Going to reread 1984 after a few years it seems appropriate for how things are looking today. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2
Sounds interesting is it accurate? Lol would love to read that if it's fairly recent. You try the secret history of the world? That was a fun book. Sent from my Android toothbrush!
I've just finished this. I enjoyed it more than I expected. I've tried tho read 'speaker for the dead' but find it clunky and not as fun.
Going to have to check that out then. The title alone has me wondering about it. Sent from my Android toothbrush!
Jonathan Carroll novels and short stories, he usually gets lumped in with science fiction, but I think of it as magical realism. Real people going about with their lives, and then something strange happens and they're left to sort it out. After Silence - A novel about a man who meets, falls in love with and marries a single mother. Years later he discovers she kidnapped the child as an infant... Land of Laughs - Another novel, a couple travel to rural Missouri in search of the daughter of their favorite author. When they arrive, characters from the author's book start to appear... Friends Best Man - A short story about talking dogs and the destruction of the human race. Uh-Oh City - Short story, A couple hire a cleaning lady, she starts finding things from their past in the attic, basement and garage, things they were sure that had been thrown away. Old wounds are opened, God personified in 36 righteous men, one of them commits suicide... Bones of the Moon - Anyone familiar with Neil Gaiman's Sandman story-arc "A Game Of You" would recognise the theme of this novel: A woman is having a recurring fantasy-quest dream, trying to come to terms with decisions from her past... Highly recommended to any lover of Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman or F&SF in general, his characters are so believable, most of the novels are good for a cry or two, and the short stories are just so damned profound, I catch myself thinking about them days, and even months later. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
I just finished Norwegian journalist Kjetil Østli's eminent non-fiction book Politi og røver (translates loosely as "Cops and Robbers"). It is based on a series of interviews with a former (?) criminal (car thief and burglar) turned CI, and a police detective, done over a period of three years. Now, I'm reading these two: For business (research) I'm re-reading Markus Landrø's Skredfare. Snøskred, risiko og redning ("Avalanche risk. Snow avalanches, risk and rescue"). For pleasure, I'm half way through Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge's Under Manhattan (no translation necessary, I believe). This book tells the tale of his latest expedition, crossing New York by sewers, storm drains and subway tunnels.
Have you seen the upcoming "new" version with the censored/blacked-out cover? It might be the first time I buy another copy of a book I already own just for the cover art!
I'm going through the Game of Thrones series now. I watched Season 1 on DVD before reading it, which I suppose is blasphemy, but I got the set of 4 books as a birthday gift so I'm working my way through them. Also, a graphic novel called "The Mice Templar." I went to my first comic convention last year, and happen to have a nice conversation with its creator so I bought books 1 and 2 and am really enjoying it. Epic themes on a very small scale I have an interest in the real Knights Templar and have read several books about them, so this was an easy transition.
I'm reading 'Pariah' by Dan Abnett. Its part of the 'Ravenor' series in the Warhammer 40k universe. I have quite a lot of catching up to do with series I've ignored for ages eg Wheel of Time, some Raymond Feist. I also have the cbr files of the complete Serenity/Firefly comics to read on my Nexus 7. Mmmmm.
For the last few months I have been trying to read everything by Haruki Murakami, I usually go through periods where I will read only one author until I have finished their entire literary cannon. I just finished "A Wild Sheep Chase" and will be starting "Kafka on the Shore" today, both by Haruki Murakami.
reading? nah not my thing to read books, always fell asleep when tried it out, i just read/look at this instead on the ipad...
Rereading Dark Star, by Alan Furst. Set just before WWII. Highly recommended. Trying to work up the energy to begin the Game of Thrones books. Both excited and scared...