What book are you reading?

**Subotan** · 09-17-2009, 20:29

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" - Firedrich Nietzsche
Absoloutely kickass. I highly recommend it.

**Lemur** · 09-17-2009, 21:15

Originally Posted by Subotan

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" - Firedrich Nietzsche
Absoloutely kickass. I highly recommend it.

"Women are not yet capable of friendship; they are cats and birds, or at best cows."

For some reason that's the quote that stuck in my mind all of these years. "At best cows" became a bit of a running joke with my friends, since it was so utterly absurd.

**Viking** · 09-17-2009, 22:11

Kalkulus by Tom Lindstrøm, one of the lecturerers at uni. The most interesting chapter so far, was the one concerning complex numbers..

On relatively more serious note, I did read quite a few books of fiction this summer; all written by a local author, now passed away, whom I have had the pleasure of to talk to in person.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 09-17-2009, 22:45

I just finished "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. A quick reading thriller of a man determined to break out of his caste in India. It is a scathing commentary on the divide between the poor and the rich, the benevolent and the corrupt – but, it is ultimately just a very good yarn.

**Subotan** · 09-17-2009, 22:34

Originally Posted by Lemur

"Women are not yet capable of friendship; they are cats and birds, or at best cows."

For some reason that's the quote that stuck in my mind all of these years. "At best cows" became a bit of a running joke with my friends, since it was so utterly absurd.

Part of the reason why I said it was kickass was because there are parts of it which I disagree with, such as that bit, "On Tarantulas" (Read: Socialists, even though I thought it was excellent satire of Communists), and his general rejection of democracy. Besides, you can't blame the poor bastard for being so scornful about women, seeing as both of his marriage proposals were rejected.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 09-18-2009, 01:19

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Originally Posted by Lemur

"Women are not yet capable of friendship; they are cats and birds, or at best cows."

For some reason that's the quote that stuck in my mind all of these years. "At best cows" became a bit of a running joke with my friends, since it was so utterly absurd.

Girls make good cows!

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**Martok** · 09-18-2009, 18:05

I just finished Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield....for probably the 4th-5th time now. (I really do love his works.)

Am about to start in on The Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore. I've not read it before, but given that it's Moore, I fully expect my sides to be splitting with laughter before long!

**Centurion1** · 09-19-2009, 02:56

I just finished Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield....for probably the 4th-5th time now. (I really do love his works.)

Yerah he is a great author, have you read virtues of war?

I just started harry turtledove and the second book of the atlantis series. I also just finished the scourge of god by s.m. stirling and can't wait to start sword of the lady.

**Martok** · 09-19-2009, 07:28

Originally Posted by Centurion1

Yerah he is a great author, have you read virtues of war?

I own that one as well, yes.

Pressfield is easily one of my favorite authors of historical fiction; I believe I've read and/or own every single (fictional) novel he's published thus far. (I seem to recall he wrote one non-fiction book, but I don't remember what it's about.) Tides of War remains my favorite, with Gates of Fire being a very close second; Last of the Amazons rounds out my top three.

**johnhughthom** · 09-19-2009, 07:37

Just finished the new Dan Brown. Garbage, absolute rubbish. How on earth can you get away with writing the same book three times and just changing the character names and swapping Illuminati for Catholic Church for Masons? I thought Angels and Demons was kinda interesting when I read it (probably helped it came out soon after Deus Ex and the Illuminati angle interested me), The da Vinci Code was pretty poor and The Lost Symbol is awful. I know I am probably telling this to a lot of people who had no intention of reading it, but if you were slightly interested don't, just don't.

In brighter news I am about to start The Prefect by Alistair Reynolds, science fiction involving physics I can barely begin to understand is exactly what I need after polluting my mind.