Duck and Cover

atoga wrote:just finished haruki murakami's kafka on the shore :susan:

i can't wait for the new one to get translated

So I'm working on The Men Who Stare At Goats and its pretty darn good. Very funny. I like it.

Also working on Under The Dome by Stephen King. I think we can all take for granted the fact the he's a pretty overrated writer. His dialogue is wack and his endings are usually less than... good... but he's still a nice break from the classic English romance bullshit I've been working on for school.

Just picked up The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. We'll see how it goes.

Reading Mervyn Peake's Titus.

what, titus groan or titus alone?

Robotech: the book, (or trilogy of books), i have the 1987 print with all three on softcover.This interpretation instantly captures your attention with a gore scene not found in the anime adaptation, but it follows the exact same story.

A+ for effort, it eases you into the story with flowing action then into an overall boring teenage sap story that fills 5 chapters later.

susan's twin wrote:what, titus groan or titus alone?

groan

Legacy of Heorot. Predictable, but I enjoyed it.

ExtremeDrinker wrote:Legacy of Heorot. Predictable, but I enjoyed it.

Fairly good book...beowulf's children is a bit better. Haven't read the next in series yet though.

Working on The Ring of Ritornel now. I'm finding it hard to enjoy this book, though. I'm only about 30 pages in, but it's just dull.

I can absolutely see where David Webber got the idea for Off Armageddon Reef (which I actually did enjoy).

Roadside Picnic

Is that any good? Being a STALKER fan I've often thought about ordering it.

Just starting it...starting vacation friday, probably finish it friday night.

it's different from Stalker the game. I'm also doubtful whether a translation into English or similar language can be good - you'll lose some of the taste. Well to some degree that's what normally happens in translations but this time it might be a bigger degree.

Anyhow I liked it quite a bit.

about a third of the way in...digging it so far. definitely closer to the game than the movie.

a collection of short stories and plays by gogol

and roman imperialism in the late republic by e. badian

Caleb wrote:about a third of the way in...digging it so far. definitely closer to the game than the movie.

how did you manage do get ahold of the film? I cought it once on Polish TV. I felt it focused on the main 'message' without down-to-earth shizzle but the result was doubtful. Which remids me that Lem said that Tarkowski was an idiot (when shooting his Solaris)

it's widely available on dvd, i bought it in a regular store

interesting; I just searched for it at the British amazon - issued when the game already caused some stalker-hype(2002), as I thought. I think I was looking for the film prior to that, or perhaps this title was just not available in Poland then.

johnnygothisgun wrote:gogol

I never really read Gogol but I saw The Government Inspector when I was in my teens and enjoyed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzehTcIMzp4
How do you find it as a westerner?

Definitely loved the book...couldn't find it to buy but found a pdf so I'm questioning translation a bit but quite gut.