Dreams are free, there is no Ikea here in New Zealand. I am probably just going to build my own.
Just about to begin:
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Promoted as ‘The Expanse meets the Night’s Watch from Game of Thrones’ this is a fantastic sci-fi series!
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terry goodkind sword of truth series
At the end of the first book he runs into a sorcerer who’s sort of a real psycho that’s why I cut out it got real sick at that point but I should continue this series it was good
Boncho friends family on a quest to destroy some evil one more could you want
Finished Dan Simmons’ acclaimed Hyperion recently.
It was good. Very flowery language, had to reread paragraphs semi-often to fully grasp them. The whole “plot” essentially boiled down to the backstories of the main characters. But through the backstories a pretty cool universe was outlined
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“Last kilometers” is a book about traffic accidents and events leading to them. Most of the stories are based on real-life accidents.
Really interesting find!
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I like this kind of nonfiction the best: making the mundane fascinating.
Just a short read The early days of Linux
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If anyone would like something a little different than Linux. This is my life.
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exactly what I’m talking about in my short post above ^^. Bet that’s interesting.
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I can tell you from experience. It is interesting.
Reading The Postman but I’m almost finished that so I’ll be reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy again.
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Snowcrash. It’s even wackier than I expected it would be. Before that, I read War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. I mostly read nonfiction; Snowcrash was a fun break for me.
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Schadrach in the Furnace, Robert Silverberg
Summary
The year is 2012. The world lies ravaged by biological warfare, its population decimated by a ferocious genetically-transmitted disease known as the organ rot. And presiding over the ruins is a ninety-three-year-old tyrant, preserved in a state of youth by a series of organ transplants: the self-styled Genghis Mao. Shadrach Mordecai, Genghis Mao’s trusted personal physician, was a vital cog in the great machine devoted to keeping the ruler alive: linked to him by a network of electronic implants, Shadrach was able to detect and diagnose the first signs of malfunction in his lord and master. But close as he was to the aging dictator, Shadrach could not have known that events would soon plunge him into a desperate struggle - a struggle in which a paragon of idealism faced the very incarnation of evil.
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Easily my favorite (or one of them) nonfiction writer last last couple decades. This is good the first 40 pages but not on par with her masterworks Inside the Freud Archives, Journalist and the Murder, or her Plath bio but like I said just 40 pages in.
" Malcolm’s newest book, Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, details the proceedings and aftermath of the murder trial of Mazoltov Borukhova and Mikhail Mallayev for the murder of Daniel Malakov, Borukhova’s late husband, in the winter of 2009. Malakov was shot dead by Mallayev, ostensibly hired as a hit man by Borukhova, at a playground in Forest Hills, Queens, with his then four year-old daughter Michelle in tow. The book is a kind of guided tour of the workings of a murder trial, and though Malcolm is occasionally a character in her own narrative, we see the trial through her eyes. She really does give an anatomy of the trial, demystifying the courtroom as seen on television, but most enticing are the specifics of this case. She profiles each individual player in the drama, not least the press corps sitting in the front row, alternately listening, jotting notes, and filling in crossword puzzles. (My favorite description is of Borukhova herself: “she was dressed in a mannish black jacket and a floor-length black skirt, and she wore her long, dark, tightly curled hair hanging down her back, bound by a dark cord. She looked rather like a nineteenth-century woman-student revolutionary”). If criminal law is a set of competing narratives that succeed or fail on the strength of their storytelling, Malcolm both identifies with and transcends the methods of the court room—she shows the human identity of the impersonal law, the fragility and foibles of its practitioners and the mercenary power of its effect."
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Going through the Culture novels by Iain M Banks (pseudonym for Iain Banks when writing sci-fi), though not all at once.
Currently in the middle of “Excession”.
If anyone is at all interested in something like a primer then this old essay by Banks outlining the elements, cosmology, philosophies, and technologies of The Culture that was originally published on the rec.arts.sf newsgroup might be worth a look.
One of my favorites. A lot of others in the Hainish Cycle are good too.
Or just most things from LeGuin.
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