"You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them."
Personally I like actually have a book in my had. Plus reading text after text on a screen feels retarded. Like I'm an idiot, literally.
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Going on a Star Wars comic kick; reading up on "Dark Times" and "Legacy". Also reading volume three of R A Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy.
"Legacy" sucks, in my opinion, and is pointed at the horny-twenty-something demographic. "Dark Times" is incredibly refreshing, by contrast, as its characters are highly diverse and developed, and really help inspire sympathy for the peoples of the galaxy as they are brought under the dark heel of the nascent Empire. "The Dark Elf Trilogy" is D&D based. At first I had little interest in it, but persisted and got enchanted half-way through the second volume, and aim to finish this arc of The Drizzt Legends.
I somewhat like Legacy. The art, save for one issue, is great. Personally, like I mentioned before... I'm a sucker for continuation type stories. Always wanting to know what happens next. And really... That's what keeps me on the issues.
I have one of the Drizzt novels as well. Couldn't bear to read it though. Got it a while ago, guess I wasn't in my reading-phase at the time. Maybe I'll finally open it up?
I totally get what ya mean, Zero-One. I love continuity. (Retcons bother the hell outta me, but I can deal with minor ones that don't bend the very fabric of space-time.) Leogacy is... okay. I like how the Yuzzies are more or less a mainstay in the galaxy, and their invasion, while not forgotten, is the past. Kinda cool. I just get a little annoyed at every female's breasts hanging out in the open. Not Star Wars-ish, in my opinion. Just makes it obvious who the comics are pointed at.
The Drizzt books are an acquired taste, in my opinion. I don't like books where magic underpins all society in so blatant a fashion. I much prefer subtle use of it, or where there is a twist in its use. Read James Clemens' "The God Slayer Chronicles" and "The Wi'tch War" to see what I mean.
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Be it through hallowed grounds or lands of sorrow
All in the Forger's wake is left bereft and fallow
Is the residuum worth the cost of destruction and maiming;
Or is the shaping a culling and exercise in taming?
The road's goal is the dark Origin of Being
But be wary through what thickets it winds.
-Excerpt from the Litany of Residuum;
As Translated by He Who Brings Order
Some book about diamonds... mostly about Sierra Leone and how is fucked up there...
t's sad how unaware people are about conflict diamonds. I had to write a paper about it once. Don't think I could read a whole book on it though. It's too depressing.
I'm still reading these damn vampire books. I'm on Eclipse now.
Finished Moon of the Spider and The Diablo Archive and before that I read the Rhiannon's Ride set and the Witches of Eileannan set by Kate Forsyth. All great reads. I want to buy the Sin War trilogy because I haven't read it yet, but don't want to spend more money. Would also like to read some Dragon Lance books that Knaak wrote because I liked the Diablo books he wrote so far.(Minotaur wars looks interesting). But I have never read a book from Dragonlance. I need to make a list of books to read and go to the library to see if they have any of them there.
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"This is the triumph of man:
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
World's Fair Exhibit
"God gave us memories, that in life's garden we may have June roses in December."
H.P. Lovecraft's At the mountains of madness and Dante's the Divine Comedy. Mostly Gothic Fiction and alternate Historical Gothic fantasy literature.
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Mathematics is a penumbra, those who hold such an affection to this noble field would find themselves into the realm of the Heirarchy of Abstracts and Paradoxes.
To me, H P Lovecraft is sort of a one-trick pony, beginning all of his stories with, "An unutterable, ineffible terror lurks behind ye olde curtain. Let me, a lowly outside and flawed observor, recount to you this most abominable of stories of which I had the misfortune of unfortunately experiencing." I've read a few of his stories, but disagree strongly with his personal views of the world and his manner of writing proper horror. I do, however, find the mythos he has created appealing.
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Be it through hallowed grounds or lands of sorrow
All in the Forger's wake is left bereft and fallow
Is the residuum worth the cost of destruction and maiming;
Or is the shaping a culling and exercise in taming?
The road's goal is the dark Origin of Being
But be wary through what thickets it winds.
-Excerpt from the Litany of Residuum;
As Translated by He Who Brings Order
I'm kind of scattered right now, so I'm reading about 6 books before I have to get back to school and read those books :/
Anywho, I got one on the A+ certification test, just to make sure I know what's gonna be happening on the exams. (CompTIA A+ Certification 6th Edition Author Mike Meyers)
My liesure book: Visual Guide to Lock Picking 2nd edition
The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick. This book isn't about deceiving people, but more how to tell when people try to deceive you. It's non-fiction but not like a text book(no pictures :(). Gives real examples, pretty interesting.
Steal This Computer Book 4.0 by Wallace Wang. I'm going in to computer programming/security so this is jut kind of a way to see more sides to hacking. This book also has real-world examples and stories which are slightly amusing and humorous. Kind of dry to read at times though :/
Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb. More of a book on how the brain works than "hacking" as computers usually associated hacking to bad people. Kind of boring, but I've focused a lot of reading in the last year on computers and some fictional tales so I thought I'd delve in to anatomy a bit.
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson 2nd edition. Blatantly computer hacking type book. It's humorous in its own way(I enjoy personifying computers, which is what most people do when they write about them). It came with a live CD with a Linux on it so I can actually use a trashed computer to "hack"(or rather, attempt to hack) my main computer, or vis-versa.
and (finally)
Puzzles for Hackers by Ivan Skylarov. Good book so far, you really need to understand what actually happens when someone hacks a computer before opening this one up though. It's kind of funny as well, because it creates hypotheticals that are amusing and whatnot.
I got a lot to do before school starts on the 25th, but these books range from 100-1100 pages(most 200-300) so it's not too bad. I just have a hard time focusing on one for too long. Whereas 300 pages in a fictional book aren't too bad because the pages are relatively small, 300 pages in these books is terrifying simply because theyre printed on paper more akin to the 8x11.5" paper in notebooks O.O
For any out there interested in knowing more about computers but don't really know programming or hacking in depth, I would recommend Steal This Computer, and The Art of Deception. They both talk about computers, but not in a highly technical form with snippets of scripts or .dlls or .h files that would boggle people who don't know what those are, let alone what is said in them.
I'm a book worm so I like having all the different books to read. It's a lot of technical non-fiction at the moment because, like I said earlier, I've had a little too much fantasy/fiction in my diet over the last year. After this splurge I'm probably taking a break just to focus on school books though, which are SO much more dry than all of this combined :/
Finally finished The Covenant ...now I am reading ...
World Without End - Ken Follett
(sequel to my favorite book Pillars of the Earth, hopefully it is as good as the first)
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Smiling is infectious.
Give, expecting nothing thereof. ------------ BoD - Come have some fun! Folks will always come and go, so enjoy them while they're meant to be in your life.
"I want to say something but I'll keep it to myself I guess and leave this useless post behind to make you aware that there WAS something... "
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
I've read a lotta DAVID GEMMEL, awesome, awesome writer. Right Now i'm reading SCAR TISSUE by Anthony Kiedis of the Chilli Peppers. Eye-opening read on the many faculties of experiencing fame. Velly good!
Reading bird by bird by Anne Lammott for English 280, and have ordered the Sin War Trilogy, as well as the Great book of Amber(books 1-10 of the amber series) by Roger Zelazny. Besides that I should be reading my History book, and suppose I'll read chapter 2 like I am supposed to by tuesday. Look forward to the Sin War as well as amber series, they should arrive next tuesday or wednsday.
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"This is the triumph of man:
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
World's Fair Exhibit
"God gave us memories, that in life's garden we may have June roses in December."
I just happen to be reading a Diablo book. The book "Moon of the Spider", which is actually pretty good so far. It has given me a different view of the Necromancer.
What am i Reading? Well I got something speical to tell you about what im reading. comere listen closley im reading.....A BOOK!
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www.myspace.com/mpotatoes for all your Trans Siberian Orchestra listening pleasure
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
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cause personally i like piracy
"You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them."
- Albert Camus
I somewhat like Legacy. The art, save for one issue, is great. Personally, like I mentioned before... I'm a sucker for continuation type stories. Always wanting to know what happens next. And really... That's what keeps me on the issues.
I have one of the Drizzt novels as well. Couldn't bear to read it though. Got it a while ago, guess I wasn't in my reading-phase at the time. Maybe I'll finally open it up?
The Drizzt books are an acquired taste, in my opinion. I don't like books where magic underpins all society in so blatant a fashion. I much prefer subtle use of it, or where there is a twist in its use. Read James Clemens' "The God Slayer Chronicles" and "The Wi'tch War" to see what I mean.
All in the Forger's wake is left bereft and fallow-Excerpt from the Litany of Residuum;
As Translated by He Who Brings Order
I'm still reading these damn vampire books. I'm on Eclipse now.
Siaynoq's Playthroughs
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
World's Fair Exhibit
"God gave us memories, that in life's garden we may have June roses in December."
John Barrie
To me, H P Lovecraft is sort of a one-trick pony, beginning all of his stories with, "An unutterable, ineffible terror lurks behind ye olde curtain. Let me, a lowly outside and flawed observor, recount to you this most abominable of stories of which I had the misfortune of unfortunately experiencing." I've read a few of his stories, but disagree strongly with his personal views of the world and his manner of writing proper horror. I do, however, find the mythos he has created appealing.
All in the Forger's wake is left bereft and fallow-Excerpt from the Litany of Residuum;
As Translated by He Who Brings Order
Anywho, I got one on the A+ certification test, just to make sure I know what's gonna be happening on the exams. (CompTIA A+ Certification 6th Edition Author Mike Meyers)
My liesure book: Visual Guide to Lock Picking 2nd edition
The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick. This book isn't about deceiving people, but more how to tell when people try to deceive you. It's non-fiction but not like a text book(no pictures :(). Gives real examples, pretty interesting.
Steal This Computer Book 4.0 by Wallace Wang. I'm going in to computer programming/security so this is jut kind of a way to see more sides to hacking. This book also has real-world examples and stories which are slightly amusing and humorous. Kind of dry to read at times though :/
Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb. More of a book on how the brain works than "hacking" as computers usually associated hacking to bad people. Kind of boring, but I've focused a lot of reading in the last year on computers and some fictional tales so I thought I'd delve in to anatomy a bit.
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson 2nd edition. Blatantly computer hacking type book. It's humorous in its own way(I enjoy personifying computers, which is what most people do when they write about them). It came with a live CD with a Linux on it so I can actually use a trashed computer to "hack"(or rather, attempt to hack) my main computer, or vis-versa.
and (finally)
Puzzles for Hackers by Ivan Skylarov. Good book so far, you really need to understand what actually happens when someone hacks a computer before opening this one up though. It's kind of funny as well, because it creates hypotheticals that are amusing and whatnot.
I got a lot to do before school starts on the 25th, but these books range from 100-1100 pages(most 200-300) so it's not too bad. I just have a hard time focusing on one for too long. Whereas 300 pages in a fictional book aren't too bad because the pages are relatively small, 300 pages in these books is terrifying simply because theyre printed on paper more akin to the 8x11.5" paper in notebooks O.O
For any out there interested in knowing more about computers but don't really know programming or hacking in depth, I would recommend Steal This Computer, and The Art of Deception. They both talk about computers, but not in a highly technical form with snippets of scripts or .dlls or .h files that would boggle people who don't know what those are, let alone what is said in them.
I'm a book worm so I like having all the different books to read. It's a lot of technical non-fiction at the moment because, like I said earlier, I've had a little too much fantasy/fiction in my diet over the last year. After this splurge I'm probably taking a break just to focus on school books though, which are SO much more dry than all of this combined :/
World Without End - Ken Follett
(sequel to my favorite book Pillars of the Earth, hopefully it is as good as the first)
Folks will always come and go, so enjoy them while they're meant to be in your life.
The Total Money Makeover By Dave Ramsey
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
World's Fair Exhibit
"God gave us memories, that in life's garden we may have June roses in December."
John Barrie
We are accomplices.
And I'm working my way, chronologically, through the Diablo Archive; currently, The Black Road.
Siaynoq's Playthroughs
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask