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by **lhb412** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:58 am

Read The Tempest by Shakespeare

Now reading Red Dwarf: Better Than Life by Grant Naylor.

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:54 pm

The Tempest is just ok in my opinion...I prefer the loose adaption of Forbidden Planet....

by **lhb412** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:36 pm

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:29 pm

Yah, I'm ok with Shakespeare in a college class room setting but reading his work in a private setting is simply not happening. His themes truley are univeral and as such they have been recycled and reused in work that is more easily accessible for me at least.
Then again the same could be said for Mary Shelly's Frankenstein...but I love that book, now Dracula...good god....I think Bram Stoker's tale is a tad undeserving to say the least of it's reputation. If you haven't read it you can try, but I warn you, it is a unrewarding read to say the least. Sorry for the tangent....lets see I might as well update this seeing as how its been a while.

Books read recently

The first two books in the Otori series
The Spirits of the Gods: The Modern Rise of India
Heinlein's The Puppet Masters
The Android's Dream
Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3
Teatro Grotesco
And am about to start...reading Childhood's End, I Lucifer and The New Chinese Empire: And What it Means for the United States

by **lhb412** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:32 am

Read volume 4 of the wonderful Concrete comic series by Paul Chadwick: Killer Smile. Pretty intense, Concrete isn't known for thrillers, but this book collects the carjacking mini-series Killer Smile and (because all the short stories in these new tpb collections are ordered thematically) Concrete short stories dealing with crime or at least possible crime.

The ending of Killer Smile is actually pretty chilling. I'm going to hold off reading the next volume, the enviromentally charged Think Like a Mountain, untill mid-next week: Earth Day!

by **Tiny Gigan** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:43 pm

Finished Dark Banquet last week and it certainly didn't disappoint. The chapter about bed bugs gave me the willies for days.

I'm about to start reading Your Inner Fish - A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin.

by **king_ghidorah** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:57 pm

I thought Your Inner Fish was pretty decent, a little dry, but that's to be expected given the subject material. Deffinetly made some compelling arguments. I still wish I was slightly more fish like in my day to day life, I would not be upset if I was the Gillman from the Black Lagoon.

by **The Shadow** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:01 pm

I just finished re-reading Tarzan of the Apes and have started The Return of Tarzan.

Awesome reads -- it amazes me still that there has never been a true-to-book movie adaptation. My only regret, is that once I finish The Return of Tarzan I won't have any more Tarzan to read -- Edgar Rice Burroughs has proven very rare at the book stores [much like H. Rider Haggard]

by **lhb412** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:49 pm

Reading Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, a play often accused of being anti-semetic and, ironically enough, Maus I by Art Spiegleman.

by **king_ghidorah** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:55 am

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis: And Other Short Stories

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:31 pm

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by **lhb412** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:40 pm

Listened to the last three (Tertiary, Quandary, and Quintessential Phases) of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series while working on my final paintings for class.

Unlike the first two series, which were the original incarnations of the story later adapted into the first two books, these were adapted from the third, forth, and fifth booksby Dirk Maggs (a friend and associate of Douglas Adams) after the untimely death of Adams (who intended to adapt them with Maggs before his passing anyway).

They're actually really, really good. Didn't mind the cast's voices getting older, and the sound effects and music are spectacular, probably how Adams wanted the original series to sound. Maggs tighten up the stories, most of book three is adapted while the final two are streamlined a bit to good affect. Plot points and threads theat didn't quite tie-up in the books do so in the radio series, and they add a clever happy ending, which Adams also wanted (explaining he had a rather crappy year when he wrote the final book, explaining why it's so grim). Actually, considering alternate realities, there are several different happy endings!

by **lhb412** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:24 pm

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett.

by **howze01** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:43 pm

Reading "Too fat to fish" Artie Lange's biography. Seriously a very funny and very well written book.

by **lhb412** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:24 am

by **king_ghidorah** » Mon May 11, 2009 11:32 am

Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn

by **Reaper G** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:18 pm

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by **king_ghidorah** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:40 am

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

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