Yakoob on 10/2/2014 at 10:00
And I wrapped up Boneshaker. It was alright, had some interesting ideas. Just started Anubis Gates but already have a feeling im not gonna like it :/
PigLick on 10/2/2014 at 10:07
Just been re-reading the Julian May Pliocene Exile series, damn that is some good shit right there.
habitual poster on 10/2/2014 at 17:13
Just got around to reading (
http://www.joeabercrombie.com/books/the-heroes/) The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie (of The First Law trilogy) fame. It's probably my fav book from him so far, the most down-to-earth fantasy tale that I've read to date.
Pyrian on 10/2/2014 at 23:54
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Just started
Anubis Gates but already have a feeling im not gonna like it :/
Some great concepts. But kind of a terrible book.
"You can't change the past! It already happened."hopper on 11/2/2014 at 14:02
Chomping through Lemprière's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk. Pretty chewy fodder for the first 60-odd pages or so, but now things are finally starting to happen and there's actually a plot that's starting to move forward, and it's becoming quite enjoyable.
Harvester on 15/2/2014 at 17:03
Almost done with Greg Egan's book of short science fiction stories, Axiomatic. All the wild ideas and concepts this guy comes up with are really enjoyable.
I will also say this: his story The Moral Virologist is the best breakdown of religious fanaticism I've ever read in prose form. A writer like Stephen King also frequently features Christian religious fanatics in his stories, but despite his strict religious upbringing I feel he doesn't really understand how these people think, so he often resorts to stereotyping. Greg Egan, however, nails it in this story if you ask me. Being a Christian myself I've spent a lot of time on Christian forums and message boards and IRL discussions, and while the majority of the people I've encountered were sensible people, I've also met quite a few extremists and came to learn how they think, and I feel Greg Egan in this story really has a good grasp of the mindset of the most extreme fringe subset of those fanatics.
All in all I recommend the whole book.
Yakoob on 14/3/2014 at 08:54
On a wholly different note, I've been reading Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things which is both very interesting and informative. However, the author repeats himself way too much and tries to hammer the same points over and over instead of moving on sometimes.
And in a never-ending attempting to make myself even more evil, I have also been reading Trout Ries's Positioning: The Battle for your Mind, a book on marketing. Lots of good and important points, but feels a little over-dramatic in places (like pinning a company's failures entirely on their name).
june gloom on 14/3/2014 at 10:42
you noclipped through portal 2, you're as evil as it gets :p
SubJeff on 14/3/2014 at 15:28
Ha ha. What?! Yakoooooooob!
Yakoob on 15/3/2014 at 02:04
Sometimes, I wake up crying...
