General / Off-Topic What are you reading currently?

[BulletTrev]

Currently enjoying 'Ghazghkull Thraka'.

 

[starman]

As some of you may know I'm a bit of a computer history buff. Yet, despite owning the book for a number of years, I never quite got around to reading 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late' (Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon). It's essentially a history of how the Internet came to be and it turns out it's superb.

I'm also re-reading Steven Levy's "Hackers" (nothing to do with the film), which is more to do with the hacker mindset from its early days of TX-0 and PDP-1 hacking (and even more before that, with model railway enthusiasts at MIT).

And I'm also starting to read 'Fumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, The First Personal Computer', which is a part of computer history I've always been intrigued by.


I've also read and finished the new Lee Child, 'The Midnight Line' which is another of his Jack Reacher novels and a damn good one too. Slightly different to his previous ones.

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Well thanks goodness Jobs saw the potential and gates copied from jobs. Maybe Frontier should take note at their 'missed' opportunities. Me I collect the physical retro artefact rather than just read about them.

 

[BulletTrev]

Eisenhorn !

 

[Star Wanderer]

First Colony - Ken Lozito

For three hundred thousand colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start…a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he’s the right man to see that it survives what’s coming.

 

[BulletTrev]

Pompei, Robert Harris.

 

[Mu77ley]

John Carter’s Chronicles of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Never read any if these before, but picked up a TTRPG based on the setting for peanuts, so thought I'd learn something about it before running any games.

 

[BulletTrev]

Pompei was pants, chucked it in the pile to go to charity shop !

 

[StephanieBrooks]

Victor Pelevin S.N.U.F.F.

 

[*James*]

I'm currently reading a book about Henry Ford, My Life and Work, and I enjoy reading historical books.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

The Murderbot diaries and after that I have "I, Lady Macbeth" scheduled, the story of the prelude to a massacre.

 

[Arioch]

The Murderbot diaries and after that I have "I, Lady Macbeth" scheduled, the story of the prelude to a massacre.

I’m just on book 4 Exit Strategy right now - and really enjoying them. Playing Starfield at the same time has coloured my imagination in how the books “look”

Also re-reading LotR for the nth time - the same copy that my big sis bought me in the mid-80s and went on every deployment with me, and is definitely showing it!