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Originally posted by Tuberski
I just started reading Dies the Fire by S. M. Sterling.
I just started reading Dies the Fire by S. M. Sterling.
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"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal. -
I listened to 'Walk The Dinosaur' a few days ago.Originally posted by Zkribbler
Great book...now it's time for "Walking the Dog."
It's the first of Mosley's 'Socrates' books I've read- all the others of is I've read were Easy Rawlins stories or the blues novel, 'R.L.'s Dream' .
I bought the special slipcase edition when it came out years back, because I'd enjoyed the series so much. It's rare for a graphic novel to have so much depth both in terms of literary references and internal narrative and visual richness- with visual puns complementing and enhancing the script.Just finished "the Watchmen" graphic novel
Can't wait for Hollywood to turn it into yet another crap version of an Alan Moore work. I recall back when the industry buzz was about getting Schwarzenegger to play Dr. Manhattan....Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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I'm reading Cambodia: 1975 - 1982 by Michael Vickery and the journal, Socialism and Liberation's special edition "China: Revolution and Counter-Revolution. The first is really quite fascinating. The second is quite disappointing, though I am learning some useful fact from it.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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I'm going to read Molière's Tartuffe along the way, seeing I will probably not/never see the play anyway, and then El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (don't know the English title) by García Márquez...
Short booklets - having exams
"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - SenecaComment
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The Savage Wars of Peace By Max Boot.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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"A Wilderness so Immense:The Lousiana Purchase and the Destiny of America" by Jon Kukla.
Maria Luisa of Parma - I had NO idea
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Just finished:
Michael Connelly - Bloodwork
Now reading:
Henning Mankell - FirewallLet us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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I love being beaten by women - LorizaelComment
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Who has read "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke?
It is a most enjoyable book about, among other things, the Restoration of English Magic.Comment
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I haveOriginally posted by Kuken
Who has read "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke?
It is a most enjoyable book about, among other things, the Restoration of English Magic..
It is one of my favorite books of all time. Clarke just imagines such an interesting and amazing historical world and the characters of Norrell and Strange are incredibly well done, as is the world of Fairie.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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I got bored with it, it never seemed to go anywhere. I only got maybe 100 pages into it though.Originally posted by Kuken
Who has read "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke?
It is a most enjoyable book about, among other things, the Restoration of English Magic.
Plus, Imran likes it, so that's two strike against it..
ACK!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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I'm half way into it (almost 400 pages) and I can't say a whole lot has happened so far, well much has happened but the plot hasn't gone far.. But I agree with Imran, I love the world and the characters.Comment
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What does Tuberski know anyway?
It also won the Hugo Award
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Ah, it starts to get really interesting soon... as the rivalry boils over (I'm not giving away too much, as I'm sure you saw it coming... or have gotten to the beginnings of it).Originally posted by Kuken
I'm half way into it (almost 400 pages) and I can't say a whole lot has happened so far, well much has happened but the plot hasn't gone far.. But I agree with Imran, I love the world and the characters.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Oh yes, there's the rivalry, and lots of mysteries like who is vinculus and what does the gentleman with the thistle-down hair want? Lots of reasons to keep on reading.
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