What books are you reading?
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Well, there are several book I'm working on right now. I'll kind of read one for a day or two and switch to another. Currently though:
Lands and Peoples II: Baltic States and Central Europe [http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Baltic-States-Central-Europe/dp/B001CSNVSC] - Really cool and interesting, I managed to snag most of the series at a thrift store in exceptional condition considering that they were printed in 1948. :-D
Images of America: Mountain Home Air Force Base [http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Home-Force-Images-America/dp/0738548057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238336695&sr=1-1] - It's like an hour south of where I live and I was curious.
The Prince and Other Writings by Niccolo Machiavelli [http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Other-Writings-Barnes-Classics/dp/1593083289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238336793&sr=1-1] - Nuff' said.
Traveller RPG Core Rulebook [http://www.amazon.com/Traveller-Core-Rulebook-Gareth-Hanrahan/dp/190610333X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238336866&sr=1-1] - Makes me want to start running a tabletop RPG game. Damn, there's an idea for the 'What game would you make?' threads! I'd make another Traveller game, I don't think we've seen one of those for more than a decade. :-(
Lands and Peoples II: Baltic States and Central Europe [http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Baltic-States-Central-Europe/dp/B001CSNVSC] - Really cool and interesting, I managed to snag most of the series at a thrift store in exceptional condition considering that they were printed in 1948. :-D
Images of America: Mountain Home Air Force Base [http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Home-Force-Images-America/dp/0738548057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238336695&sr=1-1] - It's like an hour south of where I live and I was curious.
The Prince and Other Writings by Niccolo Machiavelli [http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Other-Writings-Barnes-Classics/dp/1593083289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238336793&sr=1-1] - Nuff' said.
Traveller RPG Core Rulebook [http://www.amazon.com/Traveller-Core-Rulebook-Gareth-Hanrahan/dp/190610333X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238336866&sr=1-1] - Makes me want to start running a tabletop RPG game. Damn, there's an idea for the 'What game would you make?' threads! I'd make another Traveller game, I don't think we've seen one of those for more than a decade. :-(
?Birdsong? by Sebastian Faulks is by far the best book I?ve ever read. I haven?t really that much so I don?t know if it?s THE best but it?s probably pretty close. Not exactly a barrel of laughs though.
Alternatively, Audrey Niffenegger?s ?The Time Traveler's Wife? is a wonderful read you can just get lost in for a few days. It?s also being released as a film later this year so if you read it you?ll be able to sound like a right smart-arse and say ?Oh no, it?s just another example of Hollywood adulterating a perfectly good book, and turning it into mediocre drivel.? Like every other person who?s ever been in this situation before.
Alternatively, Audrey Niffenegger?s ?The Time Traveler's Wife? is a wonderful read you can just get lost in for a few days. It?s also being released as a film later this year so if you read it you?ll be able to sound like a right smart-arse and say ?Oh no, it?s just another example of Hollywood adulterating a perfectly good book, and turning it into mediocre drivel.? Like every other person who?s ever been in this situation before.
So much to read, so little incentive..><
Anything by Vonnegut, Asimov, Bradbury, Loevcraft, Kundera, Philip K. Dick, Alan Moore..
your typically clichéd teenage selection, essentially..
Anything by Vonnegut, Asimov, Bradbury, Loevcraft, Kundera, Philip K. Dick, Alan Moore..
your typically clichéd teenage selection, essentially..
i'm reading imajica by Clive Barker, which is simply amazing and the new frontier and a brief history of time
I just finished 'Forever War' by Joe Haldeman. It was rather cool.
I'd rabidly recommend 'Magician', by Raymond Feist though. It's my favourite book. It's so good, I even re-bought it after my cat destroyed it. And again when I read it so many time it started falling apart. Love it.
I'd rabidly recommend 'Magician', by Raymond Feist though. It's my favourite book. It's so good, I even re-bought it after my cat destroyed it. And again when I read it so many time it started falling apart. Love it.
Awsome .. I hate those who do that.Inverse Skies said:
But you mean the ending of the series? Dude I've only read until the fourth book. The fifth just recently came out in Norway. And I know I could just buy the rest in english on one of my many trips to America, I'd like to read the rest in norwegian. So I think it might be a couple of years before I get to read the end of it =P
The Adventures of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to a Nation.
It's interesting. That's really the only word I can use to describe it right now.
It's interesting. That's really the only word I can use to describe it right now.
The last book I finished was "A brave new world" by Aldous Huxley. It was a brilliant book; a great twist on the conventional dystopias, such as nineteen eighty-four(Also a great book). I think I'll purchase more of his work, such as "the doors of perception". Could anybody recommend some of his titles, please?
I'm currently reading "the fabric of the cosmos" by Brian Greene. It takes me a while to digest technical information, so I read it on and off.
I'm currently reading "the fabric of the cosmos" by Brian Greene. It takes me a while to digest technical information, so I read it on and off.
I did mean the end of the series... the end of the 7th book. If they're being translated into Norweigian then yeah... you might be a while before you end up reading it all. That's a shame, I plowed through the books one after another without stopping. It was by far the best way to do it. That's really sad, stupid language barriers!Daye.04 said:
I finished reading Barack Obama's "Dreams of My Father" and I'm onto a somewhat darker reread: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". I read this when it came out and it stuck with me. It's about a nerdy fat Dominican dude who thinks his family is cursed because of his family having their shit ruined by a Dominican dictator. VERY interesting, but I wouldn't read it if you're depressed if I were you. Also, it's a standalone book which doesn't require you to read others in a series. Good for the economic reader!
I'm almost done with The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. It was inspired in part by The Jungle Book, but instead of a boy raised in the jungle by animals, it's about a boy raised in a graveyard by ghosts. It's excellent, although anyone who's read any Gaiman won't need me to tell them that. It also has some very nice illustrations by Dave McKean.
