Question What are you reading?

[Arrowstar]

I'm confused: are books usually free where you live?

There is this thing called a library. :lol:

I'm thinking of restarting "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind, because I enjoyed it.

 

[jedidia]

I'm confused: are books usually free where you live?

:lol:

No, that was swiss humor. We have a habit of stating the obvious as if we just discovered and were very upset about it...

 

[thomasantony]

Now finally reading Brisingr.

 

[Omhra]

Child hood and adolescence. Developmental Psychology... Shaffer

"hey, careful, Joey! God sees every thing we do, then he goes an' tells Santa Claus".

 

[Moonwalker]

I don't read sophisticated literature. I'm a geek who basically prefers flight training stuff (commercial aviation) and operating manuals of civil Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

Currently I'm reading the Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321 FCOM (Flight Crew Operating Manual) which is around 2500 pages but including all the performance and flight planing tables, in preparation for professional (as far as possible) MSFS flight simming (http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/review/abvol2.htm)

 

[FordPrefect]

Don't laugh at me, but I am currently reading a book about...

Brain Research :blink:

It's pretty interesting, honestly!

 

[Arrowstar]

Don't laugh at me, but I am currently reading a book about...

Brain Research :blink:

It's pretty interesting, honestly!

I'm surprised you're not reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, honestly, what with the forum nickname.

 

[tblaxland]

The book I'm reading now (Knife of Dreams) is the same book I started reading before my daughter was born. She turns three in February and I'm nearly at the end :dry:

Hooray! I finally finished Knife of Dreams. Now on to Mike Mullane's Riding Rockets. Hopefully it won't take me anywhere near as long to read...

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

Have read Sun Tzu's The Art of War's 13 chapters. I liked them very much! Will be reading another edition with in depth historical info about him. It's good reading!

 

[Quick_Nick]

I finished reading "Ender's Game". Great book! A book for all age groups interested in space & science fiction, not just young adults.

I just picked up the next 2 books in the series, "Speaker for the Dead" and "Xenocide".

We just finished reading Ender's Game in school. (9th grade) We're reading Fahrenheit 451 now.

 

[BHawthorne]

The Education of Henry Adams. I had to write an essay on a quote from this book earlier this week. It's freely available though Google's online book archive so I thought I'd read it.

Tex: I read 2/3rds of the way though Xenocide while on a vacation awhile back. I inadvertantly left the book in a rental van. So much for completing that read...lol.

 

[Tommy]

Re-reading Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan because it was lying around and I got bored. Kind of a cross between Phillip K Dick and Dashiel Hammet, with a hint of William Gibson style genetic engineering.

I like that he really considers the implications of the tech he invents, the impact it has on society and how people see the world. The tech thoroughly affects his character's worldview on a deep and subconcious level.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

University Physics - Young & Freedman

Yes I have that one too, used it a lot. Quite good, maybe even comparable to the Feynman Lectures of Physics!

Currently reading;
Still reading "Revolt in the Desert" (about the Arab revolt), by T.E. Lawrence.

Also reading: "The pleasure of finding things out" by Richard P. Feynman.
(you can find the videos of the interviews on which this book is based on Youtube as well)

regards,
mcduck

 

[bujin]

This week, oi arr been mostly readin'

The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins

A little over 2 months later, and I'm still not even halfway through this book!

Bloody good though.

 

[SpaceCowboy]

A book about Robert Goddard. After that I'll be reading about Wernher Von Braun.

Case for Mars is very good. Not too technical, but provides plenty of details.

 

[Brad]

Just finished a classic... War and Peace.....WHEW...what a book!

 

[cjp]

Reading "Gödel, Escher, Bach".

 

[Andy44]

I could've swore somebody in this thread steared me towards Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road, but I can't find any references to it on Orbiter-Forum.

Anyway, it somehow made its way to my Amazon wish list and I got it for Christmas, so that's what I'm reading. So far so good. It's about a future time in which most of humanity has been wiped out by a plague and the descendants of the survivors are rebuilding civilization in North America, but have almost no knowledge of those who created the ruins and roads across the continent. A party of them goes on a quest to find a mythical hiding place where the knowledge of the old civilization (that's us) is supposedly stored.

 

[Classico42]

Re-reading the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, on book 19 "Hundred Days." Love this series.

 

[Andy44]

Just started reading Longitude by Dava Sobel, the story of the first practicle clock that could be used aboard ships at sea for finding longitude. Foreward written by Neil Armstrong (whose shipboard clock, BTW was an Omega Speedmaster watch).

Cool story, it starts out discussing the great astronomers and how they tried using the moons of Jupiter as a clock to find the time in Greenwich. I had thought of this idea myself, but Gallileo and others tried it and found it impracticle for ships, since it requires clear sky, Jupiter visiblilty, and a dead calm sea to keep the telescope steady. But it works fine on land, and was used to map the Americas before John Harrison's famous clocks finally solved the problem at sea.