Cryptonomicon is long. It gets boring at times, but it's pretty good overall. I didn't fully understand the ending, though...
------------------ Teal'c: "I am a traitor to no-one." Jaffa woman: "Except your god!" Teal'c: "False god! Dead false god..." -Stargate: SG-1, "Into the Fire"
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
What are we reading??
Well I've got a few books going at the moment...
I finally got the DS9 Compedium... which I am reading like any Trek book... opening at any page and reading.
As for paperbacks...
"Ice Henge" by Kim Stanley Robinson "An Anthropologist on Mars" by Oliver Sacks.
------------------ "I threw bitter tears at the ocean But all that came back was the tide..." 'I Will Not Forget You' Sarah McLachlan
I'm working on "Dune: House Atreides" and soon dito: House Harkonnen. Also, some shortstories by Mark Helprin. And a shitload of mixed but sorted marvel-comics my brother let's me borrow when I'm ill. Last night I read some oldies, when Magneto ripped the adamantium from poor Wolvie's skeleton. That was low.
I WAS thinking of loaning "Finnegans Wake" soon, but I can't decide whether I want to stay sane or not.
------------------ Don't forget, I faked all the orgasms.
Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :
Read Peter F. Hamilton's "The Reality Dysfunction" recently, story elements and characters make it a good read. Reading Iain M. Banks' "Against a Dark Background". Fairly good so far, but not the best of his sci-fi books. Just finished David Gemmell's "Druss the Legend", a good hearty fantasy novel.Lots of swords, lots of gore, lots of tavern wenches.
------------------ "Unleash the armageddon, So all the children go to heaven"
"Blue Skies Bring Tears"-The Smashing Pumpkins.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Well, most recently I read Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Freaky book.
------------------ "Incest! A game the whole family can play!" -Jonah Rapp
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
Mmmm, reading through Xenocide and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. Its a continuation of the Ender's Game story. Seems to be ok so far, not marvellous.... but even mediocre Card is worth reading
------------------ Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness. - anon (...and boy am I efficient...) A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbour�s throat without having his neighbour notice it. � Trygve Lie
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I haven't bought a new book since...um...uh....hmm. Oh! Since "Atlantis Found" by Clive Cussler.
I'm currently on the waiting list at the library for his new one, "Blue Gold." Other than that, I just reread all my old books & I'm STILL trudging through my collection of essays on "Sovereignity and Security in the Arctic."
------------------ "Deviance is not tailored suits or computer geeks/Pierced tongues or sex freaks/love for hire under dirty sheets/I have lived and breathed you...." --Vanessa Daou, "Deviate"
