Books you're currently reading??? - Page 66

Cloud · 10-05-2007, 05:46 PM

oh, yeah, that's it. I knew I knew it. Can't imagine anything darker than that.

DanaC · 10-05-2007, 07:11 PM

Rk, that isn't the one i was thinking of, but it looks quite interesting. The one I read was a trilogy set mainly in America with hi-tech alien take over of the earth having first stripped us of electricity and radiowaves and pretty much anything like that (planes dropping out the sky and pace makers stopping, no telecoms etc).

10-06-2007, 04:17 PM

Yeah, I still have problems with matches working and gunpowder not working.
Just make a cannon/guns that run on match heads/formula. I am trying to reserve judgement... It's hard to with this oversight.

Cloud · 10-06-2007, 04:36 PM

like the end of Escape from L.A. Long live Snake Pliskin!

Trilby · 10-06-2007, 05:50 PM

Just finished the gravedigger's daughter by Joyce Carol Oates-now, I hate myself.

Happy Monkey · 10-07-2007, 11:48 AM

The Fart Party, by Julia Wertz.
You gotta read this comic.

Urbane Guerrilla · 10-11-2007, 01:45 AM

It's even easier to read this comic: Doc Rat.

Clodfobble · 10-11-2007, 10:55 AM

Re-read Ender's Game in anticipation of finally reading the rest in the series, but then Speaker for the Dead got put aside for I Am America. I'll be back on track shortly though.

wolf · 10-11-2007, 02:26 PM

Shapeshifter - Tony Hillerman
The Federalist Papers
Dreamcatchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality -Philip Jenkins

Aliantha · 10-12-2007, 03:54 AM

I just finished reading A Beautiful Mind which was surprisingly good. I even learned a thing or two about maths.

Now i'm reading a biography of Marlene Deitrich.

Sundae · 10-12-2007, 11:01 AM

Reading I, Lucifer - a Modesty Blaise book by Peter O'Donnell.
It's corking - recent enough to be racy (late sixties) but dated enough to offer a glimpse into another world.

I remember Dad telling me he read Ian Fleming's books for the sex and fast paced lifestyle when he was took young and shy to have a hope of either himself. I'll have to ask him if he read any of these too.

Read Prey by Michael Crighton last night instead of packing my bag. Meh. Should've saved it for the train here. The literary equivilant of the peanuts they give you on flights (except unlikely to be fatal).

Lent my Mum Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson when I was last here - she loved it. Talking to her (Mum) about it reminded me why I enjoy Atkinson's books so much - her wonderful portrayal of women. So many female characters are described purely by their looks and/ or their relationship to another character. They are the love interest, the mother, the daughter. Atkinson writes about the "ordinary" women who muddle through, the ones who suddenly realise they aren't the heroine after all, that there won't be an exciting plot twist which brings them happiness. They can't work out where their life has gone, wonder why they squandered the years when they were lissome. And yet she's funny with it.

Sorry, I am contractually obliged to sing her praises at regular intervals.

Cloud · 10-19-2007, 09:54 AM

I got 2 absolutely adorable "Catwing" books by Ursula Leguin. They are "chapter" books, and I'm going to give them to a granddaughter for Christmas. I want a catwing! You can take a peek here:

Catwings at Google Books

Orson Scott Card had this to say about the series:

Quote:

Yet even though LeGuin's stories are not sentimentalized, neither do they shock or brutalize in their truthfulness. Rather, as she makes danger and loss and injury and fear and all the passages of life seem natural and unavoidable, LeGuin also lets us see that life can still be well-lived, and individuals can still act rightly and lovingly and bravely, and can bear with dignity whatever losses come. Not a bad set of truths for children to learn in a couple of gentle, well-told tales.

Sundae · 10-20-2007, 06:00 PM

I haven't read them but I have a high opinion of Ursula Le Guin - will look out for them at the library.

I've just finished The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari - a so-so crime book, but it appealed to me because it was set in Philedelphia and made the city an integral part of the book. So I'll see if I can find the others now.

DanaC · 10-20-2007, 06:23 PM

Okay, not strictly speaking a book, but I am just in the middle of reading an journal article on the Coventry ribbon weavers and their disputes with the Warehouse Men in the last decades of the 18th century. Fascinating stuff.

toranokaze · 10-22-2007, 11:16 PM

The metamorphism

10-05-2007, 05:46 PM	#976
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	oh, yeah, that's it. I knew I knew it. Can't imagine anything darker than that. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

10-06-2007, 04:36 PM	#979
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	like the end of Escape from L.A. Long live Snake Pliskin! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

10-06-2007, 05:50 PM	#980
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Just finished the gravedigger's daughter by Joyce Carol Oates-now, I hate myself. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-07-2007, 11:48 AM	#981
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	The Fart Party, by Julia Wertz. You gotta read this comic. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

10-11-2007, 02:26 PM	#984
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Shapeshifter - Tony Hillerman The Federalist Papers Dreamcatchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality -Philip Jenkins __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-05-2007, 07:11 PM	#977
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Rk, that isn't the one i was thinking of, but it looks quite interesting. The one I read was a trilogy set mainly in America with hi-tech alien take over of the earth having first stripped us of electricity and radiowaves and pretty much anything like that (planes dropping out the sky and pace makers stopping, no telecoms etc).

10-06-2007, 04:17 PM	#978
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Yeah, I still have problems with matches working and gunpowder not working. Just make a cannon/guns that run on match heads/formula. I am trying to reserve judgement... It's hard to with this oversight.

10-11-2007, 01:45 AM	#982
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	It's even easier to read this comic: Doc Rat.

10-11-2007, 10:55 AM	#983
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Re-read Ender's Game in anticipation of finally reading the rest in the series, but then Speaker for the Dead got put aside for I Am America. I'll be back on track shortly though.

10-12-2007, 03:54 AM	#985
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I just finished reading A Beautiful Mind which was surprisingly good. I even learned a thing or two about maths. Now i'm reading a biography of Marlene Deitrich. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-12-2007, 11:01 AM	#986
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Reading I, Lucifer - a Modesty Blaise book by Peter O'Donnell. It's corking - recent enough to be racy (late sixties) but dated enough to offer a glimpse into another world. I remember Dad telling me he read Ian Fleming's books for the sex and fast paced lifestyle when he was took young and shy to have a hope of either himself. I'll have to ask him if he read any of these too. Read Prey by Michael Crighton last night instead of packing my bag. Meh. Should've saved it for the train here. The literary equivilant of the peanuts they give you on flights (except unlikely to be fatal). Lent my Mum Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson when I was last here - she loved it. Talking to her (Mum) about it reminded me why I enjoy Atkinson's books so much - her wonderful portrayal of women. So many female characters are described purely by their looks and/ or their relationship to another character. They are the love interest, the mother, the daughter. Atkinson writes about the "ordinary" women who muddle through, the ones who suddenly realise they aren't the heroine after all, that there won't be an exciting plot twist which brings them happiness. They can't work out where their life has gone, wonder why they squandered the years when they were lissome. And yet she's funny with it. Sorry, I am contractually obliged to sing her praises at regular intervals. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-20-2007, 06:00 PM	#988
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I haven't read them but I have a high opinion of Ursula Le Guin - will look out for them at the library. I've just finished The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari - a so-so crime book, but it appealed to me because it was set in Philedelphia and made the city an integral part of the book. So I'll see if I can find the others now. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-20-2007, 06:23 PM	#989
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Okay, not strictly speaking a book, but I am just in the middle of reading an journal article on the Coventry ribbon weavers and their disputes with the Warehouse Men in the last decades of the 18th century. Fascinating stuff.

10-22-2007, 11:16 PM	#990
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	The metamorphism __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

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