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elcapitan:
I know there's another one of these threads further down, but I figured we should start from a clean slate.
So. What are you reading at the moment? Tell us about it - good, bad, godawful, amazing? Recommended?
To start, I'm currently reading:
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon. It's a LOT more accessible than Gravity's Rainbow was, and a shedload shorter too. Darkly funny and extraordinarily intriguing. Recommended to everyone who wants to (or has) read Gravity's Rainbow and wants to see what Pynchon can be like in a slightly easier form.
Olympos, by Dan Simmons. This one's the sequel to Ilium, and it's shaping up to be awesome. Since the storyline clash at the end of Ilium borked the Iliad storyline's semi-predetermined nature, all bets are off and Simmons is doing whatever the hell he likes with his characters. Achilles and Hector joining forces and besieging Olympos? Hells yeah! Recommended to anyone who likes good sci-fi and who has read Ilium.
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. I'm not sure about this one yet. It's certainly well-written and engaging, but I haven't got enough into to really understand any of the characters yet. I'll see.
Mnementh:
Thud! by Pratchett
MATLABŪ Primer 7th ed.
elcapitan:
Thanks Mnem, that reminds me:
Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming, M. Ben-Ari.
Logic and Discrete Mathematics: A Computer Science Perspective, Grassman and Tremblay.
Software Design, Braude.
Analysis 1 Honours brick, by some random lecturer at ANU.
Not recommended. Hard, boring, boring, and mind-bending respectively.
mooface:
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.
If the man wasn't gay and dead, I would totally have his babies.
1patheticloser:
I just finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I have Stardust by Neil Gaiman next on my list. It sitting right there...just waiting....waiting to be lovingly opened and devoured.
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