Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Which version?
You could tackle a couple of the other trnaslations while this one is fresh in your mind then maybe read some essays on it.
[July] What are you reading?
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Which version?
You could tackle a couple of the other trnaslations while this one is fresh in your mind then maybe read some essays on it.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
delericho
Legend
Definitely one of my favourites. I recently read "The Fort", which I rather enjoyed despite some mixed reviews. (It definitely has much less action than the norm.)
I did find the few Sharpe books I read a bit unsatisfying - the Sean Bean adaptations do a really good job of capturing the books that coming back to the source really didn't seem to add much. But everything else of his that I've read, and especially the Arthur trilogy, has ranged from very good to excellent.
Steel_Wind
Legend
Finally, in about 15 hours, I'll be able to read A Dance with Dragons, which is the only book I am at all concerned with right now.
Starman
Adventurer
Amazon just sent me an email saying my copy of Dance is on its way. Finally!
Me, too. I think "finally" was also my very first thought.
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
On the strength of Gary Taubes' NY Times article, "Is Sugar Toxic?" I went and bought both of his books.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1310435185&sr=8-3"]Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health[/ame] (2007)
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307272702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310435247&sr=8-1"]Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It[/ame] (2011)
Reading them both right now. I've never lost such faith in a medical/scientific establishment than his article and two books have caused me to loose faith in most of the past 50 years of nutrition scientists.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1310435185&sr=8-3"]Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health[/ame] (2007)
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307272702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310435247&sr=8-1"]Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It[/ame] (2011)
Reading them both right now. I've never lost such faith in a medical/scientific establishment than his article and two books have caused me to loose faith in most of the past 50 years of nutrition scientists.
In a turn from my normal reading I've been reading several fascinating accounts of events on Mount Everest in the past decades:
Into Thin Air - Jon Kraukauer (the 1996 disaster)
Dark Summer - Nick Heil (the 2006 expedition)
The Wildest Dream - Can't remember the author now (2007 free climb of the second step to see if Mallory and Irvine could've done it in 1924)
Even if you're not into climbing, and I'm not, these make for fascinating and riviting reading.
A high-altitude RPG adventure might be fun.
Pinotage
Into Thin Air - Jon Kraukauer (the 1996 disaster)
Dark Summer - Nick Heil (the 2006 expedition)
The Wildest Dream - Can't remember the author now (2007 free climb of the second step to see if Mallory and Irvine could've done it in 1924)
Even if you're not into climbing, and I'm not, these make for fascinating and riviting reading.
A high-altitude RPG adventure might be fun.
Pinotage
Alaxk Knight of Galt
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As of 6am this morning - A Dance with Dragons. Our long national nightmare is over
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