currently reading....

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:04 am

Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett

Post by **Ryoki** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:24 am

Not a fucking thing

I need to go bookshopping real soon.

Post by **Mat Linnett** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:19 am

Phillip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle", an alternate reality sci-fi story where the Axis won WW2.

Also desperately awaiting the arrival of Book 7 of The Walking Dead.
Preacher's giving me my comic-book kicks in the mean time.

Post by **4days** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:31 am

where are they up to in the comics? i've got up to 37, but that was weeks ago. my mate's just lent me battlepope and some samurai detective thing.

Post by **Mat Linnett** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:13 am

No idea where they're up to in comics; I've got addicted to the trade paperbacks, and need my fix in one large chunk.
I'll have to check with the guys at Orbital, see where it's up to.

Been a while since I've been reading comics (was an Eighties 2000AD child), and I'm really getting back in to things.

Mind you, I've just spent 30 squid on Zombie fiction on Amazon

That should keep me happy for a while...

Post by **S@M** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:04 pm

ive been reading airport novels:
The girl at the Lion D'or - Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
tonight, just finished The Conjuror's Bird - Martin Davies
really enjoyed Birdsong and The Conjuror's Bird.

Post by **JulesWinnfield** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:57 pm

Heliconia trilogy (currently on book 1, Spring)

Post by **StarShrieker** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:49 pm

about to go outside and start reading 'The Histories' by Herodotus, the tale of the Greek-Persian war in the 5th century B.C.

Gonna try finishing it before I see 300.

Post by **Foo** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:00 pm

Elementary Forest Mensuration - M.R.K. Jerram

Its basically about how to evaluate a wooded area in terms of the volume of produce to be had from the wood.

No, really.

Post by **plained** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:02 pm

i wonder if i can forget how to read.

so i can think and do more ey

i'm pretty sure i can cuz my spelling is disintergrat'in nicely so

Post by **Foo** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:07 pm

I went through a few weeks of deliberately ignoring all signs and anything else legible in public when I was at uni. Once you get used to doing it it's actually kinda relaxing.

Post by **seremtan** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:17 pm

The Secret History of the Iraq War - Yossef Bodansky
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson

the usual light reading...

Post by **R00k** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:28 pm

I read Sorrows of Empire before I'd heard about it anywhere, and was thoroughly impressed. For some reason I can't seem to get as interested in the other two, and I'm not sure why.

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:51 pm

Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:24 am

Buttfire by Marty Badcruel (Vol. 1 of 9)

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:49 am

Hannibal wrote:Buttfire

lulz

Post by **Wabbit** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:55 am

One Thousand Years of World Architecture - An Illustrated Guide. Francesca Prina with Elena Demartini

On sale at Borders. It's worth the price.

Gloucester Cathedral - cloister 1337-60. Earliest surviving example of fan vaulting

Antiquarium (Residenz) - Munich - 1569-71. Example of a barrel vault

The pics in the book are much better. Especially pics of the fan vault in Gloucester Cathedral.

Wells Cathedral - picture by Robert Feinman

Post by **R00k** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:21 pm

bound to happen that some marketing alt would drop turds in this thread. surprised it hasn't happened in the photo thread yet.

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:25 pm

Wabbit wrote:One Thousand Years of World Architecture - An Illustrated Guide. Francesca Prina with Elena Demartini

On sale at Borders. It's worth the price.

Gloucester Cathedral - cloister 1337-60. Earliest surviving example of fan vaulting

oxford is full of stuff like this. it's weird, but i only really notice how aesthetically awesome my city is when friends come from out of town and i give them the tourist trail routine

here's the bodleian library, for example:

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:26 pm

um, that's not the whole library, obviously. no books for a start

Post by **Plan B** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:20 pm

If you're going to pick up anything to read, make it The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.

Post by **werldhed** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:48 pm

I'm working on writing my grant, so I've been reading nothing but scientific articles for the past month. I've got about 30-40 I'm focusing on atm.

Just a few sitting in front of me right now are:

"Flt3 mutations from patients with acute myeloid leukemia induce transformation of 32D cells mediated by the Ras and STAT5 pathways."

"Combined deficiencies in Bruton tyrosine kinase and phospholipase Cgamma2 arrest B-cell development at a pre-BCR+ stage."

"Cutting Edge: Signaling and Cell Surface Expression of a µH Chain in the Absence of lambda5: A Paradigm Revisited"

"Cancer gene discovery in solid tumors using transposon-based somatic mutagenesis in the mouse"

"A novel PAX5-ELN fusion protein identified in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia acts as a dominant negative on wild-type PAX5"

"Constitutive activation of NF-kB is not sufficient to disturb normal steady-state hematopoiesis."

And the list goes on and on...
ffs, I'm sick of this.

Post by **Wabbit** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:45 pm

seremtan wrote:oxford is full of stuff like this. it's weird, but i only really notice how aesthetically awesome my city is when friends come from out of town and i give them the tourist trail routine

I'm going to visit some of these places when I get the chance. You're lucky. While there is great architecture all over the world, personally, I'm attracted to styles that are predominately located in Europe and the mid-east.

Post by **Havoc** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:49 pm

- Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze (for my course "The Filmmaker")
- just finished R. Scott Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" trilogy which was interesting but went over my head in its philosophical depths (kinda surprising for a fantasy series) and did not give me any closure with the rather abrupt ending
- following that up with Louise Cooper's 8-book "Indigo" series. I'm a huge fan of three other fantasy trilogies she's written, so I bought the first four books of this series on eBay and I'm starting the first one tonight
- also plodding through the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and An Introduction to Short Fiction, because you have to read what you write

Post by **Foo** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:50 pm

Wabbit wrote:
seremtan wrote:oxford is full of stuff like this. it's weird, but i only really notice how aesthetically awesome my city is when friends come from out of town and i give them the tourist trail routine
I'm going to visit some of these places when I get the chance. You're lucky. While there is great architecture all over the world, personally, I'm attracted to styles that are predominately located in Europe and the mid-east.

I'm pretty much in love with norman architecture from the 11th century onwards which become such a definitive element of british structures with the explosion of castle building and religious constructions from that time. The broader gothic architectural style appeals in the general sense too, but the Normans really nailed it as far as England goes.