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Dr. Michael Newton - Destiny of Souls

Just finished books 1 and 4 of Paradise Lost for a class. I really wish I had time to read it all. I thought it would be boring, dealing with the fall of Satan and Man, but it's so good. Why can't people write like this anymore? Milton's vocabulary is off the charts and his imagery is truly beautiful. Very inspiring.

I'm currently working my way through this amazing book:


Also @Eivind and Casanova, probably going to order this one:

Paradise Lost is fucking great.

Iommic Pope wrote:Paradise Lost is fucking great.

MrNovember: Awesome! Let one of us know what you make of it. It's always interesting to hear what people outside of Scandinavia think of our literature.

Does ABBA fan fiction count?

Chankgeez wrote:Does ABBA fan fiction count?

Make it count!

I've just started Jeff Vandermeers Southern Reach Trilogy. Could not find an english copy anywhere so i got the translation of book 1 from the library. It's a little bit like the TV series Lost at least in the beginning. I kinda like it, a nice, easy read, good entertainment.

Just finished Annihilation by Jeff VanDerMeer, too. Quite liked it, weird but in a good way. I'll probably get the other two from the Southern Reach trilogy (they're only about 200 pages each) but for some reason the kindle prices almost doubled since I bought the first one...



I'm trying to alternate between fiction and non-fiction (I've got a big waiting list for each) so I started "Warren Ellis: The Captured Ghosts Interviews". Because Warren Ellis is a smart man and I usually like reading his thoughts on things. This is mostly about comics so far but it goes over things too.



Next : probably Pratchett's "Unseen Academicals" because I haven't read a Discworld novel in ages and "Videogame storytelling", because work.

I might have said it before but I really like my Kindle. Reading stuff is much easier and I've found out that a nice chunk of the time I spend reading now is time that I used to spend either doing nothing special (train, etc.) or doing useless stuff on my phone.

oscillateur wrote:Just finished Annihilation by Jeff VanDerMeer, too. Quite liked it, weird but in a good way. I'll probably get the other two from the Southern Reach trilogy (they're only about 200 pages each) but for some reason the kindle prices almost doubled since I bought the first one...

Apart from Lost it also reminds me of Roadside Picknick by the Strugatzkis. In how the weird and "alien" is localized, and in how it is actually, really weird and alien in a stringent way, not the Star Trek kind of aliens that are like very smart humans with a fishbone glued to their forehead. I love that when it's done, but it so rarely is. My favorite sort of SF!
Hopefully Annihilation stays that way, I'm only on page 78.

Currently slowly blasting my way through:

phantasmagorovich wrote:

oscillateur wrote:Just finished Annihilation by Jeff VanDerMeer, too. Quite liked it, weird but in a good way. I'll probably get the other two from the Southern Reach trilogy (they're only about 200 pages each) but for some reason the kindle prices almost doubled since I bought the first one...

Apart from Lost it also reminds me of Roadside Picknick by the Strugatzkis. In how the weird and "alien" is localized, and in how it is actually, really weird and alien in a stringent way, not the Star Trek kind of aliens that are like very smart humans with a fishbone glued to their forehead. I love that when it's done, but it so rarely is. My favorite sort of SF!
Hopefully Annihilation stays that way, I'm only on page 78.

Sweet.
If it's anything like Roadside Picnic I gotta get it.

Strange Tales wrote:Currently slowly blasting my way through:

I love Murakami. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is still my favorite of his books.


Except this one is also my favorite:


And this one:

I'm currently making my way through the Frank Bascombe series of books by Richard Ford.
Finished The Sportswriter two weeks ago and am now onto Independence Day.



Before that I read The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson.

Seance wrote:I love Murakami.

You forgot

Seance wrote:I love Murakami. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is still my favorite of his books.

I started Murakami with Colorless Tsukuru and I really loved that book, my friend told me his favorite was Hard Boiled Egg so I decided on that one next. He has so many books though so I'm happy to have a ton to read for the time being.