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  • #31
    Re: What are you reading right now?

    Originally posted by Agathon
    I take it that some people here can drag themselves from their computers long enough to read a good old fashioned book.
    So you've never heard of ebooks?

    I have well over 2000 titles on my hardrive at the moment, mainly sci-fi.

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    • #32
      Just finished Bush at war by Bob Woodward. Good document on the decision process of the Bush administration, and incidentally a picture of the President. Both are frightening.

      Ils vont tuer le capitalisme (they will kill the capitalism)by Claude Bébéar (President of AXA) : a qualified opinion on the responsibilities held by auditors, rating agencies, bankers, members of the boards, SEC, on the recent stock exchange disaster.

      Black holes and time warps by Kip S. Thorne : not recent but also interesting by many stories about scientists engaged in this field.
      Statistical anomaly.
      The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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      • #33
        Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer.

        Picking up The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin from the used bookshop today.
        "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.

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        • #34
          I'm also reading another book at the same time, almost finished, it's called 'mostarin tien liftarit'. Translates to 'hichhikers of the Mostar(i?) road'. It's about finnish merc who went to fight in Kosovo.. pretty good book.


          Do not take any directions from it. Mostar is in Bosnia and some 500km west of Kosovo

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          • #35
            Re: Re: What are you reading right now?

            Originally posted by Willem


            So you've never heard of ebooks?

            I have well over 2000 titles on my hardrive at the moment, mainly sci-fi.
            Same here(except that I have 3000 ).

            We need to do some sharing.
            "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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            • #36
              As for myself: George R. R. Martin: Game of thrones. I am not a huge fantasy fan, but they say it is very good. Btw., the author is pretty cool guy, I have seen his lecture in the scifi convention in my city today. Tommorow he will be doing some reading from a yet unpublished book.

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              • #37
                Same here(except that I have 3000


                When I found about IRC bookz channels I first went "wow" I need this and this and that.. but actually I don't Who can read that much?

                IRC seems like a fairly stable system and they can not shut it down, so if need arises I can easily go online and find something.

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                • #38
                  Re: Re: Re: What are you reading right now?

                  Originally posted by Eli


                  Same here(except that I have 3000 ).

                  We need to do some sharing.
                  We'd have to do it soon, I might be offline for awhile after next month, starting in June. I'll be moving and I'm not sure if I'll be able afford all the hookup fees for DSL right away. And there's no way I'm going back to dial up, I'd rather stay offline. PM me.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by VetLegion
                    Same here(except that I have 3000


                    When I found about IRC bookz channels I first went "wow" I need this and this and that.. but actually I don't Who can read that much?

                    IRC seems like a fairly stable system and they can not shut it down, so if need arises I can easily go online and find something.
                    Yes, but what if an asteroid hits Earth? This way you'll be another source/backup for all that endless knowledge.

                    Willem - I'll PM you tommorow.
                    "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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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Eli


                      Willem - I'll PM you tommorow.
                      Sounds good. I'm in the process of RARing my folder right now to see how much it will all come to compressed. The folder itself was 871 meg.

                      It might be best to swap lists first, in case of duplication. That sounds like alot of tedious work, but I guess I'll have to get around to doing it sooner or later. We'll work something out tomorrow.

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                      • #41
                        Required reading for World History 209 - 1500 to the Industrial Revolution (aproximatly cause we're a little behind):

                        Right now = Geraldine Brooks' Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

                        Before that = Ngugi wa Thinog'o's A River Between

                        And before that = 47 Ronin Story
                        The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

                        The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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                        • #42
                          "War and Peace" by Tolstoy
                          "Intro to Quantum Mechanics" by Griffiths (going through the book for the final)
                          "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                          -Bokonon

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                          • #43
                            What are you reading right now?

                            This thread?
                            -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                            • #44
                              Zelazny's Madwand.
                              Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.com

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                              • #45
                                No fewer than four books, at least one of which I will have to stop reading for a while:

                                The Story of Civilization I: Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
                                The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
                                Josiah Henson's autobiography, I forget the title
                                Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Luckacs
                                "The self is a relation that relates itself to itself, or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation relating itself to itself." -Kierkegaard, at one of his less lucid moments

                                Tremolando shows rage! Sforzando shows excitement! C Minor means gravity!–D Minor means terror!...Round and round like donkeys at a grindstone! -Amadeus

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