Just started Contact by Carl Sagan. I find the female protagonist very appealing, to be honest. Hopefully the book will improve in writing, though (doesn't seem very intriguing, or action-filled, or anything).
Favorite books / What are you reading?
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I'm reading the 7th book in the 'Temeraire' series by Naomi Novik, 'Crucible of Gold'.
Awesome series of books dealing with a 'what if' alternate reality where dragons are involved in napoleans war with the british.
Good stuff and she was a designer who work on neverwinternights.
Awesome series of books dealing with a 'what if' alternate reality where dragons are involved in napoleans war with the british.
Good stuff and she was a designer who work on neverwinternights.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I think Carl Sagan was subconsciously creating an idealized portrait of himself as a woman.Sub-Human said:
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
I also bought The Road to read in the Bus and the few free spots I have during the last Two Weeks of the semester. I bought too many books, and I have too little time to actually read them right now.
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Walpknut said:
I liked The Road a lot. It's an easy read, enjoyable, and all together swell.
I have been reading comics instead of "Real" books. Shame on me. I need to go to the book store.
UniversalWolf said:
Shouldn't have told me...
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
Heh, sorry.Sub-Human said:
Finished last book last night, it was great, immediately looked up new book. I'm telling you this kindle is like storebought crack, as I browse I can read reviews by OTHER AUTHORS of same genre, amazing, decided on Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn:A Novel of the Vietnam War, ingesting it now.
The Vault Dweller
always looking for water.
I've been reading one Terry Pratchett book a month for months now. I haven't even read half of all the books and I'm very glad I have years to go before I run out. Currently on Men at Arms.
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Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
So, yesterday I was down at the Book Store, buying a Tintin book for my nephew (he loved the cgi movie, but I wanted him to read the comics) and I found a pretty interesting thing
For those of you not versed in Spanish, that is a Manga Version of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I laughed my ass off when I found it, but it didn't end there. After some internet Lurking, I found that there is a whole collection of this manga based on classic literature, "Manga de Dokuha". So now I have a project, I gotta buy these things.
For those of you not versed in Spanish, that is a Manga Version of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I laughed my ass off when I found it, but it didn't end there. After some internet Lurking, I found that there is a whole collection of this manga based on classic literature, "Manga de Dokuha". So now I have a project, I gotta buy these things.
Walpknut said:So, yesterday I was down at the Book Store, buying a Tintin book for my nephew (he loved the cgi movie, but I wanted him to read the comics) and I found a pretty interesting thing
For those of you not versed in Spanish, that is a Manga Version of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I laughed my ass off when I found it, but it didn't end there. After some internet Lurking, I found that there is a whole collection of this manga based on classic literature, "Manga de Dokuha". So now I have a project, I gotta buy these things.
Nietzsche? Hey I remember citing him in an essay I wrote about tragedy in my English
But anyways, I'm currently reading The Great Gatsby.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I've been reading an interesting book. It's the last John Steinbeck ever worked on, called The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. It seems to have begun as a simple retelling of Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur in modernized english, but it went off the tracks at some point into a much more novelistic story. Apparently his publishers were skeptical of the project and he abandoned it and never returned before his death a few years later. It lacks focus, but it's mostly there...enough so that it's probably a top 5 ever sword-and-sorcery book, at least on my list.
IllusiveManJr
First time out of the vault
I'm reading the Inheritance cycle. Only a third of the way through Eragon.
UniversalWolf said:
Look up The Winter King by Cornwell. It's King Arthur but he bends it around so it is not fantasy, but more historical. I really enjoyed that.
So I've decided to pick up No Easy Answers, that book about Columbine. Interesting read, mainly because it shows the not-so-popular kids in a way which is quite familiar.
Annie Higgins
Your typical PA survival fare. I say typical because, having read ~5 PA books in my life, a certain formula is becoming apparent. But I guess, I'm into this formula. I'm about half way through. I recommend it if you have a Kindle, since it is free. FREE! I feel like a pirate reading free books. KINDLE IS PIRACY!
Your typical PA survival fare. I say typical because, having read ~5 PA books in my life, a certain formula is becoming apparent. But I guess, I'm into this formula. I'm about half way through. I recommend it if you have a Kindle, since it is free. FREE! I feel like a pirate reading free books. KINDLE IS PIRACY!
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I'm almost finished with Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. It starts a little slow, but it becomes an action-packed adventure before long.
Dr. Combat Shotgun
First time out of the vault
Finished George R.R. Martins last book, A dance with dragons. Gotta love that guy.