Books, CAN YOU READ?! Options

[Dr Strum]

This thread is for discussion of books. Books you're reading, books you've read, books you're interested in, etc.
--Tom Clancy is lame--


But anyways. I'm currently reading Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's interesting, but I'm having difficulty getting into it, partially because of school, and partially because the month before I started it, I had just finished the Dark Tower series.

[Dr Strum]

It's not like Brave New World was using tough language or anything, either, there was just something very unengaging to me about the entire story even though the ideas in it were really interesting. I don't know if that's relevant to what anyone was talking about but CONVERSATION

It was very sterile. Which is half a result of Huxley's writing style, half a result of the atmosphere he was trying to evoke for his dystopia. Did you notice how the language changed when he visited the "savages?"

Like, why would [censored] [censored] THEN instead of doing it earlier?

Um. Maybe use spoiler tags and then I can figure out what [censored][censored] means and we can discuss it lol. I recommend giving Paradise Lost a go and then rereading Frankenstein, as Shelley drew heavily on Milton's masterpiece for Frankenstein.

I haven't been doing a whole lot of reading RECENTLY, but I eventually finished Crime and Punishment, and that's part of the reason I haven't been reading: I've been recovering. Read a lot of comic books recently (been on a huge Remender kick) plus the second part of Persepolis (even more depressing than the first part, but at least there was some sort of hint of hope in the ending).

When I was traveling I read Ready Player One which is a dystopian love song to the eighties. Seriously. It was entertaining if not my typical jam. Going to be a movie soon I hear?

Just started Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and two chapters in I'm already loving it. This is how I want to write. THIS.