Metal Reviews

James Clavell- Shogun

I liked the Eggers but it's not too much different than the movie. Player Piano was decent. Anything by Burgess would probably be good but I haven't heard of that one.

I started Player Piano but it seemed kinda clunky so I might switch to smth else.

Kurt Vonnegut I really need to look into someday.

Breakfast of Champions is the best starting place.

Welcome To The Monkey House is good, too.
I always find short stories are a good introduction to a writer.


About halfway through Notes From Undeground (I haven't read for a few months; too busy)... so far, very interesting.

Vonnegut wrote short stories!? I feel like I've been deprived all these years by not knowing that.

Got to page 100 before giving up on it. Starting The Wild Things by Dave Eggers now.

Gary Forsythe- A Critical History of Early Rome

I finished The Passage by Justin Cronin a few days ago. Not the most original book in the world, but I thought the story and characters were great.

The only Vonnegut book I read was Slaughterhouse Five and I loved every page of it. It was awesome. I should read some more of his too.



Now Reading: Ulysses. And not understanding %80 of it. I'll try to finish it though it looks hard right now. Maybe I should get a guide or something.

Other than Player Piano, I've read Breakfast of Champions, Sirens of Titan, Galapagos and Bluebeard. Galapagos was pretty good and the other three were great. I'd avoid Player Piano tho.

How are you liking it? my aunt insists that i read out his Noble House.

finished The Ascent of Money (A Financial History of the World) and loved it, definitely worth reading, at least check out the series with the same name. now 3/4 through The Unbearable Lightness of Being, amazing so far.

If i go to the US i'll try to pick up a few books, non-fiction Dambisa Moyo's "Dead Aid" and in fiction some Kurt Vonnegut which you guys have been discussing and my room mate loves, and Animal Farm.

It was awesome. Just one of those great historical epics that is very well written, has good characterization, and is very informative about a society I knew very little about. It's a bit overlong, but one of the most enjoyable books I've read in ages.

Finished Notes From Underground... further cementing favorite author status for my man Dostoyevski.


Started Fail Safe this morning...
damn I miss the Cold War.

Have you read Brothers Karamazov? My favorite book.

Ah yes, the Cold War, when good and bad were so simple!

It's a great read, I agree.
My favorite is Crime and Punishment, though.
Let's see I have read:

The Possessed (twice)
The Idiot
Brothers Karamazov (finally got around to finishing it)
Crime and Punishment
Notes From Underground
Have The Insulted and the Injured on my shelf, will start that one eventually and I really want to read Poor Folk.

Got kinda bored of The Wild Things once he got to the island with the actual wild things and stuff. Gonna start Anthony Burgess - Honey for the Bears now.

Got some books in the mail:

Slavoj Zizek - Living in the End Times.
Vandana Shiva - Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit
Todd Gitlin - The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media on the Making and Unmaking of the New Left.

The latter two are for term papers this quarter. The first is for pleasure.

Tim Powers- On Stranger Tides

PIRATES. VOODOO. BLACKBEARD. AWESOME.