Tragicomedy
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Starting The Black Company. Have never even heard of Cook until this thread, but looking forward to the series.
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What are you reading? (April 2013)
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Nice. Black Company is great.
eattomorro
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Finished off Major Karnage by Gord Zajac tonight. Completely loved this book. It's just like an old style pulp story that never lets up.
Started The Stranger by Max Frei.
Started The Stranger by Max Frei.
charlemagne
Member
How's Godel, Escher, Bach? It's on my list, but I'm thinking the middle of semester is not a good time to start.
fredrancour
Member
Oh my goodness, I need to do a re-read this summer.... loved em.
phisheep
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Got bunch of new Agatha Christie novels. It's been almost a year since the last one I read so I'm very excited to go through them.
Started with Five Little Pigs first. Seems to be one of those investigating old cases type of mystery which are always fun to read and and too different from the regular cases.
Also, I think most of her novels got a new refresh cause I'm seeing a lot of newly printed editions. I like the style they went for with most of the new covers.
Good on you!
I love Agatha Christie, and especially her quirkier ones. Don't remember much about "Five Little Pigs" except it's a fairly late one with that weird painter guy in it ("Amyas Crale" - something like that?) - actually I don't remember much about any of them which how I manage to reread them so often.
Personal favourite is the one with that odd architect Santorix in it - Endless Night - probably the last of her good ones; also Crooked House, and Pocketful of Rye if only for the wonderfully characterised overimaginative policeman who was the spiritual precursor to Morse.
I used to have a full set - all 73 of something-or-other (I think that includes short stories), all except one that was only published in the USA. Think I gave them away.
I'm interested in this too, actually. The only thing that comes to my mind is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Typed road trip into LibraryThing's Book Suggester Here
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure sounded kind of fun so when I went to GoodReads I found this list titled Road Trips
Here are LibraryThing Recommendations based on Into the Wild.
sparky2112
Member
Haven't read it myself, but I know its reputation. It's supposed to be very, very good, and very hard on your brain (layman brain, anyway).
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
I read the first 50 pages and liked it a lot, but I have so much other stuff on my plate that I haven't returned.
It's incredibly good. I don't think it's as dense as people make it out to be (it's actually pretty good at metaphors and explanations), but you still should probably set some time apart to dedicate to it so you can fully appreciate its contents. A must read.
Last Visible Dog
Banned
Travels with Charley: in search of America - John Steinbeck is wonderful ... he gets in a camper van with his poodle and drives around America
The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin is just beautiful
A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor "In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary."
Almost done reading You by Austin Grossman
The plot device is fairly fantastical whereas the rest seems somewhat grounded in reality, but an interesting easy read none the less.
Anything else you guys can recommend in the same vain?
I can probably recommend stuff to myself, mainly because I haven't read Snow Crash yet and I know I need to...
I started reading Ready Player One but couldn't completely get into it. The writing in You seemed quite a bit better.
The plot device is fairly fantastical whereas the rest seems somewhat grounded in reality, but an interesting easy read none the less.
Anything else you guys can recommend in the same vain?
I can probably recommend stuff to myself, mainly because I haven't read Snow Crash yet and I know I need to...
I started reading Ready Player One but couldn't completely get into it. The writing in You seemed quite a bit better.
phisheep
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Phenomenal book. But it's difficult to appreciate if you read it too fast. I reread it recently and a bit slower to get the full fling of it, and the whole thing is a delight - first time round it was fashionable and I read it too fast and got the jokes but missed the point.
fierrotlepou
Member
Reading What is the What at the moment.
Anyone looking forward to Joe Hill's new book, NOS4A2? It's out tomorrow. Early buzz seemed great, and I just read a glowing review by the Onion A.V. Club. Looks like it's a meaty 700 pages, and according to the aforementioned review Hill is starting to show his father's (Stephen King, if'n you didn't know) influence more. Though I wasn't really a fan of Heart-shaped Box, I very much enjoyed Horns and Locke & Key, so I can't wait for his new one.
Also, if anyone on Goodreads is looking for friends, this is me: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/269982 I don't really hang out with a bookish bunch, apart from my dad, so my friends list is depressingly small...
Also, if anyone on Goodreads is looking for friends, this is me: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/269982 I don't really hang out with a bookish bunch, apart from my dad, so my friends list is depressingly small...
nakedsushi
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Yeah I would NOT recommend Ready Player One if you think the writing in You was better. It's pretty much along the same lines except OMG 80s references in your face forever.
While I'm still only halfway through You and losing steam quickly, the beginning did remind me of a less good Microserfs. If you liked the reality sections of You and the descriptions of the workplace and dynamics, you might like Microserfs:
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Unconditional
Member
I just finished that and started
Series is kind of in a weird transition phase right now, but based on the review scores I've seen, this one is supposed to be one of, it not the best, in the series. I just hope there's a Kruppe appearance at some point!
Looks like we are at about the same point in the series. Just started the prologue to bonehunters.
I loved the Tehol and Bugg scenes in Midnight Tides. Overall I enjoyed the book even if it was a jarring change from everything up to that point. It'll probably be more relevant as the story goes on.
Yeah, I'm very psyched for it. The basic premise sounds really intriguing. I may not get it right away, just because I've got so many other things I'm reading right now, but I'll probably tackle it sometime in the next few weeks.
I really liked Heart-Shaped Box. There were some problems with it, but when it was good, it was really really good.
I haven't tried any of his other books, although I've been thinking about reading Horns.
nakedsushi
Member
Finally forced myself to finish this.
You by Austin Grossman
Ugh. The writing was so sloppy. I didn't think the sections that read like a video game manual helped its cause. The characters were as transparent as the plot. I really wanted to like this, but it was just so clumsily put together and had a lot of inaccuracies with regards to engineering work and bug fixes.
You by Austin Grossman
Ugh. The writing was so sloppy. I didn't think the sections that read like a video game manual helped its cause. The characters were as transparent as the plot. I really wanted to like this, but it was just so clumsily put together and had a lot of inaccuracies with regards to engineering work and bug fixes.
Easystride
Member
Agatha Christie is one of the few "classic" authors I've been able to really enjoy. Loved And Then There Were None. I really need to check out more of her books, though. My library has a ton on the eBook format.
Very good, so far. I have read to the point where the author has explained what a formal system is, and how it works, giving some examples as well(luckily I have studied first-order logic, which is a formal system, so I was able to understand easily). It's quite interesting, with some very clever dialogues between chapters (Achilles and the tortoise)
Finished
I thought it was really good. Sadly the whole physiks stuff went right over my head. So I'm not really sure what happend at the end
But other than that it was an enjoyable read.
Now I started:
After reading all that praise this series got from Nymerio I decided to look past those horrible covers. So far I'm liking what I'm reading. Have a bit trouble finding my inner voice for Garret though, he somehow keeps sounding like Harry Dresden... And if Jim Butcher did not get his inspiration from this I'll eat my hat. I read the passage about the Dead Man and he is basically Bob minus the whole being a perv thing.
I thought it was really good. Sadly the whole physiks stuff went right over my head. So I'm not really sure what happend at the end
But other than that it was an enjoyable read.Now I started:
After reading all that praise this series got from Nymerio I decided to look past those horrible covers. So far I'm liking what I'm reading. Have a bit trouble finding my inner voice for Garret though, he somehow keeps sounding like Harry Dresden... And if Jim Butcher did not get his inspiration from this I'll eat my hat. I read the passage about the Dead Man and he is basically Bob minus the whole being a perv thing.
Finished
I thought it was really good. Sadly the whole physiks stuff went right over my head. So I'm not really sure what happend at the end
Now I started:
After reading all that praise this series got from Nymerio I decided to look past those horrible covers. So far I'm liking what I'm reading. Have a bit trouble finding my inner voice for Garret though, he somehow keeps sounding like Harry Dresden... And if Jim Butcher did not get his inspiration from this I'll eat my hat. I read the passage about the Dead Man and he is basically Bob minus the whole being a perv thing.
Hah, I knew I was not the only one who thinks that! The Garret in the first book is a bit different than he is in the following books. He gets snarkier and more lazy as the series progresses and the humor ramps up quite a bit. If you keep reading you'll notice quite a few other parallels to the Dresden Files.
Well I guess that is to expected since the premises are already so similiar. But from what I read so far Cooks writting style is a lot different from Butchers so I don't mind that. I get a far stonger noir-vibe from this books and I really dig that.
sparky2112
Member
For what it's worth, I really dug this as well...
Maklershed
Member
Sorry cant post link but I made a May 2013 thread last night.