currently reading....

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:32 pm

The Descent
and
World War Z

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:08 pm

The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation & the Anatomy of Terrorism - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

can't recommend this book strongly enough. real 'through the looking glass' stuff about US links with al-qa'eda right up to the present day

Post by **seremtan** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:09 pm

Wabbit wrote:A little Shelley.

OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

:icon14:

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:22 pm

Toynbee on Russia and Communism

Post by **plained** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:40 pm

nothing

thinkin tho

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:07 pm

I'm almost done reading A Mind of its Own by Cordelia Fine, and I've been flicking in and out of What is to be Done? by Lenin which lead me to buy the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels

Oh yeah, the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn is around halfway done as well, I need to find something else light to read alongside them.

Post by **chopov** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:07 pm

reading atm a book about the Celts.....

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:18 pm

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:21 pm

I've started The Baroque Cycle by Stephenson weeks ago, but TBH I'm having a really hard time staying interested.

Does it ever get interesting, or does it continue to talk about fictional alchemists wandering around and meeting Isaac Newton and such? I assume there is a plot buried somewhere, but I've had a hard time divining much of it so far.

I'm pretty close to writing Stephenson off completely as "not my cup of tea," since Snow Crash was utterly disappointing to me as well. I read more than half of that one, but never got over the cheesy cyber lingo enough to feel immersed. I think it was probably written for a younger audience though, which is part of the reason I gave Baroque a chance.

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:39 pm

The Diamond Age is good, at least the first 2/3

And Cryptonomicon, although it's not cyberpunk/sci-fi

Post by **mac** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:41 pm

orson scott cards "ender's game"

Post by **r3t** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:06 pm

mac wrote:orson scott cards "ender's game"

I like that book! I'm currently reading Dan Simmons' Illium. I also have the sequel Olympus. I always liked Greek mythology and Homer, this is a nice (SF) twist on it.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:34 pm

Grudge wrote:The Diamond Age is good, at least the first 2/3

And Cryptonomicon, although it's not cyberpunk/sci-fi

Have you read any of The Baroque Cycle? Did you like it?

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:35 pm

mac wrote:orson scott cards "ender's game"

Those are great books. I have a friend who swears that in any situation, the best thing you can do is whatever you think Ender would do.

Post by **Sevensins** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:12 am

R00k wrote:
mac wrote:orson scott cards "ender's game"
Those are great books. I have a friend who swears that in any situation, the best thing you can do is whatever you think Ender would do.

"Ender's Game" was great, but I liked the bean series better.

Post by **StarShrieker** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:31 am

I loved 'Cryptonomicon' by Stephenson...I have to read it again, and also his 'Snow Crash'. I am a little weary of the 'Baroque Cycle'.

Right now I'm reading Dan Simmon's "Ilium", starting "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson, and still trying to finish "Ancestor's Tale" (Dawkins).

Post by **Grudge** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:50 am

R00k wrote:
Grudge wrote:The Diamond Age is good, at least the first 2/3

And Cryptonomicon, although it's not cyberpunk/sci-fi
Have you read any of The Baroque Cycle? Did you like it?

nope, haven't read them

Post by **ScooterG** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:21 am

Hannibal Rising, by Thomas Harris

The Hannibal books are good in this order, in my opinion:

The Silence of the Lambs (3rd book chronoligically)
The Red Dragon (2nd book)
Hannibal Rising (1st book, Hannibal's youth)
Hannibal (4th book, Hannibal after he escapes in Lambs)

Post by **Postal** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:50 am

'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins

rarrghg

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:04 am

you rebel

Post by **Underpants?** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:35 am

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
absolutely cannot put this book down

Post by **7zark7** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:43 am

Diary- chuck Palahniuk ( for the 4th time

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Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:43 am

Underpants? wrote:Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
absolutely cannot put this book down

you put it down long enough to post :L

Post by **Wabbit** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:52 am

Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery - Susan Millodot :/

Post by **Underpants?** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:55 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Underpants? wrote:Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
absolutely cannot put this book down
you put it down long enough to post :L

posting one-handed!