I finished reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, and it was, indeed, an awesome book. To be honest, I think it's the longest novel that I've read at somewhere between 720 and 750 pages. Not massive, but large enough that it threw off how long I thought it'd take me to read.
I decided to give some lighter fair a try, and go back to a series by Harry Turtledove about a Roman Legion that was transported into some land of sword and sorcery. It's ultra-geeky, but it grew out of an obsession with the Ancient Greeks and Romans that I had in my second and third year of University. It's the third book in the series, entitled The Legion of Videssos.
I'm taking my dad and my little brother to see The Da Vinci Code tonight. Though some may scoff, Dan Brown's novel is one of the few that my brother has read of his own volition and my Dad seems interested in the whole idea, so it seemed like a natural idea. I hope it's not a bad movie.
I decided to give some lighter fair a try, and go back to a series by Harry Turtledove about a Roman Legion that was transported into some land of sword and sorcery. It's ultra-geeky, but it grew out of an obsession with the Ancient Greeks and Romans that I had in my second and third year of University. It's the third book in the series, entitled The Legion of Videssos.
I'm taking my dad and my little brother to see The Da Vinci Code tonight. Though some may scoff, Dan Brown's novel is one of the few that my brother has read of his own volition and my Dad seems interested in the whole idea, so it seemed like a natural idea. I hope it's not a bad movie.