What are you reading (right now)?

[guyomarj]

Title: Les Croisades vues par les Arabes (The Crusades through arab eyes)
Author: Amin Maalouf
Rating: :KS :KS :KS :KS /5



PS: based on an original idea by Bob D. (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=32278) All rights reserved ;)

[Lovechild]

Tom Clancy - Executive Orders

Next up on the queue will probably be some python programming books.

[GeneralZod]

Just finished this excellent e-Book:

http://www.free-culture.cc/

Will probably read Stephenson's "Snowcrash" next :)

[Brunellus]

(in small doses, every now and then) "Selected Poems and New" by Jose Garcia Villa.

[Master Shake]

All The Trouble in the World -- P. J. O'Rourke

[Manny C]

Last book I started to read was "Mere Christianity", C.S. Lewis. Friend currently has it. Am hoping to have it back in two weeks ;)

[Arktis]

No joke - Moby ****.

[graabein]

Dead souls by Nikolay Gogol and Running Linux from O'Reilly. Next up is another crack at Thomas Mann and maybe some more by D.H. Lawrence.

[kassetra]

源氏物語 by 紫 式部
(The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu)

&

The Lotus Sutra, translated by Burton Watson.

[Stormy Eyes]

Dan Simmons: Endymion
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo

[Kapre]

Just started reading The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick

K

[raublekick]

Sir Thomas More - Utopia

[23meg]

Miles (Davis) - The Autobiography

[kvidell]

Title: The Divine Comedy Vol 2. -- Purgatorio (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0195087453)
Author: Dante Alighieri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri)
Rating: :KS :KS :KS :KS :KS / 5

Check this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kvidell/Books) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kvidell/Books) out.

[Pathogenix]

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled and K&R's The C Language.

Are we all very literate, or awfully pretentious?

[oddabe19]

Tom Clancy - Debt of Honor
Max Lucado - He Still moves stones

[Moonbuzz]

Roger Zelazny - Jack of Shadows

[Stormy Eyes]

Are we all very literate, or awfully pretentious?

If I wanted to be pretentious, I'd claim that I was reading Monte Cristo in French instead of a translation.

[mpettitt]

"Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane
Before that was "Thud" by Terry Pratchett, and next up is "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction" by Sue Townsend

These don't seem particularly overliterate choices, do they... Damnit... Last week was on "Sophie's World" and "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell"

[TimelessRogue]

Ubuntu Forums ... right now, right?

Later ... "Spirit Song" by Mary Summer Rain ... the first in a series about her life and spiritual experiences with a Native American shaman, a blind-from-birth Chippewa named No-Eyes.

[wishyjr]

'The Man In The High Castle' -Philip K. ****

just finished 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' and thought i'd try another.

[Master Shake]

Last book I read was "Devil in the WHite City" by Erik Larson.

Its a very fascinating page-turner about two men -- Daniel Burnham, chief architech of Chicago's Columbian Exposition in the late 1800's, and Dr. Henry H. Holmes, America's first serial killer, who set up a torture house just outside said expositions gates. Its inspiring and chilling at the same time.

[raublekick]

Switched it up to:

John Searle - Rationality in Action

[mlomker]

The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593270690/qid=1131414178/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3169223-3107119?v=glance&s=books&n=507846), by Martin Krafft

[panickedthumb]

Last book I read was the Davinci Code, I was slow to jump on the train. Fantastic book.

[kassetra]

If I wanted to be pretentious, I'd claim that I was reading Monte Cristo in French instead of a translation.

Ha. I *am* reading The Tale of Genji in Japanese.

The Lotus Sutra, however... I need the translation AND the 32 volume "guide" ....

[Takis]

Re-reading Les Miserables, because it's one of my all-time favourites, The Republic (Plato) and Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts).

[graabein]

How do you mangage your book collections?

I can't get the search function in Alexandria (http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/) to return anything. I am running the version from the repos and I have notified the developers.

:confused:



Maybe I should try manually installing the latest version from source... That would be my first time...

[flower]

Dilbert's principle ... awsome :)

[kassetra]

How do you mangage your book collections?

I can't get the search function in Alexandria (http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/) to return anything. I am running the version from the repos and I have notified the developers.

:confused:



Maybe I should try manually installing the latest version from source... That would be my first time...

Ahhhhh.... I had that problem with Alexandria... I fixed it though... I'm running 0.4.0 - I'm assuming you've entered the development token for the Amazon search etc.?

[ssam]

The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose.

"a complete guide to the physical universe", apparently. heavy going but quite good.

sam

[mpettitt]

How do you mangage your book collections?


Personally, I just have a bookshelf... Well, several bookshelves, stacked several books deep, but they are in author order, so I can find anything quickly. Never found a program I liked...

[A-star]

Dungeons and Dragons: Players Guide.
Not really a book, but it is what I'm reading now.

[graabein]

Ahhhhh.... I had that problem with Alexandria... I fixed it though... I'm running 0.4.0 - I'm assuming you've entered the development token for the Amazon search etc.?

I don't have it in front of me but I just add a new book and type Bukowski or something like that and do an author search on Amazon or any of the other providors... no resultset... I have not figured out to add books manually. Guess I'll have to uninstall the Breezy deb and try building another version from source.

I have some of my books at my parents and some in my apartment and some I've lent to friends so it can be difficult to remember what I've got... I like to sort my books by nationality or region btw ;)

[asimon]

Clive Barker - Book of Blood 2, I guess I am still in Halloween mode ;-)

[Samuel]

"Will They Ever Trust Us Again" - Michael Moore (interesting read)
"The Hit List" - Chris Ryan (just finished)

"Linux Bible" - Candace Leiden + Terry Collins (redhat 7.1 came free with this book, its about time i bought a new one but im always refering to it, even if most of the stuff in it is out of date)

[Cygnia]

The Eternity Artifact by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

[lerrup]

The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, a "must read" for all in Pennsylvania, and Oracle by Ian Watson.

[Stormy Eyes]

How do you mangage your book collections?

On a bookshelf. I keep all of the Alexandre Dumas together, all of the Terry Goodkind together, all of the Michael Moorcock together, etc.

[Stormy Eyes]

Ha. I *am* reading The Tale of Genji in Japanese.

Is it any good? That only Japanese novels I've read were Battle Royale and Vampire Hunter D, in translation.

[Dartus]

Today, I just finished reading "White Gold Wielder" by Stephen R. Donaldson.
A very excellent book.

[bulldogzerofive]

The Myth of Nations by Patrick Geary. Fascinating. 4 out of 5.

[psyguy92]

The Ubuntu Forums

:)

and...

9-11 by Noam Chomsky

[doclivingston]

Currently: The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks.

In the last week:
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
(Studying) Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, by Robert Eisberg and Robert Resnick

[J D Wijbenga]

Save House - Andrew Vachss

Great book, I like his Burke series alot.

JD

[agger]

I'm reading:

Alan Shalloway and James R. Trott: Design Patterns Explained
Ovid: Metamorphoses

And right now an article from Washington Monthly: The Best Care Anywhere, which I linked to in another posting.

[guyomarj]

I'm reading"The adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.

It may be a classic for some of you, but...... I'm french:D

[Ubuntist]

Just finished The Rocket Company.

[barsanuphe]

Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo

only the best book ever written.
too bad all of these movies adaptations just suck.
Every two or three years i read it again in one or two days.

dont know if when translated into english it has the same charm as in french.

im reading neil stephensons quicksilver btw.

[sethmahoney]

Dead souls by Nikolay Gogol

Wild! In Russian or English?

My current book: The Sexual Labrynth of Nikolai Gogol by Simon Karlinsky

[NeoChaosX]

Just recently read Karel Capek's R.U.R. Intriguing story.

[Roobert]

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

A fascinating (albeit difficult) book about mind, matter, intelligence and meaning.
http://www.forum2.org/tal/books/geb.html

And the D&D Player's Handbook.

[thecrimsonking]

Rereading "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[graabein]

Wild! In Russian or English?
Gogol in English. I'm Norwegian and regretfully I don't master french, german, russian etc... I would love to read more in the native language since so much uh, gets lost in translation. :???: No pun intended.

[GoldBuggie]

Currently reading Terry Pratchett's Pyramids(from the Discworld series).
http://www.unseen.com.au/books/pyramids.htm

The Discworld series are amoungst my favourite. They blend humour with point sharp observation of today's society. Not to forget the added spices of witches, assasins and DEATH.

If you haven't read anything from him then I can strongly recommend the series.