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Pineapple_Juice 03-02-2010 02:22 PM

Picked up Insomnia from Stephen King. It's alright, but 200 pages in and I'm still only about a quarter of the way through.

Saya 03-02-2010 08:37 PM

Let me know how that one goes, its always there at the bookstore, its like they can't get rid of it.

cultistofvertigo 03-03-2010 06:49 AM

I finished Peter Ward's Future Evolution when I showed up 2 1/2 hours early to class the other day. It was actually not as terrible as I was lead to believe. I was thinking it was all "geneticaly enhanced pork and humans that survive into the deep future, because I can only see 10 feet in front of me" bullshit. All of that is actually just a footnote.

I learned stuff too. You know about how terrible overfishing is? It actually isn't going to hold that much weight into the future, unless humans start building underwater cities and commiting mass genocide of whole clades like they have with whales (and those whales just can not die fast enough).

And like in The Life and Death of Planet Earth (which is fucking amazing), he intersperses the text with little bits of prose describing the environments in a first person environment.

And here's where it gets good. Okay, you know the time right after we go extinct, but large portions of our infrastructure (buildings, dams, garbage heaps, etc.) are still around? Well, in real life those bits are going to dissolve before the first new genuses will have a chance to appear. But ol' Ward says to hell with the most probable future, I want giant crows now!

And that's exactly what he did. He had his time traveler make some curious observations about the snakes, pigs, and rats living in a giant garbage pile before turning to a forest (which also shouldn't be there, it's more likely a clover-field with giant dandelions) and being taloned in the back of the head by a huge mob of fucking gigantic future crows that are hungry for blood.

I would pay money to die that way... so cool!

For those of you keeping track at home, that would bring the scores up to:
Humans: Dead
Dinosaurs: Giant Fucking Flesh-Eating Crows

SO cool!

Pineapple_Juice 03-03-2010 07:08 AM

Oh forgot. Read Metamorphosis too. Probably one of the most depressing things I've ever read. I don't understand what the moral of the story was about at all.

Slap Your Love 03-04-2010 12:23 PM

Siddhartha.

Saya 03-05-2010 06:08 PM

Siddhartha's awesome.

I'm reading Jane Eyre.

the-nihilist 03-05-2010 11:57 PM

Vernor Vinge - "Across Realtime" while I'm at work.

Jerry Pournelle - "War World: The Burning Eye" while I'm at home.


I like science fiction.

Altemese 03-06-2010 01:48 PM

"The Host" Stephine Meyers

JCC 03-06-2010 04:49 PM

Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes

Heretic 03-06-2010 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bete Noire (Post 604897)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Again. It's brilliant!

Agreed. I have a young son, so that book hit me especially hard.

I just finished "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick.

http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/uploade...ugo-cabret.jpg

It's a children's book that takes place in Paris cir. 1931. It was a brilliant and delightful blend of literature and the visual arts, both illustration and film.

Highly recommeded.


- Heretic

Eros 03-06-2010 06:27 PM

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

I think this book will always have a soft place in my heart.

Unseelie Sluagh 03-06-2010 10:48 PM

Guiness World Records 2010 Gamers Edition.

Pineapple_Juice 03-07-2010 09:09 PM

Wanna pick up something from Chekhov. Anyone read him? What's the verdict?

Beneath the Shadows 03-09-2010 12:20 AM

"The Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks

Pineapple_Juice 03-10-2010 12:21 AM

Reading Fear Nothing from Dean Koontz.

FrankieFear 03-10-2010 11:52 AM

Les fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire.

MetalKen 03-10-2010 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows (Post 606057)
"The Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks

Great book! Need to re-read,read that a LONG time ago!

Saya 03-11-2010 03:02 PM

I just finished The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes. Now reading Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood.

Sendo 03-13-2010 07:43 PM

Just finished Anthem by Ayn Rand.

Beneath the Shadows 03-15-2010 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalKen (Post 607609)
Great book! Need to re-read,read that a LONG time ago!

I've never read it before. I'm glad I did now. I've finished it and moved on to the Elfstones.

Shadow5 03-17-2010 05:44 AM

I am reading Stephenie Meyer, enjoy all her books, Twilight Series and the new one - The Host

emeraldlonewoulf 03-17-2010 04:31 PM

With Malice Toward Some - Halsey great description

finding a few interesting bits in The book of Runes -Ralph Blun

and, again trying to plug a massive hole in my education, The Jungle -Upton Sinclair

Sendo 03-17-2010 05:50 PM

Beowulf. I'm reading Anglo-Saxon poetry for a project.

Saya 03-17-2010 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows (Post 608308)
I've never read it before. I'm glad I did now. I've finished it and moved on to the Elfstones.

I remember the series goes downhill as it progresses, but I haven't read any since I was like fourteen, so take that with a grain of salt.

Lila 03-18-2010 03:06 AM

reading 'Crimson Rose' by r. Malone

;-)


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