DAS44 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 What're you reading? Doesn't have to be musical :) For me Though this one I'll be doing it slowly, one section a day :) After that I'll probably be tackling For Whom the Bell Tolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'm just finishing up "Those Guys Have All The Fun (inside the world of ESPN). Interesting read but can get tedious covering such a vast history with the number of personalities involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Strange as this may sound, for fiction I'm reading an odd 1980s book series about the "seventh carrier." The Chinese put up a laser satellite system with "star wars" technology that makes jets and rockets targets for destruction. The rest is a WWII sort of saga set in the 1980s with the bad guy being... A Libyan dictator named Khadafi. Then a bit of rereading a couple bits of Aristotle for discussion on another forum and a treatise on the cyclical nature of "western" recessions and "depression" and how they have been international in nature for at least the past 160 years or so, affecting North America as well as the Europeans. Reading Hemingway was a long time ago for me. For what it's worth, the joke that's supposedly true comes from the era in which Hemingway was a war correspondent. It apparently seemed to him that everything the famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote got printed; Hemingway's material was much less used. Supposedly he send one dispatch signed, "Ernie Hemorrhoid, the poor man's Pyle." m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Linux Command line and shell scripting bible and Beginning Unix Yes I know it is exciting reading. I'm 6 classes away from finishing my IT degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'm gonna read "Dianetics" then **** Cheyen's "In my Time". I feel like being Bull Sh*tted and I want to see if my head explodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHW Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm currently rereading The Hobbit for the umpteenth time, as well as Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock. The latter is the book which sparked the idea for the Stargate franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-7 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 For guitar purposes: For a nice little trip out of the monotony I'm battling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Ha! ^^ Me too!! Usually these threads are full of intellectual reads that no one is ACTUALLY reading but they want you to think they are... Glad to see we're not all like that here!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted August 27, 2011 Author Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm waiting for paperback! Rarely do I get anxious enough to buy a hardcover :(. Great series, though I find each book lacks a denouement in a form I can conclusively identify because there are so many different plots going on within one book. 'cause of that I feel like it should be one giant book instead of five smaller ones! Love them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantha Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I've been fascinated with quantum mechanics the last few years. It's very weird stuff. I'm about halfway through this book and I highly recommend it if you're interested in the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FirstMeasure Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 In earnest I'm not reading anything right now. This thread is a nice inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Pepy's Diary.... An enjoyable window into everyday life in mid 17th century London Down to earth and amusing.... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't enjoy reading fiction and don't read a lot of books (and my wife is director of libraries in our county). I play guitar in my spare time. The last book I read last Spring was Miles, Miles Davis' autobiography, and I couldn't put it down. I am in the process of reading and playing all of the exercises in Levine's The Jazz Theory Book. This could take at least a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT ED Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Neil Peart. Ghostrider travels on the healing road. I could,t put it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Allen Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Thriller in the vein of 24, if you like Jack Bauer style stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't enjoy reading fiction, and I don't read a lot of books (and my wife is director of libraries in our county). I play guitar in my spare time. The last book I read last Spring was Miles, Miles Davis' autobiography, and I couldn't put it down. I am in the process of reading and playing all of the exercises in Levine's The Jazz Theory Book. This could take at least a year. I think I'll check out the Miles Davis auto... Have you tried the Abersold jazz theory and play-alongs? V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Thriller in the vein of 24, if you like Jack Bauer style stories. hmmm double post. Still, it's a great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Thriller in the vein of 24, if you like Jack Bauer style stories. Excellent book you have there James. I highly recommend this book and I'm looking forward to the follow up... although I don't have any money right now to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 For what it's worth, one of the best reading bargains anywhere if you have any interest in sci fi is the Baen Free Library. Free, on line. http://www.baen.com/library/ m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Have you tried the Abersold jazz theory and play-alongs? V It's on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Does anybody here take a view on the e-book commercial pressure we are being subject to? How healthy is it to be reading for long periods on an electronic screen...as well as all the general internet PC time? Just a spontaneous interjection....if you will.... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I read a lot on 19-22-inch CRT screens and sometimes on a note or netbook. A lot. My Mom loves her "Nook" because she can read anywhere. Neither one of us would qualify as "kids." m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantha Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Does anybody here take a view on the e-book commercial pressure we are being subject to? How healthy is it to be reading for long periods on an electronic screen...as well as all the general internet PC time? Just a spontaneous interjection....if you will.... V The ebook readers that use e-paper displays are actually very comfortable to read on. You almost can't even tell it's not paper... They're not even backlit. If you haven't seen one up close, go have a look sometime. The technology is fascinating. I do have a nook, and I like the fact that you can check out and download books from the library. That being said, I still prefer regular old paper books. I like holding the book, flipping through the pages etc. I also don't crap my pants when I drop a paper book. The thing I don't like about the ebook trend is that you don't actually own anything. I enjoy having a physical book collection and everything that goes along with it. What happens when Amazon peters out one day, or they decide to change formats? I'd rather own something tangible when it comes to books. Another thing that aggravates me is that they don't really cut you much of a price break on the ebook version. One would think they could pass along a little bit of the savings from not having to print/distribute physical media. So basically, I think they are convenient for cheap books that you'll never read again. If it's a book you want to keep, re-read and cherish, buy a hardcopy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Jantha... I think you just hit the major weakness to the otherwise great opportunities afforded by the Internet: It ain't gonna last as we know it. I can't tell you how many sources over the past 15 years I've been on the Internet that have disappeared. That's especially true of books in terms of folks on this forum, but I've even seen it on Youtube, etc. Those of us who use photo upload sites are in a horrid position when/if the "free" is discovered not to be, or worse, that the "owner" no longer owns them at all. Worst of all is if/when the site disappears as such. That's why I have a T-Byte or two of backup so even my backup files are backed up. Another frightening thing is access to programs that will disclose the information we store. How does one get even to a text file backup if/when the only computer access is through some sort of terminal to a cloud and it won't/can't access your media? Meanwhile glass plate photos that are protected at all are still marvelous, and ditto books. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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