What Are You Reading, Again?

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Before I started reading Tom Jones I had forgotten just how opaque and roundabout 18th century English writing was (the kind, that gave us numerous, extraneous, commas, in various, legal, documents,,,). So I've given up on that for the time being and started reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which is less coherent yet somehow seems much easier to understand.
 
I'm reading a book about the religions of Scythia Minor during the ancient age. :)
 
Was "century rain" by Alastair Reynolds as good as the books from his "Conjoiner/Demarchist" universe?

Have you read anything by Peter F. Hamilton? Best space opera ever!

Reading: Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick
 
Beyond Band of Brothers, Captain Dick Winters' own memoirs.....
 
I'm now sort of reading A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon, I think.
 
The Odyssey - Stanley Lombardo's translation
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (of course)

I'm reading the Odyssey for my own enjoyment, and Tom Sawyer is a school assignment (we got to choose the book, though).
 
As a matter of fact they're very good. I loved Thrall's story - Lord of the Clans. - they wanted to make an adventure game with that exact story.
The first one (Day of the Dragon) is about Alextraza and how she was freed from the orcs.
The third one (Last Guardian) i barely started - but it is about Medivh. :)

I've heard several other books about World of Warcraft appeared. Those don't intrest me that much tho. I bet they're based mostly on WoW itself.

I'd love to get my hands on the Diablo books about the Sin Wars. Sadly they are nowhere to be found around here. :(


This is Blizzard we're talking about here. They would never stain their reputation with crappy books ya know. :)

Thanks for the info! I might try Day of the Dragon then. But if it is bad, i'll bite your head off! ;)

Finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which sucked, and am about to start on Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

@Masq: I really liked Neverwhere! Reminded me a bit of Alice in the Wonderland... with a dark twist!
 
Thanks for the info! I might try Day of the Dragon then. But if it is bad, i'll bite your head off! ;)
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Like i said, you should read "Lord of the Clans" - mostly because you like adventure games. :D
It shows the life of Thrall from birth to preWarcraft3

It also depends how much you are into the Warcraft universe. For example i loved the 3rd book - The Last Guardian because it really sheds some light on Medivh, his mom, Kadghar and Sargares. Just for that reason i was able to like the book even tho the ending kinda sucked for the big picture. :)
This book takes place preWarcraft2 and shows why Medivh did what he did.

P.S. The books have no connection between eachother. :D
 
Nevertheless: Varieties of Religious Pacifism by John Howard Yoder
 
While taking a break from Tom Jones to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I took a break from that and read The Prince. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Especially politics.
 
While taking a break from Tom Jones to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I took a break from that and read The Prince. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Especially politics.

I miss the twisted genius of Hunter S. Thompson, especially his pieces for Rolling Stone. I wonder what he would have made of the current crop of politicos in Washington? Somehow I don't think many people would have been spared.

Currently I am reading Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan.
 
I miss the twisted genius of Hunter S. Thompson, especially his pieces for Rolling Stone. I wonder what he would have made of the current crop of politicos in Washington? Somehow I don't think many people would have been spared.

Well, I think he showed everyone what he thought of them, if you take my meaning.

Okay, so he was dying of cancer too, apparently. But still, you gotta wonder a little.
 
I'm making a second attempt at getting through Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. A great book, but somewhat complex in parts. I love self-reference and metasystems, they can be so wonderfully mind-boggling:)
For school I'm reading excerpts from Kritik Der Reinen Vernunft by Immanuel Kant. Very interesting, but a bit hard to understand properly sometimes.
 
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I can't believe I went through elementary school without reading this. :)
 
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