What Are You Reading, Again?
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One of his better ones. After The Sum of All Fears he went downhill.
Clear and Present Danger is still my favorite of his. Terrible movie, tho.
Clear and Present Danger is still my favorite of his. Terrible movie, tho.
steviejay
Now in Black and White!!
agreed xcl
Rambuchan
The Funky President
Yes, I've been warned about the pace. I'm looking forward to the alternative timeline. I have deliberately not looked into it all, so that it remains a surprise.Serutan said:
Fifty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right now I'm reading the "Future of Globalisation" issue of The Economist, as well as eagerly awaiting the arrival of The Future of Philosophy edited by Brian Leiter
Till
Adventurer
David Gemmel: The Legend
Fetched it from the mail office on the way home.
Fetched it from the mail office on the way home.
Narz
keeping it real
I just finished "The Paradox of Choice" (good book ).
Now I'm reading "Ask and it is given" and "Everything bad is good for you" (about how playing video games is good for your brain
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).Now I'm reading "Ask and it is given" and "Everything bad is good for you" (about how playing video games is good for your brain
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The Selfish Gene and Unweaving the Rainbow, both by Richard Dawkins. I'm also working on finishing a journal from the American Civil War.
Nixnutz
Warlord
Lessee....been a while since I posted here.
"The German Enigma Cipher Machine" compiled by Winkel, Deavours, Kahn and Kruh. It's a collection of articles from Cryptologia magazine.
"Monty" Volume 2 by Nigel Hamilton. Not a big Montgomery fan, but I would like to get my hands on the other 4 volumes.
Now reading "Citizen Soldiers" by Ambrose.
"The German Enigma Cipher Machine" compiled by Winkel, Deavours, Kahn and Kruh. It's a collection of articles from Cryptologia magazine.
"Monty" Volume 2 by Nigel Hamilton. Not a big Montgomery fan, but I would like to get my hands on the other 4 volumes.
Now reading "Citizen Soldiers" by Ambrose.
Till
Adventurer
Finished Legend, and also Waylander by David Gemmel.
Legend was very good. Not because of the story, but because of the realistic characters. I found the ending to be a little forced, however.
Waylander was simply excellent. Loved every page of it.
Legend was very good. Not because of the story, but because of the realistic characters. I found the ending to be a little forced, however.
Waylander was simply excellent. Loved every page of it.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
You lazy bums, why did you let this thread slip away ?
*mumbles smthing about ppl these days not reading*
David Schwartz - The Magic of Thinking Big (?)
I'm not sure this is the exact title, if i translate the romanian title literary it's "The Magic Power of Thought".
Anyway it's a great book. But i have to say there's smthing not quite right about it ...
*mumbles smthing about ppl these days not reading*
David Schwartz - The Magic of Thinking Big (?)
I'm not sure this is the exact title, if i translate the romanian title literary it's "The Magic Power of Thought".
Anyway it's a great book. But i have to say there's smthing not quite right about it ...
Timko
King
As the result of a previous thread I bought Three Kingdoms. A great read, but very different from any other book I've read. And the values they hold in the book (~200AD China) are very different to that of today.
E.g. A man accepts a traveller as his guest, and wants to serve him some game, but since he has none he kills his wife and cuts up some of her arms. When the traveller finds out he weeps.... with gratitude! Later the man is rewarded.
E.g. A man accepts a traveller as his guest, and wants to serve him some game, but since he has none he kills his wife and cuts up some of her arms. When the traveller finds out he weeps.... with gratitude! Later the man is rewarded.
ulsterman88
4-2 Rangers rule supreme!
im reading the Bourne series by Robert Ludlum, currently on the Bourne Legacy
Ciceronian
Latin Scholar
After reading Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, I decided to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of White Fang by Jack London by reading it a third time. I first read it perhaps ten years ago and it was one of my favourites as a child, and still is now. The opening formed by Part I is brilliant, it could stand on its own as short story (it's about two men traversing the Arctic and being stalked by wolves, one of whom is White Fang's mother). The whole book is narrated from an omniscient narrator's point of view, but he still describes the world mostly through the eyes of White Fang, the wolf protagonist. This is done in an impressively insightful manner, but is also extremely amusing when White Fang encounters unusual situations.
I'm now reading a full and unabridged English translation of the Iliad by Homer. From time to time I also find myself reading a short story or two by E A Poe.
I'm now reading a full and unabridged English translation of the Iliad by Homer. From time to time I also find myself reading a short story or two by E A Poe.
At the moment I have to finish an article for a magazine first, after that I'm going to finish Ecce Homo by the next to unknown Nietzsche. Mainly because I've waited several months for it to arrive from the library, so I don't assume I will have it for long, before someone else orders it.
I finished The Parliament of Man, on the UN and The Earth in Turmoil, on earthquakes and volcanoes around the US. The first book is alright (too much "there are some bad, but the UN done some good, so we should keep it"), while I highly recommend Thermoil.
Now reading The Discovery of Global Warming and nice short look into how science discovered global warming.
Now reading The Discovery of Global Warming and nice short look into how science discovered global warming.
Cuchullain
Prince
I'm rereading Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. Last time I read it was over ten years ago.
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