Borderline Personality Disorders For Dummies.
It starts with explaining the title and not to take it personally and asks that you try not to be oversensitive to the title.
Borderline Personality Disorders For Dummies.
It starts with explaining the title and not to take it personally and asks that you try not to be oversensitive to the title.
Just might pick that up myself.
I recommend it; take a good hard look at yourself and all your past and current relationships; chances you know someone with this condition and book is very straight forward telling what it is; what can be done about it. Good informations; but everytime I put it down I could use a hug; one of those kind of books. The big point I am picking up is that BPD's dont know they have it; dont know they can get help; dont know life doesnt have to be like it is; and dont know anything is wrong and you cant tell them as that just seems like an attack. Basically out of touch and sincerely are not aware of it; are usually the nicest people; but have triggers where they go way overboard; dont have emotional brakes and dont even know it. We stand around confused wondering why everyone is so upset, feeling unheard and at emotional distance.
I feel very fortunate to have dated a therapist who gave me the book and just said; check this out; see what you think.
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Finished King Rat, and true to my hopes China did not disappoint. It was a fantastic read. Has anyone read "The City & The City"? Is it as good? Worth buying?
Anyhow, for now I'm on to "Fragile Things", a short story collection by Neil Gaiman. In all honesty I only bought this for the short story about Susan from the Chronicles of Narnia, but I'm about half way through and so far I've enjoyed almost all of the stuff in it immensely (Just not really a fan of his poetry. It's a little...morose for me, I suppose.)
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Currently reading Trudi's Canavan's The Magician's Apprentice, her prequel to the The Black Magician Trilogy. I'm about 200 pages in and it's a 700 page tome. Needless to say it's been a very slow-going first 200 pages which has been disappointing considering I really enjoyed the pace of her Black Magician books.
Just started the first Dresden files book: Storm Front.
Finished King Rat, and true to my hopes China did not disappoint. It was a fantastic read. Has anyone read "The City & The City"? Is it as good? Worth buying?
THE CITY AND THE CITY is very, very good, but it's a bit of a departure for China's writing style. It's pared back and his more whimsical crazy stuff is mostly missing. As a more serious book that takes the fantastical premise more seriously, it's excellent. KRAKEN, his newest book, brings back the crazy in full force (he probably overdoes it, actually, but recovers and ends up delivering a good book).
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Finished King Rat, and true to my hopes China did not disappoint. It was a fantastic read. Has anyone read "The City & The City"? Is it as good? Worth buying?THE CITY AND THE CITY is very, very good, but it's a bit of a departure for China's writing style. It's pared back and his more whimsical crazy stuff is mostly missing. As a more serious book that takes the fantastical premise more seriously, it's excellent. KRAKEN, his newest book, brings back the crazy in full force (he probably overdoes it, actually, but recovers and ends up delivering a good book).
Oooh, I was going to ask about Kraken too actually, so thank's for clearing that up. Looks like I'd probably enjoy both of them (and I'll end up buying both), but I'll most likely end up saving The City and The City for a later date when I don't have anyhting else in my lineup. (While I can appreciate a more serious book, I am rather fond of the whimsy and outrageously fantastical.)
So far, Fragile things is amazing. It's taking a surprisingly long time, given that it's all short stories, but that's Gaiman for you. I'm always amazed at how deceptively long his stuff is. Just means you get more for the mony, imo.
Yeah, I loved Fragile Things and I also recommend The City and The City.
I thouroughly enjoyed Fragile Things. Currently I'm reading a book called Rock, Paper, Scissors.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy, the second part of the LA Quartet that ties up The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential. Not much for the Communist angle, but the serial killer is damn interesting. And written in only the way the demon dog of crime fiction can write it.
Having finished the first Hugh Cook book, I dove into Patricia McKillip's Song for the Basilisk. Next I read Alan Gardner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Not sure what will be my next read.
Weird o Bris is pretty cool.
I stumbled across this old, 1960 Ace PB of it. I'd never heard of the author. Very gamer friendly. I'm going to keep an eye out for the second book he wrote that supposed to be similar. Did you run across it as a young un?
I'm currently wending my way through Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master. I'd already read the first book, but so long ago that I only had dim memories of it involving vesta and Deth, so I started from the beginning again.
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Weird o Bris is pretty cool.I stumbled across this old, 1960 Ace PB of it. I'd never heard of the author. Very gamer friendly. I'm going to keep an eye out for the second book he wrote that supposed to be similar. Did you run across it as a young un?
I read it in my 20's.
I remember picking it up and looking at it in fourth grade cos the guy on the cover looked like Vader and reading the back and thinking, "this ain't Star Wars.....what a rip!"
Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
The Ruins of Power by Robert Vardeman.
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard.
Deadhouse Gates again by Erikson. And to give my head a rest between chapters, Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings.
Just finished Grapes of Wrath and started Gotrek and Felix: The First Omnibus.
just started part 7 of King's "Dark Tower" series
Finished Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I think I'll read The Dark Wraith of Shannara next.
I finished Vampire of the Mists by Christie Golden, doing some Ravenloft homework. I enjoyed it and I thought the ending was a pretty good twist on expectations. Now I'm working on The Verdant Passage by Troy Denning, which I'm enjoying a lot. Well paced, always interesting, a pretty satisfying read so far.
Finished the Brooks' and the audiobook of Castle Otranto. Reading Swordsmen of Lankhmar now.
Awesome; that series just gets better every book; have fun
Just started the first Dresden files book: Storm Front.
Yep; that was a good one; some of the middle ones got a bit dreary for me; all the girly stuff and the like moved pretty slow sometimes. Dont like how the series jumps stories every chapter; I went back and read it doing the stories by skipping chapters of intervening characters; so like read all the Rand chapters or sections; then went back and read chapters of other characters. I have read it many times as each time a book came out I started back with book one to have the story fresh in memory.
Book one of the Wheel of Time series. I'm rereading this, but the last time was more than a decade ago. It's very readable and better than I remembered.
A reading Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1974 for fun and beginning to reread BPD for Dummies again.
David Weber "Storm from the shadows".
1 space battle of 29 pages and 1021 pages of social commentary, badly written dialogue and achingly slow plot development.
"Retribution falls" by Chris Wooding. It start with a bang and seems to be an homage to "Firefly" :)
"Retribution falls" by Chris Wooding. It start with a bang and seems to be an homage to "Firefly" :)
*shudder*
Reading Swordsmen of Lankhmar now.
+1! Fafhrd and the Mouser didn't get me started in D&D, but they made sure I was firmly embedded. I didn't think the latest book ("Swords Against the Shadowland?") was stylistically consistent with Leiber's work, though.
Yep; that was a good one; some of the middle ones got a bit dreary for me; all the girly stuff and the like moved pretty slow sometimes. Dont like how the series jumps stories every chapter; I went back and read it doing the stories by skipping chapters of intervening characters; so like read all the Rand chapters or sections; then went back and read chapters of other characters. I have read it many times as each time a book came out I started back with book one to have the story fresh in memory.
Book one of the Wheel of Time series. I'm rereading this, but the last time was more than a decade ago. It's very readable and better than I remembered.
I did the same, Valegrim, but finally got tired of (a) spanking, and (b) the endless procession of new characters. I ended up calling it quits about six books in.
I did the same, Valegrim, but finally got tired of (a) spanking,Yep; that was a good one; some of the middle ones got a bit dreary for me; all the girly stuff and the like moved pretty slow sometimes. Dont like how the series jumps stories every chapter; I went back and read it doing the stories by skipping chapters of intervening characters; so like read all the Rand chapters or sections; then went back and read chapters of other characters. I have read it many times as each time a book came out I started back with book one to have the story fresh in memory.
Book one of the Wheel of Time series. I'm rereading this, but the last time was more than a decade ago. It's very readable and better than I remembered.
*sniff*
Just finished Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper.
Fab book, so I've just ordered his 2nd =D
Reading Swordsmen of Lankhmar now.+1! Fafhrd and the Mouser didn't get me started in D&D, but they made sure I was firmly embedded. I didn't think the latest book ("Swords Against the Shadowland?") was stylistically consistent with Leiber's work, though.
If that's the book he wrote much later and tried to add to the series, I've been strongly advised away from it by the denizens of these boards, do I don't plan on reading it. There's one more after this one, though. Swords against Ice Magic?
If that's the book he wrote much later and tried to add to the series, I've been strongly advised away from it by the denizens of these boards, do I don't plan on reading it. There's one more after this one, though. Swords against Ice Magic?Reading Swordsmen of Lankhmar now.+1! Fafhrd and the Mouser didn't get me started in D&D, but they made sure I was firmly embedded. I didn't think the latest book ("Swords Against the Shadowland?") was stylistically consistent with Leiber's work, though.
"Shadowland" was written by someone else, I think after Lieber died? It's just not Fritz.
Just dicovered a dino novel that was in my mom's pile to give to Goodwill; Footprints of Thunder. I'll be starting it up pretty soon.
A Call To Arms by Loren L. Coleman
A Silence in the Heavens by Martin DelRio
Am reading Orion by Ben Bova; interesting jaunt and Mote in God's Eye; Heinlin I think; as well as the self help books mentioned earlier.