Tough call between Foundation and Starship Troopers. Both are fantastic books. Starship Troopers is a standalone, so it might be quicker, because once you get into Foundation, you need to keep reading the sequels.Kiefer13 said:
So, what are you reading right now?
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I'm readingThe Summoner by Gail Z. Martin
It's decent, though certainly wouldn't be considered literature. It seems like Martin's trying too hard to come up with funky fantasy character names. It's actually quite similar to Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon in that there's a prince, who's been framed for the death of the king. The king's death was actually caused by an evil, immortal magician who wants the prince's brother to rule instead of the prince. The prince has to prove his innocence while his brother and the magician fuck the kingdom in the ass with a giant pike.
Yeah, so The Summoner is not the most original book in the world...
It's decent, though certainly wouldn't be considered literature. It seems like Martin's trying too hard to come up with funky fantasy character names. It's actually quite similar to Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon in that there's a prince, who's been framed for the death of the king. The king's death was actually caused by an evil, immortal magician who wants the prince's brother to rule instead of the prince. The prince has to prove his innocence while his brother and the magician fuck the kingdom in the ass with a giant pike.
Yeah, so The Summoner is not the most original book in the world...
Finished GauntlGrym...reading Dragonlance trilogy book....
Off topic:I wanna make a D&D game but i only have C++ exp.Anywhere to start?
Off topic:I wanna make a D&D game but i only have C++ exp.Anywhere to start?
Your welcome. Oh, it handles very mature themes. They are intertwined in a story that partially documents the Golden Age of comics. Won awards and has things that nerds will appreciate.Tubez said:
I'm currently reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
It's proving to be better than the film.
It's proving to be better than the film.
Oh my gosh, I just starting reading the Ender series this summer and I'm already on Xenocide and loving it. Have you read the "Shadow of the..." series?artanis_neravar said:
quote wiat how many city watch books are there i liked the first and the second was good but there are more!Soviet Heavy said:
Dragonslayer of the Gotrek and Felix Warhammer series.
My brother owns all the way up to Elfslayer, and I'm re-reading them all because I recently found an online version of Shamanslayer (the next in the series which I haven't read and he's too lazy to get) and I hope to find one for Zombieslayer (which comes after Shamanslayer, which we don't have either) as well.
My brother owns all the way up to Elfslayer, and I'm re-reading them all because I recently found an online version of Shamanslayer (the next in the series which I haven't read and he's too lazy to get) and I hope to find one for Zombieslayer (which comes after Shamanslayer, which we don't have either) as well.
The first 4 (not sure if there are more our yet or not) and I read Ender in Exile. I have loved all of them.eclipsed_chemistry said:
Just got done with the Prose Edda. Norse scripture of the beginning of the world and other tales written by Snorri so his people wouldn't forget their pagan tales duringthe 12th century.
Rightttt nowww A History Atlas of the Celts. From Iron Age middle Europe to Buddicas Rebellion against Rome, too Scottish brigades in WW1 to colinizing America and today. Great stufff!
Rightttt nowww A History Atlas of the Celts. From Iron Age middle Europe to Buddicas Rebellion against Rome, too Scottish brigades in WW1 to colinizing America and today. Great stufff!
The Last Continent, By Terry Pratchett.
Diary of Rincewind:
"Probably Tuesday: Hot, flies. Dinner: honey ants. Attacked by honey ants. fell into waterhole.
Wednesday, with any luck: hot, flies. Dinner: Either bush raisins or kangaroo droppings. Chased by hunters, don't know why. Fell into waterhole.
Thursday (could be): hot, flies. Dinner: Blue-tongued lizard. Savaged by blue-tongued lizard. Chased by different hunters. Fell off cliff, bounced into tree, pissed on by small gray incontinent teddy bear, landed in a waterhole.
Friday: hot, flies. Dinner: some kind of roots which tasted like sick. This saved time.
Saturday: hotter than yesterday, extra flies. V. thirsty
Sunday: hot. Delirious with thirst and flies. Nothing but nothing as far as the eye can see, with bushes in it. Decided to die, collapsed, fell down sand dune into waterhole."
Diary of Rincewind:
"Probably Tuesday: Hot, flies. Dinner: honey ants. Attacked by honey ants. fell into waterhole.
Wednesday, with any luck: hot, flies. Dinner: Either bush raisins or kangaroo droppings. Chased by hunters, don't know why. Fell into waterhole.
Thursday (could be): hot, flies. Dinner: Blue-tongued lizard. Savaged by blue-tongued lizard. Chased by different hunters. Fell off cliff, bounced into tree, pissed on by small gray incontinent teddy bear, landed in a waterhole.
Friday: hot, flies. Dinner: some kind of roots which tasted like sick. This saved time.
Saturday: hotter than yesterday, extra flies. V. thirsty
Sunday: hot. Delirious with thirst and flies. Nothing but nothing as far as the eye can see, with bushes in it. Decided to die, collapsed, fell down sand dune into waterhole."
Rubicon is one of my favourite books (and the way Rome treats crossing the Rubicon was a stroke of genius) I love the little barbs he includes every once in a while; places where his personality really shines through.Spaghetti said:
2666 by Roberto Bolano, possibly the most bibliophilic book I've ever read.
Atlas Shrugged (prequel to bioshock, but in the mountains... No.)
The Fall of the West, the demise of the Western Roman Empire
The Black Swan (about black swan events, not the movie)
An Introduction to Game Theory
China Inc.
Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution
rereading:
Theucidides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Ibn Kahldun, An Arab Philosophy of History
And Von Clausewitz, On War
I also play at least two hours of games every day. I don't sleep much, and I think my book bag is giving me scoliosis...
Salaam
There are eight City Watch Novels with one short story.pwned123456 said:
In order they go: "Guards! Guards!" "Theatre of Cruelty" "Men At Arms" "Feet of Clay" "Jingo" "The Fifth Elephant" "Night Watch" "Thud!" and "Where's My Cow?"