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Title: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Seal on April 17, 2012, 12:25:33 AM I just finished the Steve Jobs biography so I'm looking for a new ebook to read. What are you reading at the moment?
Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: bitdragon on April 17, 2012, 12:41:52 AM My Life as an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself by Living as a Woman, Becoming George Washington, Telling No Lies, and Other Radical Tests
A. Jacobs Not over yet Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on April 17, 2012, 03:16:24 AM I'm looking forward to reading a one hundred page magazine when it comes out. Does that count?
Seriously, I haven't read a book in going on a year now. I've been all tied up with a RL business and this Bitcoin thingy. That said, allow me to suggest one I've read twice, for it's a great read: The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip (http://www.amazon.com/The-Math-Gene-Mathematical-Thinking/dp/0465016197). Hope others offer up more fine suggestions for you. ~Bruno~ http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iB97qgPwL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: jwzguy on April 17, 2012, 03:40:14 AM No Angel by Jay Dobyns (ATF agent that went deep undercover in the Hell's Angels)
Good so far. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Xenland on April 17, 2012, 03:43:35 AM No Angel by Jay Dobyns (ATF agent that went deep undercover in the Hell's Angels) Good so far. Ooooh let me guess what happens, the ATF agent becomes addicted to coke, drugs and violence and becomes a double agent.... happens all the time ;) Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: jwzguy on April 17, 2012, 03:46:08 AM No Angel by Jay Dobyns (ATF agent that went deep undercover in the Hell's Angels) Good so far. Ooooh let me guess what happens, the ATF agent becomes addicted to coke, drugs and violence and becomes a double agent.... happens all the time ;) I'll tell you tomorrow. 8) Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Uncurlhalo on April 17, 2012, 03:50:47 AM Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: RyNinDaCleM on April 17, 2012, 11:52:43 PM Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: payb.tc on April 17, 2012, 11:55:37 PM my c++ is already full of exceptions, thanks. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: RyNinDaCleM on April 18, 2012, 12:03:50 AM my c++ is already full of exceptions, thanks. That's what I'm trying to avoid! Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Seal on April 18, 2012, 12:11:27 AM my c++ is already full of exceptions, thanks. That's what I'm trying to avoid! Sarcasm in a book title? :D Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on April 18, 2012, 12:28:59 AM I also read this one twice: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-Instinct-Mind-Creates/dp/0061336467)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E2vcqLEQL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: check_status on April 19, 2012, 07:35:56 AM Quote 1. Nearly every First Ammendment case appearing before contemporary courts contains a phrase declaring "the First Ammendment made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Ammendment..." by using this phrase, the court is invoking it's decisions from the 1940s which reinterpreted the Fourteenth Ammendment. That reinterpretation created a mechanism for the court whereby, for the first time, it could intervene in all practices of States and local communities, including religion. --- In the Fourteenth Ammendment, the "evil intended to be remedied" and "the intent of Congress" was clear: to make recently freed slaves citizens of the state in which they resided. Very simply-and very specifically-the Fourteenth Ammendment was a badly needed racial civil rights ammendment. How, then, could the courts of the 1940s manage so completely to rewrite the intent? As a result of seperating the wording from it's intent, in Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940), Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943), Everson v. Board of Education (1947), and other decisions, the Court substituted a totaly revised and foreign interpretation for the Fourteenth Ammendment. In those decisions, the Court declared that the purpose of the Fourteenth Ammendment was to limit the States not just on racial civil rights issues, but on numerous items contained within the Bill of Rights. Chapter 10 The Court's Selective Use of History, pages 197-198 Original Intent by David Barton Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: mufa23 on April 19, 2012, 07:37:00 AM The Art Of War
Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Etlase2 on April 19, 2012, 08:00:53 AM Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up.
Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: organofcorti on April 19, 2012, 08:48:14 AM Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up. Baby. That thar's a man's book. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: realnowhereman on April 19, 2012, 08:56:39 AM Just read Ender's Game, which was enjoyable, and provided about a million examples of prior art on iPads if anyone happens to be getting sued by Apple over patents.
Starting on A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was recommended to me. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Etlase2 on April 19, 2012, 09:19:36 AM Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up. Baby. That thar's a man's book. I enjoyed the conversations in the beginning with Lawrence and Alan Turing, but after that, there was no plot progression at all, I had no idea what the conflict is, and reading about laying fiber cables undersea is incredibly dry. If I read 1/4 of a book and have absolutely no idea where it's headed, that is a poorly written book imho. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: arby on April 19, 2012, 09:26:05 AM not much time for books to read, i only read technical books when i can
Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Seal on April 19, 2012, 12:02:58 PM Anyone ever read Benjamin Graham's Intelligent Investor?
I got 1/2 way through and thought it was far too technical at the time for me to fully understand. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: BadBear on April 19, 2012, 12:08:21 PM Some Tom Clancy book (SSN something or other). It's not great but keeps me occupied during my downtime working.
Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on April 19, 2012, 01:26:59 PM The Art Of War I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out. ~Bruno~ Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: check_status on April 20, 2012, 07:07:37 AM The Art Of War I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out. ~Bruno~ So you are 2600 years old? :o Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: FirstAscent on April 20, 2012, 05:00:41 PM Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up. Baby. That thar's a man's book. I enjoyed the conversations in the beginning with Lawrence and Alan Turing, but after that, there was no plot progression at all, I had no idea what the conflict is, and reading about laying fiber cables undersea is incredibly dry. If I read 1/4 of a book and have absolutely no idea where it's headed, that is a poorly written book imho. Cryptonomicon is a very enjoyable book. It gave me such great pleasure to read it. It's not often that you get an epic tome of fiction that combines treasure hunting, cryptography, a grand tour of WWII, hacking, Cap'n Crunch, the South Pacific, nerds, and dot com scheming. Truly a wonderful book. I'm now reading The Unincorporated Man. It seems that many here might find its premise interesting. Title: Re: Books - What are you reading? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on April 20, 2012, 05:21:58 PM The Art Of War I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out. ~Bruno~ So you are 2600 years old? :o Second printing! ;D |
