The Books/Reading Thread

[fates warning 666]

finished erikson's reaper's gale and i'm speechless as per usual. just supremely brilliant, other popular fantasy writers like martin are so stupendously inferior it's almost painful

 

[Pessimism]

That picture was awesome

 

[Death Aflame]

I've been really lazy with reading recently outside of the reading I have had to do for research papers.

Such books and sources include:

Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia by E.O.G. Turville-Petre

Various Icelandic Sagas:

Eyrbyggja Saga
Gisli Sursson's Saga

Eisenstein - The Film Sense and Film Form

'Murnau' by Lotte Eisner
+ too many Murnau related scholarly film articles

All this while I am still trying to finish The Fall of Hyperion in leisure. I can't wait till my free time is returned to me.

 

[Pessimism]

My copy of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones arrived; I will be starting it shortly

 

[skeptik]

Started reading Beowulf on the terlet.

 

[Ender Rises]

Just finished Ender's Shadow again. That book gets better and better every time I read it.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

That is indeed a fucking great book.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

just finished 'the satanic scriptures' peter gilmore

 

[fates warning 666]

My copy of George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones arrived; I will be starting it shortly

oooooooooooooooooooverrated

like moreso than harry potter

 

[Vimana]

I'm reading Slam in English. Ugh, as if there aren't already a million different movies and books about kids getting out of the ghetto by getting onto a professional basketball team.

And A Midsummer Nights Dream. I like it a lot more than Romeo and Juliet.

 

[cookiecutter]

I'm reading Slam in English.

 

[fates warning 666]

And A Midsummer Nights Dream. I like it a lot more than Romeo and Juliet.

nahhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Ender Rises]

^Yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Unless of course it's a shitty version of the show like I saw last weekend at the Junior College Theatre Festival. God damn horrible.

 

[Death Aflame]

Well I finally finished Simmons 'The Fall of Hyperion' a couple of weeks ago. Overall, it was a good conclusion to the story brilliantly set up in Hyperion. On the down side, it still left far too many mysteries unraveled. For instance, the true nature of the Shrike or the Time Tombs is never revealed. Supposedly these questions are answered in Endymion and The Rise of Endymion but I have no intention of reading those any time soon.

Now I am onto another Simmons Scifi work Ilium which is a a retelling of the classic Iliad only set on Mars, with a whole techno-pantheon in addition to containing Shakespearian as well as Proustian literary shades (I am no classic literature specialist, but this is a good thing, so I have heard). Hopefully its a good read. After this 'series' (Of which Olympos is the second and final book) I think I will either move onto Zelazny's Lord of Light or abandon scifi altogether (for now at least) for something either more classic or contemporary.

 

[Matt]

Now I am onto another Simmons Scifi work Ilium which is a a retelling of the classic Iliad only set on Mars, with a whole techno-pantheon in addition to containing Shakespearian as well as Proustian literary shades (I am no classic literature specialist, but this is a good thing, so I have heard). Hopefully its a good read. After this 'series' (Of which Olympos is the second and final book) I think I will either move onto Zelazny's Lord of Light or abandon scifi altogether (for now at least) for something either more classic or contemporary.

I read Ilium. I was not impressed at all. I, like you, thought it would be excellent.

 

[Alter]

I am reading The Third Policeman, an interesting take on the idea of reality and science.

 

[llamaking]

the zombie survival guide - max brooks.

funny, as me and my friends have watched many zombie movies of late, 28 weeks/days, I am legend (technically vampires tho right?).

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

funny, as me and my friends have watched many zombie movies of late, 28 weeks/days, I am legend (technically vampires tho right?).

No sort of like a zombie/vampire mash-up.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm about to start Apuleius' The Golden Ass as the first book in my Spring Honors course.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I got the newest Michael Crichton book for Christmas, entitled Next. Crichton is for some reason one of the only authors I actually care about reading...I dunno. But anyway I'm hoping it rules as much as The Andromeda Strain, Prey, and Sphere.