Eh… I started the first book. I was kind of annoyed by the style and the sudden bombardment of characters to remember, but it was a pretty cool idea.
Finally finished that Hyperion book. sigh Took me like a month.
I [size=150]HIGHLY [/size]recommend the first two books of the quartet (all I’ve read so far…). In the second book, the main character has the ability to dream events happening elsewhere and the book deals with a lot of interesting philosophical questions about reality and God and Artificial Intelligence and the extermination of other sentient creatures.
Check it out! Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
I loved that book, as I did ‘A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’. Haven’t read the rest yet but those two are incredibly funny and very well written so I will definately get around to the rest of the series.
I’m currently reading ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’. It isn’t written brilliantly, because the guy who wrote it was a sports journalist… But the story is great and the characters are wonderful. It is a wonderful narrative, despite being based on factual events. Not written so well, like I said, but it does make up for that let down with a great story.
I’m re-reading ‘His Dark Materials’ By Philip Pullman
I finished ‘Northern Lights’ on Saturday and immediately picked up ‘The Subtle Knife’. You forget just how cleverly they’re linked together and on how many levels you can read them. Very clever stuff.
Trouble is that being of the grown-up persuasion, family all inclusive, I don’t have a lot of ‘spare’ time in which to just sit and read. I used to love to just sit in the garden with a bottle of pop and read a book till I’d finished it. Those were the days.
i recently read cortex, which is about 2 brothers that make this chip-like device to improve their psychic powers, and they get chased and keep using their psychic powers to survive
30000th post in the lounge XD
damnit, i should have made one more post earlier XD
would have been fun, at least, i think it would have been… 30.000 in the forum with 700 posts for me… no correlation between the numbers…
Ah, I’ve read his Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I liked it but I can’t vouch for his other books.
Currently reading Endymion by Dan Simmons, 3rd book in a series, and In the Blink of an Eye by Andrew Parker, a very science-y book about the cause of the Cambrian Explosion.
I don’t have a whole lot of time read during the semester, but I read The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright. If you’re into evolutionary biology or are curious about human nature, I highly recommend it. You have to be willing to dive into non-fiction, though. The ideas are interesting, the writing is relatively, well, non-fictiony.
What is the What by Dave Eggers is the last fiction book I read, and it’s based on actual events. It’s a great book, but if you decide to read it, be warned, you WILL cry on a couple of occasions. I had to put it down for a week or so at one point.
The Hitchhiker’s “trilogy” is brilliant. The first three are great stories that are absolutely hilarious. After that, the story qualities really drop off, but they remain very funny. Adams overstates the little things and understates the really big things. Remember, if you want to fly, just aim yourself at the ground and miss.
i’m reading The Kite Runner for my english class. at first i didn’t really read it and i was just bull-shitting my way through the quizzes on the book, but i’ve actually started reading it and it’s quite captivating.
I am currently at book three , its not as good as Wheel of time , but really nice , the characters are nicly made - what annoys at times or( to use a less sharp word:) dissapoints , is how “jumpy” the plot gets in sertain sections.
I’ve never actually read that particular book, but I heard it’s quite good.
I’m reading As I Lay Dying (for English… )and I love it - I’m such a big fan of stream of consciousness books (including the fabulous Only Revolutions)
Currently reading “Travels” by Michael Crichton. It’s an autobiography by him, it’s really good. Also working on “K is for Killer” by some random woman. It’s mindless reading, fluff really. Although I do want to see who murdered that woman…
I used to love to just sit in the garden with a bottle of pop and read a book till I’d finished it. 
Those were the days.
Can’t put it down.
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- The Dresden Files. I would definately recommend reading them in order, though.
Those books rule.
