So I have a book review to do for my science and religion class and my professor said today in lecture that it's about time to start choosing a book to do so I dropped by the library after class and started browsing the religion section. I noticed one book sitting on the shelf with "Carl Sagan" on the spine.
THE SEARCH WAS OVER.
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The book was "The Varieties of Scientific Experience" btw and it is quite good so far. I have a feeling I will be done the paper before the professor tells us we should probably have started reading.
Finished reading Michael Lewis's Moneyball the other day. Definitely worth a read if you have more than a passing interest in baseball.
Starting on the two SW:TOR novels. I know they're not going to be literary masterpieces, but I love Star Wars, so fuck you.
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;32139746]Just started The Dark Tower VII yesterday. I [i]know[/i] I was in for a good ride when I picked up The Gunslinger.[/QUOTE]
I found the Gunslinger rather hard to get into, and pretty badly written.
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The series got me hooked and I bought all the books so far :v:
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Just came in the mail today! I'm excited.
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I'm rereading this and I love it even more than the first read through.
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read the crying of lot 49 or V.
they're both really good, pynchon owns bones
-Finish [U]Behemoth[/U] by Scott Westerfeld
-Obsess over the thought of Russian War-bears
-Check online to see when release of new book is
-it came out two days ago
I'm so freaking excited.
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MY god, this book is great. Witty and outrageous, while adequately telling the tale of Simon Pegg's life.
[QUOTE=gra;32157823]read the crying of lot 49 or V.
they're both really good, pynchon owns bones[/QUOTE]
I have, and they're brilliant. He's the best writer alive I say.
He's the most reclusive author out there with only a few old photos of him published and declining every public and media appearance, yet he did agree to go on The Simpsons. That's awesome.
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[QUOTE=Not Swimbound;28534880]I googled it and then I died[/QUOTE]
Why, just why did that book have to be written.
I'm getting pretty pissed at the lack of quality military science fiction that doesn't have a Black Library stamp on the side of it.
Everything's pretty much "5-10 super high tech guys in super high tech armor with super high tech laz0r guns and computers and shit kill a bunch of large bugs or something, also a super athletic girl in a tanktop with no character flaws at all helps them".
Which in my mind shouldn't be called "military" science fiction at all, it has practically nothing to do with anything resembling military operations.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;32384972]I'm getting pretty pissed at the lack of quality military science fiction that doesn't have a Black Library stamp on the side of it.
Everything's pretty much "5-10 super high tech guys in super high tech armor with super high tech laz0r guns and computers and shit kill a bunch of large bugs or something, also a super athletic girl in a tanktop with no character flaws at all helps them".
Which in my mind shouldn't be called "military" science fiction at all, it has practically nothing to do with anything resembling military operations.[/QUOTE]
Read [i]Consider Phlebas[/i] by Iain. M. Banks.
[QUOTE=Billiam;32131062]You could tell his conservative viewpoints bleed through a little in Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, but as soon as you hit Xenocide its like BAM.[/QUOTE]I finished Xenocide and it was still ok I guess, Children of the Mind is the last one I'll read.
[QUOTE=Zombii;32385244]Read [i]Consider Phlebas[/i] by Iain. M. Banks.[/QUOTE]
I'm mostly looking for things that have believable representations of standard military forces from the perspective of a normal soldier/a group of normal soldiers.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;32385311]I'm mostly looking for things that have believable representations of standard military forces from the perspective of a normal soldier/a group of normal soldiers.[/QUOTE]
Good luck.
The Road
[sp]Sorry for discussing old gold, but The Road's ending was really fucking sad.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Zombii;32385349]Good luck.[/QUOTE]
I have Gaunt's Ghosts but Gaunt's Ghosts can't last forever.
Been doing a lot of reading lately, more so than usual.
I went up the library and got Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut, and I'm reading 1984 by Orwell right now.
Cosmos was great for an information book, Fahrenheit 451 was really awesome, Slaughterhouse V was alright, and so far 1984 is [b]really[/b] good.
I bought A Game of Thrones a while ago and finished it, and I've got a Clash of Kings, but I haven't read it yet.
Picked up this at B&N yesterday for $20:
[img]http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/97140000/97143240.JPG[/img]
It's part of their exclusive "Leatherbound Classics" series. Practically any classic novel is part of it, from the Homeric poems to Douglas Adams.
reading some essays by ralph waldo emerson
good shit
All of the are listed here: [url]http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/discount-books-bargains-classics/379001146/[/url]
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Automerge fffs
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Also, should I read the Poetic or the Prose Edda first?
I've been getting back into Hellboy. My god I love these comics so much.
He does crossovers with fucking Batman. It's pretty boss.
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I'm reading Death By Black Hole and Cosmos.
[b] At the same time. [/b]
I'm currently reading The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. Apparently it's very good as a book [i]and[/i] movie.
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[QUOTE=myalt22;32143548]I found the Gunslinger rather hard to get into, and pretty badly written.[/QUOTE]
Jesus Christ [sp]Roland[/sp] keep your fucking pants on. I swear he fucks everything he sees.
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In other news I've been reading this:
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It's quite an interesting account of the commonness and general apathy regarding unfair trials, misinformation, and misinterpretation in medicine.
just starting book 5 of stephen king's dark tower series
book 4 was kicken rad
I've almost finished Catch-22. It has taken longer than I wanted, mostly because I've putting it off a lot because I'm an idiot.
Still, what a book. just brilliant. Heller manages to mix a majority of comedy with a sprinkle of sorrow and it makes for a fantastic book. If I have a top 10 books list, this would probably go into it.
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An excellent book on the history of land warfare and its future that still holds up after 24 years.
My Kindle's screen just died, guess I'll send it back for repairs...
Read Dragon's Egg last week
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Really interesting book about life on a neutron star, but it has the same problem that Arthur C. Clarke's works has: there's pretty much no characterization, pretty much everyone feels about as deep as a puddle.
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