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What are you reading Chapter 4
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A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
weird, funny read about a underemployed graduate student who still lives with his mother in New Orleans. Doesn't want to work, so takes bottom of the barrel low pay jobs. Writes journals full of wierd political ideas and causes mass disturbance where ever he goes. The people around him are equally crazy. Fast read.
weird, funny read about a underemployed graduate student who still lives with his mother in New Orleans. Doesn't want to work, so takes bottom of the barrel low pay jobs. Writes journals full of wierd political ideas and causes mass disturbance where ever he goes. The people around him are equally crazy. Fast read.
Man, having lived in new orleans for almost a decade (before and after Katrina), Toole gets the vibe of the insane city down pat and it is Very funny! He is actually very accurate especially in the physical layout of the city, etc. At the top of my N.O. read list along with Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors (a masterpiece).
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I enjoyed the audiobook of THE ROAD very much and certainly very,very much more than the film adaptation(which wasn`t terrible,imho).
Known Space is a great series.
Niven set himself apart with those books.
I don't read much anymore honestly; the last full book I read was Life of Pi, also for school. I have shelves of classics that I always meant to read and just never got around to, all of the Lord of the Rings, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn...I wish I had the time.
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I read bios of presidents for a different view on history. My favorite is Lyndon Johnson, Master of the Senate. Man, I think that guy probably had nude photos of me with hookers in his files, and I wasn't born until '65.
Still chompin' through all of the Ender's Game Universe books. Finished with Bean's story (as much as published, there's yet one more book that hasn't been published yet!), and have just finished Ender In Exile. I'm reading them all in chronological order, and not publication date order. Seems a smart move! I had a friend tell me he read the Ender Books first, and they weren't great he said. But I told him that the Bean books were amazing, and he should read them. Now, I can see that you almost NEED the Bean books to understand most of the references in the Ender books. So, basically, all these characters that he read about only in 1 or 2 chapters, I had been reading about for 4-5 books. It made me care about those people, and the references just made sense. So, if anyone else wants to read the series, I suggest chronological order!
As for Ender In Exile itself, thus far it was the weakest book overall. I liked it, but it doesn't have a consistent story. Not that it doesn't tell a story, but it's like a few novellas told right after each other that work together. I can see why it's needed to fill in the gaps, however, and I know that was the basic reason for the entire book as it was. Still got to read all the others though, it wasn't NEARLY that disappointing.
As for Ender In Exile itself, thus far it was the weakest book overall. I liked it, but it doesn't have a consistent story. Not that it doesn't tell a story, but it's like a few novellas told right after each other that work together. I can see why it's needed to fill in the gaps, however, and I know that was the basic reason for the entire book as it was. Still got to read all the others though, it wasn't NEARLY that disappointing.
+1 Known Space for sure!
I pretty much cut my sci-fi teeth on Bradbury and Niven. LN`s knowledge of science/physics makes his work that much more believable.
I pretty much cut my sci-fi teeth on Bradbury and Niven. LN`s knowledge of science/physics makes his work that much more believable.
In the "Reading as Work" thread I posted that I had a hard time with "A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. Someone else posted that they found it the easiest of his to read so I downloaded it ($0.99 - why not?) and have been reading it. Not difficult at all so far, really enjoying it. I remember, 25 years after I attempted it the great description of cricket bats on the playing fields as "the pick, pock, pack of the sounds of bats on balls like droplets from a fountain falling into a pool of water."
Just started my 2nd read of THE HANDMAID`S TALE by Margaret Atwood(on audioabook). I highly recommend this work to anyone. America becomes a right wing christian theocracy by means of violent revolution.
