What are you reading?

ytee · Post by **ytee** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:32 pm

I'm reading this...I hate this guy and he's a wasteman...but it was lying around the house....it's only making me dislike him more.

afincham83 · Post by **afincham83** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:02 am

Theory and Reality: an introduction to philosophy of science
The Illiad
Critical Thinking: An Introduction

all for my uni. studies

spek23 · Post by **spek23** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:03 am

'A Short History Of Tractors In Ukranian'

Only just started it though so I couldnt comment...

One thing I could comment about though is MY NEW TUNE!

'Pete Tong Is Vermin'

Big Up man like Mike Strutter for the samples

www.myspace.com/spek23music

x

rojparody · Post by **rojparody** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:36 am

Reading the Supernatual Season One guide (as I finally got round to picking up the dvd), and Die For Me by Karen Rose, as I'm getting into crime thrillers again.

thief · Post by **thief** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:23 am

"the Draining lake" by Arnaldur Indridason... Icelandic detective steez, it's not bad... good and grey.

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:37 am

Aldous Huxley - Doors Of Perception

Only just starting this book, I loved brave new world and this seems very different but I really enjoy his writing

boomphat · Post by **boomphat** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:47 am

boots manuva wrote:My 2nd attempt at The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

I enjoyed that book.

geiom · Post by **geiom** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:40 am

datura wrote:
geiom wrote:'Crystal World' by man like J. G. Ballard
How is it? I read the Drowned World a few months back and really enjoyed it.

its great !

just read another Andrea Levy book called Never Far from Nowhere

quality insights into growing up in an immigrant family in England.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:44 pm

just started the dictionary of economics..

not studying it or anything, justs intrests me..

*grand* · Post by ***grand*** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:45 pm

bbc business section..

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:02 pm

boomphat wrote:
boots manuva wrote:My 2nd attempt at The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

I enjoyed that book.

foucault's pendulum was fun too.

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:24 am

I decided to re-read some books I've read in polish many years ago, this time in english (especially makes sense if they were written in english originally, doesn't it?) Right now I'm half way through The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick.

I'm also reading Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - this one requires quite some help from wikipedia, so is going kinda slow, interesting stuff though.

The third one started at the moment is The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea and Wilson. Also not the easiest read, but I find it quite hilarious.

datura · Post by **datura** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:44 am

ch3 wrote:h.

The third one started at the moment is The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea and Wilson. Also not the easiest read, but I find it quite hilarious.

it's funny but i thought it tailed off a bit toward the end..

I don't know how people can have more than 1 book on the go..i'd get confused lol

misk · Post by **misk** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:51 am

pretty interesting, light hearted and funny.

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:12 am

datura wrote:
ch3 wrote:h.

The third one started at the moment is The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea and Wilson. Also not the easiest read, but I find it quite hilarious.
it's funny but i thought it tailed off a bit toward the end..

I couldn't know that yet, still two parts to the end

datura wrote:I don't know how people can have more than 1 book on the go..i'd get confused lol

I do it because not all of the books are suitable to carry aroud and/or being read without help from dictionary or wikipedia (well, for me at least). I would start a more difficult book and read a few more approachable ones by the time I'm through with it.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:47 am

ch3 wrote:
datura wrote:
ch3 wrote:h.

The third one started at the moment is The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea and Wilson. Also not the easiest read, but I find it quite hilarious.
it's funny but i thought it tailed off a bit toward the end..
I couldn't know that yet, still two parts to the end

From wiki:

The plot and structure of Foucault's Pendulum are also reminiscent of that of the American "popular fiction" series, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, published 13 years earlier; it is unclear if Eco was aware of the earlier work before he conceived the idea.

I'll go back to the illuminatus trilogy one day. i read it, but was too stoned most of the time to appreciate it properly

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:19 am

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:08 am

'Kennedy's Brain' by Henning Mankell. It's a mystery but not a Wallander novel, and to be honest it's not as good as his usual stuff. Still pretty good tho

BLZDub · Post by **BLZDub** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:36 am

Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl. The man is a legend.

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:06 am

"A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail Lermontov, the first truly Russian novel, everything that had preceeded this was considered poetry in prose and considering the date of publication (1840) this novel was waaayyyy ahead of its time...

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