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    #32
    Mythago
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭Mythago


    Just finished "Pillars of Creation" by Terry Goodkind..... not bad.........

    Going to toss a coin between starting "The Emperor's New Mind" or " Turing and the Universal Machine"


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    #33
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    :cool: Iain M Banks :cool:
    Just finished: Neuromancer by William Gibson as ebook.
    Just picking up: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov.
    Oh and if you people want ebooks like Neuromancer and/or others
    http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.index


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    #34
    dragonkin
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭dragonkin


    I have also just finished Neuromancer by Willaim Gibson (Xmas pressie) next on the list is "The Masterharper of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey (the great).

    I'll have to read Neuromancer again tho because I read it thinking too much about the hype behind it, which stopped me really getting into the book. But it was amazing how many tradenames have their origins in that book.. Microsoft, BlackIce defender etc etc. A true piece of history.

    Typedef how do you read whole books of the computer screen?? or did you print the whole thing out ?

    DK


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    #35
    Samson
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Samson


    Originally posted by Typedef
    :cool: Iain M Banks :cool:
    Just finished: Neuromancer by William Gibson as ebook.
    Just picking up: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov.
    Oh and if you people want ebooks like Neuromancer and/or others
    http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.index

    This is what I got when I clicked on that link:

    Your destination group could not be determined

    Unable to Locate Group

    Your destination group could not be determined

    You clicked a link to a WeGo.com charter group which could not be correctly determined. This problem could be caused by an incorrect link or if you are using an older version of the Netscape or Microsoft browsers.

    Use the search form below to find the group you are looking for


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    #36
    MarcusGarvey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭MarcusGarvey


    I have Neuromancer on mp3, read by Gibson himself. Wouldn't actually recommend it. Very annoying voice.

    Forget making this into a film even if Chris Cunningham directs, they should make Neuromancer into a Manga/Anime


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    #37
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Originally posted by Samson


    This is what I got when I clicked on that link:

    [/i]
    oops
    www.gnotella.com

    dragonkin
    hmm You probably won't believe but, I have also read 1984 in this format wierd huh? Also in FreeBSD and Slackware-Linux I used some editors called kate,glimmer and gedit to read most of the above I guess, but for the last chapter of Neuromancer I said fsck it why not really get into character....
    so I opened up 3 virtual terminals and did not start the X-Windows interface, but instead used a command line editor called jed to read the last chapter while playing my music via mpg123, all without anykind of gui in the m$ window$ sense of it, I dunno the words just seemed to demand no less also this dos like interface is cool in linux because I can get colour in my command line as well as having 1024x768 resolution, so I really felt like an uber-tech(because I was (evil cackel)), so it was kind of cool, I really zenned out know what I mean? I told you , you wouldn't believe me didn't I?


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    #38
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,388 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I read 'Black Hawk Down' (paperback, 500 pages, £8.30) last week over a period of 36 hours ... difficult to put down. The movie is out in 2 weeks. Must see.


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    #39
    Kolodny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    Against a Dark Background- Iain Banks (excellent so far). Just finished Vurt - Jeff Noon.


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    #40
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    I'm currently attempting to read The Vision by Dante at weekends, it's strong stuff though.


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    #41
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Moving on to round 2 ...

    Just finished Player of Games - Iain M. Banks

    Just started The Thin Red Line - James Jones

    Still struggeling thru C# Essentials - ? (poorly written book)

    And flicking through various travel books as usual.


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    #42
    D-Generate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    All the Batman graphic novels.
    At the moment Batman: No Man's Land 5


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    #43
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,388 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Endgame in Ireland - based on the documentary series.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/newsnightreview/features/feature_film_endgame.shtml


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    #44
    joev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭joev


    Just Read:
    Fatherland - Robert Harris (cracking)
    Enigma - Robert Harris
    Smoke and Mirrors - Niel Gaiman
    Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby

    Currently Reading:
    Archangel - Robert Harris
    Onion Girl - Charles De Lint
    Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
    Beowulf - (Seamus Heaney Translation.)
    Dark Light - Ken MacLeod
    (Ok, so I read too many books concurrently :p )

    Most of the above would go onto my recommended reading list :)

    joev.


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    #45
    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Currently reading:

    [*] sf/f

    Wheel of Time series - Jordan. I'm on #7 at the moment, not bad since end November, 6,500 pages down, hopefully as many to come :)
    Look to Windward - Iain M Bankes - not far enough in to make a full recommendation, but it is pretty good stuff so far (typically).

    [*] tech

    Solaris Security - Gregory
    eXtreme Programming - Beck (try again)
    The Pragmatic Programmer (easy reading, 2nd time: a great book)


    [*] some alternative stuff

    I'm currently reading or just finished:

    some Carlos Castenada (on book #3)
    some Paulo Cuelho (The Valkyries, The Alchemist, The Fifth Mountain) (lot of christian religious tripe in there but I like some of his ideas)

    Al.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



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    #46
    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Just finished : Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson
    Just Started : The Magicians Nephew - C.S. Lewis

    To be followed by the other 6 books of the Narnia Chronicles, cause I forgot how good they are :)

    jc


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    #47
    Derek Bell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Derek Bell


    Originally posted by dragonkin
    I have also just finished Neuromancer by Willaim Gibson (Xmas pressie) next on the list is "The Masterharper of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey (the great).

    I'll have to read Neuromancer again tho because I read it thinking too much about the hype behind it, which stopped me really getting into the book. But it was amazing how many tradenames have their origins in that book.. Microsoft, BlackIce defender etc etc. A true piece of history.

    Typedef how do you read whole books of the computer screen?? or did you print the whole thing out ?

    DK
    I'm afraid that the Microsoft trademark didn't originate with Neuromancer - it was used from about the time Bill Gates founded the company back in the 70's IIRC.


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    #48
    Derek Bell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Derek Bell


    Just finished Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin. Pretty good writer - sets most of his crime novels in or near Edinburgh.


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    #49
    havok*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭havok*


    Currently Reading:

    Iain M Banks - Look to windward (3/4 way through, its probobly his best sf novel to date)

    just after starting Naomi Klein - No Logo


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    #50
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Currently dipping into Easy Riders-Raging Bulls by
    Peter Biskind the scurrullous ney true story of 70s' Hollywood.

    Also lined up P J O Rourke All the Trouble in the World
    and Carl Hassens' Double Whammy.

    Mike.


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    #51
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,388 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by havok*
    just after starting Naomi Klein - No Logo

    Yeah, I bought that during the week with "The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches" Edited by Brian McArthur (Penguin €16.10 STG£9.99 ISBN 0-14-028500-8)


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    #52
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I didn't used to read much....
    currently...

    LOTR (of course)
    Teach yourself Perl in 24 hours - sams
    RH Linux Unleashed

    For college:
    Data structures and algorithms in Java
    Statistics (great name :rolleyes: )


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    #53
    Clintons Cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Clintons Cat


    One flew over the cookoos nest_Ken Kessy


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    #54
    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    Originally posted by Clintons Cat
    One flew over the cookoos nest_Ken Kessy
    sheesh, youve been very quiet lately cc :)
    atar got the ba forum files and has his own domain now :o


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    #55
    Clintons Cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Clintons Cat


    Originally posted by Celt

    sheesh, youve been very quiet lately cc :)
    atar got the ba forum files and has his own domain now :o
    Yeah i have been getting my life and thoughts in order.
    please PM me the URL for ba.


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    #56
    GreenHell
    Registered Users Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭GreenHell


    Reading:
    The Truth by TP
    then I got all 3 lotr books to read got a lend off a massive big book with all 3 currently it sits above my tv, really starting to bug me now, might throw something over it. Then I got A Game of Thrones to read no idea if its any good but what the hey.... that should occupy the 3 weeks I've off in a week :)


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    #57
    PhilipMarlowe
    Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    Currently: Stallingrad by Antony Beevor amazon
    Next: The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon amazon


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    #58
    Da Bounca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Da Bounca


    reading:

    - Don Quixote
    - The BBC's compendium of horror tales.


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    #59
    The Sweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Currently on the go:

    At Swim Two Boys - Jamie O Neill
    The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
    The Fifth Elephant - Terry P. (again).


    The Corrections as a book has bothered, entertained, frightened and sickened me on more levels than I ever thought a book would. Now don't go grabbing it thinking it's a blow-yer-mind read or anything, but it's just a big-time nerve toucher.

    (Well, was for me anyhooo.)


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    #60
    Niallmac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Niallmac


    Just finished a hardback recent release autobiography on Vinnie Jones. Quite interesting but he portrays himself as too nice a guy and even now claims most of his red cards were very harsh and unfair. Now reading a book called the Genesis Code which has started fairly well. Would also recommend Complicity by Ian Banks to anyone who has not read it.


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    #61
    The Cigarette Smoking Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭The Cigarette Smoking Man


    Money, Money, Money - Ed McBain

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0575071516

    The Summons - John Grisham

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0712684263


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