What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Abaddon]

Discuss what book(s) you're currently reading.



Older Threads:

Thread 1: What books are you reading right now

Thread 2: What Are You Reading?

Thread 3: What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Thread 4: What Are You Reading Now?

Thread 5: Books, your favourite and current reading

Thread 6: Anyone reading any books recently

Thread 7:What Are You Reading? Vol.1 Iss.3

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Finally got my hands on The Fifth Elephant (Pratchett). It's not easy trying to read Discworld in order when your carrier is a public library.

 

[holiday_hawk]

I am about to begin reading The Metamorphosis .

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Finally got my hands on The Fifth Elephant (Pratchett). It's not easy trying to read Discworld in order when your carrier is a public library.

Yeah, I didn't even try to do them in order. I have read about half of them by now.

 

[Mowque]

War Made New by Max Boot for non-fiction
The Uplift series for fiction
FDR for biography

 

[Mr. Keith]

Gone with the Wind

 

[Bigfoot3814]

The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual. By Ward Silver. Shallow plot, zero character development. Fun pictures though.

 

[Cutlass]

"The Last Hot Time" by John M. Ford

 

[Sofista]

Charles Chaplin, "My autobiography".

 

[Japanrocks12]

Ivan Turgenev - "Fathers and Sons"
Robert Coover - "The Public Burning"

 

[DNK]

"Farm Sanctuary" Gene Baur

 

[FredLC]

Two, simultaneously:

The varieties os scientific experience, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Globalization, democracy and terrorism, by Eric Hobsbawn.

Regards .

 

[Elrohir]

I'm still reading Atlas Shrugged. Well, that's the "main book" I'm reading, and I've read other stuff since I started (What, 3 months ago?!), and most days I don't actually spend much time reading it. Even so, it's kind of sad that it's taking me this long. But I don't think it's just my laziness - Ayn Rand was really good at writing excruciatingly long books that you never get around to finishing.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

Perhaps its a bit early in the year but I've begun reading 'The Halloween Tree'... remembered seeing the film as a kid and thought Id read through the book.

Sofar I can honestly say it is quite a good book that Id defiantly suggest.

...Even if it is August.

 

[LightFang]

Miracles by C.S. Lewis.

 

[jeps]

A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Three, 1952-1999 - Martin Gilbert

and because someone just lent it to me,

Empire - Orson Scott Card

 

[Elrohir]

A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Three, 1952-1999 - Martin Gilbert

and because someone just lent it to me,

Empire - Orson Scott Card

That book sucked. Card is probably my favorite living author, but that book was horrible. I don't know if it was because he didn't have enough control over it because it wasn't his idea, or because it was too political, or what. But it was just plain awful. My condolences.

 

[Fifty]

The Essential Canon of Classical Music by David Dubal. Short biographical pieces, short bits on the importance of key works, and recommended recordings from all the major classical composers, from pre-Baroque to present.

also (re)reading Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity by Tim Maudlin. It examines "how various interpretations of Relativity relate to one-another, and how [they] each fare if Bell's inequality is violated". Recommended if anyone wants a look at some of the metaphysical background to modern physics, and also to see how contemporary philosophical analysis works.

 

[jeps]

That book sucked. Card is probably my favorite living author, but that book was horrible. I don't know if it was because he didn't have enough control over it because it wasn't his idea, or because it was too political, or what. But it was just plain awful. My condolences.

Having read it, I now have to agree...

it was not good in the least.

 

[Kal'thzar]

The Prince, Freakanomics, aaaannd some american living in Europes view of the EU

It was a long bus journey.