books i'm currently reading (I read several books at a time)
 

- it must be beautiful (great equations of modern science) (Farmelo)
- vernonika decides to die (Coelho)
- the great gatsby (Fitzgerald) - re-read
- to kill a mockingbird (Lee) - re-read
- flesh and machines (Rodney A. Brooks)

:glugglug

what are you reading?

Quoting from the other thread about this:

i read the great gatsby, amoung a couple others of those several years ago. i don't remember it very well, but from what i do remember from it, it seems it was rather fucked up and rather melancholy. maybe i was too young :(

I can't read more than one book at a time.. although, I usually read a book at once. Depending on the size of course, I didn't read lord of the rings without sleep ;)

My next reread is going to be Catcher in the Rye. Its been 9 years.

funny \you should mention that.

i was thinking of reading just that...

:glugglug

Great novel.

I prefer non-fiction these days though. Real life is always more fascinating than fiction.

Currently reading "American Terrorist".

"The CEO of the sofa" - PJ O'Rourke

"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" - Peter Biskind
How the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll generation saved hollywood.

"The Brotherhoods" - Arthur Veno
Inside the outlaw motorcycle clubs

"Market Wizards" - Jack Schrager
Interviews with top traders


nice and diverse....

don't agree.

not much i don't agree with you though...

I just re-read Carl Sagan's "The Cosmos" for the 15th time...amazing shit.

I do like fiction though, just haven't found any lately that I've really gotten into.

If you could recommend just one novel to me, what would it be?

i just finished to read some books by the dalai lama. very interesting:thumbsup

I can't seem to stick with just one book at a time, I read a chapter of one book then pick up another and another and eventually I finish one and bring another into the rotation.

Right now I've got these books:

- Media Control, by Noam Chomsky

- The Essays of Warren Buffett

- How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker

- Myths to Live by, by Joseph Campbell

- Duck Egg Blue, by Derrick Neill

Where's Spot by Eric Hill (reread)

that was a really great book!!

I just recently re-read "siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse


I am currently reading "1001 demons" by Lynda Baryy (funny book)

Lovely Bones...as per http://gofuckyourself.com/showthread...hreadid=163775

Among the Thugs- Bill Buford (American journalist's vivid account of time spent with English Soccer hooligans)

Security Analysis- Cottle, Murray, Graham (value investor's bible)

American Gods - Neil Gaiman (just started, interesting so far. Fiction piece on a small town in the midwest that becomes a battleground for mythic gods of past. So far it reminds me of the Stand by S King.)

No Science Fiction readers here?

I just finished "Ender's Game" for the 4th time so I can start on the sequels.

Reading is for term time and exam prep only...

I just finished "All About Particles - A Handbook of Function Words" by Naoko Chino, in prep for an Aug 18 exam. :( :(

Bloody Bones by Laurrell K. Hamilton...I'm on an Anita Blake novel kick lately.

The Herald-Sun

grishams the brethren

that phoney. hehe


run cotton run

amazing how much my reading has picked up since finishing my degree

I read teh first and last on this list. Just read Harry Potter's latest and now a history of Julius Ceasar(pretty dry so far).

Edgar Rice Burroughs - John Carter Warlord of Mars series

Douglas Adams - The Trilogy of 4 "Hitchhikers guide to The Galaxy"

what a coincedence.

I was sitting here the other day, having just finished a book, I wanted to REREAD something I had read before but maybe hadnt soaked in enough.

I decided to reread Brooks, Flesh and Machines and the complete Hp Lovecraft works.

I was even going to ask you if you had any books to recommend further on this. ;)

:winkwink:

I cant read fiction.

I do most of my reading while I poop.

HATE - George Lincoln Rockwell & the American Nazi Party
The Invention of Ancient Israel, the silencing of Palestinian History
The Gospel of St. Thomas
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God.

i don't read anything besides technical or educational books anymore

I read dorky books...

Like all the Newberry Award winners...

but I'm definately going to write some of these down...

which are your faves?

Nice.

I like Campbell.

If it wasnt for him, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Wars wouldnt have so many religious undertones.

Good stuff.

some stupid novel - yearly
popular sceince - monthly
winnipeg free press - daily
GFY - hourly

the comedian bill hicks used to do a routine about how he was in a waffle house in nashville tennessee reading a book and the waitress came up to him and asked:

"what you reading for?"

and he replied:

"I've been asked 'what am I reading' before, but never 'what am I reading for'. I guess I'm reading so I never become a fucking waffle waitress."

I grew up in Nashville, so this bit had particular relevance to me.

I'm reading motivational books lately. Two really good ones are:

Grow Rich with Peace of Mind - Napoleon Hill

Make It Big - Frank McKinney

:thumbsup

LOL :1orglaugh