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I'm presently reading A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, and Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
What about you?
Cubsfan
10-20-2005, 05:13 PM
What about you?
This thread
Actually I'm reading My job Went to India (And all I got was this lousy book)
Actually I'm reading My job Went to India (And all I got was this lousy book)
Heh. Got an ISBN to share?
Cubsfan
10-20-2005, 05:21 PM
Heh. Got an ISBN to share?
Sure!
ISBN:0-9766940-1-8
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mjwti/index.html
If you're interested in reading it, let me know. There's a short article he wrote that will kind of give you an idea of what the book is about.
BigJon
10-20-2005, 05:22 PM
The Killing Floor
Mommypooh
10-20-2005, 05:24 PM
Read??? What is this thing called Reading???
J/K I am not currently reading a book I am thinking and pondering about reading the Harry Potter books. My DD loves the movies so maybe we could read the books together. Well I will read till she falls asleep and then read until I am done for the night and then pick up where I left off the next night. So...
ialsohaveadream
10-20-2005, 06:09 PM
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.
ShawnLee
10-20-2005, 06:20 PM
Aside from school reading and church prep reading, I just finished The Game: Penetrating the Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss. Funny book.
johnnymk
10-20-2005, 06:31 PM
Aside from school reading and church prep reading, I just finished The Game: Penetrating the Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss. Funny book.
Are you learning to be a pimp? :naughty:
avlena
10-20-2005, 06:33 PM
Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The quick summary:
A classic of modern African writing, this is the tale of what happens to tribal customs and old ways when white man comes.
jstreet
10-20-2005, 06:37 PM
Katherine Graham's Personal History
ShawnLee
10-20-2005, 06:55 PM
Are you learning to be a pimp? :naughty:Actually not. The book is more about the author's descent into that community. But the tricks he does discuss are mostly pretty common sense. There are a few things that I wouldn't have thought of, and probably wouldn't use, but yeah, it's more of a good narrative.
oblongmelon
10-20-2005, 07:12 PM
I've got 3 books going..
1) Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra
2) Death March-The Survivors of Bataan by Donald Knox (my uncle was a survivor and carried bits of shrapnel in his back till the day he died..
3)Lessico Famigliare by Natalia Ginzburg
Airencracken
10-20-2005, 09:36 PM
I've been doing a bit of light reading after a classics binge. So I just finished Enders game, and am about to read Knife of Dreams. Then I have like 30 books in my queue.
ladyluck
10-20-2005, 09:45 PM
i just finished this book: In the Tub, Gone....
Thesifer
10-20-2005, 10:10 PM
Harry Potter
TofuNinja
10-20-2005, 10:24 PM
Just finished Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Others books that I have started and read a few chapters at a time are The Merlin Effect, Hard Rain, and The Bourne Supremacy.
Although I want to read the novel version of Serenity :)
Airencracken
10-20-2005, 10:33 PM
http://www.ragingstorm.org/dummies.jpg
:)
zenbooty
10-20-2005, 10:46 PM
Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart".I had to read that in high school. My english teacher was a self-righteous rotting ex-hippie.
I'm currently readiing the modern classic Design Patterns. Its the Bible of OO programming!
avlena
10-20-2005, 10:50 PM
I had to read that in high school. My english teacher was a self-righteous rotting ex-hippie.
I'm currently readiing the modern classic Design Patterns. Its the Bible of OO programming!
:shrug: i read it in HS too, by choice, and remember liking it (I'm not far enough into the book to know yet if I still do).
Cheesypuff
10-20-2005, 11:25 PM
God of the possible.
this books speaks of God "foreknowledge" and humans power of choice. GREAT book (so far...only half way done)
mwatson
10-21-2005, 05:05 AM
The Joke by Kundera
zenbooty
10-21-2005, 05:30 AM
:shrug: i read it in HS too, by choice, and remember liking it (I'm not far enough into the book to know yet if I still do).Eh, I might have liked it if it wasn't assigned reading :D
Lolita
10-21-2005, 06:00 AM
Just finished Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. Now I'm taking a break between books by re-reading The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes :)
baggio248
10-21-2005, 07:44 AM
Planet Simpsons
It's very interesting.
Freelance Superhero
10-21-2005, 12:14 PM
Just finished Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. Now I'm taking a break between books by re-reading The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes :)ooh, i'm reading Trainspotting at the moment.
also reading The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, and dabbling in short story collections by James Baldwin and John Updike.
exigent_chick
10-21-2005, 05:50 PM
I just finished reading The Devil Wears Prada. I thought it was a piece of crap.
I am reading The Complete Idiots Guide to Screenwriting right now. It is interesting.
Jenny
10-21-2005, 06:09 PM
Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman and a romance of some sort
dbax791
10-21-2005, 06:23 PM
Just finished "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton.
Great read. It's really timeless although written in 1969.
Next up is "1776" and I also want to read "Freakonomics"
Sirrich3
10-21-2005, 06:31 PM
The New edition of Maxim. Nice pics too
Itsme
10-21-2005, 06:51 PM
Just finished reading a new paperback that just came out....."Just One Look" by Harlan Coben. It was a very good story, kept me turning pages. The only problem was that the last chapter or two had so many convoluted turns, that there was no way anyone could have figured out "who dunit." Sort of ruins it for me when no matter what I have figured it was something else...kind of improbable.
TofuNinja
10-21-2005, 10:40 PM
Gee just added to my reading list (it keeps growing really). Bought Ric Flairs Book, Serenity (started it), and the Great Tree of Avalon Book two. :) Gosh I love reading
zenbooty
10-22-2005, 12:59 AM
I just finished reading The Devil Wears Prada. I thought it was a piece of crap.
I am reading The Complete Idiots Guide to Screenwriting right now. It is interesting.Hey, you moved to Baltimore/DC? When?
And are you looking to write a screenplay? Tell us more!
dougadam
10-22-2005, 08:31 AM
Stephen King Hearts in atlantis
:bandit:
kimchicowboy
10-22-2005, 09:19 AM
"thoughtless acts?: observations on intuitive design" by jane fulton suri and the IDEO staff.
ArkiStan
10-23-2005, 09:59 AM
Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories Vol 1.
Butch
10-23-2005, 10:21 AM
On my vacation, I read Catch 22 (Heller), Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Rousseau), and America (Jean Baudrillard).
Not sure what I'm going to read next. I usually don't find the time/effort except when I'm on vacation.
ride2bhi
10-23-2005, 04:21 PM
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
**note: Good so far, but damn those Japenese names. Tough to keep all the characters straight, especially when the protagonist changes his name as he gets older and brothers have names that are only different by one freaking letter...
Houdini
10-23-2005, 04:44 PM
The Radioactive Boy Scout
and rereading Guns of the South
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