What are you reading?

[Falucho]

You read books? Put the list of the books you read this year and the books you are reading right now

[Jeckidy]

I'm still working on several, but this year I finished The Scarlet Letter. I took some people's advice and skipped past the introduction chapter, "The Custom House" because of it's irrelevance and meandering. I thought it was a great book.

[Falucho]

This two weeks are full of:
Historia del pueblo argentino (History of the argentinian people) - Milciades Peña
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other - Tzvetan Todorov
Passages from antiquity to feudalism - Perry Anderson
New Cambridge Medieval History Vol. 1 - 500-700

[Crystalpepsifan]

Crying Freeman vol.4 & Grendel omnibus vol.3 and Stolen Valor.

[QuickSciFi]

I'm currently reading this thread:
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...ound-here-read

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[Mr Nuts]

I am still trying to get through the first Necroscope book (Brian Lumley),but I have also picked up cheap from a charity shop 'Harry Patch - The Last Tommy' and so I have two books on the go

[Lastcallhall]

A book on process control and instrumentation, a book on advanced telecommunications and some circuit analysis stuff - thats all for class.

In my spare time, im rereading American Psycho.

[acdc]

dr sleep it was to see a part 2 of the shining

and some comics durango

[Pulstar]

Your mind. And it is disturbing.

[Carl Sagan]

I've just read "The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship" by Charles Bukowski and the book is basically a diary of a man face to face with death, but what distinguishes this book is that Bukowski was a very jolly, tough and realistic guy so you really feel this great man fading away especially after all this years of reading his books that I come to this book which is an ending to them all or at least their protagonist.

But what also makes it special is that apparently the Croatian edition includes additional entries (dates if you want) that has not been included in any other edition in the world because the translator was very close friend to Bukowski and even had a letter that he wrote only nine days before his death so he talked his widow to write an introduction and give this unpublished entries so there is what seems to be the very last thing Bukowski ever wrote and that was how he's not able to write anymore and lamenting about how young he once was.
I guess it was a little bit surprising what an Apple geek he was at the end since he wrote on Macintosh and had riveting respect toward that machine.

[Spinball]

Don't like to read book's... But on the way from the UK to France taking the Car Train EuroTunnel i had to wait for a damn long time.
Wandering in the book store i found this book a while ago and started reading it to kill time. I have finished it couple months ago and suprised i readed it to the end.

Paul Carter's " Is that bike diesel, Mate ? "



It's kind of a diary when a man had a though life working off-shore and now becomes like a office dude and having wife,childeren etc...
Life is getting serious and now he wanted to do one big cool thing before he stops living like crazy. Driving around Australia with a bike !
But this bike is a bio-diesel engined.
It's realy funny book how he tell's about his life and what changed during his career switch. How he get's the mad idea to ride the bio-diesel donk.
How he arranged things to do this. The trip it self and the aftermath. I would say realy a guy's point of view. Funny jokes,stories and some technical aspect as well.

And now im reading this technical book about rebuilding engines.
Soon i want to have a nice car and want to fix it up.

[negative chill]

William Gibson's Count Zero and FASA's House Davion Sourcebook for Battletech

The last one provides a really awesome history of the lore of Battletech/Mechwarrior

[4Runner]

Console Wars...FOR THE SECOND TIME! It was great to hear about all that went on with SEGA during the 90's.

[Carl Sagan]

I've been reading "Flying Saucers and Science" by Stanton Friedman and there are some interesting stuff like:

"The chief theoretical reason against this possibility was essentially that the distances between Earth and other hypothetical planets are so great that "they can't get here from there." The theory was that it would take too much time and energy to build a fleet of flying saucers (or "motherships" analogous to aircraft carriers) to travel from some other star system to ours.
Alexander Zaitsev has sent out powerful signals (Active SETI) toward particular stars less than 100 light-years away. The concern is that maybe it isn't a good idea to announce our presence to the neighborhood, because there might be bad guys out there who would do bad things to us if they found out we were here. Think about that for a minute. If we assume they can do bad things to us, that certainly suggests they can get here."