What are you reading?

[Shum]

Let me know what thats like once you start it, looking for a maths based book after I watched a load of youtube vids off the numberphile channel.. Getting addicted to things that make me go WTF atm. "Monster Group" that needs 196883-dimensional space.. WOT

- Symmetry and the Monster by Mark Ronan and
- Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (I believe this was published in the UK under a different title?) by Marcus du Sautoy

are two books for the lay audience on that very group (and on the classification of finite simple groups in general) but if you have a half decent grasp of mathematics and access to a good library then I would recommend:

- Finite Simple Groups: An Introduction to their Classification by Daniel Gorenstein (but NOT his textbook Finite Groups or the 5-volume Classification of the Finite Simple Groups that he co-authored)

Though not related to the classification or the Monster another good group theory related book is:

- Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers by Ash & Gross

[magma]

Has anyone read IQ84 by Murakami? It's sitting in my book queue and I might skip it up a few places.

[hubb]

Only heard good tings. It's the biggest seller at the publishing house where I work. So I've heard a positive spontaneous review at least twice a day for a long time .


I'm going through Iain Banks' work atm and it's all fully

wasp factory and the player of games is just

[Riddles]

Reading this at the moment, pretty good but not too far in yet.

[Shum]

Has anyone read IQ84 by Murakami? It's sitting in my book queue and I might skip it up a few places.

It's quite similar to The Wind Up Bird Chronicle if you've read that.

[Muncey]

Let me know what thats like once you start it, looking for a maths based book after I watched a load of youtube vids off the numberphile channel.. Getting addicted to things that make me go WTF atm. "Monster Group" that needs 196883-dimensional space.. WOT

- Symmetry and the Monster by Mark Ronan and
- Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (I believe this was published in the UK under a different title?) by Marcus du Sautoy

are two books for the lay audience on that very group (and on the classification of finite simple groups in general) but if you have a half decent grasp of mathematics and access to a good library then I would recommend:

- Finite Simple Groups: An Introduction to their Classification by Daniel Gorenstein (but NOT his textbook Finite Groups or the 5-volume Classification of the Finite Simple Groups that he co-authored)

Though not related to the classification or the Monster another good group theory related book is:

- Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers by Ash & Gross

Hero

Might buy that last one as its on the Kindle, couple second hand copies of Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature that are only a couple of quid on amazon so might buy that before I go away. Need to get some paperbacks; kindles are useless in the sun.

[deadly_habit]

Just finished Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
About to delve into Doctor Sleep by Stephen King which is the sequel to The Shining

Also anyone know if any of the extended Dune series not by Frank Herbert are any good?

[Jurrecane]

Reading Moshé Feldenkrais, Awareness through movement at this moment. Will starting with Nietzsche´s Beyond Good And Evil next week I guess. Is that a good starter for Nietzsche?

[phrex]

haruki murakami - hard boiled wonderland

must be good! i read 1Q84 and it was one of the best novels so far.
I never read a whole book of nietzsche tbh. although i studied philosophy. never went beyond excerpts.

[ultraspatial]

yeah. started with beyond good & evil myself
you could go with ecce homo as well

finished greta gaard's (ed.) ecofemism (women, animals and nature)
thinking of giving sonic warfare a 2nd shot. if not deleuze & guattari's anti-oedipus (never finished reading it the first time) and a thousand plateaus

[Jurrecane]

Thanks.
They don't seem to have Ecce Homo at university library but they do have Beyond Good & Evil, so i'll give that a go first.

Been wanting to read Sonic Warfare, but heard more people not finishing the book than people finishing the book it seems.

[ultraspatial]

idk it's not an easy read iirc but tbh i did started reading in the middle of an exam period + i got a shitty attention span

[Muncey]

Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (Vol.1 Economic Thought Before Adam Smith & Vol.2 Classical Economics) by Murray Rothbard

Appealed to me not only because I want a better understand of Austrian perspective but this is one of the few books on the history of economic thought that goes back further than Adam Smith/Marx ect.

[NinjaEdit]

Has anyone read IQ84 by Murakami? It's sitting in my book queue and I might skip it up a few places.

It's cited on the Wikipedia metamodernism page as an example.

I'm reading The Call by Martin Flanagan, about the inventor of Australian Rules Football. I'd like to adapt the story into a film.

[deadly_habit]

I swear this thread is like philosophy and psych reading mainly. Do you guys not read fiction as well? Even I need a break from stuff like Robert Anton Wilson or Sagan.
Also I'm taking it the non Frank Herbert Dune books are garbage since no one answered my question about the series.

[RKM]

i assume people just don't post when they've read harry potter and the goblet of fire for the 7th time and save it for this type of stuff

[deadly_habit]

i assume people just don't post when they've read harry potter and the goblet of fire for the 7th time and save it for this type of stuff

It's a shame as good fiction is a pain to find.

[ultraspatial]

Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (Vol.1 Economic Thought Before Adam Smith & Vol.2 Classical Economics) by Murray Rothbard

Appealed to me not only because I want a better understand of Austrian perspective but this is one of the few books on the history of economic thought that goes back further than Adam Smith/Marx ect.

rothbard's on my list. only read some hayek and von mises so far

[mks]

i assume people just don't post when they've read harry potter and the goblet of fire for the 7th time and save it for this type of stuff

It's a shame as good fiction is a pain to find.

I can't even remember the last time I read a fiction book. I just finished reading this:

[deadly_habit]

i assume people just don't post when they've read harry potter and the goblet of fire for the 7th time and save it for this type of stuff

It's a shame as good fiction is a pain to find.

I can't even remember the last time I read a fiction book. I just finished reading this:

i'm on like my fifth read and highlight of house of leaves and just finished dr sleep by king.
non fiction i'm working on all of sagans books.
I'm maninly waiting on the next witcher or song of ice and fire stuff