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Maklershed · Jan 1, 2012

Randolph Freelander · Jan 1, 2012

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Maklershed · Jan 1, 2012

Currently reading (and loving it) ..

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Deleted member 22576 · Jan 1, 2012

Taking a break from The Deathgate Cycle and reading Mean Genes.

As a random aside, has anyone here read Days of War Nights of Love? I was searching through my closet last night to find a DVD and found my old copy of it. I haven't really read it since I was a teenager and just thought it was curious. Its a pretty fascinating book from what I remember.

DOBERMAN INC · Jan 1, 2012

Maklershed said:
Currently reading (and loving it) ..

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Same, started it boxing day.

rando14 · Jan 1, 2012

Great so far

jon bones · Jan 1, 2012

Some sci fi adventuring while im in Cancun

Atrus · Jan 1, 2012

I just bought 6 books today:

- The Tao of Nature by Zhuanzi
- The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Sensation and Sex by Lucretius
- Of Human Freedom by Epictetus
- Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
- Vienna Art and Architecture by HF Ullman

Sleepy · Jan 1, 2012

Poker: The Real Deal- Gordon (I got all four books for Christmas. Seems like I should start at the beginning).

The Girl Who Played with Fire- Larson

A Theory of Semiotics- Eco

Confessions of a Young Novelist- Eco

Slayven · Jan 1, 2012

jon bones said:
Some sci fi adventuring while im in Cancun

Haha, if you are a child of the 80's you will love it.

coldvein · Jan 1, 2012

i can't decide if i'm ever going to read "ready player one" or not.

a bunch of people have told me it's good. a bunch of people have told me "if you're a child of the 80's you'll love it". a bunch of people have told me "if you're a child of the 80's it still sucks".

freenudemacusers · Jan 1, 2012

Slayven said:
Haha, if you are a child of the 80's you will love it.

I think I'll check this out.

Slayven · Jan 1, 2012

coldvein said:
i can't decide if i'm ever going to read "ready player one" or not.

a bunch of people have told me it's good. a bunch of people have told me "if you're a child of the 80's you'll love it". a bunch of people have told me "if you're a child of the 80's it still sucks".

It's good, gets a little fanficish in parts but nothing terrible.. The world is interesting, and I hope he does a sequel.

Dresden · Jan 1, 2012

I just heard it was reference porn with a bad story cobbled around it.

brianjones · Jan 1, 2012

still working on catch-22 (great book although it took a little for me to get into it)

and this is waiting in the wings:

UnlovedJew · Jan 1, 2012

rando14 said:
Great so far

Gets fucking great towards the end and the sequels are great. Shadow's Edge was my personal favorite. I actually just picked up The Black Prism by Brent Weeks at a thrift store today. Seems interesting thus far.

freenudemacusers · Jan 1, 2012

i also want to try the dome. sounds cool.

Slayven · Jan 1, 2012

Rereading this because the first time I really just glossed over it.

Heel · Jan 1, 2012

coldvein said:
i can't decide if i'm ever going to read "ready player one" or not.

a bunch of people have told me it's good. a bunch of people have told me "if you're a child of the 80's you'll love it". a bunch of people have told me "if you're a child of the 80's it still sucks".

I felt like it got a little obnoxious with the nearly constant barrage of 80's nerd culture references. He really lays it on thick.

That said, I still really liked it. Worth reading for sure!

ThisWreckage · Jan 1, 2012

Has anyone read The Plague by Camus? I picked it up for one dollar.

Qwomo · Jan 1, 2012

Hey Salazar, which The Great Game are you reading? I looked it up on amazon and the guy has like two books called The Great Game with different subtitles. I was most confused.

coldvein · Jan 1, 2012

still on book one of vladimir sorokin's ice trilogy. things are picking up, and i'm still pretty early on in the book. the following lines from the main character

"And we understood definitively that this was an identifying sign of the Light: the dark haired and grey-eyed could not be one of us. Our search needed be only among the blue eyed and light-haired"

kinda made me go "whaaaaat!?". definitely some crazy shit going on in this one.

Emitan · Jan 1, 2012

Sleepy · Jan 1, 2012

ThisWreckage said:
Has anyone read The Plague by Camus? I picked it up for one dollar.

It's excellent. Know anything about existential philosophy? You'll get more out of it if you do, but it's not necessary.

Salazar · Jan 1, 2012

Qwomo said:
Hey Salazar, which The Great Game are you reading? I looked it up on amazon and the guy has like two books called The Great Game with different subtitles. I was most confused.

2006 edition. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia. I think the only difference is a new foreword.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0719564476/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Qwomo · Jan 1, 2012

Salazar said:
2006 edition. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia. I think the only difference is a new foreword.

Alright, cool beans. Sounds like an interesting book, that shit is going right to the top of my to-read list.

Anticitizen One · Jan 1, 2012

Cow Mengde · Jan 1, 2012

Still reading this, but almost finished with it.

Tawney Bomb · Jan 1, 2012

Cow Mengde said:
Cowboys and dinosaurs

You've piqued my interest.

RatskyWatsky · Jan 1, 2012

Narag · Jan 1, 2012

Need to get back to reading. Going to start with Stephen King's The Dead Zone and a reread of Hyperion.

UnlovedJew said:
Gets fucking great towards the end and the sequels are great. Shadow's Edge was my personal favorite. I actually just picked up The Black Prism by Brent Weeks at a thrift store today. Seems interesting thus far.

Black Prism e-book (among other things) is discounted to $2.99 until Jan 2 for anyone else interested.

braves01 · Jan 1, 2012

Maklershed said:
Currently reading (and loving it) ..

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Samesies.

Kisaya · Jan 1, 2012

I want to get my hands on a copy of Pride and Prejudice DX

The list of links of recommendations is helpful, thanks! I haven't had time to read for myself in a while, but I want to start again during my break~

Zekes! · Jan 1, 2012

Well, I will be when I get it on Monday.

Kisaya · Jan 1, 2012

icarus-daedelus said:
It's in the public domain. Shouldn't be too tough.

Naaah I want an actual book though

BertramCooper · Jan 1, 2012

Dances with Dragons

(Wait, that's not right...)

coldvein · Jan 1, 2012

kisaya said:
Naaah I want an actual book though

way to be.

Emitan · Jan 1, 2012

kisaya said:
Naaah I want an actual book though

That's so 2011, girl! We live in 2012 now!

thetechkid · Jan 1, 2012

jon bones said:
Some sci fi adventuring while im in Cancun

I'm 3/4 done with this myself.

Tapiozona · Jan 1, 2012

Pleasantly surprised with this series. I breezed through the first two books. Both of them had amazing endings though book two was a tad bit sluggish in the middle.

I kinda hope Sanderson kills of Elend in this book..he annoys the shit out of me

Emitan · Jan 1, 2012

Tapiozona said:

My mousepad:

Sblargh · Jan 1, 2012

This last bimester, I really read little.
New year resolution is to catch up, starting with one my favorite Sci-fi authors:

Salazar · Jan 1, 2012

Billychu said:
My mousepad:

Jon Foster is pretty godlike.

Sblargh · Jan 1, 2012

Atrus said:
I just bought 6 books today:

- The Tao of Nature by Zhuanzi
- The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Sensation and Sex by Lucretius
- Of Human Freedom by Epictetus
- Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
- Vienna Art and Architecture by HF Ullman

Good selection. If you like your Schopenhauer, I recommen buying the second volume of The World as Will and Representation (the complements to the main book), I even think some of the texts in what you bought come from there.
Also, if you like that Pascal, I really recomend the Pensées, even as an atheist, I believe it is an excellent source of wisdow; people quote "the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing", but the way he constructs the aphorisms around it make it so much more powerful than the single quote. The same goes for the bet argument (if god exists, then you lose all by not believing, if he doesn't, then you lose nothing by believing in him), which nowadays is just abused left and right.
Also, if you like the romans, don't skip Epicurus, he is my personal favorite and it is the kind of philosopher whose teachings I actually try to follow.

Salazar · Jan 1, 2012

Let her shop, icarus.

Much as I resent Jane Austen (for her encroachment on the offerings of literature departments, for no better reason than to train teachers to plod through P&P), some of those editions are sexy.

coldvein · Jan 1, 2012

Sblargh said:
This last bimester, I really read little.
New year resolution is to catch up, starting with one my favorite Sci-fi authors:

sexy cover. if only more women wore tops like that am i rite fellas.

mike23 · Jan 1, 2012

Just finished

Liked it a lot. The setting is pretty interesting too. I'm interested to see what the author does with it in the rest of the series.

Probably starting this next

Emitan · Jan 1, 2012

coldvein said:
sexy cover. if only more women wore tops like that am i rite fellas.

First lady who wears that for her real pic January avatar gets a pizza roll!

Dresden · Jan 1, 2012

Finished:

Really liked it. Starts off as a standoff between a writer and his muse, who has come to him rather peeved that all of his female characters die gruesomely. He shrugs it off by saying that it's all just a game--yet to her as a figment of his imagination it is some thing far more--or something. Think I'll track down her other books.

Sblargh · Jan 1, 2012

Dresden said:
Finished:

Really liked it. Starts off as a standoff between a writer and his muse, who has come to him rather peeved that all of his female characters die gruesomely. He shrugs it off by saying that it's all just a game--yet to her as a figment of his imagination it is some thing far more--or something. Think I'll track down her other books.

I read the Icarus Girl by her and highly recommend. It starts out as something aimed for 14-16 yo girls (which probably is the target audience) but then take some turns to some genuinely scary stuff.

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