How many books do you read... - per week? month? year?

[Breast Pump]

I was never exposed to leftist literature in high school. when i see many of you have been or are being exposed to it, i envy you =/

i'd say i go through a couple of books per .... month :x
HOWEVER, I read tons of short stories, poems, and books for... children. I work with the brats so I gotta keep up with them. that's my excuse what's yours?

[Valkyrie]

I read about 4 or 5 books at a tiime, although one usually starts emerging ahead of the rest. Right now I am reading: The Naked Ape, A History of Sexual Customs, Ideas Are Weapons, Jung's Man and His Symbols, Escape From Freedom - Fromme. and a bunch of philosophy and Leftist stuff.

[Valkyrie]

oh, my excuse... I'm running out of time... Life time! Hahaha! :(

[boadicea88]

Hmm, excuses, excuses... mine's "I'm too busy!!"
Yeah sure. You're too busy to read a book but you can sit on your ass in front of the computer for hours. Pathetic.

[MJM]

ParisI've read The Human Zoo by the same author as The Naked Ape, quite a good book that one. Whats T.N.A like? I've always meant to read it.

I read several books at once.
At the moment: No Logo, Scientific Communism and To Kill a Mockingbird are all on the go.

[abstractmentality]

it depends. for instance, this weekend, i just finished up Profit Over People, and the sections i wanted to read from African Origins of the Major Western Religions, and am trying to finish up Stephen Hawkings Theory of Everything in the next few days. sometimes, however, my reading is slow, so i dont get as much done.

[Valkyrie]

MJM,

Naked Ape is good. Pretty amusing in how it shows that man has not ventured far in habit and custom from his primal origin. How was The Human Zoo? I will have that to my list also.

oh, The excuse for not reading? Well, My excuse actually was for why I read so many books... and at the same time. But, I read everything though, the writing on bags, signs, cans, phamplets, and foreign languages that I can't decipher. Also I never leave a place without collecting any phamplets and brochures they may have to read later. I'm a kind of psychopath in that respect.

[canikickit]

Six hundred and fifty five thousand million one hundred and seventy four and I read National Geographic cover to cover twice a month.

[MJM]

Paris
The Human Zoo is quite amusing also, well worth the read. He relates the activity of animals in zoo's to human activity and comes to the conclusion we act in an unnatural way just like animals in a zoo.

abstractmentality
If you like Stephen Hawkings type books I highly recommend Michio Kaku, he's way better than Hawkings IMO.

[abstractmentality]

MJM: this is my first Stephen Hawkings book, but so far its good. its my second on the subject of physics, the first being a book called Gods Equation. i will have to check out Michio Kaku soon. can you give me a little more info on him. thanx for the recommendation.

[MJM]

I prefer him to Stephen Hawkings for the simple reason he keeps it nice and simple and also writes in a more entertaining and imaginative style. He treats time travel and space exploration like an adventure, not some mathmatical formula like Hawkings does. He kinda puts the Phun in Physics :biggrin:
Bad pun I know.

Here's a quote from his Hyperspace book:


When I was a child, I used to visit the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. I would spend hours fascinated by the carp, who lived in a very shallow pond just inches beneath the lily pads, just beneath my fingers, totally oblivious to the universe above them.

I would ask myself a question only a child could ask: what would it be like to be a carp? What a strange world it would be! I imagined that the pond would be an entire universe, one that is two-dimensional in space. The carp would only be able to swim forwards and backwards, and left and right. But I imagined that the concept of "up", beyond the lily pads, would be totally alien to them. Any any carp scientist daring to talk about "hyperspace", i.e. the third dimension "above" the pond, would immediately be labelled a crank. I wondered what would happen if I could reach down and grab a carp scientist and lift it up into hyperspace. I thought what a wondrous story the scientist would tell the others! The carp would babble on about unbelievable new laws of physics: beings who could move without fins. Beings who could breathe without gills. Beings who could emit sounds without bubbles. I then wondered: how would a carp scientist know about our existence? One day it rained, and I saw the rain drops forming gentle ripples on the surface of the pond.

Then I understood. The carp could see rippling shadows on the surface of the pond. The third dimension would be invisible to them, but vibrations in the third dimensions would be clearly visible. These ripples might even be felt by the carp, who would invent a silly concept to describe this, called "force." They might even give these "forces" cute names, such as light and gravity. We would laugh at them, because, of course, we know there is no "force" at all, just the rippling of the water.

Today, many physicists believe that we are the carp swimming in our tiny pond, blissfully unaware of invisible, unseen uni- verses hovering just above us in hyperspace. We spend out life in three spatial dimensions, confident that what we can see with our telescopes is all there is, ignorant of the possibility of 10 dimensional hyperspace. Although these higher dimensions are invisible, their "ripples" can clearly be seen and felt. We call these ripples gravity and light. The theory of hyperspace, however, languished for many decades for lack of any physical proof or application. But the thoery, once considered the province of eccentrics and mystics, is being revived for a simple reason: it may hold the key to the greatest theory of all time, the "theory of everything."


Here are some web sites.

http://www.mkaku.org/

http://www.deoxy.org/h_kaku1.htm

http://www.noradiation.org/news/MICHIO~1.html

[suffianr]

I read 8.34 books every 6 months, of which one-fourths constitutes modern fiction, two-thirds politics and philosophy and one-tenths published by Penguin books. In addition to this, I read 14.6 magazines a month, of which 70% are owned by Time-Warner, and 30% marketed only within the Pacific Rim. When not busy bullshitting about my literary habits, I play foosball.

Nah, just kidding about the foosball. :)

[abstractmentality]

sorry to keep with the tangent, but MJM, have you heard of brain greene? an internet friend just recommended him to me, a book called this elegant universe.

[Socialmalfunction]

hmm well i dont have a very broad reading list. i read what i find and what people tell me to read, i know josh is an interesting, pretty well learned guy so i try to find what he tells me to read, but i have been very busy with skool and what not. reading is my life, however, i read about five to ten books a month when i can, but i am having a horrible time finding books. so anyone that has a suggestion, im open to it. and i dont care what kind of book it is, sorta going for political but anything is good to me. thanks! :cheesy:

[MJM]

Quote: from abstractmentality on 7:39 pm on Sep. 13, 2002
sorry to keep with the tangent, but MJM, have you heard of brain greene? an internet friend just recommended him to me, a book called this elegant universe.


The name does ring a bell however but I'm sure I haven't read anything he's written. I'll keep my eyes out for elegant universe, thanks for the tip.

[abstractmentality]

no problem MJM.

[Zippy]

I read as fast as my wallet can afford. :)

Zippy.