What are you reading?

Nemesis by Isaac Asimov. Been dying to get my hands on the foundation series. I can't find it in e-book (which I used to scoff out and have recently become addicted to).

Nemesis by Isaac Asimov. Been dying to get my hands on the foundation series. I can't find it in e-book (which I used to scoff out and have recently become addicted to).

I didn't enjoy the characters in Nemesis, the dialogue didn't seem realistic.

It does seem a bit corny, but the plot line is interesting. It's supposedly not tied in with his other series (which are all tied together somehow), but it seems to mesh very well with End of Eternity and Foundation.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I stole it from Particle Person. >.>

One of my favorite books.

I'm reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer.

I'm also still reading Ulysses.  I just... needed a break.

I'm reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer.

I'm also still reading Ulysses.  I just... needed a break.

Know that feel, I've spent longer staring at the closed book in mixed anticipation and dread than actually reading it.

It deserves every drop of its reputation as the most difficult book ever written.

And yes, I am thoroughly enjoying it, even if I don't fully understand it.  I'm contemplating reading it through a second time once I'm done now that I've gotten used to the book's weird rhythm (those times it sticks to a regular rhythm, of course).  I did that with Infinite Jest and it definitely enriched my enjoyment of it.

Oh yes, conspiracy theory books!

Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on July 10, 2012, 06:24:30 PM

I'm reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer.

I'm also still reading Ulysses.  I just... needed a break.

Know that feel, I've spent longer staring at the closed book in mixed anticipation and dread than actually reading it.

Mark Twin is credited as saying something to the effect of "the classics are the books that everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read."  In my experience, that sounds about right.

Quote from: 17 November on July 11, 2012, 01:37:55 AM

'The Manufacturing of a President:
The CIA's Insertion of Barack H. Obama, Jr. Into the White House'
By Wayne Madsen
http://www.lulu.com/shop/wayne-madsen/the-manufacturing-of-a-president/paperback/product-20216251.html
The best book on Obama yet written.

Quote from: ThinkingMan on July 11, 2012, 06:03:54 AM

Oh yes, conspiracy theory books!

You don't think too much before posting for a guy that labels himself "Thinking Man."

I checked out Wayne Madsen's history and read his articles before I ordered his book and posted about it.  I think any who labels a book as a theory without knowing anything about it disrespects the author and indicates more about their own lack of honour.

After reading particularly several articles in the Wayne Madsen Report, he speaks with certainty and not speculatively about the details he has researched, and his resume shows that he has been interviewed on many mainstream national TV news programs and daily newspapers and magazines (both conservative and left).

I have personally liked what the 'American Free Press' newspaper has published about the World Trade center attacks, the FBI, and Al Qaida, etc in general, but I discern from his articles that Wayne Madsen's articles about the same have a keen knowledge that is superior to any I have encountered. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen

Speaking with confidence does make anything true. Just make sure you're thinking objectively and not trying to validate your own suspicions, that's how people ignore falsifying evidence and become pseudoscientists or... news reporters, I suppose.

Crudblud, what's your interest in Faust?

Aside from simply wanting to read some Goethe, I've been a big fan of classical music for many years now, and Faust is a major inspiration behind many great works from operas to symphonies and then some. Getting to read the work behind favourites like Schnittke's "Historia von D. Johann Fausten" and Liszt's "Mephisto Waltzes" is quite an exciting prospect for me.

P.S.: Apologies for the late reply. I didn't see you question until about 10 minutes ago.

No problem. I was just interested because I've done a bit of research on it myself recently.

Close to the end of book 13 in WOT. Am I a bad person for thinking it only got really good when Sanderson took over? Although it seems kind of like he's wrapping up the various storylines too quickly and happily, not sure how much can possibly be left for the last book.

I've been going through Barnes & Noble's classic collection. I've finished Last of the Mohicans and Wuthering Heights. Loved the former not a big fan of the latter.

While I was away I read Asimov's original Foundation trilogy and loved it. I also read the final part of the Axis o Time trilogy by John Birmingham, a satisfying conclusion to a  great series and also erad 2001: A space odyssey and can't believe I'd left it for as long as I had. I want to see the movie now.

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Next to read is either Mortality by Christopher Hitchens if I can find it at the bookshop or Day of the Jackal if not.

Extras; the Illustrated Scripts: Series 1 & 2.

Disc world serie of Terry Pratchett, now at Sourcery

Speaking of Discworld, I just finished Reaper Man.  Now I'm reading Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra.

Wow, I haven't checked this thread since 2010.

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php/topic,33818.msg917328.html#new

Was the link when I hit "new". I guess I just don't care what you guys are reading. Anyways, about me. I just read the hunger games books, and my advice is don't. Picked up "The Name of the Wind" cause it's supposed to be the next great fantasy book. But I mostly got it cause I couldn't find anything by Sanderson at .5 Priced Books.

I liked The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. They were better than most fantasy.

I read billly budd, It was pretty homoerotic.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

I'm going through a series of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The one I read last was called Sorrow, in it a very poor man is taking his very sick wife to the hospital, to beg the local doctor for treatment. As he's describing how he'll do this to her, he notices that the snow isn't melting from her face and that she has gone stiff. Surprise, she's dead. The man regrets having beaten her all her life and treating her as a dog and begins to lose his mind. It is snowing very heavily, and he gets lost. He slumps over on his horse, and loses consciousness. He wakes up in the hospital, and he's lost all of his limbs to frostbite. End.

That one was called Sorrow. The very next story is called Misery. I can hardly wait.

I'm reading J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry.

I'm going through a series of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The one I read last was called Sorrow, in it a very poor man is taking his very sick wife to the hospital, to beg the local doctor for treatment. As he's describing how he'll do this to her, he notices that the snow isn't melting from her face and that she has gone stiff. Surprise, she's dead. The man regrets having beaten her all her life and treating her as a dog and begins to lose his mind. It is snowing very heavily, and he gets lost. He slumps over on his horse, and loses consciousness. He wakes up in the hospital, and he's lost all of his limbs to frostbite. End.

That one was called Sorrow. The very next story is called Misery. I can hardly wait.

What is the name of the series? It sounds similar to some work by Fredric Brown that I enjoyed.

Quote from: Particle Person on October 18, 2012, 01:56:51 PM

I'm going through a series of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The one I read last was called Sorrow, in it a very poor man is taking his very sick wife to the hospital, to beg the local doctor for treatment. As he's describing how he'll do this to her, he notices that the snow isn't melting from her face and that she has gone stiff. Surprise, she's dead. The man regrets having beaten her all her life and treating her as a dog and begins to lose his mind. It is snowing very heavily, and he gets lost. He slumps over on his horse, and loses consciousness. He wakes up in the hospital, and he's lost all of his limbs to frostbite. End.

That one was called Sorrow. The very next story is called Misery. I can hardly wait.

What is the name of the series? It sounds similar to some work by Fredric Brown that I enjoyed.

It's just a very old collection published in the twenties. "Short Stories by Anton R. Chekhov" is all that's printed on the cover. There's no relation between any of the stories, except for the crippling depression that pervades every single one of them. Somebody should go to Russia and tell them about happiness. Spoiler alert: Misery was even more dreary than Sorrow.

Right now, Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling.

Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Iain Grant - a collaboration between two writers at my writing group which they've self-published. Surprisingly good so far, especially considering its self-published status which is rarely an indicator of quality.

A comedy about the Devil thrown out of Hell and forced to live in English Subburbia.

A comedy about the Devil thrown out of Hell and forced to live in English Subburbia.

a joke along the lines of "what's the difference"

Brave New World Revisited
By Aldous Huxley

http://faculty.txwes.edu/csmeller/human-prospect/ProData09/03WW2CulMatrix/WW2WRTs/Huxley1894/BrNewWrldRe1958/BraveRevIndex.htm

Island by Huxley is one of my favorite books of all time. Check it out if you like him.