What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@s.hackleman said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I am working though Catch 22
One of the classics that I've just never read.
That is exactly why I am reading it. My Boss brought it up while I was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (for the same reason) and said I was missing out. So I picked it up.
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"The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" -by Claire North
If you like History and/or Sci-Fi/Fantasy, I can't recommend this book enough.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@RamblingBiped said:
@MattSpeller said:
@JaredBusch said:
I am horribly out of touch with novels in the last 8 years.
I miss reading. I have a library of ~1000 books all boxed up because this apartment has no space for them.
I'm a Sci-Fi / Fantasy guy.
sounds like my apartment too but scifi / military
We only have 6 bookshelves full of books (half shelves really). The wife is really good about weeding books and not keeping stuff around just for the sake of keeping it around. If it has no value for subsequent reads it gets chucked in a box and donated.
One of the more popular things to do around these parts is start your own free library
http://victoriaplacemaking.ca/2015/placemaking/mapping-greater-victorias-little-library-boxes/
A very cool idea: I've never come across one of those before. And, coincidentally, my wife is actually down in Victoria today.
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Finished reading Nancy Drews: The Secret of the Old Clock last night. Obviously I was reading it for the kids
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished reading Nancy Drews: The Secret of the Old Clock last night. Obviously I was reading it for the kids
One down... and I lost track of how many more to go! lol. I bought that one a few months ago.
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Lone Survivor.
I'm really into military books. Although it takes me months to finish 1 book, because I lose interest in "reading for fun" so often.
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Transition by Iain M Banks. Should be done by the end of the week.
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Reading the first book of the Bobbsey Twins. I know, how exciting.
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I have an audible subscription. I drive so much that listening to books is the only way I get to digest them any more. I have been listening to the Legacy Fleet Trilogy by Nick Webb. I like it. I also have been listening to Thomas Sowell and some of his more pivotal pieces.
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@PenguinWrangler said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I have an audible subscription. I drive so much that listening to books is the only way I get to digest them any more. I have been listening to the Legacy Fleet Trilogy by Nick Webb. I like it. I also have been listening to Thomas Sowell and some of his more pivotal pieces.
Audible is the best.
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Finished the first Bobbsey Twins book last night.
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Started reading Little Women with my eight year old. She loves it.
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Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago, and I'm currently working on Vonnegut's "Player Piano". I've got Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology" up next in the roster, and then I'll probably do a re-read of his "American Gods" to get it fresh in my mind before the debut of the new TV series.
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@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago,
A lot of people reading that again these days.
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Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago,
A lot of people reading that again these days.
Yes, and some of the parallels to the current iteration of our "American Culture" are frightening; specifically the glorification of ignorance and anti-intellectual sentiment. I feel like the warmongering part has always been there, but the current administration is trying to push the agenda in the same fashion as the Cold War era administrations did.
Quite disturbing.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is one of my all time favorite books!
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@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.
"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is one of my all time favorite books!
I own every book he's ever written. Norwegian Wood is my favorite book of all time.
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@RamblingBiped I'm actually trying to get my fiance to read it but she's been reading The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
