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[strongbad]

reading a brave new world

[snoorkel]

i'm reading a cool 80s mmpb I found of foucault's pendulum

[Socks]

reading a brave new world

i loved that book. it was the only book in high school that i read cover to cover on my own initiative.

[Patrick Stickles]

checked out Catching Fire

was this any good because i don't know if i want to read this after the hunger games

[silvertone]

reading a brave new world

yu should read Island too

[don't let's]

Anybody have some recommendations on some fantasy and/or sci-fi fiction? Preferably a series.

[snoorkel]

Anybody have some recommendations on some fantasy and/or sci-fi fiction? Preferably a series.

scifi - foundation (asimov)
scifi - VALIS (philip dick)
fantasy - wheel of time (robert jordan)

those are the first good series that come to mind. there are a lot of surprisingly decent fantasy series set in particular mythoi, like warhammer or star wars, but you kind of have to be into one of them.

also you guys shoudl stop reading hunger games books...

[Socks]

Yeah anything by Philip K. Dick is worth reading.

[strongbad]

Anybody have some recommendations on some fantasy and/or sci-fi fiction? Preferably a series.

foundation!

yu should read Island too

okay

[don't let's]

Alright, thanks for the recommendations. I will look into those.

[Samus Aran]

So I finally got back into the habit of reading after a very long time of reading nothing at all. I kicked it off by reading Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. I have a few small complaints, hardly worth noting (partly due to laziness on my part), but all in all it was exactly the sort of whimsical, absurdist bucket of lies-as-truths that I needed.

It's a loose piece of literature, certainly not exactly a tightly woven, plot-driven piece...but that's one of the things I loved about it.

The whole concept of Bokononism is really what holds it together - without that, it'd be a collection of seemingly (mostly) unrelated happenings. Which is rather fitting seeing as how a karass works together unknowingly in the first place.

[snoorkel]

what's next on the docket kazzy wazzy

[Samus Aran]

what's next on the docket kazzy wazzy

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami

[Socks]

I can see Kaz reading as being the sort of thing that is as exciting as two bricks laying next to each other in mortar, and then, just when you think the excitement has climaxed, here comes another layer of mortar and another brick.

[Samus Aran]

I can see Kaz reading as being the sort of thing that is as exciting as two bricks laying next to each other in mortar, and then, just when you think the excitement has climaxed, here comes another layer of mortar and another brick.

Uh...I have a pretty good feeling I'm exactly like everyone else who reads while I read, which is to say I look like someone who is reading. It's a pretty universal "look." Book in hand, eyes looking at page. You know.

Not sure where excitement comes in.

But if you're trying to imply that I don't enjoy reading, then let me say that I enjoy it very much, Mr. Socks. I generally love literature. I certainly would not liken it to something as dull as bricks or bricklaying.