Question What are you reading?

[VF2_Rolf]

Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present
Col R. Ernest Dupuy and Col. Trevor N. Dupuy

 

[Columbia42]

I'm currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The writing is good but I feel like most of the book is just a rant against socialism in which the author tries to promote her (in my opinion) absurd philosophies.

 

[Keatah]

The History of U.S. Electronic Warfare, by Alfred Price. This is a book that talks about old electronics, the ones with BIG knobs and vacuum tunes. You know, those round radar scopes that only the military and sci-fi productions used.

 

[Jarvitä]

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

 

[Enjo]

The Mystery of Banking by Murray N. Rothbard

It tells stories as if it was written just yesterday.

 

[Urwumpe]

Just finished "Limit" from Frank Schätzing, a really good sci-fi novel with lots of nice things for Orbiteers, but also a lot of lengths, especially when the author explains the past and fictional future of an African country, with the long passage having actually only little explanations about the next developments.

Now I started reading "Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käptn Blaubär", a fantasy novel by Walter Moers, so far really entertaining, much better as I already expected. I had know the story already for a bit and had been planning for a while to buy the book, but its more fun when you finally read it.

 

[Jarvitä]

Just finished "Limit" from Frank Schätzing

Thanks, you've just given me the inspiration to put my education to the test and try to read a German novel. :tiphat:

 

[Arrowstar]

"How Would You Move Mt. Fuji?" by William Poundstone.

 

[SandroSalgueiro]

By the great Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes.

 

[astrosammy]

I can't stop to read all the Harry Potter books again and again (and everytime I come to a certain page in the 5th I have a "You know you're addicted to Orbiter when..." moment). I really need some spaceflight or science fiction stuff...

 

[Wishbone]

Lopukhovsky, Lev N. The Vyazma Disaster. (in Russian) Moscow, Exmo/Yauza, 2008.

 

[DanM]

I'm waiting for Scrambles Amongst the Alps and The Ascent of the Matterhorn, both by Edward Whymper (who led the first ascent of the Matterhorn), to ship.

(not the actual cover, but an engraving of Whymper's party summiting the Matterhorn)

I chose them because I have been interested in the Alps lately and hope to hike the Haute Route one day.

 

[Suzy]

I just finished "First Strike" by Eric Nylund, which was a decent read for a videogame novel. I've read most of the "Halo" novels now.

 

[Keatah]

Technical papers on the SSME.. Good bathroom reading especially when it comes to the combustion chamber part.

 

[Star Voyager]

I just bought this book off of Barnes & Noble. Has anyone read this one yet? If so, was it good?

 

[Turbinator]

CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES, for an Anthropology class. It's as fun to read as it is to watch paint dry.

 

[mode1bravo]

Just finished Al Worden's bio Falling to Earth. I have read quite a number of astronaut bios, & thought it was very good, right up there with the best of them. Not quite as good as Collins' Carrying the Fire, but that's in a class all by itself. Definitely an interesting take on the cover scandal, the crew dynamic and especially certain NASA brass at the time. :lol:

 

[Polaris]

Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces". and back issues of Game Informer.

 

[Scav]

"At All Costs." David Weber.

 

[Pyromaniac605]

My first time posting in this thead. (I think )

At the moment I'm reading Looking for Alibrandi for English at school, personally I don't really like it, I'm not quite sure what it is about it, maybe it's simply the fact that we read The Outsiders first, and that was a great book.

And if you could count them, I'm currently reading two visual novels, Narcissu and True Remembrance both of which I'd recommend to anyone who likes visual novels, or anyone who's never read a visual novel and is looking for a good place to start.