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[Beerfish]

I finally finished Neuromancer.  I'd say it lived up to the hype, good book.  I still have to sort out the ending and process a few things.

[Aimi]

So, I'm about to go on a trip back home, and acquired a book for the plane ride - Michael Leggiere's Blücher, a military biography of the Prussian general. Normally, I don't go in for biography, because it too often degenerates into Great Man nonsense and hagiography. Fortunately, I've read some of Leggiere's other stuff and he seems to be pretty good at avoiding those sorts of obnoxious pitfalls.

I know that there's been a veritable avalanche of books about the First World War over the last year, to mark the hundredth anniversary. Which is fine and all; the Great War actually has a lot to do with my diss, I've been interested in it for a long time, and some of the books are genuinely good scholarly tracts (like Clark's The Sleepwalkers, which is one of the best modern history books ever written). But at some point exhaustion sets in, especially considering that most of the books are recycled claptrap, or written by nonexperts who don't know what they're talking about, or are transparent cash grabs.

And after all, 2014 isn't just the anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, when Europe fell apart in an orgy of blood and death. It's also the two hundredth anniversary of a decidedly more inspiring occasion, when the nations of Europe genuinely united for the first time in their history to defeat Napoleon. (He came back for a bit. It didn't take.) The war of the Sixth Coalition was bloody and awful, but it made the subsequent peace and prosperity possible, and I can't conceive of a modern European idea without it. Blücher was a key player in all of that; he didn't craft the peace of Vienna, but his actions on the battlefield, and those of the troops under his command, made it possible.

Plus, I'm a sucker for new research in military history.

[Chashan]

I finally finished Neuromancer.  I'd say it lived up to the hype, good book.  I still have to sort out the ending and process a few things.

 

That gets a further look at in the third part, a couple characters included. Read it and its two direct sequels myself a while ago, by and large they are alright.

 

 

Currently, having not much else to do recuperating from breaking my left heel, I was reading Mary Ann Evans's, better known as George Eliot's Middlemarch. Nice, slowly paced 19th century novel, not yet finished.

[DarthGizka]

 

Came out today. Starting it right now, thanks to the wonders of ebooks and the Internet...

 

P.S.: the first instalment of the series - Ex Tenebris - can be downloaded for free from the author's website (only in Italian, though).

[The Uncanny]

[Cheech 2.0]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It's an acquired taste, but I'm really enjoying it. 

[Adaar the Unbound]

This summer I read

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. (I STRONGLY encourage you guys to read this)

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne by David Gaider

I'm currently reading Dragon Age: Asunder by David Gaider

Next I'll read Dragon Age: Masked Empire and then DA: The Silent Grove, Those Who Speak, and Until We Sleep.

Then I'll probably try the Divergent series.

[Dominus]

[mousestalker]

[PresidentVorchaMasterBaits]

what is.....book?

 

i can't remember the last time i read a book. i think it may have been the hobbit. 

[DarthGizka]

 

Bought it because I liked the author's Lost Tribe stories, but jumped the gun a bit... The Kindle price (9,99 €) still includes a tax on impatience, while the paperback - due out later this month - is pegged at 5,80 €.

[scampermax]

[Napoleonicus]

[Eurypterid]

I enjoyed the hell out of this book, but from talking to other people it really seems to be a love it or hate it book.

 

I'm currently reading Rick Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light. I was pretty stoked to finally getting a copy of it and promptly spilled a cup of coffee all over it. Oh well, it's still readable and thankfully was only the trade paper edition.

[The Uncanny]

[pelekekonakeohokalole]

Let's see...  The last few book I read were Lamb; The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (for about the 30th time), Fluke; or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings also by Christopher Moore, Android's Dream and Old Man's War by John Scalzi.  Just started reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with my kid.  Next book will be The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore (seriously funny author and one of my favs) in celebration of the Halloween/Christmas season.

[Obadiah]

Kind of a brain twister when it explains quantum mechanics.

[Zubi Fett]

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. 

[SwobyJ]

Not much right now, but planning on buying the rest of the Hyperion Cantos and related novels.

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[Jorji Costava]

 

Just getting started on this one; Derek Parfit takes three disparate moral theories (Kantian ethics, utilitarianism and contractarianism) and attempts to show that rather than radically conflicting with one another, the theories actually converge with each other, resulting in a more-or-less unified, coherent and singular ethical theory. By recovering the particulars of this theory, we thereby make moral progress. Pretty ambitious project, but when your title is "On What Matters," it better be.

[Voxr]

I just finished reading "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" by Tom Robbins and I started re-reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. I also recently finished the Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence nothing game changing in the genre of dark fantasy but nonetheless entertaining.  

[mousestalker]