What are you currently reading?

zoobyshoe

A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski. I have previously read this guy's biography of Newton. His writing style is refreshingly insane, as if he's on Coke or having a manic episode. No dry, tedious math here. In Berlinski's hands Math is an emotionally charged subject, full of storm and stress or lyrical, romantic beauty; calculus if Beethoven had invented it.

BobG

I've read that book. That was a good read.

OmCheeto

Pretty Shield

along with 1000 other books I've purchased and not gotten past the first 2 pages.

TIME!

The next book I will buy and probably not read is by Farley Mowat; "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float". Recommended to me by someone that saw me pumping my boat out 3 weekends ago.

Evo

I just read a play adaptation of Medea. Took about 10 minutes. Talk about giving women a bad name.

Pythagorean

My own writing, over and over (and over) again

FreeMitya

Right now I've got Don Quixote, Crime and Punishment, and the Sound and the Fury on the go.

x2791258

I'm reading "Stranger in a strange land", by Heinlein. Not the english version tho.

Hessa

I read the Arabic translated version, it's an amazing story!
but it's too depressing!

currently, I'm reading The Eye of the Wizard, by Daniel Arenson

Pythagorean

I know the lyrics from Iron Maiden's "stranger in a strange land" by heart. They like turning novels into metal.

Curious3141

And poems. Don't forget "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

The difference is that "Stranger" is lyrically unrelated to the Heinlein book, while "Mariner" is very much based on the Coleridge poem.

uneasyrider

I just finished Moby Dick and now I'm on here searching for something new. If you've never read it it is still something special. Melville can be a little dry at times and a little long winded but it's just a beautiful story in the end. :) It's as close as we can get to going on a whaler in the 1800's. A fantastic book! :)

uneasyrider

Did like it?

I didn't read through all the page to see if you commented again upon conclusion, forgive me.

Pythagorean

And history/mythology lessons (Alexander the Great, Powerslave, Flight of Icarus) and Brave New World was tailored after Aldous Huxley's novel.

I've never read any the novels, only really know about them through Iron Maiden. I think the last fiction book I read was The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford. I stopped reading fiction during my undergraduate physics degree; never went back.

SW VandeCarr

I've been reading the US Federal Code (all the Federal laws and regulations in force in the USA). I started in 1982 and I'm currently on page 214,988. I read it because I know everything I read in it is true (by definition).

AnTiFreeze3

That sounds like quite the project. How much of it do you think you have retained?

SW VandeCarr

I don't know. I don't really care. It's a Zen thing. The knowledge that everything I read is absolutely, unconditionally true is all that matters. I started when I worked for Federal Government and I saw that it brought me great respect. Some worshiped me, but I told them I was a mere mortal seeking enlightenment. Some read the Bible, some read the Koran or Hindu scripture. I read the US Federal Code.

FreeMitya

But there is both objective truth and subjective truth, in my view. To each his own, I guess.

P.S. I did the boldfacing.