Favorite books / What are you reading?

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).

 

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.

 

I think Carl Sagan was subconsciously creating an idealized portrait of himself as a woman.

 

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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.

 

Shouldn't have told me...

 

Heh, sorry.

 

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.

 

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.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

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.

 

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.

 

I'm reading the Inheritance cycle. Only a third of the way through Eragon.

 

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.

 

I just bought 'Cannibal Reign' by Thomas Koloniar - since I'm on a post-apocalyptic/zombie jag I can't seem to shake off lately.

No idea if it sucks or if it's awesome, never heard of the author. I'll update after I'm a few chapters in...

 

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!

 

I'm almost finished with Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. It starts a little slow, but it becomes an action-packed adventure before long.

 

Finished George R.R. Martins last book, A dance with dragons. Gotta love that guy.