What Are You Reading, Again?

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The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(It is overrated, that are much better books on grail hisory)

Zero 1st edition - Massatake Okumiya, Jiro Horikoshi and Martin Caiden
(One of the best ww2 bio's i've read)

Flash Reference Bible
(Iam forever reading this)
 
Currently I'm only reading books for the University...

Calculus and Analitical Geometry, by Louis Leithold
Physics III-Haliday
Programming in Turbo Pascal
Engineering of the Environment
Chemistry and Chemical Reactions III, by Atkins
Principles of Scientific Administration, by Frederick W. Taylor
Microeconomics, by Pyndick and Rubinfeld
 
And weirdly enough, I just re-read Asimov's Foundation...
 
Great writer, huh? Creative, objective, simple.

Have you ever read a tale from him called "The Final Question"?

Probably the best short story I have ever read in my life.

Regards :).
 
Fred if your into "high" scifi

read BLOOM.

best book ever:
Forgotton soldier: - guy Sajer
 
since my final exams are coming up: Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters.

for fun: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams :D
 
I read anything from:

David Gemmell
George R.R. Martin (Song of Ice and Fire in particular)
J.V. Jones

and my latest reading is "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge.

edit: Forgot Robert Jordan, but his Wheel of Time series gets worse with every new volume. :(
 
FredLC said:
I just finished Asimov's "I Robot".

Regards :).

Read any other books of the Robot series? They're truly Asimov's best :)
 
FriendlyFire said:
Fred if your into "high" scifi

read BLOOM.
Thats the one about the nano 'grey-goo' that takes over the inner solar system right? Yeah thats a good one, Ive got it on a shelf here somewhere.
 
After the violent Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, I'd been reading "Waves soothing the wind" (approximate translation) by the Strugatski brothers; some sci-fi novel about the splitting of the human species. All I have to say it was too obscure and hermetic for my taste. Moving on to "Naked Sun", "End of Eternity" and "Pebble in the sky" by Asimov (bought them in a pack at half price).

I'm generally a casual reader and from time to time I go on a force tour through a whole bundle of books.
 
Stapel said:
The Great Republic by Winston Churchill.

I recommend it to all Americans. There is nothing like history biased from another side!

I read Keegan's First World War for that very
reason. A good read, I might say.
 
Currently reading 'the blind man in Seville' (Or something like that)

Recently read: Stalingrad & Berlin 1945: the downfall by Anthony Beevor. And also the DaVinci code by Brown.
 
I'm currently reading:
A series:
Larry Gonicks Cartooon History of the Universe

Single Books:
Charles Van Dorn's History of Knolage
Thucydies History of the Pelopenesian war
Mike Lupica's Wild pitch
 
I feel justified in ressurecting this thread since it is one of the stickied OT topics, and I love talking about books! I don't know if bringing back a thread like this is orthodox around here or not, so don't flip out at me if it is not.


Anyways,
I just got done reading Ordinary People. If you havn't read it, you MUST. There are books of greater philosophical or literary merit, for sure. But as for a book that perfectly embodies today's society, this is IT! MUST READ! 455/5 stars!

Currently reading:
The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek
Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
The Roaring Nineties, by Joseph Stieglitz
Hamlet, by Shakespeare
 
I'm not currently reading any new material, unless you count Arthur Miller's The Crucible (in-class).

Books I most recently have read:
- Fail-Safe by Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Boderick
- Darkest Hour (Mediator #4) by Jenny Carroll (better known as Meg Cabot)
- Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho by Jon Katz

Books I'm always reading:
- The American Pagent Tenth Edition (history textbook)
- A Pocket Style Manual Third Edition by Diana Hacker
- Uncle John's Big Bathroom Reader

Books I wish to finish but don't have the initative
- Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust by Harry Dunai (more boring)
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (didn't interst me much)
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (perhaps it's too philospical and out of my reach?)

Books I want to read:
- Haunted (Mediator #5) by Meg Cabot
- Red Alert by Peter George (the book Dr. Strangelove was based on)
- The Propechy (Daughters of the Moon #11) by Lynne Ewing
- The Becoming (Daughters of the Moon #12) by Lynne Ewing
 
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