What are you reading?

[GeTecknics]

just finished dantes inferno starting on some other books for my history classes but for my own pleasure some anime 

[Osmium]

If you still like when you're finished, read the The Robot series (Asimov also)

 

I plan on doing so. I know that the robot series, the galactic empire, and the foundation series are all loosely set in the same universe  but the Foundation series sounded the coolest by reading the back of the book

I did see the iRobot movie when I was really young and I liked it a lot. I presume it is somewhat like it yes?

[StormtrooperStu]

 

Set in 1957, it's about a schizophrenic moving back to London from Canada.

 

Weird and makes you want to cry.  But then just look at what I am studying at the moment.

[DLM_012]

 

Set in 1957, it's about a schizophrenic moving back to London from Canada.

 

Weird and makes you want to cry.  But then just look at what I am studying at the moment.

 

 

I'll admit it's hard keeping up with this thread. I wasn't expecting the amount of responses.

 

Back on topic, that seems interesting. I know a few people with mental health problems so that will be an interesting read

[aEi1aesainee2]

I plan on doing so. I know that the robot series, the galactic empire, and the foundation series are all loosely set in the same universe  but the Foundation series sounded the coolest by reading the back of the book

I did see the iRobot movie when I was really young and I liked it a lot. I presume it is somewhat like it yes?

 

Cool movie, but... No it is not (at all) the same story.

Asimov's future Earth is full of grey-ish brown-ish and underground moving walkays, no shining white robot here

[Admire]

This is what I'm currently reading:

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Ahhh nietzsche.....Must be uplifting;-)

[Admire]

Im re-reading the great book series of all time.......The Dresden Files

 

 

Jim Butcher is a mad genius.

 

And then im also re-reading an old danish young adult book called "Erik Menneskesøn"........

 

[Guest Philosophy]

Revised Bills and Statutes of The United States of America 2013 Edition

[Almercenary]

Just finished all the English versions of Witcher, now going to start Game Of Thrones

[Albatross]

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Really good series. If you haven't read it, definitely give it a shot.

 

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.

 

Seriously this series is absolutely amazing. And I thought ASOIAF was pure magic but this is magic straight from elves. It is a long series, and I mean really long, and some people say it gets boring" in two books but they don't mean it the way people assume. lol

[mr moose]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17683453

 

For anyone interested in the auditory perception process this lends some weight to other studies that show why autistic's have lower auditory steering effects than typically developed people.

[Volbet]

Ahhh nietzsche.....Must be uplifting;-)

I actully see Nietzsche as a somewhat positive thinking. He might be pessimistic about mankind, but he is very optimistic about the individual humans. I don't necessarily agree with is philosophies, but I still find his books very interesting.

I find Heidegger much more depressing to read. Mostly becuase it reminds me how little I know about philosophy,

On topic. I just finished reading A Clash of Kings, so I began rereading Atlas Shrugged. Not a great book. Definitely worse then I remembered it.

[Askew]

[techswede]

Metro 2033

Just finished that a second time^^ It's pretty interesting. Been trying to find metro 2034.. It's not easy

I also read "Ghost Recon: Choke point" recently. It's pretty good aswell.

 

Yesterday i finished Clarksons. "For crying out loud!: The world according to clarkson. Vol 3." After "The world according to clarkson" and "and another thing"

Mostly read those to cool my brain down after reading "C++ programming. From problem analysis to program design".. 1300+ pages.. 

If i can't find anything new to read soon i'll just read through the warcraft books again.

[NameOfNoInterest]

Reading Romeo & Juliet for a school project

[Admire]

I acfully see Nietzsche as a somewhat positive thinking. He might be pessimistic about mankind, but he is very optimistic about the individual humans. I don't necessarily agree with is philosophies, but I still find his books very interesting.

I find Heidegger much more depressing to read. Mostly becuase it reminds me how little I know about philosophy,

 

On topic. I just finished reading A Clash of Kings, so I began rereading Atlas Shrugged. Not a great book. Definitely worse then I remembered it.

 

Ohhh, I absolutely agree that his books are interesting. I just have to be in a special mood when I read philosophy...especially on that level.

I haven't stupied philosophy in school, so everything ive learned came from when I gained a interest in my early-mid twenties so my reading has been very spread out.

Its deeply fascinating to read the thoughts of people who seemingly think on a completely different level than most of the rest of us are capable of.

Ive only read small pieces of Heidegger in other books and he doesn't seem like a very uplifting fellow, but few philosophers do...

 

Do you recommend reading Heidegger and what makes it so depressing except what you mentioned?

[Volbet]

Ohhh, I absolutely agree that his books are interesting. I just have to be in a special mood when I read philosophy...especially on that level.

I haven't stupied philosophy in school, so everything ive learned came from when I gained a interest in my early-mid twenties so my reading has been very spread out.

Its deeply fascinating to read the thoughts of people who seemingly think on a completely different level than most of the rest of us are capable of.

Ive only read small pieces of Heidegger in other books and he doesn't seem like a very uplifting fellow, but few philosophers do...

 

Do you recommend reading Heidegger and what makes it so depressing except what you mentioned?

Personally don't Heidegger's work depressing on a personal level. I only find it depressing that shows how little i know. His philosophy is quite positive if you see it in the right light (And don't read his lectures from during WWII).

 

I would recommend reading Being and Time (If you have the time, read Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Satre afterwards). It's an extremely hard read, but also very interesting. Heidegger's lectures on metaphysics are also very good, and a lot easier to read.

[ygohome]

I re-read HG Wells "War of the Worlds"  last week again after many years.  

 

I also began re-reading "The Time Machine".   

 

And I picked up a few comic books too:

 

 

It is a brick of 13 comic books titled "The Two Faces of Tomorrow"... is awesome.  It is along the same idea of "2001 Space Odyssey" about a computer not doing what it was intended to do... yet, doing as it was programmed to do.  It was written before the age of the Internet or wifi networks, so the concepts in the story are pretty amazing and prophetic regarding those technologies.

 

 

And a comic book novel titled "Ocean" which is about what lies beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

 

 

And another comic book novel titled "Ignition City".  Not sure what it is about yet exactly, but something about space pilots stranded on a planet.

 

Then when I get through those I have Ian Fleming's James Bond books that my nephew sent to me.  These are original paperback prints and it is pretty cool.

[Atrum_Aduro]

Children of Fire, by Drew Karpyshyn.

 

It's his first stab at completely original work as he has been a writer for Bioware games like KOTOR and Mass Effect as well as writing some novels based on them.

The book is a pretty campy epic fantasy, not as serious as something like Tolkien's work or Martin's work, but it is a fun read, and can get rather dark at times.

[ofr057]

currently for uni 

http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/htln/library/Landcape/LandUse/EFMO_LandUse_AnthroProcesses_200404_a.pdf

 

for fun i am reading national geographic march 2012 issue

[techswede]

Iain M. Banks' Hydrogen Sonata. Absolutelty top-shelf sci-fi.

 

 

Ended up getting this. It's not bad

[SirRoderick]

Ended up getting this. It's not bad

Ah, glad you like it

 

I really enjoyed the fact that I never really read anything quite like it, not a cliche setting or anyhting.

[LOLPhilips]

This, one of his Disc world books.

Very funny series of books.

 

[Commander_Z]

MIrage by Clive Cussler

 

loving it, I have everything else he has written except one( 54 at this stage)

 

in addition to this, I have another 185 books from various authors

[Lord Pantaloons]