Just finished god is not great (literally 25 mins ago). Good book. If you like those type of books, I recommend The End of Faith and the Future of Reason and A Letter to A Christian Nation, both by Sam Harris.

Next books on my list are: Naked Lunch (most shocking book in the English language, a terrifying journey into the depths of the human pscyhe, according to the blurb on the back) and Concrete Island, which is a modern day Robinson Crusoe about a man stuck on a traffic island, by J Ballad the same author as High Rise (great book, if I remember rightly the first sentance is "as i sat on my balcony eating the dog")

Yeah, big fan of Harris too. I read The Moral Landscape this past summer which was pretty good.

CarlyZerg

United States113 Posts

December 28 2010 01:20 GMT

#723

The Great Derangement, by Matt Taibbi

He's a rolling stone journalist who goes undercover in two circles: an end-of-days Christian fundamentalist group, and a 9/11 Truth group, and tries to provide insight into why so many Americans are drawn to these ideologies. The book is very wry and clever (as one would expect from a journalist), and does provide a fair amount of insight (more than one would expect from a journalist).

You might find it somewhat offensive if you subscribe to either of said ideologies.

junemermaid

United States981 Posts

December 28 2010 03:37 GMT

#724

On December 28 2010 09:00 jax1492 wrote:
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Its a really good book, i think anyone who wants to understand more about the people of Afghanistan/Pakistan in the tribal areas should read this.

This book is amazing. Good choice.

Deleted User 101379

4849 Posts

December 28 2010 09:03 GMT

#725

On December 28 2010 03:45 HeavenS wrote:
As for my next books to read, i have no idea. so many options i havent read. 1984 maybe? dune? hyperion? Asimov's Foundation? the girl with the dragon tattoo? ian banks culture novels?the belgariad? a fire upon the deep?world war z? day by day armageddon?
interview with the vampire? too many choices and im too indecisive so ill probably read the reviews on each and go from there ;]

I would recommend starting with caves of steel and going from there through the whole series (including the foundation trilogy) in storywise chronological order:

+ Show Spoiler +

Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire

Pebble in the Sky
The Stars, like Dust
The Currents of Space

Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation

Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation

Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth

I read them in the wrong order first and then re-read them in the correct order and it's interesting to see how every book connects to the previous and following books in some way.

As for me, i'm reading "The Pragmatic Programmer - From Journeyman to Master" and hope to finish it before end of the year, though lately i'm reading too little, usually i read at least a hundred pages a day. Next on the list might be "Design Patterns" from Erich Gamma and others (IIRC).

stolensheep

United Kingdom306 Posts

December 28 2010 09:08 GMT

#726

pfods

United States895 Posts

December 28 2010 09:11 GMT

#727

I was reading [image loading]

Until some asshole at my house spilled beer all over it, didn't tell me about it, and therefor allowed a book of 1000 pages to become one solid block of sticky paper.

Until my new copy arrives, I'm reading

Farad

216 Posts

December 28 2010 12:48 GMT

#728

On December 12 2010 22:53 LittleeD wrote:
I read book 1-6 like 2 years ago but never finnished the series for some reason.
Doing it now:
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Tell us what you think of the ending :D

Kojaimea

United Kingdom277 Posts

December 28 2010 14:30 GMT

#729

On December 28 2010 05:02 Bluetea wrote:
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Giant thumb of approval from me!

One of my favorite novels.

I just started MAUS.
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Zorkmid

4410 Posts

December 28 2010 14:42 GMT

#730

Midnight's Children and GEB

Niso

Australia148 Posts

December 28 2010 14:45 GMT

#731

Old, but so amazing.

plexx

United States41 Posts

December 28 2010 15:10 GMT

#732

This week

Last week

Week before
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Zorkmid

4410 Posts

December 28 2010 19:58 GMT

#733

On December 28 2010 07:51 LyRa wrote:
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Slaughterhouse Five

...So it goes.

Dagobert

Netherlands1858 Posts

December 28 2010 20:22 GMT

#734

William Gibson - Count Zero
William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
Frederik Pohl - Man Plus
Jiro Taniguchi - Die Sicht der Dinge (orig.: Chichi no Koyomi)
Jiro Taniguchi - Zoo in Winter
Janne Teller - Nichts was im Leben wichtig ist (orig.: Intet)
Tolkien - The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Twain - Letters from the Earth
Twain - A Tramp Abroad
Vernor Vinge - Marooned in Realtime
Vernor Vinge - True Names

I got a lot of books to read... T_T

JTT

Australia10 Posts

December 28 2010 23:20 GMT

#735