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Figure someone has to get this started...
Just finished:
Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 1 and 2 by Alan Moore.
Now reading:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Reading:
social networking apps in ruby on rails
local newspaper
Smithsonian
hmmm...maybe I should of specifically mentioned books, but that's cool...
the first one is a book 
i haven't picked it up in awhile though.
its cool...its how it works...took me all summer plus the fall to finish lords of finance
I'm reading... IAP!
Aside from technical reports about marine technology and news articles, I really don't read much. In fact, I haven't read fiction (by choice) in a couple years... 
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The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons. 700+ pages on the NBA!
Well, there's a lot of references to Boogie Nights and the Real World too. So maybe not.
When I was a teenager, it was all non-fiction. Now I only read it on the net, mostly because you guys force me to stay aware of the many viewpoints, even if I disagree with them. I was so pissed when IAP dropped dead in June. I had this whole freekin thesis worked out against something neue regel had said and then I couldn't reply to the post! I was so pissed. But good on ya, chovy, you kept it going. Balls to the wall. I was even glad to see Patton, still quick and not dead, still kicking his crankyass crap around. I had so many boards blow out on me and never heard from a single one of them again, but you gave us two resurrections. Good on ya.
Other than that, it's all fiction. Been writing this novel called "Strategy of Numbers" for 20 years and I'm nearly finished. I'm formatting it for print in inDesign. The end product needs to be a pdf so I can send it to the amazon website to print on demand. The electronic book market is just taking off as the print one is dying. It is so new that the market is still deciding what program standard it will use between the competing proprietary programs of different devices, Amazon's Kindle vs. Barnes and Noble's Nook. Basically it is a market situation I will have to wait out.
But other than my novel, there are two books I read again and again, Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" and Tutuola's "The Palm-wine Drinkard." (Yes, "Drinkard"). Then I spend all day writing, the trickle of the money draining away like the sound of a far-way tick. Before all the money is gone, hopefully, after a year-and-a-half of no work, I will finally find a job.
I'm starting "Remembrance of Things Past."
F--k yeah!
Last edited by cybert (2009-12-12 02:20:42)
Just this morning I read this article published on Rolling Stone. One thing you will most likely never find me in an argument on this forum about is economic issues as past the household budget, I will readily admit, I am NO economist. But that doesn't mean I don't find reading about economic issues or the current economic policies and practices, as they do have a serious relationship to that household budget. The Rolling Stone article is here for those who are more knowledgeable and might want to read. and/or post to argue.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/st … lout/print
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Just finished:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Now reading:
On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity by Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz
I was even glad to see Patton, still quick and not dead, still kicking his crankyass crap around.......
Crankyass crap?
Why......I'm offended....
cybert wrote:I was even glad to see Patton, still quick and not dead, still kicking his crankyass crap around.......
Crankyass crap?
Why......I'm offended....
Damn liar 
At least you stand for something.
"Life Lessons for loving the way you live" by Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.
I'm not much of a self-help book fan, but my Secret Santa at work brought me this book, and I like it
I recommend it.
Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Trying to "bone up" for my deployment in April.
My dad bought be "Orange, Black and Blue," which is a bunch of really short stories (some aren't even a full page) about the birth and evolution of the Broadstreet Bullies into the Philiadelphia Flyers. I read a little bit and really liked it, so I'm gonna keep reading.
It's actually a pretty funny book...
Game Chnage by Mark Halprien and John Heilmann
Its about all the dirt that the media "missed" related to the 2008 election.
Awesome shit about ALL the condidates
Game Chnage by Mark Halprien and John Heilmann
Its about all the dirt that the media "missed" related to the 2008 election.
Awesome shit about ALL the condidates
You're actually reading it? To me, it's nothing but gossip.
Game Chnage by Mark Halprien and John Heilmann
Its about all the dirt that the media "missed" related to the 2008 election.
Awesome shit about ALL the condidates
Missed? Everyone knew already sans Harry Reid's comment.
I am reading " the Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder. It is about five people who in 1785 while crossing a bridge built by the Incas snaps causing them to fall to their deaths. A monk witnessing this act of God realizes this is his opportunity to examine the lives of these five to determine what caused God to end their lives. It won the Pulizter Prize when it was written in the 1920's. it takes the reader on a god like journey and make all of us judges of their mortal lives to determine if any one merits death.
I have been reading lots of James Clavell. Shogun, Tai-pan and Gai-gin. Plus a butt ton of nautical non-fiction. A couple books about Captain Cook, Joshua slums voyage and the Endurance.
Currently reading a biography of John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential liberal economist who served in the administrations of various American presidents.
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