I dont know if this thread is dead already, but I will post anyway. These days I am all into the C++ and the LInux so there goes my library: Running Linux, How to Programm C++, Cookbook and simmilar stuff. But that's all during the day (you guessed it: unemployed ) When the bedtime comes I''ll try to read some more engaging stuff:

self help book called "7 habits of effective people" = bunch of crap. The only reason I read that book is because the author of Vim ( forgot his name) recommended it.

"The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome": What an awesome book! Gives you a good parallel to the world today (USA being in the role of Rome, of course)

Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire": Powerfull!

RIght now I have JL Borhes's collection of short fiction by my bed but I am only reading it for... lets see,... 3rd or 4th time? That guy never stops to amaze me.

I am surprised noone mentioned NIck Hornby. THe guy is awesome. ONe of my favorite contemporary authors.


P.S. In the attack mode:
I dont understand some people. If the novel is nothing but a script for a good Hollywood movie (Grisham, King, Ludlum, and other paperback morons) isnt it much easier to see the movie? Why bother reading thru their crap?

self help book called "7 habits of effective people" = bunch of crap. The only reason I read that book is because the author of Vim ( forgot his name) recommended it
Just remember that you didn't *have* to read the book, you *chose* to read it. Right?

I'm not sure I am following your train of thoughts here. What were you trying to say?

The guy recommended the book, I am a great fun of Vim and usually try to follow advises of people who could be considered creative.

So I read the book. Being compulsive as I am, I have to finish books that I start. But this one was definitely NOT worth of it. Self help books are crap in general, cause the premisse of each one of them is " all people are the same, and if you follow the rules that other people set up, you will live happy and fulfilling life". That kind of thinking takes fun out of life, cause you spend all the time following rules.

I guess pure curiosity and cheapness of the book (1.50$ in my local second hand bookshop) made me start this one.

I didnt have to read it, no. But I didn't MIND reading it. Hey, you are talking to a guy who read
Mein Kampf at the age of 16. Last time I checked my head was not shaved and I can't recall any Jew or Latino guy I've beaten lately.

I'm currently reading:
Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Unleashed



help me... help me...

I have read some of the old books from projekt gutenberg
Am currently reading:
Under attack(for the second time).
The sum of all fears.

I have read to many books in my life. I have a few that where printed ~ 70 years ago.

Completely in love with the Harry Potter series.

edit: found crime and punishment on www.gutenberg.org

I Robot, C Programming books, and some Shakespeare (Macbeth and Hamlet, specifically, I once was IN Macbeth as a murderer ).

there was a series based on Assimov's Robots-Robot City.

Also,

there was a fantasy/multiversal series of books called Castle Perilous that I enjoyed greatly.

When I was a kid, I read the choose-your-own-adventure types of books.

The Indiana Jones book series.

Also, Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt.)

Ian Fleming (James Bond)

More recent books I have read

(Harry Potter series.)

didn't like the last released book in the serious compared to the first 4.

I've recently re-read Her Name, Titanic, by Charles Pelligrino, and also the book referenced in it, Titan, by Morgan Robertson.

Just for fun, is a must-read for any Linux person.

I will also admit to reading (and-re-reading, and returning late to my local library) the Linux for Dumies 2nd edition (written by none other than John "maddog" Hall.)

Out of the inner circle.

Virus.

Some of Michael Chrichton's books are also good, Jurrassic Park, Sphere...

i don't read as much (for myself) as I used to. Nowadays, I read for my job, or to my kid.

Unless you count reading stuff on the internet like forums, etc..

that's just me...

Tech books: programming, wireless and I am trying to lay my hands on some book on licensing

Fiction: Only Star trek, and that would classify as Sci-fi

You should have an option for those of us who read all types of books.


I am currently reading these books.

Tesla: Man Out Of Time by Margaret Cheney
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon(I waited for it to be cheap)
Weaveworld by Clive Barker (actually rereading because I finally got a new copy.)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand(I may never finish this book because it is so boring)
And after work today I am going to pick up a copy of Mahabharata so I can read that.

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