What are you reading now? - Page 15

justAndy · July 17th, 2005, 09:39 AM

"An Anthropoligist on Mars" by Dr. Sacks. True tales of people with a variety of strange neurological problems - losing color sight and all memory of color, losing the ability to understand emotional content in others speech, idiot savants, gifted autistics and more. I like how he takes the clinicals facts and adds the story of the humanity of theses people and how they cope and compensate for their damage.

krepitch · July 18th, 2005, 12:06 PM

Just finished The World is Flat and am starting Why Globalization Works and Kremlin Rising.

Also bought Rule of Four and The Historian at Costco this weekend. Halfway through The Historian...and really enjoying it so far, though it is much different than what I normally read.

Pariah · July 18th, 2005, 12:09 PM

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

It's sort of like the DaVinci code, only they're discovering that Dracula (the historical Dracula--Valde Tepes) is still alive today.

It's a really good read so far.

krepitch · July 18th, 2005, 12:23 PM

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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

It's sort of like the DaVinci code, only they're discovering that Dracula (the historical Dracula--Valde Tepes) is still alive today.

It's a really good read so far.

Wow. How far are you into it? I am at the part where they got to the conference in Budapest.

Did you finish Freakonomics?

Pariah · July 18th, 2005, 12:27 PM

I just started it. The girl has discovered the letter, and the father has taken her on a number of trips with him and explained what happened to his mentor and some of his own brushes with..."oddities."

Pariah · July 18th, 2005, 12:28 PM

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Did you finish Freakonomics?

I got bored with it so I've been picking it up here and there, but I haven't read it straight through.

It's interesting, but not completely engaging like I thought it would be.

Chandler Mike · July 18th, 2005, 12:43 PM

Just finished The Bourne Identity...pretty good read, and almost COMPLETELY opposite what the movie was about...it's not even close.

Reading the new Harry Potter now.

Mike

Brian in Mesa · July 18th, 2005, 12:46 PM

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Just finished The Bourne Identity...pretty good read, and almost COMPLETELY opposite what the movie was about...it's not even close.

Actually it is the movie that is completely different from the book. Which is why I usually try and read a book before it's changed by Hollywood.

Chandler Mike · July 18th, 2005, 12:51 PM

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Actually it is the movie that is completely different from the book. Which is why I usually try and read a book before it's changed by Hollywood.

Well, duh, lol...I knew that...but the book is still opposite of the movie

The book was so good, but the Bourne movies are good as well...

But you hear people getting so upset about the LotR movies being adapted with changes from the original text....this movie absolultely destroyed Ludlum's story...

Mike

Brian in Mesa · July 18th, 2005, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Chandler Mike

Well, duh, lol...I knew that...but the book is still opposite of the movie

The book was so good, but the Bourne movies are good as well...

But you hear people getting so upset about the LotR movies being adapted with changes from the original text....this movie absolultely destroyed Ludlum's story...

Mike

I was only saying it the way I did because the books came first.

The movies have gone so far from the books that they are Bourne movies in name only.

jf-08 · July 18th, 2005, 02:35 PM

Servant of the Shard - by R. A. Salvatore

Kafka on the Shore - by Haruki Murakami

Pariah · July 18th, 2005, 03:35 PM

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Haruki Murakami

I've heard this guy is an amazing author, but haven't picked him up yet. How do you like this one?

jf-08 · July 18th, 2005, 04:03 PM

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I've heard this guy is an amazing author, but haven't picked him up yet. How do you like this one?

I just started Kafka and haven't developed an opinion about it yet. I am probably going to finish Servant of the Shard first then pick of Kafka again.

I finished Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a while back, also by him. It was kind of hard to follow along - it was a surreal novel with alot of weird characters. But I enjoyed it. He is a good story teller. The theme that he has so far is that people let things happen to them. I don't know if this is prevalent in Japanese culture, but it is kind of against what my beliefs are. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle really reminds alot of Albert Camus' L’étranger, The Stranger, in an ecclectic sense, and has a similar tale telling. Toru, the main character remids me of a Japanese version of Meursault.

krepitch · July 22nd, 2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Pariah

I just started it. The girl has discovered the letter, and the father has taken her on a number of trips with him and explained what happened to his mentor and some of his own brushes with..."oddities."

Finished it last night...pretty good book, IMO.

krepitch · July 25th, 2005, 05:12 PM

I read The Rule of Four this weekend. It was more focused on friendships and stuff than on the actual riddles, but it was still pretty good.