Not yet... i'm going through his repertuire... slowly, but firmly :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by hairball
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Not yet... i'm going through his repertuire... slowly, but firmly :bigyello:Quote:
Originally Posted by hairball
The great Erich Von is still writing???
I stopped EV a bit before Walter Ernstings "The Day the Gods Died".
Supposedly Pure fiction, but its about the author actually, after meeting up with Erich V., and setting out to write his own Expository, actually FINDING the physical Advanced alien Tech, he stumbles back into time, contacts the aliens in ancient peru, AND, coming back, he investigates an area on the top of a mountain, and again encounters those alians who are monitoring our earth, as it either enters the Y phase, where we decimate ourselves, or the Z phase, where we are welcomed into the Cosmic Brotherhood.
BTW,
Today I just got Lee Child: Die Trying
A Good Jack Reacher Novel, from 1999. {I know, a bit old...But I can still read! I'm not blind yet! :D }
Half Way thru.
Last 2 Pages {that I read} a bit slow, but I was distracted by the band of women sitting next to me at the Winfield. Ahh, well, I jumped ship, came back here.
Anyways, So far, So good.
:wave:
-Lou
Ray Kurzweil's The age of spiritual machines: When computers exceed human intellect.
I read it last year, but im refreshing myself before I read his follow up -- The singularity is Near, when humans transcend biology.
isn't it Erich von Dänicken?, but maybe he changend his name, 'cause of all the luna**** he had published.Quote:
Originally Posted by gavio
I have started Common Wealth of Thieves
Last book I read:
a must read for everyone... very short.. VERY powerfull
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Beginning Visual C# 2005. Wrox and O'Reilly books are the best.
Pwning Visual C# 2005. Rudi's made up books are the best.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
This book is constantly shifting. It shifts in the middle of sentences and moves to different viewpoints and completely unrelated story fragments. A real head... thing.
My third book since this thread started. Wow, you guys are slow.
Depends on the material :pQuote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
Dresden Files Book 1: Storm Front
I am on my third book too.
Started a book called "Dragon"
Mendhak - I have not yet counted the comics I read during this while.
ON a second note, others have work to do I guess.
I read with my third eye while I work with my other two.
So you are like the monkey in Dilbert that uses its tail when typing
Snow crash...
according to statistics.
reading
4 mins/page.
1 chapter/train day.
about 50+ chapters all in all.
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Currently writing my own book
What's it about?
It's a swords-and-sorcery novel. Always wanted to do one so started writing one every now and again in work ;)
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (Paperback)
by Steven Pressfield (Author)
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Danny, The Champion of the World
(Yes, it did take 10 minutes to read the previous book)
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
3 books in one day. :eek2:
But they were all too short.
I am reading employment ads since I got laid off Tuesday. Rawr. Darn Air Force budget cuts.
That's what you get for reading kids books.Quote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
I'd be more impressed if you read the three LOTR novels in one day :D
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978
Does the Chronicles of Narnia series count?
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Yeah, they're not too bad.
Did you know that C.S.Lewis created "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" as a bet with his best friend J.R.R.Tolkien. Tolkien insisted that research had to be done, the languages had to be created to be real, Lewis said it didn't. Lewis was also a very religious man, hence the religious overtones.
Very interesting. And that is the book I am reading now... but I think I know what you mean. Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve... And if you've read The Magician's Nephew, the creation of Narnia was similar, in a few ways, to the Genesis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978
Also Aslan can be seen as very close to the Jesus mythology (won't say any more just in case you haven't read it all yet)
Right now i have ISBN4-7700-2052-X
Japanese for Busy People III Kana Version.
Reading (and studying) Chapter 1.
'Marie Antoinette' by Antonia Fraser. It's quite a weighty tome.
Marie Antoinette (a name most Americans mis-pronounce ;))
Sounds pretty boring
wait until you get the the last battle. It gets really quite trippy.Quote:
And if you've read The Magician's Nephew...
Currently reading Yes Man by Danny Wallace. It 's the only book that's actually made me laugh out loud in ages (got a few strange looks on the train). :thumb:
Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett (GREAT book....this is the second time I've read it! :D )
I speak French, so :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978
It isn't boring...it's actually very interesting. What's this I hear about not requiring British pupils to take history classes beyond the age of 14? I had to take history 3 out of 4 years in high school, and I took a fourth year of European History...which was not required. So again, :p
:wave:
History? Well I remember having the choice of History or Geography at GCSE level so that would be at about 14. Nothing wrong with that. Besides I was really annoyed that the only history that was taught was the British Monarchy and WW2. I would have much preferred to learn ancient history such as egyptology