I need to like them. The last 3 audio-books (long commute) I started I couldn't finish.Originally Posted by Raisor
I need to like them. The last 3 audio-books (long commute) I started I couldn't finish.
It's been about 15 years since I read them. I started them after reading O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturien series. Not nearly as good as those, but still good stuff.
I just bought a kindle to replace my old Sony eReader, and am starting 1632.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Raisor (02-28-2017)
You'll need this
http://www.ericflint.net/wp-content/...ding-order.png
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL11..._Francis_Adams
Nothing like getting a narrative from an original source.
"One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
For the 6th or 7th time I'm starting the Aubrey/Maturien novels again.
Finished up "Ready Player One". This is a tweener sort of book, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Would make a good movie I think. If you have any nostalgia for 80's video games you would probably enjoy this one.
GL
http://deadline.com/2016/02/tye-sher...ne-1201708720/
"I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding - Robert Hughes
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804: Alan Taylor
I've had the audiobook of American Revolutions in my queue for several months, but have thus far chosen books that don't cause me to think about stuff other than what I already have on my plate. Soon, though.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Sweet, now don't bone it up.
GL
I'll do my best.Sweet, now don't bone it up.
GL
"I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
Recently finished Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" and Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." Not sure if it's the head space I'm presently in, but didn't really enjoy either book. I do now understand the Pynchon/David Foster Wallace comparisons.
Last edited by BillDoran; 03-29-2017 at 11:11 AM.
Been spending a lot of time reading biographies of the stories of the convict ships and its passengers that were sent to Australia, Tazmania and other areas nearby. I have "The Fatal Shore", but haven't gotten to it, yet, as I'm trying to familiarize myself with as much of it's background before I begin.
"One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
."Jack, you have debauched my sloth" is the greatest sentence in the history of the English language.
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