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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1470 on: August 21, 2024, 09:36:03 PM »
I just finished the three Locked Tomb books (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth). They're infuriating as fuck but also original, so I keep trying. She better put a satisfying ending into the last one, and not more ambiguous vaguely literary cliffhanger bullshit like the others.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1471 on: August 21, 2024, 10:06:06 PM »
A history of Indonesia.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1472 on: September 05, 2024, 03:20:18 PM »
Baseball Articles...

Might start up reading The Idiot.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1473 on: September 05, 2024, 03:20:58 PM »
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Baseball Articles...

Might start up reading The Idiot.

Then again... I'll start up Notes from the Underground first.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1474 on: September 08, 2024, 02:48:09 PM »
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What language are you reading them in? What's the current book about?

English. I tried Spanish but my Spanish isn't good enough. The last one I read is about an ageing colonel waiting for a letter than never comes while being pushed around by everybody.

Now rereading Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity. I've read it a few times before but really just felt like reading it again. :)

I have all the Asimov I can find, except for some of those enormous textbooks.
I have two, but it does not take long for me to bog down in the quicksand of Biochemestry, etc. Math is easier and very helpful.
Wish I had read these scripts when I was designing horn loaded speakers.
I keep reading and looking things up.
I can not say I have enough time left on this Earth to get it all.
Asimov was a rare mind.

All of his fiction is more than worth a read!

Asimov is great. His biochemistry stuff was beyond me when I tried but the writing was still great.

Asimov may have been smarter than Carl Sagan. Maybe. Both left me in awe.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1475 on: September 08, 2024, 02:50:35 PM »
Reread 11/22/63 (King). Still a great book.

And I reread The Door Into Summer (Heinlein), still as good as I remember.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1476 on: September 08, 2024, 04:35:30 PM »
Wanting to get started on Notes from the Underground.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1477 on: September 08, 2024, 10:36:19 PM »
Just finished How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum. It was terrible. Reminds me why I rarely give literary fiction a try.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1478 on: September 17, 2024, 11:43:30 AM »
Frameshift by Robert J. Sawyer
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1479 on: September 20, 2024, 07:37:25 PM »
A biography of Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1480 on: October 14, 2024, 07:11:06 PM »
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1481 on: October 18, 2024, 11:00:47 PM »
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire. It's more like a series of short stories than a novel, but it's good.
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