Just finished ender's game and watched the movie (which sucked IMO)I thought it was pretty good considering the time they had. The problem is, they SHOULD HAVE made it a two-parter.
Operation Mincemeat
The book
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the wikipedia link for everyone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
Just finished ender's game and watched the movie (which sucked IMO)I thought it was pretty good considering the time they had. The problem is, they SHOULD HAVE made it a two-parter.
I'm currently reading The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell after being harassed by an old college classmate to read it for the past eight years.And what is it about?
the chief of maintenance even gave Steven the key to a disused office on the Supper Club's neglected third floor, an old janitor's storage room that, unbeknownst to management, had been converted to a carpeted, furnished, and fully decorated pleasure pit, complete with a working phone. It was a space suitable for small gatherings, drug deals and empire building. The room was decorated with posters of Latina women penetrating themselves with vegetables, and it had been done up with pilfered carpet remnants and furniture from the adjoining Edison Hotel. As the space was located up a long flight of garbage-strewn back stairs, behind the reeking locker rooms, down a dark, unlit hall where spare china was stored, management never visited - and a young man could be secure in the knowledge that whatever dark business he was conducting, no matter how loud, unruly or felonious, he was unlikely to be disturbed.
Currently reading Alice in Wonderland. I know its a childs book but it is most interesting. I believe that the point the author is trying to make when he changes Alice's height is hinting at how easily one can go from feeling small to feeling large and vice versa. I.e. having power and not having power.
A book full of most interesting concepts.
Nelson Mandela put tires sprayed with gasoline around white kids necks and lit them on fire.
So I guess everybody has a fault in them somewhere.
And
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley probably for the 10x time
The restaurant at the end of the universe and enders in exile...
Maldoror - Comte de LautreamontThanks for mentioning this. I'm surprised that I haven't even heard of it. Seems interesting. :tup:
Maldoror - Comte de LautreamontThanks for mentioning this. I'm surprised that I haven't even heard of it. Seems interesting. :tup:
Are you familiar with the author and his death? I just read up on him. I don't want to ruin your reading experience so I'll put it in a spoilerMaldoror - Comte de LautreamontThanks for mentioning this. I'm surprised that I haven't even heard of it. Seems interesting. :tup:
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. It has taken me a while to adjust to the writing style, but now that I have broken through the comprehension barrier has started to get really cool.
Are you familiar with the author and his death? I just read up on him. I don't want to ruin your reading experience so I'll put it in a spoilerMaldoror - Comte de LautreamontThanks for mentioning this. I'm surprised that I haven't even heard of it. Seems interesting. :tup:
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. It has taken me a while to adjust to the writing style, but now that I have broken through the comprehension barrier has started to get really cool.SpoilerHe died before he could write the counterpart to that book where he wanted to
"replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity and pride by modesty."
That's tragic but it puts a smile on my face.
Awesome. I'm sold. :P
Read The Wasp Factory if you haven't already and find the time.
I don't know if that book will work as an audiobook, honestly. I sadly can't tell you why because of more spoiler issues.Awesome. I'm sold. :P
Read The Wasp Factory if you haven't already and find the time.
That looks pretty good. I already tracked down an audiobook of it. I generally prefer reading hard copies, but i'm broke and I fucking hate reading novels as PDF's off a laptop.
I don't know if that book will work as an audiobook, honestly. I sadly can't tell you why because of more spoiler issues.Awesome. I'm sold. :P
Read The Wasp Factory if you haven't already and find the time.
That looks pretty good. I already tracked down an audiobook of it. I generally prefer reading hard copies, but i'm broke and I fucking hate reading novels as PDF's off a laptop.
I've read it in one session on my PSP. Don't be a pansy.
I highly recommend Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.
Steven King wind through the keyhole
And
Philip K Dick Divine Invasion