What are you reading now?

[Pappa]

Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yourself-iPhone ... 0672330849

Seems to be the best of it's type I've ever read. So far it seems to be successfully bridging the gap between basic and complex without failing at either. I've never read a Sams Teach Yourself book before, if the rest of them are like this one, I think I might buy more of them.

[Sisifo]

http://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Invalids-H ... 863&sr=8-1

Not the knee slapping that I expected from recommendations, but good reading.

[Sisifo]

I'm not sure if the book is about suicide of the characters, or try to make the reader to commit suicide. It is very beautifully written, but I can't wait to finish it. Not to know the end, but to be over it.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Viz issue 193
http://www.viz.co.uk/index.html

[Sisifo]

Books of the history of China are often too dry; often too vast, and often too biased. Using the Great Wall as a backbone for historic and geographical travel throughout China, the author offers the reader a regard both skeptical and at the same time full of awe, of the historical moments that surrounded the building of this outstanding monument. I'd recommend it for every sinophile, as I found myself marking pages for coming back to them in planning my next travel into China.

[macdoc]

Two incredible books on China - first person stories and both amazing


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Swans

and

which is simply astounding....

http://www.licunxin.com/

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author got me hooked on the history despite the lame plot....

South Africa is quite the story....amazing and it's very real now- in the sense of very much for the country....not like reading things that happened far in the past....

If you've not read Mandela's auto-bio I highly highly recommend it....
this actually fleshed out many of the people and events

Interesting it won the

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

for africa in 1996 ...trite plot conceit and leaning toward lurid but well researched and the tale flows

[Rum]

New Scientist (paper version). Cover story is called 'Relativity's final frontier' and how really accurate measurements of pulsars stand a chance of detecting the elusive gravity wave(s). Also the possibility that they might shoot a big hole in relativity.

Wish I understood it a bit better.

[Clinton Huxley]

The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge and The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian.

[Trolldor]

The Necronomicon.

[Pappa]

New Scientist #2750

[leo-rcc]

The Double life of Witold Pilecki

[anna09]

For a college class I just finished "The Catcher in the Rye" (IMO, completely over-rated) and on my own, I'm in the middle of "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker.

[JimC]

The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge and The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian.

Sometime later this year I will probably commence the re-read of the whole series...

[JimC]

For a college class I just finished "The Catcher in the Rye" (IMO, completely over-rated) and on my own, I'm in the middle of "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker.

Is Pinker, is good!

[Bolero]

Probably well-known, already. Some really interesting stuff in it, like how legalised abortion has led to lower crime rates in the US. Highly recommended.