reading

[soliscjw]

I read and I have ADD  I am reading Atlas Shrugged. I also like reading John Stossel's books as well as other light reading.

[Taors]

I read and I have ADD  I am reading Atlas Shrugged. I also like reading John Stossel's books as well as other light reading.

What page of AS are you on?

[Taors]

I'm also reading The New Testament, just to see what all the fuss is about.

[Bill Brasky]

Lotsa stuff, mostly fiction crap.

Chandler
Parker
DeMille
Lehane
Lee Child
Puzo
Chriton

<-----  Parker, BTW

[mikehz]

I like audiobooks. But between FTL and Penn Jillette, it seems I barely have time for them anymore.

Exactly my problem.

[AlexLibman]

I have a reading dilemma - I bought a lot of crummy books during my Green Party liberal phase, and now I don't know what to do with them.  I know I won't be keeping them long, so I decided to read / skim some of them to get it over with.  So at the moment I'm knee-deep in cultural, geopolitical, and scientific pessimism thanks to schmucks like Morris Berman, Chris Hedges, and David Goodstein.

Something weird happens to the world every time I go back to one of them "liberal" books.  The universe shrinks, and so does man's place in it.  Individuals become helpless, civilization a mere accident that's on the brink of passing, weakness is romantisised, and if anyone is able to achieve success it's due to no merit except luck...

[Brent]

I'm reading "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.  It's not as painful as you'd think.  (Just skip the pages and pages of tables about grain surplusses). 

[voodoo]

Wealth of Nations is a very easy read.  The problem I have is every paragraph is an essay unto itself.  So, I read a paragraph and spend half an hour thinking of the ramifications of that paragraph, and, when the plane flight ends, I realize I only read a few pages.  It is absolutely amazing stuff.

[Rillion]

I can't imagine not being a person who reads. 

Current reading: Simulating Minds, by Alvin Goldman

[lordmetroid]

It was some time since I read any tangible book. Last one I read was Jared M. Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies".

Lately I have been studying politics and American history by the means of what I can read on internet and some books that I found in digital form on the internet. The latest book I read although not tangible would be Harry Browne's "Why Government Doesn't Work."

I also read pretty much every early political document I have found written in association to the funding the United States.

[zebraflood]

Yes.

My reading habits fluctuate. The quantity and quality of it rises and falls as my interests of the moment are born, peak and fade away. Sometimes I'll go weeks or a month at a time without hardly looking at a book unless it's part of an assignment- not because I don't want to read, it just doesn't occur to me because I haven't had the time to discover anything new that catches my attention.

Right now I'm mostly just reading textbooks. The works of Saki on the side, but it's a slow process, most of my time is already claimed. Funny guy though, if you like that sort of thing.

The last book that I remember finishing was Snow Crash. I've read books between now and then, but I can't remember what they were. That probably says something about those books, or about Snow Crash.

[soliscjw]

I read and I have ADD  I am reading Atlas Shrugged. I also like reading John Stossel's books as well as other light reading.

What page of AS are you on?

I am on page 100 I just got it for Christmas/Birthday and read on my days off, my copy is in micro-type and is very hard to read it is slowing me down.

[Taors]

I read and I have ADD  I am reading Atlas Shrugged. I also like reading John Stossel's books as well as other light reading.

What page of AS are you on?

I am on page 100 I just got it for Christmas/Birthday and read on my days off, my copy is in micro-type and is very hard to read it is slowing me down.

Yeah, but you get used to it. I fucking HATE small print with a passion, but it's fine for me now. You'll be tearing through pages. I'm on 400 now.