What are you reading? Paper or Audio…

[Ken Gargett]

23 hours ago, benfica_77 said:

Glad to have you back @Ken Gargett hope all that VPN business is sorted out!

thanks. it is proving somewhat problematic. rather than have the ihing up and working all day, now, at best, i can check in once or twice a day. probably a good thing as i won't waste quite so much time. 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Typically I spend most of my free time reading about Web Development stuff so I don't have a lot of personal time to read for fun.

However, I booked a cabin for the gf, the dogs and I for the last week of June this year and this is the first of of what will probably be a few books I'll read on that vacation!
 

[Bijan]

Entirely too many books.

But one that I think will be good is Winston Churchill's 6 volume history "The Second World War". Though I've just started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_World_War_(book_series)

Also read about half to 2/3 of H. G. Well's A Short History of the World, and am about to start his longer The Outline of History.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_the_World_(Wells_book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outline_of_History

One lighter book I read recently and zoomed through was "Surrounded by Idiots" by Thomas Erikson. It's about the DISC test / assessment:
https://www.surroundedbyidiots.com/en/books/surrounded-by-idiots/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment

A great book I'm still reading (or rather re-reading) is "A Theory of Language and Information. A Mathematical Approach." by Zellig Harris. It's from 1991, but pretty close to the theory behind current generative AIs, as it is a description of language in terms of probability distribution of words as a function of other words, plus very basic grammatical rules on word combinations, ordering, etc.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-theory-of-language-and-information-9780198242246?cc=gb&lang=en&

Also reading the Hebrew Bible, and have made it to 1 Kings. I anticipate steady progress until I hit the major prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel).

[PuroDiario]

Empire of Pain is the one I am with now, very interesting story that will raise eye brows about the Sackler dynasty. 
 

last two before this one were: 

the Power Broker, about Bob Mosses and NYC is rough, but if you like NYC is a great read. 

bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish hero in the American revolution. Such a great story that my country has forgotten about not sure why. 

[Ford2112]

Plotting which lakes to fish once all this rain subsides and the snow in the sierras melts.

[SteveA]

The Martian by Andy Weir

[DikkeSigaar]

Currently reading: Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Good read about a time and place I knew relatively little of previously inspiring me to read more about that time in Europe, especially the French revolution and Napoleon.

Like someone else in this thread I usually tend to read most  of the catalogue of a writer when I find something I really like. Last year I read most Bernie Gunther novels by Philip Kerr. Also a fan of the works by Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell etc. Like a previous poster also read most of Hiaasen's books 😀 Finally I absolutely love, love, anything written by Bill Bryson.