read any good books lately...

Damn,no one posts in this thread.Doesn't anybody read anymore?

I am in the middle of a classic sf novel that I have never had the pleasure to read before but that I am enjoying immensely.

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

suachili wrote: neuromancer and count zero by william gibson, some poems by Khalil Gibran, and i do try to read ´´the Tower¨ by franz kafka

you probably mean "The Castle" and not "The Tower"

Jim Garten wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: If you like ancient Egypt I highly recommend a fiction book by Wilbur Smith called The River God I'd second that recommendation; the sequence involving a hippo hunt (not as funny as it sounds...) is worth the cover price alone. WS doesn't always hit the mark with me, but when he does, as with River God, he's a superb read.

He wrote a sequel to it called "The Seventh Scroll" that was set in the present and was about archeologists researching the events that happened in the River God and I couldn't stand it.He just released a true sequel to The River God called "Warlock" that deals with Taita as a very old man and Prince Memnon as an adult,check it out,a very good read.

I just started reading "Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher" ("The City of the Dreaming Books") by Walter Moers.
Just finished:
Sherry Turkle: "Life on the Screen"
Thomas Pynchon: "Mason & Dixon"

I just started "Tristan und Isolde" by Gottfried von Straßburg; difficult reading for one whose native tongue is not German, because this is written in Middle High German (ok, it is a "bi-lingual" edition with a translation into modern German, but I try not to cheat).
there's also one suggested by Friede lying on my desk, "Why Aren't Black Holes Black?" by Robert M. Hazen and Maxine Singer, a book about the unsolved problems in natural sciences, but natural sciences aren't my forte, so I postponed that reading (although I will read it; I try to understand some of it at least)

Jim Garten wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: If you like ancient Egypt I highly recommend a fiction book by Wilbur Smith called The River God I'd second that recommendation; the sequence involving a hippo hunt (not as funny as it sounds...) is worth the cover price alone. WS doesn't always hit the mark with me, but when he does, as with River God, he's a superb read.

I am always suspicious about books that are settled in ancient Egypt and ancient Greece; I have a bachelor degree in history and specialized in ancient, and the ancient Greeks and Egypts were my favorite subject. I have yet to come across a book that is not historically faulty (and I don't mean the big historical facts; those are usually right; I mean the details of the civilizations)

"Fool on the Hill" and "Sewer, Gas & Electric" by Matt Ruff are good reading

meurglysIII wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: Dan Yaron wrote: I am reading The Big Needle by Ken Follett at the moment, but I can't recommend it to anyone because it's just a cheap and sleazy thriller about revenge, drugs and sh*t like that. He wrote one book I really liked called The Pillars of the Earth,a fictional account of the building of a cathedral in England in the 1200's.Very good book That is one of the best books I have ever read.  I'm not kidding.  I was put off because it was on my reading list three years and because of the length.  Someone encouraged me to read it, so I did.  Definitely worth your time

Most definitely.While it is not quite ancient history,I love ancient history and historical fiction
I got really swept up in that book,it made you feel like you were there.And while it was a very long book(I like long books as long as they are good and interesting),I hated to finish it because I didn't want to leave the story.

If you like ancient Egypt I highly recommend a fiction book by Wilbur Smith called The River God.

Also,anything by Stephen Pressfield is awesome too.I read a book of his not to long ago called Gates of Fire,it was all about the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae.

 

TheProgtologist wrote: king of Siam wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: king of Siam wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: Re-reading Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.I am out of fresh reading material. Gotta go to the library or Barnes & Noble soon good book, but a bit overated. i would recommend any chuck Palahniuk book I have read all of his books but Fight Club remains my favorite of his. cool! i actually had to read lullaby at school Wow,that is cool.What did you have to read it for?A literature class? Good book too.

Yeah just my 11th Grade American Lit class
Our teacher Ms. Lowe suggested it for a class project. I just picked it cause it was about a killer poem i made a good choice


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I am reading The Big Needle by Ken Follett at the moment, but I can't recommend it to anyone because it's just a cheap and sleazy thriller about revenge, drugs and sh*t like that.