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Small Gods, dude. Small Gods.
I have on order:
http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/War-And-Christian-Ethics/1542489/product.html?cid=95138&fp=f
and
http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/Disposable-People/1015718/product.html?cid=95138&fp=f
also...
I personally like me some bible also but that is more on a constant thing.
Plus most of the book so far has been a giant cocktease about the fight between Icarium, Karsa, and Rulad.
Thanks! I picked up two of the David Mitchell books that were recommended to me on page 1 today, and I will definitely look into the authors you mentioned. I think my brother might have a copy of Trainspotting so if he does I'll snag it from him. I've always wanted to read Nabokov, I just haven't had the time yet.
I still think they're pretty dam cool, they're like the jews, except better.
I'm trying to break out of only reading school assigned books and so far isn't going well. I really liked Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and Erich Maria Remarque's (sp?) All Quiet on the Western Front but haven't found anything that has caught my interest too much.
Anyone have any recommendations?
I didn't like it - a lot of his "theories" aren't substantiated at all. It's just opinions and very little substance behind it. Lemme know what you think.
they don't it be like it is but it do
I'm not sure if I liked it or not.
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it is a collection of the qwantz.com dinosaur comics
this is awesome
I'm trying to read Mrs Dalloway on the recommendation of a friend. She usually puts me on to good things, but this one keeps putting me to sleep...
So often when I wake up I've been re-reading Catch 22 actually, and I'm covering (or re-treading) a lot more ground there than I am with Mrs Dalloway.
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I hate Mrs Dalloway so much. Technically it's brilliant, Woolf was incredibly talented, but it's still the most boring book I've ever read. I'm taking a class on Woolf this year and I can see myself needing a whole lot of coffee to get through it.
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Ah, that takes me back to AP English my senior year in high school. I suprised even my self by pulling a 5 on the exam, and for all the Woolf and Austin I had to read and write essays on, all I used was:
It's still the only class I've ever used them in.
And to stay on topic, right now I'm plowing my way through Chris Nicholl's Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind.
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I've studied Dalloway in two literary theory classes, so I know it inside and out by now, but I'm dreading having to read even more of her bland, plotless crap.
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All of them
I am reading them
It is delicious
Idoru is really quite good too, by the way.
they don't it be like it is but it do
Because I'm that cool!
Bioshock is more of a cautionary tale about the dangers of Rand's philosophy of objectivism
Most people on this forum only read Rand's work in order to grain credibility in their hatred for her
From what I hear, she isn't really a very good writer anyways
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are the two big ones, I'd say read one and see if you like them before trying anything else
I've got Susanna Clarke's collection of short stories on hold for me at the library. Joy!
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Some forgettable Greg Bear books (Eon and Eternity)
Paul Auster = The New York Trilogy
Kinda missing out on non fiction though, although I am reading a word document version of a work about Hungary 1920-21, specifically about the effect of the refugees on domestic politics - really interesting period, and knew to me as well, but it is incredibly hard to read 180 pages of a Word document.
Planning to sign up to the British Library this week, so that should give me a better range of non fiction, i hope.
Pedant Alert: They're not graphic novels. They're trade collections. Possibly you could refer to The Sandman as a whole as one "graphic novel", but not each individual volume.
Unless you're talking about the spinoffs and such, I guess. (I have Sandman Vols 1-5 and 7 and both of the Death spinoffs. Why don't I have Vol. 6? Because it wasn't at the same store I found all those used at, and for some reason it always seems to be the one the comics store doesn't have when I go there.)
For those who've read a lot of Ishiguro, what did you think of The Unconsoled? I'm considering picking it up next.
Im lazy, so il just sum up the general view of her work into a mathematical equation.
Pretentious author + shallow philosophy + mediocre writing talent = worthless books to read
I have tried to read The Unconsoled three times now. I keep losing interest pretty early in, though. It came highly recommended by a friend whose opinion in books I really trust, but man. Tough to get through.
If you haven't read Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro, I'd suggest that one first. It's excellent. So haunting.
I also need to pick up Remains Of The Day, which seems to be practically everyone's favorite of his.
Trying to finish Deathly Hallows right now. It's really awful. I usually enjoy simple reads but.. man, slogging through this. 300 pages and I feel like nothing has happened, and there are 300 more. Rowling you bitch.
I watched the Bourne Ultimatum recently so would be interested in a good, action packed spy book if anyone has any reccomendations? (I've read Ludlums books)
Alternatively a good Post Apocalyptic story would interest me?
help?
They're fun summer reading but also pretty well written and very thoroughly researched - you'll have fun and might learn some cool factoids in the process.
I truly, truly wish that I could enjoy the Baroque Cycle, but it just doesn't get me interested. There's no particular reason, no aspect that I especially dislike...just, meh.
Just finished "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson, and started "The Immortal Game: A History of Chess," which I'm halfway through since last night so I'm glad I didn't pay for it. After that, I suppose I'll be reading for my classes.
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The Vampire Earth books by E.E. Knight were OK, if a bit pulpy.
Vampires from outer space oh my
I'm thinking I'm going to finish reading the Hobbit next week. To my shame, I've read the Lord of the Rings but when I tried to read the Hobbit, oh, five years ago I just couldn't get into it. Perhaps I'll have a better go of it this time.
A bit of a change-up after Lullaby and Crooked Little Vein.
Also better than both.
Today's will be The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Crooked Little Vein turned out to be basically a novel version of Bad Signal. Bits of hilarity punctuating the most terrifying stuff Ellis could find. It's basically The Internet: In Book Form.
hmm, that sounds interesting. I'll check them out, thanks!
Is that the one they've made into the Will Smith movie?
EDIT:
Bah! both need to shipped from the states if I use Amazon.
I think the dealbreaker with the Baroque cycle was if you found the characters interesting. the plot was pretty minimal and major plot points happened off scene with barely a mention. But the flavor and characterization of the prinicipal characters was excellent. Jack remains one of my fondest literary characters. Waterhouse was interesting too. i found Eliza's chapters to be somewhat of a chore at times because for lots of the series she's realy an awful bitch.
The third book kinda ticked me off because the time lapse seems to have lost like half the minor characters many who died without any closure at all.