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What book(s) are you reading?

I used to read all the time and now have started again with Kindle on iPhone. Finished "The Reapers are the Angels" and now reading "Day by Day Armageddon"
 
I just finished The Hunger Games (by Suzanne Collins) last night. It's considered a YA book, I guess, but it was a great read. Parts of it reminded me of Ender's Game. My wife is currently reading Catching Fire (the next book in the series) and I'll start that after she's done.

While I try to stick to one novel at a time, I'm always reading any number of tech books at the same time. Current selections include:
  • Programming Clojure, by Stuart Halloway
  • The Joy of Clojure, by Fogus & Houser
  • Linux Network Administrator's Guide, by Bautts, Dawson and Purdy
  • JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (6th ed.), by Flanagan

Bostonaholic said:
I'm switching between several.

1. Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers
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Fantastic book! I need to re-read it soon.

Bostonaholic said:
On Deck:
The Passionate Programmer Chad Fowler
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Robert C. Martin
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Andy Hunt
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Chad's and Andy's books were good, but I was a little disappointed by Clean Code. It sort of felt like a rehash of books like Code Complete (McConnell) and so many other books that I read when I was starting out. Not sure that I really got any new ideas from it.
 
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Lyle said:
I just finished The Hunger Games (by Suzanne Collins) last night. It's considered a YA book, I guess, but it was a great read. Parts of it reminded me of Ender's Game. My wife is currently reading Catching Fire (the next book in the series) and I'll start that after she's done.
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Both amazing books. I think the The Hunger Games is better though. I can't wait until I start Mockingjay. :)
 
FireStar said:
Both amazing books. I think the The Hunger Games is better though. I can't wait until I start Mockingjay. :)
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Interesting -- my wife has said that (so far) she's liking Catching Fire better than the first one. Either way, I'm looking forward to see what happens next.
 
Lyle said:
Interesting -- my wife has said that (so far) she's liking Catching Fire better than the first one. Either way, I'm looking forward to see what happens next.
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Hmmm.... I think for the most part their tied, first one is more exciting, I think, and the second one is.... interesting. They're both amazing books, and the third one should also be. I read these in less than a week each.
 
Not necessarily reading, but I'm listening to the audiobook of Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone. It's my first audiobook and although I loved reading the books, it's so easy to listen to Stephen Fry reading the book. I want to try and get through them all before the new film comes out in November
 
I was going to go for a light read, but Richard Rhodes' final book in his outstanding nuclear history series is out. The title is Twilight of the Bombs. The previous ones were great reads. They are: Making of the Atomic Bomb; Dark Sun and Arsenals of Foley.

Richard Rhodes Amazon Page

Dale
 
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Some old stuff I ran across for my nook and another based on a recently canceled TV show.

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greygray said:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
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Terrific book; I sat up all night reading it when I first came across it.

For much of this week, I have been happily burying myself in Ken Follett's latest work, "Fall of Giants". It is an enjoyable read (and the sections on life in Wales are very good), but it is not quite up to the standard of "Pillars of the Earth".

Cheers
 
Ronald C. White, Jr: "A. Lincoln". Excellent book about the greatest (IMHO) of the presidents of the United States.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Terrific book; I sat up all night reading it when I first came across it.
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Yeah, it's not a book for the common and faint-hearted! :D There's lots of underlying themes in the book that make it an interesting read. Nice book on the whole, I would say.
 
Currently reading:

-Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
-Ulysses (James Joyce) (struggling)
-David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
-Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
-Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

I'm a sucker for classics. Just finished Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) too.
 
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