Just finished "The Road" by Cormac Mccarthy and started "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. I was kinda disappointed with the ending in The Road, wished to learn a bit more about the universe. And so far, 250 pages in, The Forever War definitely puts the "science" part in sci-fi. But I really like the book and it is interesting.

 

 

And I finished that Forever War. Now need to read the 2 other books in the series. Awesome.

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Iron Council, by China Mieville.

 

There's a lot of words to say about it and most have probably been said better by other people but I really liked this book. As with a lot of his books I wasn't too much of a fan of one general part of the ending but everything else was pretty superb. China Mieville might be the best at giving away little details about the world that makes you want a million books set in it. At the moment I would kill a man for an encyclopedia of Bas-Lag or something.

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Captialism's bibel, introduction to liberalism etcetcetc. Heavy (physically, 1200~ pages) as hell, but I kinda promised my man to read it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j56IiLqZ9U

 

:lol:

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Captialism's bibel, introduction to liberalism etcetcetc. Heavy (physically, 1200~ pages) as hell, but I kinda promised my man to read it.

 

There's a part where someone just talks about nothing for like a hundred pages so you can mentally cut it down a bit.

 

Comedy option: There's a part where someone just talks about nothing for like 1200 pages so you can mentally cut it down a bit.

I'm reading Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi. Pretty good so far. There is a lot of internal rambling/analysing though. It borders on "too much" for my taste (to the point where I skim a little).

 

Think I am on that part already, there was this description of Rearden Steel, how it looked like it when it got smelted... I hated it, didn't touch the book for two months.

And I kinda expect my opinion would be something like in that vid.

 

Other books I also read atm:

LotR, the Hobbit, for the n'th time.

Dracula, Frankenstein, too for the n'th time.

Impatiently waiting on my Anansi Boys and Stardust from my man, he always forgets them when he comes over to my flat.

Think I am on that part already, there was this description of Rearden Steel, how it looked like it when it got smelted... I hated it, didn't touch the book for two months.

And I kinda expect my opinion would be something like in that vid.

 

Other books I also read atm:

LotR, the Hobbit, for the n'th time.

Dracula, Frankenstein, too for the n'th time.

Impatiently waiting on my Anansi Boys and Stardust from my man, he always forgets them when he comes over to my flat.

 

Nah, you'll know when you get to it. Think the bit in 1984 where Winston reads that book O'Brien gave him except so much worse.

Do any of you "speed read?"

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http://imgs.xkcd.com...s/bookshelf.png

 

"You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community." o.O

 

Related to my Atlas Shrugged talk.

Just ordered Farmer Giles of Ham, been wanting it a while, just haven't bothered before now, since it was insane long waiting times on it online...

@ Varda

 

Think I am on that part already, there was this description of Rearden Steel, how it looked like it when it got smelted... I hated it, didn't touch the book for two months.

And I kinda expect my opinion would be something like in that vid.

 

Other books I also read atm:

LotR, the Hobbit, for the n'th time.

Dracula, Frankenstein, too for the n'th time.

Impatiently waiting on my Anansi Boys and Stardust from my man, he always forgets them when he comes over to my flat.

 

Nah, you'll know when you get to it. Think the bit in 1984 where Winston reads that book O'Brien gave him except so much worse.

 

O_o I really liked that part in 1984...found it quite interesting.

 

 

Also, I've read the Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn books, really loved them. Had me laughing all the time.

 

Now starting with "The Hotel New Hampshire" by David Irving.

 

edit: whoops, John Irving. Not a holocaust denier...

O_o I really liked that part in 1984...found it quite interesting.

Probably a matter of context, then. That part of 1984 didn't seem like much of a departure from the rest of the book, the similar scene in Atlas Shrugged is probably handled differently (And/or longer than the entire text of 1984).

World War Z. Unlike anything I have ever read before. And I don't think this book needs an introduction in here.

I've been struggling through The Future of Illusion by Sigmund Freud. It's enlightening, but you really gotta be on top of your mental game if you want to have any idea what he's going on about. It's only like 100 pages though. Not too bad if you want to brush up on some philosophy on religion.

http://books.google.com/books?id=6To0902iZeYC&lpg=PA1&dq=my%20big%20toe&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=digtial%20computers&f=false

I finished reading The Last Threshold by R.A. Salvatore.

 

I cried at the end. The last chaper was cheezy and anti climatic but the epilogue! The Epilogue!!!! I have to know is Drizzt Do'Urden dead or is anything more planned. I can't find anything about if there is another book planned!!

 

edit: found out that there is another book coming out in august. But it sounds awfully like the last musing of a dead man.... I'm hoping for a massive deus ex machina at the end. Otherwise all the suspense and plot building in threshold is basically for nothing :evil:

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I just finished a Ночной дозор, working on Дневной дозор now.

 

Translations, because I'm not cool enough for mother tongue.

 

Oh, excellent series. I'm really looking forward to the new release that's coming out soon.

So, would you be light or dark?

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Almost certainly dark, I think.

 

Same. It's odd though.

In games, I almost always choose the "good" path. But dark others are just normal people who want to help themselves out.

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http://www.amazon.com/How-Sell-Anything-Anybody-Girard/dp/0743273966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364419358&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+sell+anything+to+anyone

Gods of War by Conn Iggulden. Last book in the (fictional, based on fact) series about Julius Ceasars life. Pretty good overall, as was the rest of the series.