Whatcha Reading???
I have a passion for books. I even ran a bookstore for a short time. I currently have Dune: the Butlerian Jihad waiting for me on my coffee table and after that I should be reading Pimp: the story of my life by Iceberg Slim. The movie should be out soon, starring Ice Cube.
What are you reading??? What's your fav book???
My favorite is a tie between House of Leaves and Watership Down.
What are you reading??? What's your fav book???
My favorite is a tie between House of Leaves and Watership Down.
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Reading "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh"
Excellent choice, I read it a few years back and then gave it to my little sister.
Next up: The closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
After that, something lighter, a lot lighter Maybe the Harry Potter series, I haven't read those yet.
Favorite book: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Still, interesting puzzles, interesting philosophical ideas, and a good effort in creating sympathetic characterization of the various opposing players in the intrigue.
(no, not the movie star)
Originally posted by ColanderOfDeath
I'm part way through Margaret Wise Brown's fatalistic epic, Goodnight Moon. Marvelous so far.
oh jesus i'm going to have an aneurism from laughing over here
Originally posted by ColanderOfDeath
I'm part way through Margaret Wise Brown's fatalistic epic, Goodnight Moon. Marvelous so far.
remember the simpson's episode with christopher walken reading "goodnight moon"?
"children you're not scooching!"
i'm just finished reading "what einstein told his cook" (kitchen science explained) by robert l. wolke. it was excellent. his writing reminds me of david poque's "missing manuals" he takes a tedious subject matter into something fun to read.
now i'm reading "american colonies" by alan taylor, which so far has been like brushing my teeth.
favourite books?
impossible to limit it to less than ten (which change)
how about just a few suitable for summer sun...
Fiction:
Stranger in a Strange Land - R.A.Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
LoTR - J.R.R. Tolkein
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Non-Fiction:
Natural History of the Senses/Love
Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Uriel's Machine
The Holographic Paradigm (essays)
next up:
The Cambridge Quintet - John Casti
The Code Book (Cryptography) -Simon Singh
(Stephen Baxter is an English author and thought of as the natural successor to Arthur C. Clarke)
But everyone interested in reading ought to check the link below out: The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War.
I found this "cut and paste" after doing a quick search because I have had a photocopy of this article kicking around my office ever since it appeared in the TLS on October 6, 1995.
Has anyone read all 100?