What's In Your Queue?

[Thoracic]

What books do you currently plan to read?

 

A few of mine:

 

Book 4/5 of The Game of Throne's Series - book 4 starting a little slow for me.

Learning Perl - Schwartz.

The Plague - Camus - I liked The Stranger

A Brief History of Time - Hawking - I'm borrowing this one from a friend so I need to read it or give it back.

[kami]

The Man Without Qualities (Book 1 and 2) by Robert Musil

Ulysses by James Joyce

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

[rolf]

Currently I'm busy in (and those are pretty much the only one I plan to read currently):

 

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (about halfway, ideal for backpacking: slow reading and light-weight)

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago (interesting, at about 5% now, ultra very heavy material)

 

 

I've recently start at Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I'll probably will have to start again at it. Luckily, I wasn't that far. And, for if necessary, I've still a few Grisham/Koontz and comparable books on the shelve, but these are more for if I know I'll have to spend a few hours in a train on short notice and there's a good change I won't always read sober (above two books aren't readable if you ain't sober)

 

I still want to read a lot more books tho, but haven't started really with those, among others:

- 1984 (once started in for English lecture)

- Pride and Prejudice

- To kill a mockingbird

- The Canterbury Tales (but will probably too hard to read)

- stuff of Shakespeare (^^)

- Les Misérables (probably in French, if I would be capable of reading it)

- Religious books like Bible, Koran (maybe), Dhammapada (and learn it out of my head, and actually it is on my shelve). Although the first two are probably to heavy and I would get annoyed by the content too often.

- The art of war

- Guerrilla Warfare, Mao's red book, Mein Kampf (in German), Although I hate those political movements, I'm interested in what moves them. With the special note that the latter one is illegal in many countries for a (afaik) good reason, but not in the Netherlands.

- "Het achterhuis" (Anne Frank's diary) (bit harsh to name it after listing Mein Kampf...)

- (Computer)science books: I guess "The art of computer programming" is too hard (although awesome, Knuth ), but books like it.

and perhaps some more recent popular books (Stieg Larsson, Dan Brown, etc) but I always avoid those actually for no good reason. I rather talk about an interesting book others haven't read.

 

 

And I usually read everything in English, it's a cheap training since it isn't my native language. And I read about 50% slower in English, so double the fun

[Jefke]

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

Saying for like 3 years or so I will read that book

 

Time to get it ^^

[bell reavue]

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

Saying for like 3 years or so I will read that book

 

Time to get it ^^

 

GREAT book. You will enjoy!

[kristy]

1.) Jane Eyre...for the 1928375th time.

2.) City of Glass

3.) City of Angels

4.) Passion

5.) All you Desire

6.) Behemoth

7.) The Exiled Queen

8.) I am Number Four

9.) The Throne of Fire

10.) Forever

 

I basically just looked off my on holds list from the library lol.

Currently reading The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare. She is a very good writer, in my opinion.

[Thoracic]

@Rolf... just add The Aeneid by Virgil and you’re a literary pro.

I read the english unabridged version of Le Miserables - great story with an in depth view of the Battle of Waterloo.

Je ne parle pas français, mais j'ai toujours demandé si il y a quelque chose perdu avec traduit livres

(What I tried to say- I don't speak French but I've always wondered if there is something lost with translated books)