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[lessthanjakejohn]

What books are you guys reading right now, or have read, that are good?

^^Vote also, haha???

[yeswepromise]

i read like 1 page of my geography book because i had a midterm the other day. maybe i should have been reading it from the first day of class:bash

[ratm]

I don't read as much i used to because i have to read so much for school, i usually don't have time to read what i want. What kind of books do you like classics, non-fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, romance?

[Rockenreno]

I just finished "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut... it was really good. I also read "Blondie24" about how 2 guys made an AI program to play chess online and became really, really good. (Not like Deep Blue which played chess based on an array of pre-programmed moves, this machine actually learned while it played and ran off a home computer, not a super computer)

Also, it may sound weird, but we've been reading some good stuff for Humanities lately... Frankenstein, Schiller's 'The Robbers', Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', and Voltaire's 'Candide' to name a few.

Next up: "AI Game Programming for Windows" and Bruce Campbell's autobiography "If Chins Could Kill"

I also HIGHLY recommend anything by Issac Asimov. The Foundation Series was astounding.

[ratm]

Kurt Vonnegut is an excellent writer, so is Isaac Asimov. My favorite Vonnegut books are Sirens of Titan and Slaughter House Five. I read the first book in the foundation series but have never read any of the other books. If you like sci-fi books i would recommend most anything by Arthur C. Clarke, Dune by Frank Herbery, and The Science Fiction Trilogy by C.S. Lewis (some of the best books I have ever read). Another good author is Harlan Ellison. Some good ones from him are I Have no Mouth and Must Scream, Spider Kiss and any of his short stories. If you like classics Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov are good.

[darkeagle]

My fav book is Vittorio the Vampire. I"m fixing to start on Lasher by Anne Rice. I like Vampire Chronicles and anything with a twist or mystery.

I also read couple good ones last month called the Body Farm and Nathan's Run.

[skydragoness]

ooo! darkeagle i agree! anne rice is great. i've only read the first two books of the vampire chronicles though. and that was back in highschool when i had loads of free time to do that sort of thing. i've been thinking about getting back into them again. *sigh*

[Movingviolation240]

Last book I read was Jhon J Nance's Tubulence, but I would have to say my fav author is Stephen Hunter. Right now I'm reading Herk Kheller's book "NUTS" (the story of southwest airlines) and I've got Earnest K Gahn's "Fate is the Hunter"

Paul

[big jon's 240]

but I would have to say my fav author is Stephen Hunter. Paul

:Werd Stephen Hunter is one of my faves also (i like "time to hunt" the most out of his books). Tom Clancy is real good if your into the spy thing, and i also like a lot of W.E.B. Griffin's work.

[UncleBen]

just read some john grisham book. can't remember which one. i've read so many of his. i like the books like that, those and mystery/murder books.

[MasterMan]

books make my head hurt...

[lessthanjakejohn]

books make my head hurt...

too much crack? lol