Got the next edition of the Pride & Prejudice & Zombie (Dawn of The Dreadfuls) books going through v.soon. :up:
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Got the next edition of the Pride & Prejudice & Zombie (Dawn of The Dreadfuls) books going through v.soon. :up:
I really liked Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, so I'll most likely get this one when it comes out. Was the Sense and Sensibilty one any good?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
If I'm really honest I've not actually read it, however many people at work read it and thought it was good but not as good as PPZ. I've read a few lines from the new one but since it's not my cup of tea nor the entire book ... who knows how good it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by evenstar
I'm reading Rant by Chuck Palanhiuck at the moment.
I'm sort of halfway through Dr Zhivago as well but I've stopped for the time being, it's really slow.
TG, is that you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trooper
Nope. I was in the RCT section mainly at Atari.
reading the second book of Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series. Not bad.
Also reading Evolution: the first four billion years. A series of essays by leading lights, but really you're better off reading some old Gould (Ever Since Darwin is probably best to start with.)
Couldn't be helped. Jordan left such a gargantuan number of loose ends, it would have taken him another ten books to get out of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
Anyway, the first WoT for which I didn't have this slightly nauseated after-effect of feeling that I'd wasted my time. Jordan is technically a better writer, at least syntactically. Sanderson made some kind of strange sentences, and really botched a couple of word choices (ever heard of a dictionary, buddy?) But the writing is FAR more concise.
Very different, IMO. It's a re-write of an actual bizarre early SF book called The Night Land, through which I heroically struggled at one point. Strange stuff, but worth the read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
J.D. Salinger (or should I say Holden Caulfield) died today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/bo...linger.html?hpQuote:
He seemed to be fulfilling Holden’s desire to build himself “a little cabin somewhere with the dough I made and live there for the rest of my life,” away from “any goddam stupid conversation with anybody.”
I always felt that I missed something in The Catcher in the Rye.
You rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Finished it over the weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Thoroughly depressing toward the end. Desolate and lonely, with a dreadfully dark yearning.
I felt quite pitifully sad. The tone of the ending few chapters and the mood set therein was unpleasantly morose.
Seemed to affect me for days afterwards. :(
Planning to start on Makers by Cory Doctorow. Not sure what it's about, yet, but I have thoroughly enjoyed his other work.
Heads up for the impoverished or those who want to know more before they buy; he lets his books be free downloads on his site as well so you don't have to buy them in physical form if you don't want to :)
Halfway through Eco's Foucault's Pendulum
This book is a lot funnier than I remembered!
But I am also somewhat surprised about how many of the key points I remembered, still, and it's been about 8 years since I last read the book
Powerful writing, maybe? He spins his tale masterfully, intrigue and primal mystery
But there's no rush, it is all in all a fairly laid-back narrative, despite the urgency of the situation the protagonist is in
Eco writes like a more meticulous Borges
And goddurnit I like it!
World War Z. Had to get it after studying the Zombie Survival Guide. Kind of disappointing, though.
Finished Foucault's Pendulum
My gods what a book!
Huh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Wiki entry sounded interesting..(yeah,yeah)
Have to check that one out.
I've recently read "The Life of Pi" for the second time. I absolutely love that book!
I just started Cold River by Carla Neggers. 3rd chapter in and it's damned gooooood!
Finished Slaughterhouse-five: The Children's Crusade again.
I adore his writing, I really, truly do. But his books also make me want to cry so very much, and that makes them awkward to read during the commute, or outside home.
But I suppose it is good to cry, sometimes.
Im currently reading Stephen King's Desperation. He is such a great author, so much visual details you an imagine anything that is writin in those books.
Finished World War Z yesterday. He totally flubbed the ending. I'd have liked more actually story in the stories - like dialogue and narrative. Hope the movie's good. Gonna watch Fido and Zombieland soon to get my fix.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Really intriguing, I think I want to go into urban planning.
Publication dates are not absolutely final yet, but The Evolutionary Void is tentatively scheduled for release in September 2010
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What!? No!
I approve.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
Cold River was awesome! But then, I enjoy Carla Neggers' writing style!
Just started Murder Game by Christine Feehan tonight. I haven't read anything by her before, but so far it's caught my interest. Next up are the 2 new James Patterson novels...I. Alex Cross and Worst Case. Since I love his books, I was pleasantly surprised to find both of them on the shelf at the library today. He seems to be one of the more popular authors around here.
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Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
Just started reading When Worlds Collide. I love doomsday books and since this one was written in 1932 I think the global perspective and the science will be both instructive and curious. AFter Worlds Collide is in the same edition and that will be particularly intersting, I think. That film never got made either, so it will be all new. :)
'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons.
edit: Gah, 'junior member'!
Finally finished the 3rd book in The Sin War series for the Diablo universe. Pretty good story, and it was far enough removed from the game that the two didn't overlap, but since close enough that it helped me understand some of the key characters in the game a lot better.
Finished Focault's Pendulum.
Thanks Nessus for recommending that here, it was an enjoyable read..:up:
I'm glad you liked it!
The book tickled me because it touched on many ideas and feelings I've had over the years, but what was most striking, for me, was how at the end of the book I felt, about the story, almost exactly the way the protagonist felt about his situation even though I only half-agreed with him! That, to me, felt like genius writing.
Okay, so I WAS reading a history of the Erie Canal. But I finished it. Then a family member last night gave me a book called Elements of Investing.
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I started to read a few pages on the subway. Not sure I will finish, not exactly mind-bending literature.
When I was in Australia I read the three bools from Simon Beckett, intresting thrillers:
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Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Excellent. Very unusual style. Recommended. :up:
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Movie came out last year. Ain't seen it tho.
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Damn straight!
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The wages of destruction are getting you ass kicked, apparently.
Title was probably originally: The Making & Breaking of The Nazi Economy: How *insert cause Y here* caused *insert effect X here* in Nazi Germany. To which the editor/publisher probably replied "The title sounds really boring and dry, how about we spice it up like this..." and so something obvious, yet gripping was born...Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
Is that a Mein Kampf joke?Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
I am going to try to read "Il Principe".
Just finished His Majesty's Dragon, started earlier today with only one real break. I suppose I liked it. It was a lot better than I expected it to be.
I know. Shutup.