What are you reading?

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:11 pm

krzT wrote:Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: 8th Edition

Dude, you got the 8th Edition? Sweet! I gotta upgrade...

(To answer the topic: Nothing. Busy@work)

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:55 pm

Aside from random mangas, I'm still on book 10 of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.... it is highly humorous imho... I should get back to reading that...

BurningLeaves · Post by **BurningLeaves** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:31 pm

The TV guide

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:39 pm

I'm slowly making my way through the Collected Works of Alexander Blok, my favorite poet (Russian, early 20th century). Very sad, romantic stuff - and not romantic in the "boy+girl=<3" way. Romantic in Blok's remarkable sense of the fleeting and faith in the eternal. Not happy poems by any means, but genuinely musical and deep.

I used to hate poetry all the way through high school, and didn't get it at all until a couple of years ago in fact. I used to think it was a retarded and unnatural way of sticking words together and contriving metaphors for when you could just SAY IT, in a normal and human way. I have since discovered several Russian poets whose work I read over and over, and even memorize on occasion. That's totally changed my mind.

krzT · Post by **krzT** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:47 pm

dokidoki wrote:
krzT wrote:Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: 8th Edition
Dude, you got the 8th Edition? Sweet! I gotta upgrade...

(To answer the topic: Nothing. Busy@work)

You should check it out. It's now upgraded with full color charts and graphs!

:diesahorribledeath:

When classes stop killing my free time, I'm looking to start the Malcolm Gladwell books (The Tipping Point and Blink). Any opinions on which I should read first?

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:49 pm

Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster

It's good times so far.

Pwolf

godix · Post by **godix** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:41 pm

In the last month or so I've read some book about propaganda during WWII, a book about the war on terror, a book about various Mars missions, Manifold Time, and several of Cherryh merchant series books. Not sure what I'll read next though, probably more merchanter books since I seem to be on a kick for those at the moment.

godix · Post by **godix** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:49 pm

The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:Next on the list is a toss up between Robert Jordan's Eye of the World, hesitant though I am to start a series as long as the Wheel of Time, and Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, which should be interesting if On a Pale Horse is any indication of the rest of the series.

Might I suggest neither series? The Incarnations on Immortality suffer the same problem every other Anthony book does, halfway through he turns into a raging pervert who can't resist slipping lengthy and boring sex scenes all over the place. IIRC for the incarnations series it happened with the book about gaia, started off with a 20 or 30 page rape scene.

As for Jordan, it's a cheap knock off of LOTR except longer. And more boring. And unfinished.

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:08 pm

Working my way through my back catalog of David Sedaris books. Read his new When You Are Engulfed In Flames and so now I'm working on Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim.

I'm still halfway through Wizard And Glass (Dark Tower). Have been for nearly a year now. I just never feel like picking it up.. I don't know why.