What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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Finished the first Bobbsey Twins book last night.
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Started reading Little Women with my eight year old. She loves it.
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Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago, and I'm currently working on Vonnegut's "Player Piano". I've got Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology" up next in the roster, and then I'll probably do a re-read of his "American Gods" to get it fresh in my mind before the debut of the new TV series.
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@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago,
A lot of people reading that again these days.
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Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago,
A lot of people reading that again these days.
Yes, and some of the parallels to the current iteration of our "American Culture" are frightening; specifically the glorification of ignorance and anti-intellectual sentiment. I feel like the warmongering part has always been there, but the current administration is trying to push the agenda in the same fashion as the Cold War era administrations did.
Quite disturbing.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is one of my all time favorite books!
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@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is one of my all time favorite books!
I own every book he's ever written. Norwegian Wood is my favorite book of all time.
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@RamblingBiped I'm actually trying to get my fiance to read it but she's been reading The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
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The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
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Also have started reading Little Women with my eldest.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
Just read like five chapters of this in tonight's bedtime reading.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Also have started reading Little Women with my eldest.
She is LOVING this. We read two chapters this morning. I'm amazed how much she is into classic American literature.
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Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and The Best of Connie Willis which is (surprise!) a collection of Connie Willis' short fiction.
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I'm currently on book 10 of 10 -- The Crippled God -- of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.
Fantasy / Military
It's actually quite good.
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@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I'm currently on book 10 of 10 -- The Crippled God -- of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.
Fantasy / Military
It's actually quite good.
I started reading Willful Child by him, and it seemed really bad. Is this better?
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My friends just started the incarnations of immortality series. Some interesting ideas in there. Forgot it existed until he brought it up.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I'm currently on book 10 of 10 -- The Crippled God -- of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.
Fantasy / Military
It's actually quite good.
I started reading Willful Child by him, and it seemed really bad. Is this better?
I'm not sure how to answer because I've never read Willful Child.
This series has been a little tough for me because he jumps around entire books to connect groups and scenes in the story, ie. books 1 & 3 are connected, books 2 & 4 are connected and wanders from there.
The characters are really hard to follow in each new scene because he completely throws you into each situation as if already developed but soon catches you up.
Many times, I grew tired and was going to read something lighter, but I kept going back and stuck it out.
There are lots of under / barely developed characters. I guess you could say it's in the flavor of Game of Thrones.
Overall, I'd give the series 4 - 4.5. If I ever do a re-read, I'll give it plenty of time.
There's a kind of 'Cliff Notes' on Tor.com -- http://www.tor.com/2010/07/07/the-malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-gardens-of-the-moon-part-1/
These reviewers to a summary by chapter through the series. This I haven't checked out more than tagging the site.
Enjoy
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@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
There are lots of under / barely developed characters. I guess you could say it's in the flavor of Game of Thrones.
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New Charles Stross Delirium Brief. This one is back to a Bob view point which we haven't had for a while.
