Do you read at all ?

[medo]

Hello,


Computers, computers, but do you read at all (books not a manuals) and when did you by your last book (you know that staff with a hard cover and lot of a papers)?

Medo

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[Wiz]

i recently bought a copy of on the road by jack Kerouac<sp?>

I really enjoy tom clancy...

[Richard_Cranium72]

I read "Car Craft, Chevrolet Hi-Performance, Northern Hydraulics, Harbor Freight Tools, JC Whitney, Mid America Corvette, Technology Today, American Scientific, Smart Computing, and Misc. Junk books http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif. theCorvetteDoctor

[codybear]

I read quite alot and every night to my daughter..well now she reads to me..

[smokin1]

I read on average 5 books a week....so much to learn...so little time...
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[pickel]

Vette Dr. ... you're my Man, plus Guns and Ammo, Combat Firearms and Scientific American
Penthouse( when available) used ones are the best HEHEHEHE http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

the pickel

[Ed_S]

Love a good novel. Computer & woodworking magazines.
No newspapers.

[emcron]

Hey Wiz I just finished Dharma Bums, another great book by Jack Kerovac.

[jadison]

I love to read (I think I inherited that from my mom). I love science fiction, also I like to read about World History...I read a lot of magazines (they go by real quick) like PC World Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, National Geographic, Scientific American, Astronomy Magazine, Yahoo! Internet Life, I'm currently reading 3 books: Y2K by R.J. Pineiro, Gravity by Tess Gerritsen, & Dune:House Atreides by Brian Herbert. I just finished Return To Mars by Ben Bova. I loved Isaac Asimov's books (I'm sorry that he passed away), I've also read 2 of Carl Sagan's books.

So I guess I love to read as well as I love to net.

jadison

[DaveLewis]

Reading ? Sure, I have to do something while waiting for my disk to defrag.

Tom Clancy's work has gone down hill but Dale Brown and others are still pretty entertaining.

I enjoy "hard" sf - not sword and sorcery but stuff by the likes of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Take a Kzin to lunch - be a Kzin's lunch.

I'll do Military History - anything by Steven Ambrose for example - in an effort to understand my dad's generation. Dad went ashore on D-Day and until his death 50 years later said that June 6 1944 was the most important day of his life. Great stuff.

I've just reread C.S. Forester's Hornblower series and as many of the Sherlock Holmes stories as I could get loaded into my Palm (does that count - its not "real paper" is it?).

[Toadman]

I usually read military/techo-thrillers as well. Clancy, Coontz, Dale Brown, Web Griffen, Clive Cussler. Nothing like kicking it at the beach/pool with a great book and exercising the theater of the mind.

[socalgal]

Every night! Novels and psychology books mostly, and the L.A. Sunday Times.

[wyvrn]

I read a lot of fantasy, Robert Jordan type books. Read car & driver, popular mechanics, popular science, Entertainment mag, time, scientific american (hooked on it since my physics class in high school), national geographic, pc world, etc... Read dallasnews.com and several bb's, back of food packages, coke bottles, phone books, car manuals, computer motherboard manuals, mcse exam cram books, whiteboards here at work, street signs, menus, etc .

[izzzy12k]

I hardly read anthing at all, I know it's a bad habit. But oh well. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

izzzy12k

[smurfin]

I know it is not popular and I will probably get creamed, but I only read manuals...Love them. And now when my wife is not around, I read those as well as the nerd porn(shopper,etc) to her. She loves it.Caught her the other day with a screw driver in my new PC(case always open for easy access, ha ha), she didn't have a clue what she was doing but it was just sooooo cute. She tries to mimic everything I do. She used to have her own keyboard as a toy when she was just about 4 months old. Now she has my old pc(I wonder if it still works?) Her mother reads the traditional stuff to her, but I swear she positively drools when I am describing a new motherboard or part to her late in the evening(she drools anyway, but leave me my imagination). The only thing I like better than tinkering is my daughter...Oh yeah I guess I better put my wife in there or she will kill me! Yeah . Anyway. Peace.
Bill

[JeffD78]

Okay, let's see:

Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
Car and Driver
Road and Track
Grassroots Motorsports
PC Gamer
PC Accelerator
Get most of my useful computer info off of Sysopt.

As for books I read mainly Science Fiction. Working my way through all of David Brin's books right now. Also like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne McCaffery, read Star Trek voraciously when I was younger. I can't remember all the books I've read over the years. It's gotten to the point that I don't go to the library anymore though. They never have something I haven't read.

[alpha]

I like Terry Pratchet. I read a book about once a month (for school book reports http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif)

[Warthog]

I'm a Clancy man myself. Also read military non-fiction.

Warthog

[alondra]

Have a bookcase full of SF mostly asimov van voght, clark, some prity old, like The World of Null A 1974. when I was a Kid there were some super SF magazines.
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[barry glisson]

currently on page 513 of Scott Muellers "up grading and repairing pcs" read circle track, stock car racing ,hotrod,superford,mustang illustrated,tom clancy,fla history,scientific american etc.i can read a grainger catalog for 2 or three hours just for fun. barry

[chipbgt]

Cs Lewis and Tolkien are two excellent writers to spend time reading http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Dash]

Im almost suprised!, No one mentioned "Armor" by John Steakley or "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card. These have got to be the 2 best books that Ive ever read. I bought Armor around 4th grade, didnt understand it then, but by now in 9th grade, Ive read the book at least 10 times, its cover is worn, my friends wonder why I dont just buy a new copy, it wouldnt be the same though!

I just bought Enders Game, read it in 2 days, loved it, these are 2 GREAT books.

[Underclocked]

My last binge of reading was Tom Clancy novels. That's been some time ago. My eyes aren't so good for reading anymore and hours of looking at this monitor don't help.
But, at least we are reading something, eh?

[jad1097]

I have not read anything in a while now.
But I read mostly psychology, spirtuality and horticultial(mainly medical uses for herbs).

[This message has been edited by jad1097 (edited 03-14-2000).]