What are you reading?

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:01 am

Foundation is the best, but you gotta read all three of the original trilogy.

And, on that note, I've just started The Hobbit... again. :!!!:

Achtane · Post by **Achtane** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:17 pm

Unfortunately you don't get the space testicles cover art with the Kindle version. Spaceballs.
But it's mighty enjoyable so far. I also love the Stalker movie and games.

futuresailors · Post by **futuresailors** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:38 pm

Wes Mantooth · Post by **Wes Mantooth** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:37 pm

Right now:
-Lords of Chaos
-Quantum Thief

phantasmagorovich · Post by **phantasmagorovich** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:23 am

Denis Johnson - nobody move
Manuel Laranjeira - pessimismo nacional

I finished super sad true love story a couple of days ago and I sort of liked it without really seeing why it got the raving reviews that it got. It was alright, but it got on my nerves that the main character was so passive. I guess I'm just not into anti-heroes.

schrodingersgoldfish · Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:52 pm

Finishing up American Gods. I think he even beats the Reproduction chapters of Biology
textbooks at making sex awkward and completely non-sexual.
It's pretty much a book for all of us mythology nerds out there.

Who in the world is Anansi? Oh, it's a tribal African god.
You've probably never heard of him.

Finished reading The Hobbit before that, in great anticipation of the December film release.

RR Bigman · Post by **RR Bigman** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:47 pm

Tried reading clockwork orange again...still think it's nigh unreadable. maybe I don't do enough drugs

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:16 am

I,Galactus wrote:
RR Bigman wrote:Tried reading clockwork orange again...still think it's nigh unreadable. maybe I don't do enough drugs

Check out the glossary in the back. The lingo gets easier to process as you absorb it.

... There was a glossary?...

I just kept reading until I figured it out on my own...

That would have made things easier...

I had to reread a lot of sentences a lot of times.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:51 pm

RR Bigman wrote:Tried reading clockwork orange again...still think it's nigh unreadable. maybe I don't do enough drugs

It's just not all that great.

schrodingersgoldfish · Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:36 am

Reading the Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. Decided it was time I go on a steampunk kick. It's pretty juvenile fiction, but well done. I like Jfic for its simplicity though. You can breeze through books and really enjoy them without having to concentrate. Sometimes I want a book that I really have to think about, but sometimes I just want to relax while I fill my mind with German Wanderpanzers.

Derelict78 · Post by **Derelict78** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:45 am

morange wrote:So I just read Eon and the sequel, Eternity, by Greg Bear. Good imaginative science fiction. After that, an earlier variation on the same theme, Rendezvous with Rama, by Issac Asimov, very excellent. Apparently Rama has some sequels, so I'll probably check those out. Starting A Canticle for Leibowitz now.

The Rama series is Arthur C. Clarke and the whole series rocks!

RR Bigman · Post by **RR Bigman** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:10 pm

D.o.S. wrote:
RR Bigman wrote:Tried reading clockwork orange again...still think it's nigh unreadable. maybe I don't do enough drugs

It's just not all that great.

yeah...I didn't wanna come off as a hater, but pretty much. Even with the glossary :idk:

I think it was all the Addicts fans I hung out with in HS that ruined that book/movie for me

Having given up on clockwork, I'm rereading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Short, sweet and superbly translated

behndy · Post by **behndy** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:16 pm

huh. i liked Clockwork Orange. but i did read it when i was younger and really enjoyed the moobie.

i'm rereading Snow Crash right now. i love Neal Stephenson so damn much. but i only really love 2 or 3 of his books. Snow Crash, Diamond Age Or The Illustrated Young GrrLie's Primer and Cryptonomicon.

he's GEECHY. geechy like a MOTHERfucker.

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:59 pm

everything i've been reading lately has wound up disappointing me with the quality of the prose...even Asimov and Orwell have been making me wince with the flatness of the writing style. granted, it's better than Hemingway or Bradbury, but it's still deeply disappointing.

schrodingersgoldfish · Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:51 am

dubkitty wrote:everything i've been reading lately has wound up disappointing me with the quality of the prose...even Asimov and Orwell have been making me wince with the flatness of the writing style. granted, it's better than Hemingway or Bradbury, but it's still deeply disappointing.

Are you comparing those books to something specific which you consider great? Or does simply nothing at all appeal to you?

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