What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[JimC]

I'm currently re-reading various science fiction stories by James H Schmitz.

[cronus]

The Medici Guns by Martin Woodhouse & Robert Ross.

http://www.susanhatedliterature.net/200 ... dici-guns/

[tattuchu]

Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird. Liked it lots, even though I was little confused at times.

[Clinton Huxley]

Solitude:Seeking Wisdom In Extremes.


Chap spends a year alone on an island in Patagonia. Bit hippyish and spiritual in places but I like the journal entries that start, "Cat is being an asshole again".

[JimC]

Re-reading various Andre Norton fantasy books...

[pErvinalia]

Just read a Stephen(?) Baxter sci-fi book about a manned mission to Titan. It was fucking ridiculous. And it reminded me of a thread around here a while ago discussing the fatalistic trend in scifi. In this book, all of humanity is destroyed by an asteroid (slammed into the planet by the Chinese.. ) and the only people left are the 5 or so humans on a one way mission to Titan. They all die one by one quick smart, as you'd assume given the ridiculous premise of the Titan trip. Goodbye humans. There is a twist at the end, which I won't give away in case any one wants to read the book, but it's idiotic. Apparently this author is one of UK's greatest scifi writers. Poor UK.

[tattuchu]

Of Mice and Men. It was kinda boring at first because it was very descriptive of the countryside. I didn't really give a shit about the sycamore trees and such. But then I got to the dialogue, which is very funny and surprisingly vulgar for an old book. Shouldn't take too long to read this book; it's only a hundred pages long.

Also got The Portable Atheist by Hitchens. Turns out he didn't write it. It's just a collection of atheist writings he collected and compiled. I tried to read some of it but got bored very quickly. There's not really anything I'm interested in hearing about atheism, I suppose. Heard it all before.

[Sean Hayden]

An ancient introduction to game theory.

[JimC]

An ancient introduction to game theory.

To you young whippersnappers that probably means published 10 years ago!

[pErvinalia]

Game theory has only been around for 50 odd years, hasn't it?

[Sean Hayden]

yar, I'm guilty of exaggerating, the absolute worst crime.

...and now lame irony too

[tattuchu]

Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens, in which he unravels the myth that is Mother Teresa. Enjoyable but much too short. Read it in one sitting, FFS

[Clinton Huxley]

The Rocks Remain by Gavin Maxwell. Terry Nutkins has just had a couple of fingers bitten off by an otter.

[The Curious Squid]

I started reading Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death as well as China Meiville's Perdido Street Station and Robert M. Pirsig's Lila: A Study in Morals.

Not really making much progress in any of them though, my reading has crawled to almost nothing in the past year.

[Clinton Huxley]

Just picking up John Lanchester's Capital again. Also started on Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. It's just too, too sick-making.