What are you reading?

[candle]

762 pages is not all that much, especially how Paolini writes.  I don't really understand why it was that big, though.  I could have written it in half the page count, and it would still be just as good.

 

[Spoo]

Plus, he ditched the trilogy plan and is going on to write a fourth instead.  Kind of much to me.

 

[e]

Reading The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges. It rocks. The House of Asterion was fucking awesome.

Then on to Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz.

Oh and freaking Faerie Queene by Spenser, I guess...

 

[Mundane]

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

 

[Samhatake]

Gonna get Gears of War: Aspho Fields on October 29
:3
I got the hook-up, my uncle works at GameStop

 

[eharper256]

Currently Reading:
The Scrapped Princess novels (I know, they're light novels...meh...)

Just Red:
The Elminster Forgotten Realms Saga (Well, the first three books, anyway)
Fate/Stay Zero, first book (the online translations by Baka Tsuki)

Just before that:
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks

Yeah, its all Fantasy or Sci-Fi or Anime. So sue me. :tongue: There's a reason I wrote my dissertation on fantasy literature after all.

 

[candle]

Yay, I finally finished Atlas Shrugged after 25 days.  1069 pages in 25 days seems a little slow for me (I normally read about 100 pages a day), but this book was tough to get into and had a few very long monologues in it (one lasted for more than 50 pages).  Now I'm on to Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.

 

[e]

Eh, Atlas Shrugged...I'm not too keen on Objectivism and that kind of shit philosophy.

 

[So fist]

The Essence of Christianity, Ludwig Feuerbach, translated by George Eliot as part of my twenty page grad school paper.

 

[JD_Slasha]

Much Ado about nuthin'.

I actually really enjoyed it.

 

[Despain]

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaked lunch

 

[djzalzer]

Yay, I finally finished Atlas Shrugged after 25 days.  1069 pages in 25 days seems a little slow for me (I normally read about 100 pages a day), but this book was tough to get into and had a few very long monologues in it (one lasted for more than 50 pages).  Now I'm on to Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.

What'd you think of it?

I thought it was excellent except for Galt's speech, which I still haven't read (just skipped it and went to the conclusion).

I was too politically affected by it though.  I need to go read something socialist.

Suggestions, anyone?

 

[candle]

I agree that it was very good.  I just ended up skim through most of his speech, especially after I learned it was almost all of that chapter.

 

[Spoo]

Now I'm on to Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.

I read this about a year or so ago and I enjoyed it.  I still need to watch the movie, though...

 

[skirtboy]

I just started reading the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel. It's quite different to see the story of prehistoric man, especially through the eyes of a Cro-Magnon girl raised by Neanderthals.

If you want to read something with strong Socialist themes, I would suggest Turtledove's Southern Victory series as it has many prominent Socialist characters, and you see many of the pivotal events of the timeline through their eyes.

 

[e]

Children of my life by Gabrielle Roy (in French, though). It's a lot less...kitsch?...than I thought it'd be, and it's incredibly beautiful, both in the way its written and in the way it handles the subject.

 

[JD_Slasha]

A Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Interesting to say the least.

 

[Seafoam]

IT by Stephen King
I've just started.

and I just finished The Thief of Always by Clive Barker ^_^

 

[kaze950]

I just finished reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I loved both, but liked the first one best (rofl @ the tea party scene)

 

[e]

Yeah, I re-read those two years ago (hadn't since childhood), and it's still awesome. Hell, it was awesomer.