Well I've been moving at the rate of frozen pudding. I haven't finished any of my reading in the last few weeks. Quite the opposite actually. Instead of finishing one thing, I've just started more. I'm reading 3 books at the moment, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill, The Histories, and Foundation.
I must admit, it's been a good few years since I've read Foundation and I'm quite enjoying the excuse to read it again.
Then on top of all that, I've bought no less than 7 new books in the last 2 days, 8 in the last 4. I think I might have a problem. I'm not sure I'll ever get the chance or take the time to read them all. What's worse, I'm not sure I care. I love having books around though. Lots of books. You never know what you might want to read at any given time...
So, what have I purchased you might ask. Well I've been to the thrift store today and had quite a lot of luck.
First at bat,
Dragon's Egg. I couldn't tell you anything about it. It's simply one from the big big list of science fiction. Actually most of what I'm about to list falls into this category.
That being the case, the second is
Brave New World Revisited. I'm actually a bit upset about this one. It's my own fault. I didn't look close enough at what I had picked up. I thought I was getting a copy of
Brave New World. Ah well, it was a buck.
Let's see, next is
Way Station. Another from the list, if it's cover is to be believed it appears to be about alien grave robbers. That is to say people robbing alien graves not aliens robbing graves... Yeah, I know. It's a horridly weak description. Somehow it seems pretty sad that I'm too lazy to actually read a review to see what a book is all about. Anyway...
Fourth is
Lord of Light and being that I don't really know any more about it than Way Station, I'm just going to move on.
Fifth, and final of the thrift books, is
Cosm. From Amazon, this seems to be about a researcher creating a universe in the lab. I think I saw that episode of the Simpsons. Something with a tooth, static electricity, and cola. I doubt that it happens quite like that in the book.
As I said I've actually picked up a couple other books, but I think I'll go into that later. I suppose I should put some time into getting some reading done. Yay for books!
Labels: Books, Reading, Sci-Fi, Thrift
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