Currently Reading: Intellectual

[DragonHeart]

I started and finished Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. It's the true account of the Mount Everest tragedy that claimed 5 lives (12 by the end of the season) in 1996. I remember he came to my middle school back when the book was first published to talk about his experiences. I was too young to be interested in nonfiction at the time though and never read his book.

I finally picked it up cause it's one of those books I've always wanted to read, and because I'd already read his Into the Wild. I find with nonfiction the narrative voice makes or breaks the text. His is simple and honest.

Right now I'm reading New Tricks, sequel to Dog Days by John Levitt. Urban fantasy, short, fast-paced reads. They're very good books worth spending an afternoon on, imo. The use of magic in particular here is quite interesting.

~DragonHeart~

[Psiko]

Currently reading, and have been for a while: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Its a slow reading book with an immense scope and strong philosophical views portrayed. It is 1090 pages long with the smallest font I've ever seen in a novel. I've been working on this one since July in spurts and have, since about the halfway point, made a ton of progress because its gotten to that point where its nearly impossible to put down. And I still have another 300 pages to go. Talk about a herculean undertaking, huh?

I still need to figure out a book to take to work with me and read on lunch there now that I am done with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I tried Milton's Paradise Lost but all the background noise there made it nearly impossible to read it as it should be...and enjoy the poetic style of it. So I'm back to pondering which book should be next.

[RamesesII]

Man i should have updated this thing ages ago but i have been to engrossed with one of the latest series from Robin Hobb i get goosebumps when i read or talk about her books she is an amazing writer and her style puts you in the shoes of the character, she is extremely detailed and every thought that her character thinks she writes but that never makes it boring.
Anyway i am almost finished one of her latest series called The Soldier Son trilogy and it is about a boy called Nevare who is the second son of a noble who is destined to be a soldier but when his father decides to leave him in the hands of a captured enemy to learn his ememy the plains people who are warrior nomads who emerse them selves in magic the two become friends and the plains man decides to introduce Nevare to the magic and help defeat an age old enemy the Specks who guard the bridge of the dead of his people and requests that he slay her but things turn around as Nevare is offered a life controlled by magic or death, and so controlled by the magic Nevare lives a life of two divided souls one devoted to the magic and one to his people but the magic doesn't like to be second to anything and will stop at nothing to stop Nevare's people from killing off the forests of the Speck people and will use Nevare as a weapon against his people at all costs.