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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2015, 05:01:52 AM »
The Science and Fiction of Autism by Laura Schreibman

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938932/
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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2015, 10:56:47 AM »
Reading Charlotte's Web to my daughter.
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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2015, 01:11:58 AM »
Still plodding on through the Anthony Riches Empire books. Ok a easy read

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2015, 02:58:40 AM »
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Vergil's Aeneid.

It's pretty compelling.  Road trip.  Trojan War from the perspective of the losers.  Bad, bad Greeks!

Whoops.  Not exactly a comic book, but then again, you don't know my imagination.

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2015, 10:21:13 AM »
Keane's Company - Napoleonic romp

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2024, 07:41:20 AM »
Jack lark book book 11, A tad bored of it but I will finish it.
Have the "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang" next

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2024, 10:01:01 AM »
Ovid's Metamorphoses
It's kind of a history of the world, including a big flood, and then a series of mythological stories, like Jupiter and Juno's constant marital problems due to his incessant infidelities and the havoc this wreaks on mortals and other demigods.  Poor Io, the nymph, that got turned into a cow, and Argus, the hundred eyed sentinel who had to watch over her.  Neither one had a great time of it.  Then there's the scallywag mortal child of Apollo (Phoebus), Phaeton, who asks Dad if he can borrow the car.  Things go downhill from there.  It's a series of short episodes -- so rather easy and entertaining.  Many myths that I'd heard in passing are laid out in greater detail here, so it's pretty fun.

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2025, 08:35:32 AM »
After a long time, I have decided to revisit the "Thomas Covenant" series, have never read the last series and have decided to start from the beginning. Wish me luck

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #23 on: April 03, 2025, 09:44:02 AM »
Good luck, goldie.  I had to look those up.  They sound involved, like lots of fantasy novels, but with some compelling protagonist.  I don't know that I'd enjoy them, given chris's descriptions.

I am reading another futuristic novel, "Never Let Me Go," by Kazuo Ishiguro.  About clones raised to donate their organs.  Told from the perspective of one, while still in the exclusive institution where they are raised and cared for until adulthood.  The novel is subtle in that you don't really grasp what's going on for a while (and given I haven't finished it, I can't really provide spoilers of any substance).  And then, it's hard to predict where it's going, but probably not to a good place.

I read his "Remains of the Day," which you might know from the film with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, many years ago, and I can't say that it's a feel good novel, but it does offer keen insights into people's emotions and the structures -- both internal and external -- that prevent them from achieving happiness.  He lives in the UK, having emigrated from Japan when he was 5.  I guess he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017.

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Re: What are you reading these days?
« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2025, 01:24:00 AM »
Luck.

I read the first Chronicles, all the while not understanding or believing the motivation of "our hero" . I had no sympathy for him from the beginning, and even less as time went on. Once I got over this dislike, I enjoyed the story (although the rape still leaves a bad taste, even all these years later), and some of the world-building was brilliant (although depressing and derivative), but I hated the main protagonist. I thought that in general the story overcame his hero, and the ending tied everything up nicely.
I think its due to the effects of Leprosy and teaching of his doctors of how he must survive and he did what he did due to this, but you know all of this. :)
Passes the time and as I am not at all up to date on fantasy / sci-fi I start to look backwards
for books to  read