Reading a bunch of stuff for school. In my lit class we read Canterbury Tales, Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio, also Beowulf. Reading the Life of Cahrlemagne and the Prince in History.

Also reading the Bible. Translating the entire gospel of John from Latin Vulgate to English.

aebriol

Norway2066 Posts

January 31 2012 10:16 GMT

#362

Just finished reading:

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I really love this series, it's so enjoyable and light-hearted throughout.

As a sidenote, I like Baen's policy about ARC's being purchasable.

DisaFear

Australia4074 Posts

January 31 2012 10:21 GMT

#363

Reading Scarecrow: Army of Thieves
Halfway through it, it is decent, but not as good as Scarecrow

Railxp

Hong Kong1313 Posts

January 31 2012 10:28 GMT

#364

Just started on Hyperion Book 2,

really, there's no point reading any of the new sci fi until you've gone through the classics. I should have read this ages ago, it would have saved me a lot of time trawling through sci fi trash looking for gold.

RetroAspect

Belgium219 Posts

January 31 2012 18:39 GMT

#365

On January 31 2012 19:28 Railxp wrote:
Just started on Hyperion Book 2,

really, there's no point reading any of the new sci fi until you've gone through the classics. I should have read this ages ago, it would have saved me a lot of time trawling through sci fi trash looking for gold.

Spoken truly! Working my way through Endymion atm, and after that gonna read alastair reynolds and neuromancer and some other works i ordered on amazon! But there is one series i cannot recommend enough, as much a "classic" as any:

"The Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton"

An absolute masterpiece by any measure or standards!

- First book here [image loading]

nebula.

Sweden1431 Posts

January 31 2012 19:50 GMT

#366

gonna start with this one soon. love murakami and haven't read this one so hopefully it won't disappoint me. : )

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nebula.

Sweden1431 Posts

January 31 2012 19:54 GMT

#367

On January 31 2012 02:28 StarcraftNerd1547 wrote:
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As a swede and a socialist

"as a swede"... as if all swedes have these opinions. : ) sadly not, hehehe. ^^

TrickyGilligan

United States641 Posts

January 31 2012 22:50 GMT

#368

On January 31 2012 03:13 RetroAspect wrote:
-Hyperion Cantus (Hyperion+Fall of Hyperion+Endymion+Rise of Endymion)

Oh wow, I was completely unaware that the Hyperion books were an entire series, thought it was just the two.

I really like Hyperion, but Fall of Hyperion got a little too far into the realm of crazy bullshit for me. Very well thought out and interesting bullshit, but I felt like it was more short story territory instead of something that should be in a novel.

How are the Endymion books if you've read them yet? Very curious if I should pick that series back up or not.

Sanctimonius

United Kingdom861 Posts

January 31 2012 23:20 GMT

#369

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan - good so far, though it will have to pick up to match I, Lucifer.

Next on the cards is The Player of Games by Iain M Banks, then The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Can't wait.

oldgregg

New Zealand1176 Posts

February 01 2012 08:03 GMT

#370

The sequel to Trainspotting, which was amazingly good. This one didn't start out as good, but I'm about 2/3rds of the way through it now and it's getting pretty interesting..

Shock710

Australia6097 Posts

February 01 2012 08:14 GMT

#371

T_T i feel really childish reading books like david eddings belgarion and sparhawrk when i see peopel posting really like well *high level*(i dont know how to put it) books, such as the communist manifesto and computer tech books the problems of philosophy.
T_T i guess i'll need a couple more years on me

cyni

United Kingdom11 Posts

February 01 2012 16:04 GMT

#372

Not much if truth be told. Just finished reading both The Outsider and The Fall, both by Camus. Got a pretty hefty ethics book to get through for uni, so I don't have much time for personal reading.

Love me some Irvine Welsh @oldgregg. You're right though, it's nowhere near as good as Trainspotting.

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

February 01 2012 16:07 GMT

#373

I'm just rereading The Wheel of Time, because, well, I started reading it like 6-7 years ago and I wouldn't remember shit if I were to try to read the last volume :D
I don't read that often nowadays though, so I guess it will take me another 2 years to reread it completely. FML :D
(j/k, I like WoT)

TSM

Great Britain584 Posts

February 01 2012 16:08 GMT

#374

awesome book

Riyomori

Singapore316 Posts

February 01 2012 16:17 GMT

#375

Starting the Malazan Saga now that all the books are finally out. wish me luck!

RetroAspect

Belgium219 Posts

February 03 2012 17:04 GMT

#376

On February 01 2012 07:50 TrickyGilligan wrote:

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Well, i just finished the first Endymion book, and i must say i find it to be the best of the first three yet! I can't wait for what the final volume will bring! If you have read the first two, i defo reccomend to read the Endymion series as well, it's a whole new "setup" (i won't spoiler stuff so i can't tell you much) in the future of the Hyperion setting!

Maxie

Sweden2653 Posts

February 03 2012 21:47 GMT

#377

Just started reading Name of the Wind, it seems pretty good so far.

CobaltBlu

United States919 Posts

February 03 2012 21:57 GMT

#378

I'm very close to finishing 1Q84 and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. This is actually my first Murakami novel so I'm going to pick up another one of his books after I'm done with this one, however, I'm not quite sure which on yet. People seem to really like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle but the fact that the translation has been heavily abridged is a bit of a disappointment.

I'm also making my way through Theodore Rex.

Troublesome

United Kingdom522 Posts

February 03 2012 21:57 GMT

#379