If you really liked enders game I'd suggest you read the shadow series first, it feels more like sequels to enders game then the actual sequels. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy speaker for the dead, xenocide, and children of the mind, I just think of them as more like another series not related to the enderverse at all.wait theres more to the series? AWESOME ill try to get enders shadow at borders sometime. Also theres a really good book series called Penndragon its a long series (10 books) but its a great story with colorful characters
Is that not impossible, due to Godel incompleteness?bertrand russell is famous both as a philosopher of logic and a social critic
if you're interested in his stuff on logic and mathematics, then read principia mathematica, which he wrote with alfred north whitehead. but you really have to know a lot about maths and symbolic logic going in - it's an attempt to create a system of logical axioms, from which all mathematical truths can be derived without paradox
I preferred The Castle to the Metamorphosis, myself.with kafka, you want to pick up the metamorphosis before anything else. it is his best work. the castle and the trial are probably next on your list, and if you can find a collection of his short fiction it's well worth picking up. my favourites (aside from the metamorphosis) are a hunger artist and the penal colony
I appreciated the irony-to-the-point-of-farce. I'm just a big irony lover, and I thought that the satire was great, even if the narrative itself was not.goodness, why?
Some mistakes should be noted, though... in one part he says ambergris is derived from the giant squid, such poppycock. He also has a tendency to exaggerate numerical values: "ten-thousand trillion cells" are not in the human body, only about fifty trillion-- although it may just be hyperbole, considering his writing style.A Short History on Nearly Everything
Starts from the earliest point of fathomable existence and summarizes all the neat achievements God unlocked.
Was that really the first one? He's had a lot of books about Drizzt, and I didn't think that one came along until midway, but I may be wrong.The Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore, I'm midway through it right now and would definitely recommend i for anyone who enjoys fantasy. The first book is called the crystal shard
a lot of books do that. ;)I'm reading the first book of "Book of the New Sun", and it's quite interesting. It's a fantasy told from a subjective point of view, but it's set in the far distant future of Earth (or Urth, as the characters call it), so when they talk about ancient relics, they are talking about things from our time and you have to think a bit about what they mean.
For instance, the main character describes a picture he finds of an armoured warrior, with a visor of gold with no eye slits or features, holding no weapons but a staff with a rigid banner, in a desert.
It's a nice change, I haven't read fantasy in a while, but it's still got the cerebral aspects of science fiction.