Hey Bookworm, What Are You READING?

[BobCox2]

Reading LENS OF THE WORLD.

bY. R.A. MacAVOY

AGAIN!

"YOU ARE THE LENS OF THE WORLD: THE LENS THROUGH WHICH
THE WORLD MAY BECOME AWARE OF ITSELF. THE WORLD,
on the other hand, is the only lens on which you can see yourself.
It is both lenses together that make
VISION"

[BobCox2]

Happy Towel Day
U hoopy froods

[pancakeman]

You sass that hoopy frood Doug Adams?

[Bromanity]

Reading Grave Peril by Jim Butcher, part of the Dresden Files series.

Honestly it's just OK, the hybrid concept of a wizard detective in modern Chicago is pretty cool though.


The best books I read this year were the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. If you like fantasy - read it.

[BobCox2]

It's cool would make a good game setting but the books are read once not read 2 times types.

For both those series IMHO

[SonataArctica]

The Dresden Files

[Tanith]

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, on the advice of a gaming friend. Can't put it down.

[LozHinge the Unhinged]

Non Stop, by Brian Aldiss. Written in 1958, it's seems, so far, as fresh and up-to-date as anything I've read. Others of his that I've read and really enjoyed are the Helliconia sequence and Greybeard. Perhaps there others, but I cannot recall them now.

After that, a long overdue re-read is due of The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)*. First read it at school, an unfeasibly long time ago and it completely blew me away. I have also enjoyed The Kraken Wakes and Stowaway To Mars (as John Beynon).

*the guy wrote under a lot of aliases

[jmervyn]

You sass that hoopy frood Doug Adams?

My favorite interpretation was the BBC TV miniseries...




On topic, I'm on book three of the Sharpe's Rifles series. Again. Fourth time, I think?



For those who are unaware/disabled/catatonic, this is a lengthy "faction" (historical fiction) series by Bernard Cornwell which covers the later Napoleonic wars. The core series ends at the battle of Waterloo, though Cornwell knew a good thing when he profited massively off of it and there have been several other books inserting the primary hero, Richard Sharpe, and his sidekick Patrick Harper into other contemporary historical settings.

The Sharpe's Rifles series was one of his earlier efforts, and is definitely the longest series he's written. Detractors claim that it is lifted outright from C.S. Forester, most likely because Forester wrote Death to the French which is apparently a similar treatment (the dashing young heroic figure cast as a British rifleman in Spain). Nevertheless, Cornwell strives to be as historically accurate as possible, and the series really isn't as lurid as Forester's - though doubtless much of that is due to the different era of authorship.

It goes without saying that I appreciate both television miniseries, but I have a near-man-crush on Sean Bean (Boromir) while just considering Ioan Gruffudd a fine actor. No, I haven't seen Game of Thrones yet.

[BobCox2]

Non Stop, by Brian Aldiss. Written in 1958, it's seems, so far, as fresh and up-to-date as anything I've read. Others of his that I've read and really enjoyed are the Helliconia sequence and Greybeard. Perhaps there others, but I cannot recall them now.

After that, a long overdue re-read is due of The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)*. First read it at school, an unfeasibly long time ago and it completely blew me away. I have also enjoyed The Kraken Wakes and Stowaway To Mars (as John Beynon).

*the guy wrote under a lot of aliases

You Sir, Seem somehow to Enjoy what I have no liking of, I agree your are the Unhinged!
Do you tear the pages out as you read?