Topic: What are you reading? (Read 153417 times)

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #400 on:** March 26, 2007, 01:02:00 PM »

That sounds cool, I may check that one out.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #401 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:29:41 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on February 14, 2007, 12:35:42 PM

Today I'm starting The 33 Strategies Of War by Robert Greene.

Still reading it. I finished strategy 21 today and curiously there was a piece about some dude named Demosthenes.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #402 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:32:32 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on March 29, 2007, 05:29:41 PM

Still reading it. I finished strategy 21 today and curiously there was a piece about some dude named Demosthenes.

You do realize that that's just my screen name on a few forums.

Right?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #403 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:35:09 PM »

You mean you weren't alive back in the days of Philip of Macedonia?

Demosthenes · « **Reply #404 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:36:35 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on March 29, 2007, 05:35:09 PM

You mean you weren't alive back in the days of Philip of Macedonia?

Was he the one with the big hair?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #405 on:** March 29, 2007, 05:41:43 PM »

No, Meatloaf was the one who was big in Hair.

xolik · « **Reply #406 on:** April 11, 2007, 11:12:43 AM »

Finished the first two Narnia books and just started the third. It's kinda fun to re-read the whole series again and catch all the religious symbolism that I totally didn't get back when I was a kid.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #407 on:** April 11, 2007, 11:21:11 AM »

Quote from: xolik on April 11, 2007, 11:12:43 AM

Finished the first two Narnia books and just started the third. It's kinda fun to re-read the whole series again and catch all the religious symbolism that I totally didn't get back when I was a kid.

*nods*

I did the same thing last year. It's striking how blatant some of it is too, particularly in books like "The Silver Chair".

TheJudge · « **Reply #408 on:** April 11, 2007, 11:57:41 AM »

Just finish the dark elf trilogy. Getting ready to read the next 3 books.

Short Circuit · « **Reply #409 on:** April 12, 2007, 12:14:38 PM »

i am reading emperor the gates of rome very good

xolik · « **Reply #410 on:** April 12, 2007, 01:38:34 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on April 11, 2007, 11:21:11 AM

*nods*

I did the same thing last year. It's striking how blatant some of it is too, particularly in books like "The Silver Chair".

"Magician's Nephew" = Genesis
Lion Witch Wardrobe = New Testament
Horse and his boy = lol@Islam

I haven't even touched Silver Chair yet...I can just imagine what I'm in for.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #411 on:** April 12, 2007, 05:20:09 PM »

Quote from: xolik on April 12, 2007, 01:38:34 PM

"Magician's Nephew" = Genesis
Lion Witch Wardrobe = New Testament
Horse and his boy = lol@Islam

I haven't even touched Silver Chair yet...I can just imagine what I'm in for.

Oh man... wait until you get to "The Last Battle". Nowhere in the series is the religion lain on any thicker.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #412 on:** April 12, 2007, 06:12:13 PM »

I love the donkey in the lion skin metaphor.

Socrates · « **Reply #413 on:** April 17, 2007, 06:53:11 AM »

Just picked up Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
He has a couple of series that I enjoy, what I'd consider Hard Science Fiction. The only problem is that has some very large casts of characters. Makes the worlds more interesting but can get confusing. You almost have to go back and re-read the earlier books to get back into the grove. He does a lot of writing about how technology will be interegrated into our lives, bodies and minds.

Good stuff.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #414 on:** April 18, 2007, 02:04:24 PM »

today at lunch I will be starting Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Nosferatu · « **Reply #415 on:** April 23, 2007, 02:22:36 AM »

I've just started John Ringo's There Will be Dragons. The friend who loaned me the book ensures me it has little to do with dragons. =P

Finished off Ian M. Banks' Consider Phlebas a few weeks ago. Without giving anything away, I was a little dissapointed in the abruptness of the ending. If you haven't read it and decide to one day, do note that there's a heavy appendix at the back of the book which is slightly misleading as to how much story is left.

And though barely a quarter through "The Kollian Wars" which I started last year at some point as a sequal to "Abandoned," I've just started writing a completely new story titled "The Setting Sun." I know this is about reading, not writing, but I'm psyched about the new story, so I thought I'd bring it up. =P

Socrates · « **Reply #416 on:** April 23, 2007, 07:52:16 AM »

Quote from: Nosferatu on April 23, 2007, 02:22:36 AM

I've just started John Ringo's There Will be Dragons. The friend who loaned me the book ensures me it has little to do with dragons. =P

If you get a couple of books into the series it actually has a little to do with dragons.

I'd check out his other books, good fun military sci-fi

hackess · « **Reply #417 on:** April 23, 2007, 12:23:19 PM »

Just finished Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. Now I have nothing to bring on the plane to San Francisco on Wednesday.

ivan · « **Reply #418 on:** April 23, 2007, 12:32:15 PM »

I do 2 kinds of reading: Kind1 = books on tape/CD during commute, Kind2 = about an hour before sleep. Kind1 is limited by availability of titles at the local Library and by what's on my mind; Kind2 is something I don't always have a chance -- or want -- to do. But the last week or so I've had a good run with Kind2, which means I go to our bookshelves for material. There are many books on those shelves that I haven't read at all, some that I tried and abandoned, and a core of favorites from long ago. This last week I've been mining that core, and re-reading Nero Wolfe stories pretty much in chronological order.

Rex Stout absolutely kicked ass.

Socrates · « **Reply #419 on:** April 23, 2007, 03:11:53 PM »

Quote from: catwritr on April 23, 2007, 12:23:19 PM

Just finished Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. Now I have nothing to bring on the plane to San Francisco on Wednesday.

Pick up the second book in the series. Assuming you liked the first one.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #420 on:** April 23, 2007, 04:41:01 PM »

Just started The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and it's pretty good so far.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #421 on:** April 23, 2007, 05:15:53 PM »

Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on April 23, 2007, 04:41:01 PM

Just started The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and it's pretty good so far.

I loved that book. In fact, I need to remember to pick up a copy of that for my personal library. I read a friend's copy several years back and it definitely belongs on my shelf.

hackess · « **Reply #422 on:** April 23, 2007, 09:32:42 PM »

Quote from: Socrates on April 23, 2007, 03:11:53 PM

Pick up the second book in the series. Assuming you liked the first one.

I've read them all except Scion.

BDC256 · « **Reply #423 on:** April 25, 2007, 11:39:18 AM »

I am currently reading:
The Illiad
Paradise Lost
The Art of War
and Peopleware

I'll read The Odyssey after I finish the Illiad.

Books I recantly read:
Just for fun
Nightwork a History of Panks and Hacks at MIT
Utopia
The Prince
Beowulf

Books I own and have not read completly:
Flow
The design of everyday things
The paradox of choice
The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #424 on:** April 25, 2007, 04:28:07 PM »

Picked up Tin Man and Feet of Clay today, I need some fiction to balance out all the evolution and hax0ring stuff I've been into lately.

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