[SIZE="7"][color="MediumTurquoise"]Cobalt Figure 8[/color][/SIZE]UC Pseudonym wrote:For a while I wasn't sure how to answer this, and then I thought "What would Batman do?" Excuse me while I find a warehouse with a skylight...
ich1990 (post: 1449454) wrote:“]The Communist Manifesto[/B]” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
I must admit that I disappointed.
uc pseudonym (post: 1448443) wrote:The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
KhakiBlueSocks wrote:"I'm going to make you a prayer request you can't refuse..." Cue the violins.
Kaori (post: 1449770) wrote:Also read thirty-some essays by students and two by Michel de Montaigne (the man who invented essays). I certainly cannot give an assessment of Montaigne as a writer based on such a small sample of his work, but what stood out to me the most about the two essays I read was how utterly random and unstructured they were. He has influenced writers from Descartes and Pascal to Asimov, so I probably ought to give him more of a chance, but what I read didn’t really make me want to.
ich1990 wrote: If you have the time I would be interested in hearing what you thought of Gene Wolfe. He has long been on my "to-read" list, but I have never been so interested by his writings as to bump them to the top of my list. Did you like him? If so, are any of the above a good place to start reading his works?
bigsleepj wrote: Hmmm. I'd like to know your thoughts on these books when you're done with them. I've read all five and generally liked them (did not like Urth of the New Sun - struck me as weak) but knowing Gene Wolfe the novels would probably be better the second time around.
ich1990 wrote:Welcome back, I must have missed it when you updated your thread.
Mr. Hat'n'Clogs wrote: Too bad Duncan Idaho didn't have much of a role. It's a pretty big waste to give such an awesome name to someone then hardly utilize it.
risa (post: 1449926) wrote:which two essays were they? we had to read a book of his essays in school, and they were pretty random, though sometimes that made them more interesting.
Atria35 (post: 1450200) wrote:Will finish reading The Divine Comedy by Dante today.
Tomorrow, I will start 1984 by George Orwell.
Kaori (post: 1450319) wrote:Nice! How did you like the Divine Comedy?
Atria35 (post: 1450692) wrote:Will be picking up Starship Troopers from the library today.
Atria35 (post: 1450200) wrote:Will finish reading The Divine Comedy by Dante today.
Tomorrow, I will start 1984 by George Orwell.
Atria35 (post: 1450827) wrote:I'm guessing you like those books?
Hats wrote:"Frodo! Cast off your [s]sins[/s] into the fire!"
rocklobster (post: 1451220) wrote:Starting The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton.
KhakiBlueSocks wrote:"I'm going to make you a prayer request you can't refuse..." Cue the violins.
risa (post: 1449926) wrote:started A Reason for God by Timothy Keller.
Atria35 (post: 1451540) wrote:Finished the first book in the Warriors series. Very good for a children's book- it was great light reading.
rocklobster (post: 1451646) wrote:Just you wait. The first arc really picks up midway through the second book. Firepaw does some pretty cool stuff in order to get his warrior name. And no, that doesn't count as a spoiler.
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