What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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rememberaday wrote:You mean Veronika ? Learn to spell correctly, you fool. It's Brasil not Brazil :lol:
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Demian by Hermann Hesse. Stumbled into this by accident. Great read though, a somewhat "autobiographical" novel, rooted in Hesse youth. Emil Sinclair is a confused chap, always seeking guidance, and the readers soon finds himself acquainted with strange characters like Demian, Pistorius and Frau Eva. What I like most what that it brushed on a great many topics while driving home the main point of the futility of merely dividing actions into "good" and "evil".

I am thinking about reading some of Jostein Gaarder's works. I liked Sophie's World, and I just got Maya. I think I'll love it.
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I'm planning to check out the Death Note.
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moom wrote:I'm planning to check out the Death Note.
What is it about :? ?

I am reading Jose Saramago's The Cave. Great read til now, only another 80 pages to go. I like it a bit more than Blindness, though I'd say the latter is more revolutionary.
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Im reading this .... it's very disappointing ... reads like somebody writing a blog ... nothing new, full of repeating information to pad the thing out. Some nice photo's ... 1 out of 5.

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rememberaday wrote:
moom wrote:I'm planning to check out the Death Note.
What is it about :? ?
I've been too busy to have started it yet :(
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Starting this next .....

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Jeremy Clarkson's ...And Another Thing...

Any of his book is always a good read while on a ride or waiting for something.
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Currently reading Terminal City by Alastair Reynolds. I've never read any of his before, but I'm really enjoying this one. Noirish sci-fi set in a very intriguing world.
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Just read Rick Wakeman's book "Grumpy Old Rock Star". It is pretty much just a collection of hilarious and ridiculous (but true) stories of various events that have happened to Rick throughout his life (like how he smuggled an authentic KGB uniform out of Russia at the height of the cold war) and some entertaining stories of Rick's days with Yes.

Overall an enjoyable read, but at a skimpy 200 pages, I was left wishing it was twice as long.
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The Gunner's Dream wrote:but at a skimpy 200 pages, I was left wishing it was twice as long.
There is a second book called The Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star.
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Massed Gadgets wrote:Currently reading Terminal City by Alastair Reynolds. I've never read any of his before, but I'm really enjoying this one. Noirish sci-fi set in a very intriguing world.
Will check it out. Maybe not. It seems like I've bought a heap of books but am unable to start any of them.
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Well not exactly reading, but you could say I'm solving through Mathematical Miniatures. Hell of an interesting book. Another great math book is David Acheson's 1089 And All That: A Journey Into Mathematics (it is less problem-solving oriented but provide several intriguing thoughts and its writing style is for everyone). Miniatures supposedly has its own share of mathematical verse too, but I've yet to reach that bit (I am still on Lagrange's Identity). These books are way more interesting than my textbook. Sometimes I feel the normal Math textbooks, i.e. those consisting of problems and solutions (okay, with a bit of concepts too) are what steers people away from Math.

I also read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Midnight by Mark Haddon. A simply stunning book. 10/10.
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rememberaday wrote:I also read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Midnight by Mark Haddon. A simply stunning book. 10/10.
I did like that one indeed!
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It is brilliant! And any novel that has a math proof at the end is ace stuff.