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What books are you reading?
kyrathaba:
Here are the books I read in 2011:
Velocity, by Dean Koontz
Shadowfires, by Dean Koontz
One Door Away From Heaven, by Dean Koontz
Night Chills, by Dean Koontz
Marker, by Robin Cook
The Ends of the Circle, by Paul O. Williams
House of Thunder, by Dean Koontz
Ring, by Stephen Baxter
The Shadows of God, by J. Gregory Keyes
Empire of Unreason, by J. Gregory Keyes
A Calculus of Angels, by J. Gregory Keyes
Newton’s Cannon, by J. Gregory Keyes
Iron Council, by China Mieville
Printcrime, by Cory Doctorow
Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
The Omega Point, by Whitley Streiber
Plague Ship, by Andre Norton
By the Light of the Moon, by Dean Koontz
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
The Gap Cycle: Forbidden Knowledge, by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Gap Cycle: A Dark And Hungry God Arises, by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Gap Cycle: The Gap Into Madness, by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Gap Cycle: This Day All Gods Die, by Stephen R. Donaldson
Mission Earth: The Invaders Plan, by L. Ron Hubbard
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
The Forge of God, by Greg Bear
Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer
The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie
Before They Are Hanged, by Joe Abercrombie
Last Argument of Kings, by Joe Abercrombie
The Kingkiller Chronicles: The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
The Kingkiller Chronicles: The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
Blindsight, by Peter Watts
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
The Kinshield Legacy, by K. C. May
The Door Through Space, by Marion Zimmer Bradley (c1961)
Deathworld, by Harry Harrison
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IainB:
@kyrathaba: Crikey! That's some list. Thanks for posting it.
I looked through it - recognized most of those titles. I think I have read roughly 90% of those books/stories. I shall follow up some of them with interest.
I am reading an interesting book at the moment, as I explained in a separate post Re: Thoughts in remembrance of 911
But her question - "...why did Hitler hate the Jews so much?" - was what got me reading Mein Kampf. I wanted to be able to understand his rationale for what he did, and explain it to her. I told her that was why I was reading it, and that I had not actually wanted to read it, though I had been steeling myself for the time when I would have to.
I am reading this English translation, here, if you want to take a look: Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf (James Murphy translation).pdf
I am finding myself quite fascinated by its cold, insidious horror. It seems reasonably lucid, coherent, and well-written.
-IainB (December 31, 2011, 10:21 AM)
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By the way, I am reading the book with the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader, which has some good highlighting and note-taking features, which I have not used before, and which notes can be saved with the file. So I am saving the file as a separate annotated copy (i.e., together with its notes).
I usually make notes about a book I am studying, but they are often handwritten on paper sheets, and to be doing it this way is the first time for me with AAR. The notes you make are searchable in AAR too. Quite handy. I shall be interested to see if/how they appear in Qiqqa (my document reference management system).
berry:
Recently finished "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall. I found it very educational and entertaining, but I'm a used-to-be runner.
Currently "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson. Also very interesting. Quite a fascinating character.
Finished "A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire". Great. Holding off on "A Clash of Kings" lest it spoil the HBO series which so far has done the book proud.
cheers
kyrathaba:
Crikey! That's some list. Thanks for posting it.
I looked through it - recognized most of those titles. I think I have read roughly 90% of those books/stories. I shall follow up some of them with interest.
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@IainB: Thanks! I post books-read as I finish them, here on my blog.
IainB:
Recently finished "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall. I found it very educational and entertaining, but I'm a used-to-be runner.
-berry (December 31, 2011, 09:27 PM)
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Did you ever read "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" by Alan Sillitoe? I liked that a lot, and it motivated me to start cross-country running when I was about 12 years old. I ran over several of the Welsh hills in Snowdonia National Park (where I lived).
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