What do Macheads read?

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Originally Posted by sinclair_tm

ditto. i lovehis stuff too. i like the older sci-fi stuff by the masters; ie bradbury, asimov, clarke, herbert... thats what i read of fun.

They were great but the one that still seems freshest to me Alfred Bester. Genre or not, The Stars My Destination is in my top 3 all time reads.

Esquilinho: Wow, serious reading I was in biochem as an undergrad but hung out pretty much with philosophy and literature students, so I read a bit eclectically, but I's still catching up on a lot. If I had free time I'd love to dive into literature for a few years, these days i only manage to read on the bus. One of my good friends has some named Literature scholarship at Oxford and I love chatting with him about his ideas, he even sold me on some of the sillier seeming postmodern approaches to literature, no meat feat given i'm broadly sciencey!

[adambyte]

Originally Posted by rhisiart

Yes it did. Thanks. Only problem is ... well, since intially posting this message and actually having read the description on Amazon, its sounds a bit exploitive. Actually, it sounds very exploitive. Mind you, if it was written by a woman about getting dumb men laid, perhaps it would be seen as OK? Who knows? (BTW, I loved Stupid White Men).

Nah. Women would then just hate the woman who wrote it. Basically, the book is based on the theory that, in order get a healthy dose of poon, you must be an a**hole, because women dig a**holes. (lol. Sad, but very often true.)

I, personally, am not an asshole. Nor do I intend to be one. I think the people who read this book and take it to heart (whether they be dumb men who think "this is how I should live life" or dumb women who think "how dare they teach men this?") are not the target audience. This book is meant to simply be entertainment.

It's in the "comedy" section of the bookstore. Anybody who doesn't treat it as such is taking life too seriously.

*steps down from soap box*

[Rhisiart]

Originally Posted by adambyte

I, personally, am not an asshole. Nor do I intend to be one. I think the people who read this book and take it to heart (whether they be dumb men who think "this is how I should live life" or dumb women who think "how dare they teach men this?") are not the target audience. This book is meant to simply be entertainment.

Hey, I am sure you are not. And yes, anyone taking such a book seriously would be ... well quite frankly an a**hole. I just thought the book might be about really hopeless chat up lines (such as those I used in my pre-marriage bliss days).

[Cat]

Great thread! Of late I have enjoyed reading Dan Simmons (Illium and Olympos), Neal Stephenson (Baroque Cycle) and Piers Anthony (early Xanth stuff). For fun, I definitely recommend Terry Pratchett (Discworld)! For literature perhaps Monaldi & Sorti (Imprimatur, Secretum), Luther Blissett (Q) or Caldwell & Thomason (The rule of four).

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Any history book, classic novels and funny cartoons. Hey, this answer could be on the Mac smug thread. Sorry.

[Rhisiart]

It's OK to be smug, if you know your stuff. It's when you don't know what you don't know that everything goes down hill.

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I'm re-reading "The Proud Tower" by Barbara Tuchman, great book, great author.

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Originally Posted by reed

I'm re-reading "The Proud Tower" by Barbara Tuchman, great book, great author.

Totally, Guns of August is in my all time top 5 and Tuchman is a truly great writer. I just bought the Proud Tower to read on holiday a but my friend immediately stole it and didn't finish before i left. WIll have to get him to send it back to me.