What are you currently READING?

if anyone else actually still reads books, what you reading?


Me: RAPID RESPONSE - Dr Steve Olvey (Champ Cars answer to Sid Watkins)

very good so far, VERY graphic details about injuries etc can be quite upsetting.

Hows about you fellas? a reply of 'Im currently reading this thread' is not allowed!

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My lecture notes...

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I am currently reading a book called De Familie Stastok for school...

It's a book from 1800 or something and I have to read it in THAT version, with the sucky old language. It's impossible to read 90 bloody pages of it and what it makes even worse is that 8 line sentences aren't uncommon...

For interested Dutch people (though I doubt there will be any :P) here is one sentence:
Het duurde een minuut of wat alvorens een eigenaardig sloffen in het voorhuis de aankomst ener bejaarde keukenmeid verried, die eerst natuurlijk de aardappel waaraan zij bezig was, had moeten afschillen, daarna de bak van haar schoot en haar beide voeten van haar schoof zetten, om vervolgens haar rode muilen aan te trekken, haar neus met het buitenste van haar hand af te vegen, haar eva in de schuinte op te slaan, en de lange weg te aanvaarden, die van de keukendeur tot bij de barometer twintig, en van de barometer tot de mat, zes stappen vergde.

Someone save me :P

No, I wouldn't recommend it :P



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i am currently reading a thread on a forum called "What are you currently READING?"

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> if anyone else actually still reads books, what
> you reading?
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> Me: RAPID RESPONSE - Dr Steve Olvey (Champ Cars
> answer to Sid Watkins)
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> very good so far, VERY graphic details about
> injuries etc can be quite upsetting.
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> Hows about you fellas? a reply of 'Im currently
> reading this thread' is not allowed!

Naughty boy

lol I had to read a book that was ridiculously long and written in some classicy old style of the english language for my architecture unit last year.

Incredibly, I solely read reviews and peoples judgements on the book on amazon and wikipedia (lol!) and had to make a descriptive comparision with phrases from the book and its meaning with my own work relative to the site of our design project (a bit weird).

We also had to portray scenes in graphical form and compare them exactly to a film called 'London' (an arty film based around the Clerkenwell Tales or something). I watched about 3 mintues of it halfway through the vhs video.

I scored top of my class lmao! Didn't read the book, nor watch the video. Blag of the year.

Goes to show really, some things really are just a load of old bollox!


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ooops

didnt see that! just read the thread title, but if you insist, i was reading a text message, thats right, people text me, im super duper popular

Reading could be 2 things, i.e what are you reading at university, where "reading" means "studying". The second is your conventional meaning. Currently, I'm reading BSc Software Engineering at Nottingham Trent University (basically programming that pays more ) and I believe I'm currently reading The Narrows by Michael Connolly. I do like my detective thrillers.

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Everyone knows that million-to-one chances happen 9 times out of 10; indeed, it's a common requirement in fairy tales. If the human didn't have to overcome huge odds, what would be the point? Terry Pratchett - The Science Of Discworld

GPGSL S5 Race driver for IED.

L. Paul Bremer III - My Year In Iraq

A great book by the US Ambassador to Iraq, showing the struggle to get Iraq working. A fine compliment to the book I just finished, Bob Woodward's State Of Denial

Bill Bryson - Adventures Of The Thunderbolt Boy

A great autobiography by a great writer.

More stuff on its way from amazon :D

This?

Currently, Louis Theroux - The Call of the Weird

Very readable, I like his self depreciating, honest writing style - and the fact he's maybe a little naive, which is refreshing for a journalist!


Must confess I've slowed on the reading front of late, last thing I read fully was Noam Chomsky's Failed States - enough to put anyone off reading for a while!

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She says brief things, her love’s a pony
My love’s subliminal

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Not well enough

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

About the start Palin : The Python Years

Yo qwerty, what are the Louis Theroux books like?

I really enjoy them. He picks topics which people have very definate preconceived ideas about, and his interviews are great because they really disrm the intervieweee, not because he asks the questions they don't want to answer, but just because of his style.

In the book I'm reading he re-visits the people he interviewed for a BBC series he filmed (Weird Weekends) - a prostitute, a self help guru, a male pornstar, UFO weirdo, the lot. He somehow manages to get into these industries really well, and actually uncovers things which can change your perception of these people.


He's very readable, very funny but very perceptive too. Much prefer his writing to his father's.

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She says brief things, her love’s a pony
My love’s subliminal

I'm reading Also Sprach Zarathustra.


The next ones will be Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, Jenseits von Gut und Böse and 1984, not necessarily in this order.

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Um dois três quatro cinco seis sete oito nove dez
Eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn
One two three four five six seven eight nine ten
Один два три четыре пять шесть семь восемь девять десять

A very good read if your an argumentative bugger like me




The Book of General Ignorance is a comprehensive and humiliating catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge', which will make you wonder why anyone ever bothers to go to school. If you still think that Henry VIII had six wives, that the earth has only one moon, and that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, then you need this book. Urgently.




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ESSENTIAL OILS aren't essential unless you're an engine, a gearbox or a twat



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Catch as Catch Can - The Collected Stories and Other Writings; Joseph Heller.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F.Scott Fitzgerald

"Thanks Ayrton"

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I'm reading nothing ATM. Hate to read.