Metal Reviews

Fanon is one I've always wanted to read but I haven't had the time.

Trying to dig into Daniel Little's The Scientific Marx and finding it rather tedious and boring.

Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson- The Gathering Storm: A Memory of Light Part 1/38484747474 / Wheel of Time 12/28384674747.

Yep, so I'm actually reading it. Wish me luck and the hope that it doesn't suck.

So it's out! I'll definitely check it out...I've read all 11, I'll be fucked if I'm not finishing the series. Hopefully this one is good. Just realized how much I miss pleasure reading...but on a side note, I've been reading lots of good stuff for my lit class, including Jorge Luis Borges, who is an absolute fucking genius.

I was under the terribly naive impression that this was going to be the last one. Imagine my surprise when I picked it up in the shop to read that it's not even the second-to-last one... I guess they get round it by saying "part one of the final book", even though it's as long as Lord of Chaos in its own right.

Anyway, good luck Brahm!

I'm still going to read the series til the end. Believe it or not, I actually really enjoyed Knife of Dreams.

Finished Solomon Gursky was here. I can start Infinite Jest up again, yay. I hope I remember the various characters. I think I do. They're hard to forget.

Just received Zizek's newest in the mail, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. Apparently he finally ousts himself as a communist and like always doesn't lay out the groundwork in minute details so people have gotten pissy about it.

Also jumped into the VL Allen last night before bed. This one sentence is kicking my ass because I don't know if he is describing what empiricists do or should be doing.

Anyways I'm now also reading Sartre's Being and Nothingness, having finished Nausea.

Borges is next on my reading list! Can't wait.

Anyway, I'm 200 pages in- nothing really has happened, but at least most of the chapters are Rand, who is actually an interesting character- part of my problem with Knife of Dreams and the last 4 books is that Jordan combined nothing happening with POV chapters from the worst characters of all time, all the time (ie, Elayne, Nyaneve, etc..). Hopefully the plot will pick up soon.



Ha, I know. Even if they did have to split the last book, I still think they could have easily pulled it off in two- but they want to milk it for all it's worth, I guess. When I first found out about the three book split I told myself I would stop reading this bloody series- that didn't last too long.

Which sentence?

Back to reading some Lovecraft, thanks for the inspiration rio. Just finished The Hound, now onto The Rats in the Walls.

Rats in the Walls is fucking creepy.

Rats in the Walls is my favourite, apart from the racist cat-naming.

It's alright, because racism wasn't invented then.

Like Re-Animator. Black and white people are different species......oooooookay, Howard!

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
(Lee Smolin)
A little bit of light reading.

Reading Polybios' World Histories, translated to Dutch. Fantastic how 2300 years later certain insights into peoples' characters still ring true. Also, what a fucking hero Philip V was. Conquering eight cities in six days... Great read so far, a definite recommendation for fans of history (Fingon, I'm pointing at you).

What's that supposed to mean?

To blow one's own trumpet. Clearly, for all the highbrow reading you would do, you fail to grasp that one.

What did you think of it (Nausea)? I found it a bit intangible, but interesting enough.

My Favorite Sartre is Troubled Sleep

Good stuff. The Hound is probably my fav Lovecraft, but they're all good.