What are you currently reading?

you might want to check out Helliconia by Brian Aldiss. i mentioned it a few posts back. it follows humans and "phagors" on an earthlike planet, and for the most part, it is technologically primitive.

have you ever read any of the Dune books? kinda the same thing, some of the characters on the planet Dune don't have all that much in the way of technology

 

I only read the first Dune book, I also had the vcr with Sting in it. Very dated special effects already when I watched that for the first time but I liked both anyway

 

The trouble with the Dune series is that Frank Herbert never finished it. His son and another writer wrote 2 sequels but IMO they're not up to Frank's level at all.
That's a shame, as the last one Frank wrote 'Chapterhouse Dune' ended on something of a cliffhanger.

There's a tv series 'Children of Dune' which continues from where the original film/book ended and covers the next 2 novels in the series.

 

I read the first "Dune" when I was into sci-fi as a teen,but couldn't get on with the second in the series.I rarely read Sci-fi now.National Lampoon's take on Dune is very funny.Good spoof.

 

1st Dune took me forever to get into it. the first 40 or so pages i found very dry, and full of weird, made-up words. but after that it really picked up and i loved it.

i read the next two in the series, and then got distracted by other books. i'm thinking the 1st is probably the best.

there are like 6 in the series, but then there are a shitload of other ones, including prequels and stuff like that....one called "House of Atriedies" or however you spell Paul's last name.

 

Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle

Living Clean - Narcotics Anonymous

 

A history of Science and Technology volume 1.I like to know how people did things in the old days before electricity etc.I like to imagine the tech and gear that people like Da Vinci had available to him.I want to learn this stuff without having to worry myself with quantum mechanics just now.I want basic feet on the ground technologies that a I could possibly replicate with simple limited materials.

 

Small Favor by Jim Butcher (Book 10 of The Dresden Files)

 

Just bought a fantastic little novelty book called 'Tequila Mockingbird' (cocktails with a literary twist).

 

There used to be a band in my hometown when I was in highschool called Tequila Mockingbird.


I'm currently reading Eyes of the Heart, by Jean-Bertrand Aristide (twice elected as the president of Haiti, twice removed by a US-backed coup d'etat).

 

I used to mock birds while drinking tequila.

 

The Republic and Seven Levels of Communication..

 

Recently finished City of Lies by Ramita Navai. It is a fictional book about life in Iran, based on real people and stories. I really enjoyed it - it was nice to get a window into a world that I knew nothing about.

Right now I've just started The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss, one of my favourite new fantasy writers.

 

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

 

The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

 

Nice, I love that book.
Do you like it?

 

Yeah, this is my second time reading it.