metadigital Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Time for another look into the library habits of the forumites. Here is my reading list from the last month or so (I was finally overcome with annoyance at not reading a lot of the books I wanted to, and also I wanted to finish off some of the ones that I have been sitting on for a while; reading at night before bed is a poor time to do so: much better now I spend some time during the day dedicated to reading): Why I Am So Wise [Ecce Homo and Twilight of the Idols] (Friedrich Nietzsche) Imagining the Tenth Dimension (Rob Bryanton) On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (John Stuart Mill) The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain (Terrence Deacon) The Spartans (Paul Cartledge) the Symposium (Plato reciting Socrates, et alia) The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) Of Man (Leviathan) (Thomas Hobbes) On the Nature of War (Carl von Clausewitz) The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse) An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom (Cicero) Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man (Christopher Hitchens) On the Suffering of the World (Arthur Schopenhauer) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) Common Sense (Thomas Paine) What If Our World Is Their Heaven? (Philip Kindred Dιck) What's everyone else been reading, I wonder. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kor Qel Droma Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I haven't finished a book in a while, but I did manage to burn through Under The Mat this weekend. It basically shatters all my illusions of pro wrestlers being nice people. Damn good read, and damn you Dynamite Kid!! Jaguars4ever is still alive. No word of a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 You should review it ("Be the first person to review this item.")! It's always interesting to see the microcosms of society echo the human opera; in fact it's almost necessary to experience them this way, lest we be swamped by too much information and miss a lot of what's going on. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Drabek Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I just sent The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon, back to the library. It was a good, quick detective story. baby, take off your beret everyone's a critic and most people are DJs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surreptishus Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I am going to read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Primarily because it has a colourful cover (not the one in wiki). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 I just sent The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon, back to the library. It was a good, quick detective story. Good to see the Aga Khan doing something with all that money he stole. I am going to read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Primarily because it has a colourful cover (not the one in wiki). When the book was released, the bombing of Dresden was not widely known and was rarely discussed by veterans and historians. The book led to an increased awareness of the bombings and a reevaluation of the justifications given for aerial bombing of cities by the Allies during the war. Excerrent. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calax Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Half way throuhg the first of the song of ice and fire books (i've read it once already) and giving thought to reading Black Company again. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Drabek Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I just sent The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon, back to the library. It was a good, quick detective story. Good to see the Aga Khan doing something with all that money he stole. Not a fan, meta? I can't comment on Chabon too much, I know he won a Pulitzer for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and I thought about picking that one up... but I wasn't in the market for a full-length novel at the time. The subject matter in The Final Solution interested me more, anyway. baby, take off your beret everyone's a critic and most people are DJs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Not a fan, meta? Not really: his wealth is at the expense of all the other people in the geographic area; he also disgusted me when he gave his son his weight in diamonds for his majority. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legion Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I finished reading the last few chapters of Steven Erikson's The Bonehunters last night. I can't say I enjoyed it quite as much as the previous book in the series, Midnight Tides, but even so, it was still a great read and left me eager to dig into the next installment in the Malazan Book of the Fallen epic due out in April. I've since started reading Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay, but I haven't read nearly enough of it to form a solid opinion about it yet, good or bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure79 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I'm reading a very interesting book on the creation of the Roman Empire. It is by a Japanese author named Shiono Nanami. The book is called, "Res Gestae Populi Romani" and its been translated into Korean, the version I am reading. I've always been interested in Chinese and Asian history, but realized one day I know next to nothing about the Roman history. Seemed like a good place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Re-reading the First Americans series - William Sarabande :bunny: “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archmonarch Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Currently working through a few Gene Wolfe series in the spare moments I have between college applications. And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krookie Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I haven't read a book since the last Harry Potter came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Im currently proofreading the manual for a new series of FFT analyzer we launched. This is one of my least favorite activities as it tends to make me "glaze over" and start skimming which is exactly what I cant do while looking for errors and correcting Jenglish (Japanese English) translations. Oh the humanity. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WITHTEETH Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Hyperion By Dan Smith currently I just finished The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson Always outnumbered, never out gunned! Unreal Tournament 2004 Handle:Enlight_2.0 Myspace Website! My rig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I'm rereading "Schutz." It's the best introductory book on General Relativity there is. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 I just finished The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson I can't believe you managed to finish that book. It was far too far into the realm of fantasy for me. Tossed it after about fifty pages. Currently reading the Birthday Stories anthology (compiled by Murakami, and he wrote one of them, too). I'm rereading "Schutz." It's the best introductory book on General Relativity there is. RE-reading it? Can't be that good, then. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pidesco Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I'm just reading it for fun while on vacation. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Ah, so you descrive it, then, I descry. /caffawkle OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Raven Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Dante's Inferno. I have been on this for a while, I have not had the time to read. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergen. It's about Magellan and his bid to reach the Spice Islands by circumnavigating the globe. Excellent book, and very interesting if you have any interest in history or sailing. Also reading How Dogs Think, Understanding the Canine Mind by Stanley Coren. Just started that one. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WITHTEETH Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I just finished The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson I can't believe you managed to finish that book. It was far too far into the realm of fantasy for me. Tossed it after about fifty pages. The ending wasn't any good, just weird. Still... I liked the story and the premise. I need to go to the library and find new books soon, im almost done with Hyperion too, i like it! Always outnumbered, never out gunned! Unreal Tournament 2004 Handle:Enlight_2.0 Myspace Website! My rig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theslug Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Haven't read anything in a while sadly but the last book I read was The Count of Monte Cristo. Definitely one of my favorite books besides David Copperfield and Dean Koontz before I realized all his books were basically the same. There was a time when I questioned the ability for the schizoid to ever experience genuine happiness, at the very least for a prolonged segment of time. I am no closer to finding the answer, however, it has become apparent that contentment is certainly a realizable goal. I find these results to be adequate, if not pleasing. Unfortunately, connection is another subject entirely. When one has sufficiently examined the mind and their emotional constructs, connection can be easily imitated. More data must be gleaned and further collated before a sufficient judgment can be reached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumquatq3 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 (edited) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Him and James Cameron apparently need to have lunch Edited February 27, 2007 by kumquatq3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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