The Securities Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 418, related national instruments, and Securities Regulation in Canada by Mark Gillen.
I've sold that book before - but I'd never dream if reading it.
I'm reading the Library if World Religions volume on Protestantism at the moment.
The Gillen book isn't bad but its a bit out of date, he needs to put out a new edition. It's not rocket science or anything, very approachable book.
I have moved on to The History and Law of Fisheries by Stuart A Moore and Hubert Stuard Moore - London 1903. It is a thrill a minute. First a commons in piscary and then woosh on the next page an exclusive fishery severed from the underlying solum and sold as a profit a prendre!
I am a free man friday at 4 pm.
I hope they compensate you well. You deserve it. I'm guessing your a corporate lawyer or an accountant. I understand why people become these professions but I'd rather just not have the two door garage or the membership to the golf club. I'll get buy on a smallish condo downtown and a YMCA membership and its all good.
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I hope they compensate you well. You deserve it. I'm guessing your a corporate lawyer or an accountant. I understand why people become these professions but I'd rather just not have the two door garage or the membership to the golf club. I'll get buy on a smallish condo downtown and a YMCA membership and its all good.The Securities Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 418, related national instruments, and Securities Regulation in Canada by Mark Gillen.
I've sold that book before - but I'd never dream if reading it.
I'm reading the Library if World Religions volume on Protestantism at the moment.
The Gillen book isn't bad but its a bit out of date, he needs to put out a new edition. It's not rocket science or anything, very approachable book.
I have moved on to The History and Law of Fisheries by Stuart A Moore and Hubert Stuard Moore - London 1903. It is a thrill a minute. First a commons in piscary and then woosh on the next page an exclusive fishery severed from the underlying solum and sold as a profit a prendre!
I am a free man friday at 4 pm.
Heh, I'm still in school, finishing up my third year at law school. Not getting paid in anything but the joy of learning.
i just finished "perdodo street station," by china mieville. it was ok. i preferred the secondary plotline to the primary plotline, and some aspects of mr. mieville's writing bugged me, like the overuse of italics and "infinitesimal."
not a bad book, but nothing to make me want to read more by this author.
Just finished Bernard Cornwell's Sharp's Devil and an excellent fan-fict called Sharp's Gator by Alan Kempner. Now I'm moving on to Cornwell's Nathaniel Starbuck series.
Finished re-reading William Gibson's Spook Country, but before I could finish up with the new one, I got distracted by two books:
The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrews and Vasili Mitrokhin, an insider's account of the KGB; and
War of the Twins by you know who.
i'm now on the earthsea trilogy by ursula leguin. the main character is lacking in personality, but i enjoy the adventure and treatment of magic.
Currently reading:
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Soygal Rinpoche
Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino
Player's Guide to Legacy of Fire
& will be starting Winter Witch by Ellen Cunningham... (It's under the xmas tree)
Finally got myself copies of Glen Cook's Black Company books. Finished the first and anxiously diving into the next!
Moribito II : Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Ueashhi. If any of you have seen the Moribito cartoon series, this follows up after that ends. She returns to Kanbal to tie up some loose ends, and predictably, gets into trouble. Balsa is awesome!
Patrick O'Brian;
1 Master and Commander
2 Post Captain
3 HMS Surprise
4 The Mauritius Command
5 Desolation Island
6 The Fortune of War
7 The Surgeon's Mate
8 The Ionian Mission
9 Treason's Harbour
Not a productive week:)
i'm now on the earthsea trilogy by ursula leguin. the main character is lacking in personality, but i enjoy the adventure and treatment of magic.
I never could really get all that excited by her fiction but her science fiction, such as The Left Hand of Darkness was often really intriguing.
Just read "Flashing Blades 2", the old sword and sorcery anthology and "Hat Full of Sky" which puts me five books away from finishing Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
The War of the Roses by Alison Weir after attempting to read Paul Hoffman's, The Left Hand of God and Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. Never got far in either.
"The Blade Itself" and its sequels by Joe Abercrombie.
I'm currently reading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, but I also just picked up Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights and haven't been able to put it down either.
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Currently reading the omnibus of Brunner, the Bounty Hunter, by C.L. Werner. Good writing; good read, but definitely not appropriate for the younglings.
Go to Brunner, The Bounty Hunter Omnibus (WARHAMMER).
Hm, apparently Mighty Thoth has failed his BBCode test roll. Argh!
Thoth rerolls and makes his BBCode die roll.
Finished The War of the Roses by Alison Weir. Quite the mess of earls, knights, and barons but Weir manages to put it all into some sort of perspective. Great book, thoroughly enjoyed it.
On to The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The movie was terrible thanks to Peter Jackson's obsession with CGI but I got the feeling the book will be much better.
Plowing through the later parts of Elizabeth Moon's Serrano Legacy. Oddly enough I kind of started in the middle with Once a Hero which just blew me away, but have been significantly less happy with the follow on novels and can't even be bothered to pick up the earlier ones because they are considered the weakest part of the series by fans (according to the websites I looked at).
I will say that if your looking for some fun light reading with a bit of 'made you stop and think' lightly sprinkled in Once a Hero is an excellent choice.
A whole lotta Love....craft. I have his complete works on my Kindle.
King's Dragon, Crown of Stars book 1
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu.
I almost gave up on it after the first few chapters alternated between impenetrable and the protagonist bemoaning his life. Apparently being a time machine repairman is a boring dead end job.
But then he shot his future self and the plot actually got going. I don't think I'm going to find all the recursion as clever as Yu does (he's the protagonist, he wrote the book, and he finds the book he wrote in the course of the book, and then starts reading it while his computer transcribes what he's reading...and the book is telling him what he's done/is doing as he does it) but now that things are actually happening I'm interested.
Currently reading Chosen of Nendawen Series (D&D novel) Forgotten Realms setting. Im on book #2. Great series, the best out of the new D&D novels in my opinion, many have been very bogged down with promoting the current 4th edition races & magic powers almost seemed forced. This novel flows well, is desciptive has an excellent chase story & suspense. The first novel The Fall of Highwatch sets it all up nicely. Our hero Hweilan a female half elf starts out like 0 level but by next novel shes really a deadly character. Check it out I really recommend.
(Oh and if you disagree with my prevoius statement on the newer novels seeming like the 4th edition is forced. I apologize just an opinion, please do not comment wasnt to be harmful)
I got the 5th and 6th books of Jim Butcher's Codex of Alera fantasy series but it has been over a year since I finished the 4th one so I've gone back to re-read the series (no problem as I was planning to anyways) but now I can't find books 1 or 2! Grrr. Started reading book 3 but I really need to start the series again at the beginning.
I do love the sheer volume of work Butcher puts out. I think he now has 19 books in print and started in 2000. That....is impressive.
Currently reading Chosen of Nendawen Series (D&D novel) Forgotten Realms setting. Im on book #2. Great series, the best out of the new D&D novels in my opinion, many have been very bogged down with promoting the current 4th edition races & magic powers almost seemed forced. This novel flows well, is desciptive has an excellent chase story & suspense. The first novel The Fall of Highwatch sets it all up nicely. Our hero Hweilan a female half elf starts out like 0 level but by next novel shes really a deadly character. Check it out I really recommend.
I've thought for a while that Mark Sehestedt is among the best new authors working in the Forgotten Realms, and I'm glad to hear that his Nendawen books (which I haven't yet read) continue to be good. I actually haven't read any of D&D novels since the 4e changeover -- will have to go fix that!
I'm working through a number of books as I have finished all current Planet Stories offerings.
The book I am reading on my bus rides is "An Imaginary Tale: The story of Sqrt(-1). I am close to finishing and he is currently describing the Cauchy-Riemann Theorems.
I am also slowly making my way through Katherine Kurtz Childe Morgan, H.P. Lovecraft and Others, Tales of the Cthulu Mythos, Hugh Cook's, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild and I am within 300 pages of finishing Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" which I have been reading for the last decade and a half (the series not just that book) as a serial novel (a few dozen pages on the bus about once a month)
Tim Severin's Viking: Odinn's Child. And I thought Bernard Cornwell's Lords of the North series was good! This one really digs deep into the viking mythology and magic sytem involving seers called volvas, with supernatural aspects involving ghosts, zombies and clairvoyance, yet still tells a really believable viking tale. Little over halfway through and loving it.
Also finishing off Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy with The Last Argument of Kings. About a quarter of the way through; not as good as Before They are Hanged, but I anticipate it getting better. Abercrombie really shines when describing nasty battle scenes and as of yet, there have not been any in TLAOF. With the double team of Logen Ninefingers and Ferro split, most of the savagery is gone. But with the Dogmen back together again, I sense chaos over the horizon.
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris. I actually read it in high school; I appreciate it quite a bit more, now that I'm older. Afterward, I'm continuing with Harris's Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris. I actually read it in high school; I appreciate it quite a bit more, now that I'm older. Afterward, I'm continuing with Harris's Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.
Silence of the Lambs is a great book, but I thought Harris's Red Dragon was superior. It's actually a prelude to Silence of the Lambs. In fact, I have to say, it is one of the best crime fiction novels I have ever read, right up there with No Country for Old Men and L.A. Confidential.
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris. I actually read it in high school; I appreciate it quite a bit more, now that I'm older. Afterward, I'm continuing with Harris's Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.Silence of the Lambs is a great book, but I thought Harris's Red Dragon was superior. It's actually a prelude to Silence of the Lambs. In fact, I have to say, it is one of the best crime fiction novels I have ever read, right up there with No Country for Old Men and L.A. Confidential.
Yeah, I had just finished Red Dragon right before I started re-reading The Silence of the Lambs; I wholly loved Red Dragon! That's what put me in the mood for the rest of the books.
I don't read much crime fiction, but Red Dragon may have expanded my genre-preferences, somewhat! :)
I'm reading my way through all of Glen Cook's novels. Currently reading the Dark War trilogy. Cook is definitely sticking his theme of morally ambiguous grey vs grey pro and antagonists in this one.
Tim Severin's Viking: Odinn's Child. And I thought Bernard Cornwell's Lords of the North series was good!I have been considering some more Cornwell after having finished the Sharpe series. Good to hear at least a tangental positive reviewl I'll give the Lords of the North a look.
Actually, Drayen, it's called the Saxon series and the first book in the series is The Last Kingdom. I read the first three and they were good stuff. Involves the Saxon invasion of England and the wars with Alfred the Great from the perspective of a viking raised English slave who ends up as Alfred's war advisor.
I also enjoyed Azincourt and Harlequin, his retelling of the battles of Agincourt and Crecy respectively.
Azincourt is probably his best work IMO. There were rumours of a movie but I don't know if things worked out. The guy who was supoosed to direct, Michael Hirst, who directed the Tudors and the Elizabeth movies, ended up busy with Camelot and the Borgias TV series instead.
"Before They Are Hanged" by Joe Abercrombie.
"Last Arguement of Kings" by Joe Abercrombie.