Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part 3

[illegalsmile]

Not long finished reading this, for the umpteenth time.

Currently reading this...

Before moving on to this.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[ItsFineImFine]

 

[Speyer]

Besides those two I am still continuing Gibbons "Decline and Fall" at a leisurely pace...

 

[Thucydides]

 

[EXTRAS]

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

I was excited to read this but half way through i'm wondering about the hype. It's okay.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

 

[kingsholygrail]

 

[Iron Mike Sharpe]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

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Let us know how you like this! I was excited to read this a little while ago and unfortunately didn't really end up liking it.

 

[Tw1ster]

 

[Umingmak]

I am (very slowly) making my way through “The Terror” by Dan Simmons. I watched the series on AMC, and it was fantastic, but the book goes a lot more in depth.

As someone who travels, works in, and formerly lived in the Canadian Arctic, I love it.

I just don’t have a great attention span for reading.

 

[eXile3]

I am (very slowly) making my way through “The Terror” by Dan Simmons. I watched the series on AMC, and it was fantastic, but the book goes a lot more in depth.

As someone who travels, works in, and formerly lived in the Canadian Arctic, I love it.

I just don’t have a great attention span for reading.

Is it good? I've always wanted to give it a shot but it's like a 1,000 pages. Hard to commit to a book that long unless you know it's going to be good.

 

[Umingmak]

Is it good? I've always wanted to give it a shot but it's like a 1,000 pages. Hard to commit to a book that long unless you know it's going to be good.

I’m really enjoying it. Though I do say this as a big arctic history buff, and as someone who has spent the past 10 years working in the arctic (including 2 years of living there).

 

[Speyer]

I prefer the E.T.A Hoffmann version...

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[Babe Ruth]

I think because of the magnitudes of the Revolutionary & Civil War(s), the War of 1812, and the burning of Washington, gets overlooked. So every once in a while I'll pick up a book on the War of 1812..

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Hippasus]

A Course of Pure Mathematics Centenary edition (Cambridge Mathematical Library): Hardy, G. H., Körner, T. W.: 9780521720557: Amazon.com: Books

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I'm not sure how to post images, but I'm almost finished the first chapter. It's a bit over my head but I can still get a feel for the brilliance of the work. Hardy was an early Twentieth Century Cambridge mathematician who has a reputation for having been an excellent writer. I'm trying to breeze through it rather than seek a more complete understanding. It's meant for first-rate undergraduate mathematics students who are just starting out their studies at the college level. The topic is mathematical analysis. This is a progression of calculus, but more at the level of the pure theory undergirding it.

 

[Spring in Fialta]