What are you reading?
I'm on the 'Colour of Magic' by the King of Zanyness, Terry Pratchett, I'm about halfway through and having a whale of a time.
What are you reading?
I'm on the 'Colour of Magic' by the King of Zanyness, Terry Pratchett, I'm about halfway through and having a whale of a time.
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RESTORING ROME - CHAPTER II: TRAGEDY OF THE KOMNENOI
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SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT - A VERY SPECIAL FELINE
Tweety, I'm moving it to the arts section.
I love your cartoons, btw.
Cartoons?
What cartoons, those are highly lifelike selfportraits!
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RESTORING ROME - CHAPTER II: TRAGEDY OF THE KOMNENOI
bitte sehr
SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT - A VERY SPECIAL FELINE
Woody Allen, Mere Anarchy
It's very funny so far. I understand just half of the payoffs.
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Le livre des questions
Un étranger avec sous le bras un livre de petit format
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Lord of the Flies
I'm slowly getting through the Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; essentially a rewrite of the Dracula legend. Also started Marching Powder; a biography of Thomas McFadden, who was jailed in Bolivia (with one of the most notoriously strange prison systems in the world) for Cocaine trafficking.
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I did consider reading the Historian, is it worth several hours of my time? (when I finish the twenty-odd Discworld novels)
EDIT: Who gave me the rep for the 3rd post? Whoever it is, thanks.
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RESTORING ROME - CHAPTER II: TRAGEDY OF THE KOMNENOI
bitte sehr
SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT - A VERY SPECIAL FELINE
Yeah, I'm liking it. A bit slow starting perhaps, and infact in general quite slow paced, but I really like its depth of research. It's got all kinds of references to a huge variety of historical events and places.
morecuriousthanbold.com
Hmm..I might check it out then. I was curious. Lately I've been bringing 'Greece and Rome at War' to class, so I guess I'm reading that.
Conn Iggulden: The Khan Series
I thought we already had a thread like this.
Anyway.
The Divine Comedy.
I'm also starting on The Republic.
I'm reading different magazines and newspapers.
That is it..
"And the Heavens Shall Tremble"
Resistance is futile™
"ehn sewr traih-sluyrds-lairareh"
I am reading Last Call by Tim Powers.
I always enjoy reading Tim Powers, he juxtaposes good solid down-to-earth believable characters with the "Powers of the Occult". But whatever strange phenomena he describes, they always operate according to consistent rules and the people using them often pay for their power with extravagent and astonishing handicaps.
For example, I will never forget the sorcerer villain in The Anubis Gates who drew his power from the Moon. As a consequence of this, his personal gravity always pulled in that direction, leaving him for all practical purposes incarcerated in a spherical room in his palace.
Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Soon I am going to read War and Peace by Tolstoy. However, as busy as I am with school nowadays, that book will have to wait.
I recently read Persian Fire by Tom Holland. It offered interesting perspective on Xerxes' invasion of Greece.
Collapse. By Jared Diamond.
Currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Its a post apocalyptic tale of a father and son and their flight for survial as they
head for the coast. Very bleak and a great read.
Reading Crime and Punnishment too, 60 pages to read, hope ill finnish it tonight. Was thinking about reading some Tolstoy too and some Pushkin, but gonna read Into the Wild first. How have you found the read so far? I've found the book quite consuming with its morbid and gloomy mood and I think reading it in my small room actually got me in quite a Raskolnikov like depression for a period. Love all the characters though, especially Razumikhin and Svidrigaylov.