Metal Reviews

Because you're retarded?

They are, blows Harry Potter out of the water.

NR: The Analyst - John Katzenbach

Meh, they started off good, but then they just became a rant against organised religion, and stories should never become rants.

I know, I've already read 1-9 (talking about WoT)...I'm rereading the series because I stopped reading a while ago, but then book 11 came out and I had the desire to read them again.

Anyways, I've heard a lot of good things about A Song of Ice and Fire (which is why I'm reading it)...so far I've read the prologue .

Oh! I had no idea! I think that when I started to read the first book there were only three books. But that is good news I suppose. This combination of author, story and setting has a lot to offer.

By the way, at the moment I'm reading the following:

Gene Wolfe - The Book Of The New Sun (Volume 1: Shadow and Claw) [Fantasy Masterworks edition]



Here's the short description at the back-cover of the book:
"Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator."

Your insolence has been noted.

Hell no, it was so much more. It questions the very validity of anything taking on the role of an absolute moral authority. It's a great inquiry, not a bunch of low blows.

And the ending is excellent - completely unpatronising. I hear a film version(s) are in the pipeline, I so, so, so hope they don't screw it up, but I'm sure they will.

i heard great things about the His Dark Materials books, but can't find them anywhere in here.

anyway, i'm currently reading "Introdução à Estatística" (introduction to statistics) by Bento Murteira (former Statistics professor at my university). it sucks so bad :(

The movies could be good. They're obviously high budget from the cast: Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coultier (couldn't have been cast better), Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, Eva Green as Serafina, Sam Elliot as Lee, etc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/

Holy shit, now this I did not know. Daniel Craig is a great actor, so this is practically guaranteed to be good. And of course, Eva Green =

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ like a lot

"A Farewell to Arms" for English class, and some swedish "classic" for Swedish class....

SO TO GET THIS THREAD BACK ONTO READING

I just finished "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, good book if you like his style, which isn't as annoying on Midnight's Children as it is on something like The Ground Beneath Her Feet (I couldn't finish that one).

Now I'm reading Homeland by Paul William Roberts, expecting a pretty much all out slagfest of US's foreign policy. It's kind of creepy that "Now we execute our enemies on prime time" was on the first page, what with the Saddam hanging thing and all.

Just finished Incurable by John Marsden

i'm re-reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, great book.

lol, screw Shadow of the Wind, i went to my uncle's place and picked up "Alexander: Part I - Child of a Dream" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. so far so good.