i've had a ball with the first two books of a trilogy by joe abercrombie.
The Blade Itself
and
Before They Are Hanged
from his trilogy The First Law
they were good enough that i pre-ordered the next.
also Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence
is beautiful, lyrical and poetic.
beautiful.
I am still looking for a copy of Nixonland and trying to finish my books on the thirty years war, the hundred years war and other matters.
uuhh...books? Books?
Oh! Right!
Well *ahem* I'm working my way through
Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson- Master of the Senate- a fascinating (if pageful) read about LBJ's time in that august body and that august body in general.
I might take some time off for a little light side reading tho, now that you've drawn my attention to Ms. Banner's existence.
Glad I wasn't operating any dangerous machinery when that picture ran into me.
Francine Prose's "How to Read Like a Writer" is wonderful soul food, reminding what good writing is, and where it comes from.
I wonder abotu a 19 year old author...this may be a another Eragon series...deriviative crap pushed on me by people who never read what it was derived from.
currently reading the dark is riseign series to the kids...no time for my own books...tried readign hobbit to the kids...tolkin was a long winded bastared wasn' he.
The chances that I would ever read any of that fantasy crap -- or those odious romance novels -- are about as good as the chances of moonglum ever using spellcheck.
Right now I'm reading Arturo Barea's "The Forging of a Rebel," his autobiographical trilogy of Spain in the first half of the 20th Century, culminating in the Civil War.
ivan: don't degenerat crap..every one needs escapism on occasion...not every book needs to teach or be "important" there is value to entertainment, it allows a lot of us to keep our sanity.
Frogspawn:
Master of the Senate is the best of the three fantastic volumes about LBJ by Caro. It's a lot of reading, but it's worth it. I can't wait until his final volume on the VP/President years comes out. At the rate he releases them, it should be sometime in 2018.
Michael Chabon's GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, a historical "Jews With Swords" adventure set in the 10th century Khazar empire. The two main characters appear to be a homage to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" stories, which is a very, very good thing.
just finished Battle Royale, which i have to recommend...kind of like Lord of the Flies meets 1984, & set in Eastasia...it's about 600 pages but i'd also have to suggest reading it as fast as possible to get the full effect, i blasted thru it this weekend in a couple of feverish sittings, it's got that compelling quality...maybe not for everyone, but the accompanying anime movie in my head was cool...
My six year old LOVES Tolkien's Hobbit.
My kids have an attention span longer than a gnats because they don't watch too much TV and don't have a game console.
My kids DO have their own laptop computers with internet access, and the older one got hers when she was 18 months...
Comrade Rutherford: the 6 year old is fine with hobbit...dads voice and the 3 yuear old have issue...the old bastared couldn't keep his chapters short, one chapter a night ain't too bad, unles tha chapter gose on forever. fucking tolkin.
kids would listen to the whol book in one night if i could keep reading...oh and my kids watch a few hours of tv a day, have a playstation 2....and yet no attention span problem.
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