They are both excellent. Neuromancer is the book that basically popularized the term "Cyberspace." And Snow Crash takes that concept to the next level. If you liked The Windup Girl, you will likely love both of these. In fact, I looked up The Windup Girl again just now and found this reference: https://xianblog.wordpress.com/tag/neuromancer/
My bride and I are reading the The Bible cover-to-cover this year. We also listen to the BibleGateway Audio Bible. We selected the NIV translation and the Old/New Testament reading plan for 2014.
That's great, another cool way to read the whole Bible is in chronological order. It jumps around a little but but is fun.
Jane Austen is always great to read. Just finished Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Now started the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini
If it hasn't been clear from my posted reading 'choices' of late, I'm taking a class in British Romanticism.
That's great! I've read most of Jane Austen's books, Wuthering heights by Emily Brontë, and A Tale of two Cities and of course Bleak House by Charles Dickens. I've got a very early edition of Bleak House and I like the story and the language tremendously. Have you got any favorites? And are there any other authors I should read?
It's not my favorite literary period, but I've found I like quite a lot of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems, particularly Christabel (his longest poem, which he considered unfinished). We've thus far focused pretty exclusively on poetry, with Sense and Sensibility being the first novel we've touched; Frankenstein is slated for next semester in this 2-part course.
Thanks! I'll check Samuel Taylor Coleridge out, though I'm not overly fond of poetry. But who knows? I might like it as well!
Just took a break from Tolstoy's War and Peace (I'm on page 1,080, so I need a break). Got Killing Patton as a birthday present, so (ironically) it's lighter reading than Tolstoy. Great book, by the way! (Patton; not War and Peace.)
I have just completed reading a book entitled Grave Departure by James Vanore. This is a well written criminal mystery with an unusual historical and personal set of plot twists. An experienced detective who is encountering changes in his personal and professional life, which will include some strong bruises to his ego in both areas, has been given a couple of cases that are not connected yet somehow intertwine in terms of the detective's changing life outlook. This book is written in a very matter of fact style of conversation between the lead detective and the other characters. Remember this is a novel based within the criminal justice system so the language is salty but accurate so be aware of this. The first half of the book sets the characters and the various plots and subplots and sets the hook for the reader then the second half will keep you glued to find out what happens next. Well written and researched and in an interesting way deals with a physical item in the plot I am very familiar with and even have written extensively about, but I don't want to give anything away. Well done and highly recommended to the criminal novel reader and the historical novel reader alike. @BJV
What am I reading? Why The Shave Den, of course! Ok, ok, seriously... I just finished re-reading The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. A very engaging and riveting story to be sure. Currently, I am reading The Compleat Angler by Isaac Walton & Charles Cotton. I recommend this hardcover edition from the Oxford University Press, as this is a book that one will likely want to keep around for many years to come.
I just started re-reading To Kill A Mockingbird. It seems like the right time to revisit a depiction of true courage.
