What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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Finished Troubling a Star and am now rereading Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt. Another one from long ago.
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Finished reading Up a Road Slowly yesterday and started reading War and Peace. This is going to be exhausting
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On Friday I finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight and started reading Dragons of Winter Night. Some of my middle school era classics that I've missed.
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Finished reading The Horse and His Boy to my girls tonight.
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@scottalanmiller said:
On Friday I finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight and started reading Dragons of Winter Night. Some of my middle school era classics that I've missed.
oh damn, the memories...
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
On Friday I finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight and started reading Dragons of Winter Night. Some of my middle school era classics that I've missed.
oh damn, the memories...
Tons of these titles are available on Audible now. I own about ten of them in print but have no time for that these days. But via Audible they work out really well for me. So I bought the first four and plan on probably reading twenty or so of them as time allows.
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Weis and Hickman are actually the authors that first got me really interested in Fantasy as a genre. I grew up with C.S. Lewis and tried a few things prior to Autumn Twilight but they were different and did not make me interested in furthering my investigation of fantasy literature in the way that the Dragonlance Chronicles did.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
On Friday I finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight and started reading Dragons of Winter Night. Some of my middle school era classics that I've missed.
oh damn, the memories...
Tons of these titles are available on Audible now. I own about ten of them in print but have no time for that these days. But via Audible they work out really well for me. So I bought the first four and plan on probably reading twenty or so of them as time allows.
I cannot get into audio books. I cannot suspend my disbelief well enough to get lost in the stories as I can when reading.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
On Friday I finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight and started reading Dragons of Winter Night. Some of my middle school era classics that I've missed.
oh damn, the memories...
I've read them three times.
If you ever get a chance, a few other series that were good. If you can find them, try Thieves World. It was a written by many different authors and is very good. For new stuff, My newest favorite author is Patrick Rothfuss. Check out "The Name of the Wind." Just excellent.
Current reading the last of the Traitor Spy Trilogy by Trudi Canavan.
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@DenisKelley said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
On Friday I finished reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight and started reading Dragons of Winter Night. Some of my middle school era classics that I've missed.
oh damn, the memories...
I've read them three times.
Over the years, I have read them way more than three times. The Dragonlance setting was my favorite to game in.
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@JaredBusch I like Dragonlance for storytelling I prefer the Forgotten realms for gaming.
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I can be anything.....
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch I like Dragonlance for storytelling I prefer the Forgotten realms for gaming.
This was before we started our own world. Now, we may take locales from various settings, but we have a lot of original content anymore.
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Just started reading The Magician's Nephew to my girls. Liesl is really into it already in the first chapter.
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Just finished Dragons of Winter Night and have just started reading Dragons of Spring Dawning.
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Current books:
"Necessary but Not Sufficient" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. This is by the far the worst titled book, I've ever read. It's about Goldratt's Theory of Constraints and in particular how it relates to the ERP industry."Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 24 Hours" by Mike Walsh. This has taken me more like 24 months as I've struggled to find the time to sit down with it. I'm aiming to finish it next month though.
"Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914" by Max Hastings. Man, this is a depressing book.
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@Carnival-Boy interesting lineup of books. How is the books on constraints?
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Boring. I'm not a fan of Goldratt or the Theory of Constraints, but my company is thinking of employing some Goldratt consultants (at huge cost) to look at our manufacturing setup and I'm looking to replace our ERP system next year, so I need to do some research. Is it an interest of yours?
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For anyone wondering:
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Currently I'm reading "Putting AMAZING back into GRACE" by Michael Horton. I just completed Father Brown's Mystery "The Secret of Father Brown" by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). It was an interesting read given the new PBS series based on some of these stories. I also completed "Grace" by Max Lucado. I found this to be a joy to read, very easy but packed with thought provoking ideas. I also recently finished a short book "The New Life in Christ Jesus" by Scofield (1843-1921) which is an old book but seemed so contemporary as I was reading it. It is available in the public domain. I obtained my copy from the Toronto Seminary.
