What are you reading now?

[JimC]

New Scientist #2744

Won't get that till tomorrow in the colonies...

(I claim my purchases of New Scientist every year for a tax rebate, as a necessary tool of the trade for a science teacher. I think gin should also be in this category...)

[Pappa]

New Scientist #2744

Won't get that till tomorrow in the colonies...

(I claim my purchases every year for a tax rebate, as a necessary tool of the trade for a science teacher. I think gin should also be in this category...)

Actually, it's the week before's that I'm reading. I seem to have a backlog of New Scientists and books.... I blame the iPhone. Ever since I got the damn thing I can't stop fiddling with it. It encroaches on my reading time.

[JimC]

Pappa wrote:

Ever since I got the damn thing I can't stop fiddling with it.

The curse of every man-child ever born...

[Pappa]

Pappa wrote:

Ever since I got the damn thing I can't stop fiddling with it.

The curse of every man-child ever born...

Why would god provide man with such a pleasantly addictive toy, and then tell him to leave it alone or it'll drop off and make his hands go hairy?

[tattuchu]

I'm reading by George: A Novel from Wesley Stace (also known as the singer John Wesley-Harding). It's about a ventriloquist, as told from the dummy's point of view. Although of course the dummy doesn't like to be referred to as a dummy. Anyway, I'm halfway through the book, and I'm finding it an enjoyable read.

[Bella Fortuna]

Currently reading:



And I just got the 4 books I got with some Xmas gift cards, so I have a few things to move on to.

[leo-rcc]

Currently reading:

I really enjoy his shows on Discovery channel.

[Trolldor]

Book title... so many jokes! *Choke*

[JimC]

Book title... so many jokes! *Choke*

How Deep in the Throat was the bone?

[Animavore]

I'm listening to an audiobook of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine which is basically about Milton Friedman and his doctrine of capitalism.
The book is as shocking and apparently well researched. Unfortunately there are no references with the audiobook but according to Wiki at least 2 proponents of disaster capitalism complained about bias in her book and she owned the 2 of them and they said nothing more.
Like when I read John Pilger's books a few years ago I'm left thinking what a bunch of bastards American Conservatives are. In fact I should read more of this stuff because I forget at times. I think more documentaries of this stuff should be out there too. What they done in South America and Iran is unforgivable and then Americans wonder why people bash them (besides, of course, the Americans that are bashing them from the inside).
To think that they're just over-throwing governments and putting in dictators who will cut public funding and forgo nationalizing services so that foreign (read American and some European) businesses can come in and privatize everything with the promise of creating wealth in the long run only to suck the country dry before fucking off somewhere else ("like a cocaine junky they need to go off and find the next hit") is absolutely immoral and scary. They turned Chile, a country which had a peaceful democracy with a strong currency for 140 years before Pinochet, into a brutal dictatorial regime which became bankrupt in less than 20.
If you haven't read this book yet its well worth the read. I'm only half way through it but I suspect the worst is yet to come.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just finished Stranger in a Strange Land. Now I'm reading The Mote in God's Eye.

[Don't Panic]

Just finished Stranger in a Strange Land

I read that recently, the extended version that came out in the nineties, it was good, read a load more Heinlein after that, re-reading a lot of the stuff I read as a teen, Moon is a harsh mistress, tunnel in the sky, time enough for love, the cat who could walk through walls, and a few I hadn't read before, Glory road, Starship troopers, got a few more on my Ipod still to read but have moved on to Frank Herbert for the moment, re reading all the Dune books, on Book 4 now, God emperor of Dune,

[AshtonBlack]

"Accelerando" by Charles Stross. It's a collection of short sci-fi stories dealing with a multi generational family.
Heavy Sci-fi. Starting roughly 10 years from now. 8/10. Brilliant Ideas.

[Ameri Boi]

I'm listening to an audiobook of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine which is basically about Milton Friedman and his doctrine of capitalism.
The book is as shocking and apparently well researched. Unfortunately there are no references with the audiobook but according to Wiki at least 2 proponents of disaster capitalism complained about bias in her book and she owned the 2 of them and they said nothing more.
Like when I read John Pilger's books a few years ago I'm left thinking what a bunch of bastards American Conservatives are. In fact I should read more of this stuff because I forget at times. I think more documentaries of this stuff should be out there too. What they done in South America and Iran is unforgivable and then Americans wonder why people bash them (besides, of course, the Americans that are bashing them from the inside).
To think that they're just over-throwing governments and putting in dictators who will cut public funding and forgo nationalizing services so that foreign (read American and some European) businesses can come in and privatize everything with the promise of creating wealth in the long run only to suck the country dry before fucking off somewhere else ("like a cocaine junky they need to go off and find the next hit") is absolutely immoral and scary. They turned Chile, a country which had a peaceful democracy with a strong currency for 140 years before Pinochet, into a brutal dictatorial regime which became bankrupt in less than 20.
If you haven't read this book yet its well worth the read. I'm only half way through it but I suspect the worst is yet to come.

I bought it shortly after it came out(I love hardcovers), and I fell in love with it; reading it wherever I went, at school, bus stops, while walking, etc. I used to quote it often but other books took my fancy(plus I never finished the last chapter....a part of me doesn't want it to die)

[Ameri Boi]