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« on: July 13, 2010, 01:10:29 pm » |
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Books are fucking awesome. I just started Dune, it's good so far, a surprisingly slow read though. This thread is for the the discussion and recommendation of books |
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 02:01:09 pm » |
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Yes. I should read that at some point. Last year I read 32 books. This year is off to a somewhat slower start, primarily cause I have a girlfriend now haha. I'm working on my ninth and tenth books of the year at the moment: The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, and Vol. 2 of the Complete Sherlock Holmes. I've started a lot more than that --probably 55 or 60-- but I tend to drop books if I don't like them. Of the 40 I've read since the start of 09, I'd recommend the following (in no particular order, extra special ones are in bold): Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov The Mantle of the Prophet, by Roy Mottahedeh Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee2666, by Roberto BolanoEichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah ArendtInfinite Jest, by David Foster WallaceThe Varieties of Scientific Experience, by Carl Sagan Alphabet Juice, by Roy BlountOpen, by Andre Agassi Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges Watchmen, by Alan Moore Homicide, by David Simon A Tranquil Star, by Primo Levi The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong A Wanderer in the Perfect City, by Lawrence Weschler As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow The Little Prince, by Antoine du Saint-Exupery Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou The Mismeasure of Man (and essays), by Stephen Jay Gould A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton Sleep, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov Applied Nutrition for Mixed Sports, by Lyle McDonaldThe Looming Tower is also freaking fantastic so far. I'm about 3/4 of the way through. |
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 02:29:36 pm » |
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Yes.
I should read that at some point.
Last year I read 32 books. This year is off to a somewhat slower start, primarily cause I have a girlfriend now haha. I'm working on my ninth and tenth books of the year at the moment: The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, and Vol. 2 of the Complete Sherlock Holmes. I've started a lot more than that --probably 55 or 60-- but I tend to drop books if I don't like them. Of the 40 I've read since the start of 09, I'd recommend the following (in no particular order, extra special ones are in bold):
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Mantle of the Prophet, by Roy Mottahedeh
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee
2666, by Roberto Bolano
Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
The Varieties of Scientific Experience, by Carl Sagan
Alphabet Juice, by Roy Blount
Open, by Andre Agassi
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
Watchmen, by Alan Moore
Homicide, by David Simon
A Tranquil Star, by Primo Levi
The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong
A Wanderer in the Perfect City, by Lawrence Weschler
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow
The Little Prince, by Antoine du Saint-Exupery
Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
The Mismeasure of Man (and essays), by Stephen Jay Gould
A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton
Sleep, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov
Applied Nutrition for Mixed Sports, by Lyle McDonald
The Looming Tower is also freaking fantastic so far. I'm about 3/4 of the way through.
40 since 09? Lightweight  . Adarq can attest to this, I read 40 books in one month last summer. (adarq looks very strange when capitalized) I have not been reading as much as I want to this year. Despite reading daily, I have only read like 10 books, LAME. I liked the book I read by Coetzee, Youth. Sagan is awesome. Watchmen is awesome. How was Logicomix? |
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2010, 02:35:55 pm » |
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What is it about 2010 being a slower year? 40 books in a month is pretty damn impressive. Were any of them coloring books?  I don't have anywhere close to enough time anymore to do that. Oh well... |
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2010, 02:54:27 pm » |
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What is it about 2010 being a slower year? 40 books in a month is pretty damn impressive. Were any of them coloring books? I don't have anywhere close to enough time anymore to do that. Oh well... My computer was broken, I read for like 5 hours a day. It was awesome. Some books were between 100 and 200 pages, to be fair, but I read 2 of those in a day to make up for it. |
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2010, 03:11:49 pm » |
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So, bragging contest aside (you win, you win), got any good recommendations out of all those books? |
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2010, 03:38:18 pm » |
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i'll post a list of some of my books that i used to enjoy reading, in a bit, all computer programming books though.. |
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2010, 03:38:51 pm » |
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So, bragging contest aside (you win, you win), got any good recommendations out of all those books?
Sure. In return I would like to know what you thought of Logicomix. Turn of the Screw, Henry James Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster V for Vendetta, Alan Moore Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 1984, George Orwell These are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head, if they stuck with me more than the others, there must have been something good about them. |
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2010, 05:24:55 pm » |
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Logicomix is very good, really beautifully put together. And it's an engrossing story. |
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« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2010, 06:31:23 pm » |
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Logicomix is very good, really beautifully put together. And it's an engrossing story.
MATHS IS COOL. I was looking into Logicomix a while ago, and the Principia Mathematica is mentioned a fair bit in Godel, Escher, Bach, so your input has tipped me over the edge. I am definitely going to buy it. |
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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2010, 03:08:21 pm » |
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So, bragging contest aside (you win, you win), got any good recommendations out of all those books?
Sure. In return I would like to know what you thought of Logicomix. Turn of the Screw, Henry James Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster V for Vendetta, Alan Moore Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 1984, George Orwell These are the ones that I can remember off the top of my head, if they stuck with me more than the others, there must have been something good about them. Will add all but 1984 to the list. |
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« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2010, 03:42:15 pm » |
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i'll post a list of some of my books that i used to enjoy reading, in a bit, all computer programming books though..
now i finally know why you know sooooo much about computers |
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« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2010, 12:16:16 am » |
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Ooohhhh reading. Always read alot. Now that I go to school again I dont have the time to read as much, other than my homework that is. Ive read most of the Preston and Child books, and enjoyed them immensely. A sure recommendation. |
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« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2010, 01:09:26 pm » |
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Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes Check it out. |
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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2010, 10:57:41 am » |
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LBSS, I got Logicomix from Amazon, it arrived yesterday. I read it in a single sitting today. Thoroughly enjoyable, though not particularly enlightening for me, as I have acquainted myself with the thought of many of the featured characters. I would recommened it to anyone interested in philosophy or mathematics in its quintessential form. |
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