American Football can be brutal. Though it's mainly because in Texas the sport is Epic Business and a lot of coaches will work their players super hard during summer practices in the blistering sun, often deny players water if they can't move their fannies fast enough, and then act all surprised when someone collapses from heat stroke.

Oh. And I'm reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Sentynel wrote:

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:

Sentynel wrote:Reasons I fenced included how awesome it is, how awesome my coach was, and that it got me out of other sports.

Why, didn't you like the other sports you played? What were they, anyway?

Rugby, which as mentioned is extremely violent, and at the time I was both short and very light. Not a good combination.
Football (soccer), which I sucked at and hated.
Cricket, which is just dull (don't hurt me).

I also did rowing for a year, and I quite enjoyed it, but everybody seems to take it so SERIOUSLY. Training at all hours and stuff.

Edit: I also love badminton, but I didn't get the option to play it at school until I'd been fencing for ages and didn't want to give that up.

An interesting combination of sports. And I think watching cricket is extremely dull. Playing it is fun, but you even find it dull. That is absolutely okay. Cricket is one of the boring sports ever created (but I still like playing it- possibly because the games I play don't last for more than 2 hours. Usually less than 1 hour).
My school sucked in sports facilities like every other over here :'(. I have participated in a lot of sporting events, but that was all because I was genuinely interested and did everything on my own. School taught very little.

Talking about reading, you know what? My exams got postponed! After we had written three papers. And no one knows (including the pathetic Mumbai University and my college authorities) when they shall resume. Some are saying in March, some in April and some even in May. Have you heard of anything more ridiculous? For a change, I was quite prepared! And everyone of us were so eager for the exams to end on March 23rd and we had even made grand plans (as usual). But postponed indefinitely (well it will happen before 15th May, without doubt)......we may even have to defer the Europe trip.

And don't talk about the blistering sun. It is boiling out here right now. And it is just March. I shudder to think how May would be.

Mwamba wrote:American Football can be brutal. Though it's mainly because in Texas the sport is Epic Business and a lot of coaches will work their players super hard during summer practices in the blistering sun, often deny players water if they can't move their fannies fast enough, and then act all surprised when someone collapses from heat stroke.

Yes, the training is deadly.

But in actual play, rugby is more harsh.

Mainly because rugby players wear very little protective equipment.

Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
The Greatest Lies in History - Alexander Canduci
Death Note V.6 - Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata

Shade of Swords by M.J.Akbar.
It is about jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity.
I had started the book before, but I got busy and I forgot about it.

American Roulette- Richard Marcus

This author is clearly brilliant and ballsy to come up with and pull off such brilliant scams, but he's also really racist and sexist and he doesn't even realize it. and whenever he says "never trust a broad" I imagine he's living in the 20s. But apparently you can trust "chinamen" because they "never rat unless their own blood is threatened.

Luciene wrote: But apparently you can trust "chinamen" because they "never rat unless their own blood is threatened.

Haha. They are trustworthy as far as they are not threatened? :D

I think he's trying to be slightly mafia so blood would probable mean family in this case.

What an idea. If I ever get bored, I might try it out. That man is seriously awesome for fooling all those people.

I especially love the ones from serial killers. It's kind of weird to imagine.

WORLD WAR Z - Max Brooks (finally!)

FuzzyLobster wrote:WORLD WAR Z - Max Brooks (finally!)

About time! Awesome, awesome book.

Yes.

Currently reading Red Phoenix, by Larry Bond. Good.
I, Lucifer, by Peter O'Donnell
When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?, by George Carlin
Re-reading The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Resident Evil: Zero Hour. forgot the author, it's aright.

Lireal- Garth Nix
The Immorals Quartet - Tamora Pierce
They both really good

Hellboy Volume 9 - The Wild Hunt

This is one of my favourite Hellboy books of all time. It's EPIC, in every sense of the word. And British mythology is awesome, so <3. And Gruagach's back story! BRILLIANT. Both Fegredo and Mignola outdo themselves.

I'm rereading Golem's Eye for lack of any other book.
I like it better now than I liked it before.

Suite française - Irène Némirovsky

The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli

Next: I think Dune.

Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsay

The West and the World (my history textbook) - Some people I can't be bothered to look up atm

FuzzyLobster wrote:Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsay

The West and the World (my history textbook) - Some people I can't be bothered to look up atm

Ah, that text book. I dropped Grade 12 History (was in Grade 11 at the time, but needed to take something that period because I was accidentally put in Grade 11 EXTENDED French instead of Core French, and the class was full of stupid people).

The God Engines - John Scalzi

Well, isn't that interesting. I dropped it too. I really wanted to take it (hence how I begged the teacher to let me borrow the book for a few months), but I have the whole Chemistry thing and after the second night of not getting to sleep 'till three in the morning... Everything else I should probably take for possible post-secondary reasons, so I had to get rid of it (even though it was the easiest class).

I would've thought that Extended French would have smarter people than Core French - it sounds harder. Can't judge though, we only have Core here.

Edit: Changed spelling of Frence to French, WTF?