What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Stormlight Archive
One thing I am wary of is that Sanderson has tried to tie all of his novels into one megaverse, the Cosmere.
It is an interesting concept, but it has made me leery of jumping into any of his books.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Stormlight Archive
One thing I am wary of is that Sanderson has tried to tie all of his novels into one megaverse, the Cosmere.
It is an interesting concept, but it has made me leery of jumping into any of his books.
I don't think you will miss much not having read any of his other books. There are some subtleties about the tie-ins, but nothing that is story breaking if you don't know. It has more to do with him telling a large story spanning multiple worlds, with each series focusing on the way the underlying universal system is applied in that world. I have read everything he has written except for the WoT books, and he is my favorite author by far.
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@kelly Definitely Murakami for me
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Murakami
I'm going to have to check out his works.
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@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Murakami
I'm going to have to check out his works.
Norwegian Wood is my favorite book of all time if you're trying to find something of his. Wind Up Bird Chronicle is second.
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Still reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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last trilogy I've read was tad williams's shadowmarch. then stayed a lot of months without a reading.
just bought a new one last night for my kindle: The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle)
Patrick Rothfuss. -
The One Minute Manager: Self Leadership by Ken Blanchard.
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Almost finished rereading Anne McCaffrey's Talented series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey_bibliography#The_Talents_universe -
"the most successful science fiction book series ever written" every once in a while.
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Should finish the fifth Harry Potter book tonight.
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Just finished it. Starting Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince now with the kids.
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Did four chapters with the kids tonight. Over two hours of reading.
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I've been reading Goldilocks and the Three Email Systems. It's an engaging story of different email platforms and an IT Director, named Goldilocks, who is looking for the right mix of cost and features that is just right for her organization.
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Time for more Harry Potter. The kids are loving it SO much.
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Time for some more Harry Potter reading!
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@tim_g said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
http://www.thespaceacademy.org/2017/10/life-is-inevitable-consequence-of.html?m=1
So basically, the whole and only point of life is to absorb, emit, and to better deal with the large imbalance and chaotic flow of energy. Such as from a star (the Sun). Without such an energy source, there's is no large imbalance of energy, so therefore no point of atoms rearranging themselves to deal with energy imbalance.
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@tim_g said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@tim_g said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
http://www.thespaceacademy.org/2017/10/life-is-inevitable-consequence-of.html?m=1
So basically, the whole and only point of life is to absorb, emit, and to better deal with the large imbalance and chaotic flow of energy. Such as from a star (the Sun). Without such an energy source, there's is no large imbalance of energy, so therefore no point of atoms rearranging themselves to deal with energy imbalance.
Well that sounds kind of hopeless.
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@nerdydad said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@tim_g said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@tim_g said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
http://www.thespaceacademy.org/2017/10/life-is-inevitable-consequence-of.html?m=1
So basically, the whole and only point of life is to absorb, emit, and to better deal with the large imbalance and chaotic flow of energy. Such as from a star (the Sun). Without such an energy source, there's is no large imbalance of energy, so therefore no point of atoms rearranging themselves to deal with energy imbalance.
Well that sounds kind of hopeless.
Yeah it does... but only because the human mind naturally needs to have a reason for everything. But if you think outside of that, it makes sense.
