ZODIAC by Neal Stephenson (author of Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age) Pretty good book so far. As always, very humorous too. Stephenson rocks Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Its about this bad ass environmentalist who goes around giving big-name corporations shit for pollution and stuff. Sounds really dumb, but its WAY better than i make it out to be. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Currently reading: The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard The Symbolism of Evil by Paul Ricoeur God is Red by Vine Deloria, Jr.
I´m reading a very big book called "Phisics of immortality" by Frank Tipler. It's a plausible fantasy about the final destiny of mankind. It will make your brains fry.
Forces and Fields (a study of acton at a distance in the history of physics ..yawn) by, Mary B. Hesse
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Though I'm not sure if you can call it a proper book. It's actually a graphic novel. After reading it, I can understand why it, along with Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" re-defined the comics medium in the 80's.
just finished the fountainhead - ayn rand, and now reading atlas shrugged. dont know if i'm going in the right order or not, but it probably doesnt matter. I highly recommend the fountainhead to everyone. It can give you a new perspective.
Zagen: You should check out The Virtue of Selfishness. It's probably the most informative/comprehensive Rand nonfiction, and it may give you more insight into her novels. I just found my copy of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, so I'll probably read it the coming week.
Sovereign Stone Trilogy #2 "Guardian of the Lost" by Weis/Hickman. Its your typical fantasy world, elves dwarves dragons humans halflings orcs..plus other stuff to make it truly unique. For instance, monks tatoo the history of the world all over their bodies, and are then placed in tombs for future historians to read, and dragons protect their tombs. The books the second in the series, in the first book they found this stone that makes these magical knights, "dominion lords". The human king at the time thought it would serve to bring the world together, peace etc. Yadda yadda yadda, the king's son becomes an evil dominion lord because the stone had all 4 elements PLUS the VOID in the middle of it (evilness, chaos). Second book's just a quest to find all the pieces, fight against evil, typical elven politics, etc. The book is WAY WAY WAY better than i make it out to be. Check it..well the first one, then it..out. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The Ambassadors by Henry James I keep surprising myself at how much I actually remember of the story when I walk away from it. It seems to be so esoteric that I cannot get a grip on it in my mind, then I suddenly find myself thinking about the inner state of Strether. SW:NJO: Balance Point by Kathy Tyers Pretty good. I know I liked Jedi Eclipse because I breezed through it. Oh, and a book about Regency England.
I'm reading that, too. Also I finished the Elenian, probably start on the Tamuli after cleaning my room.
I just finished reading The Outsider (aka The Stranger) by Albert Camus, awesome book. Now I'm reading The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus as well.
:m: I read last "Yaban" by Yakup Kadri ..the author mentions about Turk's Istiklal War to get free..Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I just finished Freedom or Death by Nikos KazantzakisPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image! and now in the midst of NULL-A by AE van vogt
