[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wish_(book)]The Last Wish[/url] - I've never played The Witcher (the first one doesn't look like a game I'd enjoy and starting with the second one feels kind of wrong), but what I've heard about the games made me interested in the books.

The Last Wish is a collection of some short stories about Geralt. I'm in the middle of the third one and... yes, they're pretty good! I'm already looking forward to Sword of Destiny (another collection of short stories) and maybe the books will finally make me play The Witcher (or at least make me "rush" through the first one so that I can play the second one).

Clockwork Orange.

Read without Nadsat dictionary. I speak Russian though, so it was easier for me. But you can get most of it from the context.

The books are the reason I'm never going to play Witcher. No matter how good it is...

I've read the books (in Polish) some 5 times now. First time early 2000s.

Best book I've read ever (I mean it literally).

And... after reading the books, I felt the games to be blasphemous. I loved the books saga. And loved how it ended.

ENDED. The games made it into a kind of neverending story.

I just don't want it to become another "We're proud to release Witcher 29: The Dark Confrontation. Forget what the hero did in the previous 28 games. Now he meets the *real* challenge and the fate of the world as we know it rests in his hands".

Good sagas should have a good (and final) end.

I'm definitely going to read the books in English though. Wonder how good the translation is :)

EDIT: Just to clarify, I've nothing against making the books into games (or movies), it's just the endless continuation of the saga that I'm against.
When the game was in production stages, I was quite excited about it actually. If the story as it was in the book was made into a game (even with changes!), I'd be happy to play it. But they decided to continue the story. Not for me.

I hate it in other games too. Trying to stretch a story ad infinitum. It's for this reason I'm not going to play Baldur's Gate 3 should it come out.
Good stories should have good endings. Designers should know when to give them a rest...

Anybody have a suggestion for a translation of Heike Monogatari?

I just finished Brave New World (meh) and have decided to start Journal of the Plague Year by Defoe. Honestly, with my love of microbiology and this time period, I'm surprised I'm just now getting to it.

Reading "Jackaby" by William Ritter so I can review it.

Strictly for pleasure: The Hobbit.

Recently started "Carmilla" and I am loving it so far.

I recently "acquired" through shady ways and means, the entire Witcher book collection, FAN-translated into english! Yes, the entire, complete list of EVERY book or short story written about it!!! I sank myself into reading, like a good old bookworm. Literally.

Finished reading this edition of Martin Eden by Jack London. 4/5, the novel starts with a bit too much melodrama (and useless, boring repetitions of the same thing again and again and again) for my taste but then everything falls in its right place, like the cogs of the relentless editorial machine Eden talks about.

Once upon a time, back when I was in high school or so, I tasted a few books by Philip K. Dick. I was OK with them, but they mostly left me a bit baffled (I'm afraid I had some rather narrow views of what constituted good sci-fi, back then). I certainly didn't understand his brand of paranoia, and I wasn't wildly concerned with his issues about reality and personality and what those two mean when they are put in play together.

I've read more of his stuff since then, and liked it well (I'm particularly fond of VALIS), but I was not prepared for how much I was going to love Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. It spoke to me as an adult in modern America in ways that the 16-year-old me would never have imagined.

I'm reading the fourth book of The Witcher series (Time of Contempt)

Re-reading (for the third time in about 10 years) Robert Rankin's Armageddon trilogy:

Armageddon: The Musical
They Came and Ate Us (Armageddon II: The B Movie)
The Suburban Book of the Dead (Armageddon III: The Remake)

Gets better every time!

Re-reading I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.

Extreme Prejudice by Susan Lindauer

Basically she was a CIA asset that warned the US Govenrment about 9/11 and was indicted under The Patriot Act to shut her up.

Watch from 7.00 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43zl4fzDQg

Amazing testimony of ex CIA Asset Susan Lindauer. 5 years of legal troubles, 1 year in prison for daring to tell the truth. During the Bush era the top controllers of the governmental mechanics of Defense and national Security wanted to have a war with Iraq.

They got their wish and anyone who got in the way were dealt with severely no matter if they violated a law or not. Not brought to trial she was jailed under the "Patriot Act" which amounted to summary punishment outside a Verdict in a court of law.

She was held in jail without a Trial at all This is part of her story that is just unfolding now. She has waited 10 years to tell this story.