just finished reading the forever war by joe haldman. excellent piece of classic sci-fi highly recommended 
General / Off-Topic The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly! - What are you Reading?
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Geraldine said:
I've read five of the Foundation books, they are really good although the first three were by far the best. Looking forward to reading the I Robot books now, and seeing how he tied everything in.
SuperG said:
I'll look out for your new game to download
You know it's on XNA 3.1 now? You can use it to programme for the new ZuneHD too.
Yes I know.
Don't have much experience with programming. I'am new to C# and XNA. So don't expect something soon, or at all.
I'am lookin for some more up to date XNA books that are good and include the 3.1. But also lookin out for dX11 with C++.
Also I'am focusing pure on PC with XNA.
I just started slowly with my Game concept.
Don't have much experience with programming. I'am new to C# and XNA. So don't expect something soon, or at all.
I'am lookin for some more up to date XNA books that are good and include the 3.1. But also lookin out for dX11 with C++.
Also I'am focusing pure on PC with XNA.
I just started slowly with my Game concept.
Yeah, been considering that for a while. Might splash out the next time I'm in Waterstonesjust finished reading the forever war by joe haldman. excellent piece of classic sci-fi highly recommended
Michael Brookes
Game Director
I've been eyeing up Gods of the New Millenium - has anyone read this? Is it worth the read?
i've read the book 'the notebook' and i really love the story...i've also read the adventures of shelock holmes and the wizard to oz and currently am reading the critical jugment by michael palmer..hopefully i'll be finishing reading it and my gonna start reading the book of stefani meyer ~ the twilight saga: new moon.
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Just about to start the latest Terry Prachett, should be good
Michael
It is.
He seems to have moved away from the slightly darker side of his more recent books.
currently am reading the book 'twilight saga: new moon'....the story is thrilling but most especially i like the love story of bella and edward.
"Requiem for a dream" and "Mistborn, book 1". The former is rather heavy reading as the author doesn't believe in line-breaks but sure as **** believing in spelling words as they are pronounced "on the street".
I recently made the mistake of reading the second book based in the Dragon Age universe and god that was awful.
I recently made the mistake of reading the second book based in the Dragon Age universe and god that was awful.
really? maybe i should revise my christmas wish list
Yes. Don't want to spoil it for someone who intends to read it, but primarily the problem is that the story is weak and that rather than adding to it what the story needed, David Gaider seems to have added things present in the game.
He might have intended it otherwise but to me it really came through as things that had been tacked on "just because". And the result wasn't pretty.
ah that a shame, the mass effect novels i thought were really rather good but then they were written by drew karpyshyn who also wrote the stories for the knights of the old republic, jade empire and mass effect games. still i'll give em a go
I don't really read fiction anymore apart from comics, which is a real shame as I read SF by the bucket load when I was a kid, now I mostly read books on politics and history although at some point I will get back into reading fiction, it's just I've been so busy these last few years and being a slow reader I could never bring myself to 'indulge' in reading fiction knowing what I could be reading instead.
Anyway at the moment I'm trying to get though 'One Step Forward Two Steps Back' by Lenin, his overview of the 1903 congress and the split from the year before. It is, to put it mildly, agonising, the overly polemical tone and inclusive nature of the persons and events being disused make it almost impenetrable to contemporary readers and even I'd say readers at the time who were not already involved in the Russian Social-Democratic movement at that time. Then again it's partly my fault for getting the Chinese edition, the Russian copies usually have a lot of notes at the back to help you out, although that raises further problems given their political unreliability.
Currently I've ground to a halt about half way though and I'm seriously considering putting it back on my shelf for 6-months while I familiarise myself with the issues by reading a few quality history books on that period, along with checking out the various works by the participants in the conference and of course the minutes from the conference itself.
Or I could just continue to plough though it like a bulldozer...I'll think about it.
Anyway at the moment I'm trying to get though 'One Step Forward Two Steps Back' by Lenin, his overview of the 1903 congress and the split from the year before. It is, to put it mildly, agonising, the overly polemical tone and inclusive nature of the persons and events being disused make it almost impenetrable to contemporary readers and even I'd say readers at the time who were not already involved in the Russian Social-Democratic movement at that time.
Then again it's partly my fault for getting the Chinese edition, the Russian copies usually have a lot of notes at the back to help you out, although that raises further problems given their political unreliability.Currently I've ground to a halt about half way though and I'm seriously considering putting it back on my shelf for 6-months while I familiarise myself with the issues by reading a few quality history books on that period, along with checking out the various works by the participants in the conference and of course the minutes from the conference itself.
Or I could just continue to plough though it like a bulldozer...I'll think about it.
Michael Brookes
Game Director
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Currently I'm reading The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight novel....!