OMG BOOKS! ... for people who read books

[threatsicle]

I want to read Rob Lowe's memoir next.

[Goose]

Finished The Shadow Rising, fourth book of The Wheel Of Time, finally.  Took a bloody month-and-a-half.  Stupid longwinded 1000-page motherfucker.  The first 10 chapters dragged like holy hell, but the last ten chapters easily made up for it.

My next two reads are Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, followed by The Hobbit, which I actually haven't read since I was about 11.  Figured with the movie coming out I should refresh my memory, so I can be suitably perturbed when Legolas shows up for no apparent reason.  I'm two chapters in to Hawking's book, and I'm actually surprised that I haven't learned anything, yet.  I'm sure its going to get wormhole-tastic soon though.

[r00]

The Hobbit is a good, quick read.  I come back to it every few years to read again.  Much less genealogy rambling than LotR.  8-p

[Goose]

[luna]

Can any of the kindle people here explain the linking fb to kindle thing? I linked it but how do I use it? I figured it would share when I bought or finished something but it didn't...i keep the wireless turned off unless I'm downloading something, maybe that's the problem?

[Goose]

Yep, that's the problem.  It won't share when you've bought a book, but it will post when you've finished a book, and I think there's an option to share annotations too or something like that.  But, it won't even prompt you to share anything if there's no active Internet connection.  I usually just turn on my Wifi as I get down to the last couple pages of a book so it'll share when I've finished it.  And you have to actually get all the way to the end too, flipping past whatever indexes or miscellaneous garbage is slapped into the last few pages.

[luna]

Ah I did flip all the way to the end but I didn't have the wireless on...

[luna]

ok so i turned the wireless on when and flipped to the very last page and it still didn't work...i fail at technology

anyway i finished murakami's hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, it was really good

[sin]

Yeah, I can't figure out how to get mine to work either.

[sin]

I'm about 2/3 of the way though Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.  About time, being as I've been getting down to that author for quite some time and this is the one that one him a Hugo award and everyone shits their pants about.  It started a little slow, but has picked up considerably.

Reading ABOUT the book I found out a lot of things that I didn't know about Haldeman, like that he was a Vietnam veteran and went to the Iowa Writer's Workshop (TFW was his MFA thesis and is considered an allegory for Vietnam, according to Wikipedia).

[doom]

The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson

[kristin]

ok so i turned the wireless on when and flipped to the very last page and it still didn't work...i fail at technology

anyway i finished murakami's hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, it was really good

Is that his newest one? I love all of his stuff.

[luna]

No I think it's old...the newest one isn't available for kindle until later this year, really looking forward to it!

[r00]

I picked up A Game of Thrones yesterday.  I figured I should have been reading the Song of Ice and Fire series a long time ago, but seeing the HBO version kicked me in the ass to finally start it.  I already find it so much more engaging in writing style than other fantasy series I attempted to start.

[Aaron]

I picked up A Game of Thrones yesterday.  I figured I should have been reading the Song of Ice and Fire series a long time ago, but seeing the HBO version kicked me in the ass to finally start it.  I already find it so much more engaging in writing style than other fantasy series I attempted to start.

I started reading it after I watched the tv show. And at the very start I was super into it, I started to care less about it as time when on... However, I started reading it again, and once I got past where I stopped watching the tv show, I find that I'm liking it a lot more... I think they did a great job with the show fallowing the book (at lest to where I stopped watching) and I think that killed any real interest I had in it... Now, I'm digging it again... And I went from just trying to finish the book to be done with it, to wanting to buy book 2.