Reading

ill read the old testament. but both kingdom of the wicked and germany winning ww2 sound depressing.

Oh Silas, I always lol when I read the contest at Mt Carmel in Kings, it conjures some pretty funny mental imagery XP

Read Watership Down. I think the movie would have been so much better if it were 2 hours long, encompassing all the maturity and detail of the book. I was also a fan of the Redwall series, which is basically Tolkien with animals, be it aimed at a younger audience. I like books that are absorbed in their own world with their own timeline, history, languages, a large cast of characters etc- they make perfect sense within their own context and the world they are set in is whole, and so believable in that sense. There isn't too much spoonfeeding of every detail trying to explain to you what's going on; you don't have a narrator telling you every detail of what is going on in real life so I find books that 'assume' you've caught on to it's way of speaking/thinking or remember recurring themes more immersive.

welp, i've never read the old testament, but i've always been under the impression that kingdom of the wicked is essentially the old testament in regular english (and told from the pov of laypeople)

weight - the story of atlas and heracles - jeanette winterson.

it's part of random house's The Myths series, of ancient myths retold by contemporary authors.
more here: http://www.randomhouse.ca/features/themyths/index.html

atwood's "the penelopiad" (also part of the myths series) has recently been made into a stage production starring megan follows of "anne of green gables" fame -- i really want to see it but i really really need to read it beforehand.

it does. so pleasant. wicked sounds interesting. my other books have been shipped. still waiting. so tired but want more books.

The coolest book I have read in the last few years has to be Anathem by Neal Stephenson. All his stuff is the vegan-organic supergroomed slow-cured UV-supplemented CO2-optimized headstash of sci-fi, esp. Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon, but Anathem shows a mature novelist at the height of his powers. We're talking literature here ... the kind of book that'll be talked about in the 22nd century. Imo.
A lyrical but difficult book was The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Edgar Wrobleski ... about a family that raised a quasi-telepathic breed of dogs. If you ever saw the movie "Hachi - A Dog's Tale" it touches on that story.

I adore science fiction. Favorites: Footfall and The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle. What awesome movies they'd be!
Earth by David Brin, and his six Uplift Series books. Yum.
Greg Bear: Blood Music, Anvil of Stars, Eon, Moving Mars.
Anything and everything Lois McMaster Bujold ever wrote. The Vorkosigan series particularly is writing at the highest level ... start with Shards of Honor and yer hooked. For fantasy, The Curse of Chalion and its sequel Paladin of Souls is very refreshing because its take on magic is quite different from the Tolkien-retread shite that is everywhere, like Eragon.
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I shall check out Edgar Sawtelle... I love the story of Hachiko, though I haven't seen the movie. On a canine-flavored note, have you read The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams? It's a little grim, admittedly...

Haven't read it, but if you like sapient canines from beyond ... A Fire on the Deep by Vernor Vinge ... cn

ive got allot to look into.

found my enders game book. ender just got his monitor taken out and some dudes fucken with him about it.

about 1/3 of the way through massie's "catherine the great" -- but i fear i'm getting my fredericks and augustuses all confuddled, there's just so damn many of them!

Anything by Douglas Adams, hes hilarious. There is very little in terms of literature that I will not devour...been that way since I was a kid.

For all you literature folk, would you mind reading my intro chapter for the book I am writing? Yes, its still in need of work but it is getting there. It is just so hard me to write when I have no bud and I have been dry for months now, but it still coming along. Any suggestions and comments would be appreciated

https://www.rollitup.org/inspired-art/503231-chapter-1-thunder-makes-not.html

if there was a list of 'best fictional names', 'dirk gently' would definitely be near the top.....

ooo, ooo, a work in progress, i'll have to stop back by and read it after my wake n dab.....

got some holly black but dont want to read it. harder to read and travel. first big voyage. do you write?