Just finished "Think of a Number" by John Verdon, great book. I am now looking for his next two books.

I don't care about someone's views when I choose to read their work. It's all about if I like the story. Lovecraft's work is in my backlog, but I am going more for the Fantasy as in Swords and Sorcery. I may go for GRRM's latest book, A Dance with Dragons, but most likely something a little lighter.

Besides, if someone chose not to read some works because of bigotry, most of the classics would be off-limits.

Decided to try the David Dalglish's Night of the Wolves. It's has Paladins and Werewolves which satisfies my fantasy sword and sorcery requirements. No sorcery yet, except for a fire sword and a shield of light.

- "Total Recall" by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- "Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus : Advanced 3D Graphics and Rasterization" by Andre Lamothe.

Yeah, the John Galt speech is a bit much. Wait until the scene where a certain main character informs someone on how to fix the device they're torturing him with. Hilarious!

When Ayn Rand makes a point, she drives it home with a tank loaded for bear, then gets out and proceeds to beat a dead horse with a sledgehammer until it's paste. All the same, I really enjoyed that book. One of my favorites, though I preferred the more microcosmic "The Fountainhead" even though it wasn't written quite as well. The concepts in it are more personally applicable.

Indeed. Not to mention I find the sentiment of shamer-shaming to be horribly ironic and hypocritical.

About halfway through "Sociopaths in Love" by Andersen Prunty. Good stuff.

I don't think most of the people who have heard of Lovecraft (that is, us geeky types mostly) think of him as flawless. Genius? In many ways, yes. Influential? Absolutely. But he was a flawed individual that was also a product of his time, place, and upbringing.

That's about the best that can be said about some of Lovecraft's nastier and more vitriolic writings. Racism was depressingly common in the 20's and 30's, and a popular theme in pulp writing of the era. I'm willing to slog through Lovecraft's rants to get to some of the mind-bending cosmic concepts he wrote about.

Well, I think I'm about "fantasied" out at the moment; in the mood for something slightly different.

I'm going to pick up where I left off with Neal Stephenson's "Reamde", and I'm going to tackle "The Weird", a huge collection of stories spanning many years. That one is for bed.

After Dark by Haruki Murakami. Almost through. It's the shortest of his books I ever read and to me the most enigmatic up to now.

Just finished up David Dalglish's Night of the Wolves. IMO It was mediocre at best. I'll pass on the other books in the series for now and I will pick up The Eye of the World, first book in the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan. I've been meaning to read this series for a long, long time.

Has anyone tried Rot and Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry? The first book was great and I'm into the second book of the series now. Love it? Hate it? Curious...

Finished reading Brave New World+B. N. W. Revisited by Aldous Huxley. If Orwell's 1984 anticipated the NSA-powered Big Brother technology of the Unites States of Spying, the Huxley's novel described the modern public society (work-consume-seek_pleasure-work) in an unsettlingly faithful way. 5/5, I should read 1984 again now.

City of God - Augustine

The Biography of Bud Spencer/Carlo Pedersoli. It's funny ^^

I'm currently reading Muhammad by Karen Armstrong. An interesting read that attempts to dispel years of biased information about the prophet.