What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[FriendlyFire]

Empire ashes trilogy
Oath of Swords
War Gods Own
Off Armegeddon Reef <--- currently reading
By Schism Rent Asunder
Dead City
Dead Rising
The Road
GreyBead
Hammer of the Gods
Command decision
Victory Conditions
WorldWarZ
Drive to the East
The Grapple
In the Death


A few others which escape my memory

 

[Megabyte]

a book about Orcs:
Bodyguard of Lightning (Vol.1), Legion of Thunder (Vol.2) and Warriors of the Tempest (Vol.3) by Stan Nicholls

 

[filthy n' poor]

"Miles," by Miles Davis.

Pretty good book if You like jazz music. It's been ghostwritten, so some "creative liberties" were probably taken, but it's still good stuff. One of few guys I can think of who actually sounds pretty good when They curse a lot (George Carlin is another).

 

[Godwynn]

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I only have about 50 pages of Hugh Kennedy's "When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World" left. I think that, once I am done with it, I will either read Seneca's "Letters From a Stoic" or Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights." It's a toss-up.

 

[Godwynn]

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb

Finished. Great book. Highly recommended to everyone.

 

[Babbler]

From the library:

King of Infinite Space by Siobhan Roberts
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe

I probably finish the former before the latter.

 

[Fifty]

Just finished re-reading Letters from a Stoic by Seneca (I finished it then immediately re-read it because its so good).

In an effort to combat my buying books, I'm not going to buy another book until I read every book I own. There's several I own that I never even started, and quite a few that I haven't finished, and many that deserve a re-reading, so I think this is a good idea.

Starting with The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy.

 

[downtown]

I just finished two
For the love of Mike-which is a collection of columns by Mike Royko
Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Generation of Swine-Hunter S. Thompson

Now starting The American Dream-by Norman Mailer. Its a more difficult book to get through than the last few I've read...its time I sink my teeth into some REAL fiction, not just newspapery stuff

 

[GoodGame]

Try the Gutenberg Project as well.

Just finished re-reading Letters from a Stoic by Seneca (I finished it then immediately re-read it because its so good).

In an effort to combat my buying books, I'm not going to buy another book until I read every book I own. There's several I own that I never even started, and quite a few that I haven't finished, and many that deserve a re-reading, so I think this is a good idea.

Starting with The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy.

 

[I'm Cleo!]

I just finished The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of American Empire, by Matt Taibbi, a fun, semi-gonzo account of the 9/11 Truther movement and End Times churches. I'm going to get back to Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins, a novel about the End Times.

Cleo

 

[Gorrable]

The Road

Cormac McCarthy? That's an excellent read...

-a copy of the Qur'an with the Arabic next to the English translation (very helpful for my upcoming year of Arabic classes)

I'm also attempting to learn Arabic, but I'm hesitant about trying to tackle the Qur'an. Modern Standard is quite hard enough without attempting Classical Arabic...

None the less, I should probably try. What version (is that the right word?) are you reading and would you recommend it?

 

[Fifty]

So this lasted about a day. I was walking down the street wif some peps and saw that my town's public library was having a used book clearance sale, which means most paperbacks are $.25 and most hardcover are $.50, because whatever they don't sell just gets recycled.

I got the following for a total of $7:

-The Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, Meno, and Symposium dialogues of Plato. Already had them all except the Ion, but for $.25 who cares.
-A book of selections from Hume
-The . .. .. .. .. .. . of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
-First and Second Discourses of Rousseau
-A book of Ibsen Plays
-A book of short novels by Henry James
-4 plays by Aeschylus
-Persuasion by Austen
-An anthology of a few of "The World's Greatest Plays". Bought it cuz it has an Ibsen and a Chekov that I don't otherwise have.
-Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
-The Time Machine by HG Wells
-For the Good of the Cause by Solzhenitsyn
-The Overcoat and The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
-3 Plays by Sophocles
-Autobiography of JS Mill (already read it online but nice to have a hard copy)
-"A Treasury of Satire", anthology of the great works of satire from the Greeks to contemporary stuff.
-The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
-Education by Kant
-The Oxford Companion to Theater


Okay, NOW I'm ready to stop buying books for quite awhile.

 

[Gainy III]

At Swim Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. I read another of his which I enjoyed, struggling to get into this one but I will eventually.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not sure what to make of it yet.

 

[Red Door]

Starting with Brave New World.

 

[jeps]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not sure what to make of it yet.

I detested that book, and most of her work. The 2-page description of the sex scene, then "no, thats not how it happened, it was actually like this", 2 page description of THAT sex scene followed by "actually i dont even remember how it happened"...

gah. margaret atwood pisses me off. she describes everything TOO much. detail is good, but like i really dont need to know where the drops of his () went on your thigh, really. like i dont care that they are 3.14159 cm apart.

 

[Harbringer]

Reading Bram Stokers Dracula, its good, but the beating around the bush has been going on for like 200 pages now, GET ON WITH IT ALREADY.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm also attempting to learn Arabic, but I'm hesitant about trying to tackle the Qur'an. Modern Standard is quite hard enough without attempting Classical Arabic...

None the less, I should probably try. What version (is that the right word?) are you reading and would you recommend it?

There is only one version of the Holy Qur'an.

-A book of short novels by Henry James

If Daisy Miller is among them, I'm sure you'll love it. The problem with James (I don't know if you've read him before) is that he just layers stuff on, his books and stories are very very thick.

-4 plays by Aeschylus

Random guess, but is it The Orestria and Prometheus Bound?

[QUOTE-Persuasion by Austen[/QUOTE]

Hey, I got Sense & Sensibility the other day! Though I almost got an anthology of seven of her works, which would have included Persuasion.

-An anthology of a few of "The World's Greatest Plays". Bought it cuz it has an Ibsen and a Chekov that I don't otherwise have.

Ooo, list please!

Okay, NOW I'm ready to stop buying books for quite awhile.

That's what I said, too, but I have two books that have arrived for me to pick up tommorow: Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, and A Traveler From Altruria.

 

[Firstlady]

Stephenie Meyer- Midnight Sun