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Books I've read in the last few weeks:
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
This is a nifty little book, taking that whole Oz thing and totally turning it on its head. It's a whole different look at good and evil. It's fun to read and now I think I might have to go pick up Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and if it's just as fun, some of the others he's done too. I feel safe saying that I think this would be an enjoyable read for most of my audience here.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
This was a short book, but it was a book that'll make you think a little differently about econ, or at least, about how econ and sociology could concievably merge into a hard science and use massive data to produce testable and reliable predictors. It's also full of interesting and wacky shit, yo! Go get it.
I've also been re-reading large swaths of the Discworld collection.
I started with Guards! Guards!, and read the rest of the Vimes books through Night Watch. Always fun. Night Watch seems to be the darkest of the Discworld novels (competing with Small Gods, but winning I think), and still one of the best in this reader's humble opinion.
I picked up Going Postal next, and I think it read much better the second time through. It was good the first time, but on a re-read it comes off much better. I'll have to go back and read Monstrous Regiment again and hope it's also better the second time around. It was one of the weaker books in the series to date.
I'm currently going through the Death/Susan books, though out of order. I started with Theif of Time because I think Lu Tze is just too awesome and am now reading Reaper Man. I should have started with Mort and read them in order, but maybe next time.
I see that there's a new Discworld novel on the horizon: Thud!.
Trolls as a focus perhaps?
I think I'll probably go through all the Witches bits of Discworld next. Or maybe I'll just read them all in publication order. Even the weaker ones are still pretty good reads.
I haven't picked up the YA discworld books. I keep meaning to. I tend to forget they exist when in a bookstore though. They really should keep a couple of copies of them in the Ghetto with the rest of the DW novels. Who among you have read The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Wee Free Men, and/or A Hat Full of Sky, and what do you think of them?
I'm supposed to test for my Novice Black belt in a couple of weeks. Or, as one of my instructors called it: Black Belt Purgatory. We've got students who've been sitting at Novice Black for over a year in some cases. It's the longest of the belts before Black. It really is where you either clean up and achieve First Dan, or you just eventually disappear. I have no intention of disappearing. I committed to being around the Dojang for five years when I signed up to the Masters Club, so time isn't pressing. I can take as long as I need.
I got a bit of cognitive dissonance shoved in my face last week in the form of a Toyota Prius with Bush Cheney stickers all over it. That's the only hybrid I've seen to date that if the driver chose to wear their political leanings on their bumper, they leaned towards Bush.
Well, I've taken up enough of your Friends Page real estate for now I think.
Books I've read in the last few weeks:
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
This is a nifty little book, taking that whole Oz thing and totally turning it on its head. It's a whole different look at good and evil. It's fun to read and now I think I might have to go pick up Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and if it's just as fun, some of the others he's done too. I feel safe saying that I think this would be an enjoyable read for most of my audience here.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
This was a short book, but it was a book that'll make you think a little differently about econ, or at least, about how econ and sociology could concievably merge into a hard science and use massive data to produce testable and reliable predictors. It's also full of interesting and wacky shit, yo! Go get it.
I've also been re-reading large swaths of the Discworld collection.
I started with Guards! Guards!, and read the rest of the Vimes books through Night Watch. Always fun. Night Watch seems to be the darkest of the Discworld novels (competing with Small Gods, but winning I think), and still one of the best in this reader's humble opinion.
I picked up Going Postal next, and I think it read much better the second time through. It was good the first time, but on a re-read it comes off much better. I'll have to go back and read Monstrous Regiment again and hope it's also better the second time around. It was one of the weaker books in the series to date.
I'm currently going through the Death/Susan books, though out of order. I started with Theif of Time because I think Lu Tze is just too awesome and am now reading Reaper Man. I should have started with Mort and read them in order, but maybe next time.
I see that there's a new Discworld novel on the horizon: Thud!.
Trolls as a focus perhaps?
I think I'll probably go through all the Witches bits of Discworld next. Or maybe I'll just read them all in publication order. Even the weaker ones are still pretty good reads.
I haven't picked up the YA discworld books. I keep meaning to. I tend to forget they exist when in a bookstore though. They really should keep a couple of copies of them in the Ghetto with the rest of the DW novels. Who among you have read The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Wee Free Men, and/or A Hat Full of Sky, and what do you think of them?
I'm supposed to test for my Novice Black belt in a couple of weeks. Or, as one of my instructors called it: Black Belt Purgatory. We've got students who've been sitting at Novice Black for over a year in some cases. It's the longest of the belts before Black. It really is where you either clean up and achieve First Dan, or you just eventually disappear. I have no intention of disappearing. I committed to being around the Dojang for five years when I signed up to the Masters Club, so time isn't pressing. I can take as long as I need.
I got a bit of cognitive dissonance shoved in my face last week in the form of a Toyota Prius with Bush Cheney stickers all over it. That's the only hybrid I've seen to date that if the driver chose to wear their political leanings on their bumper, they leaned towards Bush.
Well, I've taken up enough of your Friends Page real estate for now I think.
