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Re: Your Reading List
« Reply #45 on: December 01, 2009, 07:40:27 pm »
Quote from: Tack on December 01, 2009, 06:29:21 pm
I really want to read Homer's Illiad, but I can't seem to find it.

Well there are plenty of different translations of that many hundreds years old. I am sure if you wanted to you could try searching wikisource for "The Iliad" (with one L). But to be honest it is kinda boring to read, if you thought Shakespeare was difficult to read, don't even bother with the Iliad.
What I can suggest is a book called "Ilium", written by Dan Simmons the same guy who did "Hyperion". It is basically the themes of the Iliad jazzed up a bit with some sci-fi.

Anyways on my platter, reading through some of Le Guin's books having just started "The Left Hand of Darkness". Pretty impressed with what I have read so far.
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« Reply #46 on: December 01, 2009, 07:46:11 pm »
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Re: Your Reading List
« Reply #47 on: December 27, 2009, 08:57:44 pm »
A random question, to Necro this Topic.

Has anyone read "american gods", and is it as good as I've been told?
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« Reply #48 on: December 28, 2009, 12:49:22 am »
Well, for my English class I have Lonesome Dove to finish and we have to read Gone With the Wind and some other stuff. For my free time reading I've got the rest of the Hitchiker series, actually read Silmarillion, WWZ, and probably some other stuff that I can't think of right now.
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« Reply #49 on: December 29, 2009, 06:56:33 pm »
I've recently read Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers.

It was an enjoyable read, very original soviet science fiction. The book later inspired the film and video games Stalker and tells about business growing around an alien landing Zone. Thieves know as stalkers venture into the Zone and steal valuable artifacts. The aliens presence made the Zone a very dangerous area, were objects do not obey the laws of physics.
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« Reply #50 on: December 29, 2009, 07:00:13 pm »
Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone revisited (finished reading it):
I quite liked it. The author's willingness to kill off, or deal horrible fates, to his characters is a good thing. Quite a subversion in many aspects of regular fantasy, too. Some others he plays straight, which is.. a subversion in it's own right. I recommend this series.


Now reading mistborn: started off good. Now I am finishing the first book and it's... less good than I expected, but half decent nonetheless.
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« Reply #51 on: December 30, 2009, 07:33:57 pm »
Started reading some book series by some Llywn something, but quit because the characters started getting dangerously close to slashfic by the second chapter.

I'm reading "The Gospel of Evil", by patrick graham, instead
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« Reply #52 on: December 31, 2009, 12:35:47 am »
Current: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, which I'm like a fifth through.
Soonish: The Hunger Games, its sequel, the second Magic the Gathering Artifacts Cycle book, and one other thing I've forgotten.
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« Reply #53 on: December 31, 2009, 01:32:26 pm »
Ok, for the moment the book is readable, if not extraordinary. Standard devil possesion horror story. Oh, and the main character sees dead people too. Who insult her, for some reason.
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« Reply #54 on: December 31, 2009, 01:52:43 pm »
This is a mix of suggestions based on what I've read, what I'm reading, and what I need to read.

If you're the least bit into gaming or fantasy, read Appendix N of the 1E AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. There is a ton of awesome stuff in there. I'm trawling the used bookstores looking for them. So far I haven't found a bad book in the lot.

I picked up a five-book compilation of Dashiell Hammett's pulp detective novels. Red Harvest, Dain Curse, Maltese Falcon, Glass Key, Thin Man. So good.

Reading through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

First Great Civilizations: Life In Mesopotamia, The Indus Valley And Egypt.

The Road.

The Iliad. The Odyssey. Metamorphoses (Ovid).
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« Reply #55 on: December 31, 2009, 02:27:34 pm »
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Reading through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

The first one was ok. I didn't like the rest.
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I picked up a five-book compilation of Dashiell Hammett's pulp detective novels. Red Harvest, Dain Curse, Maltese Falcon, Glass Key, Thin Man. So good.
You might want to give a try to Raymond Chandler.
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« Reply #56 on: December 31, 2009, 02:30:01 pm »
Looking for him.
And also Darcy Sarto's "Lady Don't Fall Backwards" which I've heard is good.
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« Reply #57 on: January 02, 2010, 01:09:25 am »
Shit is about to get real.

Finnegan's Wake. Yea. You sucker's heard me. Finnegan's goddamn WAKE is ALL up in my bitch
I am reading that son of a bitch and waving it around like a 14 inch dick.
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« Reply #58 on: January 02, 2010, 01:56:35 am »
I second "Frankenstein", it's a great story that's been sadly butchered in popular culture. Also second "Guns, Germs and Steel", or "Collapse" by the same author. Recently I read "A Confederacy of Dunces" which is extremely funny yet heady as well. Also "House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton, really gets you into the mind of a female and what they deal with.

Right now I'm reading some short stories by HP Lovecraft because people always rave about him. He has an interesting style, makes me a bit unnerved at times.
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« Reply #59 on: January 02, 2010, 02:27:34 am »
Charles Stross' Accelerando. The first book I've ever read that really felt like cyberpunk, and it was pretty awesome. The plot gets twisty and a bit hard to follow after a while, but it was a good read.

Jumping into Singularity headfirst with your eyes closed = Win
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