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Yeah, I picked it up from the bargain bin for $6.98 (originally $30-$35 when first published in 2005). I've read other books by this author and have liked them. Considering the length of the story the next installment might be out in 2009.
I see the sequel, The Rebels of Ireland, has been released in 2007. The price may have come down on that by now. I'll have to check it out and see if there's another in the works.
Currently reading The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, american civil war goodness.
Finally dragged my way through The Iron Wall, Avi Shlaim, having started over a year ago.
The Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor. Book 401 in his Gordianus the Finder series. The first one, Roman Blood, rocked me like a hurricane, and I keep reading his books hoping they'll be like that again. They never are.
Just finished I, Claudius and am on Claudius the God. A multitude of blessings on the local library ~:)
I abruptly put Ship of Magic (by Robin Hobb) on hold for now -- I'm feeling a little saturated by fantasy novels at the moment. Instead, I've started Star Trek Myriad Universes: Echoes and Refractions. I normally don't go for the mirror universe novels, but this one looks rather intriguing.
Well two things :
- L'amour à Rome (Love in Rome) by Pierre Grimal
- Antimémoires by André Malraux
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Regards
Martel
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The Kolyma tales, full edition. I read half of it six years ago and gave up (since I gave up travelling by train, odd reason but well...) All the fuss about Soljenitsin made me think about it again (and the fact that I take trains again, uh) and I resumed. Just to confirm the guy was a much better author than Soljenitsin. More straightforward and concise. The Kolyma tales are a gigantic kick in the **s.
I have returned to read the Wheel of time. Ah..smells like Trolloc. (I sure hope not...)
I'm now halfway through the second book on my re-reading.Quote:
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Originally Posted by CountArach
I just realised that my third book was destroyed in a flood...
Now I have to find something else to read...:cry:
Was this your first reading? If so, I'd like to congratulate you on having your mind blown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
Dreadnaught: Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War
Robert K. Massie
Good read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Furunculu5
Few pages into Defending the undefendable by Walter Block. Smart guy, steamroller logic.
i need to have a look at that.
Started Beyond Good and Evil today. Read 14 or so pages before I decided my brain needed a break.
i just 'read' the first six books as audio books, while playing age of conan non-stop for three weeks. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Motep
Currently reading Dune: it is very confusing :dizzy2:
I had also read two other books in the last week:
The Da Vinci Code: Can't believe I have never read this before!
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: Great (and funny) sources on the Third Reich, but the author kept insulting the Nazi leaders at every available opportunity. The sources along should insult them enough.
Dune is a great book, shlin. Herbert does close to no exposition, so your first read can be a little tough. Note that this laudable brevity disappears by book #3.
Finished The Triumph of Caesar. It never really got going. I may have to give up on this series. Moved on to Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, which is exactly as depressing as you might guess it would be.
Interestingly, nobody from the Bush administration has bothered to refute the book, or even say it's untrue. Looks as though they're hoping it will go away if they just ignore it. Needless to say, Ms. Mayer has tons of on-the-record quotes and original documents. Depressing stuff.
Dune Volume 6 (don't know the English title).
Just read 5 after a long break from the series, doesn't have quite the impact of the older books anymore.
6 is Chapterhouse if I'm not mistaking. Not as good as the first four, but still decent enough. 7 is an abomination and 8 too I suspect.
While the last two books were good in their own right I agree that they're the weakest of the series, especially Chapterhouse because it's so slow paced (I've recently reread the entire series) My favourite of all time is Dune Messiah of wich the only drawback is that it's so short.
And yeah, the new "dune" books are terrible. People should read one or two of them to make up their own mind about them but only after reading the originals.
I never read any of Herbert's non-Dune books. How good are they?Quote:
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Welcome to my bookshelf :no:Quote:
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Still working my way through the Wheel of Time, I read one of my favourite chapters last night, where the characters are in the fireworks factory. Really strange stuff.
I may re-start In the Name of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy today, as well as reading some stuff for Uni.
Bought the Penguin version of Livy's Books 31 -> 45 in the collection "Rome and the Mediterranean" today. I'll be reading this for quite a while, which will be a joy because it is my absolute favourite period of history, and one which I would like to go into much further study of.
I just bought The Complete Robot (short stories by Asimov) and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Curently reading lots of books about and related to the Dodecanese http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecanese.
I am really looking forward to a 2,5 weeks trip from mid Sept till Oct. there. Some diving, some hiking, some eating & drinking, some more reading about the area/ history (e.g. Genuese trading outposts, Ottomans, The Knights of St. John, etc.). Reading for planned tripps rules! :holiday2:
Yes, although I watched the TV series a few years ago so I pretty much knew what to expect. I just finished it today in fact, and I am kind of glad. The endless plots, suicides and executions were really getting me down - I was quite depressed when I went to bed last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
Enjoyable, but I prefer the Masters of Rome series.
I just want to say that IMHO this is one of the most readable and engaging works of philosophy around (Which is likely why it's so popular, and so often misquoted or abused in pop culture). Enjoy it, and whatever you do don't follow it up with Kant as is so often encouraged in college courses. Even the best translations of Critique of Pure Reason are eye gougingly difficult to bore through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
Whether Nietzsche was right or wrong he at least managed to have wit, wit which has been almost entirely lacking in philosophy since, and he may be all the more dangerous for it. :laugh4:
I just finished another run through the Foundation series, and I'm actually thinking about buying Benford and Bear's follow-ups. Anyone care to recommend or bash them?
Also almost to the end of Dennet's Sweet Dreams and not sure where I'll go for serious reading after that. Pinker's Stuff of Thought stuffed me up about 1/3rd of the way through, so maybe I'll go back to it.
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The dark disciple trilogy my Margaret wies. Good read!
Ah no, I did Kant last year and thankfully didn't have to read anything then. Interesting ideas but I could tell he wouldn't be much fun to read.Quote:
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Anyway, thank you for the advice :bow: