Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 756169 times)

TheGrinch · « **Reply #1450 on:** January 09, 2019, 08:36:45 AM »

Anyone do Kindle or you staying strictly to physical books?

Taffin · « **Reply #1451 on:** January 09, 2019, 10:57:29 AM »

Apologies to whichever GetBigger recommended this in another thread as I've forgotten his name...

Nazi suicide bombers, anyone..?

Satisfying read if you have a passing knowledge of the general Luftwaffe offering during the period - might be a stretch if you weiß nicht Scheiße

ProTip: have an iPad alongside to Google images of the many many prototypes mentioned

"Last Talons of the Eagle: Secret Nazi Aerospace Projects Which Almost Changed the Course of World War II
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Talons-Eagle-Aerospace-Projects/dp/0747221561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547059822&sr=8-1&keywords=Last+Talons

An excellent in-depth look at some of the more exciting things that German scientists explored in the mid-1940s but that the victorious powers who captured most of the designs took another generation to realize.. Mercifully the author has stuck with what can be reasonably be documented and taken the development of most of the systems all the way into their post war realization or abandonment. No fanciful stories about secret Nazi South Pole bases serviced by flying saucers here. Both the layman and the specialist will find lost of interesting details and context here."

Griffith · « **Reply #1452 on:** January 09, 2019, 12:36:40 PM »

Quote from: TheGrinch on January 09, 2019, 08:36:45 AM

Anyone do Kindle or you staying strictly to physical books?

Mostly read books on my IPhone Plus with iBooks or Kindle.

I set the background colour to black and it's very easy on my eyes.

I still do buy and read paperbacks and hardcovers as well.

BB · « **Reply #1453 on:** January 20, 2019, 07:13:06 AM »

Quote from: TheGrinch on January 09, 2019, 08:36:45 AM

Anyone do Kindle or you staying strictly to physical books?

I read most stuff on a small tablet now. It was annoying at first trying to get used to the flat feel if you're used to a PB or HC. But the upside is more space freed up, and it's much easier to find books and transfer them among devices than hunt around the bookcases. I still prefer text books, manuals, etc.... in physical form, and will buy a HC or limited edition if I really loved the book, but my leisure reading is probably 90% digital now.

Deadpool · « **Reply #1454 on:** January 21, 2019, 11:38:18 AM »

this:

Rascal full · « **Reply #1455 on:** February 07, 2019, 03:09:55 PM »

Quote from: Deadpool on January 21, 2019, 11:38:18 AM

this:

What's it like? Hard pushed to follow the first one.

Basure · « **Reply #1456 on:** February 22, 2019, 02:40:21 AM »

Quote from: JasonH on July 23, 2011, 04:45:30 AM

Ah yes, another "what are you reading thread" where Getbiggers try and out-do each other with their impressive intellectual reading skills and post titles of books suck as "Advanced quantum physics and string theory" and "How to build a hadron collider". https://tirereviews.co

I like to read very much. Almost all type of books interest me, but now I am reading GOT. The movie is okay, but it can be compared to books, the books are so interesting and much more description rather in the movie. Recommend it all of you who havențt yet read them.

Basure · « **Reply #1457 on:** February 22, 2019, 02:42:19 AM »

Quote from: funk51 on July 24, 2011, 08:29:09 AM

now reading game of shadows

OlympiaGym · « **Reply #1458 on:** April 18, 2019, 04:58:47 PM »

Recently finished “Bad Blood” by John Carreyrou. Recommended.

Now reading Cornwell’s book about Waterloo. Also recommended.

TheGrinch · « **Reply #1459 on:** April 18, 2019, 06:32:48 PM »

how the fark' do you find the time to read?

I'm so dang busy during the day I don't have 5 mins to take a dump much less relax, let my mind unwind and read a novel

wow.. impressed

Primemuscle · « **Reply #1460 on:** April 18, 2019, 11:18:24 PM »

Quote from: TheGrinch on January 09, 2019, 08:36:45 AM

Anyone do Kindle or you staying strictly to physical books?

Do you know whether or not a Nook is still viable?

Deadpool · « **Reply #1461 on:** April 30, 2019, 04:45:19 PM »

Quote from: Rascal full on February 07, 2019, 03:09:55 PM

What's it like? Hard pushed to follow the first one.

in a nutshell: he's married to Marla. Tyler comes back to take over, Tyler wants their son

IroNat · « **Reply #1462 on:** May 31, 2019, 07:18:10 AM »

Lessons of the past with relevance for today.

Pray_4_War · « **Reply #1463 on:** July 26, 2019, 05:48:01 AM »

dr.chimps · « **Reply #1464 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:49:55 PM »

Cruddy (1999), by Lynda Barry, the genius graphic novelist. A two-stroke narrative with a 10-year-old and a later 15-year old Roberta Rohbeson's story, alternating. Fucked up stuff. Like the literary equivalent of the Texas Chainsaw. But drop-jaw funny, on almost every page. Weird. No idea how to rate this. I liked it, a lot, but I can see how some would just dismiss it. Fair enough.

Big Tex C*ckburn, PhD · « **Reply #1465 on:** November 02, 2019, 04:38:44 AM »

Currently re-reading both Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, and Chomsky's New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. I read Birdsong as a child and I'm surprised to still remember parts of it clearly.

MarkyStevo · « **Reply #1466 on:** November 14, 2019, 01:47:40 AM »

Quote from: Big Tex C*ckburn, PhD on November 02, 2019, 04:38:44 AM

Currently re-reading both Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, and Chomsky's New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. I read Birdsong as a child and I'm surprised to still remember parts of it clearly.

this is actually a really good read

sync pulse · « **Reply #1467 on:** November 15, 2019, 01:45:54 AM »

Griffith · « **Reply #1468 on:** November 17, 2019, 10:51:19 AM »

Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn.

Taffin · « **Reply #1469 on:** December 07, 2019, 11:44:09 PM »

Anyone here read Marcus Aurelius - Meditations?

Since GetBig is essentially a modern day virtual Sparta, I'm thinking that stoicism is a good fit here

So I'll be mildly surprised if it turns out that nobody has given this a go...

Gratias tibi!
Hail to my brothers in iron!

CalvinH · « **Reply #1470 on:** April 21, 2020, 10:33:23 AM »

List has been so long being stuck home.

Taffin · « **Reply #1471 on:** April 21, 2020, 12:12:56 PM »

Good bump Calvin - thanks

Still trying to get through this in memory of its author - just not as funny as I (stupidly) expected (sorry Terry!!)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chaucers-Knight-Portrait-Medieval-Mercenary/dp/0413691403

Griffith · « **Reply #1472 on:** May 09, 2020, 05:34:09 PM »

Quote from: Taffin on December 07, 2019, 11:44:09 PM

Anyone here read Marcus Aurelius - Meditations?

Since GetBig is essentially a modern day virtual Sparta, I'm thinking that stoicism is a good fit here So I'll be mildly surprised if it turns out that nobody has given this a go...

Gratias tibi!
Hail to my brothers in iron!

Yes, I am reading it.

Marcus Aurelius ruled and his Meditations during the Antonine Plague which lasted about 15 years.

Taffin · « **Reply #1473 on:** May 16, 2020, 12:31:03 PM »

Quote from: Griffith on May 09, 2020, 05:34:09 PM

Yes, I am reading it.

Marcus Aurelius ruled and his Meditations during the Antonine Plague which lasted about 15 years.

So, how many points on the Griffith-meter...?

CalvinH · « **Reply #1474 on:** December 17, 2020, 12:24:39 PM »

Damn I need to get going on this thread