Was given "Thud" for Christmas so I am just about to embark on another trip to Discworld.
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Was given "Thud" for Christmas so I am just about to embark on another trip to Discworld.
Bacchae - Euripides
D. Adams - So long and thanks for all the fish
So did I.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggles
I started last night and the first chapter is certainly more interesting than Lords & Ladies, the only other Discworld novel that I've read.
Books I got for Christmas:
The Theban Plays - Sophocles
Gallia - Menie Muriel Dowie
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Kilgore Trout was a fictional novelist who appeared as a character in some Kurt Vonnegut books. He was a pulp sci-fi / soft porn hack.
Then a novel by Kilgore Trout was published
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much to the assumption that Vonnegut had written it. It was actually Phillip Jose Farmer.
A subsequent cover, after Farmer had revealed that he had written the book
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Currently reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein :) Hope it is as good as it is hyped up to be. I'm liking it so far ....but i guess i am not really that far in yet
Frankenstein is a superb read, Gems; you must forget any of the cinematic versions when reading it, as they fall far short of the novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by gemby!
Hope you enjoy it!
i finished angels and demons by dan borwn and im starting the the da vinci code!
Just finished "Hidden Empire" by Kevin J. Anderson, and now onto the next one in the series, "Sea of Stars" (maybe?).
Not bad, but devoid of anything particularly new in terms of ideas so far... :mellow:
Quite bizarrely these books deal with aliens that live in gas giants, and also the last book I read (The Algebraist by Iain Banks) also deals with aliens that live in gas giants, but previously I hadn't read a book that even lightly touches on the subject of aliens that live in gas giants since, oohhhhhhh, Arthur C. Clarkes 2001.... :dabs:
Now reading North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell.
Yawn.
Tis surely a book for girls! :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
I am reading Gone with the wind right now.
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
No one does alien quite like Banks.
Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.
I just finished Richard Morgan's Woken Furies, the third about a character called Takeshi Kovacs, some of you might remember I made a thread referring to his Altered Carbon, the first novel about aforementioned Kovacs, a while back. Morgan is another brilliant author who writes sci-fi in a sort of noir-ish style.
Sex, ultra-violence, and an interesting view on identity.
He's also written yet another novel, Market Forces, which has a dystopian setting reminiscent of that in Vonnegut's Player Piano, but with elements that seem borrowed from the movie Mad Max.
There's apparently a movie in the works, based on Market Forces.
If anyone is interested in something (possibly) different, try something of Morgan's, I especially recommend Altered carbon.
Farewell, my lovely by raymond chandler
Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
Excession has been my favourite to date. Use of Weapons was brilliant but deeply disturbing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
I actually got that one for christmas :happy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barbarossa
Brilliant novel.
I just finished reading flowers for algernon. amzing book, almost cried at the end :lookaroun
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
My favourite book from the Victorian Literature module I am doing this term.
Mm, I love Oscar Wilde. It's unfortunate he's not more widely read.
:shuriken:
The Adversary - Julian May
Dracula - Mary Shelley.
A bit archaic and for some reason Van Helsing keeps talking German and French despite being Dutch, but all in all a nice experience.
Oscar Wilde is still alive! You can speak to him as I did atQuote:
Mm, I love Oscar Wilde. It's unfortunate he's not more widely read.
http://www.eliasforum.org/intro/site_features.html;
do a search to learn more.
Of course his physical body is dead,
but, his essence is not.
His essence is "Elias".
He has something very important to say,
just for you!!!
Also one of my favorite Victorian novels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
Though at the moment I'm reading: "American Gods" - Neil Gaiman.
Currently reading 'Faceless Killers' by Henning Mankell.
It's the 1st of a police novell wich features Kurt Wallander.
I'm halfway and must say it tastes like more.... :rolleyes:
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I started Harry POtter6, really good :smilie4:
On Writing - Stephen King
I haven't read Stephen King since I started my degree. (In fact, I haven't read many books that aren't on my reading list.) It's far less taxing. :happy:
Plato- The Republic
Demolition Angel - Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
The Camel Club - David Baldacci
Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
Miracle on the 17th Green - James Patterson
Pendragon: The Merchant of Death - D.J. MacHale
Comes A Horseman - Robert Liparulo
You reading ALL of them ? Your desk must be HUGE!!!Quote:
Demolition Angel - Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
The Camel Club - David Baldacci
Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
Miracle on the 17th Green - James Patterson
Pendragon: The Merchant of Death - D.J. MacHale
Comes A Horseman - Robert Liparulo
Terry Pratchett-Discworld The Light Fantastic
Douglas Adams-Restaurant at the end of the Universe
I'm a fast reader. I have been wanting to read Douglas Adams books but my library only has The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfclaw
Currently reading? Well, The Fast & Simple Cookbook :featuring 100.000 menus, I have a big family party goin on tonight :D
Anyway, it's ridiculious, i thought it has 100k menus like it's said in the cover, but it/s only about 200 recipes :-/
The battle of Corrin (been reading it on and off for weeks, can't bring myself to read more than a few pages of this big steaming pile of shite at a time).
Les misérables dans l'Occident médiéval (Paupers in the medieval West)
Le roman de Renart (medieval french is teh hard)
:blushing: oh that's one of those books I recommended to someone... :blushing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Guillaume
Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell.
Fighting, raping and pillaging > book learnin'.
Words.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Lucky - Alice Seabold
In Siberia - Colin Thubron, about his travels through...Siberia.
I still haven't finished the latest Thomas Covenant. I'm just reading a few pages at a time and not really getting into it in any big heavy way.