What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[Godwynn]

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War - Charles Flood

 

[Irish Caesar]

Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb

This was a real page-turner, with plenty of detail about not just the Manhattan Project, but also nuclear physics in the early twentieth century. Obviously, I loved it, although I wouldn't expect the same reaction from everyone.

 

[Japanrocks12]

Kafka - The Trial
American short stories written by women

 

[cardgame]

Stranger In A Strange Land

 

[Ansar]

Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Sino-Soviet Split - Lorenz M. Lüthi

 

[Gilder]

I read Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut and Cannery Row by John Steinbeck last week.

Now I'm reading Caeser's Women by Colleen McCullough.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Stranger In A Strange Land

Grok!

 

[Cutlass]

Grok!

Grok is passe

 

[The Imp]

A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin and A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez

 

[Smellincoffee]

Just finished Seneca's Letters from Stoic, trying to get into The Motorcycle Diaries.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Finally finished Nicomachean Ethics. As per my promise to a friend, I am beginning the Divine Comedy with Inferno.

Just finished Seneca's Letters from Stoic

Easily one of my favorite books. If you liked it, I recommend his On the Shortness of Life, its quality over quantity (i.e., its short but good).

 

[Cutlass]

"Where does the money go?" by Bittle and Johnson.

 

[The Imp]

Finally finished Nicomachean Ethics. As per my promise to a friend, I am beginning the Divine Comedy with Inferno.



Easily one of my favorite books. If you liked it, I recommend his On the Shortness of Life, its quality over quantity (i.e., its short but good).

If you find the Divine Comedy interesting, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a modern take on it, entitled Inferno. Obviously not as good as the original, but worth a look.

 

[jUmpSt0p]

I just started

Lord of the Rings

for the fifth time! although, it's been since before the movies came out since I read them last.

omg it's SO AWESOME!!!!

I'm barely even past the Prologue and already it's bringing tears to my eyes!

the movies simply don't even come close to comparing the kind of emotion just reading a few pages of the book brings to me. I just love these books so much. and the movies kinda made me forget how much, really!

wooo LOTR! I'm really going to enjoy this.

 

[cardgame]

Just finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult. Starting on Salem Falls

 

[Masada]

As per my promise to a friend, I am beginning the Divine Comedy with Inferno.

What translation are you using?

 

[sophie]

I just finished rereading part I of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and will start part II tonight.

Additionally I'm reading Hard Times by Charles Dickens for my Modern European History Class (1789-1914), and Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud for my Core class (Basically a theology/philosophy/literature class)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

What translation are you using?

Mark Musa's.

 

[Masada]

Mark Musa's.

If I went back in time to when I first read it, I'd do it with multiple translations right next to me

 

[Glassfan]

Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

I read that last year. It was excellent. I believe it won the Pulizer.

I remember the story about Fermi slowly/carefully constructing the pile at Haniford, while the workmen brought in the crates of Uranium bricks (quicker) and made their own pile. Someone points it out to Fermi and he turns white with fear. Everyone holds their breath until he does quick calculations on his slide rule and relaxes. Nuke humor.