What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (6 Viewers)

[hydromancer]

 

[nooleen]

bouncing across the airwaves

 

[hydromancer]

Radio can be great in Australia it depends where you are though I think there are only few stations which can be heard all over.

 

[hugh]

a previous programme about the publishing industry in china mentioned a hugely popular chinese sci-fi novel called The Three Body Problem

I've read this. Its full of amazing ideas but really clunkily written. If you can get past that it's definitely worth it. It's the first part of a trilogy. Haven't gotten around to the other two yet.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Amongst other things:

Autumn Street by Lois Lowry - A really beautifully written, sad book about growing up in New York during World War 2.

It came out in 1980 but manages to fall kinda somewhere between To Kill a Mockingbird and The Railway Children. Very impressed that it manages to keep that kind of tone without falling into pure anachronism or heavy-handed moralizing.


Also been reading a bit of Lovecraft who I hadn't really touched in a good 15 years - fun to be back with his eldritch geometry and indescribably racist hands.

 

[hydromancer]

The bard handy reading really only 14 lines

Got this book about an exhibition that was at the Van Gogh in Amsterdam recently its supposed to late present for somebody so I haven't opened it but it does like very nice from the covers.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

From the last few months:

 

[David Kronenbourg]

From the last few months:

How's The Loney?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

How's The Loney?

It was fine. Not as good as the hype would make it out to be. It was like a grown-up version of The Hardy Boys. It was a grand holidays book but I won't be rushing to read it again.

If you read just one book from that that lot, read The Vorrh. It's terrific.

 

[hugh]

That book about Haino is in French, right? Fancypants ...

The next "Vorhh" book is out now. Saw it in HF the other day. Hardback only though for the moment ...

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

That book about Haino is in French, right? Fancypants ...

The next "Vorhh" book is out now. Saw it in HF the other day. Hardback only though for the moment ...

Yeah, I'm still slowly reading the Haino book as I need a dictionary on hand to get through it. I had French notions when I bought it.

Have the second Vorrh book and had hoped to read it on holidays but time got away from me. Really looking forward to it though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

@Cornu Ammonis with all those updates are you not on goodreads? Goodreads is probably my most updated social media "presence" these days. It's marvelously slow moving.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

@Cornu Ammonis with all those updates are you not on goodreads? Goodreads is probably my most updated social media "presence" these days. It's marvelously slow moving.

I've never really checked it out but I'm guessing I should.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

If you read just one book from that that lot, read The Vorrh. It's terrific.

Sounds interesting

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Sounds interesting

Goodnight Darth Vadar is also good but a heavy read.

 

[rettucs]

I've never really checked it out but I'm guessing I should.

you should. It's over 4000 days since I started Atlas Shrugged

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

you should. It's over 4000 days since I started Atlas Shrugged

My wife got about 95 % into Atlas Shrugged and found it all right and then there was a 30 page monologue that killed it dead on her.

I did read The Fountainhead. It was grand but I wouldn't be using it to really shape my worldview. That's what Thomas Ligotti is for.

 

[hugh]

Got halfway through that recently published volume of Ligotti's stories while on holiday last Summer. Stopped when I decided it's not really ideal holiday reading. Should really go back to it.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Stopped when I decided it's not really ideal holiday reading.

Nothing like a bit of bleak nihilism by the pool. Which in itself is a well of misery.

 

[hugh]

Yeah it's a real drag when you are trying to decide whether to go to the beach or not but simultaneously keenly aware of the fact that consciousness is an illusion, free will doesn't exist, human life is ultimately futile, and there will likely be much pain before you eventually die.