What are you reading?

[kirk55555]

I started The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge today. I'm barely into it, but it seems interesting so far.

Edit: So, it turns out the two characters at the start of the book are 1st cousins who are also lovers. I generally draw the line at incest, especially casual incest without any point. So, yeah, I'm definitely dropping this book. Its funny, the reviews for the book generally don't mention the incest. I guess books from 1980 were just more likely to have it? I don't know, but I have better things to do with my time.

 

[Starkers]

Given here in the UK marriage between cousins is legal I've never considered it incest. I know it can be frowned upon somewhat, and couples are encouraged to undergo genetic testing is they plan to have kids, but it's perfectly legal (here at least I know the legality varies across the globe.)

 

[Ghost07]

I just finished Mortal Prey by John Sandburg...he's a good writer

 

[mimic]

I'm reading Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a novel set during the Biafran war. It's excellent.

 

[Pondwater]

After almost 3 years I finally finished The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Now, I'm going to continue on with Songs of Storms. It's a book of poems written by another member here.

 

[Australis]

Working my way through Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis, a 2 novel set that won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. Premise: time travellers investigate WW2, and things go awry.

Anyone else read them?

My take so far - for time travellers they are shockingly underprepared, and OH&S would have a fiedl day with their travel/retrieval procedures, and they tend to whine a bit. But the detail of life in wartime is very well done.

I am curious to see what others think.

Have finished them. They could have been about one third shorter, and been much better for it. But that said, about the lkast quarter of the 2nd book was very moving, and all in all, well worth the read. Just a little frustrating.

About to read a Lee Child novel or a collections of short stories 'Acolytes of Cthulhu'. This'll be followed by 'The Complete McAuslan' by George MacDonald Fraser, a bunch fo funny stores about a Scottish regiment in the Middle East after WW2. It was a book my Dad and I shared a few years ago. If you like Scots, humorous military stories and a snapshot if history, well worth it.

 

[Kemaiku]

A History of York
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien

 

[Saga]

Submerged: Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team by Daniel Lenihan

 

[think]

Reading this -- http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03003

 

[Kemaiku]

Okay why isn't that under a spoiler tag so it doesn't massively elongate the page?

How is that not complete spam?

 

[BigJake]

Or why not just link to the paper, for that matter.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Finished reading Zoo by James Patterson. Didn't care much for it as it was far too simplistic for my liking. Now on to the Cuckoo's Calling by Richard Galbraith (J.K Rowling).

 

[Catarina]

Do it! Let's get off our Butts. By: John Roger and peter Mcwilliams. It's from the library. We'll see of it's any good.

 

[think]

Okay why isn't that under a spoiler tag so it doesn't massively elongate the page?

How is that not complete spam?

sorry chemahkuu et al ..I was out of my mind.. and not thinking... probably delusional mostly (if they might let me diagnose myself) but anyway... you are correct. a spoiler would of worked nicely,..

I did think to link to the paper during the typing of just scroll thru and in turn thought no one follows links ...

there will be no next time ... It really was all totally un-necessary for me to do but still if I do go that far.. or ~psychotic ... I will refrain from,.. these types of actions -000- I am guessing I was slightly drugged somehow that day... wait --- thinking back ... last time I saw my buddy and he was smelling like pot... so mmmm must of got a contact or he dosed me some how... --- (if I am blame someone)

`~`

I guess the post was delete NP

 

[HIjol]

Nope. just the abstract/info page

Looks intense.

I think it is over my head!

Does someone get the Bad Guy? Evil Fourth Order Equations!


I am reading The Help, again.

 

[think]

Nope. just the abstract/info page

Looks intense.

I think it is over my head!

Does someone get the Bad Guy? Evil Fourth Order Equations!


I am reading The Help, again.

yes sinister fourth order --- systems of matrices maybe clusters of eigenvalues

Eigenvalues are a special set of scalars associated with a linear system of equations (i.e., a matrix equation) that are sometimes also known as characteristic roots, characteristic values (Hoffman and Kunze 1971)

notice all this linear stuff.. it is like abstract algebra does not exist beyond China.. well 0000 abstract algebra in mandarin never gets correctly translated,,.

//aside
not that I am obsessed with these things but Mr Hoffman lived on my block in high school... == we talked once I understood these kinds of matrix equations..

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Tonight I started to read Leviathan Wakes, first novel in The Expanse series.

 

[RandyS]

Time's Eye, the first novel in the Time Odyssey trilogy by Arthur Clarke and Stephen Baxter. I'm 100 pages in, and so far, it's one of the best books I've read in a while.

 

[SeerSGB]

"Inside The Third Reich"