What are you reading?

[Kenneth Walker]

Just discovered a thriller writer called Edward Wilson, very good, up there with Le Carre.

 

[Overread]

Currently reading a comic called Saga - which is fantastic fun to read. Strong story; good artwork and very character driven in a quirky sci-fi world with a strong dose of magic

 

[table1349]

Just finished A bridge to far. Next on the list In the Garden of the Beast by Erik Larson.

 

[oldhippy]

Rereading Illusions by Richard Bach

 

[jcdeboever]

I have been working through Core Python Applications...for brush up and fine tuning. I need to stay away from Java, it makes me sloppy.

 

[table1349]

I have been working through Core Python Applications...for brush up and fine tuning. I need to stay away from Java, it makes me sloppy.

Wesley Chun's book?

 

[jcdeboever]

I have been working through Core Python Applications...for brush up and fine tuning. I need to stay away from Java, it makes me sloppy.

Wesley Chun's book?

Yes sir

 

[table1349]

I have been working through Core Python Applications...for brush up and fine tuning. I need to stay away from Java, it makes me sloppy.

Wesley Chun's book?

Yes sir

Which edition?

 

[jcdeboever]

I have been working through Core Python Applications...for brush up and fine tuning. I need to stay away from Java, it makes me sloppy.

Wesley Chun's book?

Yes sir

Which edition?

3rd

 

[The_Traveler]

Just reading 'Thinking Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman.
Not an easy read but incredibly insightful about how we think and understand.

 

[The_Traveler]

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman.pdf

a pdf of the book

 

[Designer]

a pdf of the book

Thank you!

 

[limr]

Just finished reading two books: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje and then Outline by Rachel Cusk. The first was not too bad. Flawed, to be sure, but Ontaatje is a beautiful writer and knows how to tell a story. I just didn't think this was his best work. Felt incomplete for no good reason. The second was torturous. I only read it for my book club. I was several chapters in when I realized that it wasn't just starting off slow. The entire book followed the same sort of structure as the first chapter or two and it bored the ever-loving crap out of me. And because my weird book OCD won't allow me to leave a book unfinished after I'd passed a certain threshold, I read the rest of it quickly and angrily. Luckily it was short and I could read the entire thing in a day.

To take the bad taste out of my brain, I'm re-reading The Great Gatsby. But that's short, too, and will likely not take me more than a day either, so I'll have to audition the next book. I'm thinking it's going to be The Masked Rider by Neil Peart. Yes, the drummer of Rush. He wrote a book about his experiences cycling in Africa.

 

[table1349]

Finished Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis. Very moving book, as it is based on the recollections, letters and diaries of the survivors and others that involved in the concentration camps.

Reading The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw.

For fun I am reading The True History of the Black Adder by J.F. Roberts. Always loved the BBC Black Adder comedy.

 

[Designer]

Catching up on my reporting:

Recently read; "The High Tide of American Conservatism" - Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election, by Garland S. Tucker, III. This book was a very good supplement to the Coolidge book I read (I think I mentioned it here).

Also read; "How Photographs Are Sold" - Stories and Examples of How Fine Art Photographers Sell Their Work, by Alain Briot. Not that I'm planning on selling photographs, or actually producing fine art for that matter, but I grabbed it off the store shelf because it looked interesting.

"Understanding Exposure" - How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera, by Bryan Peterson. This is not the latest version, but I paid little for it.

"Portrait Photographer's Handbook" - second edition - by Bill Hurter. Another cheapie being an outdated version.