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Chibi[OWNS]
United Kingdom10597 Posts
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Luhh
Sweden2974 Posts
"Lives of the monster dogs." As bizarre as the title suggests. ^^ Currently I don't read anything, but I sure am waiting for "A song of Ice and Fire" book 4. | ||
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imRadu
1798 Posts
Currently I don't read anything, but I sure am waiting for "A song of Ice and Fire" book 4. been waiting for it for 2 years now 8( - let's add a new twist to the thread. When you post a book please post the genre and the author example A feast for crows (book4, song of ice and fire) - George R.R Martin - fantasy thanks This chick today, was going intelectual on me about how interesting Da vinci's code was on my way back from exam. *puke* Then she went like I dont like sci-fi fantasy books and im like what did you read and she's like "uhhhhhh......uhhhh....". | ||
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Chaso
Sweden143 Posts
The gay science by Fredrich Nietzsche (By gay he means happy for those who did not get that) Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietzsche (a few months ago since I read this one but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway because it is just such a great book) | ||
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DevAzTaYtA
Oman2005 Posts
angels and demons (pretty fucking good, but not as good as da vinci code) the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime (really strong beginning, i didn't like the ending) the alchemist (incredible little story, very inspiring) prey (great story, but i don't particularly like crichton's style of writing) the rule of four (excellent story, excellently written. if you liked da vinci code, read this) those are the good books i've read in the past few months. | ||
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HnR)hT
United States3468 Posts
The Russian Scientist, Albert Parry A biographical sketch of the most prominent scientists in Russian history, including Dmitri Mandeleev, Ivan Pavlov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Mikhail Lomonosov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and a few others. Also the history of Russian science. Strange Beauty, George Johnson A biography of the towering American theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann, and the history of elementary particle physics and complexity theory. | ||
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toy
109 Posts
On June 05 2005 22:19 MoltkeWarding wrote: ...thanks for your condescension. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translation#German_Translations Rofl | ||
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HnR)hT
United States3468 Posts
On June 05 2005 20:56 ihatett wrote: Anthem (not a link, just underlined) by Ayn Rand. It's a nice book that slams collectivism. Heh, I've read Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness and The Fountainhead. I think she makes all libertarians look bad. Her philosophy suffers from incorrigibly flawed epistemology. edit: here is a good critique of it from Infidels.org: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/stephen_parrish/viable-values.shtml | ||
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imRadu
1798 Posts
On June 06 2005 04:27 HnR)hT wrote: Heh, I've read Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness and The Fountainhead. I think she makes all libertarians look bad. Her philosophy suffers from incorrigibly flawed epistemology. oh dear.. | ||
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Chanoipy
Canada320 Posts
Japanese is extremely easy to learn, particularly if you know another asian language. The phonetics system is very straightforward, and grammatically it is also simple, though it is structured differently from western languages. Edit: to contribute, I read 'The Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell.. Extremely interesting book. | ||
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draeger
United States3256 Posts
On June 05 2005 21:06 NewbSaibot wrote: How about a book i am about to read which is probably good? Im thinkin renting Da Da Vinci Code from the liberry. Just not sure if i can read it in 2 weeks, or want to keep it, in which case i'll buy it. All Dan Brown books are very fast reads. You should have no problems finishing it in two weeks. The Da Vinci code took me about a week or so because I was a bit busy, but another book of his, Digital Fortress, only took me a day and a half to finish. My current read is "The Art of Deception" by Kevin Mitnick. It's supposed to be a book on various situations where a hacker/phreaker (or as he calls it social engineer) can take advantage of your business and how you can close such loopholes. Truthfully, the way the book is written it seems like it is much more focused on him telling you how to scam people than it is how to protect against it. It is a fairly interesting read so far (though I'm only about 1/3 of the way into it.) | ||
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Sadist
United States7323 Posts
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Holorin
France227 Posts
On June 05 2005 21:24 GuYuTe- wrote: For the Sci fi crowd read Ender's game. And Dune is one of the best books ever written. If you like Sci fi, it's a must read. Ender's game is awesomw , i loved it so much  | ||
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Holorin
France227 Posts
Fuck.[/QUOTE] Doing a lot of math myself I found "unnatural understanding of math" absolutely great and i belive there are 256 caracters in ascii thus you should get 256^12 possibilities btw... ^_^ (if somebody doesn't know this yet you can get them by right-alt + xxx on numpad) contribution : "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman {excuse my spelling i don't care about it } | ||
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NonYold
United States2814 Posts
so far the count of monte cristo and the three musketeers, loved em both | ||
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NonYold
United States2814 Posts
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Chanoipy
Canada320 Posts
On June 06 2005 05:30 Holorin wrote: When attempting to slam another person using superior intellect, vast vocabulary, and an unnatural understanding of math, it's usually best to use correct grammar and spell "combination" correctly.:[ Fuck.[/QUOTE] Doing a lot of math myself I found "unnatural understanding of math" absolutely great and i belive there are 256 caracters in ascii thus you should get 256^12 possibilities btw... ^_^ (if somebody doesn't know this yet you can get them by right-alt + xxx on numpad) contribution : "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman {excuse my spelling i don't care about it } [/QUOTE] Actually, while this calculation would technically be correct, it is not practically correct, since an american keyboard only has around 48 keys which display a character when pressed (not counting carriage returns, caps lock, shift and tab). Creating an upper-case letter (or special symbols, etc) is fairly straight forward, so we can say that there are 95 separate possibilities (this number may not be exact since i just did a quick count). pressing Alt-XXX is more subtle than shift and is also less well known and more difficult to figure out by chance (in comparison with the shift key), so it would be inaccurate to include the rest of the ascii characters which are accessed via the alt key. In short, the chances of randomly creating the exact phrase is 1: 95^12 . However, the chances might be slightly smaller if we consider the fact that he did not in fact use the shift key to create the phrase "i can't read", in which case we do not have to include upper case / shift-accessed characters. Thus, and in a sense the more probable scenario, the probability of him creating the phrase by pressing 12 random keys on the keyboard is actually 1:48^12 . ps. Golden Compass is one of my favourite books (which is the first book of the trilogy that includes the Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass) | ||
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Catyoul
France2377 Posts
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Holorin
France227 Posts
On June 06 2005 05:57 Chanoipy wrote: When attempting to slam another person using superior intellect, vast vocabulary, and an unnatural understanding of math, it's usually best to use correct grammar and spell "combination" correctly. Fuck. Doing a lot of math myself I found "unnatural understanding of math" absolutely great and i belive there are 256 caracters in ascii thus you should get 256^12 possibilities btw... ^_^ (if somebody doesn't know this yet you can get them by right-alt + xxx on numpad) contribution : "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman {excuse my spelling i don't care about it } [/QUOTE] Actually, while this calculation would technically be correct, it is not practically correct, since an american keyboard only has around 48 keys which display a character when pressed (not counting carriage returns, caps lock, shift and tab). Creating an upper-case letter (or special symbols, etc) is fairly straight forward, so we can say that there are 95 separate possibilities (this number may not be exact since i just did a quick count). pressing Alt-XXX is more subtle than shift and is also less well known and more difficult to figure out by chance (in comparison with the shift key), so it would be inaccurate to include the rest of the ascii characters which are accessed via the alt key. In short, the chances of randomly creating the exact phrase is 1: 95^12 . However, the chances might be slightly smaller if we consider the fact that he did not in fact use the shift key to create the phrase "i can't read", in which case we do not have to include upper case / shift-accessed characters. Thus, and in a sense the more probable scenario, the probability of him creating the phrase by pressing 12 random keys on the keyboard is actually 1:48^12 . ps. Golden Compass is one of my favourite books (which is the first book of the trilogy that includes the Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass)[/QUOTE] i shall not go into introducing key statistcs and that would bore you also I suppose ... PS : The Master and Marguerite by Bulgakov greatest ... at least unsettling, strange, beautifull and wonderfully written ... | ||
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SolaR-
United States2685 Posts
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