What book are you reading right now?

[aweeks007]

Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. Makes me glad I'm me.

[Terian]

Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card

It isn't that great so far. It's not exactly bad, but it's lacking the flair previously seen in the series.

[runoverazebra]

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

[Winterstorm]

Little, big John Crowley

[errrzarrr]

I'm reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Connan Doyle these days.

[tarheel2011]

i've read a lot of 18th Century stuff lately. I just finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (highly amusing), Pamela by Samuel Richardson, and A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Stern. I also just reread To Kill A Mockingbird. Its quite interesting to compare fiction from the popularization of the novel in the 1740s to today's fiction.

[kaurilands]

'This Horrid Practice - The Myth and Reality of Traditional Māori Cannibalism' by Paul Moon.

[intellael]

"The Wander's Tale" by David Bilsborough

[rewhu]

Before I finished King Solomon's Carpet I started reading Skinny Dip and a book of short stories called Other Fires.

King Solomon's Carpet unfortunately had an anticlimatic ending, even though a major explosion went off in a quiet neighborhood. The story was interesting but I wish the style was more fast paced.

I don't know that I'll be able to bring myself to finish Skinny Dip. The dialog is boring, the characters' actions are not believable and the things that are supposed to be jokes are not funny. I could over look the first two if the book was actually funny, but it isn't.

Other Fires has been hit and miss so far. The first story was a dud, the second was pretty good, the third was boring and the fourth has me on the edge of my seat despite the fact that almost no action has taken place. The main character in the fourth story has done nothing more than sit on her couch, look at the flowers on the table, think about dinner and wonder what she should wear. The writing is so excellent though and I can't find out what's going to happen to the woman. Hopefully I'll get lucky and there will be at least one other interesting story in the book.

[Ogdred Weary]

I'm reading Claudius the God, or as we call it in my house, Clavdivs, Part II.

I've been trying to read The Myth of Sisyphus for months during commercial breaks while watching CSI, but knowing how it ends and that I don't agree with the final conclusion makes it hard. I think I only persist so I can argue against it with authority.

[Ither]

John P. Marquand, It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer, 1949.

[thiagofralves]

Nora Roberts - The Pagan Stone (actually, it's a trilogy and this is the third book)

[BostonIan]

De Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola. Medieval mining.
Seneca's Moral Essays, Roman Stoic philosophy.

[Prunesquallor]

Collapse - Jared Diamond

[idem]

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

[Kisai]

Macbeth - William Shakespeare. I got annoyed that I hadn't read it yet.

[MrWho100]

Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman.

[wittykitty]

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russians & King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Yes. I kind of do enjoy history.

[Debbie]

Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis . After this, I'll read another one of Norbert Elias .

[Latro]

De Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola. Medieval mining.
Seneca's Moral Essays, Roman Stoic philosophy.
Original text?

On-topic: A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin, I'm a little over halfway through. It just gets better and better. It's gonna suck when I finish A Feast for Crows and then have to wait for A Dance with Dragons to come out.

[Merle]

Re-reading From the Beast to the Blonde : On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner

I haven't had any spare money for new books for ages... but this weekend I am so excited because I am going to go out and buy the delicious new collection of all Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics. Yay! So, that is what I'll be reading from Saturday onwards.

[Stratego]

I just started reading The Link : uncovering our earliest ancestor by Colin Tudge and Josh Young. It's about the "Ida" fossile recovered from the Messel pit near Frankfurt, Germany. Ida is the once-in-a-lifetime find because she is the most complete primate fossil ever found, and may be the link the we've been looking for. She date 47 millions years old and lived during the Eocene period. It's a great book, fascinating to read. I highly recommend it.

[idem]

The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton. I went to the bookstore yesterday, and now I have quite a bit of reading material....

[PortInStorm]

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
by John Cacioppo, William Patrick (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Very scientifically-based. This guy is HUGE is social psychology- the other author is a science writer. Focuses on evolutionary uses for social connection, as well as physical and societal repercussions of loneliness.

Good so far. Don't expect your Momma's shoulder....

[Boyd]

Re-reading Dark Winter by Andy McNab, because I couldn't remember why I found it depressing... It's coming back to me now.

[Pcell]

PCR - McPherson and Moller.

By choice. ;D

[Krazy P]

Look me in the eye

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[Ither]

Andre Gide, La porte etroite.

Read this as a teenager and thought it boring. It's not. To a non-specialist as myself it is fascinating exploration of the contrast (maintained in the language) between Catholic mysticism and Calvinism.

[The Fury]

Catch 22 Joseph Heller

Very interesting read, funny and powerful.

[Xanthippe]

Ulysses (James Joyce) for my two-person book club, and Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) for intellectual self-indulgence.

[thiagofralves]

Norman Mailer - The Castle in the Forest

[runoverazebra]

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

[skycloud86]

On Writing, by Stephen King. A very enjoyable and interesting book.

[Shorgenfunkel]

Dante - Inferno

[Synapse]

"Catch-22" - Joseph Heller

Quite quirky and interesting, I like it.

[Latro]

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Did this thread persuade you? ;)

[runoverazebra]

Did this thread persuade you? ;)

Actually, I'm reading it on recommendation from my brother. I'm also in the middle of American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Go with Me by Castle Freeman.

[Rikka]

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[vrede]

"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.

[Cocoa]

Dracula (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), by Bram Stoker
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[vrede]

The brain that changes itself, by Norman Doidge. There's some interesting stuff on neuroplasticity in there.

[Julie]

I have to be reading several books at a time. Right now:
Nudge by Richard Thaler,
Life of Pi by Yann Martel,
and Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins (arguably one of my all time favorites).

I always have Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore around just in case I need some quick entertainment.

[PortInStorm]

The brain that changes itself, by Norman Doidge. There's some interesting stuff on neuroplasticity in there.
Ohh, I'm utterly fascinated by that topic, and heard him interviewed on the Agenda with Steve Paiken. Great stuff.

[zibber]

Dan Simmons' Hyperion

[JohnnyElectric]

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

[Rishki]

Eon Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman, Vibes by Amy Kathleen Ryan, and Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard

[Nightwish bob]

The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen, she's some good readin' :)

[THETed]

On Writing, by Stephen King. A very enjoyable and interesting book.

Are you a fan of Stephen King? We read that writing guide in my creative writing class in high school. I found it very insightful and useful, even though I generally have nothing but negative things to say about Sai Stephen and his writing.

[Merle]

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

[Tenacious B]

The Old Curiosity Shop - Dickens

[Winterstorm]

"Perelandra" C. S. Lewis
"Warriors of God" (Boży Bojownicy) Andrzej Sapkowski.

[skycloud86]

Are you a fan of Stephen King? We read that writing guide in my creative writing class in high school. I found it very insightful and useful, even though I generally have nothing but negative things to say about Sai Stephen and his writing.

No, but I heard that the book itself was interesting.

[thatfox]

I just got a kindle so I'm starting to read a lot more than I had. I'm going to be starting The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. I've read it before although that was a while ago so I'm giving it another read :)

[mindwar]

Biological Anthropology by Craig Stanford, John S. Allen, and Susan C. Anton.

[Conservationist]

Still reading Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

[StN]

What I'm reading now is a classic in my country. The books name is "The Forest of the Gods" written by Balys Sruoga. It should be translated to English, as it's translated to like 65 languages in the world. It's a book about how the people were treated in lagers in WW2.
It's filled in irony, satire, black humor and sarcasm. Everything that I love.

[reb]

'The Cult of Personality; How Personality Tests are Leading us to Miseducate our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves'.

i'm lappin' it up....another 'tear down the walls' thinker wrote it; Annie Murphy Paul.

[Beryl]

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Its a fantasy novel.

[Cthulhu]

I just finished Matter by Iain M. Banks and am finally getting around to the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake.

[Wapiti]

Currently reading AP note 485. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[PortInStorm]

A few goin' on:

What would you do if the lights went out- Mark Szkolnicki
Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: The Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan's Women- Sally Armstrong
How We Decide- Jonah Lehrer (thank you Jonah for not having a subtitle)
Survive! Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You out of Anywhere Alive- Les Stroud (Canadian!)
Maritime Radio Course, Student's Notes- Canadian Power and Sail Squadron
Worst Fears Realized- Stuart Woods (fiction; a Stone Barrington novel)

[dontlookback]

I'm rereading Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince.

Before this I read 'The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora' by Michael Nesmith (...um...I'm a big Monkees fan. :nerd:)

[Merle]

Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood - Elaine Tuttle Hansen.

It's pretty good, but I'm disappointed with the "contemporary fiction" chosen - none of it is stuff I'm very interested in.

Also: randomly re-reading (as in popping in and out at various sections rather than reading it straight) Always Coming Home by U.K. Le Guin

[phej]

Currently reading AP note 485. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Why do you choose to suffer through this? Isn't there a .lib/.a that you could use. (Optimizing something?)

I'm reading Limits to Capital (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by David Harvey because I know nothing about Marxism except for the spiel that crazy people talk about.

[Latro]

I'm rereading Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince.
I may do this before I see the movie (if I see the movie, heh), because honestly I don't remember much about this one. This and Order of the Phoenix were so laden with day-to-day activity and general tension that it's hard to remember them in general, whereas the others, even The Deathly Hallows, are more tied into specific events. The Deathly Hallows has a LOT of specific events, granted, but it's still less about daily life than these two (which is probably a big part of why it's shorter).

On-topic: almost done with A Storm of Swords, will be picking up A Feast for Crows soon and then will be sad when A Dance with Dragons is not available for me to purchase.

[dontlookback]

I may do this before I see the movie (if I see the movie, heh), because honestly I don't remember much about this one. This and Order of the Phoenix were so laden with day-to-day activity and general tension that it's hard to remember them in general, whereas the others, even The Deathly Hallows, are more tied into specific events. The Deathly Hallows has a LOT of specific events, granted, but it's still less about daily life than these two (which is probably a big part of why it's shorter).


Yeah,exactly. That's why I'm rereading it - Because I don't remember a lot of the details. So I figured I'd read it before seeing the film (at midnight on the opening night,of course :nerd:)

[Phantomess]

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz. I really like Odd, the lazy untmotivated hero. I find him funny.

[Wapiti]

Why do you choose to suffer through this? Isn't there a .lib/.a that you could use. (Optimizing something?)


Suffer? I read this stuff for fun. My fantasy. Well actually I'd rather read some other Ap notes but this particulatar one is job related (in between ping pong games) so its a win-win of sorts. Optimizing, naw, just writing some code.

[phej]

Suffer? I read this stuff for fun. My fantasy. Well actually I'd rather read some other Ap notes but this particulatar one is job related (in between ping pong games) so its a win-win of sorts. Optimizing, naw, just writing some code.

If that's the case then:

Some good Intel Reading: (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A: System Programming Guide (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

The AMD (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) one's are nice also:

Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors (Quad-Core) (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

I've found these to be good CPU docs.

[Wapiti]

If that's the case then:

Some good Intel Reading: (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A: System Programming Guide (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

The AMD (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) one's are nice also:

Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors (Quad-Core) (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

I've found these to be good CPU docs.

I have those. I just wasn't reading them at the moment. The IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide chapters 8 and 11 will likely be perused over the weekend just for kicks.

[Ither]

Wilhelm Halbfass, Tradition and Reflection: Explorations in Indian Thought

Halbfass is by far the best writer on Indian intellectual history.

[vrede]

"The trouble with diversity" by Walter Benn Michaels.

[phej]

I have those. I just wasn't reading them at the moment. The IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide chapters 8 and 11 will likely be perused over the weekend just for kicks.

That's pretty geeky you may enjoy this one:

Cache Memory Book (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Jim Handy. It's a bit old, but a pretty good read.

Superscalar Microprocessor Design (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Michael Johnson. This one is ancient, but also a pretty good read. I don't think that when this was published that there were any single chip superscalar out-of-order processors.

Although, I thought that some linux docs (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) where really good for memory ordering: the Alpha CPU had a crazy loose memory ordering model s.t. x86 multithreaded code would probably not work on an Alpha.

[Plane Stress]

I'm reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larson. Pretty good for a debut novel. I like it a lot. Sometimes it's a bit too unnatural sounding, but barely... and the plot is very intriguing so far. Interesting characters, I wish they were a bit more developed.

[Kris]

Just finished The Lovers by John Connolly.

Was a good read - I always enjoy Connolly's writing style.

Also very recently read Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child. Jack Reacher is by far the coolest protagonist in any books I have read.

[Phoenix rising]

I ordered a couple of Andy Mcnab books off Amazon. I finished crossfire last night, I'll probably start seven troop today.

[Algol]

Just finished 1984. Loved it. Next book: "The Fall" by Albert Camus.

[liquidzilla]

Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell.
It's very relaxing, strangely, and doesn't seem to have many battles at all, more about characters (which is always good).

[Merle]

Am re-reading Lust (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Geoff Ryman. It's an excellent book (although not as good as some of his other novels), but probably not for everyone due to some pretty graphic descriptions of gay sexuality. I really love Geoff Ryman, he strikes me as an incredibly wise man; there's something very, very, very N about his writing.

[einnelsate]

I'm currently reading J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. It's pretty refreshing, I'm planning to start on Liquidation by Imre Kertész after Salinger.

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz. I really like Odd, the lazy untmotivated hero. I find him funny.

I have finished the whole series, and I love Odd very much, a unique kind of hero indeed. There is something about him that just draws me in. Nicely done.

[Ither]

Theodor Fontane, L'Adultera (1882)

[jikin]

A book of selected stories by Anton Chekov.

[Caedus]

The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells

[runoverazebra]

Derailed - James Seigel

[Xanthippe]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It's enjoyable and colourful, if a little self-indulgent here and there.

[dontlookback]

Finished re-reading Half Blood Prince and stocked up on a bunch of stuff at the library today...Started reading 'The Graduate'. The movie is one of my favorites but I've never read the book.

[BostonIan]

Some 'splainin' first. My library has a six-book limit, so I've divided the world into six categories (mind, body, conflict, concord, tech, terra), and decided to read books from each category simultaneously, so that being bored with any one book doesn't stop me from reading entirely:

Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg ... Male, Female, David Geary.
On War, Clausewicz ... The Age of Turbulence, Greenspan.
Metallurgy Fundamentals, Daniel A Brandt ... Nature's Building Blocks, John Emsley.

They've all been interesting.

[Rishki]

Run for your Life by James Patterson

[DorianHicks]

"Behold!!! The Protong" - Stanisław Szukalski.

[Ither]

Cyril Hare, That Yew Tree's Shade (1954)


His penultimate novel. Hare's detectives often revolve around quirks in English law. The plots are good, the prose excellent. I'm sorry that I've only got one to go.

[Rohsiph]

I'm about a third of the way through Lovecraft's The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, after 2-3 months of working through most of his repertoire in the recent HPL Penguin Classics collections. 5 more stories, and since the beginning of the year I'll have read all of the fiction originally credited to him (meaning there are still a few ghostwritten pieces I have yet to track down).

Have a new copy of Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicles on the shelf after I'm through my HPL fix.

[JonD]

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

[Blissful]

A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson

(loving it)

[wittykitty]

All Quiet on the Western Front - Which is slowly finding itself to be favorite books material.

[ADullEssence]

Re-reading "Z" aka Diary One - Zeus, by Jonar Nader.

Never get sick of this book.

[Ither]

Herman Melville, Typee (1846)

As a novel I've my doubts. As ethnography it's interesting.



Matthew Kneale, When We Were Romans (2007)

[Ragnarok73]

Jung's autobiography while Re-reading Catch 22.

[athiah333]

Almost finished In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
next up QED by feynman
just going through a bit of physics at the moment

[Josephine1012]

I'm finishing up Wicked (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Next in the queue is One Hundred Years of Solitude (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[MysString]

I'm almost done with The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Anne Radcliffe, after which I will read Northganger Abbey, by Jane Austen, which is a parody of the novel I mentioned first. The experience is so far quite promising!

[w1indse7]

THe Power Of Now. For the 3rd time.

[zibber]

The Rise of Endymion

[Ither]

James McClure, The Caterpillar Cop (1972)

This is in a series of detectives written in the '70s. Set in the South Africa of the time, they are as much ethnographic and political novels as anything else. They deserve to be unforgotten.

[slayerment]

The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P Hall

[Ribs N Whiskey]

Welcome to the Monkey House - short stories of Kurt Vonnegut
The Hero Within - Carol Pearson

[nowt]

Reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes-- and it ain't exactly a page turner.

Rereading Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks.

Re-attacking Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon.

[PortInStorm]

An incredibly hilarious and touching piece of fiction by Lolly Winston- Good Grief

[lechugita]

Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents." Freud is an easy read for that kind of material and kind of cheeky in tone which I find amusing. More importantly, though, he makes great assessments of our society that still apply today.

[Ither]

R.K.Narayan, Mr Sampath —The Printer of Malgudi, 1949

[DanteFalling]

Smilla's Sense of Snow

[Spongy]

Seeing your life through New Eyes

It's written by a psychologist and a psychotherapist, introducing a simple but useful method to understand yourself, so to improve the quality of your life.

Though I have not finished it yet, I followed its steps to see through myself and found that I was programmed in a way that I never thought. Too excited to share it with others who also like to explore their own inner part.

[PortInStorm]

Well, Good Grief was fantastic, and so was How We Decide.

[reb]

Gibbon 'The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire' Book I

[ErikNikolai]

Jim Rogers' "Adventure Capitalist." A great travel/investment book, which gives insight into the various nations. I demolishes all arguments in favor of foreign aid. Highly interesting.

[ranwayslo]

Toll the Hounds - Stephen Erickson

[Winterstorm]

Christopher Moore "Coyote Blue"
Elizabeth Haydon "Rhapsody: Child of Blood"

[Ither]

Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story (1988)


M.C.Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (1996)
OK, I'm shallow, but it's mordantly amusing. And her style is as good as Wodehouse.

[xRedSunflowerx]

I'm currently reading "New Moon" (Stephanie Meyer, Twilight Series) and "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" (Jon Lee Anderson).

[Wapiti]

Pretty Little Thing - Fink (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Seducer]

I'm listening to "The Biology of Empowerment" by Lee Pulos.
It's about using hypnotic techniques to accomplish all kinds of goals.
I have almost 100 self help audio courses like this about goals, success, hypnosis, etc.

Also I've been reading "A Passion To Win" by Sumner Redstone.
He's the one who built Viacom, a huge media conglomerate.

[invicta]

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

I am liking this one.

[Ither]

It's been awhile since I've read many detectives. The mood seems to be returning:

Peter Robinson, Wednesday's Child (1996)



And to keep from feeling too guilty:

Hella Haasse, Cider voor arme mensen (1960)
(in English: Cider For the Poor). Haasse is probably the best living Dutch novelist.

[The Psyentist]

Just finished Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

[hongi]

"Rules of Victory" Gimian & Boyce

New translation and modern interpretation of the "Sun Tzu Art of War"

[shakaboom]

Finishing up The Fountainhead.

[Rope]

'From Beirut to Jerusalem' by Thomas Friedman.

[Plane Stress]

I'm reading Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen.

[Night Runner]

Why we suck : a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid by Denis Leary. I like it - his opinions on lazy parents, pop stars, et cetera are a breath of fresh air.

[Silence]

Why we suck : a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid by Denis Leary. I like it - his opinions on lazy parents, pop stars, et cetera are a breath of fresh air.


Have you ever sen his stand-up comedy? "No cure for cancer" is a classic.

[Shifter]

The Watchmen by Chris Ryan

[NoStoneUnturned]

Othello

[Kris]

Radiohead - You

[Towiel]

Reader's Digest - why? because it was there and I was stuck beside it

[Shorgenfunkel]

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.

It's a big ole brick (>430 huge pages) and it's depressing as hell. I'm reading it to implement what I agree with ("master the art of timing," "enter action with boldness" for example), guard against what I disagree with (for example, people who use their friends as scapegoats), and to learn about the history of power in general (chock full of historical anecdotes).

[Kris]

Radiohead - You

Haha, I'm an idiot who can't post in the right thread...

Finally got around to start reading A Brief History of Time, about half-way through, pretty interesting really.

[Nightwish bob]

On writing by Stephen King

[Nomadofthehills]

On writing by Stephen King

Just finished that, very insightful.



Moby Dick, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chimpanzee Politics.

[Merle]

The Ice Princess - Camilla Läckberg - Swedish crime novel: O.K... but not in the same league as Henning Mankell or Stieg Larsson.

Also, Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro - Henry James: just got back from holiday where I made a day trip to Venice and looked out the apartment James stayed in while finishing my favourite novel (The Portrait of a Lady), so I am re-reading these letters with the places in mind.

[Ither]

Sandor Marai, Embers, 1942 (< Hungarian)

A Hungarian author who spent the last decades of his life, forgotten, in San Diego. The novel is lyrical and intellectual simultaneously. Set in the Carpathian mountains, two men have dinner together after not having met for forty-one years.

[liquidzilla]

The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susana Clarke, I've only read the introduction, but I loved 'Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell' which she also wrote so I'm expecting good things.

[einnelsate]

Scent of Desire, By Rachel Herz.

Pretty interesting work on the sense of smell, which is often neglected by people.

[DewFuel]

A Night Without Armor - Jewel

[tinapay]

Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilization

[Merle]

The City and the City - China Mieville

[MintOreo]

The tooth fairy: a novel by Graham Joyce.

[Ither]

Henning Mankell, Sidetracked, 1995 < the Swedish

[igeryu]

If I find time to read...:


Silmarillion
Dante's 'Inferno'
Dune Messiah
Return of the King
Various C++ Books (I know, not a "story book"...)


I think I might have ADD..

[catzmeow]

Bel Canto - Anne Pratchett (very good)

[The Fury]

The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore. Quite interesting.

[Ratwin]

Several. Focusing on Crime And Punishment. Fantastic book and I'm grateful to get reacquainted.

[PortInStorm]

A Night Without Armor - Jewel

Yep, really liked that collection. In fact, I found it on my husband's bookshelf before we got married and was impressed that he had it.

Currently into fiction = The Moment Between by Nicole Baart. Great story line, some parts seem forced, but quite decent writing style. Entertaining.

[Rho1334]

Scary-Go-Round- Rackets & Drapes

[Algol]

TITAN: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr.

[Ither]

Arthur Upfield, Wings Above the Diamantina, 1935.

[Baccara]

Previously, Cyrano de Bergerac; currently, about halfway through Cervantes' Don Quixote. I'm on a kind of 17th-century kick at the moment. Next I'm thinking I'll pick up The Three Musketeers again.

[Samoan Corleone]

I'm finally reading The Prince by Machiavelli. Aside from all the political jargon I've had to look up to understand it's quite good.

[Ither]

Honoré de Balzac, Le curé de Tours (1832)

Should be required reading for all would-be academics.

[Iggy]

Anyone not reading the new Pynchon this week is nuts.

[Terian]

Foundation, Isaac Asimov

[dandylion]

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I'm finding it kind of dull so far, though. But I'm pressing on, so hopefully it'll get better somewhere in the next 1,000 pages.

[Iggy]

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I'm finding it kind of dull so far, though. But I'm pressing on, so hopefully it'll get better somewhere in the next 1,000 pages.

Not really, man. I couldn't slog through it. Rand deserves credit for her intuition on the advantages of the free market and helping to spread that knowledge at a time when much of the West was drifting in the other direction. As hard philosophy, Rands Objectivism falls flat in a lot of places. She is best appreciated through wikipedia.

I think the gents from the Austrian and Chicago schools (Hayek, Friedman, von Mises, etc.) present the same basic ideas with more intellectual rigor, not to mention more readability.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is infinitely more convincing and enjoyable than Atlas Shrugged.

[dandylion]

Not really, man. I couldn't slog through it. Rand deserves credit for her intuition on the advantages of the free market and helping to spread that knowledge at a time when much of the West was drifting in the other direction. As hard philosophy, Rands Objectivism falls flat in a lot of places. She is best appreciated through wikipedia.

I think the gents from the Austrian and Chicago schools (Hayek, Friedman, von Mises, etc.) present the same basic ideas with more intellectual rigor, not to mention more readability.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is infinitely more convincing and enjoyable than Atlas Shrugged.

I kind of figured, but I didn't bring any other book else with me so I thought I'd give this a try. I did like Rand's Anthem a lot, though--another reason I decided to pick this up. I'll probably quit, though. My wind has never wandered so quickly and frequently while reading any other book...

[RonMexico]

Interesting regarding Rand - I got about halfway through The Fountainhead and I just couldn't help but think - "Ok I get it, can you just finish please!"

She has interesting concepts but is too much of a windbag for my liking.

I just started reading Post Office by Bukowski.

[taylortatero]

I'm rereading 1984.

[purplesue]

I'm currently trying to read any book stated as a 'classic'. Reading the obvious ones like war and peace, read moby dick half way and had to stop and take a break, for some reason want to reread the harry potter series start to finish

[Ither]

Thornton Wilder, Heaven’s My Destination, 1934

Elmer Gantry's next.

[Caedus]

"Dragon" by Clive Cussler

[refuse]

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

i award it 8/10 so far~

[Merle]

Ubik - P.K. Dick

and

Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, and Art History - Bradley L. Collins

[realJim]

Alaska by James A. Michnener

nice historical fiction

[MrDoom]

"Catcher in the Rye".

[Soobpar]

Reading Steppenwolf at the moment, it's a little on the monotonous side but overall fairly interesting.

Just finished Heart of Darkness a few days ago and it was really good. Too bad it's so short, read it in a couple of nights.

[Micropsia]

Ham On Rye, Charles Bukowski

[Ither]

Michel Faber, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, 2001.


Edith Somerville & Martin Ross, Experiences of an Irish R.M, 1899

[The Fury]

I just finished reading "To Kill A Mocking Bird". I haven't read it in years but it still has the same impact it had on me as a child.

[altoid]

Dead Until Dark

I got sucked (no pun intended) in to True Blood and thought I'd check out the series of books, but I have to say that, so far, the writing is not so great.

[Night Runner]

Shadow Prey by John Sandford. I just tore through the Rules of Prey by the same author and should finish Shadow tonight. It's a detective series that features an INTJ investigator. What a novelty! :cheesy:

[Ither]

Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent, 1800.

I had expected a slow bog, to be waded through out of vanity. Wrong. It's a first rate post Saturday lunch read.

[Downrange]

Six Easy Pieces, by Richard Feynman

[daydreamer]

Re-attacking Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon.

how's that going? i used to love Pynchon, i think i'll pick that up again

[Werewolf]

River of Darkness - Rennie Airth

[BostonIan]

New batch, same six-format:

Hegel Selections, J. Loewenberg ... Dance Kinesiology, Sally Sevey Fitt
Etiquette: 17th Edition, Emily Post ... War On the Mind: Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, Peter Watson
Stuff: The Materials the World is Made of, Ivan Amato ... Tying Down the Wind: Adventures in the Worst Weather on Earth, Eric Pinder

Plus, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman

All interesting again. Etiquette is especially a useful one, 800 pages of social instructions in black-and-white.

[SeaCzar]

Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts

[Night Runner]

Eyes of Prey, John Sandford

[rara avis]

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

[LevBron]

The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

[Ither]

In view of the elections, two historical novels on the First Anglo-Afghan War:

George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman: From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842, 1969.

Philip Hensher, The Mulberry Empire or The Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan, 2002.

[dontlookback]

Into The Wild :nice:

[Merle]

Scandinavian Mythology - H R Ellis Davidson
A present from Norway from my parents :)

[Cthulhu]

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom and Revenge by Edward Kritzler

Ahoy vey!

[KalaKesar]

"Left Hand of Darkness" by Usula LeGuin, a re-read after many years since it remains my favorite science fiction piece. This time I realized how closely I identify with character Therem Harth rem ir Estraven. Another INTJ? I wonder.

[idem]

Dune, by Frank Herbert
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli

[Zombicide]

Xenogears Perfect Works, yes, it has pictures boo hoo hoo (as if art isn't essentially read), big woop, wanna fight about it, sophists (negative sense)? The large amount of text covers a lot of information the game didn't get to due to time constraints.

[elnegro]

"The Secret Language of Success" by David Lewis
"Eye to Eye" edited by Dr. Peter Marsh

I'm on a body language kick lately...

[Krazy P]

Augustine of Hippo - a Biography.

[Ambra]

A Brief History of Time.......still

[Night Runner]

Silent Prey by John Sandford

[PortInStorm]

Just finished Agnes and the Hitman. Very strongly recommended. I was wounded by it being over!

[Night Runner]

Winter Prey by John Sandford

[Ither]

Sunil Gangopadhyay, Arjun, 1971 < the Bengali.

[Merle]

The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature - C.G. Jung ( a re-read in preparation for my Master's)

and

Architecture Materials: Concrete - ed. Simone Schleifer

[Ither]

P. G. Wodehouse, Galahad at Blandings, 1967.

[Golradaer]

Hidden Order by David Friedman and Augustus by Anthony Everitt.

[Necrosis]

The Idiot.
Plato's Republic.
The Will To Power - on and off its not really a straight through mostly notes.
Random C++ books.

[papkan]

The legend of Sigurd & Gudrun -J.R.R. Tolkien
The new history of South Africa
The Reapers - John Connolly
Is it just me or is everything kak

[Ither]

Roddy Doyle, The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy II), 1990.

[Loco Luko]

Aldous Huxley - Island

Thoroughly recommend it, not finding it quite as entertaining as Brave New World but am certainly getting more out of it (even if portions go over my head)

[lamplighter]

Party of One by Anneli Rufus

[dontlookback]

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[Paul Siraisi]

Lincoln's Virtues - An Ethical Biography, by William Lee Miller

[Jaxx]

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Awesome.

[Ither]

Evelyn Waugh, Unconditional Surrender (Sword of Honour Trilogy III), 1961.

[ADullEssence]

How To Lose Friends & Infuriate People by Jonar Nader

[gedreosan]

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A real page turner. . .

[loosefanbelt]

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[Ither]

Timothy Holme, A Funeral of Gondolas, 1981.

Shiv K. Kumar, Nude Before God, 1983.

The Holme is nice: it does, however, presuppose a certain knowledge of Goldoni and of the geography of Venice. Neither of which I had. As a detective the book in a sense so foreshadows Dibdin's Cosi Fan Tutte with its themes of Mozart and Naples.

The Kumar is an entirely different kettle. More of a long novella than a novel the main figure is murdered and then spends 13 days as a spirit observing his environment, and murderers, before reincarnation. Set in Hyderabad, it's crammed with references in Indian mythology and religion referring to death, which it manages to do without at all becoming maudlin or depressed. I really liked it.

[liquidzilla]

After Dark - Haruki Murakami

[lyrisk]

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar.

[Stratego]

Columbine / David Cullen

This is an excellent book, very well done and expertly researched. I couldn't put it down, and I was very absorbed. I would like to say it's as good and as revilutionary as Capote's In Cold Blood; it isn't, but it's close. I recommend it to anyone with any interest in this tragedy.

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[autumnphoenix]

Pride And Prejudice And Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith....

I was curious :)

[Night Runner]

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[Ither]

F. Tennyson Jesse, The Lacquer Lady, 1929.

Set in Mandalay circa 1880 in the run up to the Third Anglo-Burmese War that resulted in the end of the Kingdom of Ava and the annexation of Upper Burma by the British.

[paperclip]

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

[Night Runner]

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[Merle]

My lovely new (old) copy of 'Silex Scintillans' - a 1646 collection of poems by Henry Vaughan

[ArtSnark]

Snakebit: Confessions of a Herpetologist by Leslie Anthony
The Man Who Made Vermeers - Jonathan Lopez
The 1st Men on The Moon - H.G. Wells

[Il Prodigio]

The Economics of Development - (textbook from the 1970's) by Hagen and Everrett.

Intelligence in War- Cant recall the author right now, and too lazy to walk downstairs.

[XFire35]

Fahrenheit 451 - Rad Bradbury.

[Red Black]

V for Vendetta - Alan Moore

[DewFuel]

just started Don Quixote - Cervantes

not sure if I can finish this book...





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Fahrenheit 451 - Rad Bradbury.


That's one of my favorites

[Eleven]

Speaker for the Dead, having just finished Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card.

[idem]

Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein.

Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett.

[Merle]

The Idea of North - Peter Davidson (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.=onepage&q=&f=false)

[admittedheretic]

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[Ither]

Nicolas Freeling, Double Barrel, 1964.

A van der Valk mystery set in Drenthe, in the East of the Netherlands. Freeling understands the country. And the language. The book is full of creative calques that work ('to polar bear', pace) and of such jewels of translation as "Functionary of the Civil Status".

[dontlookback]

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[PortInStorm]

Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders.

[Samoan Corleone]

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I'm rereading it. I first read it when I was 14, and it really had an impact on me. I saw a lot of similarities between me and the author, Matthew Ridge, who's probably an INTJ also.

[Kisai]

The Coyote Kings and the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust. It rocked. Faust has a very good head for writing different chapters from various characters point of view.

[brain enclosed]

I am not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everrett. Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen.

[carmen2u]

I finished Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" and highly recommend it. He deals with the improbable, noting that huge society-changing events cannot be predicted, though we can limit our exposure to them (when they are negative). He destroys what anyone might think of economists given their deplorable track record. Great sarcasm in his prose too.

Along the same lines of debunking old myths, I completely enjoyed reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers". The true story of why people are successful, or why certain cultures succeed, is laid bare. It is riveting.

Also for your consideration:
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I finished Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" and highly recommend it. He deals with the improbable, noting that huge society-changing events cannot be predicted, though we can limit our exposure to them (when they are negative). He destroys what anyone might think of economists given their deplorable track record. Great sarcasm in his prose too.

Along the same lines of debunking old myths, I completely enjoyed reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers". The true story of why people are successful, or why certain cultures succeed, is laid bare. It is riveting.

Also for your consideration:
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[Latro]

I mentioned in another thread that I recently finished Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater. Now (for the same class, though it's still quality material) I'm reading Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh.

Prozac Diary is what it sounds like: a diary made by one of the first users of Prozac back in the 1980s, and also one of a select few people who stuck to it for 10 years. It's quite a read, as it shows a combination of virtues and flaws of the drug. It's a bit too flowery for its own good, with a lot of metaphors and similes, but I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless. Being a former Paxil user myself, I could connect with a fair bit of what she said, even though she started taking Prozac when she was 26 and I started using Paxil (a related drug) when I was 11, and even though the disorders being treated weren't the same (read: I wasn't being treated for depression).

Gang Leader for a Day is essentially the story of a sociology grad student who does his research project in hands-on interaction with people in the projects of Chicago, and in particular with a crack dealing gang called the Black Kings. I'm not enjoying it as much as Prozac Diary, but it's still very good.

[Ither]

W.L.Burley, Wycliffe and the Pea-Green Boat, 1975.

Cornwall, 1950's and 1970's.

[Night Runner]

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[CWC]

Arguing about Metaphysis by Michael.C Rea

[Elena]

Body laungue by... im not sure

[iglookazoo]

Bill of Wrongs by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose (2007)

[Samoan Corleone]

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Martin Scorsese: A Journey

[Tuesday]

Homer's Odyssey (A fearless feline tale) by Gwen Cooper

[slinkerton]

Dragging my way through volume 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time..