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So, what have you read recently?

Erodent

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I read Freakonomics. It's a fascinating book. Awesome research there; it had a few funny parts too.

What have YOU read?
 
I have recently read "The Universe Next Door," and "The Universe in a Nutshell," before that I read "Imagining Numbers," Sure I'm applying to do Maths and Physics in university, but I tend to find this stuff a little more interesting than novels. The best "novels" I have read are His Dark Materials Series by Phillip Pullman and The Sabriel Series by Garth Nix. I guess I never really grew into reading adult novels and chose to stick the the maths and physics of this world that really interests me.
 
Freakonomics is pretty sweet. Read it a year or so back.
They also blog online too, so you can check that out.
Kite Runner was good, so was A Thousand Splendid Suns.
The Last Lecture was amazing. It was written by a Professor at Carnegie Mellon who had terminal illness and recently passed away.
 
I'm reading a book called Lincoln, and no it's not for school actually. It's basically a novel version of Lincoln's presidential life, and it's pretty good, it's in third person but brings you behind the eyes of some of his associates. I'm about 2/3's through, I haven't been reading quite everyday and it's a very long book...but I recommend it, it is entertaining and interesting.
 
Erodent said:
I read Freakonomics. It's a fascinating book. Awesome research there; it had a few funny parts too.

What have YOU read?
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I read Freakonomics a few months back; it's a sweet book indeed.

Recently I have read 1434, which is quite awesome and The Snowball.
 
I am currently reading Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman. It's really a fascinating read and while it explicitly is making its case for a "green revolution" because of global warming, in the process it also presents a very convincing argument in terms of national security and relative power of America and the extreme strain that the coming population booms will put on our energy resources. Not to say that I think the global warming concerns aren't there, but he's probably a little bit hyperbolic in his descriptions of how dire the situation is (if you've seen him on any of the rounds he's been making, like the Colbert Report). Still a fascinating read. Up next is: Sea of Poppies and The War Within.
 
Recently completed Brisingr and just just finished Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox.

Both were mehish. Brisingr being better.
 
The books I have read recently have all been because of school, but they were great books. I read The Great Gatsby (meh), Crime and Punishment (so cool), The House of the Spirits (loved it), and I'm now reading Perfume (pretty cool so far).
 
what the hell darkie you give Gatsby a "meh"...and here I thought you were one of the cool 15 year old Indians.

(However you get bonus points for liking House of the Spirits so you're cool again).
 
Reading Hamlet because of school. Just finished A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and I'm pleased to say I understood about 3/4s of it. I also bought the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk two weeks ago just on a whim cause I liked the movie and heard the book was cool and I liked it so much I've bought and read every one of his books at my bookstore, which was about 6, since then lol

My two favorite books are The Great Gatsby and A Clockwork Orange.

Also I just found out the two books we're reading next trimester in school are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe. I am really really not looking forward to that :/

Edit: also recently I've been on a major Kurt Vonnegut spree. I read Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions in the past two months with Cat's Cradle being by far my favorite.
 
Strangely, I'm not much of a reader, but the book called "Farewell to Manzanar" is a pretty good book, we read it in class, but never finished, and the teacher actually gave me a copy of the book, its a pretty good book.
 
Currently reading the Under The North Star -trilogy for a course. Tells about the late 1800s and the early 1900s in Finland.
 
Out, by Natsuo Kirino was an amazing suspense novel.
A Million Little Pieces was great.
Fahrenheit 451 is classic, so is A Separate Peace.

Currently working on A Clockwork Orange, which is so far pretty interesting.
 
TAY said:
what the hell darkie you give Gatsby a "meh"...and here I thought you were one of the cool 15 year old Indians.

(However you get bonus points for liking House of the Spirits so you're cool again).
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I was decent, I suppose. I just thought it was a little boring.

Fahrenheit 451 is a really cool book that I read in 8th grade. Also I read Casino Royale a few years before the move came out and I really liked it.
 
TAY said:
A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four

gogo Sherlock Holmes ^_^
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I read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories last year: great read really. Recently I just read A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, its nice if you like physics but I want to read the real one. I had to read Bless me Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya for Academic Decathlon, it was pretty good. I also agree with darkie that The Great Gatsby was meh.
 
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