Literature What are you currently reading?

[Kasandra]

The tipping point: malcolm gladwell

 

[Kasandra]

Here it is

 

[Cerebellion]

Mind of the Raven - Bernd Heinrich

 

[Dropkick]

I decided to give Lee Child's Jack Reacher books a try. I read the first book yesterday (Killing Floor) and between yesterday and today finished the second (Die Trying). I'm now reading the third book Tripwire. So far they're fairly entertaining.

I'll most likely read the whole series, however I'm feeling like taking a short break from this series and sampling another author's works. So next I think I'm going to try Seanan McGuire's Rosemary and Rue. It's the first book in an urban fantasy series (currently my favorite genre).

 

[das_nut]

I want to reread Saturn's Children by Charles Stross.

It's more or less a fridge horror novel on the experiences of a robot designed to be a concubine.

 

[Dropkick]

I want to reread Saturn's Children by Charles Stross.

It's more or less a fridge horror novel on the experiences of a robot designed to be a concubine.

Sounds similar to Kardashian Konfidential.

 

[das_nut]

Sounds similar to Kardashian Konfidential.

I never read that, but looking at the reviews, it doesn't sound that similar.

Saturn's Children is a space opera, but with disturbing undertones.

 

[FortyTwo]

Sounds similar to Kardashian Konfidential.

Are you kidding? You can't reduce that book to some kind of measly space opera. The personal journey experienced by the characters and their augmentation with technology rivals that of 2001.

 

[Spang]

When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris

I finished reading that a few days ago. Next, I'll be reading another Sedaris tome: Naked.

 

[Dropkick]

I never read that, but looking at the reviews, it doesn't sound that similar.

Saturn's Children is a space opera, but with disturbing undertones.

How can you not see the parallels?

It's more or less a fridge horror novel on the experiences of a robot designed to be a concubine.

And Kardashian Konfedential is the story of 3 augmented ditzes designed to be media whores.
Their relationship with their Mother is extremely disturbing (many say she engineered the sex tape (and it's accidental release) that originally brought Kim to the public eye) not to mention the type of culture that it would take to raise these girls to fame (extremely disturbing).
Why on the surface it's almost the same story.

 

[Cerebellion]

I'm reading The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. It's a perennial favorite of mine.

 

[Dedalus]

Mind of the Raven - Bernd Heinrich

I love Ravens. I'll bet this is intriguing - but I don't know if I'd have the patience to read it. Maybe the Cliff's notes

Are you kidding? You can't reduce that book to some kind of measly space opera. The personal journey experienced by the characters and their augmentation with technology rivals that of 2001.

NOW you've got my attention. Are you saying that this is a must read FourtyTwo?
Edit: Actually 'space opera' got my attention too. It makes me smile for some reason that I cannot articulate.

 

[Envy]

American Psycho.

 

[Cerebellion]

I love Ravens. I'll bet this is intriguing - but I don't know if I'd have the patience to read it. Maybe the Cliff's notes

It's not that long if you want to read it. Only about 350 pages and they go quicker than you might think.

 

[das_nut]

How can you not see the parallels?

And Kardashian Konfedential is the story of 3 augmented ditzes designed to be media whores.
Their relationship with their Mother is extremely disturbing (many say she engineered the sex tape (and it's accidental release) that originally brought Kim to the public eye) not to mention the type of culture that it would take to raise these girls to fame (extremely disturbing).
Why on the surface it's almost the same story.

Have you even read Saturn's children?

 

[das_nut]

Interestingly, I started to reread Murakami's "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World", which is exactly like Kardashian Konfedential.

The "End of the World" part takes place in a walled town where the main character has had his shadow cut off to die, and his job is to read the dreams from skulls. While in the Hardboiled Wonderland, the main character has been entrusted with valuable data locked away in his head, while unknowingly to him, his very existence is in danger.

The parallels are obvious.

 

[Cerebellion]

I started reading Thomas Ligotti's 'Conspiracy against the human race'. If ever a book has given a voice to my basic worldview, this one's it.

 

[Cerebellion]

I picked up a couple of Bernd Heinrich and E. O. Wilson books today on Amazon. I also preordered Heinrich's new book that comes out in a week. I'm going to read those when I finish reading James Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia". All over the place with the reading these days, it would seem.

 

[hungryraccoon]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

 

[Mr Crunchy]

Call of the Wild, Jack London.

I should have read this book a long time ago