Kevin's Watch

I read a Charlotte M. Yonge book - " 'Abbeychurch' or 'Self-Control and Self-Conceit.' "

Reading the play "Death of a Salesman" for the first time now.

Emperor: The Field Of Swords

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The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze

Emperor: The Gods of War. Gaul is pacified, the Rubicon has been crossed, the Republic restored, and Pompeii is waiting.

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Emperor: The Blood of Gods. Last book in the Rome series. Caesar is dead, this is the aftermath.

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So...I finished the Rome books.

The GF has been watching a series based on Gerald Durrell's autobiographical books of his childhood.

So that made me nostalgic for the books. When I went to dig them out from where they were supposed to be however, they weren't there.

Every other Durrell book I own was there, including almost everything by Laurence Durrell, (his brother), but not those three Corfu books.

Now, I know I have them, so the only other possible place is in storage. But that's not very accessible to me for various reasons. So I've just ordered them.

I think this is the first time I've deliberately bought a book I know I already own.

While I wait for them to be delivered, I'm reading Wolf of the Plains, the first of Conn Iggulden's books about the dynasty of Genghis Kahn.

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The Lords of the Bow, book 2 of Iggulden's Genghis Khan series.

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Bones of the Hills, book 3 of the above.

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"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," by Dostoyevsky: a short story that the Chrons parallel remarkably, in terms of concept.

(Also, "Linna's first Dostoyevsky-reading.")

well right before the syfy series premiered I was told I should read The Expanse books before watching the series so I did and I loved them!
AND the series on syfy is really good too so I'm enjoying that and waiting for that next book to come out.

I just received the next book in erikson's kharkanas trilogy (fall of light) but have not started it yet because after reading the expanse I was still in the mood for some space opera or other decent sci fi and some one suggested that if I liked the expanse I might like Richard k morgan's book Altered Carbon. and I read that and loved it so I'm now on the third book in that series (which is reportedly the last book of that series but I can't believe he'd just abandon such a great character so I'm hoping he'll get a second wind on takeshi kovacs!!)

anyways, for you sci fi peeps, I'd recommend both The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (which is really two guys, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) and the Richard K Morgan books Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.

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Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

That's some fairly heavy-duty reading there, Wos. I read some of their stuff a number of years ago and it almost fried my brain.

u.

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ussusimiel wrote:That's some fairly heavy-duty reading there, Wos. I read some of their stuff a number of years ago and it almost fried my brain.

u.

Yeah, it's challenging material.

Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense establish the bulk of the conceptual framework at play in Anti-Oedipus. If one absorbs D&R (which is probably the most difficult book that I've ever read) and TLoS, then A-O reads fairly easily (or at least, it's reading fairly easily so far).

lucimay wrote: I just received the next book in erikson's kharkanas trilogy...

The next Kharkanas book is out? Cool.

I'm reading Empire of Silver. Book 4 in the Genghis Khan series.

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Conqueror, last of the series. This one covers Kublai Khan, whom as we know, did in Xanadu a stately pleasure dome decree.

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Avatar wrote:Conqueror, last of the series. This one covers Kublai Khan, whom as we know, did in Xanadu a stately pleasure dome decree.

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Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea...

One of my favorite poems ever.

Hahaha, one of my favourites too Ali.

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My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.

My delivery arrived yesterday, 10 days quicker than expected, so that was good. And I finished the last of the Genghis Khan series last night, so I started on these immediately.

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