im reading a book called the alchemyst (im sure you saw that coming) it is such a good book. anyone else read it?

I wish I could recommend Naked Lunch, but I really can't. It is Burroughs seminal work, in that it gives you a view of how he came to a bunch of the themes he addresses in his later works, but it's so utterly out there, unconnected, and truly vile, that I eventually gave up on it (something I rarely ever do).

Right now, I'm rereading the manga series Rourouni Kenshin while looking for another book to start.

shes a trippy and disconected chick, so i expected it to be pretty out-there.

heck, i actually understood "Zardoz" so i cant judge anybody 8D

She sounds nice. 'The Naked Lunch' is pretty hard going though, there's moments of real insight there as well as some totally unreadable stuff.

Currently I'm reading 'The Child Garden' by Geoff Ryman for the 2nd time this year because I love it so much.

Yeah shes a good girl. I think Naked Lunch is about drugs or something (i honestly never looked at it) and her dad is a pretty messed up cokehead, so she might have thought it was a brilliant piece of work when it really wasn't. I ought to check it out. Whats "Child Garden" about, Koos?

Oh yeh Burroughs was a slave to heroin. Totally messed him up like it does everyone who ends up on it, takes away your pain while eating your life. It'd more likely be coke, crack or crystal meth these days. Sorry about your friend's dad. Same everywhere, some dealer getting rich off people suffering.

The Child Garden is a SF novel about London In I guess about 300 years time where the most significant difference (apart from the climate) is the advances bio-engineering. New structures are grown from coral (the old held up by bamboo) and babies are educated by virus so they're effectively programmed with all the information society thinks they need including behaviour programming. Sadly many of the children are orphans as a botched attempt to cure cancer has halved life expectancy. You'd like it I'm sure, theres a little bit of Zardoz in it as the main character Milena has to read the old books to catch up with what everyone else knows as she's immune to the viruses. It's actually a very nice book, full of love, friendship and flowers, and leaves you feeling very positive.
:)

Shes a very positive and motivated young lady, actually. Shes going to be very succesful at whatever she does. Hard worker, absolutely freaking BRILLIANT as well.

Sounds like a good book, Koos, i'll pick it up :D

lord of the flies. I plan on reading the da-vinci code soon afterwards.

I'm currently plowing my way through the 1632 alternate history series by Eric Flint, which is odd, as Flint's a military science fiction writer, and I don't usually like military science fiction.

Currently, I'm suffering through Othello for my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition class. Dear Lord is it BORING! :herrsleep:

All I can get from it so far is that Spoiler Below We need to read Scene 3, thereby finshing Act I, for Thursday. Yeah right. :wiltyeahright: Man, I hate Shakespeare.

The last thing I read for pleasure was chapter 17 of "Nothing is Impossible," an Ant Bully fanfic on ff.net, which I'm beta reading for the author. It's really good; I'm currently waiting for her to send me chapter 18.