Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?

Scepticalscribe said:
I have just ordered this book - a nice, fat hardback, and thank you for the recommendation.
Click to expand...
You're welcome! I was just reading in today's Times about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago". There is a new edition out with a foreword from Jordan Peterson (don't know who he is?) and was wondering if you've read it? Many years ago I read his "Cancer Ward" but have not read "Gulag". Sounds a fascinating book that I think I will order.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Scepticalscribe
Dave Meadows said:
You're welcome! I was just reading in today's Times about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago". There is a new edition out with a foreword from Jordan Peterson (don't know who he is?) and was wondering if you've read it? Many years ago I read his "Cancer Ward" but have not read "Gulag". Sounds a fascinating book that I think I will order.
Click to expand...

Yes, I have read Gulag; I read it years ago, as an undergrad, with rapt attention and bottoms fascination.

And I would still think that, along with The First Circle, - which I think superb - his best book - (and some of the chapters in Cancer Ward), it is probably among the best things he wrote. (I think One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich the most important book Solzhenitsyn wrote, politically and historically - but not necessarily his best).

However, Gulag is relentlessly depressing - this is an exceptionally bleak, meticulously researched and dark work.

No, I don't know who Jordan Peterson is either.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AVBeatMan
Debussy: a Painter in Sound. A biography by Stephen Walsh. I had read Walsh's bio of Stravinsky and bought this one on the strengths of having enjoyed the other. Have barely begun it but already assured of not ending up disappointed.


Walsh bio Debussy - cover art.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: ThisBougieLife, mobilehaathi, pachyderm and 2 others
I run but not really in love with running and this book was a very exciting page turner with amazing stories and info on running history. Highly recommend as I finished the book in 3 days!!

81BAIsimy6L.jpg
 
Re-reading Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky". A classic in the lost generation ship SF genre.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
It is entirely possible that the noun/word "Foundation" was what had been intended instead; auto-spell plays horrid tricks on one - at least, this is what I have found in recent times on the forum,
Click to expand...
That's what I had thought. Foundation I know, and liked back when I read it.
 
Hey, all!

Right now I'm taking a break from fiction, a much deserved break in fact.

Currently reading: Mathematical Structures for Computer Science (7th Edition). The writing is balanced in that the book offers much for newbies and seasoned readers. I wonder, however, what the previous editions must have been like.

Prior to this I was reading quite a bit of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell.
 
ilawlin said:
Hey, all!

Right now I'm taking a break from fiction, a much deserved break in fact.

Currently reading: Mathematical Structures for Computer Science (7th Edition). The writing is balanced in that the book offers much for newbies and seasoned readers. I wonder, however, what the previous editions must have been like.

Prior to this I was reading quite a bit of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell.
Click to expand...

What books by George Orwell?

Lewis Carroll is brilliant.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back