Books: What are you reading tonight?

[ofdabeat]

Speaker for the dead - orson card

I loved ender's game, it's the sequel. looking forward to a great read

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

Some book of Chomsky extracts/transcripts.

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

Skipping through 'Poker Face' by Judi James again too whenever I go take a [censored].

[Jeff W]

~1/3 of the way through Moby Dick.

Can I safely skip the innumerable chapters detailing the technical intricacies of whaling, cetology and whale lore?

[Stagger_Lee]

No

[ofdabeat]

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~1/3 of the way through Moby Dick.

Can I safely skip the innumerable chapters detailing the technical intricacies of whaling, cetology and whale lore?

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Skipping anything written by melville is a mistake, have a look at Bartleby the Scrivener

[jjshabado]

I just finished "The World Without Us". Its a really good book and definitely worth reading. It talks about what the world would be like if Humans were suddenly gone from Earth.

It goes through all sorts of consequences from our actions, some of which are pretty scary/sad. Its not a global warming/doomsday book though. If anything its kind of optimistic as it talks about how life on Earth would adapt to messes we've caused and correct most of them.

[Chump Change]

I'm just finishing up the short story collection, "Fragile Things" by Neil Gaiman. I started a few months ago as it was highly recommended by my dad and sister, and actually posted about it in a lounge thread then. Well, I misplaced it somehow but recently found it, luckily enough, and have one story to go.

After hearing that Gaiman wrote a 'graphic novel' years ago I always considered him a pulp writer and showed no interest in him. Ridiculous bias, seeing as I never read any of his work. Big mistake, and I recommend it to anybody as it was recommended to me.

[Enrique]

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Speaker for the dead - orson card

I loved ender's game, it's the sequel. looking forward to a great read

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I loved Speaker for the Dead. I liked it more than Ender's Game (although I realize I am in the minority on this one and it might be because I read Ender's a long time ago).

[diddyeinstein]

I finished Morris Berman's "Twilight of American Culture" (anyone else read this) and "Pride and Prejudice".

Currently reading "Incompleteness" a biography of Kurt Godel, and very slowly making my way through "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram.