New books!

July 23rd, 2007

Now that I’ve got a little bit more free time, I ordered a couple books from Amazon.

I’ve already finished about half of Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park, and it’s pretty good, if you dig American Psycho or his other works. Not a very fast paced plot, but entertaining anyways, it’s a semi-fictional autobiography (well, mostly-fictional, from what I can tell).

I’ve also picked up the next 2 books in the Ender series by Orson Scott Card, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Despite all the science fiction I had read growing up, I had somehow managed to avoid reading any of the Ender books. A few months ago I picked up Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, and read them both in one weekend, I enjoyed them so much. Hopefully these next two live up to their predecessors! Apparently, Card has written a few additional Ender-universe books that parallel the originals, and look at the world through different viewpoints during the same overall plot. I think they will be fascinating to read - kind of like multiple-angle DVD’s were supposed to revolutionize movie watching. I assume, however, that the newer Ender books won’t just be pornography, like the DVD’s were!

And just because I want to abuse my Amazon Prime membership, I picked up a couple of Robert A. Heinlein books - Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Apparently, there is a substantial amount of these books that I missed in the past by reading the mass-market paperback edition. I discovered this through a friend[1] of a friend’s blog, which piqued my curiosity. Hopefully what I missed was Quality, rather than some Directors Cut garbage (like the extended breathing scenes in the directors cut of 2001: A Space Odyssey).

[1] I’d link to her blog directly, but Geoff’s blog is currently experiencing some Rails problems, and I can’t find the link to her site. Firefox history to the rescue!

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