Last book you read?

[Poison]

Cryptonimicon - Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon has got to be one of my favorite books. I love thrillers, especially thrillers based around events having to do with technology.

@ the topic of Ayn Rand: Silly Libertarians.


Anyways, the last book I read would have to be the last Harry Potter though, at the current time and place, I am reviewing my knowledge of electricity by reading a book on the physics of said electricity. I am also reading a book entitled Programming the Universe. I'm planning on stopping by Barnes and Noble later today and buying a recent HAM radio manual and studying to take the Amateur exam. I started at the age of 10 but I wasn't all that interested in the subject back then and so I didn't go very far with it. Oh, and I still have the newest issue of 2600 to read. I've got a lot of reading to catch up on. Work takes up too much of my free time.

- Matt

[radtastic]

HAM radios?  I think my dad knows everything about them, or something.  I don't know.

I can see twenty-four radios in this room alone.  (that is not an exaggeration, I counted)

[bobman12]

2600? Hm, we know what you do when no ones around  .
I just read all the ender books again. I love them.

[Poison]

HAM radios?  I think my dad knows everything about them, or something.  I don't know.

I can see twenty-four radios in this room alone.  (that is not an exaggeration, I counted)

Your dad is awesome, then.

2600? Hm, we know what you do when no ones around  .

I don't play with dolls! They're...um... my sister's.

- Matt

[PurpleHaze]

HAM radios?  I think my dad knows everything about them, or something.  I don't know.

I can see twenty-four radios in this room alone.  (that is not an exaggeration, I counted)

SST started as a mail order ham radio business. Solid State Transmitters.

And you would know all that and more if you read Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad

[bobman12]

Yeah, I bet he dolls are your sisters. Just like the blue boxes :O.

[sold]

I hate Ayn Rand.

A LOT.

What is there to hate?

Of course, I've only read on of her books.

Are most of her books basically dragging on until the main characters have sex and then dragging on some more?

[PurpleHaze]

I hate Ayn Rand.

A LOT.

What is there to hate?

Of course, I've only read on of her books.

Are most of her books basically dragging on until the main characters have sex and then dragging on some more?

Sounds like the main reason I read books.

Only kidding, of course, I am the epitome of intellectuals and spend much of my time reading the second and third canticles of Divina Commedia.

[sold]

Catch-22 (Again, because I like it a lot).

[radtastic]

I hate Ayn Rand.

A LOT.

What is there to hate?

Of course, I've only read on of her books.

Are most of her books basically dragging on until the main characters have sex and then dragging on some more?

Eh, she just rubs me the wrong way.  I haven't read anything by her in a long time.  Last one was Anthem, I believe.  I actually liked that book, for the most part, and then the last few chapters turned from an interesting book to BLAHBLAHOBJECTIVISMISAWESOMEBLAHBLAHBLAH.  Objectivism in itself bothers me, so it's difficult for me to be all about Ayn Rand.  To each his own, I suppose.



ANYWAY.  I just finished the book The Straight Road to Kyle.  It is the story of a gay boy named Jonathan who gets drunk at a party and sleeps with a girl.  The girl spreads the story around, which prompts the richest, most popular girl in the school to propose a deal to him: pretend to go straight and be her boyfriend, and in return she will take him to London to see a Kylie Minogue concert.

...seriously.

I found it in a bookstore near my house.  I was so surprised something that ridiculous could exist that I *had* to read it.

[sold]

So... was it a gripping thriller with suspending clifferhangers?

[radtastic]

Oh, indeed.

[PurpleHaze]

I hate Ayn Rand.

A LOT.

What is there to hate?

Of course, I've only read on of her books.

Are most of her books basically dragging on until the main characters have sex and then dragging on some more?

Eh, she just rubs me the wrong way.  I haven't read anything by her in a long time.  Last one was Anthem, I believe.  I actually liked that book, for the most part, and then the last few chapters turned from an interesting book to BLAHBLAHOBJECTIVISMISAWESOMEBLAHBLAHBLAH.  Objectivism in itself bothers me, so it's difficult for me to be all about Ayn Rand.  To each his own, I suppose.



ANYWAY.  I just finished the book The Straight Road to Kyle.  It is the story of a gay boy named Jonathan who gets drunk at a party and sleeps with a girl.  The girl spreads the story around, which prompts the richest, most popular girl in the school to propose a deal to him: pretend to go straight and be her boyfriend, and in return she will take him to London to see a Kylie Minogue concert.

...seriously.

I found it in a bookstore near my house.  I was so surprised something that ridiculous could exist that I *had* to read it.

Answer me this. Why are all my music hipsterish friends into Kylie Minogue? I find it rather difficult to comprehend.

[radtastic]

The book told me she was awesome.

I BELIEVE EVERYTHING I READ IN BOOKS.

[PurpleHaze]

She played the Independence Day concert on the Riverfront. Everyone was just waiting for her to stop singing so we could see the fireworks.