11-06-2003 20:03									#1
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What book (non-fiction or fiction) are you in the middle of reading right now?

I am in the middle of reading the non-fiction book titled, "Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America" by William C. Davis.

	11-06-2003 20:15									#2
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Oh, and for those who do not read anymore, books are those things with sheets of paper between two covers.

	11-06-2003 20:17									#3
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I just started reading Malcom X. It's pretty interesting.

	11-06-2003 20:18									#4
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quote: Originally posted by MrFun Oh, and for those who do not read anymore, books are those things with sheets of paper between two covers.

Yeah, but so are cigarette papers ("Rizla" or "Skins").

As for what book, I'm halfway through a text book on Object Oriented Programming. Not exactly inspiring stuff.

	11-06-2003 20:19									#5
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Americans know what books are

me:

Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull - Thomas Mann

Bush at War - Bob Woodward

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the only book I'm reading with any serious interest. Shoulda read it years before, but I don't read when I'm depressed, and I used to be very depressed.

Very funny stuff. The book that is.

	11-06-2003 20:19									#7
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Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes. I figure it's all right for a history book

	11-06-2003 20:20									#8
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Strange, it's the other way around for me and I've been reading loads recently

	11-06-2003 20:21									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Monk Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes. I figure it's all right for a history book

What is it about, exactly?

	11-06-2003 20:22									#10
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The Apology of an Anti-Hellene

it's an assortment of articles by a guy who has a very sharp (and critical) way of viewing greek society and politics. i like him a lot.

"apology" is in the ironic sense socratic - like.

	11-06-2003 20:23									#11
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This is not a form of Entertainment that I enjoy too much, since it is not participent, much like television. However, I soon plan to read 1984 after being told it is good.

	11-06-2003 20:24									#12
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Hašek's "The adventures of the brave soldier Švejk". May be the 5th time, or even more.

Eco's "Baudolino". The second time.

Both books, depending on my mood. I haven't much time to read, anyway.

	11-06-2003 20:25									#13
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I'm working through most of the Terry Pratchett books that I missed when they were first published. Pretty light stuff just to keep me amused during my lunch break.

Basically I'm just warming up for the 48-hour Harry Potter marathon when the 5th book is released in a couple of weeks and I read the whole thing from cover to cover without putting it down.

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is Svejk really that good? my parents and grand parents love it

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the posting message just quoted a Chinese child:

"An American is a man with 2 arms and 4 wheels"

	11-06-2003 20:26									#16
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Just finishing "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk. After that I'll finish "Galactic Patrol", the second book of E. E. "Doc" Smith's classic Lensman science-fiction series, which I postponed to read "Fight Club."

After that, I don't know... I'm coming off a six-month science-fiction binge (Niven, Orson Scott Card, Vance, etc.) I may pursue some non-fiction ("The Nothing That Is: A History of Zero", "How We Die", or Edward Wilson's "Consilience: A Unity of Knowledge"), and a friend has been recommending "The Agony and the Ecstasy", a 'fictional' biography of Michelangelo.

But honestly, I'm in a dark, gritty mood, so I may read a few crime novels, starting with Stark's "Payback" and then reading his other Parker novels.

Too many good books, and not nearly enough time...

	11-06-2003 20:26									#17
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quote: Originally posted by MrFun Oh, and for those who do not read anymore, books are those things with sheets of paper between two covers.

Eh?

I thought books are those txt files you get on file sharing programs and store on your hard disc?

Primitives.

	11-06-2003 20:26									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion is Svejk really that good? my parents and grand parents love it

It's a great anti war book. If I wouldn't love it too, would I read it the 5th time?

	11-06-2003 20:27									#19
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Confessions of a Talk Show Host or something like that by Larry Sanders (ie, Garry Shandling).

Something about apocalyptic thinking through the ages by Eugen Weber. I mean, the book is by Weber, not the apoca...never mind.

Have something about FreeBSD waiting for me at the library.

	11-06-2003 20:27									#20
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ha it is in english too!

http://www.ndimou.gr/e-anti.html


the older cover was much nicer.

	11-06-2003 20:28									#21
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I am rereading Art of War, by Sun Tzu...

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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet Basically I'm just warming up for the 48-hour Harry Potter marathon when the 5th book is released in a couple of weeks and I read the whole thing from cover to cover without putting it down.

Did you know that there is help available for people like you?

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BTW, anybody picked up Living History yet?

I look forward to hearing from Imran and/or Slowwwhand about it. Yeah, right...

	11-06-2003 20:31									#24
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Ajbera, how's Fight Club the book? I've only seen the movie, which I thought was absolutely fantastic.

So do the rest of you actually have like a dozen started books, but then just one or two that you really focus on? Or am I just weird.

	11-06-2003 20:32									#25
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Age of Extremes is basically a big book of world history 1914 to ninety-something. But I haven't read much yet; I'm thinking about a switch to the Marcus Wolf self-biography.

	11-06-2003 20:32									#26
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the art of war bores me, not as much as the prince though

uh Clem, something I wanted to ask you for ages... is that shrub?

	11-06-2003 20:33									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion the art of war bores me, not as much as the prince though

It is my favorite book..

	11-06-2003 20:36									#28
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Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier, and Silicon Dreams by Robert Lucky. Both are excellent, particularly the first one. If you only read one book about computer security, this is it.

	11-06-2003 20:36									#29
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count up the seven different types of terrain, out of your head!

	11-06-2003 20:37									#30
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I'm also reading something that, er, hasn't really been published yet. Not even done really. *cough*
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