The "what are you reading" thread:

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Zoid
I'm currently at the end of Alastair Reynolds latest novel House of Suns and I've also read "Atomic Energy - The Laymans Guide to Nuclear Power" from 1958. It was quite amazing, there was no end to the uses of nuclear power back then

I remember predictions of nuclear-powered toasters.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
No Country For Old Men by Cormack McCarthy.

The film was surprisingly close to this book. Chigurh is still very scary.

can you explain the ending...

only saw the movie

WTF ????


ever read "Pillars of Creation" series
Terry Goodkind (not first book of series)


reading
"Almost a Miracle" (American Revolutionary War)

[flipside]

Norwegian wood- Haruki Marukami

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Addled Platypus
can you explain the ending... [of No Country]

only saw the movie

WTF ????

The movie focuses much less on Sheriff Bell's own journey, and focuses instead on Llewellyn Moss and Anton Chigurh. The book has an equal (if not greater) focus on Bell's own struggle to keep his people safe, and feeling "overmatched".

So the ending monologue is present in the book, and it's a real swansong where he understands that he is no longer relevant in any lawkeeping sense, and that crime has become so powerful that he cannot hope to turn the tide. The book has many other retrospections and reflections by Bell, so the ending is much more natural.

I've seen some scripts of the movie and it suggests that there was going to be an actual montage as he speaks - showing him and his father riding their horses through the mountains with fire in a horn.

But for whatever reason, the Coen brothers decided to go with a much more abrupt and less dramatic ending.

[Krill]

Originally posted by Zoid
Next up is Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton.

I like the book. I take you already read Pandoras Revenge?

[Tuberski]

The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker.

I've been reading a lot of Canadian authors recently.......

ACK!

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by SpencerH
A great series.

I am now up to In the Ruins, which isn't as compelling as the previous books, though I'm very interested in Alain now.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Addled Platypus
...ever read "Pillars of Creation" series
Terry Goodkind (not first book of series)

If I know what I'm talking about, this Saturday [tomorrow] at 6 p.m. [?], there is the series premier of "Seeker." It is based upon Wizard's First Rule. The series is shot in New Zealand, and so has a lot of the look of Lord of the Rings.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Krill


I like the book. I take you already read Pandoras Revenge?

Duh! (and it's Pandoras Star btw...)

Judas Unchained is my book to read in bed, for toilet litterature (ehrm...) I'm reading "Cod - A biography of the fish that changed the world" It's actually quite interesting

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


If I know what I'm talking about, this Saturday [tomorrow] at 6 p.m. [?], there is the series premier of "Seeker." It is based upon Wizard's First Rule. The series is shot in New Zealand, and so has a lot of the look of Lord of the Rings.

It's on all right. But, as with the Lord of the Rings, they've made changes for changes sake so I watched 10 min then turned it off in disgust.

[Space05us]

Finished reading The History of Mr. Polly, by H.G. Wells last night. The meat of the story was a bit boring but the end was good stuff, made it worth reading.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Paul Revere's Ride -- an excellent history book regarding the events leading up to the Battles of Lexington and Concorde.

Now I'm on Washington's Crossing. Like Paul Revere's Ride, it is by Fischer -- but Washington's Crossing won the Pulizer Prize for history.

[CrONoS]

Ironies of Affirmatives Actions:

http://www.amazon.com/Ironies-Affirmative-Action-Politics-Morality/dp/0226761789/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226603876&sr=8-1

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Interesting books, with lot of examples picked up from the civil right movement in the u.s.a.

[Traianvs]

I'm reading my first Terry Pratchett book ever. It's called Guards guards. It's a Dutch translation though, which sucks enormously. I'll never make that mistake again

[Zoid]

Yeah, Douwe Flinx commandant van de wacht in Ankh-Meurbork. Wtf??