What is currently on your Night Stand/ What are you reading?

RecluceMage · Post by **RecluceMage** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:10 am

Jordon got really repetitive in my opinion, and I never made it past the 7th one, and only read the 7th one because I felt I should, not because I liked it,

magicfan241

I think just about everything Jordan puts out is repetitive.

mrdude · Post by **mrdude** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:22 am

magicfan241 wrote:
I wager you will get to the 5th or 6th book before getting bored.

Jordon got really repetitive in my opinion, and I never made it past the 7th one, and only read the 7th one because I felt I should, not because I liked it,

magicfan241

I'll give him a chance yet but I don't frosee me reading up to the 7th any time soon, I rarely read series books strait through, I probably will read a good 10 books or so before i wander back into the thrid after this one.

Kahrey · Post by **Kahrey** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:38 pm

I'm working on Thicker Than Water by Maggie Shayne. Not particularly my style or whatever, but I'm reading it anyways.

Post by **Ghost** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:23 pm

Just finished The Killing Star by Charles Pelligrino and George Zebrowski, it was excellent - I might just post a linked review.

Post by **Darb** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:27 pm

Relatavistic bombs are one of Charlie's pet obsessions ... we saw JMS & Harlan Ellison tip their hats to that in an episode of "Babylon 5" (the one where the Centauri bombed the Narn homeworld with railgun-propelled iron asteroids)

rosene · Post by **rosene** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:56 pm

I just started Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck. So far so good!

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:18 pm

I remember studying that book a few years ago in school.

Kahrey · Post by **Kahrey** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:13 pm

Now I'm reading Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks. Very good so far

rosene · Post by **rosene** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:39 pm

I am now reading Animal Farm by George Orwell, and lovin' it!

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:56 pm

Animal Farm...another book I need to re-read.

Post by **laurie** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:24 pm

My 6th grade math teacher spent the final 10 minutes of class each day reading Animal Farm to us. We all thought it was like The Wind in the Willows, only a lot funnier.

Hey, we were only 11 !!

When I read it myself a few years later I was

to discover what it was really all about......

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:28 pm

That was another book I studied in school a few years ago.

Evaine · Post by **Evaine** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:40 am

I remember getting terribly upset about Boxer's death in Animal Farm when it was read to us at school, though I didn't understand what Orwell was doing with the book at the time.

Wind in the Willows, I think, has one of the saddest lines in literature. Toad and the others are in the canary coloured caravan, and Toad makes a dismissive comment to Rat "Always talking about your old River."
Rat says "I'm not always talking about the River!" and adds quietly "But I think about it - I think about it all the time."

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:52 am

Read Terry Pratchet's 'A Hat Full Of Sky' today. Like everything he writes, it's brilliant!

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:52 pm

OK SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Animal Farm

Evaine wrote:I remember getting terribly upset about Boxer's death in Animal Farm when it was read to us at school, though I didn't understand what Orwell was doing with the book at the time.

I remember when Boxer was sent off to the glue factory. My mate said "Well, he had a sticky end then, didn't he." I love horrible puns.

END OF SPOILER![/b]

Post by **Ghost** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:07 pm

Evaine wrote:I remember getting terribly upset about *****'s death in Animal Farm when it was read to us at school, though I didn't understand what Orwell was doing with the book at the time.

That is a terrible spoiler for those who haven't read Animal Farm.

rosene · Post by **rosene** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:28 pm

Yes it is! AAHHHH! I wish I hadn't read that!!!! Oh well, I guess I'm warned now

Post by **laurie** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:12 pm

Evaine, you should edit it out of your original post.

Echus Cthulhu Mythos · Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:50 pm

Whoops, and I suppose I am a bit at fault here too. Sorry.

[edit] Hmm, it wont let me delete that post...

Fiachra · Post by **Fiachra** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:21 am

Just started David Malouf's "Remembering Babylon"

Tripolie · Post by **Tripolie** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:48 am

A third of the way through "The Gunslinger".

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:12 pm

I just finished reading "Friend to Dragons, Brother to Owls." It was excellent. I could hardly believe it was the author's first novel.

The thing that I was most intrigued by was the idea that the main character could only communicate by quoting things she had heard. That would be a very difficult thing to do--finding the quote that matches what you have to say. Whoa.

I also liked the idea of the homeless people banding together and using the Jungle Book as their bible--sort of..."We be of one blood, you and I."

I just finished listening to Bill Clinton's autobiography on tape. That was excellent as well.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:05 pm

CC - that sounds quite like an episode of Star Trek TNG - I wish I could remember the title - where they encounter a race who communicate entirely by referencing & quoting past events. It was pretty cool.

Enjoyed Pterry's 'Hat Full Of Sky' so much I read it again today. Now re-reading LEM's 'Magic Engineer'.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:26 pm

I remember that episode. Picard and the other ship's captain were on the surface of a planet battling some creature to facilitate their communication. They spoke only in metaphors. It was also cool.

It's funny that you mention that episode because I was just thinking about it the other day. I can't remember the names of the two people the other captain referenced, but it was like "So-and -so and so-and-so when they were together on the something-or-other." It was just floating through my head while I was cleaning the bathroom.

Post by **wolfspirit** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:38 pm

I just got a couple books out of the library:

Two to facilitate the fact that I run my personal web stuff offboth linux and windows:

PHP 5 Web development
ASP, ADO, XML (I already know and understand XML)

The third one is for fun:

Dante's Equation (fantasy) by Jane Jensen. Excellent read so far.

magicfan241