What book are you reading right now?

[crystalscar]

currently reading the ego trick by julian baggini

[Person]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Yes.

[memory]

The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht.

[Certain]

Just started "House of Leaves" today.Gah!

Death Comes for the Archbishop ~ Willa Cather

[bobabrowncoat]

I'm finishing Philip Pullman's "The Amber Spyglass" and will then probably start Isaac Asimov's "Foundation." I've been meaning to read that series.

[babsa]

Catch-22: Reading it for the second time, but i am having trouble enjoying the book this time around

Starship Troopers: Almost done, its ok, nothin special

The Road to Dune: I tried to read it, but i really don't like his Herbert's son's writings. I think i will end up skipping it and just reading Dune

[Crescent Fresh]

I'm at the library now. Can anyone recommend me a few books?

Im interested in the genre of social/economics/psychology & philosophical (or self-help)


P.S.: thank you for recommending me Greene!

[MortalWombat]

Burned - Ellen Hopkins

[Priscilla]

I am reading Republic by Plato ^-^
Also a book called Siddartha by Herman Hesse :)

[davai]

I am reading Republic by Plato ^-^
Also a book called Siddartha by Herman Hesse :)

Excellent choices.

Europe in the High Middle Ages 1150/1309 - John H. Mundy - this book is so dry i'm mainly continuing it to help me get to sleep.

Light on Yoga - BKS Iyengar - always helpful to brush up on my yoga philosophy and practice.

[Reddkatz]

Memoirs of a Geisha. Just started.

[WyohKnott]

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, by Matt Ridley. Just started, but it's very interesting.

[MrPrestige]

Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich also Andrew Carnegie autobiography

[Aphorism]

Erewhon-- Samuel Butler
Beyond Good and Evil-- Friedrich Nietzsche
De Anima-- Aristotle
Alchemical Active Imagination-- Marie-Louise von Franz
1984-- George Orwell


As well as this work of mundanity for school...

Saints at the River-- Ron Rash

It could very well be a great book in the eyes of others, but it focuses too much on the dynamics of a local community for my taste.

(Summer reading for a university? Really? I wouldn't have a problem if it were a book other than this one though...)

[Khay]

War of the Spider Queen series from RA Salvatore.

It's pretty nice to read a fantasy story that doesn't revolve around the typical good guy archetype.

[kohreval]

The Measure of All Things - Ken Alder

[Cepheid]

Lord of Chaos (book 6 of the Wheel of Time series) - Robert Jordan.

Starting to slow down on these... probably wont start the seventh book right away.

Maybe Ill finish The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, or start Don Quixote, or Atlas Shrugged.

[Coralaisly]

It by Stephen King... not that scary, to be honest. Decent book, but nothing to lose sleep over.

[TheManinBlack]

The Prince by Machiavelli, End the Fed and Liberty Defined by Ron Paul, and Paved with Good Intentions by Jared Taylor.

[Julpepper]

Just finished Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell - couldn't put it down, lost a little sleep over it

Starting StrengthsFinder 2.0 this week.

[peppersasen]

Switching between:

Mr. Darcy (Jane Austen)
Allure US (although that's a magazine and not a book)
The first sentence of Pride & Prejudice reminds me of this thread (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

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I wonder how long it'll take me to finish with my Ritalin. :blank:

[Imagineering]

Flatland: A Romance of Many dimensions.

I gave up on the crappy book, Lord of the Flies. I'm happy with my decision.

[SarcasticVlad]

General Chemistry by Kenneth W. Whitten. I don't need chemistry knowledge, but I want it for some odd reason. I could only find a copy in English so I'm learning both chemistry and more English at the same time. How cool am I?

[s4nder]

Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks.

[Reddkatz]

The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin

[Uncle Mort]

Stalingrad ~ Antony Beevor

How anyone could have endured the horrors of that battle is beyond me.

[Vaishali]

The Sound And The Fury- William Faulkner

[Bisclavret]

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

[Coralaisly]

Gothe's Faust

[davai]

Introducing Baudrillard

&

Battles of WWII

[antistu]

I started to read Moby Dick again. I have attempted it on a few occasions but never finished it. This time I am determined.

[s4nder]

On Basilisk Station by David Weber. Finally getting started on the revered Honor Harrington series.

[mllebrie]

Stalingrad ~ Antony Beevor

How anyone could have endured the horrors of that battle is beyond me.

Goes well with my current reading, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder. It's fascinating, but not exactly bedtime reading material. Unfortunately, the only time I have for reading is bedtime. :(

[Andre20]

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness Matter & Miracles by Bruce H. Lipton, PhD. (Just finished)

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, an old classic that never gets old.

[JulietCapulet]

"Stuff Parisians Like" by Olivier Magny

[timeineternity]

'Demons' - Fyodor Dostoievsky

[Midichlorianite]

I am NOT a Serial Killer - Dan Wells
The Road to Reality, A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - Roger Penrose

[Xirxe]

Sword in the Storm (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by David Gemmell

[lumin]

Azathoth
By H. P. Lovecraft


When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring’s flowering meads; when learning stripped earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world’s dreams had fled.

******Of the name and abode of this man but little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair. From that casement one might see only walls and windows, except sometimes when one leaned far out and peered aloft at the small stars that passed. And because mere walls and windows must soon drive to madness a man who dreams and reads much, the dweller in that room used night after night to lean out and peer aloft to glimpse some fragment of things beyond the waking world and the greyness of tall cities. After years he began to call the slow-sailing stars by name, and to follow them in fancy when they glided regretfully out of sight; till at length his vision opened to many secret vistas whose existence no common eye suspects. And one night a mighty gulf was bridged, and the dream-haunted skies swelled down to the lonely watcher’s window to merge with the close air of his room and make him a part of their fabulous wonder.

******There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold; vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the ultimate spaces and heavy with perfumes from beyond the worlds. Opiate oceans poured there, litten by suns that the eye may never behold and having in their whirlpools strange dolphins and sea-nymphs of unrememberable deeps. Noiseless infinity eddied around the dreamer and wafted him away without even touching the body that leaned stiffly from the lonely window; and for days not counted in men’s calendars the tides of far spheres bare him gently to join the dreams for which he longed; the dreams that men have lost. And in the course of many cycles they tenderly left him sleeping on a green sunrise shore; a green shore fragrant with lotus-blossoms and starred by red camalotes.

[ModernLit]

the painted veil, by w. somerset maugham

[John01]

Besides textbooks and test review books, I'm still trying to get through three:

Unweaving the Rainbow - Dawkins
Philosophy of Science - Okasha
A Clash of Kings - Martin

[Calica]

Peter V. Brett`s The painted man.
Quite liking it so far and I`m close to finishing it.

[Munglik]

Russia: people and empire 1552-1917 - Geoffrey Hosking
1984 - George Orwell

[nelsonm360]

double cross by Malorie Blackman

[Crazyblue]

I just finished Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. It was for entertainment value only.

[WhereIsNovember]

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner

[Bluecrux]

Yes, I think it's an interesting idea to open up a thread based on these lines.
Tell us about a book you just finished or a book you are reading, maybe the characters, what kind of book is it, and who should read it, did you like it or would recommend it... Anything that fits in your mind. :)

[Warrior]

The Templar Salvation

Just finished it. It's a typical summer vacation trash novel that I only bought because there was nothing better in the bookstore. One part terrorist plot, one part fight scene, one part good guy chases bad guy, one part bad conspiracy theory. I recommend it to anyone that needs to kill a hour or so every evening while the kids are going to sleep and who also doesn't mind a boring plot.

[Bluecrux]

I am reading The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe. I have read one-third of it. It's about a secret rebel organization figuring the plot to assassinate the French President who they term as a traitor after his declaration of independence of Algeria. After a lot of failed attempts, they hire a man, codenamed Jackal, to do so.

I'd write a review after I finish the book, it's just beginning to get so interesting that I am gonna resume reading it right away.

[Dion]

(1)The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard de Chardin
(2)Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
(3)The Paleo Solution, Robb Wolf
(4)Magical Child, Joseph Chilton Pearce

[Callisto]

I'm currently reading 'A Brief History of Time' by Stephen Hawking. I'm about half way through at the moment and its really interesting!

[Homeostasis]

Certainly nothing since I can't see out of my new glasses. They told me to wear them for 2 weeks... I'm not sure that's a good idea. I couldn't drive in them, let alone see text books or take notes in class.

I'll try to wear them all day tomorrow but something is amiss. I'm sure they got the RX wrong.

[clumsywordsmith]

Fiction: Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Old School Fiction: Beowulf
Nonfiction: The Afrikaners -- Biography of a People, Somebody Giliomee
More None Fiction: The Knight in History, Author Forgotten
More Nonfiction: Sailing Alone Around the World, written by the first man to sail solo around the world. I forget his name.

I'm actually rather proud that I've managed to narrow myself down to just five books in progress. The list is usually much worse than that.

[Snowdragon]

I'm currently reading Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper.

[Malkavia]

Ender's Shadow.

[oj287]

Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl - The Last Theorem

Just bought it, just started reading it...I have been avoiding it in library, because I wanted it in collection.

[Carinthian]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's one of those well known books which you almost never get to because you watched the movie some distant time in the past.

[AureliaSeverina]

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

[storm eyes]

Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl.

It is interesting so far.

[Subtle]

Gödel Escher Bach—Douglas R. Hofstadter.

I read some of it from time to time. It's an eternal project. Everyone who has read it understands.

[storm eyes]

Gödel Escher Bach—Douglas R. Hofstadter.

I read some of it from time to time. It's an eternal project. Everyone who has read it understands.

I do this with Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Eternal project, I may add that one to my list ;)

[Equinox]

A compilation of the Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard.

[Anemoi]

Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl.

It is interesting so far.

They have recommended me this book. I already purchased it ;D

Now reading:
-Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
-The art of travel by Alain de Botton
-Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Robert Stewart
-Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

[n8ey]

Giving another go at The Lord of the Rings... I always get stuck in book two...

[Vict]

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings - Sade

[Biggian Thead]

The Nature of Design by David Orr -- this man is a visionary in my field

Food Allergies and Food Intolerance by Brostoff and Gamlin -- horribly repetitive, probably good for people who have a hard time absorbing medical ideas

Human Sexual Response by Masters and Johnson -- just beginning

Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker -- written by a self-proclaimed INTJ. It's my partner's book and I've been snatching it to read bits here and there. He doesn't know if he can make it through the whole book, but I'm finding it an easy read.

[Anima Mundi]

Fiction - Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescu
Non-fiction - A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[ModernLit]

I'm currently reading Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper.

how is it? i read my first picoult--the one with the CD soundtrack. interesting. she's a formulaic writer, but i think she's easy to read.

i'm sort of bored by "content rules: how to create killer blogs, podcasts..." etc by ann handley and c.c. chapman even though in the intro they specifically say that "we are not going to bore you with business jargon!" they've said things like, "don't just advertise your stuff... blah blah blah" and when "stuff" appears in a book i always have to wonder, "do you guys know your stuff enough to be saying stuff about stuff?" hmm.

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They have recommended me this book. I already purchased it ;D

Now reading:
-Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
-The art of travel by Alain de Botton
-Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Robert Stewart
-Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

love alain de botton!

[Aleph]

I just finished "Le Sentier de la guerre: visages de la violence préhistorique" ("The Warpath: Facets of Prehistoric Violence") by Jean Guilaine, a French archeologist - a book on war and aggression during prehistoric times, confronting the clichés we have (either the edenic, peaceful "noble savage" - or the low brow cave-dwelling brute) with archeological evidence.

[Chameleon]

'The Everything Psycology Book'
'A Lion Among Men'
'Death of a Salesman' Just Finished
'A Brief History of Time/The universe in a Nutshell'

I randomly pick up a different one of these each night depending on my mood; and of course I do not read the chapters in order...who does that anyway...weirdos.

[storm eyes]

INTJf forum.

[vampyroteuthis]

A Room With A View.

[Advocate]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Ebook version). I'd describe it as being about metaphysics, destiny and journeying on the 'right' path - explored through the simple medium of a naive shepherd boy who searches for his own personal treasure, both literal and philosophical. I suppose it's about coming of age, and finding a form of enlightenment.

Otherwise I flick through the Art of War (my personal favourite) and another book that has some of the most important scientific discoveries and applications over the last century.

Recommendations? I enjoyed The Alchemist, but then I like that sort of thing. I tend to read (recreational) without being overly critical (I do that enough at university) and I appreciate a simple story without complex plot twists. I would read it to my nephews and nieces, and recommend it to anyone.

[s4nder]

On Basilisk Station by David Weber. Finally getting started on the revered Honor Harrington series.
Turns out the revered HH series is the most boring sci-fi I've ever read, couldn't even finish it. Back to Iain M. Banks with Matter and not trusting Amazon reviews ever again.

[Apathy]

Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

[Anemoi]

I find it very difficult to finish a fiction book. But then I started reading "Walden" by Henry D. Thoreau and I'm not completely comfortable with the style (and it is non fiction).

So I guess I like a detached style of writing.

[storm eyes]

The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell. Again.

[JulietCapulet]

A french vocabulary book.

[Nemesis]

I'm plodding away through Stephen King's Dark Tower series (I'm about halfway through the second book). I'm not a big fan of his writing style, but the story itself in this series is really good.

[Yardy]

The Dark Tower is amazing.

I'm reading, The Story of Civilization Volume 1: Our Oriental Heritage by William Durant.

[Zerkezhi]

A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin (well above average for most books, below average for the A Song of Fire and Ice series)
Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan (possibly the best book I've ever read)
Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett (also quite nice; second book to the Painted Man)

[Captain Morgan]

Ravenor: the Omnibus (WarHammer 40000).Bought it about a week ago but just started reading it today due to my inexorable procrastination.Liking it so far,A must have for any true warHammer 40k enthusiast.To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

[Andre20]

Messages: The World's Most Documented Extraterrestrial Contact Story by Stan Romanek

[peter]

Leafing through Lolita for the sake of the prose (I can't be bothered reading it) and thinking Mr. Nabokov was inclined to try a bit too hard to make an impression. Overwrought.

[seeyouatx]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

My Swedish is not yet good enough to read the Swedish original.

[Ghostly Image]

Non-fiction = Getting Things Done by David Allen (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) (only a couple of pages in... hoping for a better system to capture the million "to dos" that float in and out of my head every day at work, but am not yet convinced this won't be more basic time management bullshit)

Fiction = Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) (Pendergast is such an INTJ ;))

[Dancingqueen]

The Time of the Hero by Mario vargas Llosa
I'm analyzing the characters for MBTI right now as a mental exercise.

It's Lord of the Rings with extra elements of brutality, a good read!

[Merle]

The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells
Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein

All for classes; and the latest Asimov's, for fun.

[Warrior]

I pulled a world history book (appropriately titled The History of the World) off my bookshelf the other night and started reading about ancient civilizations again. I'm not sure why - it just sounded interesting at the time.

[Merle]

The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age - Alan Trachtenberg

(plus still reading two of the books in my last post)

[Anemoi]

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton.

Only have to read three more of this author to finish all his works. It's impressive how I enjoy reading his books :nice: We think alike.

[Andre20]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[A Midday Sunset]

The Introvert Advantage by Marti Laney

For some reason, I only seem to be able to take in 20 pages at a time before...running out of patience. It's odd cause I usually plow through a book in just a few sessions.

[mllebrie]

"14-18: Understanding the Great War" by two French people whose names I can't remember. It's horrible, much too theoretical for my taste.

[alt lit]

About to begin The Chameleon Couch by Komunyakaa.

[MortalWombat]

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng and Benjamin Ajak.

[WyohKnott]

Re-reading Harry Potter #5 for the 8th time or so. No shame. ;D
Also, An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks.

Which one I pick up at any given time depends on how tired my brain is.

[Nemesis]

Stephen King - The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands.

He's not my favourite author, but this series is pretty damned good so far.

[Anemoi]

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (Cliff Notes)
What a long and difficult book to read.

[Randwulff]

A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin

And I've been going so slow that I'm ashamed. Typically I read 50 pages in a night, but I've only been doing like 20 recently.

I get really bad cases of book nostalgia sometimes but I don't think I'm enjoying this one quite as much as the others in the series. That's not the reason I'm reading slowly, though. I've read much worse books much quicker. I've just been busy.

[Dancingqueen]

I'm reading through all the John Scalzi books I could find. He must be an INTJ. His protagonists certainly are.

[Subgenius]

Rereading Burroughs' Queer, Burroughs' Word Virus, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition.

[s4nder]

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks.

[Feral]

I just binge-read the Hunger Games trilogy over the last 3 or 4 days. So good.
Even with a relatively happy ending, I'm still rather traumatized.

[Merle]

My Poems - Marina Tsvetaeva

Sensational Designs: the Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 - Jane Tompkins

"Reflections in a Silver Eye: Lens and Mirror in Blade Runner" - Vernon Shetley and Alyssa Ferguson

[Bezukhov]

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

I just finished The Death and Life of Great American Cities a few days ago.

[rollingstone15]

Almost finished reading A Scanner Darkly. A rather interesting book, I think.

[Merle]

Not a book, but approximately 25 journal articles on Alex Proyas' Dark City in combination with a variety of things: architecture/simulation/Freud etc.

[crystal]

Risk _Dan Gardner
Rethinking the future _Rowan Gibson (editor)

[bobabrowncoat]

X-Men #18

[HAL 9000]

Ender's Game

[dontmesswithme]

"The Downstairs Neighbour Who Was Full Of Shit" by F. Scott FitzGerald.

[HAL 9000]

Speaker for the Dead

[Isforwinners]

I just binge-read the Hunger Games trilogy over the last 3 or 4 days. So good.
Even with a relatively happy ending, I'm still rather traumatized.

I fanfic for it too. Obsession.

But for me it would be; the Murders in the Rue Morgue - EAP. I love Dupin. Obviously.

[Biggian Thead]

Ecological Design by Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan -- Introductory, great ideas embedded within. I hope his buildings are sounder structures than his writing.

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk -- Enjoy the idea behind the book, but I like a more linear plot line. jump jump jump jump jump Damn absurd, strangely believable the events and people.

[London]

True Blood

Dead to the world

[oj287]

Leonard Mlodinow - Euclid's Window

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"The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace..."

[Bisclavret]

Count Zero - William Gibson

[Distance]

Taking another run at The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich. Keep trying to consume this book and then, keep putting it down. Can't read it by scanning so it's a painfully slow grind with many breaks.

*slaps self upside the back of the head for laziness*

[Merle]

The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories - Nina Berberova

At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930 - Betsy Klimasmith

Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871 to 1919 - Timothy Spears

[Ghostwheel]

Anna Karenina and Casino Royale.

The Forgotten Secret of Death by Peter Novak.

[s4nder]

Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell. Quite unique and unexpectedly addictive.

[mllebrie]

Some book on WWI that I can't remember the title of. Clearly, I'm really absorbed in it. :)

[TheStranger]

House of Illusions by Pauline Gedge, an historical account of the Harem Conspiracy during the reign of Ramses III. I'm leafing through it as I have already read it more than once. Gedge's Lords of the Two Lands trilogy was more epic, but I lost the two latter books and gave the first one away. I should buy the latter two again.

Very few authors can match Gedge's linguistic talent, as far as I'm concerned. She's what turned me onto historical fiction.

[Huruma]

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and the Positronic Man bu Isaac Asimov/Robert Silverberg.

[dahlia]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

This may be my all time favorite novel. When I read it, I feel as if I am learning more about my own mind.
Beautiful, dark, sad, mournful, nostalgic and reflective.

I recommend this book for philosophy enthusiasts and admirers of dreamlike prose.

[jkatra]

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, by Richard Rumelt.

Have you ever seen a corporate strategy statement and thought it was ridiculous and vague? This book really explores the reasons why and what to do about it.

[Acorn]

Empire of Illusion--The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by Chris Hedges

About our culture, one that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion. One of my favourite subjects.

[zibber]

Cognitive Neuroscience textbook
Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
Zen Essence (Cleary)
Huxley - Eyeless in Gaza
Zizek - Violence
Skinner - Walden Two
Wolinsky - Walden III
Marable - Malcolm X

[chalice]

Gros-Câlin by Romain Gary (Émile Ajar)

deserves a place in my list of most favourite books..

[Merle]

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 - Christina Klein

and, like Zibber, I am also reading Zizek: Interrogating the Real - the first volume of his collected writings. I'm going to a lecture he's giving next week on the Ontology of Sexual Difference so reacquainting myself with some of his essays before hand.

[Anemoi]

The Neverending Story.
Michael Ende.

[Firebrand]

Still reading "Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)". Over 1000 of 1600 pages in now!

Also, Atlas Shrugged.

Apparently I enjoy a challenge.

The Neverending Story.
Michael Ende.

I wasn't a fan of the ending in that.

[masterpeach]

Ugh, too many books to pick from currently (my bookshelf is brimming with books from the library).
Yesterday I finished Duerrenmatt's "The Visit" in a two-hours-session and "Basics of Organizing Work Environments".

I think I'll pick "Test-Driven Development" and "The Collapse of Complex Societies" next.

[Cele]

A kingdom besieged - Raymond E. Feist

[xxdarkangelxx]

Hound of Baskervilles~ a sherlock holmes book ^_^
Quite interesting.

[oj287]

Marcus Chown - The Magic Furnace

- the search for the origin of atoms.

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[magnum]

Tried to read The Art of War, but the comments ruin the book. Now going to read a book about Albert Speer - another complicated INFJ/INTJ combo...

[mind_wander]

Just started on the book:The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai.I just finished his other book: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, it sounded interesting some people can easily relate to the character as an outcast and people had written essay about it.

[Anemoi]

The Neverending Story.
Michael Ende.
I wasn't a fan of the ending in that.

It was just a bit cliché.

[Merle]

The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
Watermark - Joseph Brodsky

[Anemoi]

Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Volume 65 (International Geophysics)
Judith A. Curry (Author), Peter J. Webster

[BellaBianca]

George Bernard Shaw: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant.

[PurpleGiraffe]

Just finished:

- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz

Currently reading:

- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Unknown Universe by Dr. Richard Hammond (This one is taking me waaay too long to finish. Dr. Hammond's writing style, while mildly entertaining at first, gets old veeerrry quickly.)

[Dancingqueen]

The Rebel Sell-Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
J Heath & A Potter

[Elvietim]

Operations research / management science: case studies in decision making under structured uncertainty
G.K. Chacko

[Merle]

Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart

Which I started reading a few weeks ago and then put away to tackle more pressing school books.

[elTee13]

"Check Raising the Devil" - Mike "The Mouth" Matasow
"Piece of Cake" - Derek Robinson

[1Maddog]

Redefining Sovereignty edited by Orrin Judd

[s4nder]

Embassytown by China Mieville.

[Anemoi]

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
William Deresiewicz (Author).

[Within]

Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games

[Calica]

Jon Krakauer`s Into the wild,
Salinger`s The catcher in the rye,

and I have China Mieville`s Iron council waiting for me.

[Thinker]

One fish two fish red fish blue fish...Dr Seuss :)

Therapeutic

[Huruma]

I'm still reading Song of Solomon and rereading Kindred by Octavia Butler.

[vermeer]

Adriana Altaras
Titos Brille: Die Geschichte meiner strapaziösen Familie

[alt lit]

I was (re)reading some from T.S. Eliot's Selected Poems today. I never tire of "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Preludes," and "Portrait of a Lady."

[jkatra]

Just started The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. I probably will read the next two books in the series. I heard the series gets worse after the 4th book.

[Axel]

I have three which I'm alternating between.

"A brief history of time" (Stephen Hawking)
"Secrets of the moneylab" (Kay Yut Chen)
"The upside of irrationality" (Dan Ariely)

[emrah]

Currently reading:
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (hell yeah!)
Feynman, Jim Ottaviani
The Way of Zen, Alan W. Watts

Currently listening (audible):
The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris
Diary, Chuck Palahniuk

[Strez]

Currently reading Hesse's Steppenwolf after being recommended it by a fellow INTJ. It is simply great.

Also, to the above poster, Alan Watts is brilliant.

[Distance]

Ditched an opportunity to go out last night so I could read this lovely piece of space opera fluff. Makes me seriously wonder about the E/I dichotomy!

Ghost Ship - Lee and Miller

[Artio]

I checked something from The Prose Edda today and then read old Chinese love poems.

[CaelestisPeste]

Business Law: Text and Cases...I hate it. It's interesting, but long.

[Megalomania]

William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism
User's Guide to the Brain

[Anemoi]

How to send people to hell: Ten easy lessons
By Cesar Landaeta

[WindUp]

Going to start on Invisible Monsters by Palahniuk

[Merle]

Pnin - Nabokov

Less than One - Joseph Brodsky

[Warrior]

I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins over the weekend while I was out of town. It was mildly interesting although somewhat mindless in the way most young adult fiction tends to be. The bad thing is that it was book one in a trilogy, so now I am reading book two - Catching Fire - and I guess I will have read the thrid one, too. I get sucked in like that.

[Anemoi]

:blank:
I can read a lot

The Artful Traveller: The Flâneur's Guidebook by David Tuffley

[Imagineering]

I want to read A Private Gentleman. The movie was bleakly realistic and I enjoyed how dark it was.

[lifesight]

currently, Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne

[Jermy]

The Practice of Everyday Living, Michel de Certeau, Philosophy, talks about pondering things we take for granted, our habits and the structures in and of our lives.

[vermeer]

Wordcrime: Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics
John Olsson

[pyramidheadrock]

A Philosophy of Solitude by John Cowper Powys

It's so good.

[desmomini]

HOW TO BE ALONE - essays by Jonathan Franzen.

First essay is "My Father's Brain," dealing with his father's Alzheimers.

Dealing with that now myself.

Dad and I are both INTJs - he's in the early stages of Alzheimers.

Also reading CRIMINAL by Ed Brubaker (graphic novel).

And CLOSING TIME by Joe Queenan. It's a memoir of his upbringing in Philadelphia, where I'm originally from. Living in the Charlotte, NC area now, I miss Philadelphia's rawness.

[souzeeque]

Vanishing Points by Thea Astley the author writes incredibly vivid and original descriptions AND she has nailed the dilemma of women. Also about hermit life so it is amusing in a sick way.

[alt lit]

About to begin The Chameleon Couch by Komunyakaa.

Finally had time to really delve into this over the past two days. So far one of the best two new poetry collections I've read in the past three or four years. Komunyakaa ranks among my top five best American poets writing today.

[Jalex]

The Wizard of Oz: The Scarecrow of Oz.

[exist]

The Angels of Our Better Nature--How Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (sweet!)

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen (2nd time reading it)

At Home by Bill Bryson (interesting generally, but dragging a little at the moment)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (really great)

Ethics for a New Millennium by The Dali Lama (ambitious, but still grounded and practical)

[Minty]

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

[Bezukhov]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

This may be my all time favorite novel. When I read it, I feel as if I am learning more about my own mind.
Beautiful, dark, sad, mournful, nostalgic and reflective.

I recommend this book for philosophy enthusiasts and admirers of dreamlike prose.

Seconded. I would add that The Book of Laughter and Forgetting doesn't have the same magic. TULoB is definitely the one.

[JulietCapulet]

"Stuff Parisians Like" by Olivier Magny.

Again.

[timeineternity]

'And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks' - Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs

[ModernLit]

book 5 in the ladies detective series by alex mccall smith

newsweek magazine and TIME international edition that i had FedEx'd to me from india. long story. international edition is really informative as compared to the US edition, i've found. they're completely different.

[s4nder]

The Peace War by Vernor Vinge.

[Huruma]

I'm rereading both a book of short stories by Octavia Butler and Animal Farm by George Orwell.

[Pema]

The Family by Jeff Sharlet.

[MortalWombat]

Rereading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

[timeineternity]

'The Trial' - Franz Kafka
'Basic Economics' - Thomas Sowell

[magichat]

Re-reading Jane Eyre by Charolette Bronte.

[LuxAurelia]

The Vivisector by Patrick White
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
On Reagan: The Man & His Presidency by Ronnie Dugger
Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky

.... I always read several books at once.

[Huruma]

I'm re-reading Chisi by Gabriel Ellison. I love historical fiction that takes place in pre-colonial African societies.

[TWAB]

"Dance of Dragons" - George R. R. Martin

[idem]

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett

[Anemoi]

Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Robert Stewart.

[Dancingqueen]

re-reading Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle

[iscem42]

Currently on The Great Gatsby. Thinking of reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun afterward.

[Grave]

Antony Flew's An Introduction to Western Philosophy

[Thinker]

Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap

I started reading this a while ago and found it difficult.
Picked it up again a week ago and have read quickly through the first 250 pages.
Funny how your mood can change in relation to reading material.

[Othesemo]

Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power. People kept on suggesting it, so I figured I'd glance through it. Thus far, it's a pretty good read.

[VagrantChord]

Odin Zeus McGaffer - Does God Get Diarrhea?

[JulietCapulet]

The Lake-by Banana Yoshimoto
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[Ghostwheel]

Endgame by Derrick Jensen

[Anemoi]

Walden by Thoreau.

[timeineternity]

'Ancient Greece' - Thomas R. Martin

'The Odyssey' - Homer

'Ulysses' - James Joyce

'The Divine Comedy' - Dante

[Anemoi]

Poetry:
Altazor Canto II by Vicente Huidobro.

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'Ancient Greece' - Thomas R. Martin

'The Odyssey' - Homer

'Ulysses' - James Joyce

'The Divine Comedy' - Dante

An interesting list.

[Chaotic Enigma]

"Elective Affinities" of Goethe.

"The novel is based on the metaphor of human passions being governed or regulated by the laws of chemical affinity, and examines whether or not the science and laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage, as well as other human social relations." -Wiki quote

[Huruma]

I'm re-reading Wild Seed by Octavia Butler. It might be my favorite science fiction novel ever.

[Anemoi]

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

[Zodd]

The middle ages in a nutshell by Frank Tang.

Also bought The daily lives in the middle ages and Punishment in the middle ages.

[alt lit]

About to begin The Chameleon Couch by Komunyakaa.

Still on that one, in addition to Anew by Zukofsky.

[Merle]

"Elective Affinities" of Goethe.

"The novel is based on the metaphor of human passions being governed or regulated by the laws of chemical affinity, and examines whether or not the science and laws of chemistry undermine or uphold the institution of marriage, as well as other human social relations." -Wiki quote

That's one of my very favourite novels :) Hope you are enjoying it?


I'm reading:

A Gesture Life - Chang Rae Lee

Epic Encounters: Culture, Media and US Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. - Melani McAlister

Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism - David Pinder ed.

[MortalWombat]

Now reading Paper Moon by Joe David Brown.

Also reading the original copy of a newly published novel that was written by a friend of mine.

[Heartfire]

The philosophy of freedom - Rudolf Steiner.

[stopwinking]

"If " by Rudyard Kipling
" The Singularity Is Near" by Ray Kurzweil
" Henrietta Szold, Life and Letters" by Marvin Lowenthal

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The middle ages in a nutshell by Frank Tang.

Also bought The daily lives in the middle ages and Punishment in the middle ages.

I almost got the Tang, I'd love to know if it's a fun read.

[Grimace]

Currently reading

Kav and Clay - michael chabon

and

Independence Day -Richard Ford.

[Dancingqueen]

The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler

[Anemoi]

Numerical Methods for Engineers.
Chapra-Canale.

[Artio]

David McCullough - John Adams

[staticjenn]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

[CaelestisPeste]

Surprisingly, I've never read "Great Gatsby", so I'm going to start on that soon.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Great book.

[DoubleEntendre]

Picture of Dorian Grey, Crime & Punishment, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

[Anemoi]

Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers by Philip Stokes

[Merle]

Urban Nightmares: the Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic Over the City - Steve Macek

Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen and Other Characters from the Rust Belt - Carlo Rotella

[JulietCapulet]

It's called " Conquering the New GRE Verbal and Writing."

[Anemoi]

Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists.
Ronald E.; Myers, Raymond H. Walpole

[Reddkatz]

Inheritance.

[CafeMachiavelli]

Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power. People kept on suggesting it, so I figured I'd glance through it. Thus far, it's a pretty good read.

Enjoyed it, seemed to be picking a lot of cherries, though.

If somebody knows a comparable book, i.e., something in the realm of power and strategy, do tell me, unless it's completely obvious. *hints at nick*

My current pile:
Den of Thieves, by James B. Stewart
(re-reading) Bad Samaritans, by Ha-Joon Chang
Competitive Advantage of Nations, by Michael E. Porter

[deconspire]

A Man in Full-Tom Wolfe. It's set primarily in the city I live in which makes it that much more interesting to me.

[Warrior]

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Typical Dan Brown novel in the Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code style. I bought it because I wanted something to read on an airplane that wasn't too heavy. I'm only a couple hundred pages into it, but i think if you liked his other books, you'll like this one.

[WindUp]

Started The Brothers Karamazov

[Merle]

Geohumanities: Art, History,Text at the Edge of Place - Michael Dear (et al) ed.

[Huruma]

I'm re-reading Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler (almost finished) and Black Gold of the Sun by Ekow Eshun.

[kijiji]

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
Struggling to get into it.

[Thinker]

Too good to leave, too bad to stay.
Mira Kirshenbaum

[jkatra]

Just finished "The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger" by Susan Edmiston and Leonard Scheff. Excellent book about dealing with anger in ways that INTJs would probably appreciate.

[Anemoi]

Mental Floss History of the World : an Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits. Erik Sass & Steve Wiegand & Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur

[elTee13]

"Piece of Cake" ~ Derek Robinson.

[MrDoom]

I just finished up Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. I loved every moment of it. Seeing a 55 year old Batman carry out his internal monologue was interesting.

[aok]

The text I'm typing wondering why someone would read a book when there is so many other options of mental engagement than text that's strung together paragraphically for more than 10 pages.

-spell-check needs to be updated to remedy the red line under the word I previously typed above while simultaneously reading and typing below it (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[masterpeach]

The Rolling Stones (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Robert A. Heinlein (sci-fi written in 1952)

[s4nder]

A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge. Some of the best sci-fi I've read.

Personally I can't force myself to read the naive, idealistic, cliche filled sci-fi from the fifties.

[elTee13]

The Rolling Stones (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Robert A. Heinlein (sci-fi written in 1952)

Oh gawhd was that awful!

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The text I'm typing wondering why someone would read a book when there is so many other options of mental engagement than text that's strung together paragraphically for more than 10 pages.

-spell-check needs to be updated to remedy the red line under the word I previously typed above while simultaneously reading and typing below it (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

So, given your avatar, what are your thoughts on Kubrick's interpretation of Burgess' original work? Are you concerned that Stanley didn't know the American edition omitted the last chapter and that even though he was in Britain he'd read the American version? Uhm, may I surmise that you haven't read either edition?

[timeineternity]

Economics in one Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Tom Wolfe but not that Thomas Wolfe


Started The Brothers Karamazov

Best novel of all time.

[Calica]

Robert Rankin: the witches of chiswick

I`m only around 90 pages in, so far so good.
Describing Tim and Will running away from danger:
..."They ran down the alleyway with a will, or in Will`s case with a Tim."*
Authors note on bottom of page: *Unforgivable, I know. I should never have left it in. Sorry.:laugh:

[wannablessedbe]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It's great, and easier to follow and understand than I thought it'd be. Then again, almost every book I've read since finishing Les Mis seems easy in comparison.

[masterpeach]

Oh gawhd was that awful!


I still enjoy his ideas ("flat cats" to name one) and the way he presents them. He was way ahead of his time. I liked "The Man Who Sold the Moon" better though.

Just grabbed:
Culture's Consequences. Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations by Geert Hofstede.

[bittersweet]

Parenting Beyond Belief

[ModernLit]

the full cupboard of life by alexander mccall smith