Meandering Minds Want to Read

Goodreads.com and Shelfari.com; two websites with pretty much the same function and effect.  I kind of wished I had known about these two sites sooner, as I might have been able to avoid some books that made me toss the damn things across the room in a fit of rage and the burning question as to why did I pick up these intolerable pieces of flaming horse excrement in the first place.

Signing up wasn’t a terrible chore, just that sometimes it felt like it was going to take forever to get information on my friends who use Good Read.  Shelfari on the other hand went really quick, but seeing as how they are supported by Amazon, I am certain their tech staff and servers are a bit larger.

Currently at the pitiful hour in the morning there are 275 people requesting the book “Nellcott My Darling.” by Golda Fried; my current creative writing professor.  I am currently a member of mostly science fiction groups, because hey I am an engineering major and I really science and I enjoy sometimes poking holes in some stories, not always mind you, but there are those days when a mean spirited rant of how a 200 foot tall robot with a fox head man by British space marines just needs a proper jeering.  But mostly I like things that go big badda boom, and planet destroying space ships make a pretty nice size explosion. BOOM heh heh.

When I start naming shelves I might go with something like the Boom Factor, Pointy Things in major organs, because I was told it was good, I enjoy the torture of myself, Elves Must DIE!, And the big green thing eats your face, Too long, or Poetry: a moment of weakness, guilt, and pleasure.

I have to say I would definitely recommend this to friends, family, and the occasional acquaintance.  It is a good way to share what you enjoy reading, get ideas of what to read next and to delve into something you might not otherwise read.