What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[LightFang]

Don't listen to him . Sirens of Titan is a great book.

I'm thinking of Breakfast of Champions next.

Dachs, what's wrong with Vonnegut?

I'm digging into The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene now, and it's already blown my mind, and I've only had special relativity explained. Apparently Greene does/did PBS special(s) on string theory and stuff too that are also highly rated. I should probably check that out.

 

[1889]

Crusade by Rick Atkinson, a history of the first Gulf War. A good military history book always gets me really jazzed to play more civ.

 

[Dachs]

Dachs, what's wrong with Vonnegut?

Books read like copypasta to me honestly

 

[Godwynn]

I have decided to start reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and will wait to read War and Peace when I have more time (probably around Christmas break.)

 

[Pokurcz]

Vonnegut is greate! But "the sirens of Titan" is his worst book in my mind.

 

[Japanrocks12]

I'm thinking of Breakfast of Champions next.

either that or Mother Night, I hear they're both fantastic.

 

[Pokurcz]

either that or Mother Night, I hear they're both fantastic.

Those are very good reads.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Oh brother. I'm determined to read Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. It's a big one for me, but I really want to read it cause I think I could learn a lot, so wish me luck. I'm going to try and stick it out!

 

[Rocko_el_loco]

I have decided to start reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and will wait to read War and Peace when I have more time (probably around Christmas break.)

I tried to read War and Peace, but it's too much for me, so I gave up and started reading the Great Gatsby

 

[Integral]

Oh brother. I'm determined to read Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. It's a big one for me, but I really want to read it cause I think I could learn a lot, so wish me luck. I'm going to try and stick it out!

Are you getting an abridged or unabridged version?

I tried to read Wealth of Nations, I really did. It's sitting on my shelf, little twelve-hundred-page monster. However, for what I'm doing, it's better to read the modern journal articles than slog through an old classic. The Wealth of Nations does have a surprisingly high signal/noise ratio when Smith isn't doing seventy page digressions on the price of silver.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Are you getting an abridged or unabridged version?

It's not abridged, but it is annotated, which helps.

I tried to read Wealth of Nations, I really did. It's sitting on my shelf, little twelve-hundred-page monster. However, for what I'm doing, it's better to read the modern journal articles than slog through an old classic. The Wealth of Nations does have a surprisingly high signal/noise ratio when Smith isn't doing seventy page digressions on the price of silver.

I started the book tonight and just finished the first two chapters. It is tough reading, but it's also very stimulating stuff. Are you an economist or something? I'm just a regular guy.

 

[Japanrocks12]

not reading, but listening to, Novalis's Hymns to the Night. I hope at least JEELEN has heard of him.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

I have decided to start reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and will wait to read War and Peace when I have more time (probably around Christmas break.)

What translation did you get of Dostoyevsky?

 

[Godwynn]

What translation did you get of Dostoyevsky?

I'm hoping Russian to English.

The book states that it is translated by Constance Garnett. I don't know if that makes a difference, but the book was a steal. It is a Dover Thrift edition and got it for under $5.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Urgh, better check to make sure its not abridged: Dover Thrifts tend to be.

 

[Eretz Yisrael]

Riding the Rails, by Errol Lincoln Uys

 

[Godwynn]

Urgh, better check to make sure its not abridged: Dover Thrifts tend to be.

I will never buy an abridged book.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Reclaiming Virtue, John Bradshaw

 

[downtown]

Brookings Institute papers on Education Policy, 2007
You know, some light bathroom reading.

 

[bobbyboy29]

Hey Godwynn, I'm currently crawling through the Brothers Karamazov as well. This is after I spent a whole year just getting through Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. The main problem i have with the Russian authors (had the same problem with Chekhov) is keeping up with the names. Just realised that Dmitri and Mitya are the same person!