OT Book Thread 2016. Favourites and What are you currently reading?

MY FAVOURITE BOOKS:

NOVELS'S:

EVERY JAMES HADLEY CHASE THRILLERS

MARIO PUZO CRIME NOVELS

COMPLETE COLLECTION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

AUTHER HAILEY'S HOTEL

POEM/PHILOSOPHICAL

COMPLETE WORKS OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE

CHILDREN'S/COMICS:

ENID BLYTONS FAMOUS FIVE/SECRET SEVEN

HARDY BOYS

NANCY DREW

SATYAJIT RAY COLLECTION

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

ASTERIX AND OBELIX

ARCHIES

PHANTOM

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

DC/MARVEL

Favourites and What are you currently reading OT ? :)

Favorite book: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.

Favorite quote from the book: "There's a thin sheet of glass between me and life; no matter how clearly I see and understand life, I cannot touch it''.

Currently reading: 15 books. Do I really need to list? lol

Yes, Yes you do. Thats the point of this Thread lol.

And thats a pretty Practical Quote , i should then read this book :)

Ok then, here I go (in the order of when I started):

'Psychology of Intelligence Analysis' - Richards Heuer
'Calculus Early Transcendentals' - James Stewart
'Linear Algebra and its applications'- Gilbert Strang
'Book of Proof' - Richard Hammack
'The Picture of Dorian Grey' - Oscar Wilde
'Da Vinci Code' - Dan Brown
'Critique of Pure Reason' - Immanuel Kant
'Tractatus-logico Philosophicus' - Ludwig Wittgenstein
'Faust' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
'The Nothing that is: A Natural History of Zero' - Robert Kaplan
'Peter Pan' - J.M Barrie
'The Myth of Sisyphus' - Albert Camus
'The Feynman lectures on Physics' - Richard Feynman
'Lekin' - Jaun Elia
'The Wisdom of Life' - Arthur Schopenhauer

Mind you, I read very inconsistently, often leaving a book for months and then just pick it up again impulsively. That's why I start so many books at once.

Great taste in Books my freind, i only read a couple from your list as i remember lol.

I do a lot of audiobooks so with that in mind I'm on the last chapter of "A Feast for Crows" which has about a half hour left.

After that I will be reading Sherlock Holmes, which I will do my best to start tomorrow. Before that I read Roverandom which is a very small book by Tolkien. Feast will be my ninth book this year, which will leave me three books short of my goal at the beginning of the year. I wanted to do one a month, but as I suspected life got busy.

EDIT. Actually I just double checked, Feast will be my eleventh book (Dunk and Egg counts as three, but I counted one because it was all lumped into one book recently) which means I just might make new years resolution after all!

Only series I reread is the Shannara series. My favorite easily. Currently reading The Hobbit and just finished The Stranger by Albert Camus.

@indzman: Thanks. I highly recommend Pessoa if you like my tastes in books. Start with 'A Little Larger than the Entire Universe' (translated by Richard Zenith). And then make your way to 'The Book of Disquiet'. Both are great imo.

I don't read books.

I burn them.

Dangerous f*cking things.

:-P

Seriously, though ...

I started reading Alaska, James A. Michener's epic, Bible-thick novel on the state's history ...

... but, as much as I've been enjoying the read, I've had to put it on hold in favor of a whole lot of dry, technical reading, because I realized that there were some serious holes in my career-related knowledge that urgently needed to be plugged.

I do hope to get back to Alaska, though!

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

What I'm reading right now?

Reviewing some stuff in Murach's PHP and MySQL.

Boring stuff...... *yawn*

You're studying linear algebra? How useful is this subject? Our department does not offer a course on the subject (which is extremely weird because I can already sense that it is of extreme importance to any computational work particularly CFD) and I was planning to take the course at the electrical engineering department which is the closest. But then again, I've heard some very mixed views from "engineers" on this subject. Might be because a lot of them don't understand it quite well, being the math-hating "engineers" they are. But I do wonder if there's a way around studying the entire subject and jumping right into the more applied and computational concepts.

Nice choice for Calculus though. Steward's book is one of the best ones on the subject.

I'm self-studying. Not in any College yet so I don't yet know where it applies. I'm also in the basics yet so it's highly abstract right now; can't see the uses.

I am reading and adoring House of Leaves right now.

Currently, Crashing Heaven by Al Robertson. Awesome spacepunk. I also read Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which the TV show The Expanse is based on.

I'm also beta-reading a friend's novel that's going to be published by Macmillian in late 2017...but it's not like I can share that, considering the title is still in development. :P

Favorite book:

Novels:

Harry Potter series

Children's/comics:

Batman 1-52 the new 52

I have the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes but I don't think I even read a page.Weird.

I don't read books,but I enjoy magazines.I like all sorts,but usually buy OXM.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman and The Ancient Secret of the flower of life.

OXM?

Forgot to mention what I'm currently reading.

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire(again)

No orchids for miss Blandish

Hogwarts:an incomplete and unreliable guide

Short stories from hogwarts of heroism,hardship and dangerous hobbies.

Short stories from hogwarts of power,politics and pesky poltergeists.

The lord of the rings the two towers.

Wanna get to reading the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes and the famous five novels.

@indzman: Official Xbox M

I'm waiting for the third book in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to arrive in the mail.

I'm not a big book reader, a lot of things just don't really grab my attention and I've never enjoyed reading much....but every once in a great, great while I find a book I want to read.

I'm a big X-Files fan and tend to believe that the Government knows more about things than they lead on. I came across this book and I just finished it this past weekend:

Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances

It was an interesting read. If you like X-File type things and tend to believe there is a lot more out there than what we're told, you may find this an intriguing read. I find some of the book could be very plausible while other aspects in it are very far fetched and most likely not possible.

Aurther Hailey The Airport

So I went with a different book to finish out the year because both Sherlock and Dance with Dragons were both too long to reach my new year's resolution. So instead I went with How to Win Friends and Influence People. I'm almost done which will get me my twelfth book this year. Then Sherlock and Dance.

Mostly Non-fiction, and mostly for my studies. haha

Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Jameson's Postmodernism

As for my favorites:

Fiction: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), Hearts of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

Poetry: Salvaged Poems (Emmanuel Lacaba), Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)

Non-fiction : Of Grammatology (Derrida), Mythologies (Barthes)