What are you reading right now?

[Frankychan]

When I'm not reading my textbooks, I'm readying:

"The Criminal Elite: Understanding White-Collar Crime"
by James William Coleman

"The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene

"The Testosteron Advantage" by Lou Schuler

and

"The Code of the Samurai" translated by A. L. Sadler.


These are books where you each section stands alone so I can flip through them to the revelant (or interesting) chapters.

[Lancer]

'Navies of the Napoleonic Era' Full of details of various ship types (ships of the line, frigates, sloops) and strengths (totals and condition of each ship of each type) of the different navies throughout the period. Also accounts of sea battles.

Did you know that when the Shannon took the Chesapeake (sp) that the Shannon had 52 guns to Ches's 32?

No wonder the Brits finally won one.

Also, by the end of the 1812 war that the US had built 3 ships of the line?

Need the figures for frigates laid up in ordinary or ships of the line with yards crossed at the creation of the Batavian Republic?

No?

[BeBMan]

Re: What are you reading right now?

Originally posted by Agathon
"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond

Exactly the same

[Buck Birdseed]

I'm sitting with Barry Buzan's "People, States and Fear" in my lap as I type this. It's a pile of cack.

Proper book, for enjoyment: Since it's exam-and-essay week, nothing since about monday. Back then it was "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Also: daily newspapers (I need some sort of break!) and heat magazine on wednesday.

[Donegeal]

"Dune:The Butlerian Jihad" by Brian Herbert (Frank Herbert's son) and the Sci-Fi legend Kevin Anderson

Set 10,000 year before the movie. Starts buring the revolt against the thinking machines. Explains the legends of Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guilds, the Mentats, the reason for the hate between House Harkonnen and House Atreides and much more that I haven't even begun to read yet.

[St Leo]

Brian Herbert deserves to be drawn, shot, quartered, boiled alive, tarred and feathered, hanged, and gas chambered for what he has done with his father's universe. He has managed to prove to the world that Chris Tolkien is not that bad of a chap.

"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond

Great book.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. again. Can't seem to sustain interest long enough to finish the bugger.

Best. Novel. Ever.

Well, that's a matter of opinion, but it's my favourite anyway. Read it.

Seriously, though, stop reading it if it doesn't sustain your interest, dude. Unless you have to read it for a class...

[Agathon]

Originally posted by St Leo
Brian Herbert deserves to be drawn, shot, quartered, boiled alive, tarred and feathered, hanged, and gas chambered for what he has done with his father's universe.

True.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. again. Can't seem to sustain interest long enough to finish the bugger.

Man that's probably the best structured and most accessible of the great 4.

Try "The Devils" the first 300 pages of that is a complete snore. Then Stavrogin comes on the seen.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by St Leo
Brian Herbert deserves to be drawn, shot, quartered, boiled alive, tarred and feathered, hanged, and gas chambered for what he has done with his father's universe.

Well, I haven't read any of the "House" books, so I am not sure what happened to those, but with the SF brilliance of Kevin Anderson, you still might want to give it a try...

[Jon Miller]

when I read a book I read a book

as in I read it straight through without stopping

sometimes I ready a couple

last time I read for fun, I read 2 of stephen Brusts books

I was bored at 2 am and did not want to go to sleep, so I read until morning

Jon Miller

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Mr. Oobir
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

Is this about Asia or the Middle East? Is it any good?

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Maniac
"Children of the Mind". JohnT's bookclub brought me on ideas.

Same here. I've started and stopped a couple of times. There's a lot of esoteric stuff that I find boring.

[devilmunchkin]

well..for the past semester, i've been reading nothing but Lord Byron...i'm taking a class on it..i have to eat, breathe, drink Lord Byron...and then i just finished up my research paper on the stupid bastard...i really don't like him now...cause he's EVERYWHERE!