Ah I see, thanks Wings.

I'm currently reading Discworld books. I started with The Colour of Magic which I thought to be very enjoyable, then moved onto Going Postal. Going Postal is now one of my favourite books and I cannot recommend it to people enough.

I'm currently reading the sequel to Going Postal, Making Money. I don't think it's as good so far, but I still have a considerable amount of the book left to read. I love the idea that the mint runs at a loss.

The next book I'm going to read is The Light Fantastic.

The only issue of sequence is the the world evolves across the series as much as the characters do, at a rate that is rapidly speeding up. Ankh-Morpork is currently barrelling into an industrial revolution at an alarming rate, going from dark-ages-type fantasy to modernity in what can't be much more than twenty years in-universe. So real-time which publishing, really.

It has a few clever bits and taught me a lot about economy, but I'd probably rate it as one of the weakest books alongside the first three four Rincewind titles and Equal Rites.

The villain was seriously pathetic, nowhere near as good as Reacher Gilt.

I am reading Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. He is still the most brilliant author I have ever read.

I've never read an author.

When referring to an author's work in a general sense it is permissible to say you have read the author.

Permissible or not, it's still a rather odd way of wording that.

Considering an author puts their heart and soul into the piece, it makes sense. Reading a man's story is like peering into the man himself. Much like music when you listen to a certain group. If that all made sense, lol.

I recently read Private by James Patterson. Its quite a good book, although there is a romantic background story that really could have been avoided. But the beauty of the book is that it tells at least three diffrent stories at the same time, without any difficulties. Also, on a side note, I pre-ordered Inheritance, the next book in the Eragon series, which are all quite a good read.

I loathe the Inheritance Cycle.


Hmm. I really loved both Going Postal and Making Money, the latter at least as much.

Love or hate books, inheritance. I love them, though I acknowledge their similarity to Star Wars borders on plagiarism, lol. And Paolini has the pacing of a handicapped sloth bound in concrete platform shoes. lol

Though neither of those things are what I dislike about it.

I know. I felt like it took ages for a single event to happen, but I enjoy it, as it adds the feeling of immersion, as if time was passing normally.

It hurt Brisingr in particular, but I agree. I'm just happy Eragon doesnt spend all his time being kidnapped anymore. lol
And really? What is your beef with it then?

I just got the Necronomican in this beautiful leather bound tome. Fantastic!

It's fake, the real book has its' cover made from human flesh.

=/

Also...is Wuthering Heights a woman's book? Coz I bought that, along with A Tale of Two Cities and Frankenstein. I hope it's not because I sorta enjoyed the first two chapters.

Leather is not exclusively cowhide.

I want one that bites, like in army of darkness.

The Necronomicon isn't real…

As far as we know, anyway.*play twilight zone music, enter Rod Serling and begin opening monologue about the necronomicon*

?????

My mother told me it's not a book for men to read....I disagree but I dunno if there is a gender specific reading demographic or not.

Only for trash.

Any books marketed exclusively for men or women aren't work your time. (Says the guy who watches shows for little girls)

The Bronte sisters wrote classics of literature.

I got some funny looks from my mom and sisters when I said I was reading Cold Comfort Farm. It was still really funny.

Well, if anyone cares, I read The Lost Swords series by Fred Saberhagen, which tells a tale that fits the feeling that you get from reading the title, about a year ago, and I think I'm going to read it again soon because it's a very intriguing story; also, I'll probably use it for my Outside Reading Project that I'm going to get in English class soon. :?

I'm reading Nemesis by Agatha Christie aloud to my brother. We're both fucking stumped.

I'm reading The Sending, which is the recently released sixth (and penultimate) book of Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles.

It's been a massive relief to find that the Mary Sue terribleness of book #5 was just a glitch and this one is better than ever. I'm about halfway through and thus far the book has been a rollercoaster ride of competing emotions, raised plot threads and me trying to remember who half of these characters are. The latter is what happens when I read (and occassionally re-read) a series over the course of about 16 years. Then, suddenly the plot takes a sudden swerve in to another direction and it looks like all the dangling questions aren't going to be resolved. It could easily have been frustrating but, thus far at least, it's taking me along with it.

There was about fourty or so minutes during testing where I had literally nothing to do so I read the only book in the Cognitive Neuroscience lab I could find. It was a children's textbook on Australia, Asia and Africa circa 1948. The bits on Australia were cool, though condenscending as hell, and whilst flicking through the Asia section I saw a full page spread of agriculture labourers from different countries looking sullen with the title 'ASIA IS THE HOME OF THE YELLOW RACE.'

That made it all worth it.

You must retrieve that book and scan every page!

"We need textbooks that don't refer to the civil rights movement as 'Trouble ahead'!"

Reading Catch-22 due to one of my favourite band's shared name with the book. Very good stuff.

Catch-22 is absolutely amazing. I need to read it again sometime.

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
 

I've just started reading Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishamel Reed.

I'm a third of the way through. It's a hilariously bizarre parody of Western mythology full of dumb cowpokes, capitalist ranchers, voodoo cowboy heroes and.. a native American Chief who flies a helicopter made from the refuse of ghost-towns, woven together with a plant called plastic.

Bear in mind that it's set in the 1880s and was published in 1969.

Yeah.

The Etymologicon. It's about the English language, in case you haven't guessed. It starts with a subject or a particular word and then just explains all the othe words it went into and why. It's a good trivia source, and I feel smarter just reading it. Things I have learnt across four pages:

1. The word 'gentle' comes from the word 'gentleman', not vice versa!
2. The word 'gentleman' actually comes from 'genos' as in 'genetics', used to mean 'well-bred'.
3. This is also the source of the word 'generous', which originally meant high-born people but later grew by association to mean people with enough to spare.
4. Robert Recorde invented the equals sign "=" simply becaue he didn't like having to write out 'is equal to' every calculation.
5. He chose two horizontal lines of clearly equal length, because it was the most equal thing he could think of.
6. Ironically, the gifted mathemetician late died in a debtors' prison, presumably meaning his accounting was somewhat poor.

Finally, fiiinaalllly started Discworld; The Colour of Magic. I love it to bits.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Fantastic writer, he says some brilliant things.

IRON WEST by Doug Tennape-

Oh wait I finished it. Cool 30$ book with less than one total page of dialog, Doug.

Now I'm reading Caiphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium. I don't like it as much as Ravenor, since each chapter is just "The day started out pretty average, and then something reasonably likely happened, and then I was worried, and then we won a battle." The liner notes are also annoying and distracting. Still an okay read, but Dan Abnett is a better writer.

Also, I got a book called An Incomplete Education for Christmas. It lets me be an expert on anything.

Reading And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer. It honestly reads like a clumsy fanfiction as done by a skilled and clever writer. Very, very funny but the allusions to space pot and uncountable Guide notes are a little off-putting.