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I just finished going through a Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte by Vincent Cronin for a Napoleonic Wars essay amongst other books, and for some light reading now I'm reading ' My Early Life - 1874-1908' by Winston Churchill. It's an excellent and witty read, by the way.

So, what are you Generalites reading? What are you enjoying/not enjoying reading?

I just finished going through a Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte by Vincent Cronin for a Napoleonic Wars essay amongst other books, and for some light reading now I'm reading ' My Early Life - 1874-1908' by Winston Churchill. It's an excellent and witty read, by the way.

So, what are you Generalites reading? What are you enjoying/not enjoying reading?
The Night's Dawn Trilogy!!! Three THOUSAND pages packed with enough action to keep even my attention span appeased until the end. I'm one tenth though the last book and loving it!

I just finished going through a Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte by Vincent Cronin for a Napoleonic Wars essay amongst other books, and for some light reading now I'm reading ' My Early Life - 1874-1908' by Winston Churchill. It's an excellent and witty read, by the way.

So, what are you Generalites reading? What are you enjoying/not enjoying reading?

I love reading. Immensely. I go through 2-3 books per week. But I don't really like biographies that much. I feel they give a rather distorted view of events and too much focus on details.

Generally, I love to read novels, with the odd history or social science book thrown in.
The novels range from simple easy fantasy over general, historical and geographical interest to Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vicram Seth and V.S. Naipaul.

I love reading. Immensely. I go through 2-3 books per week. But I don't really like biographies that much. I feel they give a rather distorted view of events and too much focus on details.

Generally, I love to read novels, with the odd history or social science book thrown in.
The novels range from simple easy fantasy over general, historical and geographical interest to Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vicram Seth and V.S. Naipaul.
2-3 a week!? I prefer to take my time and let every detail seep into my skull. Not much help in a reading intensive subject like history though...

The Night's Dawn Trilogy!!! Three THOUSAND pages packed with enough action to keep even my attention span appeased until the end. I'm one tenth though the last book and loving it!

Peter Hamilton Rules.. the nights dawn is fantastic, Reality Dysfunction is one of the best SF books I've read, although am also a fan of his Greg Mandel books and Pandoras Star and his others, Ok I like Peter Hamiltons work ( :D )

Currently just finished the Hammer and the cross trilogy (or shef trilogy whichever you prefer) by Harry Harrison, actually had a little read fest on saturday and also read the Algebraeist (Iain M Banks) again (more to see if I enjoyed it this time around) and actually read old Jennifers exploits by his Barryness.

So, what are you Generalites reading?

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan, and Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban

So, what are you Generalites reading? What are you enjoying/not enjoying reading?

Currrently I am pillaging JSTOR for an essay due tommorow.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

I mean, I was before I moved and lost momentum. Probably get going on it again soon. It wasn't bad, just for me reading is all about momentum.

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan, and Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban

Urbans book is an excellent read, if a tad light on historical analysis at times. Still liked it though.

Currrently I am pillaging JSTOR for an essay due tommorow.

You know, its an odd thing, but I've only ever used JSTOR once in a month of essays? I guess I should use it more, but I generally use books from the libarary more.

2-3 a week!? I prefer to take my time and let every detail seep into my skull. Not much help in a reading intensive subject like history though...

I'm a very fast reader... comes with practice, I guess.
I don't rush through books, but I spent a good 2-3 hours each day reading

Currrently I am pillaging JSTOR for an essay due tommorow.
JSTOR has saved me more than once. Currently reading The Rock Snob's Dictionary, for I am a Rock Snob in training :p
Sadly I don't have time for much reading for pleasure, because I've got a dissertation to write, plus essay deadlines and exams coming up. Next summer I'll be reading shitloads though, as I've got a pile of books up to my waist to get through.

I'd say anything that involves magic and dragons.. Yeah, D&D freak 0.o

I read plays (shakespear favourite), novels (I love emma though not sure about jane austen) for fun

books on politics, military history, history, sociology, psycology, economics, art and music for personal interest

then biology for my course (each module (I have 12) has 2-3 books you have to read, they are allmost all A3 hard back 3-5 inch thick books mainly 12 point text)

Zola: Germinal (or :the mine I don't know how it's translated) is a good one

I'm a very fast reader... comes with practice, I guess.
I don't rush through books, but I spent a good 2-3 hours each day reading


A few years ago I got into the habit of trying to read a book a day - and some years I read over three hundred of the things. The strange thing was that I never became a particularly fast reader, and in most cases would be able to calculate how long a book would take by reckoning on a minute each page.

You know, its an odd thing, but I've only ever used JSTOR once in a month of essays? I guess I should use it more, but I generally use books from the libarary more.

I generally use JSTOR as last resort. Unless I know exactly what I am looking for. Especially around essay writing times, some books become scarse.

Unless I can print off the articles, I try not to use it since reading off a computer screen is hard for me and makes me very sleepy. :(