Reading Is Fundamental - What Are You Reading?

I'm not into reading fiction novels, I read non-fiction books, newspapers, the economist magazine (I figure I should, currently in school for economics), PLAYBOY magazine (yea, I actually read it, not JUST stare at tits), and of course my boring ass college textbooks.

urmomis100 said:

I'm not into reading fiction novels, I read non-fiction books, newspapers, the economist magazine (I figure I should, currently in school for economics), PLAYBOY magazine (yea, I actually read it, not JUST stare at tits), and of course my boring ass college textbooks.

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The last physical copy of playboy I picked up I got because it had an interview with Wu-Tang...

The only one I've seen since then was the one with Arriany Celeste... and that one was not for the articles...

I readin buuk.

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Reading is fun for mentals.
I be readin "teaming with microbes" man Shiiiiiit.

I am a big fan of Epic Fantasy Novels.

I recently read The Wheel of Time series (1 -12 are out and 13 comes out in January) - IMO the BEST book series ever written
and The Dresden Files very fast pace and entertaining if you can get past the crazy number of supernatural creatures. And just finished American Gods which was a kinda strange take on the supernatural world, interesting but not my fav.

And i am currently reading the Song of Ice and Fire which is the book series that the HBO show game of thrones is based on, i am on book 4 atm, A fest for Crows, i am enjoying the story line but am rather disappointed in the series as a whole dew to the erratic story line and constantly changing character list.

I'm reading 'the mushroom cultivator '....I'll stick with the easy grow kits, this Shit looks rediculusly confusing.

Howard Marks Mr Nice is an amazing book. some of the shit he got up to is unreal.

I finished I, Claudius last night. Excellent book. I'm hitting the book fair this weekend to see if I can dig up the sequel - Claudius the God. Starting A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller today. [h=1][/h][h=1][/h]

Quotations by Marcus Aurelius. read it before but like Tales of the City i enjoy re-reading it.

I just started digging into the English version of this work.

The Three-Body Problem (simplified Chinese: 三体; traditional Chinese: 三體, "Three Body") is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the first of a trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Chinese: 地球往事), but Chinese readers generally refer to the series by the title of the first novel.[1] The title itself refers to the three-body problem in orbital mechanics.

The work was serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006, published as a book in 2008 and became one of the most popular science fiction novels in China.[2] It received the Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Award in 2006. A film adaptation of the same name is scheduled for release in July 2016.[3]

An English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014.[4] It won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel[5] and was nominated for the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel.[6]



It opens with a 15-year old girl, waving a revolutionary flag and subsequently being shot. Her body having fallen from the top of the building's roof, it is then unceremoniously tossed atop two sharpened spikes on the front gate. Her body jerks and the nutty people begin filling her with high-velocity lead projectiles.And I quote,

"From time to time, her vinelike arms jerked across her body softly, as though she were flicking off drops of rain.
And then half of her young head was blown away, and only a single, beautiful eye remained to stare at the blue sky of 1967. There was no pain in that gaze, only solidified devotion and yearning.

And yet, compared to some others, she was fortunate. At least she died in the throes of passionately sacrificing herself for an ideal."

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Yes...this is Chinese Sci-Fi. Apparently, it starts off slow, and becomes somewhat overwhelming with technical detail. But that is exactly what I want. My friend (fellow physicist from Zhong Guo) recommended it knowing that I liked reading about Chinese culture through works such as Hong Lou Meng, and also that I lamented how Sci-Fi has sort of died off in Western culture. Also, the pace is more like Chinese Lit, from my understanding, which is different from Western Lit.

In reading the opening, it feels like a classical Chinese crime drama; they open with the crime, in full knowledge of the reader, and the rest of the book revolves around seeing how clever the detective is. In this case, a physics professor is bludgeoned to death by 14-year old girls from the (I assume) communist party, for teaching the concept of relativity to intro physics students! The imagery is almost comical, with this professor wearing some outrageous hat made from steel rods, and an iron door around his neck. But here's the crazier part, and I think the reason my friend wanted me to read this; shit like this happened.

Anyway, I am impressed with the opening, and think it will be worth the $6 I spent to download it.

EDIT: Just finished chapter 2, it picks up pace quickly, and the daughter of the bludgeoned prof is the 'detective' as far as character development.

Brian Cox - Human Universe

Basically the universe and the role humans play in it explained in great detail but in simple enough terms for you to understand if you aren't a scientist.

'Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from.
What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity. Clumps of atoms in a universe with more galaxies than people. And yet a human being is necessary for the question itself to exist, and the presence of a question in the universe – any question – is the most wonderful thing'

Fun with Dick and Jane.
Anyone remember those ?

military history (WW2), personal finance and investing, Clancy, Grisham, Baldacci, Cussler, Vince Flynn, Brad Taylor, Thor, Childs, DeMille, Le Carre, Ludlum, Higgins. Plus a shitload of magazines and daily newspapers

probably, sounds like an older book of his. I usually start with them in chronological order. after a while the plots and characters all blend together and hard to remem any specifics

No Louis L'Amour fans here? I like them.

I like Stephen King.
S.E. Hinton.

I love where the red fern grows. I read it at least once a year.

a flex magazine

just came across this series by Dewey Lambdin. Just started the first book in the series "The King's Coat" If you are a Horatio Hornblower fan, it looks like these will be good reads, there are a bunch of them:

The King's Coat (1989)
2. The French Admiral (1990)
3. The King's Commission (1991)
4. The King's Privateer (1992)
5. The Gun Ketch (1993)
6. H.M.S. Cockerel (1995)
7. A King's Commander (1997)
8. Jester's Fortune (1999)
9. The King's Captain (2000)
10. Sea of Grey (2002)
11. Havoc's Sword (2003)
12. The Captain's Vengeance (2004)
13. A King's Trade (2006)
14. Troubled Waters (2008)
15. The Baltic Gambit (2009)
16. King, Ship, and Sword (2010)
17. The Invasion Year (2011)
18. Reefs and Shoals (2012)
19. Hostile Shores (2013)
20. The King's Marauder (2014)
21. Kings and Emperors (2015)
22. A Hard, Cruel Shore (2016)

whitebb2727 said:

No Louis L'Amour fans here? I like them.

I like Stephen King.
S.E. Hinton.

I love where the red fern grows. I read it at least once a year.

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I like some Steven King, but that mother fucker can ramble. I have Mr. Mercedes right now, but I haven't read it yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Mercedes-Novel-Hodges-Trilogy/dp/1476754454
I too loved where the red fern grows. I showed the movie to the kids and they liked it as well.

I read alot but after all I've read I'd have to say animal farm by Orwell is still the best book I've had the pleasure to read . What goes on 4 legs or has wings is a Comrade . Learn to never trust pigs or man from that book