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What are you reading? (March 2012)
- Thread starter Maklershed
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Lasthope106
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Aside from a couple of technical books on C# and Python, I'm still trying to finish The House of Leaves. It's going to take a while to finish that one.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I lost my copy. Made me so sad. I'm going to have to buy another one.
Now that I have time (in Methods, so my time to do anything besides school and work is nil), I am going to try and read A Game of Thrones before the Blu-Ray comes out next Tuesday. Even if I don't buy the set then, I am getting Mass Effect 3, so my time will be sunk anyways. I'm determined to do it though!
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
tesseract / grakl, gibson's sprawl trilogy is a beautiful thing.
YesNOnoNOYes
Member
Im doing exactly what you are doing. Only on my phone, with Readu. I downloaded all sorts of free classics last week.
tesseract / grakl, gibson's sprawl trilogy is a beautiful thing.
It surely is, I love all of Gibson's work.
I absolutely love that book despite the super slow start. She has a short story collection as well that is pretty good.
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I'm still reading Hyperon and enjoying it.
I thought I would give audiobooks a try and listen to Asimov's Foundation in other places where I can't read. Man, I don't know why but I can't retain any of the information. I don't know if it's an issue with my imagination or attention span or what. Haha.
I thought I would give audiobooks a try and listen to Asimov's Foundation in other places where I can't read. Man, I don't know why but I can't retain any of the information. I don't know if it's an issue with my imagination or attention span or what. Haha.
Soakedjunk
Member
I just started....
and I just bought this on Kindle for $2.99...
I'm excited to get into both stories!
and I just bought this on Kindle for $2.99...
I'm excited to get into both stories!
Bill Murray
Banned
Rec from a friend, she really loved it and thought I might since I enjoyed Hunger Games. This is quite a bit different but it's not bad. I'm enjoying it so far.
reminder from last month's thread: http://www.nybooks.com/books/wintersale/
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Got this in the mail today as well. Yay.
Must not ruin!
Must not ruin!
echoshifting
Banned
The wait for the next Susanna Clarke novel is driving me insane. What I wouldn't give...maybe I should re-read JS&MN.
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
Finished this recently. It was just... okay. It was very predictable and ended a bit awkwardly. I liked the setting (victorian London) though.
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The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie
And now something totally different. Had it sitting around for awhile. Only read a few pages before putting it down for another time.
AngmarsKing701
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Gave up on The Luck of Relian Kru by Paula Volsky after making it about 1/3 of the way through.
Have moved on to Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. Not making a lot of progress, but interesting so far. It'll probably take me 1/2 a year to read it.
Have moved on to Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. Not making a lot of progress, but interesting so far. It'll probably take me 1/2 a year to read it.
nakedsushi
Member
Got this in the mail today as well. Yay.
Must not ruin!
^-- Beautiful. This is what would make me purchase a physical book.
Post-apocalyptic fans need to check these books out. They're more like novellas I guess, five of them at about 100 pages each, but they're amazing so far. The world is sort of like a harsher version of Fallout's wasteland, due to some event that I have yet to discover through reading, where going outside basically means death within a few minutes due to the perpetual toxic winds that roam the planet. What's left of mankind survives in massive underground silos (again like Fallout, silos = vaults). Pretty much all of their knowledge of the outside world comes from a handful of cameras positioned above ground that feed them video of the ruined landscape.
The claustrophobic and highly structured atmosphere of life in the silo and the bleak world outside (the first time he described a crumbling city in the distance I was hooked) combine to create a fascinating setting. And I love how he ever-so-slowly sheds light on all of the mysteries surrounding this universe. Who built the silos and why? What happened to the Earth hundreds of years ago? Are there other silos like this one?
It's really good. And in the first 250 pages or so there have already been a few substantial twists that I didn't see coming, but I won't spoil any of that good stuff. Highly recommend picking up the $5 collection of all five stories on Kindle. Hell, the free sample lets you go through the entire first story so you can get a feel for whether or not you'd like it.
And thankfully he's already working on another Wool series, a prequel series! Can't wait.
Anticitizen One
Banned
I'm shocked at the lost world hate. I don't like it as much as JP but I think it is a worthy sequel and a good story in its own right. Certainly lighters better than the movie. What did you guys want from a Jurassic park sequel?
l'année prochaine, oui ?
Like, not in two weeks. Even that seems like billowing optimism.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
One of the most interesting and under-served aspect of American history.
Maklershed
Member
Finished It and on to The Purple Cloud
The Purple Cloud by Matthew Phipps Shiel
Best part? It's a freek Kindle book!
The Purple Cloud by Matthew Phipps Shiel
Best part? It's a freek Kindle book!
I would recommend Redmond O'Hanlon's books, if you like Bryson's stuff. Especially these two:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002RI9M0M/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1400078105/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Maklershed
Member
Anything as good as The Long Ships in there?
Bill Murray
Banned
The Last Man, also by Shelley is interesting.
Chess Story is worth looking at.
I don't read enough. When I do I read the worst shit. I just read the first Hunger Games book, which was the first book I've read since Harry Potter ended. It was dumb, and it made me feel stupid for reading it. The writing itself was wretched. It felt unedited in parts and was full of sentence fragments which I find deplorable for a book aimed at developing minds. Is writing "young adult" fiction just an excuse for not being held to any standards?
I guess I can see why little girls like it cause just like Twilight it takes an emotionless, uninteresting girl and puts her in a power fantasy where boys like her for some reason. I ended up kind of enjoying it against my better judgment in parts, mostly on an ironic level. I'll probably finish the series but I really need to try and branch out into something a little more intellectually stimulating.
I guess I can see why little girls like it cause just like Twilight it takes an emotionless, uninteresting girl and puts her in a power fantasy where boys like her for some reason. I ended up kind of enjoying it against my better judgment in parts, mostly on an ironic level. I'll probably finish the series but I really need to try and branch out into something a little more intellectually stimulating.
Oh sweet. So many of these sound amazing.
Master Milk
Member
Spring Break next week, so I'll try to finally finish this.
in order to make myself feel cultured, I'm reading this:
I don't know a whole lot about Cervantes so I'm excited to go in blind-ish. I've been using this year to catch up on some the relatively modern "literary canon" after having neglected so much of it since high school... figured La Mancha would be a good a place to start as any.
I don't know a whole lot about Cervantes so I'm excited to go in blind-ish. I've been using this year to catch up on some the relatively modern "literary canon" after having neglected so much of it since high school... figured La Mancha would be a good a place to start as any.
Down Under is a fantastic read. Read it soon after I moved to Australia. Loved it. Passed it along to my Aussie friends who were equally charmed by it. Bryson has this knack of simultaneously being about to love and laugh at a country, much like a local would.
No kidding. I picked up JS&MN when it first came out in hardback on a whim and have been waiting ever since.
Has there been any info on the followup? All I heard would be that it would focus on middle or lower class magicians this time.
Ive read it. I thought i was good, though I dont remember it wowing me. I thought Love in the timeof Cholera was better, though The Tin Drum is more unique? (not the right word, but cant think how to describe it right now) Basically, more weird quirky shiit happens in The Tin Drum
Squirrel Killer
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After I finished Crime and Punishment last month, I told myself I was going to hammer my hard copy backlog, starting with Elie Wiesel's Night. I stuck it in my kid's diaper bag as we headed out on family errands to pull out in the downtime, got through the forward, then promptly forgot to take it out when I was on my own. Desperate for something to read at my next down time, I downloaded 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and haven't looked back.
How the fuck did people read before PDAs/smartphones/ereaders? It's so primitive.
On a related note, I just realized that I've been seriously e-reading for decade as of last month. Started with a Palm m125 I got with birthday money, moved up to a Palm Treo 755p, and am now splitting time in the Kindle app for Apple iPhone 4S and HP TouchPad. And yet I'm still debating which ebook platform to commit to.
How the fuck did people read before PDAs/smartphones/ereaders? It's so primitive.
On a related note, I just realized that I've been seriously e-reading for decade as of last month. Started with a Palm m125 I got with birthday money, moved up to a Palm Treo 755p, and am now splitting time in the Kindle app for Apple iPhone 4S and HP TouchPad. And yet I'm still debating which ebook platform to commit to.
I feel like a caveman, still happily lugging along all those hardcovers. When they reach biblical sizes, though, I do start regretting a little.
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Slowly working through 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, and it's very . . . Murakami. Dunno what to say other than that. I can almost see the non-ending coming. Every time I hit a new chapter I'm reminded of that line in his memoir about running, where he notes that he really can't write endings. Is the journey, then, worth the time invested? The thing's the size of a fantasy novel. And I can never come to an answer regarding that question, because I'm not even a big fan of Murakami. It almost feels like a duty. But I'm enjoying it, what little of it that I've read, so eh.
Lack of a ctrl+f equivalent function annoys me with physical books, like when I see a reference to something that came before and have to search through 300 pages to find it, I'll admit.
But I just love having a full ass bookshelf full of things to look over and page through. It's just not the same with ebooks.