What are you reading? (February 2012)

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02-21-12, 09:01 AM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Burned through this in like 4 days reading a few hours each night.

Starting tonight

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Just finished Aloha From Hell by Richard Kadrey (sooooo awesome).

Just started The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet By David Mitchell.

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02-21-12, 03:48 PM

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02-22-12, 03:00 AM

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Just started...

... Simon Morden's "Equations of Life".

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02-22-12, 08:18 AM

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02-22-12, 06:22 PM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Trouble In Paradise by Robert B. Parker

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02-23-12, 02:35 AM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Scooped up Steal Like An Artist and devoured it in one sitting. It's required reading if you're in the creative field.

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02-23-12, 08:25 AM

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02-23-12, 09:29 AM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Has anybody read "The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet" by David Mitchell? I'm about a hundred pages in and wondering when it gets interesting.

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02-23-12, 09:55 AM

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I just started Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. I plan to do the whole monstrous Baroque Trilogy back to back (to back?)...should be a fun run.

Big fan of Stephenson. I haven't read any of the Quicksilver books though. I've heard they're a bit more of a chore, but I'm sure I'll wade in someday. How was the first one?

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02-23-12, 09:57 AM

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02-24-12, 07:42 AM

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02-24-12, 09:58 AM

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02-24-12, 05:58 PM

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02-25-12, 09:45 AM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

^ Very funny/ Great book.

Now reading:

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02-25-12, 04:17 PM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Just Finished:

Wild Thing by Josh Bazell

Starting:

My Seinfeld Year by Fred Stoller

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02-26-12, 11:36 AM

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Big fan of Stephenson. I haven't read any of the Quicksilver books though. I've heard they're a bit more of a chore, but I'm sure I'll wade in someday. How was the first one?

The only other book of his I have read is Cryptonomicon. So far, I would consider Quicksilver to be very similar. All the history is covered through a fictional character that befriends a bunch of famous faces, in this case Newton, Leibniz, etc.

Quicksilver is actually broken into 3 books. The first book has a lot of the historical stuff and was enjoyable but takes time to read. I recently started the second book, focusing on the Shaftoe character and it reads a lot quicker as there is much less "math fiction" in this section.

Overall, I am enjoying it.

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02-26-12, 11:54 AM

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Re: What are you reading? (February 2012)

Finished The Big Sleep.
Finished The High Window this morning. Chandler rocks.

I also noticed a bit of dialogue where someone said, "She ought to of told me that" back in 1939. I thought the error was much newer.