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1. Universe in a Nutshell - Steven Hawkings -> excellant read - M-theory (the theory of everything) Rocks what ever the heck it is, but the scope if you can dig spatial non primia fascia stuff is overwhemly intellectual. Recommended Strongly
2. 11th Commandment - Jeffrey Archer -> run of the mill spy thriller - not bad - read every Fredrick Forsythe book published at the time by 15 - there's better.
3. The Making of a Philsopher - Martin McGinn -> I studied philosophy at uni - i wish i had this book while writing some of my papers, would have made my life alot easier. Recommend it, good introduction to thinking about thinking, reasoning and language - have to presume it would be heavy in area's for people not used to reading philosophy (had to re-read a couple of paragraphs) but worth it.
Next on the Agenda - Ulyssee's - James Joyce -> i think it was a directory about a sentence that is 69 pages long that made me buy it, it certainly looks like a journey.
What about yourself? Any recommedations or crticisms!
Just started Ulysee's < slow with a capital oooohhhhhhhww
heh, you should pick up a copy of Finnegans wake. A prof at my uni was doing a project of transferring Joyce's works to the net, so we got a little lecture on it once. Apparently about 40% of the words are completely made up.
open it up to a random page and just try to read. Give it a page, and you'll have to decide what the rest of us have "is it the best book ever written, or is it a complete joke?"
truly hard to tell.
*lol* that would be a perfect read for me then :):)
Currently I am reading:
"Everything you know is wrong" a guide to dis-information.
"Jailbird" ~ Vonnegut
"The Cluetrain Manifesto" (again)
"Everything you know is wrong" a guide to dis-information.
I got this for $1 out of a box in an antique store last year - it's great.
by Bujold - Miles Errant (three previous books combined in chronological order - fun read) Waiting for more Vorkosigan stories. Also waiting for more of David Weber's Honor Harrington. Read the latest in the series a bit ago - and was left hanging.
Life Matters & First Things First both by Merrill - serious but practical look at balancing your life.
Stacks of books about homeschooling: theory, advice, curriculum - you name it.
Aside to you Potter fans: We've read all the Harry Potter books too - :)
LisaB
heh, you should pick up a copy of Finnegans wake...open it up to a random page and just try to read.
That's they way I read it. I think it's beautiful like that. The composer John Cage read it like that as well - I heard a him say that in a radio interview - so that makes three of us.
A friend, who has read it all the way through, says that the way to do it is to read it out loud. He claims it makes sense that way.
Next, waiting on the shelves - the rest of Dan Brown's books, Augusten Burrough's two and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
