I've been ona bit of a Ryu Murakami stint lately. I just finished In The Miso Soup, and will tackle Piercing when my nerves have recovered fully.
Books your currently reading.
I've been really into Terry Pratchett lately. I just started the series he did with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart called "The Science of Discworld". It somehow blends great fiction with hard science, dedlivered with the perfect amount of tongue-in-cheekiness. By the way, if you haven't rad any Terry Pratchett, go buy The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic right away. He's the Douglas Adams of fantasy, but better(?).
I also just finished Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth. It's a really interesting story that centers around the prejudice and class differences that happened as a result of suburbanization in the 50s.
In between books I've been reading a bunch of Lovecraft stories. Dude can write like a motherfucker. He's like horror Dickens, if Dickens was any good.
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
A little bit unweildy and a little bit too weird at points, but a cool steampunk yarn.
@somethingdumb:
I'm a big Pratchett fan (as the pic attests, his best character), my favourite author and a great shame he's got Alzheimers. If you're only just working you way through his (very big) back catalogue, he takes a few books to really start nailing what the Discworld is and where it's going, it all clicks around the time he writes Guards Guards, and from there on in it's pretty much universally glorious. The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic are him more overtly writing a parody of fantasy, when he starts to seriously write the Discworld as an entity and weaves in the parody, the politics and the satire of the real world it goes to another level. Night Watch is probably the point where it all reaches it's crescendo, a great book and one to look forward to if you've not got to it yet.
A Wise Man's Fear, the sequel to The Name of The Wind (which was rad) came out a few days ago, so I'll pick that up soon. A Dance with Dragons just got dated for July 12th too, and the trailers for the HBO series are looking neat. I don't read a whole lot of fantasy (or any fiction really), but these series' have their hooks in me pretty bad.
I'm going through The Accidental Billionaires but it's kind of disappointing so far. I'm only fifty pages in though, so it might get better.
Othello,oddly I hated it when I read it in college, now in University it's a completely different story.
" I'm switching between a few depending on where I am/what state of mind I'm in - nothing fictional at the moment though:if your reading long way round you should check out Jupiters Travels by Ted Simon (they meet him in mongolia). Im about a quarter in and its really good so far"
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
- Long Way Down - Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
- C.O.D.E. - Charles Petzold
- Don't Make Me Think! - Steve Krug
" The Wise Man's Fear by Patric Rothfuss Really, really damn good so far! "i ordered that, yesterday did not realize it was out already. first book was so good
Fucking, amen." ... The Yellow Wallpaper is fucking incredible..."
also
@DirrtyNinja: I really, really want to pick up Revolutionary Road at some point, how is it?
@filthreaper: A student in one of my lit tutes at uni lent me a copy of On Writing out of nowhere, I loved it
At the moment I'm reading The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten, which is basically a collection of really intriguing thought experiments. Great to sporadically pick up &put down, incredibly thought-provoking, great conversation starter, the occasional mindfuck.
I haven't read in a while, but i have plenty of books on my shelf that are next on line. I should probably read Game of Thrones before the HBO series comes out.
" @DelroyLindo: Cheers, will take a look!and so am i.
@Enigma777 said:" The Wise Man's Fear by Patric Rothfuss Really, really damn good so far! "Just reading that at the moment too - so damn good, I don't want it to end. Such an excellent world he creates. "
For a book written with music as such a focus it's wonderful how well the words flow.
I'm reading "Priceless", a book about the psychology of pricing. It's not actually an economics book; it's more like a book that shows how humans aren't the "rational actors" of economic theory, so economics does a poor job of modeling real human behavior.
Reading "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams, the fifth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I'm pretty sure that The Matrix rips off a small part of that book - the whole "Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are" thing is exactly like dying in The Matrix.
" Reading "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams, the fifth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I'm pretty sure that The Matrix rips off a small part of that book - the whole "Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are" thing is exactly like dying in The Matrix. "I'd say it's more likely that they got the idea from Snow Crash, which is more thematically in-line with what happens in the Matrix. Whether or not Neal Stephenson got the idea directly or indirectly from Douglas Adams, I can't say.
Just a guess. I've read both.
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter
- The Dante club
- Men of the otherworld
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow (For the millionth time)
Please Log In to post.
Log in to comment