Nero wrote:Sigh. Still reading David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens So damn large....

Haha...I'm still on the very first few pages. -_-

If only I didn't have to read Bean Trees...the story is very slow-going.

I love David Copperfield, it's so much better than Breaking Dawn, which is what I got done reading at seven this morning...

David Copperfield is actually quite hilarious....

At one time, David's talking to Dora, and she's saying about how well treated his horse is. And on an afterthought, he says,
"I was hoping to put that off until tomorrow".

:P

I have a weird sense of humor...

Amulet of Samarkand, actually...

Hello Magazine and Brangelina's babies...
:P

lol, I love that magazine and it's unusual fascination with royals that noone has ever heard of/cares about.

The Neuromancer-William Gibson
The Truth about Stories-Thomas King

Making Money -Terry Pratchet

This weekend, I found the best bookstore I have ever been to...

Since I'm currently out of books I'm reading one a friend loaned to me ....It's called North Child by Edith Pattou...It doesn't seem too great but I don't really have any alternatives... :(

The Amulet of Samarkand (If you don't know the author you should be shot.)

First time I'm re-reading it properly after three years.

Luciene wrote:The Neuromancer-William Gibson

Neuromancer is awesome. The so-called "first cyberpunk" novel.

I'm reading insanely large numbers of books lately. That, working, and watching fantasy movies from teh past 5 years composes my life at the moment.

~Sunstorm - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter

~Some John Brunner sci-fi. His writing is kinda old-fashioned and hard to comprehend, but it's interesting stuff.

~Some Heinlein: The Day After Tomorrow (has nothing to do with movie), The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and Stranger in a Strange Land

~L. Sprague de Camp collected short stories

~DUNE

~Foundation - Isaac Asimov

~His Majesty's Dragon (AKA Temeraire) - Naomi Novik

~Non-fiction on a guy's travels in the Middle East, Nazi symbolism, and Steve Wozniak

~THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

~Fullmetal Alchemist and Bleach (my two favourite mangae)

Just been reading Breaking Dawn ~ Stephanie Meyer. Also Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange by Melissa Marrs.

Yes, I find Charles Dickens funny.

Reading Superior Saturday.

Random wrote:Just been reading Breaking Dawn ~ Stephanie Meyer.

Did you think it was good???

Must finish Bean Trees then to go onto David Copperfield and Twilight...

Oh darn it, I've got Macbeth to read too! -_-

kitty jones wrote:

Random wrote:Just been reading Breaking Dawn ~ Stephanie Meyer.

Did you think it was good???

Yes. I loved Twilight, and though NM and Eclipse were good, I didn't think they quite matched up. BD is both more lighthearted and more deadly at the same time. I recommend that you read it asap.

It hasn't come out here yet ... :( ..I'm leaving for the UK in 4 days though , so I've reserved a copy at WHSmith , so I can buy it when I get off the plane at the airport.... Until then I'm green with envy...!!! ^o)

Where is it you live? It came out in the US on the 2nd, here and Australia on the 4th.

On a forgotten island called Corfu , in the middle of nowhere , in a tiny country called Greece... :P

First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde

I was on the fourth volume of Journey to the West (trans. Anthony Yu) when the Bartimaeus Trilogy interrupted. So I guess I'm reading that again, as soon as I find the book.

And speaking of which, it's a little off topic but this caught my attention on pages 13-14 of my copy of "Ptolemy's Gate":

"Now, if it had been an afrit or a marid who'd done the damage, I could have lived with it. But it wasn't. In fact my conqueror was none but a third-level djinni, the kind I could normally roll up in my pocket and smoke after dinner. I could still see her now from where I lay, her nimble feminine grace rather undermined by her pig's head and the long rake she clutched in her trotters."

One of the main characters in "Journey to the West" is Pa-chieh, a hog demon with the body of a man but the head of a pig, who wields a nine-pronged rake - I figure this is a pretty definite allusion to the old Chinese epic. (Which Stroud has definitely read: I saw where he said that Bartimaeus may have been influenced by the character Monkey.) Of course, this lady pig demon wears Japanese garb, but "Journey to the West" has been adopted by Japanese culture as well. Saiyuki anyone?