What are you reading?

[Kaori]

I am fairly fond of T.S. Eliot; it is interesting to see how his writing changed after he became a Christian. From what I have read, there seems to be a fairly clear dichotomy in style before and after his conversion. I can understand how excessive reading of commentaries could be irritating, however.

[greyscale42]

RedWall
by Brian Jacques

[The Doctor]

DISNEYWAR, by James A. Stewart. An indepth report and study on the management team of the Walt Disney Corporation from the early 80's to now, focusing mainly on the arrival of Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, and Jeffery Katzenberg as the new TEAM that is largely responsible for the vast turnaround of the company.

It also carefully analyzes the fall of the company, which pretty much shows what I've come to understand after much careful analysis; all roads lead to Eisner.

It's a FUN FUN FUN read (for guys like me anyways) and I've learned SO much about the entertainment industry as a result of reading this book. A must read for anyone who also plans to start their own production company. You learn the secrets as to how Disney did it. Now, for anime fans, this applies to us because, even the Japanese admit that their animation style was largely influenced by Walt Disney; and Disney is big in Japan.

[uc pseudonym]

[quote="Kaori"]I am fairly fond of T.S. Eliot]

Yes, I would agree with you. He probably uses more allusions to religious material than any other poet I have read; I like his writing better following his conversion, but I am still not fond of poetry in general. I didn't think "The Hollow Men" was too bad, but I did not enjoy the first part of "The Wasteland."

[glitch1501]

the shadow of evening by chris walley

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

- Loads of books on Christian Counseling Ethics

Classes are crazy, but reading is always good...

[mitsuki lover]

Just read:JUMP THE SHARK,a book about the stupid things famous people have done.
Now reading:BRUCE & STAN's GUIDE TO THE END OF THE WORLD.

[Maledicte]

Nightbringer by James Byron Huggins...I don't know, but for some reason this book seems awfully familiar...feels like I know where it's going.

The Crow: Shattered Hearts and Broken Dreams, an anthology edited by James O'Barr. Hey I just realized, one of the admin's name is in the title. Anyways, very dark and pretty.

The Count of Monte Cristo...again. grin:

[Jasdero]

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

<.< I tried to read it a year ago... but lost interest.. XD;;; I'll see if I can finish it this time.

[the_lizardqueen]

My Art History textbook, it's headed towards a thousand pages long and weighs a ton. I'm studying the Baroque to the Neo-Classical right now. At least it has lots of pretty pictures..

[Technomancer]

Among other things:
"Multichannel Audio Synthesis by Subband-based Spectral Conversion and Parameter Adaptation"

and

"Finding Independant Components Using Spikes: A Natural Result of Hebbian Learning in a Sparse Spike Coding Scheme"

[Maledicte]

>>My Art History textbook, it's headed towards a thousand pages long and weighs a ton. I'm studying the Baroque to the Neo-Classical right now. At least it has lots of pretty pictures..<<

I can wholeheartedly sympathize. I still haven't sold mine off yet...

>>"Multichannel Audio Synthesis by Subband-based Spectral Conversion and Parameter Adaptation"

and

"Finding Independant Components Using Spikes: A Natural Result of Hebbian Learning in a Sparse Spike Coding Scheme"<<

I'm beginning to wonder if you're making those up.

[Technomancer]

I'm beginning to wonder if you're making those up.

Nope, the first is an article in the March 2005 edition of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. The second is an article from Natural Computing no. 4 pp 159-175 2004.

See here

To be fair, only the second article is of relevance to my current work. I'm reading the first out of purely personal interest (it's pretty cool, but I question the practicality of how they plan to deal with precussion)

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

A chapter in a book, the chapter entitled: Hymnody In A Post-Hymnody World by Paul S. Jones.

[uc pseudonym]

Among other things:
"Multichannel Audio Synthesis by Subband-based Spectral Conversion and Parameter Adaptation"

and

"Finding Independant Components Using Spikes: A Natural Result of Hebbian Learning in a Sparse Spike Coding Scheme"

Such texts are fun to read in public. People will ask "What are you reading?" and then you can answer them...

I'm a bit surprised at myself. I haven't read any new literature recently.

[Maledicte]

*gasp* No. You're kidding. (no, I am)

[Mizumi-Kun]

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The story of a beautiful, innocent man and his personal fall from grace under dark yet close-to-home influences, and the dawning of his immortality through the exchange of his years and sins into a portrait of himself.
Excellent book, but a warning; if your morals are not well-founded DO NOT read this book. If they aren't and you do, you'll be questioning every intent and action under the sun.

[Jasdero]

[color=Navy]The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The story of a beautiful, innocent man and his personal fall from grace under dark yet close-to-home influences, and the dawning of his immortality through the exchange of his years and sins into a portrait of himself.
Excellent book, but a warning]

o.o!!! I loved that book... My mother and I can discuss it for hours... XD;;;

[Kokhiri Sojourn]

[color=Navy]The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The story of a beautiful, innocent man and his personal fall from grace under dark yet close-to-home influences, and the dawning of his immortality through the exchange of his years and sins into a portrait of himself.
Excellent book, but a warning]

I'm reading this for a class also, but I'm not that far into it. The introduction on lack of morals in writing warned me of his moral stance.

[Kaori]

Naomi, by Tanizaki. A well-written, but rather negative, portrait of a marriage. A classmate of mine responded to this book by saying "I'm never going to marry!"--and I find that reaction understandable.

[uc pseudonym]

I had previously only barely began "Death of a Salesman", but last night I began reading it seriously... and finished it. Of all the "classic" literature I have ever been assigned, I believe this may be my favorite. It is a rather depressing play about the utter failure of the American dream, but it sends its message in an intelligent manner. For once, the literary techniques employed by an author seem to add sophistocation, instead of merely complication (though one must be careful while reading).

[Mave]

I'm reading Pilgrim's Progress for...eh fun. Yeah. Fun. XD;;

Can anyone tell me if this is the adapted or original version?
http://www.ccel.org/b/bunyan/progress/title.html

If it's the original version, it ain't that bad. ^_^

[uc pseudonym]

I believe that is the original version. It is generally what I used when I wanted to consult the original text, in any case.

[Technomancer]

"Rapture Culture: 'Left Behind' in Evangelical America" by Amy Frykholm. It's an interesting, if fairly academic look at the cultural role/impact of the 'Left Behind' novels.

Also a whole lot of stuff on neural computation.

[mitsuki lover]

Justice At Nuremberg.Takes a look at the Nuremberg trials from the inception of the idea of holding the War Crimes tribunal to the trials themselves.Includes background on the defendants,prosecutors,defense lawyers and judges.
If you think that the Nuremberg trials were a sure thing all you need to do is to read the book to get instantly disenchanted with that idea.
For starters the Anglo-Saxon(i.e.American and British)system of law was different from the Continental European system used by the Russian,French and Germans
themselves.For another thing there seemed to have been a lot of ineptitude involved in the prosecution.
They didn't even provide the defense with appropiate material until after the trial
had been started,also the keeping of documents appears to have been half hazard
and on top of everything else they had a hard time agreeing to the overall format.
Also the Pentagon and military brass were loath to have the Wehrmacht and the rest of the German military leadership put on trial.
In the end it was a miracle that the trials even got under way.

[The Doctor]

I'm reading two books now (now that I have finished DisneyWar. I LOVED that book!)

Eat Mor Chikin, Inspire More People; Doing business the Chick-Fil-A way. By S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick Fil-A. Finally, a business book by a Christian who successfully founded a very profitable business.

Second book is He-Motions, Even Strong Men Struggle.by Bishop T.D. Jakes.

[Scribs]

I will soon be starting Faters and Sons by some Russian fellow

[mitsuki lover]

Read Lemony Snicket's The Grim Grotto yesterday and today reading
Artemis Fowl:The Arctic Incident.

[Locke]

Splinter Cell (Book based on Tom Clancy's work) By David Micheals

[Mr. Rogers]

the boy and his horse - 3rd book in the narnia series