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Just finished it, B. Excellent stuff. Read in SFX mag that it's a four parter - I hope that doesn't spoil the end for you.
The only problem that I have with Donaldsons work is that of the second reading. First time around it is just SOOOOO brilliant. Second time it's just "Get on with it - I know what happens next and I don't want to read 40 pages to get to the next part." But then I'm a much slower reader than most. Needless to say I haven't tried any of them a third time.
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Stillll reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.
Reading a Stephenson book is like reducing a set of encyclopediae into liquid form, and then slowly immersing yourself in it. Sometimes you feel like you can't breathe, but you're guaranteed to learn something new through the process... Quicksilver is awesome - can't wait to read the two sequels!
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Re-reading Timeline by Crichton again. Breezed through about 300 pages in the last couple of days. One of the few authors I genuinely enjoy re-reading.
Finally gave up on the Dark Tower series. Maybe I'll try it again at some point in the future but not now.
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Andromeda Strain is a big favorite of mine. Both book and movie. The Great Train Robbery is another one of Crichton's best.
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Any fellow Canadians out there who caught CBC's list of "Canada Reads" books? The top 5 came out this morning, but I missed the program.
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quote:Originally posted by Owl Lad: Any fellow Canadians out there who caught CBC's list of "Canada Reads" books? The top 5 came out this morning, but I missed the program.
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen Rockbound by Frank Parker Day Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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I am reading Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond .
Its a big book, but that reading is fascianting. He examines lots of past societies and modern ones and with enviromental factors and relations with neighboring societies . A great read...
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I recently finished Gene Wolfe's "The Knight" and am now reading the second volume "The Wizard." They're well written, but don't grab me as much as I expected having read all the adulatory reviews.
In between, I read Michael Creighton's "The State of Fear." Not a good book - I'm sorry I wasted my time. He spends most of the book proferring his own political agenda and neglects those little things that make a novel readable - like character development. Although I generally enjoy him for a quick non-challenging read, "The State of Fear" didn't do it for me.
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I just finished a book titled GLORIANA, OR THE UNFULFILLED QUEEN by Michael Moorcock. It's the first book of his that I've read.
It's a dark fantasy, I guess, though the fantasy is really just around the edges... The title character is patterned after Elizabeth I of England.
It's an erotic book, in a way... with an ending that might piss a lot of folks (particulary women) off... though it's also an inevitable ending, I felt.
The book features a character, called Quire, who is fascinating. He'd be a great prototype for an adversary in comics.
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Who'd have thought that ROCKBOUND would win the Canada Reads competition? I think it was resurrected just for the contest. A novel that the residents of the island it was based on described as not representative of their way of life. Haven't read it, though, so I'm just being grumpy.
I've just started, finally, The Life of Pi. Promising!
Also reading The Logogryph, a book about imaginary books. Sort of like Calvino or Borges.
Plodding through The Luminous Ground by Christopher Alexander - the fourth volume in a series "The Nature of Order" on creating living structures - buildings, gardens, ornaments which become alive and express our connectedness to the universe. It may sound wacky, but it's a serious and idea-dense work by a professor of architecture at UC Berkely.
quote:Originally posted by Fat Cramer: I've just started, finally, The Life of Pi. Promising!
It's a wonderful book. Please do tell us what you think about it. I loved the ending...
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