I'm interested in what people read in their spare time, and I think people underestimate books in this day and age.
So, what are you reading in your spare time? Not Facebook or Twitter or anything, books. E-books, paperback, etc.
"It's a text-based adventure game that runs on the most powerful graphics processor known to man: The mind." -Sheldon Cooper.
The Illiad, for about the third time. First time I was 12, I think I skimmed over it a bit much and didn't quite get the hang of it. Second time I only got a couple of "books" in, and this time I'm taking it real slow, I'm not actually reading it at the moment because I have exams in a week so that's my focus.
I just read Freakonomics (the first one)... amazing read. The trouble is that so many people look at the stats and ask the wrong questions... even when obvious things are staring them in the face they allow their morals and such to get in the way. This book sees past all that.
I'm currently working on "Frozen Heat" by Richard Castle..
The Hobbit, in english even though it's not my first language.
Atlas Shrugged (for the 3rd Time).
In Addition to some Android Development e-books
Ayn Rand was a cunt!
Just read:
Now reading:
About to read:
Anything by Carl Sagan! I just finished Contact about a week ago.
Im currently reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Around half way there, so I have to start getting some more books!
Don't read in my spare time, it's part of what I do and who I am:
- The Keiser's Holocaust by Casper Erichsen
- Lucifer's Court by Otto Rahn
- The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
- Mein Kampf: The New Ford Translation by Adolf Hitler
- The Origin Of Satan by Elaine H. Pages (and most of her other works)
Besides the usual Jung/Freud/Nietzsche/Heidegger/Kierkegaard. Also, hundreds of papers on the 'Northern Crusades' (for a project, had Ancestors fighting for both sides, like in WW2).
Lately, I've also been reading a lot of Mormon Theologians (very refreshing in their approach).
Some fiction, or is it, from Nesbo/Martin Cruz Smith/Hemingway.
Cheers.
Well the last Book I read in my spare time was the Jobs biography. I don't like Apple either, but he was a nerd-pioneer nonetheless.
And this was this summer, as once university starts again, I have to read that much stuff, I barely get the stuff I have to read done, not to mention stuff I actually want to read =P
And I read Bizarre Magazine in the bathtub. Gore, Offensive Stuff and Tits. What else would you need? :D
Nice to hear...Read her while you still can.
Is it an authorised biography?
The Walter Isaacson one. So it's the official one. ^^
That is a pity. I would prefer a scholarly, independent, research into the life of the 'Great Satan'. Is it an interesting reading, a propaganda piece, or both?
Cheers.
I'm currently reading Dune, hopefully to completion this time. I tried to read it around seven years ago in high school, but I felt it was a lot to take in at the time. I'm thoroughly enjoying it this time around.
Before that, I read the Catcher in the Rye (which I was inspired to read after finishing watching Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and before that, I read The Stand.
Just read: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Currently reading: Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano
Want to read: Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky - I just played the game and really love the atmosphere and I am sure the book much better.
Have read(or lissened to audio book):
<ol><li>Chaos by James Gleick</li>
<li>The Catcher in the Rye (I also decided to red this after watching Ghost in the shell)</li>
<li>Steve Wozniak's Biography</li>
<li>Dune Series</li>
<li> A brief history of time</li>
<li>All the Richard Dawkins books</li>
<li>All the Dr Seuss books</li> </ol>
Currently Reading(or lissening to audio book):
<ol><li>Einstein book (The same one that was on Wendell's book shelf)(lissening to audio book)</li>
<li>Programming SQL Server 2005 (for work)</li>
<li>applied combinatorics (for fun)</li></ol>
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