Still reading Tais. Still enjoying it. For a few  pages in the beginning I thought I had made another choice that does not go well with binge reading, but apparently the story is just too rich to put down. It's got everything -religion, love with just a smidgen of erotism(and to think that this book was considered too frivolous in the Soviet Union ( Read more... )

Ok- time on the marathon 21 hours
Of them reading ...oh 14

I have finished Making Money not so long ago.

( memorable things )

About one and a half chapters in.  And feeling for poor Moist, who is out of his head with boredom at the beginning of the book. "Hangigng only lasts a couple minutes. The pensions fund commitess lasts a lifetime." - It's that bad, you see. Needless to say Vetinari is his usual priceless self. He has gotten to the point where he does not need to ( Read more... )

I just can't seem to stop. Well, after five hours of sleep I am ready for some more. Now for some lighter reading. Terry Pratchett "Making money", but  before anything else it's coffee.   Right,  *sips* I 've already read this once and recently too, but I love Terry so much that I read all of his books numerous times.   Plus you so often notice ( Read more... )

Finally something is looking interesting for the writing. And yes it is sounding uncannily like sci-fi when the author starts discussing austruanats who fell into black hole.

Очень хочется надеяться, что «гипотеза космической цензуры» выполняется в той или иной формулировке, потому что иначе вблизи голых сингулярностей имелась бы возможность ( Read more... )

Still the high-school physics recap, vaguely familiar and yet new ( cause i forgot so much over all these years) and utterly well put. Not a single superfluous word

( impressions )

Ok today is the Read- A- Thon, which basically means you stock up on books read for twenty four hours and blog about it. Two people on my F-list are doing it and the bookworm that I am I could not pass this buy. I am not officially sighned up and it is too late for me to even attempt to do anything like twenty four hours but I'll do a few hours for ( Read more... )