What Book(s) Are You Reading?

[Starchild]

Klug and Cumming's Concepts of Genetics and a bit of Physical Chemistry for Biochemists and a few chapters of Atkin's Physical Principles of Chemistry for my courses.

For my own fun, Homosexuality and Civilisation I'm still slogging through. The Italian city-state period is such a drag....all they did was burn gays at the stake.

[Cavalcadeus]

Right now I'm reading. A Brief History of Everything - Ken Wilber, Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, and an introduction to Nietzsche.

[Al B. Sure!]

and what would the title of that introduction be?

[Odin]

The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy

[Nostromo]

Besides my school stuff, I'm reading

Fictions by Borges,
The Cornelius Chronicles by Moorcock,
Pornography by Gombrowicz
and Pale Fire by Nabokov.

Just finished The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. It was ok, but all that crap about the I Ching was a major turn off...

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by nostromo
Pale Fire by Nabokov.

[Nostromo]

Colin McGinn on Nabokov:

On a purely personal level, studying the novel [Lolita] is a humbling experience for anyone who has tried their hand at fiction: Nabokov's talent is so awe-inspiring that it makes you want never to put clumsy pen to paper again.

[JohnT]

The House of Morgan, and Titan, a couple of histories about the accomplishments of the Morgan bank and John Rockefeller.

[Cavalcadeus]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
and what would the title of that introduction be?

Something like 'A brief introduction to Nietzsche' by Oxford books. I don't have the book with me right now so I don't remember for sure though.

[Ramo]

America by Jon Stewart

Well, not really. Planning on getting it, though.

A Storm of Swords by Martin, Lincoln by Vidal, and various text books (on seismology, differential gemoetry, tensor analysis, and Bengali).

[monolith94]

A Grammar of the Film - Raymond Spottiswoode
the snobbiest book on film EVER

also, I'm thinking of abandoning Ray Bradbury's "From The Dust Returned". The first half of it was excellent, but it seems to have jumped the shark, so to speak.

Also, "Giving Up The Gun" - the story of how the Japanese as a collective nation decided to simply not use gunpowder-weapons, for a period in their history.

I'm also reading the collected poems of Philip Larkin. I don't really enjoy his poetry, but I guess he's ok. Technically brilliant poet, but absolutely no heart and soul.

[St Leo]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The problem with Literary Fiction is that they do their utmost to toss away the formulaics of plot, but end up just stretching out Exposition to last the whole book. That's just stupid. y = x is still a formula. It's just a more boring one than f(x,y) = y^sin(y) + x^sin(x)

I am currently on Chapter 10. Great book, yes. Fun. Delightful. Detailed.

Unfortunately, I don't really see the point of anything after Chapter 4. Yes, India. Yes, Kerala. Great settings. Do something with them.

[Ben Kenobi]

have to only like books that agree with me philosophically now?

Not at all.

Just wondered why you like the book.

[Ben Kenobi]

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.

I've read the NT, still plenty of the OT that I haven't read through.

I'm not sure which is my favourite. Romans I like, but Job also holds pleasures.

[General Ludd]

I should read Don Quixote again.


My mother read that to me when I was a kid... such a great story.