Racoon Posted July 9, 2009 Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 I was wreaked for Dickens after being given "Bleak House to study when I was 14.. Thats just it..Dickens isn't for 14 year olds, or even 19 year olds.. He has way too much sophistication and vernacular... You need a full vocabulary to read his work...Otherwise its a bit daunting. 850 page counts don't sit well with todays readers... I took a couple of days off from Bleak House.. to sit and digest, like I did with 'Les Miserables'.. I'll finish it in the next week.. A Top 20 book of All Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 For the next 3 weeks, I will be reading the Flight Software Requirements document for the Orion spacecraft, and several related documents that touch on flight software requirements, standards and expectations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galapagos Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Been voraciously reading "Consciousness Explained" by Dan Dennett the past 3 days. So far, I haven't had consciousness explained to me, but I have had the way I think about perception and my own subjective experience drastically altered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 I started Dennett's Consciousness Explained about 6 years ago.And then again about 3 years ago. I think I got about 1/3 of the way through it.Daunting book, but fascinating.It's about time to try it again. Thanks, Galapagos!! I'm being sorely tempted to get into Joan D. Vinge's fantastic trilogy: Snow QueenWorld's EndSummer Queen They have my vote as the best science fiction by a female author that I've ever read. But I can't until I can stop taking documents home from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Charles Dickens!...I wish I could construct sentences like he could....Give me a for-example sentence by Dickens, please. :) Racoon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenole Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Well I FINALLY finished 1984 by Orwell, then read Animal Farm in a day. Next two days I spent reading the Sea of Monsters and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordon. Theyre in the Lightning Thief series, if you've heard of them. Very good. So thats three books in the past three days... hmm. A new record. At this moment, I am reading nothing. Waiting to go to the library to get the next book in the series. But I am starting a book about Cosmology and the Big Bang. Interesting book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racoon Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Well I FINALLY finished 1984 by Orwell, then read Animal Farm in a day. . What did you think of 1984?? I finally read that about 3 months ago. I can't claim to read a 250 pg book in a day and to think I understand it... I was always an advanced english lit person, but could never read a solid book in under a day... Speed reading isn't exactly reading... I like to absorb the meanings of the sentences.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racoon Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 I just read my first Sinclaire Lewis Novel ... "Elmer Gantry" I really liked it. 400 pgs. It was about being a preacher and all the hypocrisy during the Revival peroiod in the early 1900's MidWest America.. It was interesting enough that it only took me a week to read it.. Good Book :shade: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenole Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 What did you think of 1984?? I finally read that about 3 months ago. I can't claim to read a 250 pg book in a day and to think I understand it... I was always an advanced english lit person, but could never read a solid book in under a day... Speed reading isn't exactly reading... I like to absorb the meanings of the sentences.. It was very... interesting... took me almost two months to read it though. It just got boring after a while. The only reason I was able to finish Animal Farm in a day was because I read for about 7 hours straight. We were on vacation, and taking some long car trips. I dont really speed read, I always end up rereading paragraphs when I try to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 It was very... interesting... took me almost two months to read it though. It just got boring after a while. The only reason I was able to finish Animal Farm in a day was because I read for about 7 hours straight....I read 1984 only after seeing the (Black n White) movie by the same title. Having seen the movie made the book easier to read, and the book made sense of the movie. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenole Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 I read 1984 only after seeing the (Black n White) movie by the same title. Having seen the movie made the book easier to read, and the book made sense of the movie. B) :eek2: Maybe I should see the movie... since the book was definately a bit confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzycat Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 "Shyness" Christophe Lone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougF Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 "The Sword of Truth" is a series of eleven epic fantasy novels written by Terry Goodkind. I'm about to start the last book the "Confessor" and I must say this is very good read so far. The Sword of Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iorgobas Posted September 18, 2009 Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 Lately something about the medieva human, historical thins. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 Disgrace - by JM Coeztee. Started reading it yesterday to figure out why this guy's the first person ever to win the Booker Prize twice, and believe you me, it's that good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieAG Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Midnight's Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia from Salman Rushdie is an interesting literary exercise of order within chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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