Hey, invisible... who is your book by? It sounds interesting. A different twist on the future than what you usually read.

I'm still waiting for the moving sidewalks like Asimov described in Caves of Steel.
We have some slidewalks, but nothing like he described!

I am currently reading several books at a time.
a few volumes of Priest (manga series)
Edgar Cayce's Atlantis By Gregory L. Little, Lora Little, and John Van Auken

I am really hooked on the Atlantis book though, so the Priest volumes are stacked on my wooden bedroom floor waiting to be loved again.

I'm just trying to finish off Atlantis found by Clive Cussler.

Oh, cool. I wonder what differences or similarities are in the different versions?
I was convinced by someone who came into my work to read a certain book he made out to be a legitimate book on energy work, but it wound up being a vampire lifestyler cult book of some sort. The "Psychic Vampire Codex". I got the book for $4.00 and was waiting for my book on Polar Shifts to arrive, so I figured I'd give it a chance. I went in to about 100 pages and put the book down. I would be embarrassed to even try to sell that thing.
The woman who wrote it.. I only wish I could free her from her fantasy world, or show her the magic of science o_o

Spirituality or not, if the metaphysical cannot walk hand in hand with science it is a belief, an opinion, and I cannot take it as fact. ._.
It doesn't help that her information was extremely loose and misinformed, being based off of Gothic fashion magazines. The "Ancient Egyptian time period" mentioned to be the base of her beliefs happened before Ra Ta emerged from the Zu people (before the Egypt you think of with the temples, pyramids, religion, and sphinx) Basically, the thought of a structured religion based on energies, hierarchy and secluded temples would not have existed. (But I am not supposed to know anything about Egypt, It's supposed to be a generic mysterious culture you can hide any idea behind and pass off as a possible truth -gasp-)

I just.. I just couldn't continue with it, and on that note, what exactly do you do with books you don't want and would never want to put up for sale in fear the possible buyers would think you were flipping mad?

Charity shop, pass it off as a well intentioned gift from a mad Aunt.

I'm really liking Atlantis found, It has a lot about Nazi's in it. I haven't actually got to the part where they find Atlantis yet but I think they're getting close, I'm lending it to my Gran when I'm finished.

Hahah, sounds like a great idea. Her name is Aunt Blaah-kavich :sweat:

I do remember the Nazi party planning to search Mayan ruins for possible links between the Yucatan ruins and Atlantis and somehow using their finding to prove their Aryan race were the descendants of surviving Atlantians. O.o
But as we know they forged a lot of artifacts they had found. Skulls with runes carved on them and such.

Right now in my book they have described Plato's Atlantis, a Russian woman who wrote on Atlantis, a few french philosophers accounts, Christopher Columbus trying to find Atlantis in America using old maps, How Atlantis was formed as a landmass, the geographical changes over time. (Ice bridge melting) The political friction between Greece and Atlantis, and the significance of Native American beliefs, Yucatan ruins, etc. I am just getting to Edgar Cayce's account of Atlantis, which describes three separate earthquakes before the great dip. :P
Hmm.. all this talk of water makes me thirsty..

I think that's what he's using because there is a lot of Aryan Nazi's running around that are apparently genetically engineered and trying to brake some ice off Antarctica with nanotechnology to cause the earth to shift or something and wipe out everyone but them. I'm liking it a lot though, I'm on chapter 39. It's a very big book.

Clive Cussler does write very large books.
Is that one a Dirk Pitt novel?

I haven't read Cussler for a long time. His books all started sounding alike to me, so I went on to other worlds.

The other author I'm thinking about that writes so many large novels...Tom Clancy, that's it!. I enjoy his novels, but they are very hard reads. You have to really pay attention.

Yeah it is a Dirk Pitt novel, it's the first Clive Cussler book I've read.

I've also got some Sue Grafton and Karin Slaughter waiting for some free time. As well as a book I got from Asda just because the back said I'd like it if I like Karin Slaughter :XD it's by Beverly Barton and one by Simon Kernick and I've also started buying the Richard Laymon collection. :XD I should really stop buying books and actually read them.

Books...I love owning books. Even if I haven't read them yet. I must have hundreds of them....

(It's the same thing with office supplies...I love fresh clean paper and pens. I used to love going back-to-school shopping with my Mom when I was young. All those new notebooks and pens, just waiting for me to use!)

Office supply stores used to be so awesome. Now they're so big and boxy, like everything else. ; ;

You can get the same feel in some stationary stores, though, and college towns still have some similar stores also.

I just read the old classic "Sex and the Single Girl," by the infamous Helen Gurley Brown. I was expecting it to be more of a time capsule than it was. I suppose it was, when it came to the fashionable parts, but apparently here in the US we're still a bit puritanesque when it comes to sex and male vs female relationships.

One thing that WAS interesting though was the section where she tells you what to do if you suspect your boyfriend is homosexual (pre-gay era.) Rather unexpected information. Oh, it was with the idea that you would keep dating.

I'm reading Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud and An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe both at once. They're very good books.

Jonathan Stroud is a favorite author of mine, and thusfar, Buried Fire does not dissapoint. A part of the reason I like it so much is because it feels very Diana Wynne Jones-y, though with perhaps a little less humor and fewer complicated details. It's an absolutely wonderful tale, and I love the complexity of the characters. <3

An Evil Guest is also very good so far. It had been sitting on top of the new books shelf for some time. The cover caught my eye every time I walked by for a few months, and no one else moved it or borrowed it, so I recently picked it up and took it home with me. I am glad I did! It is far from my usual taste in books, but I really like the vauge style it's written in.

I'm now re-reading The Host.
I love this book.

Cirque Du Freakby Darren Shan. They're amazing books, kind of sad though.

I'm now done with the Mage Winds trilogy, and moving forward to the Mage Storms trilogy.

Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey.

I love Mercedes Lackey.

Finished Rebel Angels and am now reading the last in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, A Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray.

OK, I finished the Storm Warning book, and am now starting the Storm Rising book... the 2nd in the Mage Storms trilogy by Mercedes Lackey.

I'm slowly getting through the latest Rangers Apprentice book (number 8) and then I'll move on to Daughter of the Empire probably. I just finished a Fine Arts Creative Writing bachelor and that kind of killed my love of reading so it's taking a while to get into the swing of things again.

Originally Posted by Anyakan

I just.. I just couldn't continue with it, and on that note, what exactly do you do with books you don't want and would never want to put up for sale in fear the possible buyers would think you were flipping mad?

:lol: You make me giggle-happy.

I've had those kinds of books before. You can either donate them to the library or put them up on PaperBackSwap. Since PaperBackSwap is online, it's less embarrassing... and, at the library, you can just drop your donations off in a paper bag. You can't wear a ski-mask for identity protection, since it's a public place, but they don't pay much attention one way or another... :yes:


Booksish:
I just finished President Obama's Dreams from My Father. I'm reading through Francine Pascal's Fearless series (on Book 7), and am about to start into Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.

Seeing as I just got a box filled with manga i'm reading manga lol

All right.... now I'm on the 3rd Mage Storm book. Then end of the trilogy. (And the end of the Valdemar series so far as I know...but then again I haven't gone out to buy any books lately).

Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey

Girl with a one track mind - Abby lee

it's suprisingly fun to read, though a strange genre, it's a blog by a women obsessed with sex, printed to a book, i haven't put it down for more than 10 minutes since i bought it so i don't think it'll be long now!

Done with the Mage Storm trilogy.

Now I'm reading Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey. Still in the Valdemar world.

Kay, onto book 3 this year now. Decided to get back into my James Herbert collection, so first up is 'the Dark'. I'll give myself a week to read this.

My Wilbur Smith Egyptian novels are on their way, yaaayyy! :D