Favorite Books and Current Reads

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Hanyou]

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Kinokokao]

Oh, dear. Dear, dear, dear. "Clarified" is not what I'd call the later books, politically speaking.

[noodles]

MUAD'DIB

MY LIFE FOR YOU

[Vapour Trail]

I'm re-reading Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. This book is maybe the most pretentious goddamn thing I have ever read, it's hilarious. Highly recommended if you like to laugh at flaky postmodern philosophy.

[Kinokokao]

Just the title alone makes me feel like I'm not cool enough to read it.

[Maxine MagicFox]

Picked up The Artemis Fowl series again.

:3 My sister actually FINALLY asked to read the first book. So, I still have not finished reading Opal Deception and I have Lost Colony in my box set. I was half way through Arctic Incident but I decided to reread it today and I've already passed where my book mark was. I love Sword of Truth series but it's great to go back to something simpler again. XD

Not to mention, I just LOVE Artemis Fowl.

First book end spoilers
[spoiler]I just LOVE that he always acts so evil and tries to act so uncaring but things keep getting thrown in his face and every once in a while a conscious just stirs. The first book's ending with the deal with Holly for his mom was just... beautiful.

Still, I love the first book the best because I just couldn't decide who I wanted to win. Artemis, the evil villain who I love. Or the fairies who are being conned by this brat who just needs a good butt smacking! XD[/spoiler]

[noodles]

lol books everyone read in elementary school

except I didn't :C

reading Isaac Asimov's NIGHTFALLLLLLL

[negzee]

New acquisitions today:

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Leonard Mlodinow)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)

[Kimiko]

Nightfall the short story was okayish, although Asimov's characters are always cardboard. The novel went post-apocalyptic and therefore sucked.

[noodles]

aw man now I feel odd reading it :<

[Kimiko]

Odd how? Asimov is classic sci-fi literature.

[noodles]

because I think I will probably agree with you in the end

also it is pretty boring compared to, like I, Robot

maybe I should just look for the short story

[Kimiko]

Nightfall and The Ugly Little Boy are both novelizations together with Robert Silverberg, based on short stories by Asimov. In both cases I think the original was better. The novels add more detail, which is good, but they also extend the stories beyond the originals, which made them kinda meh in my opinion. I haven't read the novelization of The Bicentennial Man (which was later made into a movie), but I imagine that situation is not much different, as the original already captured the most important scenes in the story.