Cathedral of the Sea
The Repairman Jack series
Knights of the Dinner Table: Bagwurld Collection
Ernest Hemmingway's Greatest Adventures
The Rangers Apprentice series (last two books)
In service,
Yep, that's basically correct, it's:A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with DragonsThen the next two will be (as of now):
The Winds of Winter
A Dream of Spring
Hmm. I was thinking of starting his series, but maybe not. If I read them all now, I'd have to read them all again when the next one comes out and then read them all again when the last one comes out. Because that's what I do.
I'll probably wait for the show to come out on DVD, read the books that the show covers and call it quits.
Back when I was a young goblin militant, I ran across an essay by Leon Trotsky where he was admonishing the young goblin militants to only read ONE BOOK at a time.
This is advice that I've never followed: I'm trying to read one part of The Walking Dead omnibus, one story from The Dying Earth and 100 pages of The Satanic Verses per day.
It's not really working, and Rushdie's getting shorted.
How'd you like the Chronicles of Prydain?
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Martin's series is very good. it is worth reading the whole thing ... hopefully he will finish it before he passes away, unlike Robert Jordan.
I started reading the Wheel of Time and then stopped when he had like 6 books which did not go any where after reading 4 books which were pretty good. I have not gone back to the series since to see if the guy who completed his series did a good job.
Back to Martin's Books of Fire and Ice I have to say I have been quite impressed and the HBO show has been great too. My wife who is not a gamer likes the show and she has become interested in reading the series.
Trying to read Stephen Kings the Tommyknockers. Trying.
That one kind of sucked... he sort of came back to the one of the root ideas and did a much better job of it with "Dreamcatcher."
I just finished Just After Sunset, which is like a compilation of the worst short stories he's written -- and, dear God, are they awful.
Yeah, I liked 'em, too.
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Trying to read Stephen Kings the Tommyknockers. Trying.That one kind of sucked... he sort of came back to the one of the root ideas and did a much better job of it with "Dreamcatcher."
I just finished Just After Sunset, which is like a compilation of the worst short stories he's written -- and, dear God, are they awful.
Yes, Dreamcatcher was a better book, I am only on chapter 5 and can tell. King gets caught up in strange minutia at times that makes his books hard to fathom. It happened to the last several Gunslingers books and it is starting off hard on this one.
Sad thing is, he has some good - dare I say it - great novels out there. I keep hoping.
i started reading bazil broketail, but after 200 pages it wasn't interesting me at all, so i stopped.
i started reading sailing to sarantium, but after 50 pages i was having trouble with the vocabulary, so i stopped.
i finally learned the story behind 42! the first three books were wonderfully silly, but i really enjoyed the fourth and fifth books because, well, they seemed to have a coherent plot. :-)
Jules Verne's The Mysterious IslandAnd be sure to see the Harryhousen movie -- claymation terror birds for the win!
I finally watched this. I can understand why they swapped out the orangutaung for the hot girl in the goatskin miniskirt, but I was terribly disappointed that they replaced the dog with a society dowager.
And almost all of the characters were a lot less nice than they were in the book--Spillings and Herbert, particularly. I thought that was strange.
The Harryhausen scenes were all awesome, of course, even though I missed the volcano exploding because the Netflix was scratched.
When they were fighting the giant crab, I wished there was a compilation of just his scenes that you could flip through while playing a game (oh, you're being attacked by an achaierai, where's that emu scene? harpies? [skips ahead to Jason and the Argonauts] there we go).
While looking up the trailer, I discovered that they're making/have made a remake, and it looks like they couldn't help but cross it with Lost.
i finally learned the story behind 42! the first three books were wonderfully silly, but i really enjoyed the fourth and fifth books because, well, they seemed to have a coherent plot. :-)
I reread these recently and found them to be still good.
However, I've never seen a copy of And Another Thing in all my used book shopping. Does it really exist?
Finally finished Herland (which reminded me oddly of Three Men in a Boat, but with amazons rather than swans) and Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo, a fun retelling of a Senegalese folktale.
Now it's on to renaissance noir: Kenneth Wishnia's The Fifth Servant!
I've never seen a copy of And Another Thing in all my used book shopping. Does it really exist?
yep, i saw it at my local (tucson) used book store (but i'll probly skip it, since adams didn't write it).
Oh, it wasn't? [Rushes off to search the web]
EDIT: Awesome! Now I can cross it off my list! Thanks!
EDIT II: Which might explain why I was never able to find it...
Three Men in a Boat, but with amazons rather than swans)
To Say Nothing of the Dog?
To Say Nothing of the Dog?
Which is How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last!
I liked Willis's Doomsday Book better on the whole, but the air of frivolity in the former was very refreshing after all the doom and gloom.
To Say Nothing of the Dog?Which is How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last!
Hee hee!
Back when I was a young goblin militant, I ran across an essay by Leon Trotsky where he was admonishing the young goblin militants to only read ONE BOOK at a time.
This is advice that I've never followed: I'm trying to read one part of The Walking Dead omnibus, one story from The Dying Earth and 100 pages of The Satanic Verses per day.
It's not really working, and Rushdie's getting shorted.
This plan didn't work at all, and I decided to take Comrade Trotsky's advice.
So, I bought, like, the first 15 issues of The Walking Dead when they came out way back when and, yeah, they were pretty bleak, but I just finished the 48-issue collection and, holy shiznit!, I want to go hang myself.
Don't go back to Woodbury!
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Hmm. I was thinking of starting his series, but maybe not. If I read them all now, I'd have to read them all again when the next one comes out and then read them all again when the last one comes out. Because that's what I do.
I'll probably wait for the show to come out on DVD, read the books that the show covers and call it quits.
That's not a bad idea. While the series on the whole is really good, I don't know if I'd recommend beginning it now. The first three books are amazing - the fourth and fifth are weaker, but I'm optimistic that they'll work once the series is finished and you can immediately find out how they resolve. Plus, there's the problem that the wait between books is years long (and if I'm not mistaken he basically took the second half of this year off, so I don't think that's likely to change). Following along with HBO you'll at least get the story on a regular schedule.
Jack Vance's The Dying Earth is great!--If you haven't read it before, put down whatever you're reading and go get yourself a copy.
Also, was stuck in line for gas for 45 minutes yesterday (everybody's buying gas for their generators, grrr) and read the A.J.P. Taylor introduction to The Communist Manifesto for Penguin. (I always keep a copy in my car!)
Pretty enjoyable essay. I've read two books by him that were great: The Origins of the Second World War and From Sarajevo to Potsdam. Good historian.
Jack Vance's The Dying Earth is great!--If you haven't read it before, put down whatever you're reading and go get yourself a copy.
i'm planning on it... as soon as i can find a copy. :-(
My wife and I finished reading The Hunger Games to each other. The plot is a lot of fun and really draws you in, but I was annoyed for the entire last two chapeters.
Also finished Orality and Literacy. My job involves designing training for a wide array of people around the world, from people who may have two Doctorates to people who were taught mostly by oral tradition and what was passed down in the form of story. Great book for understanding the second group of folks!
Now on to:
Catching Fire
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains - kind of the continuation of the Orality book. Print and writing changed our brains, and the Internet is changing it further. No word yet whether or not Wired brains taste any different than Oral ones.
Gearing up to an attempt at writing my own first damn novel, so not much reading going on, but I'm slowly making my way through the one-volume version of Ian Kershaw's Hitler biography and Afgantsy by Rodric Braithwaite about the Russians war in Afghanistan.
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Stop posting and go write me a book!
Gearing up to an attempt at writing my own first damn novel,
Seven and a half hours till NaNoWriMo starts! I assume you're in?
I'm still debating which of two ideas to roll with. Both are alternate historical pieces I've been stewing on for months. I've done some character development on both. But which to choose? The Great Depression or WW1?
Gearing up to an attempt at writing my own first damn novel,Seven and a half hours till NaNoWriMo starts! I assume you're in?
I'm still debating which of two ideas to roll with. Both are alternate historical pieces I've been stewing on for months. I've done some character development on both. But which to choose? The Great Depression or WW1?
Not NaNoWriMo. For one thing I'm going for something a tad longer and more ambitious than I could manage in one month (especially with a weekend-trip to Edinburgh by the end of the month thrown in).
Finished The Dying Earth and want to jump right into The Eyes of the Overworld, but I have to finish The Satanic Verses first.
I'm currently reading 'Wolfsangel' by M.D. Lachlan. I'd see it in Borders before they closed several times and it intrigued me (probably influenced by the really cool wolf they use in the cover art =D).
Finished The Dying Earth...
can i borrow your copy? ;-)
Amazon has copies of The Compleat Dying Earth for about $5.00 plus postage.
According to wikipedia, CDE includes the six stories from The Dying Earth plus The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvelous.
I bring this to your attention because the alternative is you send me money for postage. It looks like Amazon is a better deal.
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While on vacation *ahem*, I finally had a chance to read all of the Dresden Files books (including the latest hardcover) - thought they were awesome, btw, good light fare, the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy - also quite amazing, David Chalmers' book on consciousness - slow read, but interesting, a bunch of Chomsky, Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah, another fantasy trilogy I found fun but can't remember the author or titles (about some guttersnipe turned master "wetboy" who winds up saving the planet or something), Les Misrables (abridged version, still well over 1000 pages a that) and a few Repairman Jack novels I had read before.
Right now all I'm reading are Help Wanted ads.
;-)
just started the first harry potter book.
in other news, temperatures are dropping in nessus.
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy
Enjoyed those, even despite the James Bond Movie Henchman guy. I was sad the Brazilian kickboxer guy had such a minute quantity of "screen time," though -- he was my favorite character.
P.S. Did you ever get through the copy of Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell I gave you? Or the Puzo book about the Borgias?
a bunch of Chomsky,
Any new thoughts on whether or not he can legitimately claim to be descended from the Enlightenment?
Those few of you who enjoy following my adventures trolling the OTD threads will not be surprised to learn that, so far, I have been told to "shut up" by the following celebrity writers: Noam, Howard Zinn and Cornel West.
Hee hee!
(Actually, Prof. West was too nice to tell me to shut up, but I could tell he wanted to do so.)
Also, anything about Sodom and Gomorrah must've made interesting reading where you were vacationing!
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Got Dance of Dragons for the trip home. Haven't started it just yet.
Oh, are you coming back soon? If so, yay!
As for me, I found The Satanic Verses hard to get into while I had zombie comics and proto-D&D lit sitting around, but since I finished them and have been able to turn my full attention to Mr. Rushdie I have been quite impressed.
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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogyEnjoyed those, even despite the James Bond Movie Henchman guy. I was sad the Brazilian kickboxer guy had such a minute quantity of "screen time," though -- he was my favorite character.
P.S. Did you ever get through the copy of Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell I gave you? Or the Puzo book about the Borgias?
I started reading both right before the bad day, their buried in storage somewhere (that thing is a mess, that's what happens when movers do an emergency rush job on Superbowl Sunday, I suppose...).
Edit: Haven't see the Girl with... movie yet, but the books were awesome.
buried in storage somewhere
So you have some incentive to sort through that stuff, at least... on top of the Quest for the Magic Purple Canadian Whisky Bag o'Dice.
Edit: Haven't see the Girl with... movie yet, but the books were awesome.
Yeah, I meant the books; "page time" would be a better turn of phrase.
P.S. The first (Swedish) movie was awesome; the other two were just sort of shot on film in order to be doing it. Needless to say, I do not have high hopes for the Hollywood version.
I miss my babies!buried in storage somewhereSo you have some incentive to sort through that stuff, at least... on top of the Quest for the Magic Purple Canadian Whisky Bag o'Dice.
My magic bag of dice still resides in El Paso :/. Never trust someone to mail you your stuff when you ETS
I just picked up The Dervish House by Ian MacDonald. Hopefully he does as good a job with futuristic Turkey as he did with futuristic India
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Storm: all rain here, power remained on. Vaykay: good, painted house and did many other chores. Computer is wanky so restricted to iPhone for Internet. Now time for nap and waiting for 4:20