Which Book Are You Reading Now? Volume XII

[Zkribbler]

I'd contribute, Zkribbler, but I do not have a Kindle device.

Neither do I. Download the FREE "Kindle for PC" app.
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Edit. Or maybe not. Yesterday, I nominated 2 stories, I clicked on my Kindle icon, but although it brought up the books I previously bought, my nominated books weren't there.

I finally found them by going to https://kindlescout.amazon.com/, logging on to Amazon, and below the login is a drop menu for "Your Nominations."

What I'm trying to say is that, to nominate, maybe you just need an Amazon account.

 

[Zkribbler]

The first 5000 pages?
I suppose the first 5?

Dang it! I meant 5,000 WORDS! About 2 chapters/

I hope it does very well!

Thank you.

 

[Takhisis]

What I'm trying to say is that, to nominate, maybe you just need an Amazon account.

Which is, again, something I lack. If you ever manage to publish on paperback post it here and we'll try to buy it.

After all, it did work out for Andy Weir, who once upon a time was just that weird guy with the badly-drawn yet well-written comic strip.

 

[Bridog7]

What happened by Hillary Clinton


Been going through the book, almost finished it, by using the pages as toilet paper

Moderator Action: This is Which Book Are You Reading, not anything else connected to books. Please keep on topic. ~ Arakhor

 

[Kyriakos]

Reading about the miserable life of Borges, in some biography of his.
It is always an alarming sign, if you live with your mother until she dies (at 99 years of age), and are referred to as "the kid" by your house-maid when you are 55.

 

[Katie88]

Going to try to read at least three books in French this year. This is the first.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Energy Resources for Human Settlement in the Solar System and Earth's Future in Space is a mouthful of a title of a book edited by William Ambrose, James Reilly II, and Douglas Peters from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The articles in it cover lunar bases and prospecting, near-Earth object (NEO) exploitation, Mars methane hydrates, Titan's hydrocarbon inventory, a little bit of prescriptions for space property law, space-based solar power, and off-world mining.

Quite informative so far, if a little too gung-ho about demanding immediate funding of space activities. The NEO article mentions moving them into orbits around Earth with no mention of the potential risks. The article about solar collectors on the Moon similarly glosses over the impacts caused by power transmission beams, and justifies the monetary costs by thinking that more electricity automatically translates into more economic growth and wealth. One article by a certain Harrison H. Schmitt is a doozy. Please tell me why an article on lunar He3 needs ranting about "socialism", the "enemies of human liberty", that climate change isn't real, and denigration of commons ("muh private property", essentially). On the more fact-based side of things, he uses a rather high projection for 2050 world population in 2050 of about 12 billion. Hopefully the rest of the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsim-Madison writes better papers than this.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Last year I finished Emile Durkheim's seminal work on suicide. A long and sometimes dry read, but brimming with information, well-written and a sort of historic lookout on how social sciences were done a century ago.

I really miss @Owen Glyndwr posting his lists, him reading like 5x my page count always motivated me

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Energy Resources for Human Settlement in the Solar System and Earth's Future in Space is a mouthful of a title of a book edited by William Ambrose, James Reilly II, and Douglas Peters from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The articles in it cover lunar bases and prospecting, near-Earth object (NEO) exploitation, Mars methane hydrates, Titan's hydrocarbon inventory, a little bit of prescriptions for space property law, space-based solar power, and off-world mining.

Quite informative so far, if a little too gung-ho about demanding immediate funding of space activities. The NEO article mentions moving them into orbits around Earth with no mention of the potential risks. The article about solar collectors on the Moon similarly glosses over the impacts caused by power transmission beams, and justifies the monetary costs by thinking that more electricity automatically translates into more economic growth and wealth. One article by a certain Harrison H. Schmitt is a doozy. Please tell me why an article on lunar He3 needs ranting about "socialism", the "enemies of human liberty", that climate change isn't real, and denigration of commons ("muh private property", essentially). On the more fact-based side of things, he uses a rather high projection for 2050 world population in 2050 of about 12 billion. Hopefully the rest of the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsim-Madison writes better papers than this.

You can just go ahead and forward future titles like this directly to my inbox.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Toy of the Gods by Sonja Dewing. Gods, the amazon jungle, ancient pyramids, debut novel. 60 pages to go and it will keep me up tonight to see how it ends.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Energy Resources for Human Settlement in the Solar System and Earth's Future in Space is a mouthful of a title of a book edited by William Ambrose, James Reilly II, and Douglas Peters from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The articles in it cover lunar bases and prospecting, near-Earth object (NEO) exploitation, Mars methane hydrates, Titan's hydrocarbon inventory, a little bit of prescriptions for space property law, space-based solar power, and off-world mining.

Quite informative so far, if a little too gung-ho about demanding immediate funding of space activities. The NEO article mentions moving them into orbits around Earth with no mention of the potential risks. The article about solar collectors on the Moon similarly glosses over the impacts caused by power transmission beams, and justifies the monetary costs by thinking that more electricity automatically translates into more economic growth and wealth. One article by a certain Harrison H. Schmitt is a doozy. Please tell me why an article on lunar He3 needs ranting about "socialism", the "enemies of human liberty", that climate change isn't real, and denigration of commons ("muh private property", essentially). On the more fact-based side of things, he uses a rather high projection for 2050 world population in 2050 of about 12 billion. Hopefully the rest of the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsim-Madison writes better papers than this.

Holy crap that is an expensive book! I just looked it up to buy it. Guess it'll have to go on next year's Christmas list.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

And that alumni library fee continues justify every cent...

 

[Snerk]

Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Siegfried Knappe

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair

The name did not sound that intriguing to me, more like generic fantasy.
But I was wrong. To say this, is a pleasure I rarely have, but I believe this to be actually at least fairly good fantasy. Only read about a 1/4 of this (huge!) book so far though. The heroes journey hasn't even yet began (compare that to the Dragonlance Chronicles), which may change things, don't know.
In a lot of ways, it reminds me of A song of ice and fire (which I have not read yet, only saw the show): Magic/Fairy beings being more legend or myth than truth. Focus on personal stories in "realistic" medieval settings. A plot thread which unravels itself slowly and covertly - only an option because characters and setting as such are attention-grasping. In short I think this fantasy novel does some essential things right way too many do not.
Even - and that is literally a first one for me within the fantasy genre, the author's skill of language is pretty good. Not up there. But it is almost reaching, at times.

 

[Cutlass]

Only a short way into it so far. Not really a page turner, not at first at any rate. And I've been too run down to give it proper attention.

 

[FriendlyFire]

What happened by Hillary Clinton

Hillary got "fired and furied" by Trump

 

[Katie88]

Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair

The name did not sound that intriguing to me, more like generic fantasy.
But I was wrong. To say this, is a pleasure I rarely have, but I believe this to be actually at least fairly good fantasy. Only read about a 1/4 of this (huge!) book so far though. The heroes journey hasn't even yet began (compare that to the Dragonlance Chronicles), which may change things, don't know.
In a lot of ways, it reminds me of A song of ice and fire (which I have not read yet, only saw the show): Magic/Fairy beings being more legend or myth than truth. Focus on personal stories in "realistic" medieval settings. A plot thread which unravels itself slowly and covertly - only an option because characters and setting as such are attention-grasping. In short I think this fantasy novel does some essential things right way too many do not.
Even - and that is literally a first one for me within the fantasy genre, the author's skill of language is pretty good. Not up there. But it is almost reaching, at times.

That looks interesting. I may well add it to my list.

 

[Kyriakos]

Finishing reading Borges' biography, by J. Wilson.
Other than the actual bio stuff, Wilson isn't really writing anything of interest. Basic comments on the works, which often are rather crude and simplistic, if not outright suspect of being false.

That said - and to his credit - at least this isn't a biography which reveals hatred against Borges. I actually have read one of those too...

 

[Mouthwash]

I just read The Screwtape Letters on a whim and now I'm wondering why modern religious apology isn't more like this. There are a couple of silly moments, but considered as a whole, it has more genuine insight into the human condition than psychology has ever produced (and is more entertaining to read than any Dawkins/Hitchens zinger).

Most of what I'm seeing from the religious right these days are hamfisted attempts to prove that a little kid saw heaven or that humans lived alongside dinosaurs.

 

[Perfection]