Goto my blog.. i'm done with Slash journal!..

I'm sitting here now writing this now in the morning. Yet for my schedule technically its the night. I work a nightshift. Don't be fooled if there is a date and time on my post. Its set to the East Coast where I originally am from and where I was when I first made my slashdot account. Where I am now its about 6:30am. Its bright as all hell out, and now I gotta go home and go to bed. How screwed up is that. One good thing about working a nightshift is that overall there are less demands during the night. The bad thing is that sometimes when people need certain things done you can't really help them out because all the rest of the world works mostly daytime shifts. Go figure, the human animal loves the sunlight.
          Just to get off on a tangent. Humans love the sun. We feel happy in it. We want to sun bath in it. We want to just lay around and feel the warmth. Why is it that we like the sun so much. I mean an easy little switch in the evolutionary chain and bam humans could be what we call nocturnal, like bats, or some owls, or other various night creatures.
          Well back to working at night and sleeping in the day. It gets really confusing for one because when get through to the morning and you want to refer to the next day of work, I start to say tonight.. then I say tommorrow and then I get confused as to what I should call it. This is because I may sleep through the day but in my mind it is still the day. Well I guess thats all I have to say about that.

Anything written by William Gibson!!!:
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Burning Chrome
Virtual Light
Idoru
All Tommorrow's Parties

I love all of these books. William Gibson revitalized my desire to read for fun. If I ever met the man that is what I would tell him. I had become jaded from high school and such by being forced to read things I wasn't interested in. Along with this I'm in the Nintendo generation.. I would have rather played my nintendo than reading some bland book about crap I don't care about. When I read The Neuromancer for the first time it created a drive in me that said "Hey reading is fun.. that Damn librarian wasn't lieing!!!"

Now for other books:
On Writing by Stephen King -- I just got finished reading this book last week. It in fact took me 3 days to read. I'm a slow reader and I was just magnatized by this book to finish it. It has some really great insight into Stephen King the person as well as into many helpfult thoughts of his on fiction writing. It is a definate must read, just for the perspective, for anyone who thinks they want to write novels. Past that anyone who likes to write fiction in general.

the Dune Series by Frank Herbert -- I've read the original book "Dune" and I'm currently reading Dune: Messiah. Dune I loved. Dune: Messiah I'm enthralled by so far. These books are not for the light reader. Some very heavy thinking involved with some of the events and topics going on in the Dune series. If you lightly read these books you'll miss a whole lot. I plan to read the rest of the dune series at some point but haven't gotten to that point yet so I have no comment on the rest.

Out of Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis: Very interesting read. Its only 120 pages but this book took me so much longer to read than some other books 3 times its size. Not because it was confusing but there are many times I would finsih a couple of pages and think to myself "I need to stop and digest whats being said in this book. I gotta let my mind work over what is underlying in this story." The book says a lot about human ingenuity, human nature, and people's fascination with other planets and the unknown. I plan on reading the rest of the space trilogy once I feel I've properly let the stuff I read in the first book sit and digest in my mind.

The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit: NUFF SAID!!!

Hmm for right now that is all that I can think of besides some Michael Chricthon books but while I liked Sphere, and Jurassic Park and I had a fun time reading them.. they're just not high on my list as these others are.

So this list is nowhere near complete and I'm sure others have their own opinions.. If anybody else reads this.. please post your own favorites or even suggestions for books to read.