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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #300 on: May 03, 2011, 03:57:56 PM »
I always wish that Philip K. Dick could have transferred his amazing ideas into an equally talented writer. His dialogue is usually stilted and the characters wooden.

Also: Relevant

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #301 on: May 04, 2011, 02:34:01 PM »
Constantine's Sword by James Carroll
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #302 on: May 08, 2011, 08:46:27 PM »
Quote from: 17 November on May 06, 2011, 06:38:37 PM
Quote from: Ski on May 04, 2011, 02:34:01 PM
Constantine's Sword by James Carroll

May I suggest at your convenience to compare Carroll's opinions and conclusions about Constantine with the perspective of the modern greek-american historian Professor D. George Kousoulas?
http://dgkousoulas.com/

'The Life and Times of Constantine the Great'
By D. G. Kousoulas
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Constantine-Great/dp/1419660411/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304731682&sr=1-1

I will pick one or both up "at my convenience." So far it has been interesting. Carroll is rather convincing in some places and somewhat naive in others. I'm only 200 pages or so in, so he has time to impress me. But it has certainly been an interesting read.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #303 on: May 13, 2011, 03:38:45 PM »
I'm reading Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #304 on: May 14, 2011, 08:52:33 AM »
Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on May 13, 2011, 03:38:45 PM
I'm reading Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm reading Cat's Cradle
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #305 on: May 14, 2011, 08:56:15 AM »
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I'm reading Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm reading Cat's Cradle

That's one of my all-time favorites.

See the cat?  See the cradle?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #306 on: May 16, 2011, 08:51:32 AM »
Quote from: Tausami on May 14, 2011, 08:52:33 AM
Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on May 13, 2011, 03:38:45 PM
I'm reading Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm reading Cat's Cradle

Me too.  I just started it today.  I hope it's better than Galapagos, the last Vonnegut book I read.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #307 on: May 16, 2011, 01:54:23 PM »
Quote from: Daniel on May 16, 2011, 08:51:32 AM
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Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on May 13, 2011, 03:38:45 PM
I'm reading Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm reading Cat's Cradle

Me too.  I just started it today.  I hope it's better than Galapagos, the last Vonnegut book I read.

It's pretty good. I liked Slaughterhouse Five better, but it's one of his best works.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #308 on: May 16, 2011, 02:19:00 PM »
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Finishing up 1984, surprised at how much like the modern world it is...

FTFY
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #309 on: May 19, 2011, 01:54:31 AM »
I've actually picked up a couple of Lovecraft's short stories.

Has anyone else read them/enjoy him?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #310 on: May 19, 2011, 03:56:56 PM »
"Mountains of Madness" is the only Lovecraft I've read, actually.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #311 on: May 20, 2011, 07:27:05 PM »
I'm about half way through Mountains of Madness.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #312 on: May 21, 2011, 06:59:08 AM »
I've read a few of his stories, I did like Mountains of Madness. they do all seem pretty similar.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #313 on: May 22, 2011, 02:16:40 PM »
Quote from: Tausami on May 16, 2011, 01:54:23 PM
It's pretty good. I liked Slaughterhouse Five better, but it's one of his best works.

I just finished Cat's Cradle today.  I'm pretty underwhelmed.  I loved Slaughterhouse Five and liked Mother Night, but just about everything else I've read from him has been disappointing, especially given the critical praise he gets.  I didn't find the story particularly compelling.  The characters were 2-dimensional.  I just didn't care what happened. 

I was reading through the reviews on goodreads.com and this one summed up my feelings perfectly:

"Perhaps I am just getting old, but there seemed to be too much cleverness to no effect and little substance."

His writing just feels smug to me. 
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #314 on: May 23, 2011, 07:46:18 PM »
About three chapters into Name of the Wind and have to finish by Wednesday. Doable?
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #315 on: May 25, 2011, 05:14:46 PM »
Just started A Study in Scarlet. I have the whole series but it will take a while to get through them.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #316 on: May 29, 2011, 09:05:46 AM »
I am thoroughly enjoying Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al Franken, for the second time.  Wardogg would love this book.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #317 on: June 04, 2011, 12:50:13 PM »
The Clown -  by Heinrich Boll
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #318 on: June 04, 2011, 01:01:09 PM »
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #319 on: June 13, 2011, 01:13:35 AM »
Finished Starship Troopers a while ago. Liked it as much as the movie, if not more. The movie was good for being action-y and epic, but the novel I liked because of it's more thought provoking. I really didn't like how he kept switching to different squads and being with different people every chapter or so, but I guess (I've never really been in the army myself, so I'm just guessing) that that's more realistic.
Started on Catch-22. So far my favorite part is when Yossarian is trying to find out why Orr used to put crab apples in his cheeks and keeps getting extremely literal and/or answers that are right, but not what he's looking for
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #320 on: June 19, 2011, 01:59:23 PM »

I just stumbled across free online editions of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. If you have never read them its well worth getting into.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/milton/index.htm
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #321 on: June 23, 2011, 04:41:52 AM »
Just finished The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, a very well written steampunk novel.

Just about to start on The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #322 on: June 23, 2011, 05:35:11 AM »
This forum.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #323 on: June 23, 2011, 07:13:16 AM »
I have begun to read Maddon's Rock by Hammond Innes, as it's a rather small volume with a story that sounds interesting enough. I have found little time for it, however. I curse the fact that I no longer need to take two bus rides of forty minutes each every single day. It has cut my reading habits to practically nil.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #324 on: June 23, 2011, 08:48:48 AM »
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #325 on: June 24, 2011, 10:04:00 AM »
In Honour Bound by Gerald Seymour.

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The War that Never Was
by Duff Hart-Davis.
It tells of Britain's unofficial, highly secretive campaign  in the 60s supporting Yemeni Royalists to keep President Nasser's Egyptians and Yemeni collaborators from conquering Arabia and crushing Israel. Interestingly, my dad worked on the Yemeni border in the closing stages of the war servicing missiles, radio equipment and assisting Saudi border patrols.

That sounds fascinating.  Egyptian kings from Muhammad Ali Pasha (circa 1805) to King Farouk (1952) were all western puppets whose dynasty was overthrown by Mohammad Naguib and Nasser in the 1950's and who were the least foreign manipulated leaders of Egypt in over a century.  The British would logically support puppets like the Saudi and Yemeni royals against Nasser whom it is well known they tried to assassinate. 

Indeed, Nasser actually managed to pull the wool over Kennedy's eyes as to his intentions. Kennedy wanted Nasser to unite Arabia, but he didn't see the threat to Israel. In fact, the campaign saved the state of Israel from destruction. Nasser also had the USSR on his side, and we had to lie to the yanks repeatedly to keep the cover on the op.
Here's the book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-That-Never-Was/dp/1846058252
And more on the man behind it (his obituary):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2553726/Colonel-Jim-Johnson.html
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #326 on: June 24, 2011, 02:39:00 PM »
Quote from: Wendy on June 23, 2011, 07:13:16 AM
I curse the fact that I no longer need to take two bus rides of forty minutes each every single day. It has cut my reading habits to practically nil.

Yeah, the same thing happened to me when I stopped taking the bus.  It takes me forever to get through a book now because I don't read very often.

Right now I'm reading Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl.
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« Reply #327 on: June 25, 2011, 01:16:55 AM »
Currently rereading; the Nightside series by Simon R. Green

Recently finished; World War Z - Max Brooks
Celestial Matter - richard garfunkle
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #328 on: July 02, 2011, 01:49:46 AM »
Just finished The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and now I'm debating whether to go back and read some Terry Pratchett or Christopher Moore.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #329 on: July 02, 2011, 10:47:32 AM »
I'm reading Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett right now.  I swear the series gets more and more hysterical as it goes on.

I have also taken it upon myself to read Othello over my extended holiday weekend.
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