[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On reading, I am going to do something I've never done before. I am putting
> a book away without finishing it. Blue Mars has held me back too long. I am
> putting it aside (perhaps indefinately) while I read other books.
I did that with "Red Mars" not so long ago. Everyone once in a while I
take it out and reread the first two hundred pages, then I get sidetracked
and it goes back on the shelf.
> On my to-read list are: Ishmael; Watership Down; Tales From Watership Down;
> and The Dolphins of Pern.
Now there's a thought! Let's start a thread about what Brin-Lers are
reading!
Right now I've got a bunch of books backed up because I was sick for a
month and didn't have the energy to finish anything.
There's "Gateway" by Pohl, "Nothingness: the science of empty space," by
Henning Genz, "The elegant universe," by Brian Greene, "Under the Net," by
Iris Murdoch, and "The Naked God, Part 1: Flight" by Peter F. Hamilton.
"Naked God" is GREAT so far! Lots of fun.
"Gateway" really surprised me. It's a wonderful novel, very insighful and
sad. Now that's it's almost done I really want to read the other two books
in the Heechee trilogy.
> Before Blue Mars, I was reading at least about a book per month, but Blue
> Mars has held me back for a year. I just haven't been able to read it since
> the scene at the dam... I tried to get interested in the book again, but just
> couldn't (the book just wasn't interesting enough after that). I've never
> read a book before where one paragraph was able to so damage my interest in
> reading it, and reading in general. One of these days I may finally finish
> it, but not before at least reading two other books from the ones I listed
> above.
Good grief, that must have been a terrible scene! And Robinson is such a
fine writer....
Kevin Street
