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Zephyrin · Local time: Apr 11, 2008, 11:11 AM

Other than textbooks, I haven't read much lately, but I've started reading newspapers and weeklies lately.

But I have a job now that allows me a lot of time to sit and read, so I'm halfway through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which lurker gave me for Christmas. Very hard to get through, but my reading ability has dwindled since high school. Slowly getting my ability to read smoothly back, though.

Very philosophical. Maybe a little more than I would expose myself to normally, but what better to whip me back in shape?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Zephyrin · Local time: Apr 25, 2008, 07:49 PM

I had to put down Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I was about to beat my head endlessly into a brick wall until my brains spilled out.
Unless you've got a penchant for an overload of philosophical bullshit, I wouldn't recommend this one; but that's just me.

I read Dante's Inferno in a poetic translation, and mildly enjoyed it...somewhat. It's hard to read something when you have to read the footnotes every 5 lines. I'm not sure whether or not I'll attempt Pergatory or Paradisio, but if I do, I'll pick up prose copies.

I picked up a new release, Borne in Blood, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Apparently part of some Count Saint-Germaine series about a Vampire. I like it, and the setting placement and the structure of the story is good, but I'm 1/3rd of the way through it, and the only action I've seen is some dude falling off a wagon. And there was a sex scene in the second chapter. A bit premature if you ask me.

And since I haven't read any classics, I've got The Gunslinger and Stranger in a Strange Land on the backburner.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Zephyrin · Local time: May 1, 2008, 11:07 PM

Finished Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Borne in Blood.

It ended well, so I was pleased with having finished it, at least.

Pros:
Good language.
Very historically accurate.
Good ending.

Cons:
Drags on. Too many scenes about how the fuck nobles dine, dress, and travel.
At some points, reaks of female sex fanfics. I can't remember the word for that for the life of me right now, but yeah.

Overall, I'd only recommend this book to a girl that was into sci-fi or manga or like shit. For being the TWENTIETH book in said particular series, I'm kinda let down. I've yet to decide if I'll read any at all of the other nineteen, but the answer is probably no for a long while.

And right now I'm halfway through The Gunslinger.

And so far, I likey. But FUCK does Stephen King have a dirty fucking mind. Guy needs to lay off the sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.