Metal Reviews

Anything by Lovecraft is exemplary.
Strange thing: though his works aren't really too "scary", whenever I read anything by him before lights out, I have very unsettling, unnerving dreams.
Something about his rythmically archaic prose seems to open the door to the darkest corners of the psyche.
Algernon Blackwood is another very good horror writer.

I'm starting to read God Created The Integer by Stephen Hawking. Yeah, I'm a nerd.

Lovecraft has a very weird way of inflicting terror on the reader. You don't feel so anxious while you're reading it but after you're done with the book and start thinking about it that's when the fear starts to creep in. I felt HP Lovecraft's books gave a very different scary feeling compared to modern movies and books, much deeper and more personal.

Just got those two from the library:

Paul Davies - God and the new physics
David Mills - Atheist Universe

Have you read Godel, Escher, Bach? That's an especially great book if you're interested in computer science. It's also a surprisingly amusing read (particularly with the Achilles/Tortoise anecdotes).

That guy received the Templeton Foundation Award and associating with them doesn't look good. Mainly because they donated a lot of money to the Discovery Institute to fight for creationism.

I've been thinking about reading Brief History of Time by Hawking but is it really worth reading?

Kind of ironic, too, since Paul Davies is actually (I believe) a Deist. And Deists typically don't believe in creationism.



I haven't read it yet, but I've heard plenty of good things about it. I'd say it's probably worth checking out.

Finally finished A Game Of Thrones. at the ending! Am hooked, thanks again Az.

thank Brahm and heatseeker

i'm still stuck on American Gods. Shadow is at Iris & Jacquel's and it's still pretty boring. the thing about Anansi Boys, Neverwhere and Good Omens was that everything that happened there seemed perfectly natural when it wasn't, while American Gods reads not so much like a story but just a succession of strange events. bah.

Proud Beggars was really good.

Now reading: Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

oh boy! report back when you're done with Hell's Angels, i've been thinking about getting that one after FaL in Las Vegas which ruled, and also i'm kinda curious about the Hell's Angels.

I recently finished Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Withering Heights by Emily Bronte and read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick in one sitting yesterday.

Now I am reading Philosophy and Computing by Luciano Floridi for my own pleasure and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins for university (Philosophy of Life Sciences).

Now read the next three and enjoy the 383848743843 year wait for the next book like the rest of us.

Still on Sword Song.. A great read, but stupid schoolwork with its stupid timetakingness is taking away nearly all of my reading time.

Just started on Prelude to Dune: House Altreides

also on my list for the next weeks: Dostojevski- The brothers Karamazov

Starship Troopers. It's...okay. Chapter 8 was thinly veiled preaching, which I'm not a fan of, particularly if I don't really agree with the ideology.

Currently reading Kingdom Of Fear by Hunter S Thompson and Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose.

SAS wilderness survival guide - Fuck yeah! SAS ist Krieg

Just finished Aristophanes' The Clouds, now on to Lucan's Pharsalia.

E.P. Sanders- The Historical Figure of Jesus

Very interesting book so far, though so far he's only talked about the context of life in 1st century AD Judea before the great revolt and source analysis, both of which are fascinating.

But I also just bought No Country For Old Men, and after reading the first couple of pages, I'm very excited for it.

I love Aristophanes. Just thinking that somebody would write and present-play-act things like that approximately 2500 years ago is crazy. Amazing imagination and surprisingly refreshing vulgarity, I honestly believe Aristophanes may have been one of the first true creators of comedy. Even today people copy him, most of the times without even knowing it!