Comments on: Reading http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/ belarusian perspectives - the two sides of one blogger Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:06:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Reading by: }T{Reme [Q_G] http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4230 Tue, 30 May 2006 20:32:20 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4230 Oops... my bad... bool (* * ptr) (void *); Oops… my bad… bool (* * ptr) (void *);

]]> Comment on Reading by: }T{Reme [Q_G] http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4229 Tue, 30 May 2006 20:31:19 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4229 Still my favorite kind of reading :) : bool * * (* ptr) (void *); Wonder who can figure out what this is lol. Still my favorite kind of reading :) :
bool * * (* ptr) (void *);
Wonder who can figure out what this is lol.

]]> Comment on Reading by: kristi http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4220 Tue, 30 May 2006 18:15:09 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4220 ahh... books... I infinitely prefer a good book to news articles and blogs. But I also like to sit down and hold the book in my hand, mark it up and write in it with my questions and observations, to keep me engaged in my reading. I just can't read a book via computer or palmpilot etc. I was a Philosophy and History of Math &#38; Science double major, so my reading in college was heavy to say the least. I also took a breather upon graduation. Recently I have been reading lots of literature and theology. Books I'd recommend: -If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. A fiction book about the love of reading, incidentally. -Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper. Quite thought-provoking, in a way that demands an introspection into your own life and lifestyle. -Faith, Hope, Love by Josef Pieper. Excellent essays and lectures on the theological virtues. -Mao II by Don DeLillo. An interesting fiction book that deals with the power and role of images in the lives of the individual and in the collective. War and Peace in the original? I wish! Though I'd be more inclined to read The Brothers Karamazov in the original first. I am currently reading the latter (in translation) for the second time. I also just finished Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. The guardian featured a list of the <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html" rel="nofollow">top 100 novels of all time.</a> I've read 26 off the list. I hope to eventually read all 100. ahh… books… I infinitely prefer a good book to news articles and blogs. But I also like to sit down and hold the book in my hand, mark it up and write in it with my questions and observations, to keep me engaged in my reading. I just can’t read a book via computer or palmpilot etc.

I was a Philosophy and History of Math & Science double major, so my reading in college was heavy to say the least. I also took a breather upon graduation. Recently I have been reading lots of literature and theology. Books I’d recommend:
-If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino. A fiction book about the love of reading, incidentally.
-Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper. Quite thought-provoking, in a way that demands an introspection into your own life and lifestyle.
-Faith, Hope, Love by Josef Pieper. Excellent essays and lectures on the theological virtues.
-Mao II by Don DeLillo. An interesting fiction book that deals with the power and role of images in the lives of the individual and in the collective.

War and Peace in the original? I wish! Though I’d be more inclined to read The Brothers Karamazov in the original first. I am currently reading the latter (in translation) for the second time. I also just finished Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.

The guardian featured a list of the top 100 novels of all time.
I’ve read 26 off the list. I hope to eventually read all 100.

]]> Comment on Reading by: jenny http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4133 Mon, 29 May 2006 13:19:26 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4133 hello, what a coincidemce; it seems we're batchmates. i also graduated in 2000. anyway, going back to your post about reading. i have a bachelor's degree in literature, so u can imagine the reading requirements that went with it. after graduation, i took a breather, but after awhile i found myself heading back to bookstores. i guess im really interested in it. oh, and it helps that i have close friends who like reading books too. about reading list. the last book i finished reading was "the curious incident of the dog in the night time." i forgot the author, but it's really worth checking out. very good. :-) if you ever find time to read it, let me know what u think of it ok? hello,
what a coincidemce; it seems we’re batchmates. i also graduated in 2000. anyway, going back to your post about reading. i have a bachelor’s degree in literature, so u can imagine the reading requirements that went with it. after graduation, i took a breather, but after awhile i found myself heading back to bookstores. i guess im really interested in it. oh, and it helps that i have close friends who like reading books too.
about reading list. the last book i finished reading was “the curious incident of the dog in the night time.” i forgot the author, but it’s really worth checking out. very good. :-)
if you ever find time to read it, let me know what u think of it ok?

]]> Comment on Reading by: Administrator http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4080 Sun, 28 May 2006 12:06:06 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4080 &#62; and …. Winnie the Pooh. :)) Actually I forgot to mention one more book from my current reading list. Peter Pan. It feels much more serious and sadder than I used to remember it from early childhood. I'm reading it and I have totally different images as opposed to what I experienced when my mom read it to me at the age of 4. > and …. Winnie the Pooh.

:))

Actually I forgot to mention one more book from my current reading list. Peter Pan. It feels much more serious and sadder than I used to remember it from early childhood. I’m reading it and I have totally different images as opposed to what I experienced when my mom read it to me at the age of 4.

]]> Comment on Reading by: aharoni http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4023 Sun, 28 May 2006 06:21:12 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-4023 Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game + Speaker for the Dead - and hopefully will read the rest of the series Larry Wall: Programming Perl - it's so much more than a regular programming book. It's a wonderful book in its own right. War and Peace - in original, no kidding Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture - an opinionated, but well-referenced book about the problems of copyright in the digital age. It was written by a geek lawyer, but it is very interesting. Jewish books - Bible (in original!), Talmud. It's huge and and i'm not sure that i'll ever finish it, but it's very interesting. and .... Winnie the Pooh. Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game + Speaker for the Dead - and hopefully will read the rest of the series

Larry Wall: Programming Perl - it’s so much more than a regular programming book. It’s a wonderful book in its own right.

War and Peace - in original, no kidding

Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture - an opinionated, but well-referenced book about the problems of copyright in the digital age. It was written by a geek lawyer, but it is very interesting.

Jewish books - Bible (in original!), Talmud. It’s huge and and i’m not sure that i’ll ever finish it, but it’s very interesting.

and …. Winnie the Pooh.

]]> Comment on Reading by: endrus http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3991 Sun, 28 May 2006 00:43:10 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3991 Br23: I think you are right. At the end of the school year, I waved goodbye to a huge pile of books I was reading during the semester. I had to make three runs to carry them back to the library. But in terms of following the news, skimming blog entries, reading a morning newspaper - that is still there, deeply rooted in my daily routine. But books, hell... I need more time for that and determination. Yet, I've got a few titles I am on. Just finished Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress." Today I was looking through a chapter on sloth in "Explanation of Catholic Morals" by John H. Stapleton. And I've taken a couple of books on Washington, D.C. from a local library to learn more about the city where I happen to reside this summer. Br23: I think you are right. At the end of the school year, I waved goodbye to a huge pile of books I was reading during the semester. I had to make three runs to carry them back to the library.
But in terms of following the news, skimming blog entries, reading a morning newspaper - that is still there, deeply rooted in my daily routine. But books, hell… I need more time for that and determination. Yet, I’ve got a few titles I am on. Just finished Dan Brown’s “Digital Fortress.” Today I was looking through a chapter on sloth in “Explanation of Catholic Morals” by John H. Stapleton. And I’ve taken a couple of books on Washington, D.C. from a local library to learn more about the city where I happen to reside this summer.

]]> Comment on Reading by: Ana http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3986 Sat, 27 May 2006 22:32:15 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3986 I know what you mean. With the internet, it's much easier to do a quick search and find what you want, but with books you might learn something that has got nothing to do with what you want to know, but nevertheless might be useful later on. Or vice-versa; sometimes in blogs you read things that you really didn't need to know about. Amd about the "funny blogs" or "Hitchhiker's Guide" thing, sometimes in those personal blogs, the private jokes are the best thing in them, yet sometimes you can't understand them. But in a book you can do that, can't you? Both have good sides, anyway. Anyway, for book recommendations, ever tried to read anything by Neil Gaiman? His books are for everyone, I suppose, and they're great fun. My mom also bought me "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, and although I haven't read it yet, it's looks like it's very good. I know what you mean. With the internet, it’s much easier to do a quick search and find what you want, but with books you might learn something that has got nothing to do with what you want to know, but nevertheless might be useful later on. Or vice-versa; sometimes in blogs you read things that you really didn’t need to know about.

Amd about the “funny blogs” or “Hitchhiker’s Guide” thing, sometimes in those personal blogs, the private jokes are the best thing in them, yet sometimes you can’t understand them. But in a book you can do that, can’t you? Both have good sides, anyway.

Anyway, for book recommendations, ever tried to read anything by Neil Gaiman? His books are for everyone, I suppose, and they’re great fun. My mom also bought me “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse, and although I haven’t read it yet, it’s looks like it’s very good.

]]> Comment on Reading by: }T{Reme [Q_G] http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3977 Sat, 27 May 2006 21:20:41 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3977 Very true, I pretty much never read books... It takes too much time to digest one book and get the required information. Instead, I read through mebe 5 to 10 websites and do get the information I need. Cannot really say my level went down intellectually... it went up rather, from reading pages on www.mathworld.com for example. Pages like these I need being a developer. It's sad I never really went to university tho, so understanding complex formulae is a challenge. So... what I read these days... mostly technical documents, programming theory, scientific texts. And of course blogs, forums and such :) Very true, I pretty much never read books… It takes too much time to digest one book and get the required information. Instead, I read through mebe 5 to 10 websites and do get the information I need. Cannot really say my level went down intellectually… it went up rather, from reading pages on www.mathworld.com for example. Pages like these I need being a developer. It’s sad I never really went to university tho, so understanding complex formulae is a challenge. So… what I read these days… mostly technical documents, programming theory, scientific texts. And of course blogs, forums and such :)

]]> Comment on Reading by: Rea http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3974 Sat, 27 May 2006 20:19:07 +0000 http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/#comment-3974 i'm not sure if it's to do with university or just internet... i'm now trying to balance out my "book reading" and "internet reading" as well. But i'm still in university, it's just that internet is a much faster way to get more information, where as you can read 300 pages of a book and still not have a valid info. but reading books is definitely more gratifying :) i must say i haven't even heard of some of the books you mention, i'm gonna look for them. btw. how do you feel about audio books? they are (again) timesavers (we live in a fast world :) ) and you can walk around the city and listen to them :) i’m not sure if it’s to do with university or just internet… i’m now trying to balance out my “book reading” and “internet reading” as well. But i’m still in university, it’s just that internet is a much faster way to get more information, where as you can read 300 pages of a book and still not have a valid info. but reading books is definitely more gratifying :) i must say i haven’t even heard of some of the books you mention, i’m gonna look for them. btw. how do you feel about audio books? they are (again) timesavers (we live in a fast world :) ) and you can walk around the city and listen to them :)

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