Burned through this in like 4 days reading a few hours each night.



Starting tonight

Just finished Aloha From Hell by Richard Kadrey (sooooo awesome).

Just started The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet By David Mitchell.

... Simon Morden's "Equations of Life".

Trouble In Paradise by Robert B. Parker

Scooped up Steal Like An Artist and devoured it in one sitting. It's required reading if you're in the creative field.

Has anybody read "The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet" by David Mitchell? I'm about a hundred pages in and wondering when it gets interesting.

Big fan of Stephenson. I haven't read any of the Quicksilver books though. I've heard they're a bit more of a chore, but I'm sure I'll wade in someday. How was the first one?

^ Very funny/ Great book.

Now reading:

Just Finished:

Wild Thing by Josh Bazell


Starting:

My Seinfeld Year by Fred Stoller

The only other book of his I have read is Cryptonomicon. So far, I would consider Quicksilver to be very similar. All the history is covered through a fictional character that befriends a bunch of famous faces, in this case Newton, Leibniz, etc.

Quicksilver is actually broken into 3 books. The first book has a lot of the historical stuff and was enjoyable but takes time to read. I recently started the second book, focusing on the Shaftoe character and it reads a lot quicker as there is much less "math fiction" in this section.

Overall, I am enjoying it.

Finished The Big Sleep.
Finished The High Window this morning. Chandler rocks.

I also noticed a bit of dialogue where someone said, "She ought to of told me that" back in 1939. I thought the error was much newer.

Finished:



Good, yet somewhat disturbing. Definitely not on par with a typical Russell Banks novel.


Reading:

Finished V, started reading the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy, Dragonflight:






-kd5-

^ Just picked that up yesterday...along with: