What are you reading?
#274
Posted 14 February 2007 - 04:50 AM
I just finished Fidel by Tad Szulc. It mentioned For Whom The Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway so I read that. It really made me think a lot better of "Papa" as he's called. I'd attempted to read A Fairwell To Arms and found it to be dreadful and I'm glad all his stuff isn't like that.
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I don't know about you but I have never advocated that homosexuals, for any reason, be cut out of their mother's womb and thrown into a bin.
#275
Posted 16 February 2007 - 01:08 PM
I 'm in the first
stages of Stephen King's Cell.
I don't know if it was
his intention to make
the book funny as well
as morbid but
hey it works.
stages of Stephen King's Cell.
I don't know if it was
his intention to make
the book funny as well
as morbid but
hey it works.
Duct tape is like the force....
There's a lightside, a darkside
and it holds everything together
There are too many people in the world...We need another plague -Dwight K. Shrute [The Office]
#276
Posted 16 February 2007 - 01:49 PM
I just finished rereading a favourite from my childhood, Bridge to Terabithia. It's such a great book! So sad, though... I bought it last night because the previews for the movie they're making of it made me want to read it again. I hope the movie doesn't screw with the book.
I am writing about Jm in my signature because apparently it's an effective method of ignoring him.
#277
Posted 16 February 2007 - 02:14 PM
I'm reading... Engaging Customer Passion with E-CRM. I wish there was a little more tension in it...
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Pop quiz, hotshot. Garry Kasparov is coming to kill you, and the only way to change his mind is for you to beat him at chess. What do you do, what do you do?
#278
Posted 11 March 2007 - 03:20 AM
I'm currently reading Troy: Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell. About three quarters of the way through and finding it highly enjoyable. A very interesting fantasy take on the actions that lead up to the Trojan War. That and Hektor just kicked Achilles arse in a stand up fist fight. I always preferred Hektor.
Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter.
Yoda
Yoda
#280
Posted 05 May 2007 - 12:19 PM
Just finished The Gospel according to Biff by Christopher Moore - a very nice book, which somehow manages to assemble religion, fun and philosophy in an entertaining manner, even for atheists. I'd recommend reading it, I guess.
And I'm about to start reading Sun Tsu's Bing Fa. Yey!
And I'm about to start reading Sun Tsu's Bing Fa. Yey!
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Pop quiz, hotshot. Garry Kasparov is coming to kill you, and the only way to change his mind is for you to beat him at chess. What do you do, what do you do?
#281
Posted 05 May 2007 - 12:24 PM
QUOTE (David-kyo @ Mar 11 2007, 05:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Started reading Bram Stoker's Dracula with great expectations, realized it was boring crap and threw it out the window. I'm re-reading Fog Juice from Yahtzee to cool my nerves and boost up some endorphines.
Dracula was awesome. It is a bit wordy at times but its far better than the stupid tripe they're coming up with these days.
#282
Posted 05 May 2007 - 12:28 PM
QUOTE (Gobbler @ May 5 2007, 07:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And I'm about to start reading Sun Tsu's Bing Fa. Yey!
Art of War is coo'. Has some good anecdotes that are all about killing people.
#283
Posted 19 May 2007 - 01:08 PM
I am reading the autobiography of Koba/Stalin, very interesting, although it also deals a lot with the inner-politics of the Bolshevik/Menshevik Party/Parties and the Stalinist/Soviet Party/Parties years later. Gives several enlightening first hand accounts of the man behind “The Man Of Steel”.
Also reading “1984” and it has given me several ideas about how the world should be run.
Also reading “1984” and it has given me several ideas about how the world should be run.
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#285
Posted 03 July 2007 - 11:31 PM
I'm currently finishing up The Man who Tasted Shapes, by Richard Cytowic. it's all about synesthesia and brains in general, and it's very interesting.
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....We'd be lying though.
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Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
-Laughlyn
If my doctor tells me to exercise, I am going to force him to do my homework.
-Mirithorn
- Do Not Use the Elevators - deviantART - Infinite Monkeys -