What Are You Reading, Again?

[Aphex_Twin]

What do you guys think about the "Quantum Theory of the Brain"? I was thinking of taking a better look at it while I'm still on holiday.

 

[Zwelgje]

Just ordered a few books online:
The Blind Watchmaker
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lord of the Flies
The Da Vinci Code

I got a gift certificate for providing some information to one of our suppliers. Nice!
I'm looking forward to reading the first 3, the fourth is for the girlfriend. But I'll read it too.

 

[Hitro]

Just read "The Hippopotamus" by Stephen Fry. Funny read.

 

[MCdread]

The last one I read was a novel by Yasunari Kawabata, which, after a quick search, I found to be translated in english under the title "Thousand Cranes" (totally different title in the language I read it...) and now I started "La Cruz de San Andrés" (St. Andrew's cross) by Camilo José Cela.

 

[AceChilla]

Models of Democracy by David Held

Need to read it for uni. It's about the develoment of democracy from ancient times untill now, it covers all the important contributors to democractic theories. It's not my favorite subject but it is readable.

 

[CivCube]

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. It's one step on my road to read all Discworld novels before graduation.

 

[Vladyc]

Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

Although it is quite old, I decided to read this book after watching the movie Alexander. Fortunately, it is significantly better than the movie.

It seems that the movie was modeled almost exactly after this book, even down to the annoyingly overused snakes. The time frame is all of Alexander's childhood, up until he becomes King. The sequel, The Persian Boy describes his life after he conquered Persia, just as the movie does.

 

[viper275]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman.

I'm Just Here for More Food by Alton Brown

D-Day Experience by Richard Holmes (it's not much of a book but it's got lots of pictures and copies of stuff around D-Day, so I look at it when I'm bored.)

C++ for Dummies by Stephen Davis

 

[ComradeDavo]

Jsut finished a couple of Discworld books (Equal Rites and Mort), now reading Phillip K Dick's 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?'.

 

[thetrooper]

Ludlum, The Hades Factor.

 

[privatehudson]

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. It's one step on my road to read all Discworld novels before graduation.

Sounds like a plan to me

I'm also working my way through them and have read about 15 at the moment, listened to another 3 in audio book format and I have about another 7 waiting for me to work on Unfortunately I've bought many second hand, so my reading order is erratic at the best of times.

Right now I'm reading Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett, and after that I'll read 5th Elephant and then probably a couple of Robert Asprin's Myth Series that I have on order and arriving on the 28th.

 

[mrtn]

I've read all Pratchett books 1-15 times each. Yes, I think he's a good author...

 

[Vladyc]

Hmmm...my sister reccomended Pratchett to me. Maybe I'll actually start reading him now after all the praise here.

 

[privatehudson]

He's worth the effort

 

[WickedSmurf]

Pratchett is a fantastic author. I've read all of his books.

 

[privatehudson]

I would have but for the fact that I'm poor and didn't start reading them until a year ago

 

[Turner]

I tried reading the first discworld, couldn't get into it.

May try again later, but I've got a lot on my plate now.

 

[Dragonlord]

Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

Great book, one of my old friends...
I can also recommend The King must Die and The Bull from the Sea by her - they're about the Greek hero Theseus and well worth reading!

BTW, I found The Persian Boy quite disappointing after Fire from Heaven... maybe because it shows Alexander from the perspective of a Persian male pleasure slave - not really my cup of tea!


Re Pratchett: I'm a great fantasy fan, but don't like Pratchett.

PH, Asprin is pretty good, you might also try his Phule series.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Im in the middle of The Collapse of The Third Republic, by William Shirer. Fascinating stuff. Its a huge book, hopefully I'll actually finish it.

 

[privatehudson]

Asprin is pretty good, you might also try his Phule series

I'm having a hard enough time getting my hands on the Myth series at the moment, having to order it from Amazon and wait 2-3 weeks most of the time. Personally though I consider Asprin to be the funnnier of the two, I think Pratchett creates more memorable characters and stories. Pratchett's covered more bases to me too than the myth series ever has.