Tangerine Dream

prophetfive wrote:

sparrow wrote:

redziller wrote:What you say is what I'm expecting; anyhoo - give it a go.

On Terry Pratchet I'm told it' best to start with his first Discworld novel and work through them.

Don't miss 'MORT", totally brilliant.IMHO

Had a go at Mort but I didn't get on with the humour - it was clever and funny but I like to escape on the tube in a world that takes itself seriously. I hope they never install mobile ariels on the underground. It's just great knowing no one can reach you!

So I started a Warhammer 40k omnibus.

"We pass from one state of dream to another: from the dream of sleep to the dream of waking, from the dream of life to the dream of death. Whoever has enjoyed a good dream never complains of having wasted his time."
from "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch" (Henry Miller)

I'm a Discworld fan, too. Last month, I bought the DVDs of "Wyrd Sisters" and "Soul Music" as well as the live-action "Hogfather."

The animated movies are pretty good, though I wish they both had closed captioning. Haven't seen "Hogfather" yet.

I also recently finished reading "Maskerade," Pratchett's satire of the world of opera in general and "The Phamtom of the Opera" specifically. Funny stuff.

Insvims wrote:Just started to read this amazing book from one of my favourite authors:

Finished this one. Very good book! In a way I want to jump right into the next one in the series, called Forever Odd.
Instead I think I will read another Koontz novel I have had on my shelves for years, called One Door Away From Heaven. I read 2-300 pages in the book once, and stopped. Don't know why, because as always Koontz is brilliant. I'll give it another try now. Starting from the beginning.

Still not started One Door Away From Heaven. Can't deside if I want to read suspense/mystery (Koontz) or fantasy.

Books I am concidering:

Dean Koontz - One Door Away From Heaven
David Farland - Brotherhood Of the Wolf
George R. R. Martin - A Game Of Thrones

Such choices one have to make in this world

Currently on the final chapter of Desmond Lynam,s Autobiography,not bad at all.

Started reading the Dune books again

Dune is a classic. Read it several times and loved it each time. Very inventive.

Finished The Founding omnibus (warhammer 40k omnibus) and had to buy the second fat one immediately. I had been concerned it would be too arcane but not at all - well written action in a solid SF universe, good characters interesting plots; altogher a great escape on the tube.

Reading atm:

Cormack McCarthy: Blood Meridian

Due to my dream of travelling with the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow (Yaroslaw Station) to Beijing, I borrowed a book from one of my colleauges. It is written by a Danish author and journalist named Carsten Jensen. He writes about a "round the world-trip" he did in the late 1990's.

The start of the book is about his experiences when travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway. I was really surprised to read his harsh criticism of this trip. He decribes it as a prison cell, or a kind of hellhole. People, food, surroundings... everything, was unbearable.

I have thought about this train ride that lasts up to 15-18 days as an extremely nice way to travel west to east over the huge Russian continent, through the highlands of Mongolia, and finally to China.

I have read a little bit about the train ride on various web sites, and some of the tours seem very luxurious. And by listening to TD's Transsiberia I have many times imagined all the beautiful areas EF must have travelled through to compose this wonderful music.

Have my thoughts been too romantic about this trip? Should I stop thinking about once in my life doing this train ride across half of the world?


Baikal Sunrise

What a glorious scene that is

Just started on my first China Miéville book, Perdido Street Station. Amazing setting in this one. Steampunk/fantasy/horror/sci-fi.

currently he shall be re reading Moonchild, by Sir Aleister Crowley





Beresford Egan's artwork is supreme in its evocation of itself