It would be nice to list the previous ones, though... helpful, and you'd start a new tradition! 
If mods would allow such, maybe you (Valka) can take the thread (start it) if you are also to do the considerable work to create that list?It would be nice to list the previous ones, though... helpful, and you'd start a new tradition!
What do you think, @Arakhor ? (I'd be fine with it
)
If mods would allow such, maybe you (Valka) can take the thread (start it) if you are also to do the considerable work to create that list?
What do you think, @Arakhor ? (I'd be fine with it
If allowed, I'd be willing to take it on.
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Finished The House on the Strand; du Maurier is a wonderful writer, and it showed for most of the book, but the weak ending felt like she couldn't figure how to wrap things up.
Reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, alt-history / sci-fi about a group of individuals who get reincarnated together, set in an alternate world across several lifetimes where the Black Plague kills most of the European population allowing Muslims to settle there, the Chinese discover and colonise the western Americas, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy becomes a world power.
Reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, alt-history / sci-fi about a group of individuals who get reincarnated together, set in an alternate world across several lifetimes where the Black Plague kills most of the European population allowing Muslims to settle there, the Chinese discover and colonise the western Americas, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy becomes a world power.
Bought that as a kid and still remember some of his commentary.
Just finished Flags of our Fathers and am currently reading Like Comment and Subscribe, a history of YouTube. Just bought The Master Switch and Antisocial Media for my SLIS class.
bene_legionary
Searching for the daguerrotype of God
I finished Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy yesterday. Not as much action as probably I thought of a spy novel – really a lot of interviewing and reminiscing – but this is the first le Carré novel I've read so really I don't know what I was expecting. It felt anticlimatic in the end, but I did enjoy how all the pieces fit together. Some parts were confusing, but otherwise very engaging and I read for long stretches at a time.
Maybe the next new book to me will be The Great Gatsby. It's sitting on my desk right now, a version published by the China Translation and Publishing Corporation for some reason...
Maybe the next new book to me will be The Great Gatsby. It's sitting on my desk right now, a version published by the China Translation and Publishing Corporation for some reason...
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EgonSpengler
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Le Carre is one of the greats, but yeah, he doesn't write 007-style action-espionage. I admire his writing more than I like it, exactly. His books don't exactly breeze by, for me.
But I think you could say that Fleming and Le Carre paved the two, broad roads of modern espionage fiction, one more muscular, one more intellectual. For the former, I recommend Jackdaws (2001) by Ken Follett; for the latter, Night Soldiers (2008) by Alan Furst.
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I have spent the last three days reading:
A Tupolev Too Far
by that late Dereham boy
Brian Aldiss
that I bought second hand for £1.50
It is a quite varied but odd collection of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and similar short stories.
In particular it has an interesting variant on Frankenstein's monster, and on Kafka from the cockroach's perspective.
A Tupolev Too Far
by that late Dereham boy
Brian Aldiss
that I bought second hand for £1.50
It is a quite varied but odd collection of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and similar short stories.
In particular it has an interesting variant on Frankenstein's monster, and on Kafka from the cockroach's perspective.
EnglishEdward
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The being Gregor gets metamorphosed to has tens of legs. That alone would make the description untenable. Then again, Kafka himself describes it partly as a beetle.
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re: thread subtitle. I saw a bumper sticker that said "Honk iff you love formal logic"
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The Children of Men (1992) by P.D. James. Only just started it, but I like her writing.
I finished "The Rebirths of Tao" that ended the series. Excellent all the way through all three books without let up.
Plains-Cow
Best Resource; Always Wins
This book has a lot of socioeconomic commentary that can be viewed from many analytical angles.
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