I don’t think advanced math really started creeping in until Newton. Not coincidentally, that’s also when we really started understanding the machinery of the universe.
I ordered a couple autobiographies for when I’m done with Blood Meridian. Still Me by Christopher Reeve, and Crazy From the Heat by David Lee Roth. Both people I look up to, for somewhat different reasons.
Last books I read were Fables Vol. 2 and Barefoot Gen Vol. 7.
Last actual novels I read are as follows, each were pretty good:
Expendable- James Allen Gardner: All the really dangerous missions in space exploration are left to the Explorers, it’s ranks are comprised of people with deformities because, hey, no one cares about the uglies. Festina Ramos is the best in her field and is given an escort mission to a planet no Explorer has returned from. After landing, she begins to discover what the real purposes of the planet are for.
Dreaming Pachinko- Issac Adamson: Billy Chaka is a magazine reporter from Cleveland on assignment in Tokyo doing a story on a washed up pop star. During the interview, he witnesses a woman having a seizure and once he gets involved, he unwilling plays detective in a mystery that has him hallucinating and getting into some ancient Japanese history.
Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny- Garrison Keillor: Character from the Prairie Home Companion radio show gets his own novel. Guy makes a deal with a woman to sell a new form of weight loss pills; secret, it’s tapeworms. After taking a sample, Guy looks healthier and gets plenty of attention from the young ladies, but some people are trying to get in on the deal. Sultry and ridiculous at the same time.
Right now I’m running through some Shakespeare plays. I realy don’t like most, but some (like Othello and McBeth) are solid.
I’m about 5% into Atlas Shrugged. It’s kinda boring so far.
I really really need to read the Tempest one of these days.
Spoiler: you’re not missing much.
Anyone got a suggestion for me? I finished the Bond books but I just couldn’t stay interested in the Bourne series.
^^ Agatha Christie?
Tomatoland- An excellent book about how manufactured our food is and how buying fresh market goods is much healthier for you even if its more expensive.
[SIZE=3]Coming Apart: The State of White America,1960-2010- An excellent book that talks about how the USA is becoming less racist but at the same time, becoming more classicist. Eventually, the rich White Guy will have more in common with his Rich Black or Asian Neighbor than the poor White Guy down the Street.[/SIZE]
I am currently reading “Into thin Air” and House of Night".
Currently reading: Neuromancer. :tup:
Great ideas, but I think Gibson’s writing is a bit clunky. It fits the sci-fi style (hell, it practically DEFINED it), but I can’t get my head around the way some of his stuff is worded. Great sci-fi ideas for it’s time though.
Next up, going back to Neal Stephenson with The Baroque Cycle. But first I’m gonna try out another Sprawl book by Gibson, just in case I’m prematurely judging his writing. Probably another one that’s not set within The Sprawl also just to be sure. I’m rather sure I’m just a bit too biased towards Stephenson’s style, though. :tup:
MAH NIGGA
I’ve seriously read this book at least 4, maybe 5 times now. It’s amazing and gets a little better each time I revisit it.
The 2nd best of the Sprawl trilogy is Count Zero, I used to think it was Mona Lisa Overdrive, but it’s too Stephen Kingish in it’s character development, i.e. here is some characters for this chapter, here is some other characters in this chapter, in the end they all meet up, etc.
You will flip your shit when they show you how hood and voodoo things get in the ghetto in Count Zero.
I have an incredible science fiction anthology I got for school years ago but I can’t find it or an image of it right now, will post later, it has essays by Freud and Jung and shit in it, it’s awesome.
I’ve read Dune up to the 5th or 6th one, was awesome but I got bogged down after awhile. Almost finished Red Mars, but it got too boring at the end, even though I own the whole trilogy.
Yeah, I’m not too familiar with Sci-fi very much because I was only recently introduced to the genre via Hitchiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, then Ender’s Game and then I found Stephenson and fell in complete blust*.
*A blissful state of lust. Seriously, that man’s writing is sexual to me. Much homo. :tup:
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Picked this up yesterday. Sounds ultra trashy and melodramatic. I have been wanting to see the Joan Crawford adaptation for years now, but not an easy one to find on R2.
Over the summer I decided to kick my reading tastes up the arse and read top tier literature almost exclusively:
*Crime and Punishment *Fyodor Dostoevsky
*Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - *James Joyce, currently 150 pages into *Ulysses *
*Lolita - *Vladimir Nabakov
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
*A Farewell to Arms *- Ernest Hemmingway
I also read a bunch of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald and a ton of other short stories. Watched Hamlet and Waiting For Godot, both god tier. Favourite thing I’ve read this year is probably Dubliners.
I’ve always enjoyed reading but was never good about finishing them in good time (sometimes at all). I’m going to try reading at the lake at least once per week.
currently reading:
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In my own small way, I like to occasionally ape Joyce, by making drunken forum posts 
By the way everyone should check out The White HOtel by DM Thomas. It is the most amazing, provocative and powerful book that I have ever read. It isn’t that well known but it is seriously amazing.
Just finished Stephenson’s Reamde last week, I enjoyed it. I don’t really know how to break down and really critique books. Reamde was good though, so many characters all of them were good, some of them were archetypical. But the plot was what kept the book interesting to me, the way the main characters trotted the globe in the most interesting ways was really pretty cool, and the final confrontation just: :tup:
I had Neuromancer out from the library for a month but I couldn’t get to it because Reamde was so thick and I had school stuff goin on.
Just started getting into Neil Gaiman’s non-graphic novels after being nagged by a friend. Finished ‘the Absolute Death’ and starting ‘American Gods’
I also read ‘Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter’ for S&Gs while on a business trip.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed that book when I didn’t take it seriously.