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What book(s) are you reading?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:53 pm
by Wabbit
I don't have as much time any more so I've been reading books that are better suited to being left for periods of time.
Currently, I carry Marcus Aurelius's book, Meditations with me and read it when I can a spare moment. It's philisophcial in nature and falls under the school of stoicism - a branch of philosophy which I'm particularly drawn too.
It's an interesting read even if only you look at it in terms of its historical setting. Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was born in 121 A.D., well before the advent of christianity.
At work, in between jobs, I've also been slogging my way through Philisophical Concepts in Physics by James T. Cushing. I've not found it to be an easy read, but it's an intersting topic.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:02 pm
by BudgieSmuggler
I'm reading a book on psychology. Most of it is quite an interesting read.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:10 pm
by Ryoki
I just started in Hells Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
almost finished with Dante's Inferno
and my book on the toilet is On War - Von Clausewitz, which i got years ago and still havent read properly.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:17 pm
by SplishSplash
I'm gonna (re-)start "Gai-Jin" by James Clavell soon, unless I decide to read "Secretum" first.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:18 pm
by Wabbit
I read Dante's Inferno and liked it. I couldn't get through the next two in the serious though - Purgatoro and Paradiso. Do you have plans to continue with the series?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:24 pm
by Nightshade
Still trying to work my way through Quicksilver, first book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I have very little time for leisure reading, so it's mostly textbooks.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:37 pm
by werldhed
I've been perusing the classics lately. Right now I'm alternating between:
The complete works of E.A. Poe.
The complete Sherlock Holmes
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Rolling Stones by O. Henry
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
And I have to finish reading these by the weekend, so I don't have much time for books:
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:47 pm
by Ryoki
Wabbit wrote:I read Dante's Inferno and liked it. I couldn't get through the next two in the serious though - Purgatoro and Paradiso. Do you have plans to continue with the series?
Not really - i'm quite liking Inferno's gruesome weirdness but not enough to read the rest of the books.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:10 pm
by R00k
I've been reading the complete collection of the Hitchhikers Guide books since I never finished all of them before.
I've got probably another half dozen waiting in line behind them.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to have time in life to read all the books I want to.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:14 pm
by Guest
The Reader, readin it for school.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:19 pm
by MKJ
books?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:36 pm
by Survivor
MKJ wrote:books?
You know, those paper thingies. Usually with a lot of black stains on them.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:22 pm
by Underpants?
CCNP exam essentials. Puts me to sleep every night.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:23 pm
by MKJ
Survivor wrote:MKJ wrote:books?
You know, those paper thingies. Usually with a lot of black stains on them.
the only book i ever read over n over again has red n blue stains
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:23 pm
by Jackal
Reading Stephen King's Cell in between a stack of industry reports bigger than myself.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:24 pm
by Underpants?
R00k wrote:I've been reading the complete collection of the Hitchhikers Guide books since I never finished all of them before.
I've got probably another half dozen waiting in line behind them.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to have time in life to read all the books I want to.
alah grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change...
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:24 pm
by Underpants?
Jackal wrote:Reading Stephen King's Cell in between a stack of industry reports bigger than myself.
any good?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:27 pm
by Pext
A classical Introduction to modern Number Theory
Shadowmarch
Gödel Escher Bach
Das Schloss
Paradise Lost
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:49 pm
by Guest
I'm reading the 25th discworld novel by Terry Pratchet.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:53 pm
by Jackal
Underpants? wrote:Jackal wrote:Reading Stephen King's Cell in between a stack of industry reports bigger than myself.
any good?
It's very good. Disclaimer however, I love anything with zombies.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:54 pm
by menkent
Pext wrote:Gödel Escher Bach
Hoffstadter is pretty good - i've been reading his "Le Ton beau de Marot"
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:04 pm
by 4days
Nightshade wrote:Still trying to work my way through Quicksilver, first book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I have very little time for leisure reading, so it's mostly textbooks.
on the third one now, still good stuff. in a similar situation for leisure reading. as much as i've enjoyed the baroque cycle, it'll be nice to read something else
got a sizeable stack of fiction to catch up on, but the thing i'm currently reading is a half-inch thick report on the current status of central london's pedestrian signage - which is about as exciting as swallowing half a dozen sleeping pills and watching re-runs of gardeners world.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:18 pm
by SplishSplash
Pext wrote:Paradise Lost
The Milton one?
I've always wanted to read that. Is it good?
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:20 pm
by SplishSplash
ToxicBug wrote:Hooked on Phonics
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:38 pm
by Jackal
SplishSplash wrote:Pext wrote:Paradise Lost
The Milton one?
I've always wanted to read that. Is it good?
Book one of Paradise Lost is one of the best pieces of literature ever written.