What book are you reading these days?

**gavio** · Dec 13th, 2006, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by hairball

How about Chariots of the Gods?

Not yet... i'm going through his repertuire... slowly, but firmly

**NotLKH** · Dec 13th, 2006, 09:25 PM

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.

**NotLKH** · Dec 13th, 2006, 09:31 PM

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!

}
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.

-Lou

**sevenhalo** · Dec 13th, 2006, 11:32 PM

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.

**opus** · Dec 14th, 2006, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by gavio

Erich von Daineken - Memories from the Future

Great book

isn't it Erich von Dänicken?, but maybe he changend his name, 'cause of all the luna**** he had published.

**abhijit** · Dec 14th, 2006, 03:27 PM

I have started Common Wealth of Thieves

**Static** · Dec 14th, 2006, 04:43 PM

Last book I read:
a must read for everyone... very short.. VERY powerfull

**Jenova** · Dec 16th, 2006, 03:29 PM

Beginning Visual C# 2005. Wrox and O'Reilly books are the best.

**RudiVisser** · Dec 16th, 2006, 03:33 PM

Pwning Visual C# 2005. Rudi's made up books are the best.

**mendhak** · Dec 21st, 2006, 02:56 PM

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.

**gavio** · Dec 21st, 2006, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by mendhak

... Wow, you guys are slow.

Depends on the material

**Cander** · Dec 21st, 2006, 03:06 PM

Dresden Files Book 1: Storm Front

**abhijit** · Dec 21st, 2006, 03:11 PM

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.

**abhijit** · Dec 21st, 2006, 03:11 PM

ON a second note, others have work to do I guess.

**mendhak** · Dec 21st, 2006, 04:02 PM

I read with my third eye while I work with my other two.

**Cander** · Dec 21st, 2006, 04:06 PM

So you are like the monkey in Dilbert that uses its tail when typing

**oceanebelle** · Dec 21st, 2006, 09:50 PM

Snow crash...

according to statistics.
reading

4 mins/page.
1 chapter/train day.

about 50+ chapters all in all.

**mendhak** · Jan 15th, 2007, 08:20 AM

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 16th, 2007, 04:27 AM

Currently writing my own book

**mendhak** · Jan 16th, 2007, 04:40 AM

What's it about?

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 16th, 2007, 04:46 AM

It's a swords-and-sorcery novel. Always wanted to do one so started writing one every now and again in work

**FishGuy** · Jan 16th, 2007, 04:47 AM

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (Paperback)
by Steven Pressfield (Author)

**mendhak** · Jan 17th, 2007, 05:31 AM

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

**mendhak** · Jan 17th, 2007, 05:43 AM

Danny, The Champion of the World

(Yes, it did take 10 minutes to read the previous book)

**bushmobile** · Jan 17th, 2007, 06:04 AM

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

**mendhak** · Jan 18th, 2007, 06:01 PM

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

The Twits by Roald Dahl

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3 books in one day.

But they were all too short.

**MartinLiss** · Jan 18th, 2007, 07:36 PM

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

**Cander** · Jan 18th, 2007, 08:12 PM

I am reading employment ads since I got laid off Tuesday. Rawr. Darn Air Force budget cuts.

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 19th, 2007, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by mendhak

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

The Twits by Roald Dahl

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3 books in one day.

But they were all too short.

That's what you get for reading kids books.
I'd be more impressed if you read the three LOTR novels in one day

**mendhak** · Jan 23rd, 2007, 02:48 AM

Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978

That's what you get for reading kids books.
I'd be more impressed if you read the three LOTR novels in one day

Does the Chronicles of Narnia series count?

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 23rd, 2007, 03:59 AM

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.

**mendhak** · Jan 23rd, 2007, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978

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.

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 23rd, 2007, 05:48 AM

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)

**oceanebelle** · Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:18 PM

Right now i have ISBN4-7700-2052-X

Japanese for Busy People III Kana Version.

Reading (and studying) Chapter 1.

**disruptivehair** · Jan 24th, 2007, 10:18 AM

'Marie Antoinette' by Antonia Fraser. It's quite a weighty tome.

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 24th, 2007, 10:41 AM

Marie Antoinette (a name most Americans mis-pronounce

)
Sounds pretty boring

**FunkyDexter** · Jan 24th, 2007, 12:06 PM

And if you've read The Magician's Nephew...

wait until you get the the last battle. It gets really quite trippy.

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).

**Hack** · Jan 24th, 2007, 01:41 PM

Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett (GREAT book....this is the second time I've read it!

)

**disruptivehair** · Jan 25th, 2007, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Valleysboy1978

Marie Antoinette (a name most Americans mis-pronounce

)
Sounds pretty boring

I speak French, so

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,

**Valleysboy1978** · Jan 25th, 2007, 04:12 AM

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

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