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« Reply #1100 on: October 08, 2011, 05:19:08 AM » |
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There are plenty of things I could use, it's probably more to do with the fact my last lovely bookmark was in a book I loaned my ex partner, and it was a really nice bookmark too, it even had stitching.
I used to use cigarette papers briefly, but then I would run out of cigarette papers and it became an emergency paper.
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« Reply #1101 on: October 08, 2011, 11:15:44 PM » |
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Read "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline in about a day.
It was the best book.
The best.
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« Reply #1102 on: October 09, 2011, 01:12:16 AM » |
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"A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense" by Normand Baillargeau.
It's about how to detect bullshit, common argumentation errors and stuff like that, not about how to speak yourself out of thug's clutches.
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« Reply #1103 on: November 07, 2011, 01:15:20 AM » |
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Has this thread died?
I've just finished the Steve Jobs biography, but since I'm mostly interested in the design side of things, I found that the published articles I've read before about the actual development of the products were more interesting. Still, it never ceases to amaze how without the right people at the right time, there would have been nothing (and it happened several times throughout the history of Apple).
So now it's back to finishing A Short History of Everything (Guns, Germs and Steel sadly isn't available on Kindle yet, so I had to go for the other one), and after that perhaps finishing Captain Cook's journals (gives you an amazing perspective on things), unless I can find some other non-fiction book to read...
Apart from Pratchett (just finished Snuff, which was brilliantly crafted), I'm having difficulties with fiction these days.
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« Reply #1104 on: November 07, 2011, 01:30:47 AM » |
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Raistlin Chronicles: Brothers in Arms (Book 2) from the Dragon Lance series.
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« Reply #1105 on: November 28, 2011, 08:36:46 PM » |
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Read The Kite Runner last week, and just finished 1984 tonight.
Now I must lurk this forum to find a new book.
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« Reply #1106 on: November 28, 2011, 08:49:51 PM » |
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GG&S is a great book. I absolutely loved it. Also, Snuff looks soooo good. I was so tempted to get the hardcover. But alas. 30 bucks is out of my reach. I have been currently reading some China Mieville, and loving it! I am about 200 pages into Perdido Street Station, which is nice so far (no spoilers!), and I also have Kraken and Un Lun Dun lined up for afterwards. So far, so great! I also read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch before Perdido, which was a very, very good book. Highly recommended for those who like brain-twisting speculations on reality! |
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« Reply #1107 on: November 28, 2011, 09:41:52 PM » |
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Read The Kite Runner last week, and just finished 1984 tonight.
Now I must lurk this forum to find a new book.
I've been hearing good things about The Stand, and plan on reading it soon. |
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« Reply #1108 on: November 28, 2011, 10:26:54 PM » |
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Finally finishing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! A few decades too late, but gotta earn my sci-fi rites of passage achievement.
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« Reply #1109 on: November 29, 2011, 02:25:11 PM » |
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GG&S is a great book. I absolutely loved it. Also, Snuff looks soooo good. I was so tempted to get the hardcover. But alas. 30 bucks is out of my reach. I have been currently reading some China Mieville, and loving it! I am about 200 pages into Perdido Street Station, which is nice so far (no spoilers!), and I also have Kraken and Un Lun Dun lined up for afterwards. So far, so great! I also read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch before Perdido, which was a very, very good book. Highly recommended for those who like brain-twisting speculations on reality! That reminds me, I have a China Mieville book that I have yet to read after impulse buying it at a local Borders as it was selling everything on sale. As for what I'm currently reading : Crime and Punishment. |
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« Reply #1110 on: November 29, 2011, 05:02:18 PM » |
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Congrats Reives! Very great book. What are you gonna read next?
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« Reply #1112 on: December 01, 2011, 08:34:39 AM » |
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On The Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander.
A combination of formal theory and philosophy on design (Alexander is an architect himself). Somehow his books inspired computer scientists to invent Object Oriented Programming and Wikis later. It's very inspirational stuff.
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« Reply #1113 on: December 01, 2011, 09:30:59 AM » |
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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, alongside Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
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« Reply #1114 on: December 04, 2011, 05:31:07 AM » |
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Got Moominpappa's Memoirs and the Artemis Fowl collection for my birthday. Reading through Moominpappa's Memoirs atm. Gotta love those Moomins.
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« Reply #1115 on: December 04, 2011, 07:11:00 AM » |
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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, alongside Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
Thanks for reminding me -- I should really get around to reading Sartre. I've read about him in Irrational Man, though, and that was pretty fun. Currently reading Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely. It's an interesting little book about a bunch of silly decisions we humans make. And yes, it's just a coincidence that both these books have "irrational" in the name. The first book is about philosophy; the second is about the social sciences. |
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« Reply #1116 on: December 27, 2011, 01:38:56 AM » |
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Just finished Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. A damn fine read.
Lots of great tongue in cheek humor. Highly recommend.
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« Reply #1117 on: December 27, 2011, 03:20:43 AM » |
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The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
I'm wading through Sagan's books currently. Next one will be Pale blue dot.
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Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Highly recommend.
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« Reply #1119 on: December 28, 2011, 02:11:23 AM » |
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Rereading Albert Camus' The Plague since I reread The Stranger. I do love Camus.
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