What books are you reading?

[ServantStrike]

I'm going on a Dickens kick right now. The man was a literary genius and a Christian too (though he wasn't until the end of the book even though you know there's a mariage at the end of the book. He's like, a classy Danielle Steel. Seriously every one of his books is both a depressing comment on the moral decay of society and a romance novel.

Probably my favorite is A Tale of Two Cities. I loved the ending to that one, when Sydney Carton traded places with Darnay and went to the guillotine so Darnay could marry Lucie. Sydney kept repeating John 11:25 to himself

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Currently Finished David Copperfield, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers (oh my that one was hilarious too), The Old Curiosity Shop, The mystery of Edwin Drood (Man it felt like that book ended abruptly, too abruptly), and Dombey and Son, and let's not forget A tale of Two Cities!

I'm on Martin Chuzzlewit. I probably need to take a break from Dickens and go to another author... I'm thinking Pride and Predjudice and Sense and Sensibility from Jane Austen, because women can't stop raving about those books (maybe they will give me insight into the female mind, so I can use psychological warfare and mad archery skillz to attract them). Just kidding, I don't have mad archery skillz.

Also, if I can ever get through it, War and peace by Tolstoy, and I need to finish Moby Dick (I'm like 1/3 of the way through). Also maybe The man who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling. And I need to finish Don Quixote (I'm not typing in the author, I'm being lazy here). That book is hilarious.

Insomnia + Project Gutenberg + kindle = waaaaay too many books to read.


So come on, lay it on me people.

 

[mystdancer50]

Well, I have MANY books to read. Currently, I am reading the Bible (of course) and Fashioned to Reign (to review it). I am going to start reading Lioness Arising and Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry by Lisa Bevere. I wish I could find a really, really good and addictive fantasy novel, since that's my favorite genre, but those are few and far between.

As for classics, I really enjoy Jane Austen, especially Pride & Prejudice.

 

[joeyruready]

Scripture and scripture and scripture.

 

[MissCris]

I just started Jane Austen's "Emma" for the...5th...time? But, I'm reading that right after having read some terrible romance my mother-in-law loaned me and I was too wimpy to say no thanks to. And before that, I read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, for the same reason.

My books have been sadly neglected as of late. So, Emma it is...and then I'll attempt Wuthering Heights again. I've tried a couple times to get into it, but....meh.

 

[Hellooo]

Another Kindle user! (check your local public library's website to see if they allow you to check out books on your kindle too...another good source for free reading material)

I just started reading Chopin's Letters. I'm working through two of his Nocturnes on piano as a side project, and since slower tempo'd pieces are not really in my wheelhouse, I wanted some additional context/color.

 

[mystdancer50]

Wuthering Heights is horribly depressive. I read the whole novel, but it was dark and empty at the end. Just my opinion.

 

[ServantStrike]

So much Jane Austen from the ladies.

I need to post this in the conspiracy forum. She clearly engaged in Psy Ops.

 

[MissCris]

So much Jane Austen from the ladies.

I need to post this in the conspiracy forum. She clearly engaged in Psy Ops.

Jane Austen's writing has the same effect on me that chicken noodle soup does- it makes me feel better

 

[mystdancer50]

For me, it's that wonderful and aggravating Mr. Darcy.

 

[ServantStrike]

For me, it's that wonderful and aggravating Mr. Darcy.

So he's a man then? Remember we're clueless somtimes...

 

[posthuman]

"Network Flows" by Ravinda Ahuja, Thomas Magnanti & James Orlin.

i am too busy working on an advanced math degree to read much other than textbooks & do my Bible studies - which I am due to read Ephesians and the rest of Isaiah this week; also i try to read a chapter of proverbs for every day of every month.

OK i know that's not what this thread is about lol. before school started back up I read Charles Stross's most recent novel (hard sci-fi). i don't know any other sci-fi authors with such a deep & insightful take on future economics; that book was a real hoot, and also very thought provoking.

i'll let you know if i get any time to read for pleasure again soon. guess that won't be until fall break, or Christmas. =]

 

[ServantStrike]

"Network Flows" by Ravinda Ahuja, Thomas Magnanti & James Orlin.

i am too busy working on an advanced math degree to read much other than textbooks & do my Bible studies - which I am due to read Ephesians and the rest of Isaiah this week; also i try to read a chapter of proverbs for every day of every month.

OK i know that's not what this thread is about lol. before school started back up I read Charles Stross's most recent novel (hard sci-fi). i don't know any other sci-fi authors with such a deep & insightful take on future economics; that book was a real hoot, and also very thought provoking.

i'll let you know if i get any time to read for pleasure again soon. guess that won't be until fall break, or Christmas. =]

Actually, that sounds really interesting to me. Is this computer networks and algorithms for them, or what is it?


I've got a pair of books for my CCNA cert I need to read more. Got the home lab set up and everything (and it's a doozy, it's actually a CCIE lab and quite drool worthy). Then maybe I'll switch it up and study for a database cert, then switch it up again and get a Linux cert (I'm leaning red hat), then switch it up again and go for my (gag) MCSE.

 

[colalella2891]

None, I never liked to read. The Bible of course has to be an exception though.

 

[Grace-Like-Rain]

My books have been sadly neglected as of late. So, Emma it is...and then I'll attempt Wuthering Heights again. I've tried a couple times to get into it, but....meh.

My daughter is reading Emma right now. She's 56% through, whatever part that is, lol.

I'm going on a Dickens kick right now. The man was a literary genius and a Christian too

I'm thinking Pride and Predjudice and Sense and Sensibility from Jane Austen, because women can't stop raving about those books (maybe they will give me insight into the female mind, so I can use psychological warfare and mad archery skillz to attract them). Just kidding, I don't have mad archery skillz.

Also, if I can ever get through it, War and peace by Tolstoy, and I need to finish Moby Dick (I'm like 1/3 of the way through). Also maybe The man who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling. And I need to finish Don Quixote (I'm not typing in the author, I'm being lazy here). That book is hilarious.

I love the names Dickens chose for his characters. Chuzzlewit? I mean come on people. Haha. Mody Dick is a priceless treasure, to read once. So glad I read it. I love the mood it brings on. I wouldn't read it twice though. My father reads that book every year.

I have War and Peace but keep procrastinating and haven't read it yet. I did read Paradise Lost, and The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoyevsky which was brilliant.

Jane Austen is just a witty, author who pokes fun at the social classes of that era in a very clever way. P&P offers up characters bent toward just about every extreme there is, from the completely shallow and frivolous to the starched Bible thumper. Both of the main characters have many faults, but grow throughout the book to become people that you love. I know several men who enjoyed the book so I know it can't be just a woman thing. Let us know what you think about it, eh?

Wuthering Heights is horribly depressive. I read the whole novel, but it was dark and empty at the end. Just my opinion.

Wuthering Heights was soooo depressing! I don't understand what anyone sees in any of those characters. Maybe I'm missing something important here, lol.

As for me, I love classics but also enjoy fantasy/science fiction. I really enjoy Brent Weeks (Night Angel Trilogy) and Tolkien which is next on my reading list. I loved Ender's Game, Divergent/Insurgent, The Hunger Games (don't hate!) and CS. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy. For spiritual growth I've enjoyed The Prodigal God, Explicit Gospel, and I'm now reading The Spiritual Disciplines by Donald Whitney.

 

[posthuman]

Actually, that sounds really interesting to me. Is this computer networks and algorithms for them, or what is it?

I've got a pair of books for my CCNA cert I need to read more. Got the home lab set up and everything (and it's a doozy, it's actually a CCIE lab and quite drool worthy). Then maybe I'll switch it up and study for a database cert, then switch it up again and get a Linux cert (I'm leaning red hat), then switch it up again and go for my (gag) MCSE.

basically it's finding extreme vertices of n-dimensional polyhedra.

this is for a a class in 'network flow" that i'm really enjoying. it's for a branch of math that my school calls "operations research" but i think when i was in my early 20's was called decision theory. it's about optimizing mathematical models, more or less, in this case for networks. we can describe networks with graphs (in the sense of dots & lines, vertices & edges more precisely, not x-y plots of equations) & basically this class is about algorithms for finding optimal (max and min problems) paths on certain classes of graphs. i call it my class in "Post Graduate Connect-The-Dots" where i am learning to connect the dots in an optimal way =]

it is computer algorithms, but i only write pseudo-code for the class. we talk a lot about order of complexity p / np etc, and this sort of thing is useful for database operations and network traffic management, but also applicable to all kinds of problems that aren't IT specific, like routing airplanes or delivery trucks, playing the market, search patterns, advertising coverage & cell phone tower placement, you name it -- any problem where a quantity of something needs to go from one location to another & there are many ways to get it there with varying "transportation costs"
not only do i draw a bunch of connect-the-dots pictures in my notes (woohoo break out the colored pencils) but this stuff is really useful math for solving all kinds of interesting problems and potentially saving a heck of a lot of money for all kinds of businesses by cutting out waste.

pretty cool this is an area where IT & pure math really meet. i'm in another course about the same thing for problems where the variables are integers, and not necessarily "networks" but broader classes of graphs. more concerned with set inclusion/exclusion than with maximum flow

 

[DuchessAimee]

So much Jane Austen from the ladies.

I need to post this in the conspiracy forum. She clearly engaged in Psy Ops.

I'm not a huge fan of Austin. However, I do appreciate her genius.


Right now I have about 1500 books on my Kindle cloud... everything from classics to mysteries to historical fiction to zombies to humor. I LOVE free books from Amazon!

 

[kayem77]

I just started Jane Austen's "Emma" for the...5th...time? But, I'm reading that right after having read some terrible romance my mother-in-law loaned me and I was too wimpy to say no thanks to. And before that, I read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, for the same reason.

My books have been sadly neglected as of late. So, Emma it is...and then I'll attempt Wuthering Heights again. I've tried a couple times to get into it, but....meh.

I just started readig Emma for the first time, and I just finished reading Wuthering Heights! What a coincidence, isn't it?!....except that every woman on here seems to have read Jane Austen's books ......oh well I'm not special.

 

[kayem77]

Wuthering Heights is horribly depressive. I read the whole novel, but it was dark and empty at the end. Just my opinion.

I agree that it was depressing! During the whole time I was reading the book I kept wishing Heathcliff would suddenly disappear....or die (is it okay to wish a fictional character dies?). But the end was kinda happy........a little.

 

[zeroturbulence]

None, I never liked to read. The Bible of course has to be an exception though.

Yea, what he said ^^^ Books will just contaminate a perfectly beautiful mind.

...plus reading takes too much time.

 

[KJV15John11]

I'm just finishing "50 Shades of White." It's like "50 Shades of Gray" without all of the naughty stuff. I don't want to give away the whole story but the main character has only healthy relationships with many good friends who all strive to live God-centered lives. For the life of me, I can't figure out why it never made it on the New York Times and Amazon's best sellers lists. There isn't even a plan to make a movie out of it or a made-for-TV special. I'm sure that once everyone finds out about this wholesome and smut-free book, people will just rush out and buy it, even if it doesn't make Oprah's Book of the Month club.

(removes tongue from cheek)