Do you read? / What are you reading?

Vlad Piranha · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject:

I read Newsweek or Time whenever I get the chance. It's fun to predict Obama's moves before he makes them.

Hirmuinen · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:33 am Post subject:

I just finished Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

Was suprisinly good read, even tho. the last chapter was little dragging.
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Messy Recipe · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject:

Current list to read after finals, separated by fiction, graphic novel, & nonfiction:

Atlas Shrugged - Rand
The Three Musketeers - Dumas
Treasure Island - Stevenson
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

Batman: Arkham Asylum - Morrison
Batman: The Long Halloween - Loeb
Batman: Hush (Vol. 1 & 2) - Loeb
Batman: Blind Justice - Hamm
Batman: The Man Who Laughs - Brubaker
Watchmen - Moore

Winning - Welch
Winning: The Answers (companion to above) - Welch
Outliers - Gladwell
Blink - Gladwell
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
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Birds can disable planes, Ostrom said, by flying into the engines and shutting them down.

Special Jimmy · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject:

Wow, your list of novels to read is extremely similar to mine. Hemingway is right up there, along with Atlas Shrugged (That'll probably be down the list actually). And treasure Island as well.

I just finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and started Lord of the Flies. Way too many books to read, I should stop buying them.
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MikeSty 22: they say Rome wasn't built in a day
MikeSty 22: but they never had the Fucking Cut Throats

anonymousity · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject:

Anyone doing any pirate books?

Just finished Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith. It was badass, a little too pirate-pornographic (their depictions of sex are hilariously detailed) and real over the top in absurd things the main hero does, but a valiant tale of piracy none the less.
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K9 Carlos · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:33 pm Post subject:

I just picked up Five Families. All about the 5 NY mob families.
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Bender · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject:

I'm reading catch-22 right now
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Roscoe · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject:

My brother comes home from college half way through the month so when he gets back I read Survivor and maybe Boots on the Ground.
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2shoes · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 9:11 am Post subject:

anonymousity wrote:

Anyone doing any pirate books?

Just finished Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith. It was badass, a little too pirate-pornographic (their depictions of sex are hilariously detailed) and real over the top in absurd things the main hero does, but a valiant tale of piracy none the less.

i have under the black flag maybe we should start a book circle or something
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This mod is rightfully ours, and fuck everyone that stands in our way.

fair winds and following seas, lil shoes 8/3/94-6/23/09

RK-Mara · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject:

Finished reading Crime and Punishment a couple days ago. Strange how much time you have on your hands without an internet connection.
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Messy Recipe · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject:

Special Jimmy wrote:

I just finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and started Lord of the Flies. Way too many books to read, I should stop buying them.

Brave New World was excellent. My copy had some lil short essay in the back too called "Brave New World Revisited" that was pretty good; basically Huxley examined what things had changed about the world since he wrote the book and how different things got closer to or further from what he had written about.

Haven't looked through this but I think this is the text of it:
http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/index.html

Bender wrote:

I'm reading catch-22 right now

That's one of my all-time favorites. I love how it repeatedly mentions the same events but in more and more detail with less of a whimsical feel the closer you get to the end...
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ABC News wrote:

Birds can disable planes, Ostrom said, by flying into the engines and shutting them down.

Stealth · Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject:

So I'm half reading a book.

Simple C++

Counts for something I guess.
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CountChocula · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject:

Special Jimmy wrote:

Axeblind wrote:

Stephen King(I've read almost everything he has put out)

Have you chased the man in black with childe Roland as well?

I bought both The Gunslinger and The Drawing Of The Three on Monday, on a whim. I read the first yesterday, and just now finished the second. I am now planning on going to the bookstore tomorrow to buy the rest of the series. Holy shit.
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Wang Chung · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:59 am Post subject:

I really read a lot of wikipedia.
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Brutus · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:31 am Post subject:

Several books on blacksmithing, gunsmithing, and woodworking. Also through 6 of the 8 Shakespeare plays goal.
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