currently reading: textbooks Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! when i get a spare minute, i'm reading lotr again. it makes me happy to escape into fantasy since all other reading is textbooks and journals (unless you count psych journals Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
Currently Reading? - A series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room (Just finished!) - A series of Unfortunate Events: The wide Window (Starting)
Currently reading: 1 American History text book (damn college) 2 Mythago Wood I'm waiting for my friend to finish Neuromancer so that I could borrow it. I wish it was possible to read all the good books. But such task can never be done.
Quicksilver - Neal stephenson Do andriods dream of electronic sheep - Philip K Dick Pattern Recgonition - William Gibson I just finished Neuromancer, and Idoru by gibson, and mr dick up there is listed as influences, along with gibson, for my favorite author, mr stephenson. So I'm in the process of reading every book by them, and others, including Pynchon. Those would be new books I've read though... I also in the same time period of reading those finished for the 3rd time gravity's rainbow, along with diamond age (stephenson) and im having a hard time convincing myself to read quicksilver all the way through (500 pages in, after 2 weeks [keep rading other books] its hard to get into) because its not his classic cyber punk feel, it bumps back to the early english era, 1600ish. Oddly enough, he now has fantasy in his novels ( Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ) because (for fans) enoch root is alive (the same as from his other novel cryptonomicon) in these books, and he makes a point of saying it is the SAME enoch, who "posesses an unusual longevity", which at this point in time is a fantasy. Boo, at least his other books have stayed in the realm of possibility.
I personally would describe early English era as being 1066-1350. 1600s is Stuart era, between Tudor and Georgian
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1914-1944 His wartime letters are almost inspiring in these trying times...
I guess if you want to be technical you could say that. Im not into history so much as i am electronics, and cyberpunk, which is the genre stephenson had been writing in up till this point. I used a gift cert to buy that book, and i will be damned if i dont read it. It kind of teaches me a lesson for buying a book because of the author, and not for the story. It does pick up after the first 400 pages... I think its exactly 1000, and this is volume one of 3
Koestler's "Janus" And Heilbroner's "Worldy Philsophers"- why? Because I've always sucked at economics and this man is showing me that even stupid little girls (that failed accounting twice) can be the next Greenspan. Last but not least- Dr. Phil's "How to Stop Eating and Stop the Madness, You Fat Untermenchen Gendanken"
The Third Reich, by Michael Burleigh. Viz issue 141 Connections by James Burke Diamonds in the Sky. A social history of air travel, by Kenneth Hudson.
I bought 6 books for my Christmas present...and I am currently reading Middle East Illusions by Noam Chomsky. It's pretty good...
i am reading a collection of short stories full of useless shit. also i am reading anna karenina. which i don't like much. but tolstoy is brilliant so im hoping some of it will rub off on me.
