What's the title of a book you have recently read?
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So there was this thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdNrCeUdhc
And I wanted to find out if this forum's experience matched theirs.
To be clear: this topic requires you to have read a book title recently, not necessarily an entire book.
I'll start: everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by jomny sun (and for the record, I did read the book and would recommend it to anyone)
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You can follow the stories I just finished reading here.
Latest is an incomplete fic called "Changeling Space Program", in which the author plays Kerbal Space Program and relates the events as a narrative set in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic universe.
Edit: Oh, a book title? Assuming you mean physical, the latest book title I've read is "Mastering Windows 2000 Server; Second edition"
Edit edit: behold!
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@tsaukpaetra if fan fics count, can I change my answer to "Metroid High School" by 111SAMUSRIDLEY4EVA2006-chan
?(and yes, I typed that username from memory)
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@ben_lubar said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
if fan fics count,
Why don't you know the rules?
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Most recently read book title... looks around the room "CCNA Wireless 640-722 IUWNE Quick Reference" by Jerome Henry. Wow, that sure sounds like an... exciting book.
Most recently read book would be "Attack of the Flickering Skeletons - More Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of" by Stuart Ashen.
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If digital ones count, I just finished All The President's Men. Better late than never…
If it has to be a physical book title, in English, then one of these:
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"The art of deception"
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Recently read?
Rescue at Waverly, by @mott555.
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I'm not sure whether I should mention "Using MPI" by William Gropp, "Journey to the end of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, "Numerical Recipes" by William Press, "Dark State" by Charles Stross or "Solution of incorrectly formulated problems and the regularization method" by Andrey Tikhonov, because I was kinda entangled in them all at the same time.
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Also, if 'read' can be coerced to 'reading' and 'book' doesn't have to ever have been published, Ward by Wildbow.
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I started reading the ebook version of Terry Pratchett's Jingo.
If we're talking about dead-tree books (I didn't watch the video yet) then I'm not quite sure how long it's been and what book it was.
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The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski. The original Polish edition, of course.
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Hot Head by Simon Ings, it was in the 9 boxes of books my Uncle left me.
@pie_flavor said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
Rescue at Waverly, by @mott555.
@mott555 is holding up my Amazon order! I'm waiting for the dead-tree edition to become available. Looking forward to that.It's live, how did I miss that, awesome. One Amazon placed
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We started two different threads with the exact same clip at almost the exact same time. What are the odds?!?!
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I haven't watched the video so I don't really get the point of it. I guess they found some people who couldn't answer the question and they make fun of it? As if it's difficult to ask a question to N random people in the street and make a video out of the M (M <= N but for all we know, M << N) who were caught by surprise by being stopped in the street, asked a question, filmed etc. and couldn't answer "properly".
Anyway, for me, last entirely read must've been "The Map that Changed the World" about the first geological map of Britain (a nice read if you like geology, if a bit uselessly verbose at times). Last read title is probably "Hamilton", which is the one I'm reading now (I'm less enthused by this one, too much hero-worship for me).
Even though my office is quite messy, there isn't actually any book with the title directly visible, so that's probably it.
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@remi what about fiction books?
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@stillwater said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
We started two different threads with the exact same clip at almost the exact same time. What are the odds?!?!
P(that) = 7/9
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I recently finished reading Iron Shirt Chi Kung. Currently reading Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life. Hidden in Plain Site (2nd edition) is next on the list.
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@pie_flavor said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@remi what about fiction books?
Mmm... last fiction book that I read was a French one, I think. "La saison des loups" (literally , "wolves' season"), which plays out in a region devastated by the black plague in the 17th century (loosely based on some historical events). Definitely not a fun book (spoiler: almost everyone dies!), but a very good one. That's also probably the last whose title I saw since it's sitting on my bedside table since I finished it and will stay there until I stop being lazy and put it away properly.
Last fiction in English... I'm not sure, it so happens that since a few month all my English books have been non-fiction, for no specific reason.
Oh no, wait, someone lent me this week-end the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I haven't started it yet but that's probably the last one whose title I read!
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Funny title I saw recently:
Spoiler: It it woefully outdated.
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@adynathos Unfortunately, I bought one many years ago and all recent editions have a version number crammed into the title, but the original was in fact called "Microsoft Works for Dummies". Always felt it was ripe for rearranging a few words.
(Strangely, even though the "Dummies" series long ago branched off into things remote and far-flung from the original tech category, there is still no official "Ventriloquism for Dummies". "Magic Tricks", "Poker", "Jazz", "Dating", but not the most obvious title of all.)
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@ben_lubar Hm. The subtitle was the "Calamitous Times of the 14th Century" and it was a quite good history book. But I can't remember what came before the colon. Then again, history books usually have very boring titles. I do clearly remember the title of one: "The Lost City of Z", which also was excellent.
Looked it up, it's "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century". I got it pretty close.
BTW it seems that Kindle owners are at a disadvantage here. With physical books you pretty much HAVE to see the title every time you read. With Kindle, you turn on the machine and it's right there at the page you left off on-- you only see the title if you go back to the menu.
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@pie_flavor said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@remi what about fiction books?
I haven't read a fiction book in decades.
I do re-read 1984 regularly, and lo and behold it has an easy-to-remember name. Except that bit about when Winston is a little kid and steals chocolate from his sister, I usually skip that bit. Room 101 doesn't bother me, but that story of the stolen chocolate bugs the shit out of me.
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@blakeyrat said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@pie_flavor said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@remi what about fiction books?
I haven't read a fiction book in decades.
I do re-read 1984 regularly
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@gąska A new fiction book, you pedantic dickweed. Do you need me to define "new" in this context too? Because it doesn't mean actually literally "new" it means "one I have not read before". Clear?
Although the interpretation that I consider 1984 as non-fiction is pretty amusing too.
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Title of an actual physical book I've read recently?
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@blakeyrat said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@gąska A new fiction book, you pedantic dickweed. Do you need me to define "new" in this context too? Because it doesn't mean actually literally "new" it means "one I have not read before". Clear?
Did you expect us to read your mind or your words?
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@blakeyrat said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@gąska A new fiction book, you pedantic dickweed.
As a person who plays old games more than new games, it really hasn't occured to me that this might be what you mean.
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@boomzilla I expect you to chime in no matter my response to call me an idiot, and look, my expectation was met. I'm a fucking genie.
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@blakeyrat said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
BTW it seems that Kindle owners are at a disadvantage here. With physical books you pretty much HAVE to see the title every time you read. With Kindle, you turn on the machine and it's right there at the page you left off on-- you only see the title if you go back to the menu.
The ibooks app on my iPad shows the cover (or first page, I guess) for a couple of seconds before skipping to where I was. I've always thought of it as somewhat annoying and linked to how the app saves its state or something, but now that you mention that, it might actually done on purpose to show me which book it is.
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@blakeyrat said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@boomzilla I expect you to chime in no matter my response to call me an idiot, and look, my expectation was met. I'm a fucking genie.
It helps that you live down to my expectations and contrary to your
advice torants at everyone else.
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I'm in the middle of reading American Gods.
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@dangeruss said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
I'm in the middle of reading American Gods.
It's only two words - how long could it take?
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@ben_lubar said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@dangeruss said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
I'm in the middle of reading American Gods.
It's only two words - how long could it take?
Well unlike some people here I'm trying to read more than the title.
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@dangeruss said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
I'm in the middle of reading American Gods.
I've been listening to that on audiobook.
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I can now answer the original question if I can extend "recently" to "several years ago" (I just can't find time to sit down and read a book lately): Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages.
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Another one I'm in the middle of reading/listening to is Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
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The most recent dead-tree book title was probably an ancient C# book I picked up for 25¢ at a library sale of outdated books, or something like that, a few years ago. I ran across it while tidying the other day, but I don't remember the exact title.
The most recent dead-tree book would be Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. I'm theoretically in the middle of reading it with my son, but the trouble with that is that if I read it to him, my voice gives out after just a few minutes, and if he reads to me, I fall asleep and don't remember any of the story, so it's kind of pointless.
Last non-dead-tree book is definitely Holy Bible, or more specifically, the book within the book, 1 Corinthians.
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@da-doctah said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@adynathos Unfortunately, I bought one many years ago and all recent editions have a version number crammed into the title, but the original was in fact called "Microsoft Works for Dummies". Always felt it was ripe for rearranging a few words.
(Strangely, even though the "Dummies" series long ago branched off into things remote and far-flung from the original tech category, there is still no official "Ventriloquism for Dummies". "Magic Tricks", "Poker", "Jazz", "Dating", but not the most obvious title of all.)
I would like to see a Bridge for Dummies book. Although it would only be one sentence: "Play the card the declarer tells you, do absolutely nothing else."
In contract bridge, the pair that wins the auction has one player become the declarer and the other the dummy. The dummy places his cards on the table for everyone to see and the declarer plays both hands.</details
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@dangeruss said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
I'm in the middle of reading American Gods.
I just saw that when I was killing time in the university bookstore and was reminded I desperately want to read that. It's next on my list.
Last read is probably A Rising Thunder (re-read most of the series during my finals weeks when I needed a break).
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@da-doctah said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
I just can't find time to sit down and read
You can't find the time to read a book title?
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In junior high I read the first three series of the Warrior Cats books by Erin Hunter (multiple authors under one pen name working together). Every now and then if I just have my phone and nothing to do, I continue reading the new books they have released via Google Play Books. Currently reading Warriors: Dawn of the Clans.
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@hardwaregeek said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
The most recent dead-tree book would be Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. I'm theoretically in the middle of reading it with my son, but the trouble with that is that if I read it to him, my voice gives out after just a few minutes, and if he reads to me, I fall asleep and don't remember any of the story, so it's kind of pointless.
That is one of my favorite books in the series.
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@lb_ Those have been in my bookshelf for fifteen years and I have not read them once.
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Flesh and Fire - light and happy, with an undertone of "you can't be serious" darkness underneath it.
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@ben_lubar said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
So there was this thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdNrCeUdhc
And I wanted to find out if this forum's experience matched theirs.
To be clear: this topic requires you to have read a book title recently, not necessarily an entire book.
I'll start: everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by jomny sun (and for the record, I did read the book and would recommend it to anyone)
"Everything I want to do is illegal" by Joel Salatin
@pie_flavor said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
what about fiction books?
Er...I think either "Player of Games" by Iain M. Banks or Sunstone vol. {?} by Stjepan Šejić, but I could be wrong.
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@cursorkeys said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
Hot Head by Simon Ings, it was in the 9 boxes of books my Uncle left me.
@pie_flavor said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
Rescue at Waverly, by @mott555.
@mott555 is holding up my Amazon order! I'm waiting for the dead-tree edition to become available. Looking forward to that.It's live, how did I miss that, awesome. One Amazon placed Let me know how it looks! I've only seen proof copies which are not quite the same as the final ones, and my "author" copies have not showed up yet.
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@mott555 said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
proof copies which are not quite the same as the final ones
Isn't that rather the point of proofs???
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@hardwaregeek said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
@mott555 said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?:
proof copies which are not quite the same as the final ones
Isn't that rather the point of proofs???
It's plastered with "Not For Resale" and I'm worried the dark artwork problem I had was some kind of processing on the proof and that the real ones will end up too bright.
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