NationStates Jolt Archive

i finished matt ridley's "genome"

it was fun

Alice 19th!!

I've been trying to get through Ray Kurzweils books but I dont read often I was reading the Crucible and the Aeand (Can't spell that) but I got bored.

the crucible was realy good

aeneid? well it was partially written as propagnanda for Augustus anyway

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Yeah it came off a little weird always talking about you shall give birth to romulus and he will bring about the rise of great rome and a man named Julius will lead it into prosperity or whatever. It read like a cheap ripoff of the Odyssey.

I like to indulge my inner nerd occasionally, so currently Im reading "Insurrection" by Thomas M. Reid.

Its the second installment of R.A Salvatore's "War of the Spider Queen".

Nerds ahoy!

The Battle of Milroy Station

I found it pretty interesting...it's about a mutated Confederate

Rich Wallace's "Wrestling Sturnbrige"

really short but really good

i knocked it out in less than a day.

I have the IQ of a little kid. I read a book called Soldier X. It was pretty good and desrptive and abou WW2.

I'm working through the collective works of Nietzsche at the moment, definately NOT light reading. :wink:

Just finished Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera." Amazing book.

Book of Illusions
Paul Auster

Marquez really must be the greatest living author, his books are really just beyond amazing.

Read The General in His Labyrinth and The Autumn of the Patriarch recently.

Books I've just read.

The Shrinking Man by Robert Matheson

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heilein

Non-Stop by Brian Alidiss


And I'm currently reading the collectes short stories of Poe and The Centuri Device by M John Harrison


*hangs head in shame for being an SF addict :oops: *


:EDIT: I've read 100 Years of Solitude, which I really liked, can anyone suggest other books by him to read?

:EDIT: I've read 100 Years of Solitude, which I really liked, can anyone suggest other books by him to read?New Granada gave you two of them, and I gave you another--it's the only one I've read, but I'll be sure to try 100 Years of Solitude.

Midnights's Children - Salman Rushdie

Dune was great. =) ... it was the only good dune book...but waay good.

I thought Tathea by Anne Perry (yes that is fantasy oddly enough...religious? it was wierd) was odd...deciding whether or not to read the seqeul.

JENNIFER GOVERNMENT!
:wink:

JENNIFER GOVERNMENT!
:wink:I was waiting for this answer to pop up--sort of like waiting for the person at the Kevin Smith Q&A sessions to ask "What's a Nubian?"

Children of Dune.

The Eyre Affair. most entertaining.

Mein Kampf

Not new, but, The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Wow quite a few Gabriel Garcia Marquez fans on here.

I've just started reading his autobiography Living to Tell the Tale.

My favourite of his are The General in His Labyrinth as Simon Bolivar is a personal and national hero, and News of a Kidnapping mainly because I was living there at the time and remember the story clearly.

Dipping into any one of his short story collections might be a good place to start for the uninitiated.

As a spin-off from this thread

Fave GGM Story (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=135328)

Just finished His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

Mein Kampf

No you haven't. Because if you had you would realise it is an asinine piece of shit.

Just finished His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

8)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I've read the first four and a half books in three weeks after swearing I'd never read them

Just finished His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

8)

Children's fiction I'm not ashamed to admit I've read.

Envy by sandra brown...rocks..

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. It's not a book you can charge through in one sitting...

Beating the Street

The Bible.

I'm A Stranger Here Myself...a book of stupid little musings on the oddities of American Life.

The Bible.

that too, I'm doing a read the bible in a year plan and I'm as far as Luke and Judges so far

The Bible.

that too, I'm doing a read the bible in a year plan and I'm as far as Luke and Judges so far
Also decided I must read it. To comment from a point of Knowledge. Only managed to get to Kings, hard slog.

The Bible.

that too, I'm doing a read the bible in a year plan and I'm as far as Luke and Judges so far
Also decided I must read it. To comment from a point of Knowledge. Only managed to get to Kings, hard slog.

yeah the OT is very hard going, I'm reading it in the New King James Version but I've also got a Study Bible which is handy, it makes points that never occur to you but are really obvious when they're made

Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos was a pretty entertaining read, if unusual.
I just re-read the first three Barsoom books, (Princess, The Gods, and Warlord of Mars, all be Edgar Rice Burroughs), having gone to the first to check references on Dejah Thoris and forgotten how much fun they were. They're all available free online at http://www.literature.org.
It's been a few months, but Walter M. Miller, Jr's book A Canticle for Leibowitz is an amazing book. Part two earned the rare honor of being a book I complete, then go back to the start and read the whole thing through again. Book three ain't amazing, but is still damn good.
Reading The Aenied in Latin (for school), and I have to say translations can't to justice to something written in Dactyllic Hexameter. Reading whenever Juno talks is an experience. Plus, fascinating mistranslations like describing the Trojan Horse as "The Deadly Pregnant Machine" serve for side entertainment.
Book-on-taped Vonnegut's God Bless you, Dr. Kevorkian, RAHeinlein's Starship Troopers, and Dostoyevsky's The Idiot.
Note that these are just the good ones I've read since Christmas. I've got a list of avoid at all cost books, too.

Starship Troopers

The Shrinking Man by Robert Matheson
If you haven't read his I Am Legend then do so immediately.