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For lack of a better title, The Book Thread!
ielerol:
I want Neil Gaiman's babies. I read his blog, and that man can't write a word that isn't awesome.
Right now I'm just starting Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov. I love Russian novels. I'm also sort of in the middle of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, but I probably won't finish it anytime soon. It really drags after awhile. I want to finish it someday, mostly because the ending is apparantly controversial. Victorian scandal makes me happy.
I just finished reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, which is kind of post-apocalyptic but not so much apocalypse as scarily plausible decline. It's a little like The Handmaid's Tale, but with characters that fight back. And when that got me too angry/depressed/cynical, I read bits of Spherical Harmonic by Catherine Asaro, which is part of a series that I can only describe as romantic space opera.
I have read one Terry Pratchett novel, plus Good Omens, and I intend to read more.
La Creme:
--- Quote from: Tanka ---re-reading the Tao Te Ching
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Hurray Taoism! I think I'm due for being a hardcore taoist sometime soon. But only for a few weeks before I get bored and start being something else again.
Just finished All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and I was massively impressed. One of the most engaging and powerful classic novels I've ever read.
Now 100 pages into I, Lucifer by Glenn Duncan and it is severely kicking ass and about to start The Seahawk by Rafael Sabatini because I don't read nearly enough books about pirates and because it's the other best book option on the required reading for my AP Euro summer reading (besides All Quiet, which is done.)
elcapitan:
--- Quote from: normz ---:o HOW can you say that there are no boring bits when william gibson is writing *strokes her copy of Pattern Recognition she has on extended loan from her best mate* It's ok sweetie he didn't really mean it ... who's mummies favourite sci-fi book? you are yes you are shnookums......
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See, I didn't think of Pattern Recognition as a sci-fi, for some reason. Kinda modern-day tech thriller, if I had to label it. Neuromancer, now that's sci-fi.
I'm starting Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, which I'm liking so far - since I'm something of a maths/cryptography/computer geek, it pushes all the buttons marked "Interesting."
I'm also going through Stranger In A Strange Land again - I haven't read it since I was about 12, and I see a lot more in it this time through. (You might even say that I'm grokking it.)
In my spare time, I'm reading through Dan Simmons' Prayers To Broken Stones - I found a copy in a second-hand bookshop, and it's brilliant. Really interesting reading the seeds for Hyperion, The Hollow Man, and Carrion Comfort, among others.
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Now 100 pages into I, Lucifer by Glenn Duncan and it is severely kicking ass and about to start The Seahawk by Rafael Sabatini because I don't read nearly enough books about pirates and because it's the other best book option on the required reading for my AP Euro summer reading (besides All Quiet, which is done.)
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If you want a book about pirates, track down (Amazon has it, I think) a book called On Stranger Tides. It's by Tim Powers, and I guarantee that if you like pirates and/or voodoo then you'll love it.
shrimp:
Just finished Demonstorm, by James Barclay. Has anyone else read the Chronicles of the Raven and Legends of the Raven?
If you like your fantasy with mercenaries and codes of honor and magic and sword fights and undead warriors and dragons and great funny scenes then get them, start with Dawnthief. I laughed out loud (woke the fiance a few times) and I cried at the sad bits, Barclay really has a good way of creating empathy and the characters are pretty human (or elf or dragon :) ).
Currently starting to read a Tom Holt Omnibus and then will read Orcs by Stan Nicholls, I love Waterstones :)
CoinOperatedGirl:
A suggestion for those of you who like insomnia inducing terror:
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. If you're into Poe, listen to their album Haunted while you read it. Danielewski is Poe's brother, and she made the album to go along with the book, or so I've heard. This book had me wanting to buy tape measures and buy night lights.
A review of the book:
http://www.themodernword.com/review_house_of_leaves.html
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