What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[redunderthebed]

I tried reading the great gatsby it.is.so.fucking.tedious i can't relate to the characters i really just want to slap them.

Thanks for the loan sis not my

[amused]

I read this in two days:



http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-ebook/dp/B0 ... 206&sr=1-1

If you enjoyed William Gibson's Neuromancer, you'll enjoy this.

[Tero]

I'm on page 240 of a small town murder mystery. Author has dropped enough hints for me to know the long dead hockey coach was a kiddie fiddler. Eventually we get to know what was on the 8mm film.

[amused]

http://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singu ... 153&sr=1-5

[Svartalf]

http://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singu ... 153&sr=1-5

Is it any good? to me, that guy still is the one who made up the Gith people and Slaadi for D&D, one of the greatest additions to that gameverse ever, in spite of the shit other people have done with it.

[macdoc]

Stross is very good but maybe not for everyone. Try the first bit on Kindle and see if you like him.

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Currently Child of the Northern Spring - historical fiction - not bad so far...Arthur legend told from Gwen's perspective and attempting some accuracy in the telling.

[amused]

Svartalf, re: Accelerando - I get the impression that he's throwing a lot of technobabble at the page to impress and fill space. But mixed in with that are a lot of legitimate ideas that are extensions of real science and hypothetical science - lobsters uploaded to computers, Dyson Spheres, etc. I was 20% into the book before a real story started to emerge, and even then most of the characters aren't very likable. Is it any good? Hmmmm... It's interesting in a weird way, and now that I'm past the halfway point I'll finish it. But I think it could have been shorter and tighter.

macdoc - Yeah, I agree. However, I tried The Atrocity Archives that way and put it down. The friend that recommended Accelerando also recommended that, and is insisting that I try it again.

[Tero]

Finishing kiddie fiddler coach murder mystery. I gave it 3 stars. If I have to give up half way thru, it gets one star.

[tattuchu]

For Christmas my mother got me The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sounds interesting

http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman- ... the+Madman

[Tero]

I'm on page 240 of a small town murder mystery. Author has dropped enough hints for me to know the long dead hockey coach was a kiddie fiddler. Eventually we get to know what was on the 8mm film.

My ratings are here, but mostly CDs
https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A ... _cd_et_pdp

[anna09]

I'll probably finish this today. . .



Then move onto these two. . .





Ed bought me a pile of books for christmas!

[tattuchu]

Wait, hang on. The Remains of the Day, by the author of...The Remains of the Day

[anna09]

Wait, hang on. The Remains of the Day, by the author of...The Remains of the Day

I noticed that too!

[macdoc]

Anna see if you can fine Koestler;s Act of Creation and Ghost in the Machine.
Brilliant, insightful and funny. An intellectual tour de force that blends our biology with our joy at a joke or a poem or a science Eureka moment all as single spectrum
Seminal books for me.

[anna09]

Anna see if you can fine Koestler;s Act of Creation and Ghost in the Machine.
Brilliant, insightful and funny. An intellectual tour de force that blends our biology with our joy at a joke or a poem or a science Eureka moment all as single spectrum
Seminal books for me.

Thanks, I'm just starting Darkness at Noon now but I'll definitely go check those two out on goodreads.