What Book(s) Are You Reading?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by MosesPresley
I can't wait for the next installment of The Series of Unfortunate Events to come out: The Grim Grotto. I love this series. I find them very funny and enjoyable.

POTM likes this. Ive never really gotten into it. At POTMs request I read Eragon. Some clever things, but on the whole you can tell too easily that it was written by a teenager.

[Moral Hazard]

Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces - Read the short stories when Im in the mood for literature.

William Howard Taft - Not so good

Just Finished.
Eight Men Out - About the black sox scandal, very good. The movie is good as well. Of course it modifies a few things.

Theodore Rex - Good, only talks about his presidency, gets a little boring toward the end.

[chequita guevara]

I just finished reading Persopolis, a graphic novel about growing up a leftist in the Mullah's Iran. I am reading SAMS Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache.

[General Ludd]

The Unconquerable World : Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People

[Patriqvium]

Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (just got it from Amazon, an interesting tome indeed), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (found this in a strange little antiquariat) and a neuropsychology textbook for school.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Patriqvium
Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (just got it from Amazon, an interesting tome indeed)

What's it about, and how is it? I've had this book recomended to me a few times before.

[Solomwi]

Kupchan's End of the American Era and just about to start Keegan's The Iraq War.

[Patriqvium]

Originally posted by General Ludd

What's it about, and how is it? I've had this book recomended to me a few times before.

Nominally, it's about recursion, language and artificial intelligence, and how such things are expressed and/or explored in the works of the aforementioned three gentlemen. The book's written in a quirky, enthuasistic manner and after a few chapters I still like it.

[Space05us]

I read Eragon. Some clever things, but on the whole you can tell too easily that it was written by a teenager.

Ive been meaning to read all the way through that book, got it for christmas last year. Started it but there's something about it, the way its written, that I dont really like. (maybe its the being written by a teenager part)

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


That surprises me. Don't you have sympathy for the man who likes the older world better than the new?

It's a beautiful and potent novel (well, technically pre-novel but who's counting?), do I have to only like books that agree with me philosophically now?

[Immortal Wombat]

I'm reading Gulliver's Travels mostly, and dipping into a couple of Dawkins' books for background. I'm also about a quarter of the way through Dan Brown's Deception Point, but I plan to continue reading this only in bookshops, so it might take a while.

[Brent]

I haven't read much from the Bible lately. Not sure if I've read the whole New Testament, but pretty sure I've read most of it. I think I've read less than half of the Old Testament. Out of both Testaments, the book I've read the most, the one that sticks most in my memory, and my favorite book is Genesis.

[Flip McWho]

Currently I'm reading nothing.

But if I was it would be the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Best trilogy ever. Well honestly I'm looking at a book at the bookstore to buy but I can't afford it yet and I want to get my exams out of the way.

[Wernazuma III]

Eco, Baudolino right now.
Next will be either the Satanic Verses or Gulliver's Travels.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Brent
I haven't read much from the Bible lately. Not sure if I've read the whole New Testament, but pretty sure I've read most of it. I think I've read less than half of the Old Testament. Out of both Testaments, the book I've read the most, the one that sticks most in my memory, and my favorite book is Genesis.

Seriously, what is the point of John III?