October 29th, 2009
Most of my reading for the last six months has been of a technical nature. Interesting but boring.
Recently I have dedicated some time to read something fun, so I picked up Neuromancer and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Two books by greats of the science fiction genre that I had never read before. Neuromancer is an awesome tale that pretty much created the cyberpunk genre, and I found it very enjoyable. It is somewhat old, but has held up pretty well with time. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a story of libertarian revolution on the moon, which is of course right up my alley. It is even older, but has been a great read so far.
I hope to put up reviews of both of these soon, and will probably hit up one of the books on the top one hundred list next. It is nice to get a chance to read some good adventure again!
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Tags: fiction, sci-fi | 6 Comments
February 11th, 2009
My current book of choice is The Stand by Stephen King. I usually have a few books in the rotation, and do so now, but the other two are going to be on the shelf until this one is completed. It is awesome so far, and I can hardly put it down. It is on my reading list as well.
King is not one of my favorite writers. While trying to read some of his other books, I have found him to be a bit to wordy. His writing is wonderful, but I don’t really need a ten page description about a cup of coffee some drunk in a bar was sipping on.
The Stand is a big volume at over 1,100 pages, but having got about a quarter of the way through it, I have not found it boring in the least. The other book that I have completed of his was The Shining, which was excellent as well.
So for now Atlas Shrugged and the book I am reading on WW2 code breaking are just going to have to wait.
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Tags: fiction, reading list | 2 Comments
