Reading Suggestions?

[Ecthy]

Oerdin's pun

It's a club though, the legendary After Dark. Been in there. Have YOU?

[Lord Avalon]

Discworld

"I challenge you," said Hrun (the Barbarian), glaring at the brothers, "both at once."

Liett and Liartes exchanged looks. "You'll fight us both together?" said Liartes, a tall, wiry man with long black hair.

"Yah."

"That's pretty uneven odds, isn't it?"

"Yah. I outnumber you one to two."

- The Color of Magic



Luggage

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Oerdin's pun

It's a club though, the legendary After Dark. Been in there. Have YOU?

Unfortunately, no. My experience in the UK is limited to London and the area around Oxford.

Next time I'm in the UK though I will make a point of going to Reading and checking out the After Dark.

[Bkeela]

Now is the time to buy second hand Enid Blyton books, because they are being 'touched up' to please the politically correct generation.

[ajbera]

Science fiction: "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge, and "The Mote in God's Eye" by Niven & Pournelle.

[Tingkai]

For history, King Leopold's Ghosts by Adam Hothschild tells about the worst of colonial practicies when millions died, and about the crusaders who exposed the deeds. Puts Conrad's Heart of Darkness into perspective.

I'd also recommend the books "Salt" and "Cod," written by Mark Kurlansky. Excellent reads about the role these food items had in history and their effects on world history.

Fantasy, I'll second Zoid's recommendation of Guy Gavriel Kay. Also anything by Ursula Le Guin.

Alt history, try Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle. A truely great example of alternative history fiction. Extremely well written and thought out.

[Zoid]

Pratchett is indeed a riot, but lately he´s been rather boring. The last really good book he wrote was "The Truth"... But I reread "Pyramids" the other night and it was hilarious with the reluctant assasin/pharaoh and the worlds greatest mathematician/camel

[Lord Avalon]

Music with rocks in!
(From Soul Music)

[Jon Miller]

Small Gods

JM

[Nostromo]

Book Description
Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking, sadistic paradise - a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form - a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Entranced by a resolute Englishwoman whose capacity for debauchery knows no bounds, he capitulates to her every whim amid an ecstatic yet tormenting incursion of visions, scents, caresses, pleasures, horrors, and fantastic atrocities. The Torture Garden is exceptional for its detailed descriptions of sexual euphoria and exquisite torture, its political critique of government corruption and bureaucracy, and its revolutionary portrait of a woman - which challenges even contemporary models of feminine authority. This is one of the most truly original works ever imagined. Beyond providing richly poetic experience, it will stimulate anyone interested in the always-contemporary problem of the limits of experience and sensation. As part of the continuing struggle against censorship and especially self-censorship, it will remain a landmark in the fight against all that would suppress the creation of a far freer world. Written in 1899, this fabulously rare novel was once described as "the most sickening work of art of the 19th century."

[rah]

Fantasy

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.
Just finished it, (next book due in a week)

VERY entertaining. Out of the 9 or so books most of them are great reads. There was only one dog in the set so far. Plenty of action, a tortured hero, sex, and considerable humor. Sometimes predictable, but you still want to keep reading.

HIGHLY recommended.

[Jon Miller]

They were attrocious

JM

[our_man]

Re: Re: Reading Suggestions?

Originally posted by Zkribbler


BTW: If you haven't read Terry Prachett's "Disc World" series, then you are an uncircumsized Philistine.

Tried reading some Pratchett once. It was a Granny Weatherwax short story in a fantasy anthology. It was a terrible experience and despite Pratchett's veneration I have been reluctant to pick up his books since.

[FrustratedPoet]

I suggest they don't sell Steve Sidwell. To get rid of your best player before your first season in the Premiership even starts just seems nuts to me.

[Lorizael]

You're the third person to make that joke.