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 Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:05 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:20 pm
I hate reading off a screen, though
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:26 pm
Hey, so this is drifting a bit...but it's somewhat related...
I just finished another Orson Scott Card book that I bought...um...two days ago. I've been reading this book at work to pass the time (right now, I'm a temp agent working as a receptionist covering for someone else, and since I've nothing to do but answer phones, they let me read).
Anyway, at first, I thought that the phone was pissing me off because it would ring conveniently exactly when I didn't want it to ring, when I came to a part of the book where it was essential that I don't stop reading. I immerse myself in books, and to be drawn out of my imagination like that is kind of jarring, like waking up from a dream.
Only, I realized that I was looking at it the wrong way, and that I was constantly hearing the phone ring when I didn't want to, because practically every part of that book was a page turner.
This one was Empire, if you're wondering which book, and after reading the afterword by the author, I can only say that I have that much more respect for Orson Scott Card and his madd skillz as kickass writer.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:38 pm
I know, right? He's ******** incredible! I'm like that whenever I read anything he writes. I need to have an open weekend when I read one of his books so I can devour the whole thing uninterrupted.
So far, my favorite is the Tales of Alvin Maker series, but I haven't read Empire yet, I'd better get on that.
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:39 am
Yeah, I haven't started the Alvin Maker set...I borrowed the first one from the library a couple weeks ago and read the first couple pages, but had gotten distracted and returned the book.
I have read most of the Ender series though...uhmazing...anyway, good stuff.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:12 pm
The book my friend indroduced me to Card was "Maps in a Mirror"
I'm not done with it yet, but the Plauge of Butterflys bit is frickin great.
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:30 am
In my mind, Thomas Harris and his Hannibal books are the best things I've read recently.
I've read each one in one day. (not all in the SAME day, just FYI...)
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:26 pm
Just finished reading my signed copy of William Gibson's Spook Country.
That was pretty cool.
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