Good Books

yea i was drunkish and blabby friday night.

Finished Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World and almost finished The Poison Belt. They are very good, especially The Poison Belt. Though it's about the extinction of the humanity and all living beings on the Earth, it's pretty amusing.

if you liked those check out hg wells' stuff-sci fi from around the same time,war of the worlds is especially good,they havent filmed a good movie of it yet.it fairly accuratly predicts the "advances"in mechanised warfare in the next 60 years.
and alan moores league of etraordinary gentlemen comics-again the film was crap and does no justice to the story.

Yeah, I like Well's books very much even the non sci-fi ones.

[Aldhissla]

Have finally finished "War and peace". Despite it's epic length it is an interesting read and definitely a classic, but don't bother reading it if you're not interested in history or can't cope with very unstable-seming russian guys and ladies, who are the happiest people on earth at one moment and then deeply depressed or shaking with anger the next second.

Now finishing Lovecraft's complete works Volume 5 (which I had started in between while travelling, as that War and Peace is a bitch to carry around). Afterwards, dunno yet.

Finished Thornton Wilder: The Cabala lately. It's about the weird members of a weird secret society in Rome. It's interesting, but I didn't enjoy it as much as Wilder's other books.
Now I'm reading an anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. Though this is not the first time I read them I find them creepy. Damned creepy.

Started Gottfried August Bürger: Marvellous Travels on Water and Land: Campaigns and Comical Adventures of the Baron of Münchhausen. In this book Münchhausen tells his damned absurd stories. They are awesome and pretty good stuff to laugh. Brilliant book.

All About Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers by Gerald Weber

it's a bit like a 500 page textbook on amplifiers,but i like it.

I'm reading Herman Melville: Moby-Dick. They say animals can't be evil, their behavior is instinctive. Captain Ahab differs about that. (Just like my sister who was attacked by a cow last week. Thank to the gods and her fellow workers she wasn't injured too seriously. Now she wants to take revenge on that cow.) He's obsessed by the idea of seeking out and killing Moby Dick the white sperm whale.
Very well-written book and its subject is really exciting. Whaling used to be a very dangerous work, many men were killed and even ships were sunk by sperm whales.

[Aldhissla]

I'm reading Herman Melville: Moby-Dick. They say animals can't be evil, their behavior is instinctive. Captain Ahab differs about that. (Just like my sister who was attacked by a cow last week. Thank to the gods and her fellow workers she wasn't injured too seriously. Now she wants to take revenge on that cow.) He's obsessed by the idea of seeking out and killing Moby Dick the white sperm whale.
Very well-written book and its subject is really exciting. Whaling used to be a very dangerous work, many men were killed and even ships were sunk by sperm whales.

I recommend you read "The wreck of the Whaleship Essex" by Owen Chase after you finished "Moby Dick". It is the true story of a whaling ship sunk by an angry sperm whale and the struggle of the remaining crew for survival. Written by one of the very few surviving crew members - and the actual story that inspired Melville to write his great novel.