Books Whats everyone reading atm?

[Shagrat]

Im on book1 of the wheel of time

 

[Billargh]

The Hunger Games

 

[Gwadien]

If anyone has read War and Peace by Tolstoy, is it worth reading? I've got it downstairs, but its huge.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Yes it's worth reading ffs.

 

[Gwadien]

Yes it's worth reading ffs.

thanks babe, love you.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

It wouldn't have lasted the years if it wasn't an interesting and valuable piece of literature

 

[Gwadien]

It wouldn't have lasted the years if it wasn't an interesting and valuable piece of literature

true dat true dat, but I just saw it downstairs, and its huge, and daunting, but I've always wanted to read it, then onto Mien Kampf(sp?) I know, it's meant to be garbage, but I love reading the memoirs of mad men

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Dostoyevsky wrote some really long novels... but once you get into them they don't feel long. The only bit of lengthy Russian literature that I found even slightly dragging was the first third of The Idiot.

 

[Zenith]

Currently reading Infinite Jest. Now thats a huge ass book. David Foster Wallace is truly a unique writer

 

[DaGaffer]

The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway. Just started it, as it seems to have really good reviews.

 

[Punishment]

Rereading wheel of time series for like the 3rd time

Friend was telling me about a book based around the reaping/judgement day where the chosen non sinners all vanish and it revolves around what happens to those left on earth, cant figure out its name tho

Last WOT book not out till 2013

 

[TdC]

book 10 of the WOT thing...

 

[cHodAX]

Read Vortex by Larry Bond a few weeks ago, have had it ages but never got around to it until recently. It is right up there with Tom Clancy's best stuff although the ending does tail off a bit but it did make complete sense considering some of the huge events that proceeded it.

 

[Agell]

Blue remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds, love his stuff

 

[Vasconcelos]

Mind blowing

 

[Bahumat]

I tried reading that but when they referenced theories I spent the next half hour trying to find them, and understand them lol

 

[TdC]

Mind blowing

first time I read that I was deeply hungover and travelling by train in Australia. I felt I understood everything. Later on I read it again and understood nothing

 

[Vasconcelos]

first time I read that I was deeply hungover and travelling by train in Australia. I felt I understood everything. Later on I read it again and understood nothing

Well, I had to read some chapters several times, those about singularities and the concept of space-time, that really picked up my interest.

Obviously, its not like reading Phillip K. Dick, some of the concepts expressed there (the quantum mechanichs etc) are for a higher level of physics knowledge, those I skipped or read through them.

 

[Killswitch]

http://www.amazon.com/Atheists-Angry-Things-Godless-ebook/dp/B007MCMKV6

 

[Killswitch]

Well, I had to read some chapters several times, those about singularities and the concept of space-time, that really picked up my interest.

Obviously, its not like reading Phillip K. Dick, some of the concepts expressed there (the quantum mechanichs etc) are for a higher level of physics knowledge, those I skipped or read through them.

Everyone with an interest in "popular science" should try to find the Mr Tompkins series by George Gamow. Incredibly fun to read. I'm also partial to Leon Ledermans history of experimental particle physics. Finally there's a book called "Ignition" by John D. Clark which I think has been out of print for a long time but is available as a PDF for free. It's a history of the development of liquid rocket propellants and it's both informative and hilarious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow#Mr._Tompkins_series
http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Particle-Universe-Question/dp/0385312113
http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

I got the lead on the Clark book from Derek Lowe's popular "Things I Won't Work With" segment on his blog which I also highly recommend;

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/

Enjoy!

 

[Sydrik]

Just finished The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie after reading the previous 4 books in the first law world in 4 weeks. Cracking series.

 

[TdC]

just finished book 11 of WOT

 

[Chilly]

Just re-read The Mote In God's Eye (absolute classis Sci Fi) by Niven and Pournelle.
Just starting to re-read Consider Phlebas by Banks.

I'm re-reading because the last 5 books I've read have been bollocks and I don't want to risk reading six bollocks books on the trot.

 

[soze]

I just started the Hunger Games and I am liking it so far. I did not see the film in the cinema but I am looking forward to the Blu Ray now.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

The Woman in Dunes by Kobo Abe.

 

[Zarjazz]

The novels of K. J. Parker. The Scavenger trilogy & The Engineer trilogy especially stand out. A weird hybrid of medieval engineering and very dark fantasy with incredibly precise & intricate jigsaw like plots. Very unique but maybe not to everyone's tastes.

 

[Killswitch]

Just finished Ben Goldacre's Bad Science and Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Just starting Speaker for the Dead (same author) and I'm re-reading Game of Thrones books 4 and 5 and studying for my CCNA, JNCIS and JNCIP exams.

 

[MrHorus]

Pushing Ice, by Alistair Reynolds.

 

[Chilly]

Pushing Ice, by Alistair Reynolds.

He's written some really good stuff, all the classic space aliens and lasers shit we all love deep down

 

[Agell]

Yet to find a book of his I didn't like. I hate to think how many shrooms he has taken in the past to expand his consciousness!