What book are you reading right now?

[Anemoi]

Thermodynamics of Oceans and Atmospheres, Part 2 by Curry and Webster.
Thermo can be dark :suspicious: I am not enjoying this part very much.

[Warrior]

Surviving the Extremes

I can't recall the author's name, but it is written by a doctor that is also an explorer. He travels on scientific expiditions to places like Mount everest, the Amazon, deep sea, etc. and talks about the medical issues that arrise and how he (and local people) deal with them. He also talks about how these extreme conditions impact the human body and why some people survive the rigors of these envornments and why some don't. I'm only a couple chapters in right now, but it seems like an interesting read.

[timeineternity]

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

[Anemoi]

Unexpected:

Introduction to the Physics of Fluids and Solids by James Trefill.

[pawn23]

D

Damned by Chuck Palaniuk

[Dancingqueen]

The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafón-I love the book cemetery idea.

[spronston]

The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz Zafón .....
^
I found that to be a very satisfying read.

I have just finished The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino -- interesting narrative and a memorable protagonist.

About to start American Gods by Neil Gaiman, one that has been on my "books to read" list for a long time.

[timeineternity]

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

[JulietCapulet]

I'm not reading any books right now, just research articles.

[noblegas]

The agile gene by MAtt ridley

[Overman]

Worth Dying For by Lee Child

[alt lit]

Contemporary Design in Detail: Sustainable Environments by Yenna Chan

Re-reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Still reading Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry by Louis Zukofsky

[Nostalgia]

rereading Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

[instruMENTAL]

The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams
Unwind - Neil Shusterson

[JWhitsitt]

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

[Antares]

Art History for Dummies
The Tale of Two Cities by Dickens

[cartilas]

The introvert Advantage :)

and Steve Jobs biography.

[Leif Erickson]

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway in addition to Sexus by Henry Miller.

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Also, I'm rereading Earth X by Jim Krueger.

[kaa325]

The introvert Advantage


Is that any good?

[StansSongs]

The Adventures of The Stainless Steel Rat
by: Harry Harrison

[DigitalHermit]

"How to Analyze People On Sight" -By Author I've Forgotten

Very applicable, especialy in crowded enviroments such as public transport.

[pawn23]

Johannes Cabel The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

[Merle]

Contemporary Design in Detail: Sustainable Environments by Yenna Chan



Sounds up my alley! Will try and check it out when I've finished with writing all these papers.

Right now, as of this hour, I am reading:

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities, I'll be reading something else in bit...

[Midichlorianite]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

[ModernLit]

the night circus

[Anemoi]

Near Surface Layer of the Ocean by Alexander Soloviev

[GSOgymrat]

The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby

[Tito]

"Roman Empire" by Nigel Rodgers

[DelphianEtude]

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

[Nostalgia]

Daedalus Returned by Baron Von der Heydte

[kaer]

Last three interesting reads:

Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time by Eduardo Punset

Crude: The Story Of Oil by Sonia Shah

Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver: Protect Your Financial Future by Michael Maloney

*taking a break to vet some online materials*

[Homini Lupus]

"La campagne de Russie 1941-1945" by Léon Degrelle.
In original language, for I wanted to exercise my French.

[Warrior]

Lone Survivor

It's about a Navy SEAL that was the ony survivor of a mission in Afghanistan. The book talks about his training to be a SEAL and about the mission abd how he survived. It's the kind of book that helps me get through some of my own training.

[Dancingqueen]

Franny and Zoey
J.D. Salinger-He's a genius.

[Munglik]

Johan vanhecke: In de ban van de hobbit, leven en werk van Tolkien.
J.r.r Tolkien: The hobbit
Byzantium: The surprising live of a medieval empire.

[Kurtz]

I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.

[jkatra]

11/22/63 by Stephen King, I heard it's one of his best novels ever.

[s4nder]

A Deepness In The Sky by Vernor Vinge. Very good.

[Huruma]

Fledgling by Octavia Butler and still Black Gold of the Sun by Ekow Eshun.

[Nostalgia]

Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition (because cooking rocks and I want to get better at it)

[Peaceman]

Who's afraid of post-blackness
toure

[ModernLit]

ghostgirl. ah, YA. so fun, so mindless. i can relate to the invisible girl thing, though. i love that i went to a bookstore and was like, "so i'm looking for this specific book with black and maybe red on the cover that's a non-standard trim size, and is sort of like emily the strange but not" and someone actually knew exactly what i was talking about. amazon couldn't do that shit for me. :D

[Ninetime]

Dune by Frank Herbert
as suggested to me by Dancingqueen (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Selene]

In the middle of World war z, totem and taboo, myths of the ancient greeks.

[Nostalgia]

Re-reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Drama Between Budapest and Vienna: The Final Fighting of the 6th Panzer-Armee in the East - 1945 - Georg Maier

[Apophenia]

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut

[SF Sorrow]

Anarchy Evolution by Greg Graffin and Steve Olson

[topquark]

Pride and Prejudice. Little bit tedious, but I thought I should try it. I can recognize that it's groundbreaking for its time, but finding it difficult to engage with.

[storm eyes]

Dostoevsky - on recommendation, astounding.

[rewhu]

Black Halo (Aeon's Gate: Book 2) by Sam Sykes

[pawn23]

Dean Koontzs- Frankenstein (book one, prodigal son)

[sirius]

Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life

[FemmePetite]

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Khaneman - My present for Christmas.....

[Thinker]

Dances with Trout - John Gierach

[SF Sorrow]

The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

[blackbelt]

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

[instruMENTAL]

Reading and studying intensely, Please Understand Me II by David Kiersey.
C'mon. If you haven't read it by now go to the nearest Barnes and Nobles and start. Seriously. Its. Great.

[Thinker]

What makes us tick, (The 10 desires that drive us) - Hugh Mackay

[MrControll]

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

[Merle]

The Lifecycles of Software Objects - Ted Chiang

[mhy]

An Introduction to Global Financial Markets - Stephen Valdez and Philip Molyneux

[HAL 9000]

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire by HW Crocker

[Nostalgia]

Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard B. Fall

RIP Bernard B. Fall

[cscboulder11]

Death by Black Hole - Neil Degrasse Tyson

If you like physics/space, I'd highly recommend "Black Hole War" and "The Cosmic Landscape," both by Leonard Susskind.

[Huruma]

I'm rereading Dawn by Octavia Butler and I'll probably start Getting Zambia To Work by Chisanga Puta-Chekwe. Black Gold of the Sub by Ekow Eshun is on hold.

[JulietCapulet]

The Diaries of Catherine Deneuve.

[Dancingqueen]

Enders Game, as recommended by this forum!

[BellaBianca]

George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows.

[Kricket]

The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Osakura (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Snuff - Terry Pratchett (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

And various free fairytales on the Kindle.

[PurpleGiraffe]

Mockingjay (The final book of The Hunger Games trilogy) by Suzanne Collins.

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

Both are good reads. Mockingjay is definitely the worst of the trilogy, though, but still decent.

[vermeer]

Measuring the World (Daniel Kehlman)

At the moment I'm not sure if I like it.

[envirodude]

2666 page 14.

[Vicente Adelman]

Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
Guide to Financial Markets by Marc Levinson
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. (I had to stop reading this one after a couple of chapters -- a little too... mushy for me. But I may revisit it at some point in the future.)

[Oly]

El amor en los tiempos del cólera - Gabriel García Márquez

[Vantage]

The Bird by Colin Tudge
Trying to brush up on my ornithology.

[timeineternity]

Bill Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus

[Chazzaroo]

Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
In English

Calvino is a writer I find difficult and sometimes frustrating. He's sort of the Italian Thomas Pynchon, or maybe halfway between Pynchon and Roth, if either one of them had been a war hero. Er, and won a Nobel prize. He was very involved in semiotics, a subject I found appealing and dove into with considerable enthusiasm. But the more of it I read, the less there appeared to be a there there; I eventually dropped it entirely and kind of decided it was a bunch of bs. Checking his wikipedia article I don't see the overtly semiotics-related titles even mentioned. Invisible Cities is one,a maddening book. Another would be Cosmicomics, which Calvino himself said he intended to be something that could be read to children. I'm not sure if that remark was itself intended as some sort of postmodernist irony. I don't know a lot about children, but I seriously doubt they would sit still for that book. The wiki also skips over most of his short stories. The Marcovaldo stories, imho these might be what he is eventually remembered best for, are omitted. I have only edited the wikipedia twice, but I'm thinking I might make this my third time.

I got started on Calvino ten or twelve years ago when I was making an intense effort at becoming truly fluent in Italian. Got my comeuppance on that. After a few years had to admit utter defeat and realize I cannot do that from books only. But if you look for contemporary Italian writers translated into English, it is absolutely amazing how few there are. There's Calvino and Ecco, and a guy who is sort of the Dave Berry of Italy, and not a whole lot else. The plan was to read the books in Italian, and when I came to passages I couldn't figure out I could check the English translation to decide the matter. Seemed like a sensible idea, but it really didn't work out. A lot of times after some study I would decide the translator had gotten it wrong. Other times I'd read a paragraph, wonder if it was intended sarcastically or if the tone was intentionally stilted, or whatever, check the translation and decide I'd take the translator's word for it, but it didn't really help. It didn't change my understanding of the book and more importantly, did not improve my grasp of the language. I'd go 'oh, who knew the tone here was laconic?' But still could not see how you could tell that without just plain knowing the language a lot better. Also tried the same thing with movies. To whatever extent that worked, it fell far short of success.


Reading through the last few pages of this thread I found a bunch of books I am really anxious to read. Went to Amazon and installed the Kindle for PC app, then remembered I cannot order any books, I had all my cards blocked Saturday afternoon, and it will be at least a few days til I get new ones. Grrr.

[vermeer]

Why Orwell Matters (Christopher Hitchens)

[Lenore]

The Meaning of Things Grayling

[DelphianEtude]

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

[Aboni]

I don't have many books to read, I seek information from google..

[JulietCapulet]

Stats textbook.

[Hitorijime]

A Tale of Two Cities, for some reason. I read it in high school, but I decided I might be able to enjoy it more if I read it of my own volition.

[Selene]

I've been flipping through the official dictionary of sarcasm and john grisham's the litigators.

[orni]

Happiness by Matthieu Richard

[Typhon]

Currently wrapping up Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Will dive into A Treatise on Political Economy by The Count Destutt Tracy afterwards.

[ModernLit]

the fault in our stars by john green! autographed copy! he autographed 250,000 copies of his first print!! i'm so excited.

[pawn23]

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

[Mercurial]

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins.

[ollin24]

Justine by Lawrence Durrell

[WillBrazil]

Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.

[Tito]

Historic Cities of the Americas (Vol. 1 & 2) by David F. Marley

By the way, I bought this set for less than $30 on the net, and spanking new with its plastic covering and everything! The set actually sells for almost $200!

Is that a good deal or what?!

[lifesight]

Søren Kierkegaard: Either/Or (Enten - Eller)

[s4nder]

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. Far better than expected.

[BlackOp]

Man and His Symbols (again) - Jung

[MortalWombat]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

[12ax7]

Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.

Same! So awesome, I'm almost through the first one.

[mllebrie]

Great Tales From English History. I'm enjoying it quite a bit during my lunch breaks!

[jkatra]

The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives, by Stanislav Grof and Hal Zina Bennett. This is classified as New Age but I've been having experiences almost identical to many of the events described. It's not scientifically verifiable in most cases but may still be accurate.

[KeithP]

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This thread has inspired me to go finish it.

[Dancingqueen]

Parable of the Sower-Octavia Butler

[blackbelt]

Just finished "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."

[kaer]

The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays

Modern Money Mechanics By Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

[Vertrust]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

[Roosevelt]

Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis

[quietguy]

Assembly Language Step By Step by Jeff Duntemann

[envirodude]

Um, it's not a book, it's an internet forum, duh.

[kaer]

Mind like water: keeping your balance in a chaotic world by Jim Ballard

[VF1J]

Unconditional Surrender: A Memoir of the Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz Administration

[Merle]

Just finished Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, which was absolutely amazingly wonderful.

Also reading:

Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature - William Cronon

and

After the Apocalypse - Maureen F. McHugh (short stories)

[CaelestisPeste]

Fundamentals of Financial Management

[Americano]

The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

[kaer]

The art of looking sideways by Alan Fletcher

Web design index series

[LuxAurelia]

The Undiscovered Self- Carl Jung
The Vintage Tea Party- my new favorite cookbook
The Feeling Child- Arthur Janov

[Hymn]

I'm reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams for the I-don't-know'th time. Not actively, but it's always nice to read a few chapters when you're in need of a laugh.

[Nostalgia]

re-reading Tender Is the Night by Fitzgerald

The overwhelming sadness contained within this book calms me.

[Supaslim]

Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who by James Chapman

[blackbelt]

The Silmarillion.

[WindUp]

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Fourth Hand by John Irving

Still in the midst of The Brothers Karamoz, but I'm getting more engrossed in the story lately.

[yamielf]

The Silmarillion.

Same for me

[idoj]

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
A friend said it was as pleasantly random and tangential in the way it was written... The loan was a great compliment; so far a great read. There's something about relating to a classic that makes one feel connected to the past, and hopeful about the future... I'd be lost w/o a good story.

[instruMENTAL]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

[quietguy]

Just started "Mathmatics and the Physical World" by Morris Kline. Probably one of the best writers of mathematics history.

[Mastt]

Fifty Poems of Attar - a collection of poems from the 12th century Persian poet Farid-ud-Din Attar.

[darniem]

All required for my classes this semester:

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ - Daniel Goleman
The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
The Theology of the Church - Charles Cardinal Journet
Readings in World Christian History - John W. Coakley, Andrea Sterk
The Story of Christianity - Justo L. Gonzalez
Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - Christopher Booker

So I'm reading 'em all. Wooo. This doesn't include extensive PDF articles and printouts.

[hamlet9]

The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer (in the original Middle English)

[Merle]

The Brief Life of Oscar Wao - Juno Diaz

Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS - Sander Gilman

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience - Yi-fu Tuan

[simply]

1984

[oj287]

Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology (Contemporary Concepts in Physics) by Andrei D. Linde...

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Trying to understand it...

[foroneonly]

The Firm by John Grisham (Rereading all John Grisham books)

Looking at what others are reading perhaps my tastes right now are a little shallow lol.

[EEtactition]

A collection of horror stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[TheDubhlainn]

IDEAS Edited by Bernie Lucht

Its a compilation of lectures given by numerous authors and thinkers such as Tariq Ali, Sylvia Ostry, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Bliss.

[VagrantChord]

Start & Run Your Own Record Label by Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Serial Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle

[Nadette]

I have about a dozen books started right now. I'm paying the most attention to the following:

"The Long Loneliness" Dorothy Day
"Radical Possibilities" Jean Anyon
"Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk
"England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, and Beyond" Jon Savage

[lor6]

The Dark Tower (vol 3 - The Waste Lands) - Stephen King

[kaer]

Biochemistry by Jeremy M. Berg

Biochemistry and molecular biology by William H. Elliott & Daphne C. Elliott

The components of life: from nucleic acids to carbohydrates by Kara Rogers

[Selene]

Christmas Present, a picture book from National Geographic's Great Migrations.

I'm a bit disappointed with the quality of the images, suspect they are ALL still video frames and not actual high resolution images. Zzz

[deconspire]

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Center of the Cyclone - John C. Lilly

^ this book is madness. Literally.

[Lunammi]

Paradise Lost by John Milton

[Merle]

The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines - Mary Cowden Clarke

It's REALLY effing weird - a series of moralistic C19th stories that imagines childhoods for the women in Shakespeare's plays.

[Dokubi]

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

I don't really like it thus far, but I'm going to finish reading it before I make my final judgement.

[idoj]

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

I don't really like it thus far, but I'm going to finish reading it before I make my final judgement.

I was so excited to read that after "Catcher...".
I didn't even finish it... I was so pissed!!!

There's only one Holden... and if you're lucky you can run across an Old Spencer:)

[VagrantChord]

Record Label Marketing by Tom Hutchison, Amy Macy and Paul Allen

[Lunammi]

The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac. I just started reading it, seems pretty interesting.

[Uber10]

The Sherlock Holmes serie

[storm eyes]

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky

It is probably going to take me my whole life.

[Midhiel]

I see a lot of books here that I've read, which makes me happy :D

I'm currently reading The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, to compare it to the movie.

[Merle]

The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

[ocy]

"What is this thing called Love?" by Gene Wilder.
I don't like it as much as his others.

[JulietCapulet]

"Notes from Underground" by Dostoevsky

[VagrantChord]

GarageBand '09 by Mary Plummer

[Bardas]

Wuthering Heights...never read it, and I feel sort of obligated to at some point.

[HAL 9000]

The Social Animal - David Brooks

[lifesight]

the shining-Stephen King

[Merle]

Re-reading The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture (Lawrence Buell) for class.

Also re-reading The Road, for a different class; and still reading The Windup Girl, for fun.

[VagrantChord]

The Guide to MIDI Orchestration by Paul Gilreath

[s4nder]

Accelerando by Charles Stross.

[chalice]

The Map of Time by Felix Palma

[VagrantChord]

Listening Through The Noise, The Aestheics of Experimental Electronic Music by Joanna Demers

[TheStranger]

The Characters of Theophrastus.

[Dokubi]

Why Government Doesn't Work - Harry Browne

in addition to:

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

[Feynman]

Orwell 1984

[VagrantChord]

Film Music, A Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak

[Feynman]

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

[idem]

Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman

Up next is Storm of Swords (the third A Song of Ice and Fire book).

[teraczy]

I'm trying to read The Kite Runner and Herman Melville's The Enchanted Isles Or The Encantadas at the same time. Ugh, I should never do this.

[pyramidheadrock]

Faust

[kasthu]

Wuthering Heights...never read it, and I feel sort of obligated to at some point.

A must read.

Written by an INTJ, if you subscribe to the "ascribe MBTI qualities to famous people" mentality.

[teraczy]

A must read.

Written by an INTJ, if you subscribe to the "ascribe MBTI qualities to famous people" mentality.

I second that!

[Selene]

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter. I'm going over the recommended books thread listed here sometime back so Ender's Game and Dearly Devoted Dexter are next.

[Dancingqueen]

Enders Shadow series, book 2 almost done, on to book 3.

[JulietCapulet]

It's a french book about life in paris. I understand the french pretty well but there are a lot of words and terms I have to look up.

[VagrantChord]

The Rest is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

[machacatrov]

Wool and society : manufacturing policy, economic thought and local production in 18th-century Iceland by Hrefna Robertsdottir.

[timeineternity]

Stephen King - The Shining

[aok]

I'm waiting to read Twisting My Melon. Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays + others autobiography.

[JulietCapulet]

French terms and phrases.:)

[Nostalgia]

With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz

[Midhiel]

Candide - Voltaire

[VF1J]

A book about the 1980 Iranian embassy hostage crisis.

[Kisai]

For casual reading I'm on the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series by G.G. Martin.

[eagor]

a member of this forum recommended that i read beezelbub's tales to his grandson by G.I Girdjeff and now it actually hurts to read

[Calica]

mainly Douglas Adams~Salmon of doubt =awesomeness
and Kristen Britain~Green rider

[crowbird213]

Engines of Change- The American Industrial Revolution 1790-1860.

[MortalWombat]

Seeing Both Sides: Classic Controversies in Abnormal Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld

[Simurgh]

The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton

[s4nder]

Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds.

[Bardas]

Candide - Voltaire

:nice:

For casual reading I'm on the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series by G.G. Martin.

:nice:

mainly Douglas Adams~Salmon of doubt =awesomeness

:nice:

As for myself, some generic high fantasy/folkloric book derivative of Tolkien. There is a world of difference between high and low fantasy people! (was loaned it by someone who knows I like fantasy) It'll keep me occupied until I can visit the library next, however.

[Nadette]

Grove Music Online..... in theory. Reality is that I keep reading INTJf instead.

[Deena]

Me too. I am in the first getting to know faze and really enthusiastic :)

But in the middle of reading A Novel about London, a story that follows poor Russian migrant in London after WWII.

[Nadette]

Me too. I am in the first getting to know faze and really enthusiastic :)

But in the middle of reading A Novel about London, a story that follows poor Russian migrant in London after WWII.

Welcome fellow newbie :) Sounds like an interesting book.

[vmann17]

Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins.
I HIGHLY reccomend to all nature/genetic interested INTJ's

[MrFlaneur]

Dearly Devoted Dexter. I'm half way through, it's not as good as the first.

[VagrantChord]

Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins.
I HIGHLY reccomend to all nature/genetic interested INTJ's

You might enjoy The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution also.

[Deena]

Welcome fellow newbie :) Sounds like an interesting book.

Thank you, don't you love the atmosphere here? It is interesting, true story, really personal.

[masterpeach]

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"Digital Imaging" by Ron Graham

[VagrantChord]

Sounds of the Future; Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film edited by Mathew J. Bartkowiak

[PRBori]

Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams: The 15 Power Secrets of the World's Most Successful People by Steven K. Scott

A great read with great stories for those thinking on entering the entrepreneurship area. Great examples, great information, and great advice.

[Silwin]

I have started re-reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I am up to book six, Wyrd Sisters.

[Calica]

Tolkien`s Silmarillion
Borrowed it on a whim, but looks interesting as far as I`ve read. Worth it just for the pages at the end describing the correct word/name pronunciation. Love the sound of it.:lovestruck:

[Coralaisly]

Alternating between The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)... I have no idea why I haven't read this yet. I totally would. And Grimm's Fairy Tales (If you don't know who Grimm's Fairy Tales is written by, we can't be friends). When I'm not in the mood for those, I go back to rereading Gone With the Wind (Margret Mitchell), my favorite book to date for reasons I'm unable to explain.

[LbsofThrust]

Alastair Reynolds Chasm City. I really enjoyed Revelation Spacem

[Bronze]

Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad. A gift from a friend.

[Berkut]

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

It's all about this guy (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

Got it at the local used book store for three dollars.

[pyramidheadrock]

A compilation of short stories by the Lovecraft circle.

[VagrantChord]

Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle

[Nemesis]

El Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

[Dinonysus]

Going back and forth between the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and a collection of philosophical/proto-scientific/magical essays by Giordano Bruno.

[Artio]

Ian McEwan

I'm hooked.

[teraczy]

I fell asleep to the last, few tragic lines of The Jew of Malta last night. And I'm wishing that Christopher Marlowe wasn't murdered in a barfight so he could have written more and also, so that Shakespeare hadn't taken over his fame.

[Selene]

Finally found my old copy of the Movable Feast by Hemingway so I'm re-reading. Perfect prose never gets old.

[Vossipedia]

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene

[PatrickBateman]

Catch 22

[Selene]

Catch 22

The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.

Good choice.

[Rexus]

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

&

Milovan Djilas - New Class

[CrossReference]

Currently slogging my way through the last stretch of Atlas Shrugged along with Marilyn Monroe: The Biography and As I lay dying

[aok]

Twisting My Melon by Shaun Ryder....the book I said that I previously wanted to start reading

[PatrickBateman]

The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.

Good choice.
"Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.”
It's just said that my librarian put this book in section with Den Brown and Stephenie Meyer...

[BellaBianca]

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

[PatrickBateman]

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Excellent choice,I would recommend also The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway (even though all of his work is a masterpiece)

[Selene]

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Did thee feel the earth move?

That line originated from the bad boy of literature. Impressed upon me that Hemingway is one of the best romance novelists I've read. The exchange between Robert Jordan and Maria in the forest was beautifully written.

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"Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.”
It's just said that my librarian put this book in section with Den Brown and Stephenie Meyer...

I think Closing Time ruined the beauty of Yossarian's legacy. Would've much preferred if he simply escaped, and the rest of his fate is left to everyone's imagination.

[lifesight]

The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas

[PatrickBateman]

[I]
I think Closing Time ruined the beauty of Yossarian's legacy. Would've much preferred if he simply escaped, and the rest of his fate is left to everyone's imagination.
I don't think I will read the sequel,at least for now. I would like to enjoy this ending for now.
I see you read Hemingway thoroughly,what's your favourite ?

To avoid offtopic
Dostoevsky - Notes from underground

[Frexspar]

I just finished Quiet and Stiff. I am moving on to Reamde which I got for Christmas. In my class, I am reading Pippi Longstocking.

[Nostalgia]

Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943 - Mark Healy

[Selene]

I don't think I will read the sequel,at least for now. I would like to enjoy this ending for now.

I see you read Hemingway thoroughly,what's your favorite?

Don't, ruined Catch22 for me. I like reading his works as a broad, collective whole. Evolution of the Hemingway character is something I should get down to doing soon. One of his most impressionable stories is The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.

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And to stay on topic, I'm now glued on The Secret Life of Pronouns.

[waba1098]

For what seems to be the umpteenth time i am reading 1984 by George Orwell.

[Frexspar]

For what seems to be the umpteenth time i am reading 1984 by George Orwell.

I have read that one half a dozen times as well. It's a good one. Also, The Fountainhead.

[timeineternity]

Hermann Hesse - Demian

[porousshield]

Reading the Discworld books. I can't believe I haven't already read them when they suit my tastes so well.

[Nadette]

Hermann Hesse - Demian Is it good? I read Siddhartha and found it kind of tedious.

[timeineternity]

Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

[Bronze]

Raymond Carver - What we talk about when we talk about love

[Simurgh]

Bruce Lincoln - Religion, Empire, and Torture

[nowt]

I uh. Read The Hunger Games last night, and now I read Catching Fire. No one told me there were muttants.

[Nadette]

Bruce Lincoln - Religion, Empire, and Torture

Some nice light reading, I see. :book::nice:

[Laura C]

Social Media Analytics by Marshall Sponder.

[kasthu]

Wait for Me! the autobiography of Deborah Devonshire, also the last of the famous Mitford sisters.

[Nostalgia]

BLOOD, STEEL, AND MYTH: The II.SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka by George Nipe Jr.

[s4nder]

Stealing Light by Gary Gibson.

[Ezio001]

The Digital Fortress by Dan Brown and the Metamorphosis by Kafka.

[GlimpseOfTruth]

Reading the Redwall series by Brian Jacques... great fantasy books.

[dvdhrns]

"Foreign Influence" by Brad Thor

[Dancingqueen]

Haunted-chuck palahniuk
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios-Yann Martel
The Dispossesed; The Lathe of Heaven-ursula le guin

[masterpeach]

Motivation and personality: Interactions of psychological systems. (Julius Kuhl)

[FarmlandTension]

A Storm of Swords, part two.

[Espadrille]

A Servant's Tale, by Paula Fox.

A depression era single mom's struggle.

[Nostalgia]

Island Of Fire: The Battle For the Barrikady Gun Factory In Stalingrad November 1942 - February 1943 by Jason Mark

[WillBrazil]

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[Espadrille]

The Truth About Celia, by Kevin Brockmeier