1. 'Classical Mechanics' by Herbert Goldstein
2. 'Operational Amplifiers with Linear Integrated Circuits' by William Stanley
3. 'Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer' by Cyrus Mistry
I'm actually reading academic papers from ssrn.com about platforms, shorter than most books and usually just as much information/learning and often times more.
For fiction I'm reading stuff my friends write; currently The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There and David Drake's Hammers Slammers omnibus volumes.
For work: Quine's Word and Object; Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Language; Plato's Republic; and paper after paper. (I am a philosophy graduate student.)
For pleasure: just started Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
1. Red Mars. Read a chapter and digest it. Packed top to bottom with all kinds of ideas.
2. Cyberspace: First Steps. From the early 90s, a collection of academic essays on the concept of cyberspace. Reading it as a kind of retrospective on where we were and where we thought we were going.
Can anyone recommend some good cypherpunk books, aside from Stephenson? Preferably fiction that communicates ideas revolving around anonymity, crypto, privacy?
I've been trying to read Cryptonomicon, but get turned off by the "hipstery" (for lack of a better word) informal writing style and can't get into it.
I would say “self-congratulatory” rather than “hipstery” — I’m reading this right now too, and although I find it fascinating (like I find reading about any cryptography fascinating), it often feels impenetrable without a cause to be, other than “aren’t these characters all such geniuses, I bet you can barely keep up.”
Also, I get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Shaftos_Gone_to_Sea stuck in my head for hours afterwords each time.
Nothing's been above my head, it's more like it takes him too many words to make a point or get the jist across. He gets too creative/clever. I would like it to be more straightforward. Then again, I mainly read non-fiction from journalists or government types.
"The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name".
A really interesting history book. I'm now in a great part, about how knowledge of geography (and map projections) was disseminated in Europe through a network of scholars and humanists during the 15th century. There was this huge collaborative effort to reconstruct ancient texts and to bring them in line with (then) current knowledge.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 74.2 ms ] threadBoth books make me dream.
Other very good non-tech book I've read recently: Walk the Amazon.
For fiction I'm reading stuff my friends write; currently The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There and David Drake's Hammers Slammers omnibus volumes.
2. The Boardman Tasker Omnibus (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boardman-Tasker-Omnibus-Peter/dp/189...)
For pleasure: just started Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
2. Cyberspace: First Steps. From the early 90s, a collection of academic essays on the concept of cyberspace. Reading it as a kind of retrospective on where we were and where we thought we were going.
3. Rule 34. For fun.
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas - just started this, and enjoying it so far.
http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/074...
2. Clojure Programming, by Chas Emerick
http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Chas-Emerick/dp/14...
3. Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis
http://www.amazon.com/Zorba-Greek-Nikos-Kazantzakis/dp/06848...
I've been trying to read Cryptonomicon, but get turned off by the "hipstery" (for lack of a better word) informal writing style and can't get into it.
John A. MacDonald: The young politician by Donald Creighton
Comedy of errors by Wm. Shakespeare
Paradise Lost by John Milton
A really interesting history book. I'm now in a great part, about how knowledge of geography (and map projections) was disseminated in Europe through a network of scholars and humanists during the 15th century. There was this huge collaborative effort to reconstruct ancient texts and to bring them in line with (then) current knowledge.