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I saw that on a rack at Barnes & Noble's and considered picking it up to kind of educate myself on how battle really works for my old RP. Didn't ever really happen, though.
I just stayed up as late as 4 a.m. finishing The Road even though I have to be to work in about four hours. What a beautiful book. Some parts were so disturbing and the imagery is so enchanting and haunting. I cried hard at the end of the book though and now I have a headache from it. At least now I can go see the movie. I highly recommend this to anyone.
I accidentally found this little site here: http://www.truly-free.org/
I really dunno about legalities... they have terms of use there but I'm no lawyer so if you're good at that stuff you can read up on it.
They let you dl 5 ebooks (.txt format), and then I guess they block your IP for 2 weeks. They also ask you delete the book after two weeks (I'm pretty sure that's uncheckable though).
But, anyway, there's some pretty cool stuff there. Mostly classics and old stuff. A lot of sci-fi I read is on there.
I'm going to try to get to B 'n N's today- I got a bunch of gift cards over Christmas. I want to pick up The Road (friend recommended it after reading it for a course; dunno, heard it's good), this amazing compendium I saw on mythological creatures, a book or so on the creation of artificial languages (that's always interested me...), and that omnibus of the Diablo books, because I feel really bad that I've been here as long as I have without reading them.
Right now I'm starting The Children of Hurin (I hate how our forum won't let us use accents, because the u needs to be accented).
I want to pick up The Road (friend recommended it after reading it for a course; dunno, heard it's good)
Was pretty amazing. I could talk about that book for hours. I love the dialogue in it. It occurs rarely and is poignant every time yet totally simplistic.
Only thing I didn't like about that book was how repetitive it was.
Walk, check for supplies, run from/kill guys, walk, check for supplies, run from/kill guys, walk....
Mm, fair enough. But how else would a trek across such an environment go? I think any book where someone is going from point A to point B is bound to be repetitive. Have you read this one book, Lord of the Rings? Holy shit is that book repetitive and mundane.
But I actually loved every little scene where they checked for supplies. Imagine the excitement and fear of looting abandoned houses for things when for all you know there could be dead people inside, or dangerous people about to come back. And maybe you'll get some good loot or maybe just a bunch of dried out apples buried under the leaves. That kind of stuff is interesting to me.
And the people they avoid are genuinely dangerous and threatening and you can really sense that in the novel. So it's really good suspense when they run afoul of other survivors because the protagonists are by no means super heroes and are actually very inept considering the environment.
I guess I just like the idea of the unknown in a place that was once supposed to be completely familiar and safe.
Not knowing what would happen/be in houses definitely was one of the high points of the book. Like when they checked the one house, and found all the battered, dismembered people waiting to be eaten in the basement. How that scene was described was so morbidly incredible.
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I never have, but I still have some gift cards left over so I'll check it out. I think I'm breaking out of my fantasy phase and I'm trying to become a more well-rounded reader...kindof.
I've just finished reading the Lost Symbol by Dan Brown... it's a cool book, a little boring at first, but I still think the Da Vinci Code is the best of mister Brown
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas for me again. That and White Fang by Jack London were my favorite childhood stories (closely followed by The Hobbit, of course :P). There was this wonderful omnibus of it at B & N's for about thirteen bucks- it included that, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. A steal in my opinion, since it was hardcover and had the original illustrations by Nate Pride. Despite popular belief, I think that books with pictures are as much about the pictures as the words.
journey to the center of the earth was way better than I expected to be...
I don't know if there are english version of "La Locura de Dios" (God's madness or something like that) by Juan Miguel Aguilera, but if you can, READ IT!!! is one of the best books I ever read
Problem with Dan Brown I have is that too many people take the stuff in his books as facts, when all the stuff is fiction (well, most). And it seems every book follows the same formula of an old professor kinda guy getting to bed the hot sexy chick, ewwww
don't forget that the chik is always a great scientist of a somewhat uncommon science, and the bad guy is always a crazy fanatic...
Well, yeah. That kind of does irk me. I just view it as a cultural reaction to his books, though, and stay away from it. As for the... predictable... characters, I think that's just kind of a part of the action sub-genre, if one can be said to exist. Little focus is put on characters- it's mostly placed on action. Not to say I appreciate it
I don't know if there are english version of "La Locura de Dios" (God's madness or something like that) by Juan Miguel Aguilera, but if you can, READ IT!!! is one of the best books I ever read
Well, it could help me brush up on my Spanish, if nothing else, for this semester. I have to take three classes to graduate with my major
Wasn't it quite grim and up-front? Basically do everything you can to win?
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I really dunno about legalities... they have terms of use there but I'm no lawyer so if you're good at that stuff you can read up on it.
They let you dl 5 ebooks (.txt format), and then I guess they block your IP for 2 weeks. They also ask you delete the book after two weeks (I'm pretty sure that's uncheckable though).
But, anyway, there's some pretty cool stuff there. Mostly classics and old stuff. A lot of sci-fi I read is on there.
Tom Clancy is such a good writer.
Right now I'm starting The Children of Hurin (I hate how our forum won't let us use accents, because the u needs to be accented).
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Walk, check for supplies, run from/kill guys, walk, check for supplies, run from/kill guys, walk....
Aside from that, it was actually a pretty good read.
But I actually loved every little scene where they checked for supplies. Imagine the excitement and fear of looting abandoned houses for things when for all you know there could be dead people inside, or dangerous people about to come back. And maybe you'll get some good loot or maybe just a bunch of dried out apples buried under the leaves. That kind of stuff is interesting to me.
And the people they avoid are genuinely dangerous and threatening and you can really sense that in the novel. So it's really good suspense when they run afoul of other survivors because the protagonists are by no means super heroes and are actually very inept considering the environment.
I guess I just like the idea of the unknown in a place that was once supposed to be completely familiar and safe.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas for me again. That and White Fang by Jack London were my favorite childhood stories (closely followed by The Hobbit, of course :P). There was this wonderful omnibus of it at B & N's for about thirteen bucks- it included that, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. A steal in my opinion, since it was hardcover and had the original illustrations by Nate Pride. Despite popular belief, I think that books with pictures are as much about the pictures as the words.
(I'll add to this in a moment.)
I don't know if there are english version of "La Locura de Dios" (God's madness or something like that) by Juan Miguel Aguilera, but if you can, READ IT!!! is one of the best books I ever read
don't forget that the chik is always a great scientist of a somewhat uncommon science, and the bad guy is always a crazy fanatic...
Well, it could help me brush up on my Spanish, if nothing else, for this semester. I have to take three classes to graduate with my major