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Right now for my kids book club they are reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore. It's really a pretty good, ya, fiction book. The main character reminds me of the Kill Bill main character. Thumbs up.. worth a read. I'm going to read book two, Fire.. we'll see how that goes.
We've been over this...dickens IS zombie literature...read...become a zombie....Quote:
Originally Posted by reaper239
*BRRRRAAAAAIIINNNNNS, old chap?*
So are you saying that you don't like Dickens? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by reaper239
I agree there are some of his books I just can't read. I got a couple of pages into a tale of two cities and gave up. But a Christmas carol and Oliver Twist aren't to bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by reaper239
so im just adding to all this idk if any one else threw up this series but rangers apprentice really great about 13 books in the series...Its a really easy read something to enjoy my little sis picked it up and never read it so i took it and loved it . its done in diffrent types of stories and done well...its more midevil kinda fantasy stuff if ur into that stuff try it out....i just finished that series now im on catching fire...and that is also awsome ..
Currently reading Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles. Although it's scholarly, it's a fairly accessible history of Carthage, which was one of Rome's better known enemies. Worth a read if you like ancient history and even if you don't, it's edifying.
Just finished:
Opium Fiend: 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction by Steven Martin *****/***** awesome book.
Right now I'm reading:
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Diary of a Submissive by Sophie Morgan
Currently its "Childhoods end". Not really sold on it too be honest. Interesting take on the sci-fi invasion genre though.
Really good book, even if somewhat dated...hopefully you finish it, its worth itQuote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
I like dated. This one's interesting but at the end of the day its taken me a week to read it. A book I love will take 2 days tops.
Next up "Dune".
actual i am listen to audiobooks myself; the audiobook i am listen to now is called fuzzy nation by john scalzi. its a reboot from the original called little fuzzy. otherwise i try to learn new stuff in my field, like zbrush.
just got done listen to the walking dead the road to woodbury it was great. it takes place just after rise of the governor check it out.
jah, de rise of da governator
I'm with you on "dated." I'm currently finishing up "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge and following it with "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. A couple of classic hard Sci Fi greats....Quote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
"Childhood's End" is one of those Clarke works that I just never got around to reading. I may have to grab a copy.
I tried "A fire upon the deep" and just couldn't get into it. "The Forever War"Quote:
Originally Posted by scbubba
is brilliant though.
I will say that this is my second time in Fire Upon the Deep. It can get, um, dense at times. Vinge doesn't explain via backstory. He uses revelation to get you into the story. It sometimes works and sometimes frustrates, I've found.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
Totally agree with you on The Forever War.... :-)
Currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm on The Two Towers.
Yeah. Excellent choice. Especially with the Hobbit movie about the premier...Quote:
Originally Posted by Anavrin
True! I'm excited for it. I have ideas about why they split it into three movies, which are quite hopeful. I think it'll be two movies covering what actually happens in the book (which is justified. There's enough material there to warrant two movies), and the third movie will cover Gandalf and the White Council expunging The Necromancer (Sauron) from Mirkwood. I'll be interested to see how that turns out, because it was never covered in any of the books in depth, so it seems like Peter Jackson will have to make it up based on thin guidelines.Quote:
Originally Posted by scbubba
I just finished a nice little marathon of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series followed by "The Hunger Games" trilogy.
I tried to get into "The Girl" books... could... not... do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by HardKor
Yeah, I can understand that not everyone is going to love them. Larsson had a tendency to get bogged down in mundane details. I seriously doubt that we needed an exhaustive list of every single thing Lisbeth bought at IKEA to furnish her apartment. But I still loved the stories and once Larsson got down to the important parts I actually did like his writing style.
Hey man... if we all liked the same books then the shelves in bookstores would be pretty damn boring.
I read the 3 hunger games books. As long as I kept in mind that I wasn't the target audience, the 1st two books were pretty entertaining. The third one was kinda hard to get through, but I finished it. It wasn't as good as the earlier ones but not too bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by HardKor
I am actually reading Land of Lisp at the moment, for two reasons. I am keen on learing functional programming. And then, there is just this f******* awesome cover:
Aaaaaaggghhhhh!!!! Lisp!Quote:
Originally Posted by YetAnotherBloodyCheekI am actually reading Land of Lisp at the moment, for two reasons. I am keen on learing functional programming. And then, there is just this f******* awesome cover:
The subtitle of this book could be "How to go blind counting parentheses..."
But it is a good way to learn functional programming....
Hmmm, Dune is my current book. And I got forty pages in. Two weeks ago. I just can't seem to find the time to read right now.
I know I'll enjoy Dune when I get to it but for now it can go back and grace the shelves of the local library.
<rimshot> thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Remember to tip you waitress and bartender. Good night!Quote:
Originally Posted by YetAnotherBloodyCheek
I've tried a few times with Dune. Once I got most of the way through it but never all the way. Just doesn't ever click for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
the book i had to stop listening to a case of conscience by James Blish. I have listen to it before, and I didn't like it one bit. however, I thought I would give it another chance just in case i might have misunderstood it the first time. Nope i didn't. this piece of trash was written in the 50s and i guess back then genocide of a whole race cause, they didn't believe in a god or thought that they where the made of the devil was ok. this is one audiobook is going to be deleted from my library
Yeah I've officially given up now. Going to give my next book, 1984 a good go though. I have an ear infection so no headphone-related entertainment forQuote:
Originally Posted by scbubba
the foreseeable future.
Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy, I don't know what the next book I should follow after this?
If you want to stay with Star Wars I'd go with the Darth Bane series (I say series instead of trilogy because I desperatly want that storyline to continue.) There is a bit of hookyness in the first book (minor) but the author goes above and beyond making up for it in the next two books.Quote:
Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper
So I just finished 1984. Throughly enjoyed it, although the ending was depressing.
I thought it was a good book as well. The ending.....well, it ends the way it ends, I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
I'm staying with old school sci-fi and am about to start "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. It's be of those I can re-read and still thoroughly enjoy it. Like re-listening to WA seasons....
Am reading this book called IQ it is pretty awesome, these kids parents are like famous singers and go on tour and the kids get involved in some top secret FBI spy stuff it's really interesting so far.
Hmmm. Kid spies, original. Sounds cool though.
well they aren't really spies but there are people after them since their parents are famous and like the girl's mom was a FBI agent or some shit its hard to explain but a great book so farQuote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
Thats cool. Just ut of interest anybody know when pre-orders beciome available for Day By Day Armageddon: Shattered Hour Glass?
