BWTK - What book are you currently reading

Bunyack · 05-02-2007, 09:37 PM

I'll start the ball rolling

Im reading "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman.

That guy was brilliant smart and brilliant funny!!!

Undead · 05-02-2007, 09:49 PM

nothing at the moment, too busy this week. Last week I read the last of the Dan Brown books and re-read an old classic, P&P.

did you know that some clever girl studied Jane Austen at Uni, wrote a P&P part 2, and then her very nice thesis teacher helped her get it published? It is brilliant the next ten years of Darcy and all you wanted to know about what happened to them.

Captain Starfish · 05-02-2007, 09:50 PM

One of the guys I work with dropped "iWoz" on my desk and suggested I'd like it. Steve Wozniak's autobio. The other guy who started Apple. What a wanker - he comes across just like the comic store guy in the Simpsons. I'll finish it only from boredom and a morbid curiosity...

More recently have been reading some of Dan Brown's other stuff, plus the old classic "ender's game" and its follow-ups.

barfridge · 05-02-2007, 09:58 PM

Kinky Friedman - Musical Chairs

before that was Neil Stephenson - The Diamond Age, and before that was some P G Wodehouse for light relief. Before that was slaughterhouse 5, catch-22, farenheit 451, brave new world and nineteen eighty-four. Yeah, I was on a bit of a dystopian odyssey.

alethea · 05-02-2007, 10:06 PM

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus... (VERY helpful! A must read)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations... (Inspiring)

The Vein of Gold - A Journey to Your Creative Heart.... (also good for inspiration)

Kassper · 05-02-2007, 10:12 PM

Hmm wonder where my thread went that I started about this topic aaaages ago . . . .

Anyhow, I'm reading Jean Paul Sartre's Sketch for a theory of the Emotions.

I'm really digging philosophy and cultural studies at the moment, alot of people never stray from novels but I highly recommend indulging in something a little out of the ordinary.

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catch-22 and nineteen eighty-four[/b]

I have both those, they're both brilliant !

Bendito · 05-02-2007, 10:37 PM

I'm currently reading Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson. Written in the sixties after rollin' with the angels for a year.
Allow me to quote the great man (do read it, some things never change)

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For a lot of reasons that are often contradictory, the sight and sound of a man on a motorcycle has an unpleasant effect on the vast majority of Americans who drive cars. At one point in the wake of the Hell's Angels uproar a reporter for The New York Tribune did a long article on the motorcycle scene and decided in the course of his research that "there is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder."
Nearly anyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail and lawsuits... which are much less likely if they can find a motorcycle to challenge instead of another two-thousand-pound-car or a concrete abutment. A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him. A few of them are, and many of those who aren't are just just as dangerous - because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat of punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle to threaten any man in a car. A bike is totally vulnerable; it's only defense is manoeuvrability, and every accident situation is potentially fatal - especially on a freeway, where there is no room to fall without being run over almost instantly.[/b]

-J- · 05-02-2007, 11:01 PM

PLayboy

Bendito · 05-02-2007, 11:18 PM

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PLayboy[/b]

For the articles?

Kassper · 05-02-2007, 11:20 PM

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I'm currently reading Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson. Written in the sixties after rollin' with the angels for a year.[/b]

Read everything Hunter has written, he is absolutely brilliant.

sabre1 · 06-02-2007, 12:11 AM

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One of the guys I work with dropped "iWoz" on my desk and suggested I'd like it. Steve Wozniak's autobio. The other guy who started Apple. What a wanker - he comes across just like the comic store guy in the Simpsons. I'll finish it only from boredom and a morbid curiosity...[/b]

I wouldnt mind "borrowing" that of you if I could

Just finished reading the "sixth profesion"

seadan44 · 06-02-2007, 06:34 AM

Im a huge fantasy nut so am reading Belgarath the Sorcerer (again), but have just had You Wouldnt be Dead for Quids by Robert Barrett dropped on my desk so I will give it a go.

azathoth · 06-02-2007, 06:54 AM

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Anyhow, I'm reading Jean Paul Sartre's Sketch for a theory of the Emotions.[/b]

Hmm, I just finished reading some Nietzsche and was interested in getting into Existentialism, what do you think of Satre? Easy to read?

I'm currently reading the Divine Comedy (Inferno) by Dante.

joneen13 · 06-02-2007, 08:44 AM

cosmo, cleo, famous and that's life...

oh, and i do have this really big book on my shelf called "anybody out there" that i got given by a random customer at work...

i gave it to my friend to read first to make sure it was good but its so big i dno where to start... maybe the beginning would be a good place... lol

Captain Starfish · 06-02-2007, 09:32 AM

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PLayboy[/b]

For the articles?
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Playboy has articles? I wondered what all the words between the photos were...

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One of the guys I work with dropped "iWoz" on my desk and suggested I'd like it. Steve Wozniak's autobio. The other guy who started Apple. What a wanker - he comes across just like the comic store guy in the Simpsons. I'll finish it only from boredom and a morbid curiosity...[/b]

I wouldnt mind "borrowing" that of you if I could
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I'll ask the owner - if he doesn't object, I'll bring it up to Scabs tomorrow night.

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Im a huge fantasy nut so am reading Belgarath the Sorcerer (again), but have just had You Wouldnt be Dead for Quids by Robert Barrett dropped on my desk so I will give it a go.[/b]

How do you go with Pratchett and Orson Scott Card?

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I'm currently reading the Divine Comedy (Inferno) by Dante.[/b]

I got halfway through and realised that I don't have the attention span required

-J- · 06-02-2007, 09:39 AM

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PLayboy[/b]

For the articles?
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ummm yeah if ya wanna believe that, I assume there are articles somewhere, do bio's count as articles

kellz · 06-02-2007, 10:07 AM

at the moment reading shopaholic and baby.

its a sequal to the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic.

its fun and querky and a good light hearted read.
great for those 4 hours flights across country

chief wiggum · 06-02-2007, 10:36 AM

whoa, some of you people are waaaay too intellectual for me.

me? a cathy reich's book, something bout bones and dead bodies, as most of hers are. plus a book about the cover up of the sandakan death march. and one about the anzacs in gallipoli called "goodbye cobber and godbless"...apparently a common quote as they went over the top to die a futile death. i really gotta try and keep it down to 1 book at a time....

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One of the guys I work with dropped "iWoz" on my desk and suggested I'd like it. Steve Wozniak's autobio. The other guy who started Apple. What a wanker - he comes across just like the comic store guy in the Simpsons.[/b]

worst. autobio. ever.

hokoyo · 06-02-2007, 11:02 AM

Next by Michael Crichton

I love all his books

Captain Starfish · 06-02-2007, 11:37 AM

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Next by Michael Crichton

I love all his books[/b]

Absolutely - whenever I meet rabid treehuggers I try and point them in the direction of "State of Fear"

05-02-2007, 09:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
Captain Starfish Hyobusa GT1300R Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Perth(ish) Posts: 10,003	One of the guys I work with dropped "iWoz" on my desk and suggested I'd like it. Steve Wozniak's autobio. The other guy who started Apple. What a wanker - he comes across just like the comic store guy in the Simpsons. I'll finish it only from boredom and a morbid curiosity... More recently have been reading some of Dan Brown's other stuff, plus the old classic "ender's game" and its follow-ups. __________________ Look after yourself? A newborn fawn could crush you with its forelimb, you Man of Margarine...

05-02-2007, 09:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
barfridge 1998 RGV250 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Morley Posts: 13,203	Kinky Friedman - Musical Chairs before that was Neil Stephenson - The Diamond Age, and before that was some P G Wodehouse for light relief. Before that was slaughterhouse 5, catch-22, farenheit 451, brave new world and nineteen eighty-four. Yeah, I was on a bit of a dystopian odyssey. __________________ "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." - Douglas Adams

05-02-2007, 10:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
alethea Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Perth/Bunbury Posts: 52	Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus... (VERY helpful! A must read) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations... (Inspiring) The Vein of Gold - A Journey to Your Creative Heart.... (also good for inspiration) __________________ <div align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana">.:alis volat propriis:.</span></div>

05-02-2007, 11:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
-J- Join Date: May 2006 Location: Upper Slums Posts: 3,799	PLayboy __________________ If it aint yours DONT TOUCH IT and you cant afford to fix it DONT RIDE IT! 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.' - Robert M. Pirsig

06-02-2007, 06:34 AM	#12 (permalink)
seadan44 2001 R6 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the shed fixin me bike! Posts: 581	Im a huge fantasy nut so am reading Belgarath the Sorcerer (again), but have just had You Wouldnt be Dead for Quids by Robert Barrett dropped on my desk so I will give it a go. __________________ Remember - Opinions are like Assholes Everybody has one and sometimes they STINK !

05-02-2007, 09:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Undead Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 929	nothing at the moment, too busy this week. Last week I read the last of the Dan Brown books and re-read an old classic, P&P. did you know that some clever girl studied Jane Austen at Uni, wrote a P&P part 2, and then her very nice thesis teacher helped her get it published? It is brilliant the next ten years of Darcy and all you wanted to know about what happened to them.

06-02-2007, 08:44 AM	#14 (permalink)
joneen13 2007 Kawasaki ZX10R Special Edition Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stirling, Perth Posts: 2,901	cosmo, cleo, famous and that's life... oh, and i do have this really big book on my shelf called "anybody out there" that i got given by a random customer at work... i gave it to my friend to read first to make sure it was good but its so big i dno where to start... maybe the beginning would be a good place... lol __________________

06-02-2007, 10:07 AM	#17 (permalink)
kellz Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: wollongong NSW Posts: 1,107	at the moment reading shopaholic and baby. its a sequal to the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic. its fun and querky and a good light hearted read. great for those 4 hours flights across country __________________ <div align="center"><div align="center">im the true green biker.....</div>

06-02-2007, 11:02 AM	#19 (permalink)
hokoyo Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: 6023 Posts: 1,088	Next by Michael Crichton I love all his books __________________ I am the old bloke on the black and yellow cbr1krr

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