What are you reading?

[Osiris]

I just finished a nice little marathon of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series followed by "The Hunger Games" trilogy.

I tried to get into "The Girl" books... could... not... do it.

[HardKor]

Yeah, I can understand that not everyone is going to love them. Larsson had a tendency to get bogged down in mundane details. I seriously doubt that we needed an exhaustive list of every single thing Lisbeth bought at IKEA to furnish her apartment. But I still loved the stories and once Larsson got down to the important parts I actually did like his writing style.

[Osiris]

Hey man... if we all liked the same books then the shelves in bookstores would be pretty damn boring.

[scbubba]

Yeah, I can understand that not everyone is going to love them. Larsson had a tendency to get bogged down in mundane details. I seriously doubt that we needed an exhaustive list of every single thing Lisbeth bought at IKEA to furnish her apartment. But I still loved the stories and once Larsson got down to the important parts I actually did like his writing style.

I read the 3 hunger games books. As long as I kept in mind that I wasn't the target audience, the 1st two books were pretty entertaining. The third one was kinda hard to get through, but I finished it. It wasn't as good as the earlier ones but not too bad.

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

I am actually reading Land of Lisp at the moment, for two reasons. I am keen on learing functional programming. And then, there is just this f******* awesome cover:

[scbubba]

I am actually reading Land of Lisp at the moment, for two reasons. I am keen on learing functional programming. And then, there is just this f******* awesome cover:

Aaaaaaggghhhhh!!!! Lisp!
The subtitle of this book could be "How to go blind counting parentheses..."

But it is a good way to learn functional programming....

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

Aaaaaaggghhhhh!!!! Lisp!
The subtitle of this book could be "How to go blind counting parentheses..."

But it is a good way to learn functional programming....

I have been waiting a long time for this joke to make, so here it is: Lisp's parentheses prevent me from becoming a Schemer like Scratch. Thank you so much, scbubba!

[Solanine]

Hmmm, Dune is my current book. And I got forty pages in. Two weeks ago. I just can't seem to find the time to read right now.
I know I'll enjoy Dune when I get to it but for now it can go back and grace the shelves of the local library.

[scbubba]

I have been waiting a long time for this joke to make, so here it is: Lisp's parentheses prevent me from becoming a Schemer like Scratch. Thank you so much, scbubba!

<rimshot> thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Remember to tip you waitress and bartender. Good night!

[scbubba]

Hmmm, Dune is my current book. And I got forty pages in. Two weeks ago. I just can't seem to find the time to read right now.
I know I'll enjoy Dune when I get to it but for now it can go back and grace the shelves of the local library.

I've tried a few times with Dune. Once I got most of the way through it but never all the way. Just doesn't ever click for me.