Just finished: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon The Blind Side - Michael Lewis A Game of Thrones - George Martin Skinny Dip - Carl Hiassen A Clash of Kings - also Martin reading Storm of Swords by Martin
It's fiction, I haven't read Pattern Recognition but I have read a couple of his other novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero. They were good but nothing spectacular. Gibson is considered the father of the "Cyberpunk" genre, the stories are set in the near future where technology is more advanced (implants, artificial intelligence, etc). If you liked Ender's Game I would recommend reading the rest of the Ender series; Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.
Thanks I read NeuroMancer - It was ok but less than I expected [so many people bragged about it to me] Ender's Game was good. I had read Shadow of the Hegemon and figured I should know more about the original Rocket River
I am just about to finish Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy. That is based on recommendations from people on this very board. I have a whole list of books to read based on board recommendations, and a list from a co-worker. It is a good feeling to have a line up like that ready.
Here are the books I have read this year Imperium - Robert Harris 18 Hours - Sandra Lee Wildfire - Nelson DeMille Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph The State of Africa - Martin Merideth A Spy's Life - Henry Porter Alibi - Joseph Kanon Marching Powder - RustyYoung Currently reading: The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis And the books up next are:- Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond The Alienist - Caleb Car Hary Potter Order of Phoenix - JK Rowling To the Last Man - Jeff Shaara Consiracy of Fools - Kurt Eichenweld Rise & Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer In the Company of Heroes - Michael Durant Empire State - Henry Porter Selling Hitler - Robert Harris Lunch with the Generals - Derek Hansen The Rising Tide - Jeff Shaara
I should have added that I recently finished the latest Bell book. It was great. I think I liked Elvis just a little bit more, but that still leaves plenty of room for the greatness of Sex God. I like it when Bell talks about the how the Bible was relevant with in the Jewish or Greek, or whatever culture at the time it was written, and the impact it would have had because of the culture it was written in. He explains it so simply, and yet clearly. It adds so much meaning to the text that I often times wasn't aware of at all. It feels great to get something new out of it.
The same thing happened with me, maybe if it hadn't been hyped up so much I would have liked it more. The rest of Ender's series are more philosophical, dealing with how killing a species affects Ender through his life and the survival of the human race and other intelligent life. Ender's Shadow (the first book about Bean) is interesting since you get to see the time of their training through a different perspective. The rest of that series follows the military strategy more.
Game of Shadows, about the doping scandals in the Olympics and baseball, as well as the story behind Victor Conte and Greg Anderson.
Just finished: Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Shibumi - Trevanian Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk Think I'm about to start: City of God - E.L. Doctorow Not sure what else yet.
Fooled by Randomness- Nasim Taleb The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell Starting: Virus of the Mind- RIchard Brodie
Right now Robot Blues by Margaret Weis and Don Perrin. Up next, Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkein (sort of).
You'd love the book I'm reading now. Seriously, order it off Amazon. Yeah, Sex God was awesome. Looking forward to Bell's next book...whatever it is.
Just finished reading a thread on cluthch fans. Before that some daily news on Bush and the War and politics -- on the web. Last whole book: Grisham, the Broker. I read novels before going to sleep. Often lawyer novels. Started Nemesis, by Chalmers Johnson. First chapter is a good summary of his anti-imperialist trilogy. Good read by a very established American East Asia historian, who certainly supported the Vietnam War until perhaps the end. He has been rethinking US imperialism in recent years. I guess I should add that I spent 30 minutes skimming the new biography of Einstein that has just come out at the bookstores. Looks fantastic. Realistically I don't tend to have the time to read books that long. I may skim parts of it again next time I'm at a bookstore, which is about once a week.
