What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[King of Town]

Getting bogged down by Euclid's confusing language in Book V of his Elements. Should I just gloss it over?

Yes gloss over it. Euclid sucks to read.

 

[Agent327]

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Never gotten 'round to it. Did read Le mur and another story, for French in high school.

Hurting distance by Sophie Hannah. (Next will probably be some poetry by her.)

Finished the novel... As one of the characters in it remarked, there's a lot of coincidences in the plot...

The Age of Revolution, by Eric Hobsbawm. Great stuff.

A classic.

 

[Phlegmak]

Have you guys ever read the syntopicon? I might have spelled it wrong, but it's close to that. It sounded really interesting, but I have a feeling it's probably not.

If you're addressing me, no, I haven't read it nor have I heard of it. The Satyricon is worth reading if you want to read a satire about Roman life 2000 years ago. At least for some mild historical context. But don't read it if you're puritanical at heart, because if the events in The Satyricon happened today, everyone involved would be in prison for a variety of crimes, mostly sex related.

I finished The Satyricon and am now reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and To Timbuktu, written by some guy.

 

[Mowque]

Sirens of Titan....

 

[King of Town]

If you're addressing me, no, I haven't read it nor have I heard of it. The Satyricon is worth reading if you want to read a satire about Roman life 2000 years ago. At least for some mild historical context. But don't read it if you're puritanical at heart, because if the events in The Satyricon happened today, everyone involved would be in prison for a variety of crimes, mostly sex related.

I finished The Satyricon and am now reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and To Timbuktu, written by some guy.

I was talking to anyone, I was hoping I wasn't the only one who hadn't heard of it.

Reading Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz

 

[Irish Caesar]

I'm partway through The Essential Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Some are fairly redundant... he gets a tiny bit predictable after a while... but all in all, a good investment ($8 for ~600 pages).

 

[Martacus]

I'm currently reading my wife's copy of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. It was my Christmas gift to her; I felt it appropriate as she was an English major. She enjoyed it thoroughly, and thus far I also like it quite a bit. It gives me comfort to know that I consistently punctuate my sentences fairly well.

 

[Phlegmak]

I just finished reading To Timbuktu. It was ok.

 

[Fifty]

I'm currently reading my wife's copy of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. It was my Christmas gift to her; I felt it appropriate as she was an English major. She enjoyed it thoroughly, and thus far I also like it quite a bit. It gives me comfort to know that I consistently punctuate my sentences fairly well.

An awesome butchering of that book.

 

[Gogf]

An awesome butchering of that book.

Awesome. The New Yorker can have some really good stuff.

That is the rule, she explains, but she violates it frequently. She thinks this makes her sound like Virginia Woolf.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Sirens of Titan....

Great book. But then again, any Kurt Vonnegut novel is a great book.

I'm finishing off Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin 20-book series for the third time. If you like historical fiction and would enjoy reading about the British Navy during the early 1800s, you will love this series.

"The best historical novels ever written."—Richard Snow, The New York Times

http://www.wwnorton.com/pob/quotes.htm

I also recommend you buy this companion book to be able to fully understand all the terminology.

http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Words-Third-Companion-Seafaring/dp/0805066152/ref=pd_sim_b_5

 

[Atticus]

Yeah, wasn't the movie Masted and Command made on one of those books? The Yankees were only changed to French to make it popular in USA. They're on my mental "read when met"-list.

Finished Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore, now going for The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy.

What you thought about the Autumn of Middle Ages?

 

[Stormrage]

Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates.

I own the first 3 parts, recently bought the 4th, so I am re-reading them cos the worlds is so damn complex , and then I will finaly read my new book!

 

[Babbler]

I've finished Just Seconds from the Ocean by William Sargent. It's about coastal life, how artificial and natural coastal systems repond to global sea level rise and storms and how the USA has overbuilt it coasts. It's a short by interesting read, highly recommended.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Yeah, wasn't the movie Masted and Command made on one of those books?

Yes, the movie "Master And Commander" is based on these books, but it's nowhere near as good even with a big box-office star. I also definitely recommend reading them in order. While it isn't a necessity, O'Brien builds on various plot lines as the books progress so you will be missing out on previous information in a lot of cases.

 

[Ansar]

Coming of age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

 

[SchoolzSoKewl]

Possible Side Effects- Augusten Burroughs. It's hilarious, I actually laugh out loud.

 

[Shylock]

Never gotten 'round to it. Did read Le mur and another story, for French in high school.

I'm not reading it cover to cover. I would have if I didn't have the benefit of someone before me marking the book up underlining things.

 

[Camikaze]

I have to read the play W;t, by Margaret Edson. I'm not a big fan of plays, but hopefully this one's good.

BTW, it is W;t, not a typo.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

What you thought about the Autumn of Middle Ages?

I've only read about 90+ pages since I've had take on those books which have reservations on library and need to be returned soon. It's been interesting so far, which translation did you read?