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Books: What have you been reading?
« on: January 20, 2012, 08:49:55 am »
I don't think that there's a thread for this, so...

What books have you been reading? Doesn't matter if they're for learning or for recreation.

For me, I've been reading textbooks on World, Western Civilization, and Modern Middle East History, as well as one for Abnormal Psychology.

I've also finished reading Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South. It's an alternate history account of the American Civil War in which people from the future give AK-47's to the Confederate Army. The Confederates win, and now the new nation of the Confederate States of America has to deal with the issue of slavery, the technology given, and the intentions of the people that gave them such weapons.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 09:16:01 am »
Lately i'v been "reading" Minna no Nihongo, a textbook to learn japanese

My last recreational reading was The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya

Well, and currently i'm also reading/playing Clannad, as it's a visual novel i'd say you could call it reading, although it isn't a book
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 12:37:03 pm »
a lot of manga, can't even remember which ones, and of course all kinds of chemistry/biochemistry and cellbiology lecture scripts, exams are coming up. But generally a trend among science students, we tend to read less outside of the spectre of our studies ^^;
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 02:45:23 pm »
I am currently reading some of the General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Humor and some textbooks, mainly to learn and write Japanese.

Currently, I read Arnel Aquitania's 'To Kill a Angry Bird' and 'Read, Write Japanese'.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 04:00:46 pm »
Textbooks...

Biology
Everything's an Argument
Java Foundations

Lol my literary life isn't that interesting
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 10:03:43 pm »
Currently reading the Steve Jobs biography, EVE: Templar One, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  One of my most used application on my iPad seems to be the BBC News application, so I've been making a better attempt to keep up with the news lately too.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2012, 02:30:15 am »
Various video game instruction manuals.

I'd also be reading Brave Story if I weren't so lazy.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2012, 09:39:36 pm »
Fictionwise, I've recently finished The Dragon Waiting (John M. Ford) as well as The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson). I'm currently re-reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes, and I'm of the reasonable assumption that most people know who wrote that.

Non-fictionwise, Byzantium (Judith Herrin) was something I found pretty interesting... I also read a short little summary book of world mythology, aptly named World Mythology (Parragon Books), in addition to Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (Simon Baker), which was fairly informative.

Quote from: SakuraMaxX on January 20, 2012, 10:03:43 pm
One of my most used application on my iPad seems to be the BBC News application, so I've been making a better attempt to keep up with the news lately too.

Anything of note? I hardly ever keep up with the news, which is quite an abysmal trait for a Politics student.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2012, 10:09:21 pm »
Just things like what's been happening with the Italian cruise ship and so on, so forth.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2012, 03:36:04 am »
Well I got the Strawberry Panic full novel set along time ago and I haven't read it...
but a certain episode of my favorite show made me want to read...so I guess I'll check it out.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2012, 04:44:58 am »
Quote from: animagic4u on February 06, 2012, 03:36:04 am
Well I got the Strawberry Panic full novel set along time ago and I haven't read it...
but a certain episode of my favorite show made me want to read...so I guess I'll check it out.

Which episode of which show?



I've been slacking on reading, but I'm eagerly awaiting the 4th Book Girl novel.  Once it gets here, I'll probably tear into it.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2012, 05:16:12 am »
Me? I've been reading the Sherlock Holmes novels.

And books on the Teutonic Knights.

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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2012, 05:27:03 am »
Haven't been reading much except the Managing Infomation Systems textbook and my Japanese Self-Study materials.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2012, 06:00:36 am »
Just finished a book by Yukio Mishima, Spring Storm. Interesting read, at least. Other than that, I've been reading textbooks and subtitles from games.
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Re: Books: What have you been reading?
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2012, 05:10:43 am »
Tender Is The Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald.

It's the second book I've read by him (reading it for lit class)...I don't like it as much as The Great Gatsby.
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