Just finished Foundation, started Foundation And Empire. Next will be (what else) Second Foundation.
All 3 by Isaac Azimov.
All 3 by Isaac Azimov.
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What are you reading, Chapter 2
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The Passage is really quite good. I don't know what I was expecting when I first got it, but it definitely exceeded expectations.
Just got my copy of 'The Sirens of Titan' in the mail yesterday, starting on that at break time.
What I'm not reading...started but discarded as unworthy of my time:
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. Life is too short to be wasted reading surrealist fiction.
White Line Fever, the farmed-out "autobiography" of Lemmy. Stupid, awful. Don't expect anything from someone who can't write his own book.
A Very Irregular Head, the new biography of Syd Barrett. Feh, who cares?
Bottom line: Musicians are boring neurotics living out extended childhoods. I don't need to try reading any more of these. They're all essentially the same.
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. Life is too short to be wasted reading surrealist fiction.
White Line Fever, the farmed-out "autobiography" of Lemmy. Stupid, awful. Don't expect anything from someone who can't write his own book.
A Very Irregular Head, the new biography of Syd Barrett. Feh, who cares?
Bottom line: Musicians are boring neurotics living out extended childhoods. I don't need to try reading any more of these. They're all essentially the same.
Careful there, you'll start buying all the other books after you get through those
I read through the series a few years back and it is great fun!
I've read all 3 before. I'm rereading them mainly because my mom and my son got them for me at a used book sale at church. If I need more, the library's not far.Careful there, you'll start buying all the other books after you get through those
Also on my to-read list: Azimov's I, Robot, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, and 3 books by Ursula LeGuin.
Now that the academic quarter has restarted, Animal has picked up my holiday reading
great book, best presidential autobiography I've read
Rocannon's World, Orsinian Tales, City Of Illusions.
Good idea! I read it several times in the 70s, but I'm surely overdue by now.Thor said:
This is really interesting:
As a native Northern Californian descended from the state's pioneers, I find these histories fascinating. I lived for about fifteen years in San Francisco, and very much of my time was spent in Chinatown -- the real one, where I was the only non-Chinese literally as far as the eye could see. The streets, alleys and surviving buildings in this book are very vividly in my mind's eye as I read it, which adds to this fascinating account.
As a native Northern Californian descended from the state's pioneers, I find these histories fascinating. I lived for about fifteen years in San Francisco, and very much of my time was spent in Chinatown -- the real one, where I was the only non-Chinese literally as far as the eye could see. The streets, alleys and surviving buildings in this book are very vividly in my mind's eye as I read it, which adds to this fascinating account.
Just finished American Psycho, that book could go from painfully boring to explicitly and gruesomely awesome so fast it would make your head spin. Though I really, really, reeeaaaally had to force myself to read through some of the chapters, like the Whitney Houston and Huey Lewis bios, uuuuuuuugggghhhh
If you're into epics, you might be interested in either The New World or Genesis by Frederick Turner. They might be the only science fiction epics in existence, and they're both excellent. He was on a long-range planning committee for NASA for a while and he's a great poet.
I'm reading William Flesch's Comeuppance, which is about the evolution of altruism and literary fiction. I'm also trying to get into Ovid's Metamorphoses, but I'm just so damn lazy.
Great movie and great book, though once you finish I recommend searching out the made for t.v. movie of the same name which was closely supervised by King himslf, apparently he was none too fond of Kubricks interpretation and decided to redo it, following the book much closer, though it is 4.5 hours long and is a bit cheesy, its worth a watch if you do enjoy the book. As a sidenote I for one love Kubricks work, especially the Shining and don't think he butchered it nearly as much as King says, but since its his book I guess he wasn't happy until every detail was addressed.
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