Gen. Chat “What are you reading right now?” by Ryan the Lion Johnny Landmine 15 months ago on 03/22/12 Equipped: Devo Hat named "Effective non-streaking protection from Space Junk" aUdioquark said: Geez, considering they both have a billion characters doing a billion things, what would possess you to read both at once? (Don't mind me, I just adore Rainbow and can't fathom giving it less than complete attention. V. is good, too, though!)  aUdioquark 15 months ago on 03/22/12 Equipped: Banana named "practice." Because I've read Rainbow a bunch of times and I own two copies of V. and Mason and Dixon is on loan and Vineland is boring and I don't own Inherent Vice. PS: I don't know, I guess I can handle a lot Pynchon's Crazy Brain (TM) all at once. He writes like I think, but sometimes I just need to put. Rainbow. down.  ZonbiNoEega 15 months ago on 03/22/12 Equipped: Hide (Yellow Jacket) named "Rocket Dive" I read the Hunger Games book one today as I was completely out of the loop and decided on a whim to see the movie tonite. Guess I'll have to read the other two. Johnny Landmine 15 months ago on 03/22/12 Equipped: Devo Hat named "Effective non-streaking protection from Space Junk" Ohh, okay, sorry, forgot you'd read Rainbow before. In fact, I'm pretty sure we've talked about it before. Quite possibly in this thread. My bad. PS: Anyway, I just finished The Book of the New Sun at last, and since the bookstore had it in their English section, decided to jump right into Urth of the New Sun while the paint's still drying.  nategri 15 months ago on 03/22/12 Equipped: Clue Stick named "Some Sense" Halfway through What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer.
Pretty much want to live/work at the Stanford AI Lab in the sixties now.  Deathwing 15 months ago on 03/23/12 Equipped: Sword named "NEEDS MORE DRAGONS" I want to read Gene Wolf so bad! Johnny Landmine 15 months ago on 03/23/12 Equipped: Devo Hat named "Effective non-streaking protection from Space Junk" Deathwing said: Oh my Increate, Rob, read Book of the New Sun so I can talk to someone about it. Deathwing 15 months ago on 03/23/12 Equipped: Sword named "NEEDS MORE DRAGONS" Deal. I'll read it in the next month or so, now that I'm done freaking out over grad schools. I already know a ton about it and that it will probably be some of my favorite writing. No idea why it's taking me so long to start it.  umaburk 15 months ago on 03/23/12 Equipped: Fire Flower named "joe versus the volcano ... and the hurricane" Instruction manuals for cheap furniture. Deathwing 14 months ago on 03/27/12 Equipped: Sword named "NEEDS MORE DRAGONS" John. I started book one today. Johnny Landmine 14 months ago on 03/27/12 Equipped: Devo Hat named "Effective non-streaking protection from Space Junk" Yeeeaaahhhh
I remember the first chapter was a little disorienting, because it throws the reader right into the unfamiliar world and it takes a bit to acclimate to Severian's style of emphasis/narration (not to mention Wolfe's vocabulary), but it falls into place soon enough. Also, you don't need to stop to look up every archaic word you don't know - but I will probably do just that when I reread it. The appendix to book one is short and helpful for putting the vocabulary in context and cementing just what Wolfe is doing with the story; you can go ahead and read it whenever.  Dia 14 months ago on 03/28/12 Equipped: Radtaculous Glove of POWWWEER named "It helps with the DRILLBIT MANEUVER!" Recently started Perdido Street Station, at the insistence of my roommate and suggestion of a few other people. My first China Mieville - I'm really enjoying it so far!  Kerridwynne 14 months ago on 03/28/12 Equipped: Ticket for the Man Train named "I like trains." Jonci's insidious influence got me into Game of Thrones so I'm reading Clash of Kings now.  ANUSTART 14 months ago on 03/28/12 In the last week, I've read all three Hunger Games books, and the 4th and 5th Dresden Files books. Been doing a good about of reading, apparently.  Panzer Panda 14 months ago on 03/28/12 Equipped: Triforce Just finishing up Jump into Hell: German Paratroopers in World War 2. Yeah I know, I have strange taste in recreational reading.
 Eternal Drifter 14 months ago on 03/29/12 Equipped: Flux Capacitor named "Registered for use up to 1.2gigawaats." Just finished Game of Thrones, I know I'm behind.
Starting in on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter, from a recommendation from a coworker. Moderator Boudicca Says:   Kaito 14 months ago on 03/29/12 Equipped: Foreigner Belt... ROCK! named "Standing in the rain, with his head hung low..." reading Mistborn: The Final Empire.
Just finished books 1 and 2 of the Kingkiller Chronicles. The Name of the Wind and Wise Mans Fear.  Yvaine 14 months ago on 03/29/12 Equipped: Bento Box Just started Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars!  RogueSamus 14 months ago on 03/29/12 Equipped: Horse Weiner named "RonnyBojangles' Severed Raichu Dick" Deathwing said: oh god I read The Road on a recommendation and it's burned into my brain. so good, so horrifying. the things you put in your head are there forever Just finished The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles #1) by Patrick Rothfuss and am started on the second, The Wise Man's Fear. It's engaging but man, so much magiccolleges. I AM NEVER READING A BOOK WITH ANOTHER FUCKING MAGICAL COLLEGE AGAIN PS: and I gagged through Ready Player One but I thought it was nostalgia pandering drivel  Michi 14 months ago on 03/30/12 Equipped: Marble Pocky Recently finished Water for Elephants and I'm sad that apparently the film really wasn't good. The book reminds me of Moulin Rouge, with a super romanticized view of depression-era circus life. I really liked it.
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