What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[macdoc]

wow - Hugo and Nebula and a fast read.....fucking hell just buy it

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Republic

Xamonas Chegwé, I heard intelligibility is the enemy of philosophy...and I'm starting to suspect that a lot of philosophers agree.

Of course they do! Most of those philosophers would be out of a job otherwise.

[En_Route]

Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore.Hate her or loathe her, this is the ultimate fix for political junkies.

[SteveB]

Still reading Storm of Swords...that Game of Thrones book. It's kinda long and plodding. He's a great writer but he lacks direction. I feel like a teacher in a parent-teacher conference.

[Cormac]

AC/DC Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be!

By Mick Wall.

[Svartalf]

Started the Amber cycle by Roger Zelazny... I have nearly finished the first half (that I had read 20 years ago but largely forgotten), and will soon start on the Merlin Cycle.
In parallel I've started on the "Ninja" books by Eric Lustbader, a bunch of thrillers that are not bad and help avoid an Amber overdose.

[Pappa]

Unweaving the Rainbow, and a little dissatisfied with certain parts of it.

[Svartalf]

Sharing between Roger Zelazny's Trumps of Doom and Osamu Tezuka's 8 volume comic biography of Buddhah, allegedly his Masterpiece.

[Cormac]

Just finished ACDC, the Biography, by Mick Wall. Poorly written, by a guy who was clearly miffed that ACDC wouldn't talk to him. Still - a fascinating story about an amazing band.

Right now:

Harvard Business Review - On Change
On Tactics - Edward de Bono (not too impressed)
Lateral Thinking - Edward de Bono (a bit better)
Value - McKinsey (The consulting firm - guys who, in my experience, aren't as good as their reputation, funnily enough)
Understanding Organisations - Charles Handy
The Art of Thinking Clearly - R Dobelli
Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahneman, D
You are not so Smart - McCraney, D
Simple - Conquering the Crisis of Complexity - A Siegel & Etzkorn I
Disclosing New Worlds - Charles Spinoza, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L Dreyfus

(I'm writing a paper on Organisational Change - this is part of my reading list).

[klr]

Just finished ACDC, the Biography, by Mick Wall. Poorly written, by a guy who was clearly miffed that ACDC wouldn't talk to him. Still - a fascinating story about an amazing band.

Right now:

Harvard Business Review - On Change
On Tactics - Edward de Bono (not too impressed)
Lateral Thinking - Edward de Bono (a bit better)
Value - McKinsey (The consulting firm - guys who, in my experience, aren't as good as their reputation, funnily enough)
Understanding Organisations - Charles Handy
The Art of Thinking Clearly - R Dobelli
Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahneman, D
You are not so Smart - McCraney, D
Simple - Conquering the Crisis of Complexity - A Siegel & Etzkorn I
Disclosing New Worlds - Charles Spinoza, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L Dreyfus

(I'm writing a paper on Organisational Change - this is part of my reading list).

[PsychoSerenity]

I'll stick to the fiction I've got from the Library for now, since that's mostly what I'm getting through.

Just finished - The King Beyond the Gate by David Gemmell - A heroic fantasy sword and sorcery type thing with a big war to overthrow a mad emperor. Enjoyed it but the ending was slightly too straight forward.

A little way into - Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt - a beautiful and whimsically written story about a young girl evacuated to the countryside during the war who is given a book on Norse mythology. It weaves the girl's experiences with her imagination and interpretation of the stories she reads, including how she compares them with the Christian stories.

Just starting - Plague of Mondays by Sally Prue - Some sort of fantasy involving a Truth Sayer who has to save the world from some sort of magical menace possibly involving time continually resetting to Monday morning. Entertainingly written so far.

[Cormac]

Just finished ACDC, the Biography, by Mick Wall. Poorly written, by a guy who was clearly miffed that ACDC wouldn't talk to him. Still - a fascinating story about an amazing band.

Right now:

Harvard Business Review - On Change
On Tactics - Edward de Bono (not too impressed)
Lateral Thinking - Edward de Bono (a bit better)
Value - McKinsey (The consulting firm - guys who, in my experience, aren't as good as their reputation, funnily enough)
Understanding Organisations - Charles Handy
The Art of Thinking Clearly - R Dobelli
Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahneman, D
You are not so Smart - McCraney, D
Simple - Conquering the Crisis of Complexity - A Siegel & Etzkorn I
Disclosing New Worlds - Charles Spinoza, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L Dreyfus

(I'm writing a paper on Organisational Change - this is part of my reading list).

'smy job, for better or worse.

If I can stretch it to a book, I might be able to get off the treadmill.



I'm naive - I know. But you need a certain naivete.

[Cormac]

I'll stick to the fiction I've got from the Library for now, since that's mostly what I'm getting through.

Just finished - The King Beyond the Gate by David Gemmell - A heroic fantasy sword and sorcery type thing with a big war to overthrow a mad emperor. Enjoyed it but the ending was slightly too straight forward.

A little way into - Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt - a beautiful and whimsically written story about a young girl evacuated to the countryside during the war who is given a book on Norse mythology. It weaves the girl's experiences with her imagination and interpretation of the stories she reads, including how she compares them with the Christian stories.

Just starting - Plague of Mondays by Sally Prue - Some sort of fantasy involving a Truth Sayer who has to save the world from some sort of magical menace possibly involving time continually resetting to Monday morning. Entertainingly written so far.

Gemmell - I like him. I especially like that he wrote the same book again and again, and I still liked every one that I read.

[Sean Hayden]

PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites

Not really into creating websites but I wanted to look into PHP and had this laying around. I've never seen a book with a worse format, I'm surprised they printed it.

[klr]

Castles of Steel

http://www.amazon.com/Castles-Steel-Bri ... 0345408780

A long overdue read, since I've had the book for years, and really enjoyed Dreadnought.

By a strange coincidence last weekend, the book was spotted by the someone who happened to be at school with Massie's daughter back in the day. Spooky.