Author Topic: What's piled on your bedside table to be read? (Read 8353 times)

cosine · « **on:** August 10, 2011, 05:32:44 PM »

Not what you're reading right now, but what you have waiting to be read.

Me:

An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise - John R. Pierce
Calculus Refresher - A. A. Klaf
Monster Hunter Vendetta - Larry Correia (I've read it once, but I went through MHI and MHV so fast the first time I need to re-read them both to get the details before reading...)
Monster Hunter Alpha - Larry Correia

P5 Guy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2011, 05:42:51 PM »

Almost done with Atlas Shrugged.

Physics · « **Reply #2 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:04:53 PM »

I'm on book 5 of a 6 part series, where book 6 hasn't been written yet. I'm not sure what I'm reading next. I've been thinking about picking up some Patrick McManus for my kindle.

lee n. field · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:35:12 PM »

Without going to check, the only one I'm sure of is Meredith Kline, Images of the Spirit.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:05:08 PM »

Reading in bed is uncomfortable.

Chuck Dye · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:15:24 PM »

My reading zone is in the head, not the bedroom. Waiting are The Story of Civilization by Will and Areil Durant and Bruce Catton's Mr. Lincoln's Army. Always there are an old testament from the Jewish Publication Society, a Gideon Society new testament rescued from becoming roadkill, and too many back issues of various magazines.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:18:11 PM »

Animal Tracking and Observation by Tom Brown
The latest issue of 2600.

On the iTouch: The Snubby Revolver by Ed Lovette

Chris

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:19:40 PM »

Victoia's Secret catalog.

lee n. field · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2011, 07:22:39 PM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on August 10, 2011, 07:18:11 PM

On the iTouch: The Snubby Revolver by Ed Lovette

Any good?

Devonai · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:18:15 PM »

Monster Hunter Alpha, plus two pre-publication novels from a friend and an acquaintance seeking feedback.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:49:11 PM »

Quote from: lee n. field on August 10, 2011, 07:22:39 PM

Any good?

I haven't gotten too far into it, but it's good so far.

Chris

280plus · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:53:43 PM »

Quote from: JamisJockey on August 10, 2011, 07:19:40 PM

Victoia's Secret catalog.

Open to the shoe section no doubt.

I have nothing waiting in the wings. Right now I'm about half wy through a book on piano construction published 1910. Interesting look see into the development of the piano as it is old enough to still have first hand insight into the earliest and now long obsolete methods of piano construction. When I finish that I'll look around through my books and see if there's any I still haven't read or don't remember reading.

grampster · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:00:26 PM »

MHA, Hard Magic by Correia are enroute. Reading Doc Holliday, the life and times, at the moment on my Nook.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:25:43 PM »

Sabotage and Subversion - The SOE and OSS at War. Print's a bit small, but a great book. It appears that, IIRC, a higher-up from the UK Foreign Office objected to a black propaganda story that Nazi officials were indulging in wild sexcapades. And that this fellow would rather lose the war than win with stories like that.

Piercing the Reich
McMafia

I was going to mention that there's a Bible there, but it's not KJV so it doesn't qualify.

Jim147 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:35:22 PM »

XD45.

I don't read in bed.

jim

Twycross · « **Reply #15 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:43:04 PM »

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power - Victor Davis Hanson

charby · « **Reply #16 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:59:38 PM »

Sport Read: "We Were Soldiers Once and Young"

Research: "Trees of North American", "Seeds of Woody Plants in the United States", &"Soil: Morphology, Genesis, and Classification"

makattak · « **Reply #17 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:20:24 PM »

My kindle is beside my bed. Currently I'm reading O. Henry stories to my little girl and re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo again. (I also have numerous Teddy Roosevelt books to read and plenty of other free works I need to make my way through.)

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #18 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:21:44 PM »

Quote from: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on August 10, 2011, 09:25:43 PM

I was going to mention that there's a Bible there, but it's not KJV so it doesn't qualify.

Shun the non-believer!

Scout26 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:26:34 PM »

Quote from: Twycross on August 10, 2011, 09:43:04 PM

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power - Victor Davis Hanson

Huge fan of VDH.

Currently:
By the Bed -Decision Points - GWB (Bloodlands is under it)
In the Head - Helmet for My Pillow - Robert Leckie
In the Living Room/Dining Room - With the Old Breed - Eugene Sledge

Why yes. Yes Robert and I did just finish watching The Pacific from the library. Can you believe that the Library doesn't have Zulu ??

Boomhauer · « **Reply #20 on:** August 10, 2011, 10:36:57 PM »

Night Fighter by C.F. Rawnsley and Robert Wright. A narrative/war memoir of an RAF night fighter crew during WWII.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #21 on:** August 10, 2011, 11:52:35 PM »

Quote from: 280plus on August 10, 2011, 08:53:43 PM

Open to the shoe section no doubt.

I have nothing waiting in the wings. Right now I'm about half wy through a book on piano construction published 1910. Interesting look see into the development of the piano as it is old enough to still have first hand insight into the earliest and now long obsolete methods of piano construction. When I finish that I'll look around through my books and see if there's any I still haven't read or don't remember reading.

The entire thing is....uh.....gripping.....

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2011, 01:45:32 AM »

I am reading The Jews in the Greek Age by Elias J. Bickerman, and he gets mad props for vocabulary. I was OK with words like "autochthonous" and "homonymous," but he sent me to the dictionary with sneaky little words like "rand" and "douceur."

RevDisk · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2011, 03:57:43 AM »

"Good to Great" - President of my company gave it to me. It's about how some companies get complacent and don't grow, and some do rather well. It's kinda interesting.
"Jew-Jitsu - The Hebrew Hands of Fury" - picked it up for MicroBalrog, but I want to read it first.
"Ordinary Differential Equations"
"Pennsylvania Waterfalls"

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In the Head - Helmet for My Pillow - Robert Leckie

Weird. One of the best nights of sleep I ever got. I pulled out my canteen (which is curved), dropped it, laid my k-pot into the curve where the canteen lay. Slept like the dead. Was only about two, three hours, but it felt incredible.

280plus · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2011, 06:29:23 AM »

Quote from: JamisJockey on August 10, 2011, 11:52:35 PM

The entire thing is....uh.....gripping.....

Good for bedtime, eh?

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