What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9
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Japanrocks12
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Understanding Poetry - Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. Fifty recommended it, and I'm finding it incredibly useful right now.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I just finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson. The first edition had been sitting on my bedside stand for years before I finally got around to reading it. It is a masterpiece that I cannot recommend enough, especially if you enjoy novels about alternate realities / science fiction. Stephenson may very well be the best American contemporary writer now that Vonnegut has died.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I was trying to read Red Mars again, and I got pretty damn far, but man.. why do people like this book so much? IT SUCKS.. Sure, the science is mainly good, except for the speed of colonization, which is highly unrealistic.. but the characters are 1-dimensional, and the 2 main characters?? are virtually identical in the way they think, speak, act, etc. I am giving up on this and moving onto:
Lamb: The gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal
Lamb: The gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal
madviking
north american scum
Over vacation it's going to be:
Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
In the Time of the Butterflies -- Julia Alvarez
Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
In the Time of the Butterflies -- Julia Alvarez
Mango Elephant
Deity
Among other things, Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I've been thinking about starting the series, as I've heard it's a space-tribute to the Horatio Hornblower novels. I'm almost done with Hornblower; I've just one more book in the series to read, Admiral Hornblower and the West Indies.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I have to wonder what the target audience was for this book. Fans of Jane Austin and George Romero? All three of us in North America? Average story largely based on Zombie jokes being imposed on period English situations and language, ie., no one recognizes a young bride's "condition" - not pregnant, but zombie-bitten and "turning".
MathNerd
High on math (a, not e)
Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III
Its about quantum mechanics and is quite confusing, especially since I'm just 13. Most of the math goes above my head.
Its about quantum mechanics and is quite confusing, especially since I'm just 13. Most of the math goes above my head.
Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III
Its about quantum mechanics and is quite confusing, especially since I'm just 13. Most of the math goes above my head.
I think it was Feynman who said that if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Most of it is interesting. But a few of the later books get bogged down.
MathNerd
High on math (a, not e)
I think it was Feynman who said that if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Yeah, I think so.
Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III
Its about quantum mechanics and is quite confusing, especially since I'm just 13. Most of the math goes above my head.
Yeah, I don't think they were meant for 13 year olds.
But you still get an A for effort.
Did you read the first two volumes? How did you find them?
I think it was Feynman who said that if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
I remember a girl a couple of grades lower in grade school claiming she understood QM, which is the first time a ran into that, IIRC.
I suspect she didn't.
Annex
Tyranny and Mutation
My serious reading is still Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. My leisure reading was La Belle France: A History, but the library received a book I've been waiting on for nearly a year. It's a seven-day loan, so it's got my attention: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil. It finishes off the Darth Bane trilogy. Short, but it's keeping me interested. Once I'm done with it I'll return to La Belle and Citizens.
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Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III
Its about quantum mechanics and is quite confusing, especially since I'm just 13. Most of the math goes above my head.
If you want some background, I'd recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Perplexed-Jim-Al-Khalili/dp/0297843052
It was a good read and supplemented the topic when it came up in a biophysics course I took.
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Whatever, by Michel Houellebecq.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whatever-Mi...1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280159769&sr=8-1-spell
the story of a some IT-guy completely detached from his fellow man.
almost totally devoid of any kind of empathy he struggles through a modern capitalist society alone, and, frankly, is a complete a-hole due to that, which makes the book barely readable for me, as it's style let's you very much inside the head of this protagonist.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whatever-Mi...1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280159769&sr=8-1-spell
the story of a some IT-guy completely detached from his fellow man.
almost totally devoid of any kind of empathy he struggles through a modern capitalist society alone, and, frankly, is a complete a-hole due to that, which makes the book barely readable for me, as it's style let's you very much inside the head of this protagonist.
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