'For whom the bell tolls' - Hemingway. I try to read a classic for every airport novel i pick up....
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'For whom the bell tolls' - Hemingway. I try to read a classic for every airport novel i pick up....
I am reading a 250 page Wicked fanfiction that my girlfriend wrote.
ATM I'm reading 'Siegfried' by Alice. A BD/strip/comic based on The Nibelungen saga. I really like his work.
I think that is the ultimate answer to the question, "what is love?".Quote:
Originally Posted by Motep
Working on the Sharpe's series, or at least the ones they have in the library. I've read:
Sharpe's Fortress
Sharpe's Prey
Sharpe's Rifles
Almost done with Havoc, then going to do Gold and the one after that.
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Saggs, HWE. Civilization Before Greece and Rome.
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Peter Wilson's Europe's Tragedy
Banksy Wall and Piece.
Just finished Truman by David McCullough
Harry S. Truman was so AWESOME
The Belgariad, The Malloreon by Eddings.
Will have to start reading that stuff by George Martin.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
(His first and best.)
Hehe - I remember the first time I read one of his books (Glue) in English* - I hardly understood a word and was wondering if I really had an English edition... (after a while I got used to it though ... I think)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyprian2
*Trainspotting was the first book I read from him - but at that time I read the German translation
How did they translate the Scottish dialect into German?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
WoT...again...
They use a very colloquial language - while that conveys the social status of the characters I do not think that it comes across as strong as the Scottish dialect in the original.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
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Talking Music by William Duckworth :drummer:
Excerpts of it were crappily translated on a magazine issue back in late 90's, which thankfully introduced the name of Steve Reich into my little world. Then I went out and bought a copy of Drumming and have been a happy soul ever since. :sunny:
Now, years later, I ordered the original book. :book2:
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Most recently,
Berlin Diary: Shirer. Very interesting to see someone writing about the build up to war without knowing what is going to happen next.
Homage to Catalonia: Orwell. Alternates between the personal narrative of his experience in the Spanish civil war and a description of the politics and events of the time.
The Stranger, The Plague: Camus. He's very good...
My girlfriend is making me read a five hundred page fan fiction shoe wrote based on Wicked. : /
As much as you may not like that I think that it's pretty cool she went and done that. However, I do hope it is good! (decent, okay, whatever :wink: )Quote:
Originally Posted by Motep
It is not bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Decker
That's one of my favourite by Orwell. I also like Down and Out in London and Paris.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Right now I'm reading Every Parent: A Positive Approach to Children's Behaviour by Matthew R. Sanders PhD, because I have a two year old and a wife who's a clinical psychologist. :laugh4:
"BE READY WHEN THE SH*T GOES DOWN
a survival guide to the apocalypse"
by Forrest Griffin (and Erich Krauss)
Lord Kinross on the Ottoman empire:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ottoman-Cent...7899389&sr=1-1
The Second World War, by A.J.P. Taylor. 1976 print. Just bought it today at my favorite used book store in Montreal. $10, good book, good deal.
It's not like I need another history of WWII, but I've become a fan of Taylor. I'll read anything he wrote.
History of Rome
Titvs Livivs
Radio Free Dixie
The Great War and modern memory: Paul Fussell. Came across it after looking up "flander's fields" on wikipedia and seeing a quote of his in the criticism section. Not sure what I expected but it was very interesting. It focuses on poetry, literature, and theater--how it affected people's beliefs pre-war, how it shaped their experience of the war itself, how they wrote the war, how they remembered the war, how they understood the war.
The Citadel by John Ringo. Half of me is bored by it, half of me is fascinated by how repulsive it is. The short of it is aliens are threatening earth who just recently became a space-faring race in a crowded neighborhood (stop me if you've heard *that* before). The twist is that TEAM AMERICA WORLD POLICE are going to deliver righteous justice into those slimy lizards' faces, despite being held back by... Russia, China, and France. It's sort of like Republican propaganda but not very thought out - it presents what is essentially Republican foreign policy as a good idea if we're threatened by advanced alien races.
And the non-expository parts are mostly detailed stories about welding things and doing maintenance on shuttles. Which is boring. Get to the shooty bits or the silly politics because you're doing a terrible job at making me interested in the people.
Also in the middle of The Great Betrayal (The Story of the Fourth Crusade) by Ernle Bradford. Which is what it says on the tin, but it's a little simplistic. The Venetian Doge was a jerk. The Crusaders were weak willed. The Pope was naive. The Byzantines had frittered away their previous majesty. It really sucked that it all went down. It's informative at least, but I can't help but feel there are angles that I'm missing (and it may just be because its written for an audience with a better understanding of the historical context than I have).
I also picked up Jules Verne's The Begum's Millions because I never heard of it and the book jacket made it sound interesting. Will start it after The Citadel unless it melts my brain.
I recently finished the Farseer Trilogy. Is the follow-up Tawny Man trilogy as good as the first?
I liked the "Tawny Man" as well (although I slightly preferred Farseer - cannot really say why, though).
While I do not believe that it is necessary you might want to read the "Lifeship" trilogy first. The trilogy is pretty much standalone but some of the characters and events there are taken up in "Tawny Man" and it might "enrich" the reading experience, even if it does not seem like "required pre-reading" ~:)