Metal Reviews

how was Yankee?

my aunt got The Blade Itself, will start it today or tomorrow.

now reading The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis, who also wrote the excellent Liar's Poker. about Silicon Valley and its role in shaping the economy in the US much like the US helped shape economy in the rest of the world. it borders on fellation on Jim Clark (founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics and Healtheon), though.

just enrolled this morning. my schedule fucking blows. anyway:

Corporate Finance + Investments
Research Methods for Management
Auditing
Global Supply Chain Management
Entrepreneurship
Thematic block: Preparing for the CFA

will try to switch Entrepreneurship for something else tomorrow, though.

classes start at 2pm, and on mondays and wednesdays they end at 9:30PM!!! this wouldn't bother me so much if i didn't have massive 1 and a half hour breaks between certain subjects. fucking gay.

I really liked it. Twain went a little heavy on the old English at times. The comparison of the Confederate South to feudal England was good. The ending was bit out there. It helped that I read parts of Morte d'Arthur beforehand I think.

Just finished "Skuld" (Guilt) by Karin Alvtegen. It was surprisingly good, I got it from a friend and didn't really know what to expect.

Now reading: 1984
I also bought "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini a few days ago.

Finally reading Watchmen.

Ooh, tell me what you think. I enjoyed it, despite a couple of bits being clunkily written. Well, I suppose you can tell I enjoyed it from my avatar.

I'm really enjoying it.
Although the portions of it where there's like passages from journals, files etc. are kind of long and boring, although informative, I feel like skipping it sometimes hahaha.

finished part 2 of the Bertrand Russell book, taking another break

now reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and some books for school

I suppose you can skip them on your first read, it's only on the second reading that they proved much use to me anyways.

I wouldn't recommend skipping them at all. Most of the background information about all the characters and concepts is found in those journals and files.

Indeed, but only when you've read the story so you know what you're looking for, I think.

Just finished Henry Rollins' Smile, You're Traveling in one sit-in yesterday. Not sure what I'm going to read next.

Now Reading: The God That Failed, a collection of essays by former Communists explaining why they became disillusioned by the Party after the Bolshevik Revolution.

School started last week- and one of my least favourite aspects of school time is that I get to do very little reading for pleasure, since by the time I'm done all my school work and worked my job hours, I just want to party and hang with friends (though I'll be quitting my job, so I hope that gives me more time to relax with a good book). But for class, right now I'm re-reading the first five books of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, and translating Cicero's First Philippic, along with all sorts of articles and textbooky book things.

Philip Roth - The Plot Against America

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins right now. That one's for school, and I'm currently halfway through Wheel of Time Book 1 and partway through The Rats in the Walls.

Finally finished Endymion, man was that book boring or what?, it was basically a 600 pages chase scene, after the two excellent Hyperion books i thought this one was going to be at least a decent read, i am very dissapointed with Simmons, now im reading the rise of Endymion and so far its a lot better than the first one, i can only hope that this would be a decent closure to the Hyperion cantos.

Ya, I started Endymion and gave up... I decided that as Fall of Hyperion ends pretty conclusively, I'll just leave it at that.

The Last Light Of The Sun, by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Michel Foucault - A History of Sexuality: Part 1, An Introduction.

And also Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

I don't know if anyone has read Infinite Jest but this is sad. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... pstoryview