16-10-2004 05:30									#31
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Klug and Cumming's Concepts of Genetics and a bit of Physical Chemistry for Biochemists and a few chapters of Atkin's Physical Principles of Chemistry for my courses.

For my own fun, Homosexuality and Civilisation I'm still slogging through. The Italian city-state period is such a drag....all they did was burn gays at the stake.

	16-10-2004 06:12									#32
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Right now I'm reading. A Brief History of Everything - Ken Wilber, Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, and an introduction to Nietzsche.

	16-10-2004 06:33									#33
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and what would the title of that introduction be?

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The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy

	16-10-2004 08:05									#35
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Besides my school stuff, I'm reading

Fictions by Borges,
The Cornelius Chronicles by Moorcock,
Pornography by Gombrowicz
and Pale Fire by Nabokov.

Just finished The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. It was ok, but all that crap about the I Ching was a major turn off...

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quote: Originally posted by nostromo Pale Fire by Nabokov.

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Colin McGinn on Nabokov:

quote: On a purely personal level, studying the novel [Lolita] is a humbling experience for anyone who has tried their hand at fiction: Nabokov's talent is so awe-inspiring that it makes you want never to put clumsy pen to paper again.

	16-10-2004 08:21									#38
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The House of Morgan, and Titan, a couple of histories about the accomplishments of the Morgan bank and John Rockefeller.

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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer and what would the title of that introduction be?

Something like 'A brief introduction to Nietzsche' by Oxford books. I don't have the book with me right now so I don't remember for sure though.

	16-10-2004 11:08									#40
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America by Jon Stewart

Well, not really. Planning on getting it, though.

A Storm of Swords by Martin, Lincoln by Vidal, and various text books (on seismology, differential gemoetry, tensor analysis, and Bengali).

	16-10-2004 11:18									#41
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A Grammar of the Film - Raymond Spottiswoode
the snobbiest book on film EVER

also, I'm thinking of abandoning Ray Bradbury's "From The Dust Returned". The first half of it was excellent, but it seems to have jumped the shark, so to speak.

Also, "Giving Up The Gun" - the story of how the Japanese as a collective nation decided to simply not use gunpowder-weapons, for a period in their history.

I'm also reading the collected poems of Philip Larkin. I don't really enjoy his poetry, but I guess he's ok. Technically brilliant poet, but absolutely no heart and soul.

	16-10-2004 11:53									#42
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The problem with Literary Fiction is that they do their utmost to toss away the formulaics of plot, but end up just stretching out Exposition to last the whole book. That's just stupid. y = x is still a formula. It's just a more boring one than f(x,y) = y^sin(y) + x^sin(x)

I am currently on Chapter 10. Great book, yes. Fun. Delightful. Detailed.

Unfortunately, I don't really see the point of anything after Chapter 4. Yes, India. Yes, Kerala. Great settings. Do something with them.

	16-10-2004 11:55									#43
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quote: have to only like books that agree with me philosophically now?

Not at all.

Just wondered why you like the book.

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quote: I haven't read much from the Bible lately. Not sure if I've read the whole New Testament, but pretty sure I've read most of it. I think I've read less than half of the Old Testament. Out of both Testaments, the book I've read the most, the one that sticks most in my memory, and my favorite book is Genesis.

I've read the NT, still plenty of the OT that I haven't read through.

I'm not sure which is my favourite. Romans I like, but Job also holds pleasures.

	16-10-2004 16:48									#45
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I should read Don Quixote again.


My mother read that to me when I was a kid... such a great story.

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Just finished Pale Fire by Nabokov some time ago. What can I say, great minds think alike, and some on apolyton also.

Also finished Maequez' One Hundred Years of Solitude the other day. Couldn't understand the fuzz about it, I couldn't get into it at all.

Now I'm reading a biography about the 15th century Swedish king Karl Knutsson Bonde (he was king three times) By historian Dick Harrison.

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"The transparency of Evil" by Jean Baudrillard

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I have a gorgeous hardback copy of Gaarder's "Sophies World" on my shelf but I haven't even opened it yet!

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I'm reading Manda Scott's 'Boudica - dreaming the eagle', there are a couple more in the series and its not bad as historical novels go.

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Two books, which I find interesting, although some people say I'm too obsessed with subjects like these.

The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution by Gerard J Milburn

And

Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh.

Good books.

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quote: Originally posted by Whaleboy I have a gorgeous hardback copy of Gaarder's "Sophies World" on my shelf but I haven't even opened it yet!

That was the book that got me seriously interested in actually reading other philosophers, as opposed to just thinking about philosophy.

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Kuci, who do you read?

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Well, I picked up another Ian Rankin crime novel set in good old Edinburgh - Set in Darkness. The Inspector Rebus crime novels I've read so far have been pretty damn good. It's nice living in the place where the books are set - means I know where everything is, right down to the individual pubs and restaurants.

I'm also re-reading the Discworld books. The wizards' banter is hilarious as ever. On the other hand, I really dislike the Luggage.

	16-10-2004 20:27									#54
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Just finished Chapter House Dune recently. I'll probably be reading through the whole Dune series again soon (once I get my copy of the first one back from the friend I lent it to).

In the meantime, I don't have much time for reading, aside from doing research for the essays I will have to hand in at uni in the next couple of weeks.

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I just got a couple of books about the AOL/Time Warner fiasco ... some fun reading in the week ahead.

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Just finished The 9/11 Commission Report and The Pefect Storm.

Now, I'm reading Prof. Glyn William's The Prize of All the Oceans, a true story of the British squadron sent out in 1740 to travel around Cape Horn and capture the Manila galleon.

(These guys were so f*ucked. Six ships & 2,000 men set out. One ship and less than 500 men made it back. The Spanish ships sent to intercept them did worse. Their commodore tried to make it around the Horn first, so his ships could re-fit, restock and be fresh to meet the Brits when they emerged battered from rounding the Horn. But the Spanish were repeated pushed back by gales and most of them starved to death. )

Coming up next: Something, anything, by Terry Prachett. I need a levity break!

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Strata by Terry Pratchett. I've read the entire Discworld series (started when I was 8, still reading 50% of my life later ) and;

The Stone Canal by Ken Macleod. Something that I can read that slows my mind down, so that i can fall sleep at night.

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I was reading "The da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown but I've somehow lost it. I can highly reccomend the first 53 pages or so

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The Da Vinci Code is excellent. Most of Dan Brown's books are though. Makes you think.

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@ Flip. The Da Vinci Code was mediocre at best. I thought it was a rather poorly-written jumble of chases with some random factoids about phi thrown in. A much better book would be The Rule of Four.