What Are You Reading, Again?

[Superevie]

The back of my shampoo bottle. I'm not reading anything good right now.

 

[floppa21]

Originally posted by superslug
Just finished reading The Ringworld Engineers. Currently reading the paperwork my company sent me for next year's health "benefits"...should finish this book by 2007.

Don't bother reading it. They don't expect you too. Just renew the coverage you have now. When you see that your copay is triple what it was last year under the same plan and the plan only covers 2/3 max what it did last year, they'll tell you it's in the booklet, you should've read it.

 

[newfangle]

I'm still reading (on and off since the beginning of summer) "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram. Its very interesting, but a big honkin book.

I also picked up the Mind of God by Paul Davies. Its just a patchwork of disconnected ideas and not very much fun to read.

 

[floppa21]

What's that book about the autistic character? Elizabet Moon wrote it? 'Speed of Dark' I think? Anybody read that and what did you think?

 

[Smaasnekje]

The Salomon of doubt
texts by Douglas Adams

 

[andvruss]

To name a few:
War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy 1412 pages
Europe a history: Norman Davies 1365 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: William L. Shirer 1250 pages
Russia at War: (forget the aouthor right now): around 800 pages

Also, I've read every Tom Clancy book in his solo series. Awesome books.

A kinda like long books, can you tell?

 

[floppa21]

@andvruss - I read all Tom Clancy throguh Bear and Dragon. IOs red Reabbit good? It's in mt 'to read pile'... I liked his earlier Ryan books more thn tyhe later onmes.

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by floppa21
@andvruss - I read all Tom Clancy throguh Bear and Dragon. IOs red Reabbit good? It's in mt 'to read pile'... I liked his earlier Ryan books more thn tyhe later onmes.

Oh ya, the only one I've missed is the Red Rabbit. I think it goes back to Jack'spre CIA days, or early CIA days.

 

[floppa21]

Oh okay. Yah, it is a flashback type story. His newest one is Ryan's son! I ain't bought it. I figure the death of his series is nigh.

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by floppa21
Oh okay. Yah, it is a flashback type story. His newest one is Ryan's son! I ain't bought it. I figure the death of his series is nigh.

He has publishes so many books. There is his solo series, his non-fiction ones (guided tours into the marines, and the like), then he made some other ones with other people: Op-center, Net force, and Power Plays. Each one of those 3 series has around 7-10 books in it, the solo series 12, and non-fiction around 10. An amazing amount of knowledge and work.

 

[floppa21]

I don't count those Net Force and such. He didn't write them. Just his name on the cover. Apparebtly they have characters from the Ryan series in them but... Sorry for my spelling. I feel like Lefty.

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by floppa21
I don't count those Net Force and such. He didn't write them. Just his name on the cover. Apparebtly they have characters from the Ryan series in them but... Sorry for my spelling. I feel like Lefty.

Ok, they have in bold letters : TOM CLANCY'S Net Force and the like on it. The stlye wasn't has good in those mini-series as it was in his solo series though.

 

[MummyMan]

Finished The Hobbit tonight, now on to the trilogy! great book, hope LOTR is as good (how could it not be!). Of course after i see timeline i'll have to read that for the millionth time too!

 

[floppa21]

The trilogy is less lighthearted but a classic all the same. Enjoy it Mummy. I wish I could be reading it for the first time again.

 

[MummyMan]

I know what you mean, the first read is always the best

 

[Unregister]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). Great book. Read it now!

 

[SoCalian]

Originally posted by floppa21
Currently readint The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide.

I'm going through the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "triology" by Douglas Adams. Right now I'm about 1/3 of the way through Life, the Universe, and Everything. It is an extremly hilarious trilogy, I highly recomend reading it. I am also reading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston for my English class. So far this school year (since August) I have read:

The Sillmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men - John Stienbeck (for English)
Farenhiet 451 - Ray Bradbury
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Suess
The Journeyman - Bryce Hatch (a movie script by my debate teacher/coach)
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Resturant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fredrick Engles

There was probobly something else in there too. Then I have a whole lot of other books lined up to read. They sould keep be ocupied for quite a while.

 

[superslug]

Originally posted by floppa21
Don't bother reading it. They don't expect you too. Just renew the coverage you have now. When you see that your copay is triple what it was last year under the same plan and the plan only covers 2/3 max what it did last year, they'll tell you it's in the booklet, you should've read it.

Most years that's been true, but I found enough things in the manual to increase my coverage while decreasing my copay this time! I'm going to enjoy this, since it'll probably be the last time in my life I can pull it off!

 

[floppa21]

Hopefully you're with Hartford, Standard, or Jefferson. NYMet is good too. UP? Blech.

 

[Suppersalmon]

At School im reading

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The importance of being ernest by Oscar wilde
Middlemarch by George Elliot
The pardonors tale by Chaucer
Animal farm by George orwell

at home im reading
Winston's War by Micheal Dobbs