Reading in 2008

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Reading in 2008
Topic Started: Thursday Jan 31 2008, 01:51 AM (1,204 Views)
Demaar	Thursday Jan 31 2008, 01:51 AM Post #1
Sometimes I think I was born backwards Posts: 9,396 Group: Moderators Member #195 Joined: August 24, 2005 XBL Gamer Tag EssThree	So yer... no reading thread since November. What's the go, guys? Anywho, been reading Stone of Tears on and off since Christmas. (Mostly while automated tasks are happening in games). About half way through, so far it's a lot better than the first half of Wizard's First Rule... will have to wait and see about the rest. Also, now that I've finished Mass Effect, I'm strongly considering re-reading the prequel book, while eagerly awaiting the second :)



Chiasmata	Thursday Jan 31 2008, 08:28 AM Post #2
Sense is not common. Posts: 2,080 Group: Moderators Member #486 Joined: November 25, 2005	Nice. :) I used to read during the AI turns in Alpha Centuari. At the moment I'm reading Raising Atlantis. It's a god awful Mathew-Reillyesque US forces save the world thing. At one stage the three main characters (a hard arse air force general, his estranged adopted astroarchaeologist son and the son's unrequited love, a linguist nun) are trapped in a giant alien pyramid below Antarctica. Half of it was flodded, half of it was on fire, and half of it was filled with Russians.



Demaar	Thursday Jan 31 2008, 03:47 PM Post #3
Sometimes I think I was born backwards Posts: 9,396 Group: Moderators Member #195 Joined: August 24, 2005 XBL Gamer Tag EssThree	:lol: That sounds absolutely hilarious. I can see why you're reading it despite being terrible.



Moebius	Thursday Jan 31 2008, 04:34 PM Post #4
World's blankiest blank Posts: 2,070 Group: Members Member #258 Joined: September 23, 2005	Chiasmata Jan 31 2008, 06:28 AM Half of it was flodded, half of it was on fire, and half of it was filled with Russians. That's three halves :P Unless of course half the russians are in the flooded half, and half are in the half that is on fire :lol:



JimJim	Thursday Jan 31 2008, 06:48 PM Post #5
\|\| JimJim \|\| Posts: 6,448 Group: Moderators Member #21 Joined: February 11, 2005	I have to read Brave New World for school, has anyone else read this before? I'm about 3/4 of the way through it, it's a very strange, slightly boring title.



Chiasmata	Thursday Jan 31 2008, 09:31 PM Post #6
Sense is not common. Posts: 2,080 Group: Moderators Member #486 Joined: November 25, 2005	Brave New World is pretty mediocre until the last 10%. Then it's kick arse. It's one of those books that I think you enjoy more in retrospect, I think. Yes, I know I posted three halves earlier. But most of the Russian were on fire or drowning, so it was pretty much correct. In a US blockbuster, movie or written, the red blooded Americans are never randomly killed off... that's what they use Russians and Arabs are for. :P



JimJim	Saturday Feb 2 2008, 10:00 PM Post #7
\|\| JimJim \|\| Posts: 6,448 Group: Moderators Member #21 Joined: February 11, 2005	Ahh ok, yer it's quite a book indeed, I'm about to read the final 10% infact.



Link	Thursday Feb 7 2008, 01:27 PM Post #8
うるさい!!! Posts: 4,501 Group: Moderators Member #53 Joined: February 19, 2005	Reading White Tiger by Kylie Chan. and you know what? hellava lot better than i expected. i was expecting a really cheesy attempt at chinese mythology for westerners. but yeah, i'm really surprised at how stuck into it i am. and to know that the author's actually australian (she married a hong kong citizen) makes it just that little bit more impressive



Chiasmata	Friday Feb 8 2008, 08:09 AM Post #9
Sense is not common. Posts: 2,080 Group: Moderators Member #486 Joined: November 25, 2005	Back at uni now, so reading scientific papers on mitochondrial DNA and phylogenetics. ... I think silly American nonsense was more amusing.



Helyn	Friday Feb 8 2008, 09:03 AM Post #10
Posts: 200 Group: Members Member #1,017 Joined: October 23, 2006	Oh come on, phylogenetics is great fun! Though some of those scientists are pretty stupid... My housemate lent me One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I really don't like it at all. I'm trying so hard to finish reading it so that I can move on.



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