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« Reply #1420 on: October 06, 2012, 02:56:17 PM » |
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Also, ANSI Common Lisp by Graham for a CS class. Lisp is pretty fuckin' cool.
Practical Common Lisp for me. why-can't-i-hold-all-these-parentheses.lisp
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« Reply #1421 on: October 08, 2012, 02:03:52 PM » |
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well both stories are part of the same arc, aren't they? And yeah vinge is the best author I've read in a long time.
Yeah, in book chronology it goes: Deepness in the sky -> 20,000 years -> Fire Upon the Deep -> 10 years -> Children of the Sky. And I'd rank them Deepness, Fire, Children. Deepness and Fire are some of the most inventive sci-fi I've read in a long time. Vinge writes aliens unlike anyone else I've ever read. He manages to write them in a very real, relatable way despite the fact that they are completely foreign to the human experience (talking about the Spiders and the Tines).
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« Reply #1422 on: October 08, 2012, 06:50:24 PM » |
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I read the second before the first and it wasn't very important because there is no real chronology between the two, I didn't even know there was a third book!
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« Reply #1423 on: October 08, 2012, 08:32:30 PM » |
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Also, ANSI Common Lisp by Graham for a CS class. Lisp is pretty fuckin' cool.
Practical Common Lisp for me. why-can't-i-hold-all-these-parentheses.lisp I just finished The Little Schemer, which is like those books, but for babies. You two obviously have a much higher grasp and appreciation for Lisp languages than I do. I'm also reading Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Not normally my thing but it's really good.
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« Reply #1424 on: October 09, 2012, 11:48:36 PM » |
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Finished reading The Cornelius Chronicles. Probably my favorite thing by Moorcock so far, although I have to admit much of it confused the hell out of me. There were times during the sentence-long chapters of A Cure for Cancer and the episodic scenes of The English Assassin that I missed the (relatively) straightforward but well-written and enjoyable The Final Programme. However it all came together into a really effective package. I'll probably want to read it a second time in the future and see if I can catch things I missed the first time around.
Now started reading Anansi Boys.
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« Reply #1425 on: November 22, 2012, 03:55:32 PM » |
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Finished reading Ender's Game for the first time. I liked it. Now I'm reading 'Stories of Mystery From Lafcadio Hearn', a compilation of Japanese short stories based on myth and folklore.
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« Reply #1426 on: November 22, 2012, 04:59:57 PM » |
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That sounds wonderful, Ashkin! How are you liking it?
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« Reply #1427 on: November 22, 2012, 05:07:09 PM » |
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I'm actually really enjoying it so far. It reminds me of Mushishi, the anime, and I can see how they both draw from the same pool of inspiration. I've always found Japanese folklore much more interesting than that of other cultures. It's pretty much a collection of ghost stories, and the atmosphere is really inspiring to me.
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« Reply #1428 on: November 23, 2012, 07:28:26 AM » |
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Desert Solitaire
The memoirs of a man who worked for some time in a desert national park, alone. It is more or less a late-era transcendentalist work, though I expect if you told the author that he would beat the shit out of you. Very good.
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« Reply #1429 on: November 25, 2012, 06:41:03 PM » |
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Swords & Deviltry by Fritz Lieber
Read about the characters of the series and I realized I could relate to them so it gave me more reasons to buy the first book in the series.
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« Reply #1430 on: December 06, 2012, 01:55:05 AM » |
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« Reply #1431 on: December 07, 2012, 10:03:36 AM » |
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Eh, started working on the Game Maker for Beginners tutorials. Haven't really read in the last couple of weeks other than that.
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« Reply #1432 on: December 13, 2012, 09:02:47 AM » |
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I just finished the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Not sure what to read next!
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« Reply #1433 on: December 13, 2012, 04:14:28 PM » |
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Finished reading Oryx and Crake, now reading Man in the High Castle.
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« Reply #1434 on: December 14, 2012, 06:10:25 PM » |
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Almost done A Dance With Dragons, glad I kept reading the series it was great.
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« Reply #1435 on: December 19, 2012, 02:31:20 PM » |
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I just finished the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Not sure what to read next!
Almost done A Dance With Dragons, glad I kept reading the series it was great.
I'm reading "A Storm of Swords" right now - these books are really amazing. All the hype about them is definitely well-earned.
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« Reply #1436 on: December 19, 2012, 03:20:16 PM » |
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I just finished the series A Song of Ice and Fire. Not sure what to read next!
Almost done A Dance With Dragons, glad I kept reading the series it was great.
I'm reading "A Storm of Swords" right now - these books are really amazing. All the hype about them is definitely well-earned. I concur, I'm reading them as well and loving them
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« Reply #1437 on: December 20, 2012, 05:27:08 AM » |
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I got my fiancée the first few books in the series... and the making of book... and the graphic novel. She really likes the TV show and I had no Christmas ideas. I kind of want to read them, but I haven't really enjoyed a fantasy book since Cry of the Icemark when I was like 12.
I've been reading Anna Anthropy's book Rise of the Video Game Zinesters lately, it's not bad.
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« Reply #1438 on: December 21, 2012, 05:16:03 AM » |
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Just finished the Mistborn trilogy. Amazing ride, full of twists that I never saw coming. The ending was better than I ever could have imagined. I want a videogame.
What's that you say?Have started reading the first book now after seeing you guys mention it. Enjoying it so far I read the Mistborn trilogy a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I really liked Vin as a character. After that I read the follow-up book, Alloy of Law, and also Elantris, by the same author; both very good as well. And the reason I started reading Sanderson was from a recommendation on the blog of Patrick Rothfuss, author of the sublime Name of the Wind which I heartily recommend. I may have mentioned it before in this thread, but not sure. EDIT: Test Your Metal is a terrible, terrible catchphrase for the Mistborn game. Finally had the chance to finish the series. Was really impressed and now just trying to figure out what I should be reading next...
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« Reply #1439 on: December 21, 2012, 03:26:42 PM » |
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Finished Cat's Cradle, starting Slaughterhouse Five. I'm not a drugs salesman. I'm a writer. What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
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