What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Dragonlord]

Actually, S.M.Stirlings Island in the Sea of Time trilogy is among my favorites - but if you don't like sex scenes, I can understand not liking it. I sort of skim over the lesbian sex scenes and poetry bits myself - but the rest is very good, IMO.

If you like warlike sci-fi with a bit of history thrown in, I can suggest William R.Forstchens Lost Regiment series - Civil War regiment transported to a medieval world with man-eating alien overlords. Don't read before sleeping, or you won't get any... sleep, that is..

 

[Dachs]

It's more the fact that they're so incongruent and causeless in Turtledove's books, not the fact that they are sex scenes. I don't have a problem with that. ?

The only books of Forstchen's that I've read are the ones he co-authored with Newt Gingrich. They were...interesting.

 

[flyingchicken]

Just finished The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz

The Calculus With Analytic Geometry by Louis Leithold
The Iliad, as translated by Samuel Butler
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, abridged
Second part of the History of the Byzantine Empire by Vasiliev, A.A.
and bits of Arabian Nights

will be in my reading cycle for next few weeks, except for the first one whose utility drops right after monday

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I'm being forced by my school to read Dracula, by Bram Stoker, over the summer.

 

[Azale]

I'm reading The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Paul Kennedy despite all the horrible things Dachs told me about it. I've always been a rebel.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

It's more the fact that they're so incongruent and causeless in Turtledove's books, not the fact that they are sex scenes. I don't have a problem with that. ?

The only books of Forstchen's that I've read are the ones he co-authored with Newt Gingrich. They were...interesting.

Sorry, but I'm a prude when I read.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

Just finished The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz

The Calculus With Analytic Geometry by Louis Leithold
The Iliad, as translated by Samuel Butler
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, abridged
Second part of the History of the Byzantine Empire by Vasiliev, A.A.
and bits of Arabian Nights

will be in my reading cycle for next few weeks, except for the first one whose utility drops right after monday

I personally think Richmond Lattimore's translation of the Iliad is excellent, but to each his own.

 

[Masada]

Sorry, but I'm a prude when I read.

You only get caught with a playboy once, I guess.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

You only get caught with a playboy once, I guess.

Its not that, its just that I like my sex and literature separate. Yeah, I know, that means that I am excluding a lot of literature from myself because of it, but so be it.

 

[Masada]

Its not that, its just that I like my sex and literature separate. Yeah, I know, that means that I am excluding a lot of literature from myself because of it, but so be it.

That's fair enough, I'm much the same.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

That's fair enough, I'm much the same.

And yet I watch a TON of porn and have 2 one terabyte drives filled with it, lmao.

 

[Masada]

And yet I watch a TON of porn and have 2 one terabyte drives filled with it, lmao.

I didn't need to know that. My vision of a young Imperialmajesty free of corruption, innocent of the evils of the world and pure in the eyes of man, is dead. Paradise lost never felt so normal.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

I didn't need to know that. My vision of a young Imperialmajesty free of corruption, innocent of the evils of the world and pure in the eyes of man, is dead. Paradise lost never felt so normal.

lolol (10 Char Limit)

 

[JohnMarshall12]

Dies The Fire, In The Heart Of The Sea, and waiting on the final Song of Fire and Ice book which is supposed to come out this year allegedly.

 

[cardgame]

Welcome to CFC, JohnMarshall!

I haven't read any of the Fire and Ice series yet, but i'm thinking about it. Are they pretty good?

 

[puglover]

I'm reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. Pretty cool so far. I've always been a fan of his work.

I'm being forced by my school to read Dracula, by Bram Stoker, over the summer.

Dude, I loved that book!

Actually, S.M.Stirlings Island in the Sea of Time trilogy is among my favorites - but if you don't like sex scenes, I can understand not liking it. I sort of skim over the lesbian sex scenes and poetry bits myself - but the rest is very good, IMO.

I read the first book of that series and didn't like it all that much. I think Stirling gets too enamored with the whole concept of a proto-feminist tribal culture and doesn't focus on real history in his fiction.

 

[Godwynn]

Alright! I just bought the following (for cheap!) and hope to finish two or three before the Semester begins:

Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night; The Tempest - William Shakespeare
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso - Dante Alighieri
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[Mowque]

A Tale of Two Cities - Victor Hugo

Wait, what?

 

[Godwynn]

Wait, what?

Good catch, I was thinking about buying Les Miserables.

 

[puglover]

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good luck! It took my dad almost two years to finish that book, and he's one of the greatest readers I know.