What are you reading?
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- orald
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What are you reading?
Currently I'm re-reading ASoIaF, but slowly, looking for all those clues and stuff I missed on the first read.
I'm still at the first few chapters of A Game of Thrones, and can't stop giggling maniacly over the future fate of certain characters, their misconceptions and the plot twists that'll tear them to pieces.
Bad news is I'll have to struggle through Catelyn's chapters again. Bah.
Only good chapter she had was the wedding one.
On my first read I was still trying to organize the "world" and understand who's who(not really helped much by Matrin's huge characters appendix...too many friggin' names and minor characters!).
I'm still at the first few chapters of A Game of Thrones, and can't stop giggling maniacly over the future fate of certain characters, their misconceptions and the plot twists that'll tear them to pieces.
Bad news is I'll have to struggle through Catelyn's chapters again. Bah.
Only good chapter she had was the wedding one.
On my first read I was still trying to organize the "world" and understand who's who(not really helped much by Matrin's huge characters appendix...too many friggin' names and minor characters!).
In memory of Perach, who suffered and died needlessly.
I wish I could have been with you that one last time.
I wish I could have been with you that one last time.
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I've read Ender's Game and liked it, but I think I tried reading the one after and got bored. But that was a few years ago, maybe I'll try again sometime.
Same with Hyperion(sp?), I never got to actually reading it, just snipets, not to talk about the others in the series.
Same with Hyperion(sp?), I never got to actually reading it, just snipets, not to talk about the others in the series.
In memory of Perach, who suffered and died needlessly.
I wish I could have been with you that one last time.
I wish I could have been with you that one last time.
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Re: What are you reading?
Bump?
I went to Ireland a while ago, and in Dublin every tour was proclaiming the awesome-ness of James Joyces' Ulysses. I just started reading it and am on Chapter 6: Hades. It's supposedly the best novel of the century, and I've read reviews of various SF/F books proclaiming them as things like " the most revolutionary/best/most ingenious book of the century since Ulysses" *
* On the Omphalos Book Review, talking about Rogue Moon, Algis Brudys
* On this PBS documentary on the Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
I went to Ireland a while ago, and in Dublin every tour was proclaiming the awesome-ness of James Joyces' Ulysses. I just started reading it and am on Chapter 6: Hades. It's supposedly the best novel of the century, and I've read reviews of various SF/F books proclaiming them as things like " the most revolutionary/best/most ingenious book of the century since Ulysses" *
* On the Omphalos Book Review, talking about Rogue Moon, Algis Brudys
* On this PBS documentary on the Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
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Re: What are you reading?
I got my copy of "Eye" by FH, just to realize i'd already read it, but in French so it's double treat!!
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Re: What are you reading?
Reading Burning Chrome by William Gibson...it's a collection of short stories, and a small one at that, so it shouldn't take long.
After that I think I'm going to re-read the Dune series. The real ones.
After that I think I'm going to re-read the Dune series. The real ones.
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"Collapse" by Jared Diamond.
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Re: What are you reading?
Dark Tower V: Wolves of Calla. - Stephen King.
- Seraphan
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Re: What are you reading?
Re-reading Heretics of Dune.
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert
“This tutoring is dialectical. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. And so on and on.” - James Wood
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Re: What are you reading?
GEofD for the first time since ninth grade and The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cranial malfunction(s) is/are likely imminent...
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Re: What are you reading?
My college text books
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Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
Up to book 6 out of 8: White Moon, Red Dragon
Been wanting to write a review of this series, but there is just so much to this series I don't know where to begin. A review could be more than one A4 page long.
Up to book 6 out of 8: White Moon, Red Dragon
Been wanting to write a review of this series, but there is just so much to this series I don't know where to begin. A review could be more than one A4 page long.
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Re: What are you reading?
The House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds, high tech space opera. It's okay and'll fill a hole.
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Re: What are you reading?
Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
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Re: What are you reading?
Have you read it before? I've got it "in the pile".SandChigger wrote:Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
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I read that recently. Decent book.
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Listening to Dune while I'm working, reading my first copy of Analog during lunchbreak and a book of Norman Spinrad essays at home.
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Being a Franchise Parasite for Dummies.
The author is someone named K.J. Anderson.
The author is someone named K.J. Anderson.
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Re: What are you reading?
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Read a lot of his other stuff, but never got around to this one before, for some reason.
I had been surprised that he won a Hugo for this book, but Snow Crash didn't even get nominated. I'm about halfway in, and I think I understand. This is the better book of the two. Snow Crash is more fun, but this book has more meat.
HBJ
I had been surprised that he won a Hugo for this book, but Snow Crash didn't even get nominated. I'm about halfway in, and I think I understand. This is the better book of the two. Snow Crash is more fun, but this book has more meat.
HBJ
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I'm still very proud of The Quarry but … let's face it; in the end the real best way to sign off would have been with a great big rollicking Culture novel.
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Snow Crash owns. It's completely my type of book.
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Re: What are you reading?
Never cover to cover.Freakzilla wrote:Have you read it before? I've got it "in the pile".SandChigger wrote:Erewhon by Samuel Butler.