Tired of it all, tired of this town...

[triadruid]

My reading habits lately have tended toward the "classics", and dystopian/utopian science-fiction social commentary in particular. Currently reading Stranger in a Strange Land and Brave New World at the same time (which was a bad plan), just finished The Fountainhead, etc... but you know what the problem is with reading the classics decades late? They're so...dated. :P Actually, it's just that I've read a lot of the stories that built on their themes, so the supposedly-original thinkers of the 30s-60s sometimes don't entrance me as much as if I'd caught them in the 'right order'.

In any case, between those books and The Vanishing Voter, my current non-fiction, I need something a bit more... escapist in my next reading material. Most of my actual to-read list is fairly heavy, with the exception of Victor Gischler's Gun Monkeys, which is hard to find, and Jim Butcher, which we have currently loaned out. So I settled for Neil Gaiman's comic The Books of Magic for today, which is enjoyable so far (even if it does further the other kick, which is books on magical practice).

So, any suggestions? I couldn't find the first book of David Weber's "War Gods" series, either...

Comments

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

This is one of the benefits of a camera phone. I wander the book stores (used & new) and take snaps of books that appeal to me so I can read up on them online when I get home (or just remember what that book's name is when I go back with money).

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

That's clever, but it does involve me getting a camera phone. I think I'll find a pen, instead... ;)