Thorvald of Lym
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Currently reading A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller. Haven't gotten too far into it, but it looks neat.
What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8
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Mowque
Hypermodernist
truckingpete
On a Stark Trek
currently im reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown...really interesting....
Firestorm94
zuh?
I think I'm going to reread 1984 by George Orwell. I thought it was a great book, but I had to skim through the last part of the book with room 101 and all that, so I could finish it in time for the test we had 2 weeks into the first semester. (we had to read that and Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain over summer vacation. I started reading them 2 weeks before the school year started
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Hey, bagel, I'm reading the Qur'an. Should I start an "Ask a Muslim" thread?
Mowque
Hypermodernist
Hey, bagel, I'm reading the Qur'an. Should I start an "Ask a Muslim" thread?
Me too, oddly enough
King of Town
Adventuring
Kim by Rudyard Kipling I don't know why I keep buying these classics. I'm planning on reading some Studs terkel next.
Civfan333
full metal alchemist
The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler......
Bigfoot3814
Deity
On Writing by Stephen King as required reading for my new creative writing class. It's great reading and I'm learning a lot from it too. Watch my posts and see if they pick up any literary flare. 
musekick
Loves a good question
Mind Over Matters by Michael J. Nelson and The Concise AACR2, 4th ed. For fun, of course.
Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia. So far I'm pretty happy with it (it's much more entertaining than that structuralist nitwit Yapp's history of the Middle East in the 20th century).
soul_warrior
Termite!
because they are magnificent?
reading: Nowhere To Run: The story of soul music (By Gerri Hirshey )
great great read.
uses lots interviews with icons like: James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, and more.
tell the whole story by focousing on specific singers, acts, scenes.
a 9/10.
flyingchicken
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Rereading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, just finished (and rereading) Peter Green's Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age and Douglas Adam's Mostly Harmless.
Mark Twain is surprisingly readable; more readable than The King's English by H.W. and F.G. Fowler, I think, and that was published decades later.
Mark Twain is surprisingly readable; more readable than The King's English by H.W. and F.G. Fowler, I think, and that was published decades later.
Richard Cribb
He does monologues
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I just managed to find these two:
http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Ann...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235474649&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235474649&sr=1-2
Yes, steampunk is my poison.
http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Ann...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235474649&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235474649&sr=1-2
Yes, steampunk is my poison.
During my short absence I read four books.
Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life by Richard A. L. Jones: Quite technical and difficult to read. While it made some aspects of nanotechnology clearer it really lacked the writer's own vision of what the future might bring. It was like 300 page introduction to the subject but he forgot to write the actual book. Not bad but lacked meat on its bones.
Kuolema, Syvyydestä and Musta taivaanranta by Konrad Lehtimäki: Three short story collections from one of my favorite Finnish writers. I had read them years before but especially the older ones were still really good.
Kuolema (Death) is basically a bunch of stories about the misery of life and of death we still fear. There aren't that many happy moments in this book. People (mostly poor to start with) either die or lose their reason to live; young couple's baby is eaten by wolves, young railroad worker has his legs crushed by a car, a midsummer feast at the tuberculosis hospital is darkened by a death of a patient, etc.
Syvyydestä (From the Deep) is a collection of war stories. It's not any happier than Kuolema. It's basically a gruesome 1915 version of saying "war is hell." In the first story an old couple walks their last remaining son to the train station to be taken into war. From then on we have stories of soldiers and civilians dying; of massive charges against fortified trenches resulting in thousands of dead, of wounded left behind and found by the wolves, of young girl raped by soldiers and her embittered brother, of a man pleading his own brother to end his suffering after a mortal painful wound.
Musta taivaanranta (Black Horizon) is written somewhat later than the two previous ones and the years haven't been kind to Konrad's writing. These stories lack the despair and emotion of his older works. There's no longer his blood and tears on the pages. Few very mediocre stories fill half of the book and the latter half is few stories about a Finnish man fighting against Imperial Russia and later joining forces with the revolution (Lehtimäki was a socialist to some degree). Very bland comparing to other two story collections.
Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life by Richard A. L. Jones: Quite technical and difficult to read. While it made some aspects of nanotechnology clearer it really lacked the writer's own vision of what the future might bring. It was like 300 page introduction to the subject but he forgot to write the actual book. Not bad but lacked meat on its bones.
Kuolema, Syvyydestä and Musta taivaanranta by Konrad Lehtimäki: Three short story collections from one of my favorite Finnish writers. I had read them years before but especially the older ones were still really good.
Kuolema (Death) is basically a bunch of stories about the misery of life and of death we still fear. There aren't that many happy moments in this book. People (mostly poor to start with) either die or lose their reason to live; young couple's baby is eaten by wolves, young railroad worker has his legs crushed by a car, a midsummer feast at the tuberculosis hospital is darkened by a death of a patient, etc.
Syvyydestä (From the Deep) is a collection of war stories. It's not any happier than Kuolema. It's basically a gruesome 1915 version of saying "war is hell." In the first story an old couple walks their last remaining son to the train station to be taken into war. From then on we have stories of soldiers and civilians dying; of massive charges against fortified trenches resulting in thousands of dead, of wounded left behind and found by the wolves, of young girl raped by soldiers and her embittered brother, of a man pleading his own brother to end his suffering after a mortal painful wound.
Musta taivaanranta (Black Horizon) is written somewhat later than the two previous ones and the years haven't been kind to Konrad's writing. These stories lack the despair and emotion of his older works. There's no longer his blood and tears on the pages. Few very mediocre stories fill half of the book and the latter half is few stories about a Finnish man fighting against Imperial Russia and later joining forces with the revolution (Lehtimäki was a socialist to some degree). Very bland comparing to other two story collections.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
I just recently purchased that as an impulse buy. It's at the end of the short list for now.
Twain is one of my favorites; I wouldn't call him "surprisingly" readable.
Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
The Dark Tower Volume 1: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
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