The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

[robertsona]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

umberto eco - history of beauty

a bit of a slog towards the last third but informative, well-written by eco (the other guy who contributed is slightly worse), very well illustrated with informative--and lengthy, and numerous--secondary texts. never really gets toward a cohesive conception of beauty but that's sort of the point, frustrating though it may be: beauty is as fluid as the culture that surrounds it. good stuff, would dock a few (imaginary) points for occasionally wonky translation, especially within the secondary texts, which had a few unnerving misspelled words

[moches]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

World War Z by Max Brooks

Powerful book.

[Callipygian]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

I finished The Demonata series by Darren Shan a little while back...
planning on reading: Cirque de freak


EDIT: you should take the time to invest in reading a novel called: Lolita
it is by Vladimir Nabokov...

you might be turned off of reading it when you find out what it's about though...
but then again the best novels are always "Unique"

Lolita ranks among my favorite American novels. For some personal notes / short review on it, see http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66547158

[Reincarnate]

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Ready Player One

Fun, entertaining book, but horribly written. Way too much telling and not enough showing.

[Cold Kitten]

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I'm currently reading two books, actually.

Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz -- Amazing book. He's definitely one of my favorite authors. Many of his books are just simply amazing.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith -- Not too far into this one (also, no, I haven't seen the movie yet), but it's great so far. Really entertaining.

[Cavernio]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

Randomly chosen on-sale book at chapters. The Left Hand of God. It's not very good. Feels different though, at least for what I've read, so it's got that going for it. It's the first of a trilogy I probably won't read the rest of unless the ending gets me hooked.

[Senip]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

The Left Hand of God is pretty good. Thats the one with the guy raised in a brutal monastery right?

Finished off Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. Great book, he always makes compelling systems and characters, so glad he was picked to finish Jordan's epic.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/portal/Warbreaker

[brothaice]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

Gunslinger by Stephen King then the Hunger Games series was before that

[Cavernio]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

The Left Hand of God is pretty good. Thats the one with the guy raised in a brutal monastery right?

Yup

[Cavernio]

Re: The Last Book You Read, etc, etc

Finished off Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. Great book, he always makes compelling systems and characters, so glad he was picked to finish Jordan's epic.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/portal/Warbreaker

Say whaaaa... TOR does CC liscensing??? That's just awesome.