I'm just wondering what sort of stuff MXO players read. I'm about halfway through Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and I absolutely love it, one of the best novels I've ever read. How about you?
Read any good books lately?
16 posts · 2008-01-04 05:52:55 to 2008-01-06 23:42:00
I read C&P back in high school... I remember enjoying it, but only partially simply because it was part of an assignment and not really a choice.
Best book I've read lately has been Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Amazing read, and one of Gibson's best even if it's not really Cyberpunk like his old stuff.
Guh, I've got too many books on the go at once. Got a third of the way through The Night Watch before getting distracted by some PG Wodehouse. Should be reading some Discworld, but have just started Bulletproof Ajax.
I need to spend a weekend just reading, I think.
I need to spend a weekend just reading, I think.
You don't want to know what i'm reading. You'd laugh. 
You just never know if you're RP wife is a psychologically insane IC axe murderer. :/
I always think to re-read that as well, Gami. It's another one I first tackled as part of school and, even though I really enjoyed it, I would like to give it another more casual reading.
GamiSB wrote:
ah,, I read Animal Farm way back in high school. I've been wanting to read 1984...if it isn't on my reading list for my next semester courses, I'm going to try to read it over the summer, along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I've been wanting to read that.
Curently re-reading Orwell's 1984
ah,, I read Animal Farm way back in high school. I've been wanting to read 1984...if it isn't on my reading list for my next semester courses, I'm going to try to read it over the summer, along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I've been wanting to read that.
Miyamoto Musashi's - Book of Five Rings and I have Sun Tzu's - Art of War next on my list.
I generally read both once a year.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Just finished it a couple weeks ago.
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Vlad Taltos Series by Steven Brust
The Culture Series by Iain Banks
The Ender/Bean Series' by Orson Scott Card
Along with plenty of other notable books by plenty of other notable authors...
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Vlad Taltos Series by Steven Brust
The Culture Series by Iain Banks
The Ender/Bean Series' by Orson Scott Card
Along with plenty of other notable books by plenty of other notable authors...
9mmfu wrote:
Miyamoto Musashi's - Book of Five Rings and I have Sun Tzu's - Art of War next on my list.
I generally read both once a year.
"nosce te ipsum, tuum nosce hostem" I'd try for the Greek (instead of Latin) translation to go along with "gnothi seuton", if I had any talent with dead languages. 'Know youself, know your enemy', does unfortunately have the sound of a business-retreat slanderization of Tzu's concept, but I still try and keep the concept in mind, as almost always they end up being the same person. At least that is my experience, as most of my battles don't happen on fields.
I just finished up The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, and now I am trying to finish up a book I took a year off from when I got about halfway through, History Of The Ancent World by Susan Wise Bauer. I'd recommend both.
-Collbard- wrote:
GamiSB wrote:Curently re-reading Orwell's 1984
ah,, I read Animal Farm way back in high school. I've been wanting to read 1984...if it isn't on my reading list for my next semester courses, I'm going to try to read it over the summer, along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I've been wanting to read that.
We had a choice back in school, and I chose 1984 over animal farm hehe Do Androids Dream.. is an excellent read, and is a little less of a mind.. warp than most of Philip K. Dck's stuff. (though, of course, you really can't go wrong with any of his writing).
Edited because of the silly censorship of a great author's name.
Meh not sure anyone would read it but.
Tom Clancy - Splinter Cell: Fallout
Pretty much almost done with it. And seemingly it is the pre-start to the "Conviction" or was it "Fugitive" Splinter Cell game coming out whenever it may be.
EDIT: Might I add.. Its pretty freakish if ya ask me.. Some of the stuff used in todays modern warfare enhanced in a way... I wont say much but Sam has a family member no one but him knows about. And seemingly his brother.. dies from an investigation by who would guess. A high concentrated oxide poison. Pretty much, guy shows off way to much radioactivity levels he dies from the poisoning of it.. Thing is that high concentrated stuff was uranium in a modified form.. =/ heavily modified it says and to think it is a real thing one may use in warfare... if ever successfully made
Tom Clancy - Splinter Cell: Fallout
Pretty much almost done with it. And seemingly it is the pre-start to the "Conviction" or was it "Fugitive" Splinter Cell game coming out whenever it may be.
EDIT: Might I add.. Its pretty freakish if ya ask me.. Some of the stuff used in todays modern warfare enhanced in a way... I wont say much but Sam has a family member no one but him knows about. And seemingly his brother.. dies from an investigation by who would guess. A high concentrated oxide poison. Pretty much, guy shows off way to much radioactivity levels he dies from the poisoning of it.. Thing is that high concentrated stuff was uranium in a modified form.. =/ heavily modified it says and to think it is a real thing one may use in warfare... if ever successfully made
I've recently tried to start rereading Tad William's Otherland saga. A story about people trapped in a complex virtual reality simulation... it strikes near to my heart. I consider it a recommend to Matrix fans.
Finished off "House of Leaves" a little while ago, my girlfriend was kind enough to actually get it imported from the US because it's so *CENSORED* hard to get here in australia, for my birthday last year.
A must-read for anyone interested in weird unconventional psychological horror.
A must-read for anyone interested in weird unconventional psychological horror.