What book are you reading?

ebrostig · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:06 am Post subject: What book are you reading?

We were discussing a book I'm currently reading at work today and I just wanted to see what other people is currently reading.

The book I'm reading is one of Hitler's Biographies. Very interesting.

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Herodot · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:18 am Post subject:

Master of Kung Fu #97
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wHAcKer · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:21 am Post subject:

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
(I read The Hobbit and I still have to read the other 2

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ofcourse I read all this in English (I don't particularly like translations).
After this series I'll be reading "Kill your darlings" and then some PHP tutorial (developer's cookbook I presume)

Hypnos · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:24 am Post subject:

I'm in grad school, so I read many books; my unassigned reading at the moment is a definitive edition of Shakespeare's King Lear.

My last book was Steinbeck's East of Eden, and my next will be Joyce's Dubliners.
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idl · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:26 am Post subject:

The Lord of the Rings.

nephros · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:33 am Post subject:

Three in parallel:
The collected stories of Arthur C. Clark. Hard Sci-Fi, can't go wrong with that, though I prefer Philip K. Dick normally.

Umberto Eco: Über Spiegel und andere Phänomene (Of mirrors and other phenomena).
Sometimes I need my brain massaged, and Eco provides that.

Douglas Adams: The Hitch-Hikers Guide through the Galaxy. The relaxing bit after the brain massage. About the seventh time, always nice. I had that copy signed by him when he was reading at my town. Nice guy! We miss you, Doug.
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

Like Hypnos I'm in grad school as well, so most of my reading consists of things from Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biochemistry, etc...

However I'm reading through Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky in my free time. I also recently finished reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown which was fairly entertaining.

Next up on the list: either Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson or Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Or maybe I'll just read 2001: A Space Odyssey again, because lately it seems to stand out whenever I look over on my bookshelf.

[edit] Nephros, what book is that? Is it available in english? I haven't read too much Umberto Eco, but I enjoy what he writes.

Mirrorball · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 235 Location: Brazil

I'm rereading the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. These have been my favorite books in the last few years.

ba747heavy · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:45 am Post subject:

Tom Clancy: Clear and Present Danger.

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Gandalf_Grey_ · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 151

Currently, nothing unfortunately, I usually go through stacks of books ranging from shakespear to sci fi, however I am currently in the middle of midterm exams, and I have been hired to do some programming work, and I have lots of stuff to do. When the shit clears (hopefully by thursday I will be home free) I hope to read some more shakespear, and would like to also read the "Advanced bash scrfipting guide" which I printed out. This would give me a better grasp on bash scripting than I have now.

Sometime in there I would also like to reread childhoods end again. That book left me with a severe feeling of "wow" when I finished it for the first time and has done so every time I have reread it.

Damn it I need more free time :p

The problem with me is that once I get started on something I can work uninterrupted for hours on end with no problem, however I never am able to make use of a free 20 minutes that I have because it is not enough time to get into my "work mode". If I am not going to be doing something for a long time I tend to get distracted because I know I will get pulled out of whatever I am doing in a little while to do something else important.
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X · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:11 am Post subject:

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

I probably should have read it long ago, but somehow I never got into Asimov until a while ago. (already finished the wonderful foundation series)

DanielM · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Adelaide

At the moment:
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon (again)
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose (after finishing Foucault's Pendulum a few weeks back)
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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I am reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in the moment.
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entropicaccess · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:40 am Post subject:

Currently working my way through Crime And Punishment. Following that I'll prolly tackle The Idiot.
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Ian · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:46 am Post subject:

Nothing

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I'm thinking about going and picking up the Hitch Hiker's series or Catch 22 before Christmas break though (or maybe both). I'm known to go through a 500 page novel in less than a day without thinking twice about it, so I'll need a lot for the week plus some that I'll be at my grandparent's house, with only Windows and dialup

.

Besides those two books, and those so far mentioned in here, are there any "Need-to-Read" books for your average teenage nerd? :p I figure I'd better start hunting for some books now, otherwise I'll forget and never bother to get them.

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Ian · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:49 am Post subject:

Read the quartet twice already, actually. I was really sad when I finished, because I think that is one of the best series I have ever read. The story was just so rich, and I just wanted it to keep going. I mean, at the very end, when Jane just whisks them away, it's just, depressing, because you want to go on them.

I haven't read the two or three about Peter Wiggin (The Hegemon and another one or two), so maybe I'll find those when I get a chance.

Also, I did read 1984, although I didn't like it, so Big Brother can shoot me

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Raide · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:59 am Post subject:

I'm reading the book The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage for a class at college. I'd recommend this book to probably anyone who would be reading this board. It was written by an astronomer who found himself in the role of a computer administrator. What began as a simple accounting error turned out to be an elaborate hacking operation involving the military and the Russian KGB. Very interesting, and it's all true.

lisa · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:13 am Post subject:

The Hobbit
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beejay · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:29 am Post subject:

At the moment I read "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperon" by Dan Simmons.

The next book I'm going to read will be "Demon seed" by Dean R. Koontz.
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BaronVonOwn · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:32 am Post subject:

I'm currently reading Persecution: How Liberals are Waging Political War Against Christianity by David Limbaugh.

The next book I'm going to read is The Thatcher Revolution.

Rem · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:45 am Post subject:

The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)

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