Went on a road trip to Melbourne last weekend to see Tiesto so I took advantage of it and got through the rest of The Colour Of Magic and started on The Light Fantastic. God damn Pratchett is a master!
I just finished Going Postal and Making Money. Definitely my two favorite novels in the Discworld series so far… “One of my predecessors used to have people torn apart by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death. He thought it was a hoot.”
Terry Pratchet is a god
I just read the Worthing Chronicles. What is there to say, except for every character was shit except for Abner Doon, who has both an awesome name and an awesome penchant for destroying civilization.
I’m half way through re-reading "In search of Schrödinger’s cat: Quantum physics and reality". (didn’t finish it the first time though).
Last book I read was Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, which was sort of good. Plot was ok, storytelling was more than interesting, but it got a little boring towards the end -and this is a very short book-, and I didn’t care about the characters (nor I think the writer intended for me to care).
I’m lovin’ the wide-spread Pratchett lovin’ here.
Been reading some Shakespeare. Now reading Twelfth Night.
What’s not to love :3 ?
I’m almost finished with Time’s Eye. After that I’m just going to re-read my H.P. Lovecraft story collections. Lovecraft is awesome. Soon in British Literature we’re going to read Persuasion which I’m not exactly looking forward to.
cosmos by carl sagan.
I really need to get me some Carl Sagan books…
yeah, it’s definitely worth it, especially cosmos.
Pratchett is a genius. I have them all, even the graphic novels!
Current reads are Trust Region Methods:
Story’s a bit shit in that one ^^^^^
And bought The Night Watch today (not the excellent pratchett book, but the russian vampire one) which I’ll hopefully read on my plane journey to see my girlfriend this weekend.
Also enjoyin a bit of John le Carre and Arthur Conan Doyle recently.
Night Watch is a very good book. One of the few cases in which I think the films out do the book.
I recently got Day Watch a little while ago, so I’ll be reading that at some point.
Finished Time’s Eye. Though I didn’t realize it was a continuing story until I had already started it. Not going to read the next one now though. I’m about to start Who Goes There?, the story that inspired the movie The Thing. Nobody anywhere around me has the book (and I’m not paying $15 for a 160 page book) so I’m reading it from a .rtf file I saved the text on.
Been reading the BioShock 2 Artbook a lot recently. read a bit of fellowship of the ring the other day and realized why I have yet to finish that damn book; Tom Bombadil.
Tom Bombadil is the best thing about those damn books.
Of Mice and Men.
Just finished some essays on Derek Walcott (specifically the poem “The Wind in the Dooryard”) and Endgame, by Samuel Beckett. Also reading No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter for Uni. Becket > Pinter by a large margin.
You in highschool too? Fackin’ English class. ~_~
But, totally OT, I’ve actually been leafing through AMERICA: The Book by Jon Stewart. The satire and general douche-baggery is quite amusing. Also been picking through my giant collection of Stephen King, currently reading Insomnia. Well, about to start reading it. Is it any good? :o