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Now reading... (books)
thelaptop:
My "leisure reading" is confined to The Economist these days, while my non-leisure stuff is based on a ton of research papers from VLDB, SIGMOD, SIGKDD, SIGIR, WSDM, WebDB, ICML, MLJ.
=)
LuckyDee:
As promised: I'm an avid reader, of mostly English books, and have amassed quite a collection of the last decade. My definite favourites are Stephen King (which I started on when I was eleven or twelve yrs old, I guess) and Terry Pratchett, but I'll try nearly everything once. I read on a daily basis, mostly before I go to sleep and while taking a dump (sorry if this is too much detail, but it's one of life's greatest combinations as far as I'm concerned).
As well as collecting the works of Pratchett and King, I've been taking detours around Neil Gaiman, Douglas Coupland (a must-read for anyone who's into computers), Dean Koontz and HP Lovecraft, but I've also started collecting the books that - to me at least - are the modern classics: Lord of the Flies, On the Road, Alice in Wonderland... the only one missing that I can currently think of is 1984, but I've already read this 2 or 3 times at least.
Then there's of course textbooks for RPGs, which I keep going through as well.
Please have a look at parts of my collection (bout half of the books shown are my girlfriend's, who reads even more than I do). If you want more info/details, just gimme a shout - always happy to discuss a good book. If you have any recommendations, feed me!
The shelves: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Discworld: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
More Discworld and other fantasy: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
King: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Erm... stuff: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
RPG: Spoiler (click to show/hide)
There's more obviously, but these are most of my personal favourites.
Klear:
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I was SO sure there will be porn under that spoiler =)
LuckyDee:
--- Quote from: Klear on April 29, 2012, 02:50 ---I was SO sure there will be porn under that spoiler =)
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Wrong shelves ;)
eharper256:
Gosh, wish I had that much shelf-space Luckydee. Mine are a double stacked nightmare. :D
On topic, I just finished reading the latest Iron Druid book, 'Tricked' by Kevin Hearne. Tremendous fun as always, especially for the conversations he has with his Irish Wolfhound Oberon.
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