Just finished Evolutionary Void after a weekend binge. On to Surface Detail.
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Just finished Evolutionary Void after a weekend binge. On to Surface Detail.
Much the same queue as me; am about 1/3 of the way through Evolutionary void and bought Surface Detail in Glasgow airport this weekend on a buy one book get 2nd half price deal.
Without giving anything away, how was the third void once you'd finished the last page? Anti-climactic? Totally-absorbing till the last? A bit meh?
Will read the other book I bought in between the two though, just so I can break up the very different writing styles of Hamiliton and Banks:
http://image.dealoz.co.uk/image/uk/410/3410.jpg
He's funny as hell on the box, will see if his written word hits the mark too ...
You read the Pandora's Star books, right? About the same as that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
If it helps any further, I'd only gotten to about page 50 by this last Friday, and you know how long the book is.
Yep read Pandora's Star & Judas Unchained.
Ok - sounds pretty good then. :)
I finally got started on Milton's Paradise Lost (what else are holidays for?), and...It's not nearly as daunting as I had feared. Fun stuff :up:
I just finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" last night. Fantastic.
Feynman's "What do you care what other people think"
I read Heart of Darkness by Conrad. That book is extremely convoluted and murky, much like its topic. I've read it three time, (we've had a snowday) and i found that each time Iread it, the more layers i found.
Rereading the old battle tech books on the kindle app. Good stuff BUT why are there randomly hyphenated words that make no sense and ridiculous spelling errors?? So irritating.
Cuz a republican wrote it. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
No need to drag politics into a peaceful books thread. :o
Nessus, is there anything along these longs you would suggest for continued reading? Hopefully around the same length?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
This book has been rolling around in my head ever since I returned it, a lot of the what and how this account covers isn't what I remember from my history classes.
Well, the most classic Holocaust remembrance are Levi's "Is This a Man" and Tadeudz Borowkski's "This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen". These chronicle Lager-tales as by Lager-people. They're the same length, and have that same gallows-humour along with the description of what cannot be described. If you ever get a scholarly interest, I suggest Friedlander, but he's low on analysis or interpretation and seems to thrive in the trivial minutia his German masters once asked of him.
Awww common. In my defense, he was asking for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
Reading Jane fucking Eyre. Feminism is the dumbest movement ever. Women are now equal to men, at least in most first world cuntrees. Women try so hard to write fictional novels about self-empowered and other nonsense. Read Catherine the Great's bibliography. She was a BAMF or Queen Isabella. Hell, Lady Macbeth or Ayn Rand.
Ding ding dingQuote:
Originally Posted by Omega
On the plus side, half the forum now loves you
Care to elaborate? I don't know enough about the ethno-politico demographics of this forum to even attempt to make a marginally well-reasoned hypothesis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
That shows
Perhaps you should stick to sharing what you are reading for fun, and not your assigned reading.
I kind of want to do well in AP Lit. I have to read a book from our country's cannon. I can't fight the system. and pshhh, why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
This is the man that is going to operate on your colon, people
Vote against Obamacare
Clever, but I want to major in econ. I'll make you a deal, i'llgive you a free colonoscopy. free of charge. just for you :heart:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
This is the guy making the next economy bubble
Vote Pubbie, everyone
:rolleyes:
On the plus side, I'm actually getting to read my own books again! Granted it is nothing too intense or hard to read, but so far pretty entertaining for me. "Howl's Moving Castle". At least it is more engaging then what I read on a daily basis to K, she likes "F is for Farm" :bulb: I have that book memorized...
I'll be offering my services to Germany.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Cuntries? Are you trying to piss everyone off?Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega
If you exclude all the regional dialects in Pakistan I can speak (three), English is only my fourth language after Urdu, French, and Arabic. I might have omitted a letter by mistake, or not, since I don't have aspellcheck and my mastery of the english language is sub-par compared to any literate and native speaker. Youcan't expect me to oscellate back and forth from one language to the next and it's not as if I proof-read any of my posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
Somehow that rings false in light of the content of that post, and your generally misogynistic attitude.
This is a book? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Catgrrl
I thought it was solely a Ghibli studios movie?
Which I have, and it's very good. Astonishing visuals, as with many of Ghibli/Miyazaki's productions.
http://www.impawards.com/2005/poster...ing_castle.jpg
I love the movie (I also have it on DVD), so my sister got me the corresponding book for Christmas. It was a book first, and the movie strays off the book quite a bit. But it was still an enjoyable read (finished it last night). It's by Diana Wynne Jones. It's a childrens/preteen book I'd say. But at the point in my life I can't wrap my head around anything more in-depth than that. One day I will be back up to par on my reading/attention abilities. :)
lol, that's a word i haven't seen in a while. and naaah, i wasn't really serious either way. i'm just raging we're reading her work. one of the other books i read by the Bronte sisters was supposedly a lesbian manifesto according to this website. it was legit, they had quotes in their essay and everything. apart from that, i just think she's too verbose for no reason, her imagery is stupid. Subtly refernce red, don't reference red ALL the time. and like, "i wish were a bird" makes it so obvious bird represent freedom. she blatantly reveals birds=freedom. like i don't like those kinds of books.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
anyways, i finished Grapes of Wrath, i personally liked East of Eden better. same ending, but better plot imo.