What book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

hmmm...people seem to have a problem with me..now i have to make a thread

 

Im readin Initiation To War

 

Actually, there're five, i have a book entitled "the hitchhiker's trilogy" with all five in it.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Life, The Universe and Everything
• So Long, And Thanks for the Fish
• Mostly Harmless

lists are fun...

 

I have heard of those books...how good are they?

 

Excellent. Well worth whatever you pay for them.

While you're there, look up Adams' "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul", and Terry Pratchett. If you like Hitchhiker's, chances are good you'll like those too.

 

so what exactly are they about?

 

They're comedy.
Saying more ruins the fun.

 

no it wont...just tell me...i doubt i will read them anyways

 

I'm not going to the trouble to tell you what they're about if you're not even going to read the damn things.

 

Well if you tell me mabye I might be real interested in it and mabye go and read it

 

I just finished Jack Whyte's Skystone

At work, I'm trying to take some useful stuff from the massive Object Oriented Methods and the tiny Applying Use Cases

Right this moment, I am printing out the manual to Heroes of Might and Magic 4, which I'll probably use more for refernce than anything else.

 

I'm not reading anything at the moment. What I'd like to read are Catch-22 (people keep mentioning it, and I've never read it damn it!), Sun Tzu's The Art of War (really good book overall from what I've heard) and the latest Terry Goodkind book - I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback. I'm not forking out $40 for a book when I can wait half a year instead¹ :smile:.



¹Yes, I really am that lazy.

 

The first of terry pratchets discworld novels the color of magic. Great fun.

 

My favorites from him are "Pyramids", "Good Omens" (not Discworld), and "Small Gods", which should be required reading just for its take on religion. Although that one about the Counterweight Continent was good too...

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"if complete and total caos was lightning he is the cind of person that would stand on a hill wearing a copper armour and yelling all gods are bastards"
i allmost died reading that :grin:

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Exactly :grin:

I'd quote some more, but it's 2:15 AM and I can't make out the titles on the book spines by the light of my monitor 15 feet away.

:'(

More tommorrow.

 

Slaughter House nr.5 by Vonnengut.
I wonder if I even got the title right, I read it in polish...

 

Have your read any Stanislaw Lem? He was Polish, wasn't he? My Sci-Fi lecturer at Uni used to think he was one of the best SF authors ever.

 

Lord Of The Rings: The King Returns

(Or is it "Return Of The King"???)

Great book. IMO the best of the three. When I finish LOTR for god knows what time, I will probably read some Michael Ende books. Probably Momo...

 

Yeah I know of him, he's a Polish Sci-Fi legend. However, I'm a looser and I never got into his books.