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  • #16
    Just finishing "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk. After that I'll finish "Galactic Patrol", the second book of E. E. "Doc" Smith's classic Lensman science-fiction series, which I postponed to read "Fight Club."

    After that, I don't know... I'm coming off a six-month science-fiction binge (Niven, Orson Scott Card, Vance, etc.) I may pursue some non-fiction ("The Nothing That Is: A History of Zero", "How We Die", or Edward Wilson's "Consilience: A Unity of Knowledge"), and a friend has been recommending "The Agony and the Ecstasy", a 'fictional' biography of Michelangelo.

    But honestly, I'm in a dark, gritty mood, so I may read a few crime novels, starting with Stark's "Payback" and then reading his other Parker novels.

    Too many good books, and not nearly enough time...

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    • #17
      Originally posted by MrFun
      Oh, and for those who do not read anymore, books are those things with sheets of paper between two covers.
      Eh?

      I thought books are those txt files you get on file sharing programs and store on your hard disc?

      Primitives.
      "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Ecthelion
        is Svejk really that good? my parents and grand parents love it
        It's a great anti war book. If I wouldn't love it too, would I read it the 5th time?

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        • #19
          Confessions of a Talk Show Host or something like that by Larry Sanders (ie, Garry Shandling).

          Something about apocalyptic thinking through the ages by Eugen Weber. I mean, the book is by Weber, not the apoca...never mind.

          Have something about FreeBSD waiting for me at the library.
          "When all else fails, a pigheaded refusal to look facts in the face will see us through." -- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett

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          • #20
            ha it is in english too!

            http://www.ndimou.gr/e-anti.html



            the older cover was much nicer.

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            • #21
              I am rereading Art of War, by Sun Tzu...
              For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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              • #22
                Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
                Basically I'm just warming up for the 48-hour Harry Potter marathon when the 5th book is released in a couple of weeks and I read the whole thing from cover to cover without putting it down.
                Did you know that there is help available for people like you?
                A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                • #23
                  BTW, anybody picked up Living History yet?

                  I look forward to hearing from Imran and/or Slowwwhand about it. Yeah, right...
                  "When all else fails, a pigheaded refusal to look facts in the face will see us through." -- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett

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                  • #24
                    Ajbera, how's Fight Club the book? I've only seen the movie, which I thought was absolutely fantastic.

                    So do the rest of you actually have like a dozen started books, but then just one or two that you really focus on? Or am I just weird.
                    Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                    "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                    • #25
                      Age of Extremes is basically a big book of world history 1914 to ninety-something. But I haven't read much yet; I'm thinking about a switch to the Marcus Wolf self-biography.

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                      • #26
                        the art of war bores me, not as much as the prince though

                        uh Clem, something I wanted to ask you for ages... is that shrub?

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Ecthelion
                          the art of war bores me, not as much as the prince though
                          It is my favorite book..
                          For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                          • #28
                            Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier, and Silicon Dreams by Robert Lucky. Both are excellent, particularly the first one. If you only read one book about computer security, this is it.
                            (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                            (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                            (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                            • #29
                              count up the seven different types of terrain, out of your head!

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                              • #30
                                [blatant self promotion]
                                I'm also reading something that, er, hasn't really been published yet. Not even done really. *cough*
                                [/blatant self promotion]
                                Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
                                "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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