Reading List Thread

[QRV]

Right now I'm reading a bunch of books on linguistics and history of the Spanish language for a schoolwork which I simply do not understand. After i'm done with the semester I think I'll start either with Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, or with George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows.

 

[Kovenant84]

Right now I'm reading a bunch of books on linguistics and history of the Spanish language for a schoolwork which I simply do not understand. After i'm done with the semester I think I'll start either with Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, or with George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows.

Either of those is very good. If you've already read the other Martin books (presumably you have), how have you not caved and read Feast for Crows yet?

I'm currently still working through the complete works of Raymond Feist, who's basically a fun read for me because each of his trilogies is obviously just a transcribed D&D game.

~kov.

 

[QRV]

Either of those is very good. If you've already read the other Martin books (presumably you have), how have you not caved and read Feast for Crows yet?

The Martin books are long reads which I really enjoy when I am completely free and disocuppied. I could have finished them long ago, but I like to take some space between reads on this kind of books. Gives them a better flavor.

 

[La Rocque]

'The People Look Like Flowers at Last '(New Poems) by Charles Bukowski
Don't understand how the above could be new poems as Bukowski died in 1994?

@Marduk, ever cross paths with Bukowski?

 

[marduk1507]

@Marduk, ever cross paths with Bukowski?

Yes, yes, I have. I havent really checked any of his poems though. Ive read All the Assholes in the World and Mine, Factotum and Hollywood. One from each decade, except the 90s. Maybe Ill read more in the future, thanks for the reminder.

BTW. Like your sig, one of my favourite lines from Eliot.

 

[La Rocque]

^ Thanks

I discovered Bukowski from the movie 'Barfly' he wrote it. Great movie

Now reading:
'Joan'
the Mysterious Life of the Heretic who became a Saint
by Donald Spoto

Joan: I hear voices telling me what to do, They come from God.
Robert: They come from your imagination.
Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.
... George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan(1923)

On a personal note, I attended St. Joan of Arc grade school -

 

[La Rocque]

'Auschwitz Report' by Primo Levi

 

[QRV]

I've just finished A Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin

I'm a bit disappointed. The other books have been quite a ride but this one is slow and boring at parts. I'm not saying it's a bad book, only it could have been way shorter without losing anything essential. Oh, well, I only hope A Dance with Dragons does better.

 

[Dark_Silence]

I've just finished A Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin

I'm a bit disappointed. The other books have been quite a ride but this one is slow and boring at parts. I'm not saying it's a bad book, only it could have been way shorter without losing anything essential. Oh, well, I only hope A Dance with Dragons does better.

i thought exactly the same... i still have to finish the half of it... even though i started to read it like one year ago... and now i forgot most of what happened in the first half of the book

 

[Salamurhaaja]

NR: William King - Gotrek & Felix The First Omnibus - Trollslayer
NR: Various - Tales Of The Old World
(Warhammer novel collections, getting in the mood for WAR)
NR: Trudi Canavan - The High Lord (Book 3 of The Black Magician Trilogy)

Yep, 3 at the same time, actually it could be more but I haven't touched
the others for a while. I need variation.


NP: Paradise Lost - The Enemy
(I'm quite liking this new album, reminds me of Draconian Times in a non-bad
way. Of course this is my first listen.)

 

[QRV]

Finished with Debout les morts, by Fred Vargas (I think it was translated to English as The Three Evangelists, for some reason).

I'm in love with this woman. That was the best police thriller I've read in a long, long time. Gotta check out more of her books.

 

[marduk1507]

Got Wintersmith from Pratchett. Hillarious as usual.

 

[Villain]

I've been reading Hiroki Endo's manga-masterpiece Eden - It's an Endless World recently. And let me tell you, it's quite possibly the best manga ever written.

Eden is thought-provoking, violent and emotionally exhausting post-apocalyptic cyberpunk-thriller and just blows away such more popular titles as Akira and Ghost in the Shell with its gripping storytelling, deep characters and incredibly realistic artwork.

If you don't believe me, read some other opinions:

http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/manga/manga.php?manga_view=2668
http://www.manganews.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2705

If you are going to read only one manga in your lifetime, you should choose Eden.

-Villain

 

[La Rocque]

Just finished,
'The Power and the Glory', inside the dark heart of John Paul ll's Vatican
By David Yallop
Interesting stuff ... allowed Roberto Calvi, head of the Banco Ambrosiano, and others who came after him to make use of the Vatican Banks for money laundering, the failure to address the child abuse crisis that came to light in the 1980s, the rise of Opus Dei
BTW, I like John Paul

Just picked up the graphic novel, 'Tricked' by Alex Robinson

 

[Salamurhaaja]

Lovely, Amazon delivered my new book in 2 days, that is damn impressive.
In other words, now reading:

Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill - Confessions Of A B Movie Actor
Saw Bruce in an interview a month or so back and he mentioned the book,
so of course I had to get it as I'm a huge Campbell fan since the times of
Evil Dead I & II, I was about 14 when I saw them

 

[hyena]

Interesting stuff ... allowed Roberto Calvi, head of the Banco Ambrosiano, and others who came after him to make use of the Vatican Banks for money laundering

It's interesting how mr. Yallop and you can be so definitive on the subject, while our courts are still completely baffled by what happened, and it's been ages since Calvi's death.

 

[Villain]

It's interesting how mr. Yallop and you can be so definitive on the subject, while our courts are still completely baffled by what happened, and it's been ages since Calvi's death.

Which could of course tell more about the state of the Italian courts than of anything else. I'm certainly no expert, but the handling of the Berlusconi-issue made me lose all respect in Italian justice system - I can only hope it was just a solitary example and the whole system is not horribly corrupt.

-Villain

 

[hyena]

Which could of course tell more about the state of the Italian courts than of anything else. I'm certainly no expert, but the handling of the Berlusconi-issue made me lose all respect in Italian justice system - I can only hope it was just a solitary example and the whole system is not horribly corrupt.

-Villain

I am not a magistrate nor a lawyer, but I am under the impression that the courts in the country are not corrupt in general. They are abysmally slow, but it's not the same thing.

I don't know what kind of coverage of the Berlusconi trials was given in other countries, but I have one point to make. If our courts are corrupt and in league with the mafia, why is it that major mafia bosses these days are being caught, sentenced to several lives in prison, and actually do their time?

There are so many people who claim that politicians get to walk free because they are in league with organized crime, but then the criminals are locked up. If I was a bigshot in the mafia, I would instantly stop favoring people who have me captured and imprisoned in return. So I fail to see how Andreotti, Berlusconi and Previti were acquitted because of supposedly being friends with the likes of Badalamenti, Riina and Provenzano, yet Riina has been in jail since I believe 1993, Provenzano since last spring, and Badalamenti of all things is in prison in America. Either the whole scene of mafia CEOs is really stupid, or there is something sorely wrong in the idea of corruption.

 

[Villain]

Ah, but according to the coverage I read about the Berlusconi-case, he got free because he used his political / economic power to make it impossible for him to get convicted. This would be much worse corruption than any mafia-connections, in my eyes at least - politicians rising above the justice system.

-Villain

 

[Siren]

Sorry to interrupt, but i recently read Rudyard Kipling's "The finest story in the world". It's quite short and interesting, it's been a while since a book caught my attention. I guess the fact that i had to kill 4 hours on a boat trip helped.

Now i'm tempted to open Shakespeare's Macbeth, which has been lying around for centuries (har har). From what i remember the language is a bit intimidating, but i thought to refresh a bit on it since i'll be watching it in the theatre soon.