NationStates Jolt Archive


So, what are we all reading right now?

BLARGistania
21-07-2004, 08:59
Well?

Me: Antichrist - Freiderich Neitchze
The Redemption of Althalus - David Eddings
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Goed
21-07-2004, 09:06
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

Just started it, so I dunno if it's any good...
Ngasech
21-07-2004, 09:08
The Source, by james michener
Great book. beautiful.. *sniffle*
Daistallia 2104
21-07-2004, 09:10
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Stirner
21-07-2004, 09:11
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper
Men Against Fire, S.L.A. Marshall
BLARGistania
21-07-2004, 09:12
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
SATANIST HEATHEN! CONSORTER OF WHICHES! DEMON MONSTER!

;) j/k I love those books.
Erastide
21-07-2004, 09:13
Dude Where's My Country - Michael Moore
The Aeneid - Virgil
Zacheenia
21-07-2004, 09:13
1632 by Eric Flint...and for my nonfiction needs:
Israel and the Middle East by Elmar Krautkraemer
Pisylvania
21-07-2004, 09:16
The Lord of the Rings, for the first time.

Truly excellent books
Polok
21-07-2004, 09:17
hello pi *waves*

I am reading "The Heritage of Shannara" quadrilogy by Terry Brooks
Daistallia 2104
21-07-2004, 09:18
1632 by Eric Flint...

Read that a couple years ago. It's fun.
BLARGistania
21-07-2004, 09:29
i also forgot On Writing By Stephen King
Daistallia 2104
21-07-2004, 09:31
SATANIST HEATHEN! CONSORTER OF WHICHES! DEMON MONSTER!

;) j/k I love those books.

!RETESNOM NOMED !SEHCIHW FO RETROSNOC !NEHTAEH TSINATAS

:D
BLARGistania
21-07-2004, 09:37
you and your stupid backwards writing.
Zacheenia
21-07-2004, 09:46
Read that a couple years ago. It's fun.
Yeah, I like it, too. Not entirely historically accurate, apparently, but it's got very memorable characters. And I worship at Flint's altar, because he offers so many of his books for free download.

SATANIST HEATHEN! CONSORTER OF WHICHES! DEMON MONSTER!

j/k I love those books.

Rofl. Me too.
Petsburg
21-07-2004, 10:02
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Uzb3kistan
21-07-2004, 10:06
Deception Point By Dan Brown
The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

I also plan on reading Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. No, I'm not a nazi. I'm just interested, it'll be an educating experience i'm sure.
Dezzan
21-07-2004, 10:19
1661 volume of Samuel Pepys diary

long time ago but people were not so very different - read yesterday that he was having problems with the builders who were putting a new staircase into his house :)
Zacheenia
21-07-2004, 10:21
I also plan on reading Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. No, I'm not a nazi. I'm just interested, it'll be an educating experience i'm sure.
Be prepared for a VERY boring educating experience :D.
Conceptualists
21-07-2004, 10:23
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
Anarchy by Errico Malatesta.
L a L a Land
21-07-2004, 10:28
Well?

Me: Antichrist - Freiderich Neitchze
The Redemption of Althalus - David Eddings
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Just finished "The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown" a month ago. Now I am rereading David Duncans fantasynovellserie A Man Of His Word. Just started on the last book.
Mutant Dogs
21-07-2004, 10:29
Wheel of Time Book 10 By Robert Jordan
Catholic Europe
21-07-2004, 10:30
Just finished readin - The History of British Kings and Queens.
Zacheenia
21-07-2004, 10:42
Wheel of Time Book 10 By Robert Jordan
I gave up on the series after book 3.
The Sword and Sheild
21-07-2004, 10:45
Six Armies in Normandy John Keegan
War Without Hate John Bierham
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond

I must confess I'm somewhat reluctant to delve into the latter book, I saw it in my local high school, and having read through several of the books they use for text, I can't say I'm expecting much.
Uzb3kistan
21-07-2004, 11:09
Be prepared for a VERY boring educating experience :D.

I'm assuming you read it?
Conceptualists
21-07-2004, 11:15
I'm assuming you read it?
As someone else who has read it, it is indeed very boring. Like you, the only reason I read it was curiosity.
Mutant Dogs
21-07-2004, 11:17
I gave up on the series after book 3.

Its a good series :(
Zacheenia
21-07-2004, 11:59
As someone else who has read it, it is indeed very boring. Like you, the only reason I read it was curiosity.
Parts of it. After the first few pages, I sorta skimmed through it and only read the parts that didn't look quite as boring as the rest. Like you guys, I read it out of curiosity and historical interest. I expected to find it fascinating, since I'm very interested in the 3. Reich and history in general, but I was disappointed. I constantly had to remind myself that this is *Hitler*, otherwise it would have sounded like just another crackpot theorist publishing his shit on the internet.

Its a good series

It's not exactly bad, but it didn't hook me. By book 3, the plot seemed to be going nowhere in particular, and every female character seemed to have the same personality. Apart from that, I can't even remember much.
Jeldred
21-07-2004, 12:25
Q, by "Luther Blisset" (not the ex-footballer, but a pseudonym adopted by the mysterious quartet of Italians who wrote the book)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino
BLARGistania
22-07-2004, 01:39
Six Armies in Normandy John Keegan
War Without Hate John Bierham
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond

I must confess I'm somewhat reluctant to delve into the latter book, I saw it in my local high school, and having read through several of the books they use for text, I can't say I'm expecting much.

I read Guns Germs and Steel Its actually not too bad once you get into it.
Berkylvania
22-07-2004, 01:42
Strangely enough, Syrup by Max Barry. It's really very good!
Nimzonia
22-07-2004, 01:43
I just got The Reality Dysfunction, by Peter F. Hamilton. It's one chunky volume.
Colerica
22-07-2004, 01:48
Heaven and Hell -- John Jakes....
Enodscopia
22-07-2004, 02:13
Red storm rising by Tom Clancy.
L rule and you dont
22-07-2004, 02:17
ive been reading sci-fi.

1984-George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

Brave New World-Aldous Huxly

all great books.
Opal Isle
22-07-2004, 02:21
The NationStates forums as well as Page Sources from the 6 www.thisisnotporn.com pages I've accessed. That's what I'm reading.
Opal Isle
22-07-2004, 02:23
1984-George Orwell
There is a chapter in that book where the main character and his sex partner in crime are reading from this book which basically gives a summary of everything you've learned so far about the government...I never read that chapter because I figured I already knew all of it from reading the rest of the book. Did I miss anything?
Sydenia
22-07-2004, 02:26
"The Amber Spyglass", by Phillip Pullman. Part of the His Dark Materials trilogy. I gather that it's mainly aimed at a younger audience, but it's really compelling fantasy writing for any age (kind of like Harry Potter in that respect, I suppose).
Locke Cole
22-07-2004, 02:30
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles.
Suicidal Librarians
22-07-2004, 02:31
Jurassic Park- Micheal Crichton and The Wish List- Eoin Colfer
The Sword and Sheild
22-07-2004, 02:32
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles.

I didn't particularly like A Seperate Peace, maybe it was becuase I had to read it in high school, but I never liked it, now the Education of Little Tree, that was a good book in high school
Santa Barbara
22-07-2004, 02:33
Hustler. :gundge:

No seriously, Lord of the Rings. For the, er, fourth time I guess. Revisiting childhood I guess. Makes me miss the time when the movies weren't so mainstream.
Berkylvania
22-07-2004, 02:39
"The Amber Spyglass", by Phillip Pullman. Part of the His Dark Materials trilogy. I gather that it's mainly aimed at a younger audience, but it's really compelling fantasy writing for any age (kind of like Harry Potter in that respect, I suppose).

Excellent series! I like it better than Harry Potter, actually.
Purly Euclid
22-07-2004, 02:40
The Stand Stephen King
Emperor Conn Igulden
The Ideas that Conquered the World Michael Mandelbaum
I hope I suceeded in underlining the titles.
The Sword and Sheild
22-07-2004, 02:41
Just out of curiosity, has anyone here ever read the Thrawn Trilogy or Hand of Thrawn duology by Timothy Zahn, I love reading those books over and over, but I must buy a new copy of the Last Command, damn dog.
Drum Corps Purists
22-07-2004, 02:42
I just finished "Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut and "American Military History, Vol. 1". Right now I'm reading "American Military History, Vol. 2", and next up is "The Guns of Navarone".
BLARGistania
22-07-2004, 02:44
Just out of curiosity, has anyone here ever read the Thrawn Trilogy or Hand of Thrawn duology by Timothy Zahn, I love reading those books over and over, but I must buy a new copy of the Last Command, damn dog.

Both series, several times. Zahn is the best Star Wars writer out there.

I also read The Guns of Navarone That started slow, but got really good.
Euro Disneyland
22-07-2004, 02:50
Right now I am reading "Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives" by Ben Corbett

Next I plan on reading:
"Island" by Aldous Huxley
"Stupid White Men" and "Dude Where's My Country" by Michael Moore
"Henry Ford and the Jews"
and about 4 books on the Tutor family (King Henry VIII and his wives and daughters)

I just finished reading Syrup by Max Barry, and although I didn't like it as much as Jennifer Gov't, I still loved it! I also finished reading "The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11" which is 9/11 from the viewpoint of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada where their town more than doubled in size with stranded passengers. It was really interesting!
Goed
22-07-2004, 03:25
Wheel of Time Book 10 By Robert Jordan


Oh GOD.

I used to like him. THen I found out that he's really just milking the series for all it's worth. I swear, the next book is gonna be titled "Rand and His Friends Have a Little Tea Party!" It's going to start with the first chapter talking about the world blowing up, and the rest of the book will be about how Rand and his buddies sit on their ass and do NOTHING.