ditto...Originally Posted by Girlystevedave
I'm sorry.
you poor thing, you.
ditto...I'm sorry.
you poor thing, you.
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
I did read the first twenty or so pages of Ketchum's Joyride but had to put it to the side so that I could read Ancients by David Lynn Goleman. After reading Event and Legend I had to get Ancients. I don't know if you guys have tried reading any of these but they are pretty good. Very likeable characters and intense plots. He's got me hooked.
Life is a garden...dig it!
idk. it's not really bad so far (i'm about 60 pages in). Hawthorne is very wordy, but it's certainly not bad. Although, i'm probably a bad judge considering that i read endlessly and have only ever encountered 1 book that has ever made me wanna gouge my eyes out.ditto...I'm sorry.
you poor thing, you.
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
what was that?
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
:: is interested in the answer to that question as well::::
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
It's called The Frozen Journey. I was in South Dakota for the 4th of July a few years ago. Went into a small town gas station. Found this book, written by local author. Intrigued, bought it. Read it. A science Fiction book, about travel through space. The writing was horrendous, the characters were flat, and the story was terrible. Thank god it was 18 pt font and double spaced. I had thought that the author was just a very inexperienced young kid who got a break with the publishers. nope. a 50 year old astronomer who had always dreamed of flying through space penned that charm. It just seems to me that anyone who reads even a few books a year until the age of 50 should be able to write at least a little better than that book. BLAH
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
Finally finished reading Salem's Lot. Really enjoyed it, I can't believe I waited so long to read it.
Going to start The House Next Door by Ann Rivers Siddons, and currently listening to Jane Eyre.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
since there seems to be plenty people reading Jane Eyre, I thought I'd throw this in.
Jane Eyre is on Project Gutenberg, from which you can download the ebook for free, just in case anyone else wants to know what the fuss is about.
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
I read INTERWORLD on Darker's recommendation.I'm reading Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves, and it is AWESOME!
The concept is really great. It imagines that the universe is an arc, kinda like a rainbow. Towards one end all the worlds are based and run on magic, and on the other, science.
There are two agencies, HEX (magic) and Binary (science) who are corrupt and are each trying to gain universal domination - Interworld is like a gunslinger outfit, trying to keep a balance between the two.
Buy it and read it
Now reading:
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Interworld, huh?...
tonight i shall finish the "author's preferred edition" audiobook of neverworld (read by neil gaiman himself say thankya). tomorrow i shall begin to tackle that daunting beast house of leaves. say a prayer for me. . . .
Feev, you'd love Interworld
Patrick, you have the subpress edition, right?
I'm currently reading one of Jim Butcher's Dresden File books (Dead Beat).
I'd never heard of them before and randomly picked it up at the library. It's really good! I'm now tracking all the other Harry Dresden books down on Amazon.
hmmm this Interworld sounds like my kind of book... Neil Gaiman is climbing all the way up my preference ladder of authors.
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
I was disappointed with House of Leaves, but I know a lot of people who love it (and used it as the inspiration for several roleplaying games) so it was probably just me!
Currently reading Homicide by David Simmons. Given that I'm watchign at the TV show as well, its quite weird to see the crimes that Simmons describes at the same time as reading about them.
The Talisman. I missed Jack.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
On my way home today, I stopped by my favorite book place and picked up American Gods since I saw so many people talking about it in here.
I also snagged Everything's Eventual and Black House in paperback (I don't wanna tote my hardcover around on the subway).
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
I am reading Liliths Brood, DUma key and Perdido Street Station!!!
soon...........it'll be my nursing textbooks
The Road to the Dark Tower. I'm excited
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
Has anyone read the Forgotten Realms series by R.A Salvatore? I've been wanting to start these books for a while, but I have enough door-stopper series to complete at the moment.
Okay, Tiff, READ Everything's Eventual NOW. Little Sisters of Eluria is in there - more Roland stories!
And bluelph - that's a great book - enjoy!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
feverish parade - I've read a fair few of Salvatore's Realms efforts. He's pretty good as far as standard fantasy efforts go, one of the better writers from TSR (him, Weis and Hickman, Elaine Cunningham...thats about it). Drizzt is an intriguing character, or grows into an intriguing character - like a lot of these series, it gets better as Salvatore gets better and learns how to write a story as opposed to an AD&D adventure.
What's AD&D?
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons - its a roleplaying game by TSR (and now by Wizards of the Coast). At the height of its popularity, it had several different game worlds and TSR commissioned books in them, based on characters within the worlds. Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms were the big two.
Course this led to mad continuity problems and the worlds gettign restarted on a semi regular basis, and new editions of the games...
Aha! I'm aware of D&D, just the A part threw me
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