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.
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Let me know how that one goes, its always there at the bookstore, its like they can't get rid of it.
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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! |
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.
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Siddhartha.
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Siddhartha's awesome.
I'm reading Jane Eyre. |
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. |
"The Host" Stephine Meyers
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Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes
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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 |
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
I think this book will always have a soft place in my heart. |
Guiness World Records 2010 Gamers Edition.
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Wanna pick up something from Chekhov. Anyone read him? What's the verdict?
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"The Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks
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Reading Fear Nothing from Dean Koontz.
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Les fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire.
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I just finished The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes. Now reading Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood.
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Just finished Anthem by Ayn Rand.
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I am reading Stephenie Meyer, enjoy all her books, Twilight Series and the new one - The Host
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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 |
Beowulf. I'm reading Anglo-Saxon poetry for a project.
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reading 'Crimson Rose' by r. Malone
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