other. but he has his moments. and i just got through the whole grand inquisitor bit today, which is amazing
Solideliquid
Member
Is it the end of summer already? Get a move on!
eudaemonic
Member
Light night time reading.
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. I read it for fun because I often remember my dreams in detail, and halfway through it's been very interesting.
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. Cocky and funny. And just a bit confusing.
Other than that, I'm filing away on the complete works of Shakespeare, trying to get up the resolve to read all the sonnets. The last book I finished was Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, which was wonderful. Nobody makes believable and engaging characters like Tolstoy - it feels like his books are populated with real people, compared to cardboard cut-outs in most other books.
Rabbit Lord
Member
It's like diet Martin.
thomaser said:
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. I read it for fun because I often remember my dreams in detail, and halfway through it's been very interesting.
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. Cocky and funny. And just a bit confusing.
Other than that, I'm filing away on the complete works of Shakespeare, trying to get up the resolve to read all the sonnets. The last book I finished was Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, which was wonderful. Nobody makes believable and engaging characters like Tolstoy - it feels like his books are populated with real people, compared to cardboard cut-outs in most other books.
Have you read any other work by Cortazar? I'm curious since Ive read Hopscotch and loved it and was wondering what book of his to read next.
cicero
Member
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
The Anti-Federalist: An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing
The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery by Massad F. Ayoob
Hope to have the UK editions of A History of the Crusades Vol. 1-3 by Steven Runciman, and Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France by Robin Harris soon.
The Anti-Federalist: An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing
The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery by Massad F. Ayoob
Hope to have the UK editions of A History of the Crusades Vol. 1-3 by Steven Runciman, and Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France by Robin Harris soon.
Dan said:
I wouldn't use his short stories as a basis to judge his writing as a whole. Just read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It's sorta cyberpunk, sorta existential detective story, sorta fantasy, all brilliant.
Or, since you're reading a book about Aum, try his book about Aum. It's called Underground, and it's maybe the most devastating piece of nonfiction I've ever read.
I'm reading this...
Initially a little disappointed to wait six years for the guy's new novel and it turns out to be a straightforward detective yarn. And then it got its hooks in me. Great characters and setting. And Chabon's writing, oh god his writing.
