What books did you read in 2003?
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Law, Liberty and Legislation - Hayek
The Fatal Conceit - Hayek
The Road to Serfdom - Hayek
Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Nozick
Human Action - von Mises
Smyrna: Destruction of a City - Dobkin
Blight of Asia - Horton
Real Time Rendering 2nd edition - Haines and Moeller
Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces - Osher and Fedkew
The Renderman Companion - Upstill
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice: van Dam, Foley, Feiner, Hughes
Calculus on Manifolds - Spivak
some C#/ADO/ASP/.NET books I care not to remember
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Sethi and Ullman[/quote]
The Fatal Conceit - Hayek
The Road to Serfdom - Hayek
Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Nozick
Human Action - von Mises
Smyrna: Destruction of a City - Dobkin
Blight of Asia - Horton
Real Time Rendering 2nd edition - Haines and Moeller
Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces - Osher and Fedkew
The Renderman Companion - Upstill
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice: van Dam, Foley, Feiner, Hughes
Calculus on Manifolds - Spivak
some C#/ADO/ASP/.NET books I care not to remember
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Sethi and Ullman[/quote]
holy &*%&^%^&$ and you FINISHED all of those!?!?!?
or you just read the first few chapters and then abandoned it.... that I can believe, heh. Don't see how anyone could possibly have enough time to read all that even if they weren't working or going to school.... or are you one of those speed-reader types? simply amazing....
or you just read the first few chapters and then abandoned it.... that I can believe, heh. Don't see how anyone could possibly have enough time to read all that even if they weren't working or going to school.... or are you one of those speed-reader types? simply amazing....
Gerry said:
Yeah, if u're working normal hours, have nothing to do (go out, gym, sports, friends, family) etc...
Personally i'm working AND studying, therefore i'm buying books that i can't read at the moment. Found this one last month called Impossibility, anyone heard of it? Started it but then i went to italy for xmas and new year, now i'm studying (got an exam of friday, which by the way i'm never gonna pass)... So there you go. I'd love to have more time for me, but sadly that's the way it goes at the moment...
Gerry said:
I assumed we were talking about BIG books- like 200 pages at the least, like novel-length types of books. And I assumed that we're talking about actually finishing them cause, sure, anyone can start a dozen books in a year (although I average maybe more like 6) but finishing them all? That's a monumental feat. For me, even finishing a single book is... well... hrm... welll ahh.... I havn't actually finished one since like 6th grade....
...Hrm this gets me thinking about something that's been on my mind lately- I wonder if maybe my problems with my eyes (they aren't coordinated with each other properly, not so much that I see doubble vision all the time though) being linked to why I never seem to finish books but also being linked to why I can't draw smooth lines or drawings that are at all symetrical...
london-boy said:
Well certainly people's lifestyle can seriously curtail the time you have available. Exams in particular would blow it out of the water given that every time you'd be a reading a novel you'd be feeling guilty that you should be reading a course book instead. But if you commute, or like to read in the bath, or simply trot through 10-20 pages before going to bed, I really don't think a book a month is exactly unusual.
Sage - We are talking about large novels, and finishing them. Hell I re-read the Peter Hamilton Night's Dawn trilogy last year (in about 3 months), and that's about 3000 pages worth. It's not that difficult.
As an aside, this is the one good thing to come out of the Harry Potter phenomenom. It's taught children that reading books, and indeed reading big books, isn't as daunting as it seems.
Gibson. I read lots of Gibson to hold me over until my !*(%*#($ father is done with Quicksilver. Guess I read Cryptonomicon last year, though. Read plenty of stuff for school, most of it not very good. Hmmm... can't remember if I finished A Study in Scarlet now. Oh well.
Foucault is a pretty interesting guy to read about hehe. I have to pick up Power/Knowledge someday.
Anyway, about reading alot. We are usually assigned to read anywhere between 800-1500 pages per month. If you just read a bit like each day it's really no problem. It starts to get hot when you do like I've done a few times though and try to finish it all the last few days before the exam
China Mieville - King Rat, The Scar, Perdilo Street Station.
Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham + Smith of Wooten Major.
Peter Kerr - Snowball Oranges, Parrot in the Pepper Tree.
Asimov..E E 'Doc' Smith - lots of space operas.
Edmund Cooper - The Expendables.
Richard Avery - Transit, Who needs Men, and others.
James Axler - Deathlands Series.
Iain Banks, Ken McCleod - Gritty Sci Fi.
Michael Marshall Smith - The Straw Men, Only Forward et al.
Patrick Tilley - Star Wartz
Loadsa Evolutionary Theory Research papers, and other such bland materials.
Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham + Smith of Wooten Major.
Peter Kerr - Snowball Oranges, Parrot in the Pepper Tree.
Asimov..E E 'Doc' Smith - lots of space operas.
Edmund Cooper - The Expendables.
Richard Avery - Transit, Who needs Men, and others.
James Axler - Deathlands Series.
Iain Banks, Ken McCleod - Gritty Sci Fi.
Michael Marshall Smith - The Straw Men, Only Forward et al.
Patrick Tilley - Star Wartz
Loadsa Evolutionary Theory Research papers, and other such bland materials.
I am such a slow reader compare to most of you.
Harry Potter The Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling. I am enjoying this, I have forgotten enough of the movie to actually read this one.
City of God - Mary of Agreda. This book actually claimed Divine inspiration, highly recommended to anyone interested.
and about 500 volumes of manga.
Harry Potter The Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling. I am enjoying this, I have forgotten enough of the movie to actually read this one.
City of God - Mary of Agreda. This book actually claimed Divine inspiration, highly recommended to anyone interested.
and about 500 volumes of manga.
I've been a bit lazy last year and compared to some folks here this is gonna be a very unimpressive list, but what the heck: 8)
non-fiction:
Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
Animator's Survival Kit - Richard Williams (excellent read but primarily an invaluable reference)
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards
(science-)fiction:
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
The Stars my Destination (a.k.a. Tiger! Tiger!), The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester (mind-boglingly awesome considering their age)
Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (started in 2002, LONG but good books)
Technomage Trilogy; Legions of Fire Trilogy - Babylon 5 Tie-In Trilogies by Jeanne Cavelos and Peter David (really add to the show's already excellent story)
usually there'd be at least one or two Terry Pratchett novels on this list, but past year I didn't actually manage to finish one for the first time in ages, guess after reading over 20 Discworld novels your brain kinda wants something else for a while...
probably forgot a couple, mostly work related stuff though
It's interesting how different people's reading habits are. There are unfortunatelly many people (probably even the majority) who never really read a book at all. On the other side there's those who read book after book, finishing at least one book a week despite working full time, having a dog, kids, a horse, working out regularly, doing social work, taking care of sick relatives, arranging a wedding, building a house and always finding time to help you out (does it show I know any envy some of those?). The rest of us falls somwhere along a long drawn out line between those two extremes I guess...
non-fiction:
Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
Animator's Survival Kit - Richard Williams (excellent read but primarily an invaluable reference)
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards
(science-)fiction:
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
The Stars my Destination (a.k.a. Tiger! Tiger!), The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester (mind-boglingly awesome considering their age)
Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (started in 2002, LONG but good books)
Technomage Trilogy; Legions of Fire Trilogy - Babylon 5 Tie-In Trilogies by Jeanne Cavelos and Peter David (really add to the show's already excellent story)
usually there'd be at least one or two Terry Pratchett novels on this list, but past year I didn't actually manage to finish one for the first time in ages, guess after reading over 20 Discworld novels your brain kinda wants something else for a while...
probably forgot a couple, mostly work related stuff though
It's interesting how different people's reading habits are. There are unfortunatelly many people (probably even the majority) who never really read a book at all. On the other side there's those who read book after book, finishing at least one book a week despite working full time, having a dog, kids, a horse, working out regularly, doing social work, taking care of sick relatives, arranging a wedding, building a house and always finding time to help you out (does it show I know any envy some of those?). The rest of us falls somwhere along a long drawn out line between those two extremes I guess...
34 pages in a little over 1.5 hours? That is what I would call a speed readerakira888 said:It's not that bad when you have a 50 minute bus ride every day, twice a day.
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holy crap, I can't believe so many people read so much, I'm totally amazed. If everyone was mentioning like one or two books then that would be understandable, but person after person naming off like ten books they read in just one year, this is like uncomprehendable to me, I don't get how people can do that.
lol Sage, I don't want to sound insulting or anything, but 34 pages in 1.5 hours is not fast I read about 50-60 pages per hour depending on interest (obviously it depends on the size of the book as well, since some of the course litterature are enourmous in size), and I consider that normal hehe. But then again, I have friends who reads about 20 pages per hour, and that's pushing it, so I can see where you're comming from
edit: Not to mention the ones who read up to 90 pages per hour and can memorize the whole thing, now those are scary :?
I read about 50-60 pages per hour depending on interest (obviously it depends on the size of the book as well, since some of the course litterature are enourmous in size), and I consider that normal hehe. But then again, I have friends who reads about 20 pages per hour, and that's pushing it, so I can see where you're comming from edit: Not to mention the ones who read up to 90 pages per hour and can memorize the whole thing, now those are scary :?
