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What are you reading?; Because we were strangely lacking this.
Topic Started: Mar 5 2012, 11:23 PM (4,050 Views)
cscrocker
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Just started Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. This is my first novel so don't judge me(?)
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But srsly I've wanted to try some of his work, though more so Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84. You'll have to tell me how that one is.
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Holy shit that made me remember that I have had his Hard-Boiled Wonderland on my to-read list for probably over a year now. I should probably get to it.
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Finished Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. It was interesting. It begins with a summary of the murderer who inspired the book (Ed Gein) and his crimes, then talks about Robert Bloch writing the book, and eventually Hitchcock deciding to make the movie. From there, the book discusses everything from preproduction to the impact of the movie on people and later movies. I really liked that the author explained everyone/everything unfamiliar to people who don't make movies. I don't know the terminology these movie-making people use, but Rebello briefly explained things when necessary. He also reintroduced people, which was helpful. Some names came up so often that it was easy to remember who they were, but many other names only showed up a few times, so he usually mentioned their jobs again when necessary. I might look for some books about other directors I like making other movies I like, but not now.
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I actually bought a book! I purchased and am now reading Jesus Is ____ by Judah Smith. It is, basically, a book about the different things that Jesus is to people by filling in that blank with different words, such as: your friend, grace, the point, etc. I am definitely enjoying it so far, and it is very insightful reading with new perspectives I hadn't thought about before in my own life.
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yay buying books

Finished up A Feast for Crows again, mostly so I can bitch about the inevitable diversions from the books that this season of GoT will take. I had remembered the most boring sideplots of that book (Dorne/Iron Islands) taking up a loooooot of space, but... they didn't, relatively speaking. It's a GRRM book so you can still pummel a small kid into submission with the hardcover, but whatever, those parts took less space than I remembered and I'm glad for it.

Books I plan to read:
A Dance With Dragons, for much the same reason.

Patricia Cornwell, Flesh and Blood. Idk why I do this to myself. Sometimes having dark and brooding characters does not make them deep; it just makes them dark and brooding. It's a lesson the lesser-talented writers of all media need to realize.

Dean Koontz, Saint Odd. I don't need a reason beyond "Dean Koontz".

Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers. I don't remember ever requesting this one, but whatever, it sounds good enough. It's inevitably better than the CBS movie or whatever.

Haruki Murakami/Kazuo Ishiguro/Gabriel Garcia Marquez books, idk which one(s) yet. I loved Kafka on the Shore and want to try to get into the latter authors, so yeah.
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I've read 2 amazing books in the past month.

You by Caroline Kepnes. It's about an sociopath stalker who works at an bookstore and falls in love with an girl who comes in to buy an book. He uses social media and general creepiness to find out almost everything about her, and works his way into her life. It was goosebump-inducing (especially the end) but it also had some funny moments. Highly recommended.

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey. It's hard to write an full review without spoiling anything, but it's an sort of sci-fi/horror book with an bit of an softer side. It was one of those books that you just do not want to end. And yet it had the perfect ending. Also highly recommended.
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Pretty self-explanatory. It's not a book about coding, it's about how computer hardware and software work, and sort of a brief history of the development/evolution of computers. It starts with walking you through exactly what a code is, then talks about Morse and Braille, which provide a very nice transition into binary and another non-decimal counting systems. Then it talks about telegraphs and how someone realized that electricity can be used to communicate with binary code, and from there we get into circuits and logic gates. Eventually they get to memory, processors, programming languages, and graphics, but I'm not there yet. I'm halfway through it now, and I'm really enjoying it a lot. I feel like a lot of you would too, regardless of whether or not you're into building computers or programming. It's just really interesting to see all this stuff come together and eventually build up to modern computers. Some of it probably isn't new information for a lot of you -- I was at least somewhat familiar with a lot of the early stuff, anyway -- but the author writes about it in a way that really gives you a good (and to me, new) perspective on why all of these concepts are beautiful for computing (for now, anyway).
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Just started reading the Illuminatus Trilogy. It's fuckin weird man.
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