what have you read recently?

[Clive]

Originally posted by ClimbTheNRG
I just read "Of Mice and Men". A nice short depressing little jaunt, it was. I loved it. There was nothing about it that presented itself as high and mighty, like some other stuff I had to read (SCARLET LETTER!!! die Hester!!!), it was just a simple but powerful tale about these two guys George and Lennie in depression era california i think...it's an amazing novella, and just over 100 pages. Even if you don't like it, it's worth a read through. Its ending is extremely sad though. It sarted to get to me

The televisual adaptation of 'Of Mice and Men' is really good too, and gets my upmost recommendation. As for how it compares to the book, well...I cant really remember so I'll leave it for yourself to judge. See it, if you havent already.

As for books that I have read recently, well, theres Chasm City, by Alistair Reynolds - a sci-fi novel with plenty of imagination and its also quite epic. A winner. Ive also read the prequel to it but I cant remember what is bloody called. Revelation Space...I think. Again, bloody marvellous. Buy them now!

[ozone]

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

[Miazaki]

Valentine's Castle

[Clive]

Originally posted by ozone
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

Yeah but did you understand the damned thing?

[Solitude]

Originally posted by Viktor
Yeah but did you understand the damned thing?

he didn't coz he hasn't even read the damn thing...trust ozone to get a chance to brag.i'm the guy who's read it and understood it(well parts of it)...its a pretty cool book,you should try it.so i'm a geek...shoot me.oh and i've just read up on shakespeare's julius caeser,i love the part when brutus and mark antony give their speeches,it's almost as though shakespeare saw real time politics coming...or it was the same back.trust mankind

[Josh]

If you aren't reading anything I recommend The Giver.
I love that book.
Right now, I am reading The Return of the King.

[ozone]

Witness World War2.I'm finally at it after lending it to wordsworth and a few frens o mine

[Toto]

Robert Service: Lenin: Biography
Franz Kafka: Collected Short Stories
Karl Marx: Das Kapital: Volume I
Frederich Nietzche: Beyond Good and Evil

[Clive]

Originally posted by Toto
Robert Service: Lenin: Biography
Karl Marx: Das Kapital: Volume I

Hey Toto, have you got the ISBN numbers for these two?

[Koichi]

I don't recall the author's name, but the book is called 'The Fifth Profession'.

[Roux!]

I'm reading a bit of poetry right now... Latin-american authors, to boot! I'm just catching up with Amado Nervo right now... Great stuff...

Makes me wanna stray from Computer Science and become a poet!

[Toto]

Originally posted by Viktor
Hey Toto, have you got the ISBN numbers for these two?

Well, Das Kapital is OLD, real old, and probably second-hand. But Lenin's bio is as follows:
ISBN 0-330-49139-3

[Neverin]

I just finished reading 'The Redemption of Althalus' by David and Leigh Eddings. Its a brilliant fantasy book. I hope some company discovers it and makes a movie or a game, if not then I will.

[xosmi]

Originally posted by Vanit
I just finished reading 'The Redemption of Althalus' by David and Leigh Eddings. Its a brilliant fantasy book. I hope some company discovers it and makes a movie or a game, if not then I will.

Know the book, its real good
you should also read the belgarion and sparhawk series

[DeathChicken]

Currently reading Restaurant at the End of the Universe