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summer reading
scarred:
Yeah, Ender's Shadow is good, but definitely not if you've immediately read Ender's Game preceding it. I spaced it out by a period of a few months and liked it a lot.
DavidGrohl:
Starting to read The Dark Tower series. I'm not quite sure I like King's writing styles so far.
Scandanavian War Machine:
just randomly picked up a book about Teddy Roosevelt at the grocery store on my lunch break.
that should be interesting.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: De_El on 25 May 2010, 14:33 ---My first read of the summer was Ender's Game, which I had never read before, but an abundance of free time and a pushy best mate finally convinced me. It was quite good! I don't really feel obliged to read anything else by Orson Scott Card, though, with the possible exception of Speaker for the Dead. I feel like filling in too many extraneous details, or associating lesser sequels or companion series with the book I liked so well may sour its charm.
--- End quote ---
Speaker for the Dead is a drastically different book and may as well be the beginning of a quite different series. I enjoyed the series, unlike many, due to its xenobiology theories, but its religious and metaphysical themes still left me sour.
Metope:
I read the first part of In Search of Lost Time by Proust in class a couple semesters back and I really liked it, so I've decided to spend a fair bit of the summer reading the rest. Or at least some of it, kind of a huge project seeing how I don't read much nowadays. I plan on changing that though, so we'll see.
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