Thread: What are you reading?

Originally Posted by Kristijan

Balzac kinda loves to give long descriptions

I have a collection of his short stories for between-novel reading. When he's forced to keep things concise, he's a much better story-teller.

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

1900s to 2000s is modern.

If it looks like the texts are just about fighting for rights, then it's been misrepresented to you. There was alot of fighting for rights, sure, but we're talking about a large large large period of time and texts.

If fantasy is your field, remember it was this period that created Tolkien, Lewis and the other Inklings. They damn near defined Western fantasy as we know it.

They're not modern to me. Remember i'm not talking about books that were only written in those times, but ones that are set in that period. I just don't like them. Maybe that'll change but at the moment they hold nothing for me. Is it a crime to have likes and dislikes? It's just the way I feel about them.

Originally Posted by Raspberry

Is it a crime to have likes and dislikes? It's just the way I feel about them.

No-one said it was.

But it's a crime to miss out on something just because it's been misrepresented to you. And the school system can do that to literature.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I say it every time WWZ comes up, but do yourself a favor and get the audiobook. Even if you don't do audiobooks normally, it's the perfect format for the "oral history" conceit of this novel. Brooks acts as the interviewer, and the interviewees draw on a full voice cast including Alan Alda, Rob Reiner, Henry Rollins, Mark Hamill and a dozen others.

Yes. Do this. It's far more interesting and (as Taosaur says) the full cast brings everything to life.

I just read my University of Glasgow Undergraduate Prospectus Can't decide what courses i'd like. They all look awesome!

Im gonna start reading the Thief Lord today or tommorrow.

I'm reading In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Will be for a long time.

Originally Posted by Raspberry

I just read my University of Glasgow Undergraduate Prospectus Can't decide what courses i'd like. They all look awesome!

Oh. Say hi to my little sister.

the more than complete Action Philosophers!

I just finished Crime and Punishment. It was fairly good. The I went right ahead reading Isaac Asimovs The Caves of Steel.

Recently finished No Country For Old Men, loved every page.
Now i'm waiting for the Bioshock book, Rapture, to come out next week.

I'm reading Kalevala. It has numerous authors but it's sampled by Elias Lönnrot.
It's actually Finnish myths and legends and I find it really enjoyable!

Lately I've read some Norwegian books. Mannen Som Elsket Yngve, Kompani Orheim and Charlotte Isabel Hansen by Tore Renberg. Good books. As far as I know they haven't been translated into English, though.

I'm currently reading A Passage to India (somewhat against my better judgment, but it's okay so far) and listening to The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. In the meantime, I finished off Cryptonomicon, which was solid but no Anathem, and Growth of the Soil, which was brilliant, considerably better than Hunger. I also finished the Shannara audio books through Talismans, and opted to take a break. I was extremely unimpressed with the first hundred-odd pages of Rothfuss' book, but it's getting more engaging.

I am reading the whole harry potter series currently on the prisoner of azkaban.

Currently reading CG Jung's Memories Dreams Reflections and also Mockingjay, the third Hunger Games book. Preparing to re-read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, the most amazing sci-fi/fantasy outing ever created (it's really literature on a par with the best, but classified as sci-f/fantasy).

The Hunger Games books are ok, kind of meh, but the others are excellent.

Note:

I saw a recent post by Juroara on O's thread about 2012 predictions about the Mayan predictions not meaning destruction but a changeover to the next solar cycle and spiritual rebirth, and suddenly I realized this must be integral to the Book of the New Sun - that's why I want to re-read it.

Primate Social Systems by Robin Dunbar (for school)... good times.

Just finished "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugor. Pretty emotional I guess.

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution


Guess what it's about.

Originally Posted by Abra

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution


Guess what it's about.

Jesus?

Originally Posted by weakamon

Just finished "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugor. Pretty emotional I guess.

I had a stupid teacher in High School who would post quotes on the board. He posted a quote from the movie or play of this, but when he introduced it, he pronounced it "Less Mis-rah-bal-a-s" Ever since then, I cannot mentally pronounce that word without messing up and laughing.


Right now, I am taking a break since my Xoom tablet is out for repair. When it comes back, I am reading Penn Jillette's "God No!" and a few other. Right now, I am catching up on my web reading by tackling Masting Lucid Dreaming, a few dream technique threads, Slenderman ARGs, and German.

Fallout Equestria. Fucking Fallout Equestria.
My Little Pony crossed over with Fallout (mostly FO3)

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It's Better Than It Sounds.

Just finished The Law by Frederic Bastiat. Moving on to Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt.

I'm reading "The Dark Tower", currently on the 3rd book and almost done. Needles to say: EPIC STORYLINE