[Sol_Zhen]

Because I realized that feeling in the dark is not the way to go.

 

[Rizumu]

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Originally posted by andrzejpw Riz: The original guide and the second one are good (restaurant), but the other's really do stink imho. Reading them became drudgery.

Thanks for the rec, andrzej. I thought about picking up the big book of all 5 volumes when I was in B&N, but then I decided it'd be better to just go with the first and see if I liked it. Sounds like another example of a series being dragged on longer than it should be..

 

[JMT]

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Originally posted by Dusty Chalk JMT - Audiogon has a catalog? Or do you mean AudioSomethingElse?

AudioSomethingElse

Boy, do I feel like an idiot. Corrected the post.

 

[andrzejpw]

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Originally posted by Rizumu Thanks for the rec, andrzej. I thought about picking up the big book of all 5 volumes when I was in B&N, but then I decided it'd be better to just go with the first and see if I liked it. Sounds like another example of a series being dragged on longer than it should be..

yeah, that's what I picked up, it's the "Ultimate Guide," iirc. The rest of the books just drag on about his spiraling depression.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I disagree. Douglas Adams has a great sense of humour that never gets old. I do agree that the first couple were the best, but...just another HO.

 

[Uncledan]

Arch3 course 3 manual......hmmm...

 

[richpjr]

I just finished Aztec by Gary Jennings.

It is a historical novel about the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest. If you like historical novels, this book is fascinating.

 

[stuartr]

I just finished "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera at Carlo's recommendation. It was quite good and a quick read. Perhaps a few too many "ideas" for me. I am not big on abstract ideas in the novels I read...I just like good stories with good writing. Right before that I read Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" which was more along my lines, except it was almost too baroque. Right now I am reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and it is just right. A wonderfully well-written and astoundingly odd fairy-tale like novel. I am 250 pages into it and I only started it last week. I am a slow reader, so this must mean it is a page turner!

I am surprised so many people here are doing Sci-Fi/Fantasy...I'm with K.R...there are way too many classics to start reading really modern stuff (even if all the books I listed were 20th century, they are all already classics). Once I have tackled the classics, then I will go after contemporary writing.

 

[Calanctus]

Fiction: Steven Brust's latest, The Paths of the Dead.

Non-fiction: Fritjof Capra (author of The Tao of Physics), The Hidden Connections.

 

[Rizumu]

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Originally posted by stuartr I am surprised so many people here are doing Sci-Fi/Fantasy...I'm with K.R...there are way too many classics to start reading really modern stuff (even if all the books I listed were 20th century, they are all already classics). Once I have tackled the classics, then I will go after contemporary writing.

I have read classics, I was forced to when I was younger. Certainly not all of them. Anyway, you should read what you like and read a lot of it. Why restrict yourself to older books that someone has deemed "classics"?

Just my take on it.

 

[MD1032]

I just started reading a new book called "Hyperion". Seems like a cool book so far. Guess LOTR will have to wait!

 

[SteeleBlayde]

Reading absolutely nothing until Tor finally catches up with production deadlines, GRRM finally writes his book, and Jordan finally finishes his damn series!

 

[Sentral Dogma]

i've been meaning to get into The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy...

anyway, I'm reading The Elegant Universe by Brain Greene. About Super-string theory. Physics for the masses(no equations). Before that i read To Kill a MockingBird. Before that I read the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.

 

[fractus2]

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Originally posted by Sentral Dogma i've been meaning to get into The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy...

Sentra Dogma, Another recommendation for HHGTTG. I read it and the other books in the series (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for the Fish) years ago and just got the four in one paperback to read again eventually (it also includes Mostly Harmless which I haven't read yet).

 

[SteeleBlayde]

I got that four in one as well, hardcover though. Great collector's piece I think and I laughed all the way through.

First one is still the best though...as with everything.