What are you reading?

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher!

Been waiting on this one for a while.

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher!

Been waiting on this one for a while.

Is that a Dresden Files book?  I read one of those once.  It was pretty good.

Quote from: General Disarray on July 26, 2011, 01:10:56 PM

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher!

Been waiting on this one for a while.

Is that a Dresden Files book?  I read one of those once.  It was pretty good.

Yep, this is #13 in the series.

Got A Dance with Dragons yesterday.

I lost track of time and read through till sunrise, so I can't focus enough to read any more.

Got A Dance with Dragons yesterday.

I lost track of time and read through till sunrise, so I can't focus enough to read any more.

Winter is coming!

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

I don't see a united Africa as a remotely viable construct at the moment. It's too big, too many disparate tribes, religions and ways of life, too much inequality between the states, too many unresolved conflicts, too many centuries-old blood feuds. Not even the Sudan could remain united, what hope is there for a continent-wide unification?

Since DwD is too bulky to carry around I'm going with a more slender volume for travelling, The Computer and the Brain by von Neuman. I'm sort of understanding most of it.

Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on August 01, 2011, 03:20:40 PM

I don't see a united Africa as a remotely viable construct at the moment. It's too big, too many disparate tribes, religions and ways of life, too much inequality between the states, too many unresolved conflicts, too many centuries-old blood feuds. Not even the Sudan could remain united, what hope is there for a continent-wide unification?

Looks like a good list of reasons why the present schemes (neo-colonialism or whatever you want to call it) don't work.

Not saying the current system 'works' but a 'United Africa' is nothing more than a pipe-dream.

December 6
Martin Cruz Smith

I've read two or three of this guy's books and they're pretty entertaining, mostly intrigue plots in unfamiliar places.

December 6
Martin Cruz Smith

I've read two or three of this guy's books and they're pretty entertaining, mostly intrigue plots in unfamiliar places.

I love Martin Cruz Smith.  I think Gorky Park is my favorite police procedural I've ever read.

Yeah, that one and I've read Polar Star and Havana Bay.  All three good reads.  This one I'm reading now is set in Japan.

Yeah, that one and I've read Polar Star and Havana Bay.  All three good reads.  This one I'm reading now is set in Japan.

lol, yeah, I just realized that I bought it two years ago and never read it.  I think I actually lost it in my last move.

Red Square was also a good read.  It's another Arkady Renko book.

Now you've found that you lost it.     You sound like me.

For Whom The Bell Tolls.

The Name of the Wind.

Finished up A Game of Thrones after watching the show, now I'm working on A Clash of Kings

I'm finally reading A Dance with Dragons.

I'm about to start reading a Game of Thrones.  I've had it for months but haven't had time to get into it.

The Information Officer
Mark Mills

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on July 22, 2011, 04:54:32 PM

I'm finally reading A Dance with Dragons.

I'm about to start reading a Game of Thrones.  I've had it for months but haven't had time to get into it.

Winter is coming! I think you'll really enjoy it.

A Song of Ice and Fire is amazing. I finished A Dance With Dragons about two weeks ago, and though it was very good, I'm not sure it was up to the same (very high) standard as the other books.


I've just finished The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard, and I'm about to start Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomonology of Perception, along with Reading Merleau-Ponty (ed. Thomas Baldwin) and Merleau-Ponty by Taylor Carmen.

The FES collaboration book.

Does your condemnation of a United Africa mean that you think that Africans are unfit to govern themselves?  Is it okay for europeans to have a United Europe but too advanced for Africans?  I especially disrespect racism that is too cowardly to declare itself openly, but attacks the legitimate dreams of the exploited and their true leaders.

Not at all, I think a United States of Europe is a pipe-dream for basically the same reasons. I don't want Africa to be a colonial power, I want the people of Africa to decide for themselves where their national and cultural boundaries are and to govern themselves as they see fit. If Sudan couldn't even remain as one country or South Africa and Namibia, is it likely that we'll see a large-scale unification?

A United Southern Africa would be hard enough to achieve but at least SA, namibia and Botswana are all at more or less equivalent economic levels and have similar cultures

the difference in culture between the North and South of Africa is startling

Another Lovecraft short story: The Whisperer in Darkness. I'm enjoying this one more than some of his more famous works. Shadow Over Innsmouth was a good read, but nothing spectacular.

Also, can someone recommend me a really good fantasy series? It should be easier to get recommendations from this thread than from Google.

Just started Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross.

The last few posts of this thread.

Sex, Drugs, and DNA, by Michael Stebbins. It's a look into the world of science and a debunking of the misconceptions about some of the more controversial topics. As a future scientist, I've found it both useful and interesting so far.

Finally finished The Bear and the Dragon; I am now on Dune.

OMG! You just made me squee!   I hope you get as much out of Dune as I have, it is the one book I've read over and over again, and always get something new out of.

ALSO, I finished Singularity Sky (I love Charles Stross) and started The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

Indigo
Catherine McKinley