The Last Book You've read

[Lallapalalable]

The Currents of Space, Isaac Asimov

drama/suspense/mystery/and yes, spaceships!

 

[infectingthecrypts]

I dunno what I last finished, but I'm currently readin "Che Guevara: a Revolutionary Life" (Jon Lee Anderson), A Collection of Peter Kropotkin's writings and "Capital" by Karl Marx.

 

[Lurking_Logic]

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism -Michelle Goldberg

 

[masha08]

The last book I read was Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I'm currently reading Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection.

 

[PatrickTheScienceGuy]

currently reading star trek: the next generation: Q-Squared

 

[bipolarGod]

Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross

 

[Jotto999]

The Green Mile

 

[nasher168]

Foundation and Earth was my last one.

Currently reading Pale Blue Dot.

 

[Aught3]

The origins of virtue - Matt Ridley

T'was a fairly okay read, The Red Queen was much better.

 

[tangoen]

"Nigger" by randall Kennedy very interesting insights on a very troublesome word. think i'll start something a little less edgy
going to start reading "monkey planet" by Pierre Boulle

 

[Prolescum]

Foundation and Earth was my last one.

I read this (and the others) recently. Started the Robot series again but haven't had much reading time the past few weeks. I was recently given a link to this if you're interested.

 

[nasher168]

Thanks.
Hehe. Multivac. Presumably this was written before the invention of the capacitor...

 

[Minty]

Last book I finished was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

 

[Pulsar]

I just finished "Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality", by Manjit Kumar.

It's one of the best pop-science books I've ever read, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The book describes the history of quantum mechanics, notably the first three decades of the 20th century, and all the major characters involved - physics, biographic info and European history are intertwined into a real page-turner. It's absolutely fascinating to see how Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Rutherford, De Broglie, Born, Pauli, Dirac, Heisenberg and Schrodinger constantly inspired each other in their obsession to understand atoms and radiation.
The central part is the Great Debate between Einstein and Bohr about the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM, the relation between physics and reality, and Bell's theorem to test the completeness of the theory. I must say, this book shows Einstein's views of QM in a way I knew little of. Often, Einstein is depicted as a relic who couldn't keep up with the latest physics and never really 'got' QM. But in reality he knew damn well what he was doing (and he convinced Schrodinger, who came up with his cat thought experiment). The standard interpretation of Bohr has dominated the teaching of QM ever since, but this book asks the question whether this domination is really justified. It might be time for a new revolution in physics...
A must-read!

 

[MRaverz]

Last finished Genome by Matt Ridley, currently reading Your Inner Fish after someone on LoR recommended it and 1984.

Currently paused reading a couple of Dawkin's books and On the Origin of Species.

Next up is Trick or Treatment and 50 reasons why people say they believe in god (or something similar to that title).


I take on far too many books at one time...

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Just read The Passage by Justin Cronin. It is a good read.

Next up? Shit, I dunno.

 

[Aught3]

Last finished Genome by Matt Ridley, currently reading Your Inner Fish after someone on LoR recommended it and 1984.

Currently paused reading a couple of Dawkin's books and On the Origin of Species.

Next up is Trick or Treatment and 50 reasons why people say they believe in god (or something similar to that title).


I take on far too many books at one time...

Ha, I know what you mean. I've got a Dawkins, a Harris, and a book on mythology on the go with about half-a-dozen others paused part way through.

 

[Lallapalalable]

this

I always loved that story, and others where he relayed religious claims as simply parts of the natural world that have lost their original meaning.

Oh, and just finished Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel.

 

[Whisperelmwood]

I am currently reading:

'The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World' book one of the series (which is about 12 books long so far!) by Robert Jordan. This is so far a fantastic epic along the same lines as Lord of the Rings, but without the throw-away, curly prose that can make LOTR laborious to read.

'Bad Science: by Ben Goldacre - I've read it before, but I'm reading it again XD

'The Rise of the Iron Moon' by Stephen Hunt - I picked it up in a ,£shop, and have a feeling it's a sequel, but it's reading very well anyway - Steampunk setting on an alternative Earth!

'Best Served Cold' by Joe Abercrombie - an interesting one so far, about a female mercenary betrayed, but surviving and taking her revenge, set in another take on the fantasy realm

I'm also flicking through 'GOD' by Alexander Waugh and 'God is Not Great' by Hitchens.

Like I said in another thread, I'm a prolific reader...

 

[Pulsar]

I am currently reading:

'The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World' book one of the series (which is about 12 books long so far!) by Robert Jordan. This is so far a fantastic epic along the same lines as Lord of the Rings, but without the throw-away, curly prose that can make LOTR laborious to read.

The WOT series has been on my to-read list for ages, but I've been put off by the increasing negative reviews of the later books. And now Jordan's dead, I don't know if I'll ever start reading them. I am going read Abercrombie, though. After the Malazan books... so little time, so much to do.