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The Appointment by Herta Muller

I cried at Deathly Hallows ("Always.") On rereading the books together like this I've realised the plotting is tighter than I'd appreciated when I read them individually. 's good. And she's right, her jokes are better than the Prof's.

Reading Rule 34. It has an aspie character as one of three leads. Not sure what to make of that so far. The book itself is... well, put it this way, while I recognise most (I think) of the memes referenced so far, I'm f*****g glad that I don't know more about them than that and lack the prurient instinct to find out. /righteous

(my mistake - he's not an aspie but something else, I was fooled by his constant mentions of "neurotypicals")

Philip K. Dick’s Ubik, the novel from which I get my screen name.

It was time for a re-read. Utterly brilliant. It gets better each time around. I can’t decide whether this or A Scanner Darkly is his best.

Rule 34 was rubbish. Read the first three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. Class. Now reading Parrot and Olivier in America which is reasonable but not very interesting to me.

The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey

Parrot and Olivier came to the dull and anticlimactic conclusion which seems to be the norm for "proper" literature. And it dint make much sense, either, one part of the ending - I'll withhold spoilers on the off chance - felt very contrived. Meh. It probably makes some grand statement about the meaning of something-or-other and the futility of something-or-other else.
Now Harry Potter a l'Ecole des Sorciers, for amusement. I want me a magic baguette.
Next up... euh, I forget, some recent science fiction thing by someone reasonably well regarded. Oh, and a book linked to on the Register about building Lego guns. Class. Used to build Lego guns with my brothers.

Ah, "proper" literature. Give us 1,000 pages (because who needs an editor?) and we'll bore you to death with pretentious symbolism, metaphor, and allegory. And if you want a real ending, well, you're not getting one. Why? F**k you, that's why!

I feel terrible for reading as it is unauthorized, but I am using it to learn about becoming a musician and making a living off it.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/367 ... planet_net

i'm going to post this again. i'm very enthusiastic about books but find goodreads easier to navigate.

Goodreads. ^.^

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Percy Jackson and the lightning thief. I don't remember the author of the series, but it starts with an r or a b.

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban - jk rowling, the harry potter series.

this is a good book.

Enjoyed Potter in Frog. Now Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear, meh. Bit like the later Rama books so far, which is a pretty damning thing to say. I hold out hope that it'll improve once some plot appears, but at the moment it's a bunch of people none of whom I care about running through endless rooms none of which is interesting.

The only Clarke that I've read is 2001, but I've been told that either Rendezvous with Rama or Childhood's End – or both, for all I can remember – suffers from the problem of nothing happening. I enjoyed 2001 quite a bit (even though the film is much better), but I think I've been spoiled by writers like Philip K. Dick, Patricia Highsmith, and Dashiell Hammett, who cram more plot into one book than most writers use for five. Books with no plot just don't cut it for me these days. God forbid the characters actually do something.

The Greatest Show on Earth by Prof. Dawkins

Woo for science!

When I looked this up, The Greatest Hoax on Earth? also turned up in the Amazon search results. It's an attempted refutation of Dawkins by Jonathan Sarfati. According to one of the customer reviews, Sarfati refers to the Bible as "the unalloyed truth" in the book. Curiously, the book is not categorized under "Humor," where it belongs.

Anyway, here are three recent purchases of mine that I’m too impatient to actually start reading before posting them here:

Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film by Brian J. Robb

Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies by Jason Vest

A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy

Gotta love Amazon Marketplace. One of these had a list price of $20, and I grabbed a brand new copy for a little over $2.