Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Jasper]

The series changes after the first five novels, which are but if you don't like Equal Rites, you probably won't like the rest.

[LMNO]

finished The Colour of Magic

funny, but not laugh out loud funny.  continuing on to The Light Fantastic to decide if I want to invest more time or money into this series.

Rincewind isn't my favorite character in the series, though he did grow on me eventually.

The Vimes stories are my favorite.  That and DEATH.

[Triple Zero]

The series changes after the first five novels, which are but if you don't like Equal Rites, you probably won't like the rest.

I suppose who likes which ones best is kind of personal, because I didn't enjoy Equal Rites that much

[Lenin McCarthy]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. <3

[the last yatto]

Ment to put this here...

I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite! examines the historical, political and philosophical linkages between Nietzsche's transgressive thought and the transformative political vision of anarchism

[Cain]

Karl Popper and the Social Sciences - William A Gorton

A highly useful account of Popper's situational analysis method and how it could be used to improve social science theory.

[Disco Pickle]

Shelved The Light Fantastic..  just not enjoying it at the moment.

picked up Gravity's Rainbow for another chapter and shelved it again, wondering why I torture myself with Pynchon.

now reading This is Not a Book by Michael Picard.  no relation to this guy:




but may be related to the emote.

[Eater of Clowns]

Started A Game of Thrones yesterday.

I loved them all but Feast for Crows.  Storm of Swords is the best one so far IMO.

Waiting for that damn HBO series to come out now.

Same.  According to HBO, it should premiere April 17th

So that has some of the best characterization I've ever read.  The best way I could describe how well fleshed out each role is that I feel like I could gossip about them.

AND I'm really psyched to see that Peter Dinklage is playing Tyrion Lannister.  While I was reading it I was thinking he'd be good for it (forgetting, actually, that they were intending to even make that series), then found out on IMDB he would be.  Sean Bean is also a good choice for Eddard Stark, and the girl they chose for Daenarys is gorgeous (she is not 14, as in the book).

Anyway, I'll be reading the Preacher series while I wait for the my hold on the next book to come into the library.

As if to prove my point, I was talking to my sister earlier and said "So...Gregor Clegash," and she yelled immediately "Oh my god, FUCK Gregor Clegash."   

[The Wizard]

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

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Karl Popper and the Social Sciences - William A Gorton

A highly useful account of Popper's situational analysis method and how it could be used to improve social science theory.

That sounds good.

[*GrumpButt*]

A Feast for Crows.  George R.R. Martin <3

[Reeducation]

The Immortalization Commission, Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray.

"Science is like religion, an effort at transcendence that ends by accepting a world that is beyond understanding. All our enquiries come to rest in groundless facts. Just like faith, reason must at last submit; the final end of science is a revelation of the absurd."

[Luna]

Next up, digging up a copy of "At the Mountains of Madness."  Guillermo del Toro apparently is in preproduction, I'm going to have to catch this in the theater.

[Faust]

Has anyone a copy of Wittgenstein's mistress? I'd be willing to give em a few bob for a copy, I cant find the download file.

[Cain]

Karl Popper and the Social Sciences - William A Gorton

A highly useful account of Popper's situational analysis method and how it could be used to improve social science theory.

That sounds good.

It is.  The concept was always a little fuzzy in Popper's own work, because of his own changing ideas on how social laws compare to scientific laws, but Gorton has a good crack at expanding on it, based on Popper's own work and the philosophy of science in general.