Vacation Book Reading: What did you read?

[MarkG]

the last 6 days i read

Dan Brown - Digital Fortress : 6/10
Arthur Clarke - The Sentinel : 8/10
Michael Moore - Stupid White Men : 7/10

[Sava]

1 book in like the last year!

Bill Maher: New Rules : 9/10

[Richelieu]

I just finished John Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" (8/10) and i've started Bill Bryson's "A short story of nearly everything".

[laurentius]

I read these books this summer along with some discussion papers.

Risto Laulajainen: Financial Geography: A Banker's View 8/10
Adrian Goldsworthy : The Complete Roman Army(in finnish) 9/10
Jakobson, Sarvimäki: Perinteen taika. Nykyaika Kiinassa, Etelä-Koreassa ja Japanissa. (The power of tradition. Modern society in China, South Korea and Japan) 9/10
Popol Vuh -/10

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Sava
1 book in like the last year!

Bill Maher: New Rules : 9/10

One more than me then

[chequita guevara]

You gave Digital Fortress a 6/10? I'd give it a 4/10. Mildly entertaining. Cryptonomincon was soooooo much better.

[Zkribbler]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Wee Free Men, A Hatful of Sky, Equal Rites and Jingo By Terry Prachett: lol:

Started Bushworld by Maureen Dowd but fell asleep All the jacket blurbs said it is halarious, biting, etc. I couldn't find a chuckle.

Now I'm reading The Sun and the Moon It's okay; I'm still trying to figure out how it won the Nebula Award.

[chequita guevara]

Zkib, try Bushwahcked by Molly Ivans instead. She's a hoot.

[General Ludd]

A couple of Pratchett books (Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment), which I quite enjoyed. 7/10 and 9/10 respectively

Making marks - discovering the ceramic surface by Robin Hopper, which was invaluable. 10/10

Stayin' alive - survival tactics for the visual artist also by Robin Hopper, which is an interesting read. 8/10

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Zkib, try Bushwahcked by Molly Ivans instead. She's a hoot.

Okie doke!

[Flubber]

There was a vacation

I have spent the last year reading agreements. To break it up, I read legislation and for a real thrill I read regulations or guidelines.

hmm -- seriously though, my leisure reading has been composed of about a dozen light books that are all pretty instantly forgettable. I just want something to flip through on the bus whenever I'm not semi-asleep

[chequita guevara]

Europeans needs to remember that vacation is a forbidden word in North America.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Europeans needs to remember that vacation is a forbidden word in North America.

Somewhat true-- I have not been away from work for more than 3 days in about 15 months. But then again, 15 months ago I had a month long break but I hardly count unemployment as restful

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (a great novel in its own right -- Chabon sort of channeling E.L. Doctrow -- with the history of comic books as its backdrop; check it out!)

J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals (one of the funniest travel books I've ever read; check it out!)

And, of course, Hary Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[Al B. Sure!]

Shimon Malin, Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective
Good introduction to quantum physics and the history of it but the second half of the book is bizarre philosophizing.

Colin Bruce, Schrodinger's Rabbits
Good introduction to the many worlds theory.

Jim Al-Khalili, Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed
Good intro to physics.

John Barrow, The Book of Nothing
Excellent for history of mathematics but the astrophysics at the end if confusing.

Michio Kaku, Parellel Worlds

Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden
Interesting but cognition and biology weren't his strong areas.

Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Classic.

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Classic.

Samuel C. Weaver, Finance and Accounting for NonFinancial Managers
For school, not pleasure. Got it as a refresher because I don't remember my Principles of Accounting class well. This book doesn't go into anything beyond the first month of the course unfortunately (not surprising. it's for NONfinancial managers though)


and i read a few more but this was back in June and I can't remember their titles. I also read half of Hoftstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, but all that creating your own mathematical system thing got weird for me.