Thread: What are you reading?

Well, I've been looking into those Tosev timeline books that Sindred linked me too in that Axis Victory article. Aliens that interrupted WW2 and forced pretty much everybody into slavery, sounds bloody awesome. So I'm pretty keen to check those ones out.

Thanks, Sindred

House of Leaves

Originally Posted by Ardent Lost

House of Leaves

<333 have this on hold at the library. Can't wait.

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

<333 have this on hold at the library. Can't wait.

Yes, it's a fantastic read. One of my favourites and I think I'll retead after I finish the saga I'm currently working through,

which is 2001: A Space Odyssey (planning on reading the sequels)

Originally Posted by Spenner

Yes, it's a fantastic read. One of my favourites and I think I'll retead after I finish the saga I'm currently working through,

which is 2001: A Space Odyssey (planning on reading the sequels)

2001 is great, isn't it?

I'd be interested to know what you thought of the sequel. Haven't read it yet.

Originally Posted by dajo

2001 is great, isn't it?

I'd be interested to know what you thought of the sequel. Haven't read it yet.

I read them all years ago and liked them quite a bit. The sequels get into more hard sci-fi and aren't as tightly focused and symbol-driven as the original, but good sci-fi. Clarke and Stephen Baxter did what they called an "orthoquel" to the Odyssey books in the '00s, the Time Odyssey trilogy, which was quite good. Rather than geometrically impossible monoliths, impossible spheres (pi=3.00) appear and carve out chunks of hominid history, reassembling an earth on which, for instance, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan are all contemporaries, along with some mastodons, australopithecenes, nineteenth century Chicago and Babylon.

Just finished Balzac's A Murky Business. Now hunting down his Choans book for more Corentin-fix.

My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erikson, M.D.

Much more interesting than it sounds. (Milton Erikson is a famous pyschoanalyst.)

Reading some thick suspense horror called Where Serpents Lie.

Written in mid 90's. I think the best parts of the novel are when they talk about technology and the internet. Oh 1990's, you so outdated.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I read them all years ago and liked them quite a bit. The sequels get into more hard sci-fi and aren't as tightly focused and symbol-driven as the original, but good sci-fi. Clarke and Stephen Baxter did what they called an "orthoquel" to the Odyssey books in the '00s, the Time Odyssey trilogy, which was quite good. Rather than geometrically impossible monoliths, impossible spheres (pi=3.00) appear and carve out chunks of hominid history, reassembling an earth on which, for instance, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan are all contemporaries, along with some mastodons, australopithecenes, nineteenth century Chicago and Babylon.

Interesting... I'll look those up after I'm done with the ones I'm reading now.

And yes, I'm very much attached to this so far, it's great! Really deepens the perspective that the movie had, I find.

Four Past Midnight - The Langoliers - Stephen King

Dreams and How to Guide Them - Hervey Saint Denys

I highly recommend this book, especially if your going through a rough patch and haven't had a LD in a while. I've had 2 since I started reading it. His approach is very methodical and I feel a bit too logical. But because of this he gains a great understanding of what make up our dreams.

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

<333 have this on hold at the library. Can't wait.

I had this on hold at the library, but it never came in. I would go find it again, but I just hit up a used book-sale at my old grade-school and got a bag of about 20 books(plus Memento and the Big Lebowski) for $5. Used book-sales are the shit. Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance is next on my list.

"The Forest of Hands and Teeth"

I love it so far

I started Asimov's Foundation series yesterday. I picked up one of the books out of order as a teenager and couldn't really get into it, but I'm really enjoying what I've read so far--a lot of parallels with Dune, with the mathematics of psychohistory in place of spice-induced prescience.

The anachronisms, or you might say dischronisms, are pretty entertaining--officials of a far-future galactic empire exchanging information by means of slips of paper in little tubes, for instance xD There aren't so many that it's distracting, but I do like those things as little reminders of our blind spots.

Finished And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks by Kerouac and Burroughs.

Now randomly selecting another Balzac novel to read. Turns out they're in pretty much every market book stall going.

Also have my endless array of public domain pdf shorts and essays to be going through. Averaging at about 6 a day.

Finally finished the Myst trilogy, and now I've begun Casino Royale. It's an interesting read so far. The only problem is all the French, which I do not speak.

Originally Posted by P-K-V

Casino Royale

Just bought. Along with The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick and The Man who was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton.

All hold until Murakami's Hard-Boiled is out of the way, however.

Originally Posted by stonedape

Dreams and How to Guide Them - Hervey Saint Denys

I highly recommend this book, especially if your going through a rough patch and haven't had a LD in a while. I've had 2 since I started reading it. His approach is very methodical and I feel a bit too logical. But because of this he gains a great understanding of what make up our dreams.



I had this on hold at the library, but it never came in. I would go find it again, but I just hit up a used book-sale at my old grade-school and got a bag of about 20 books(plus Memento and the Big Lebowski) for $5. Used book-sales are the shit. Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance is next on my list.

Thats cool. My copy finally came in. Its taken a month and this sucker looks like its gonna be hard.

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

Just bought. Along with The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick and The Man who was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton.

All hold until Murakami's Hard-Boiled is out of the way, however.

Really enjoyed that Dick.
Novel

I should pick up some more Murakami. I was far from blown away by Kafka on the Shore--light fare for that whole meme-mashup brand of magical realism, but it certainly stands up to a lot of the stuff I've been reading lately. I think I was underwhelmed partly because I was reading some really quality stuff around the same time.

Finished yesterday


Started today

Originally Posted by bradysdreaming

Started today

Man, I love that series .

I still have not finished Brisingr. I'm on spring break so maybe I'll pick back up on it...sometime. My brothers and friend said that Brisingr is the best book so far.

I'm sorry, but I have to speak up:

The Inheritance trilogy is mindless violence with no plot or character development and is probably the worst thing to happen to literature since Harry Potter.

In other news, I'm reading The World Set Free by H.G Wells.

Im reading a series called A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Originally Posted by LRT

In other news, I'm reading The World Set Free by H.G Wells.

You ever read his very short stories? They float around the internet as public domain texts so if you haven't they aren't too hard to come by.

Empire of the Ants and Lord of the Dynamos are two good examples. The Ants one especially.

Also. This. Always this.

Anyway. This book is my next conquest: