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[kspr]

It took me a freaking month to get time to finish A Meeting At Corvallis. I got The Sunrise Lands today, and im gonna read that in one sitting too.

even if it takes me a month.

[rekaru]

Reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and after I'm going to attempt to read Gravity's Rainbow.

[Xavier]

Finished reading Wrath of a Mad God a couple of days ago. R. E. Feist still has the knack for a good story I have to say. I enjoyed this book a lot.

[Stars]

Finished with Imperial Earth a couple days ago.

Deciding to retry reading Rendevous With Rama. (I've tried to read it before, but somehow, I never got past the first couple chapters... Well, I'll fix THAT right quick...)

[rekaru]

Reading Read or Dream manga.

[Stars]

I am reading this topic Michael Palin's New Europe again, because it's so interesting.

Deciding to retry reading Rendevous With Rama.

Do so! It is incredible.

[Stars]

Yay! Someone else here acknowledges Arthur C. Clarke!

Have you read his book The Hammer Of God, Rock?

[Stars]

Yay! Someone else here *thinks Arthur C. Clarke is pretty much the best thing to happen to science fiction.

Have you read his book The Hammer Of God, Rock?

I haven't got round to reading Hammer of God yet, I'm trying to work my way through his material (which is a larger amount than I had anticipated!)

[Stars]

Ahhhh, good man.

While I normally recommend the good ol' Space Odyssey series, Hammer of God is such a powerful one-hit wonder that I wish it had come out twenty years prior, to garner more attention. (and, much as I loved Imperial Earth, I can see why it didn't catch on... No real conflict to it until the last quarter of the book, which picks the book up to the 'Fucking Awesome' category, but before then, if you don't like Clarke's usual insane-detail to his future worlds, then there isn't much to keep one hooked to Imperial Earth's story....)

[Kamau]

Lots and lots of Iris Johansen books. :3

[Stars]

Just finished Rendezvous With Rama.



.........FUCK....




Now I'm out of Clarke books. ='(

[Donkeymog]

Sup, bitches?

I just finished reading JPod by Douglas Coupland

Now I'm on The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse.

I'm also listening to an audio book of VALIS by Philip K. Dick and reading all sorts of poetry by TS Eliot.

Later, bitches.

[Stars]

Went to my local used book store yesterday.
Found Rama II, Garden of Rama, Rama Revealed, and Cradle.

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I look forward to reading these for a gooood long time.

[rekaru]

I have to read Brave New World, 1984, and some Shakespeare play over summer for AP English Literature. Looks like Chase and Monkey got their wish after all.

[Stars]

"Some Shakespeare play"? Come on man, you can do better than that. =P

[Stars]

I have Romeo and Juliet in paperback. (got at the same used book store I get almost all my Clarke books) It's by far my favourite of Shakespeare's works, though Macbeth and Hamlet are classics, no doubt....

[rekaru]

Oh, just looked at the paper, I have to read Shakespeare's The Tempest.

[Stars]

One I haven't read, but intend to... I should get on it. (soon as I find it)

[Stars]

The Tempest! Good choice.