| youngminii Australia. May 31 2012 15:32. Posts 7347 | Profile Blog # |
Have not read a book in years, the last being Catching Fire (Mockingjay wasn't released at the time).
Decided to start reading a book, and without being able to decide whether to finally finish The Hunger Games series, or read Game of Thrones, I went with the latter.
So yep, reading A Clash of Kings now. |
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| ZapRoffo United States. June 03 2012 14:18. Posts 4598 | Profile Blog # |
I've started re-reading The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon. It entered my mind when Pete Campbell was reading it in Mad Men, but what more specifically inspired me to re-read was just that Mad Men was taking place at the time it came out and the book to me seems like an essential piece capturing some element of that time that I'm trying to flesh out in my mind. Like they can lend perspective to each other for me, especially since looking back--even though I first read it maybe 3 years ago at most--it had dissolved into a whirlwind in my mind, I only really remembered the one main theme of the conspiracy and imagination interplay, and that I thought the play part was a riot.
Most recently finished newly read thing was A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. which I mostly enjoyed but it felt slightly like a chore in parts of it, and a little overly alarmist (doesn't translate as well into the sophisticatedness of what we perceive as threats in modern times I guess). I liked the storytelling flair, it was more interestingly presented than the vast majority of science fiction.
Also recently finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets which I'm convinced now is the best of them, it's such a well-paced and exciting mystery without really any notably glaring flaws or holes, and has great whimsy and goofiness at the same time.Last edit: 2012-06-03 14:39:10 |
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| Cambium Japan. June 03 2012 23:39. Posts 15621 | Profile Blog # |
On May 09 2012 13:32 Cambium wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Just finished:![[image loading]](http://blog.mydot.com/image.axd?picture=2012%2F3%2FSuzanneCollinsBooks2.jpg) Read this in five days after watching the movie. It was a surprisingly good read; book three was lacking, but it wasn't terrible. The writing style sucked, there was almost no character development, and the plot was linear; but overall, it was fun and enjoyable. Reading:![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/A_Dance_With_Dragons_US.jpg) I've been putting this off since last year hoping that I would catch a paperback version, but I finally gave up and started reading it. So far so good, a lot more engaging than book four to say the least. Next up:![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Inheritance2011.JPG/200px-Inheritance2011.JPG) It's either going to be this, Ready Player One or 1Q84, but this book won out, and the others have to wait.
Just finished:
This was a surprisingly good read after great disappointment with Feast. A lot of actions and changes in and outside of the Westeros. This is probably my favourite after Clash.
Reading:
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Next up:
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| Epx Armenia. June 03 2012 23:41. Posts 154 | Profile # | |
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| Cambium Japan. June 03 2012 23:44. Posts 15621 | Profile Blog # |
On May 31 2012 15:32 youngminii wrote:
Have not read a book in years, the last being Catching Fire (Mockingjay wasn't released at the time).
Decided to start reading a book, and without being able to decide whether to finally finish The Hunger Games series, or read Game of Thrones, I went with the latter.
So yep, reading A Clash of Kings now.
Mockingjay is probably the worst of the three, but it does tie up all/most of the loose ends.
A Clash of Kings is a great book. |
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| Creach United States. June 04 2012 06:58. Posts 4 | Profile # |
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Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome book, and I dont read. |
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| JesusHadAegis Australia. June 04 2012 09:28. Posts 11 | Profile # | |
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| MurdockA Argentina. June 04 2012 10:26. Posts 22 | Profile # |
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Great Book |
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 {CC}StealthBlue United States. June 08 2012 14:35. Posts 15290 | Profile Blog # | |
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| Ramong Denmark. June 09 2012 01:33. Posts 942 | Profile # | |
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| DawN883 Sweden. June 09 2012 01:39. Posts 553 | Profile # |
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Decided to read it after I heard Ray Bradbury diedLast edit: 2012-06-09 01:40:02 |
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| EdaPoe Netherlands. June 09 2012 01:41. Posts 74 | Profile # |
Just finished and I recommend it to whoever is interested in the subject
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Next I am probably going to start
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| Sgany United Kingdom. June 09 2012 09:13. Posts 646 | Profile Blog # |
Steve Job's Autobiography, and Warren Buffet's autobiography so far.
Would anyone be able to comment on the book Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky?
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| Brainsurgeon Sweden. June 09 2012 09:42. Posts 312 | Profile Blog # | |
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| In)Spire United States. June 09 2012 14:37. Posts 1313 | Profile Blog # |
I'm planning on doing some summer reading! Can anyone recommend books that make you think?
Currently I have bought: 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Utopia, Slaughterhouse-Five. Anything else yall think is worth the time? |
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| elt Thailand. June 09 2012 15:19. Posts 466 | Profile # |
On June 09 2012 14:37 In)Spire wrote:
I'm planning on doing some summer reading! Can anyone recommend books that make you think?
Currently I have bought: 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Utopia, Slaughterhouse-Five. Anything else yall think is worth the time?
Brave New World by Huxley and the less well known We by Yevgeny Zamyatin goes together well with 1984. People throw in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood into the mix as well, but personally I didn't enjoy it as much. Might have been to do with the fact that I had to do it for IB, while the others I read out of choice.
Personally reading:
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Quirky and amusing behavioural economics book. Plus it was only USD9.88 on Amazon at release which makes me better disposed towards it as well. |
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| {CC}StealthBlue United States. June 17 2012 07:18. Posts 15290 | Profile Blog # |
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Anyone read his Night Dawn Series, any good? |
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| Salteador Neo Andorra. June 17 2012 15:54. Posts 3610 | Profile # |
I did try to read Pandora's Star and stopped midway, not my kind of thing.
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| Ephemerality United States. June 17 2012 16:10. Posts 145 | Profile Blog # |
I've tried to convince myself to read something other than sci fi/fantasy with my own time but so far that really hasn't happened...
Recently I've been re-reading the Wheel of Time series to gear up for the release of the final novel which will hopefully happen this fall :D
On Monday I'm picking up Princeps by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. who writes a ton of novels in really in depth worlds. If you haven't read The Magic of Recluce you should at least try it, it's probably one of my all time favorite books. His books don't have as much action as others but, like I said, really go into the details of how magic might effect a world. |
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| Solarized United States. June 17 2012 16:36. Posts 11 | Profile # |
On June 09 2012 14:37 In)Spire wrote:
I'm planning on doing some summer reading! Can anyone recommend books that make you think?
Currently I have bought: 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Utopia, Slaughterhouse-Five. Anything else yall think is worth the time?
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a fun satire about middle-class America in the 1950s.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster is a collection of three "detective" novellas based around general questions of identity and the "realness" of reality (or what we call "reality").
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki is about a young Japanese man who moves to Tokyo to study at the Imperial University and his subsequent unexpected growth as a person.
Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow investigates an aristocrat's agonizing, destructive passion towards a woman and the effects of Westernization within 20th century Japan.
(On a more personal note, I'm interested in which translation you have of Crime and Punishment).
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