What Are You Reading?

All these "scholars" here. Makes me feel ashamed 'cause I'm only reading a "Curious George" book. :(

ahochaude wrote:All these "scholars" here. Makes me feel ashamed 'cause I'm only reading a "Curious George" book. :(

Scholars?? Not me, brother. I'll take an Iron Man or Spiderman comic book over a novel anytime! :hehe:

lol me too, i love books and all but comics are more like it... ive been trying to get the whole thing of witchblade.. specially the history of it, ive been collecting that since 1994.. anybody likes this stuff?

ot: i dont like the tv series, i think shes too old/ugly for the role *bleh

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My favorites are "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Berenstien Bears".

ahochaude wrote::hehe: :hehe:

My favorites are "Green Eggs and Ham" and "Berenstien Bears".

Hey, isn't it Dr. Seuss' 100th anniversary this year? :applaud:

Currently reading "A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors" to gain historical knowledge of scandalous event to amuse myself...

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boltar wrote:Just curious... is this for your day job, or just for your own enlightment?

It's really for my own enlightment... Actually, I've been programming since I was a kid, so reading about programming is a regular thing for me. I've even written national papers on various programming theories, including a term paper on (and I'm not joking about this) the Michael Jackson method of software engineeering, published in Dr. Dobb's Journal back in the mid 1980's.

(Dr. Jackson's papers can be found at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/jacksonma/papers.html)

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Akakage wrote:Currently reading "A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors" to gain historical knowledge of scandalous event to amuse myself...

Hey, reading about other people's mistakes is very good... That way, you know what sh*t you shouldn't do in the future. :P

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Akakage wrote:Currently reading "A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors" to gain historical knowledge of scandalous event to amuse myself...

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Looks like the book version of I, Claudius... :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
Looks like the book version of I, Claudius... :hehe:

This book contains (6 emperors to be exact) roman emperors' sex life... :hehe: :naughty: Very interesting and amusing. So..in the ancient time this kind of gossip did exist. :mrgreen:

Hey, reading about other people's mistakes is very good... That way, you know what sh*t you shouldn't do in the future.

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Indeed.

poketto jiten..... :nut:
i havent read that for so long..
i think ineed to add more my japanese vocabulary.....
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I'm still reading Life; The Universe and Everything from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy...I read it on and off so it's taking me a while to finish...and it's a pretty thin book too....

But I just finished No Logo by Naomi Klein...loved it....

bmwracer wrote:Scholars?? Not me, brother. I'll take an Iron Man or Spiderman comic book over a novel anytime! :hehe:

what about a "graphic" novel? :)

niko2x wrote:what about a "graphic" novel? :)

Dude, if it's got pictures, I'm there... :D Growing up in the television era, I'm all about visuals and images... Straight print bores me most of the time... Unless it's about Japan. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:Dude, if it's got pictures, I'm there... :D Growing up in the television era, I'm all about visuals and images... Straight print bores me most of the time... Unless it's about Japan. :hehe:

If a picture is worth 1K words...LOL!
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VTEC Tune (a how to tech guide in tuning honda engines) and Street Perfect Tuning by Tatsumi Mook. They're all in japanese, but there are pictures in it so I can see how its done.

niko2x wrote:If a picture is worth 1K words...LOL!
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Trying to tell me something, Niko?? :hehe: :hehe:

oh man, i didn't even think about that, sorry. no i was just thinking about graphic = pictures, and i thought this pic was LOL funny, no mean to dis...
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niko2x wrote:oh man, i didn't even think about that, sorry. no i was just thinking about graphic = pictures, and i thought this pic was LOL funny, no mean to dis...
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Not a problem, bud... You wouldn't be the first to flip me off... :hehe: It is one of the more innovative ways, though. :hehe:

Fenrir wrote:Once I'm done with Murakami (within the next 2 days) this'll be the next one:
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"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" been looking forward to that for quite some time

and after that "Genji no monogatari" I've been waiting for that a long long time *beats amazon*

i'm halfway through sei shonagon! she's an interesting character - not perfect and you can see she's somewhat sheltered and spoiled and occasionally not nice, but it's an interesting look at the heian dynasty. i'm going to read genji monogatari after that.