Anyone Like Serious Books?

[StrikeNinja]

does anyone here read serious books like about philosiphy and how the government works? just wondering... :o

[Guillaume]

Well, I'm trying to read a 17th century japanese swordfight manual... By Miyamoto Musashi.

[Skweeky]

I do.....Russel, Frege, Sartre, stuff like that I like a lot.
I also read books about language and grammar....

[ShareDaddy]

I used to, about anything from Nuclear Submarines to parenting, however as my chosen profession has required vast reading of boring acronym filled text books I have tapered off on the real stuff and focused on sci-fi and or fantasy for the most part. It is very nice to sort of leave this planet or least this time frame now and again.

[tianup]

Yeah. Everything from music and art to history and science, philosophy, technology, parenting, marketing, many types of manuals - oh, and encyclopedias of useless information (does that count?).

[StrikeNinja]

Well I mean things like Rogue Nations that speak about the attrocities in made by countries.....like Hiroshima.........September 11 etc that speak about in what world you live in not useless info :)

[tianup]

That's kinda what I'm talking about (even though it was a joke which followed all of the relevant topics I posted :blink: ). Useless information is a figure of speech, meaning information that most people really don't care about...like the example you just gave me. Another example - reading things like the history behind the fact that an unwitting inventor named Eli Whitney was indirectly the cause of the Civil War. He invented the Cotton Gin just as the slave trade was finally dying out in America, which created a massive demand for slaves again, and that begot the Civil War.

Definitely serious. Useless to most. Very useful to me in that it is very relevant history, as well as an amazing example of sociological correlation and conceptual thinking.

Anyway, the question was "does anyone here read serious books like about philosiphy and how the government works? just wondering... "

The answer here is yes. :rolleyes:

[MagicNakor]

I only read books with big bright pictures. And small words. ;)


:ninja:

[Ad]

;) Isnt that what the newspapers are for?

[MagicNakor]

What is this new spaper you speak of?






I'm hoping the ;) on my previous statement conveyed the gentle kidding properly. :D

:ninja:

[imported_QuietSilence!]

only munuals for work i got stacks of em
so at home it just for plesure

[botts]

MagicNakor......pictures AND words....my God, I'm impressed...can't get past just the pictures myself :P ...

but seriously (yeah right!!!) recently read the book of the samurai and have many intentions of tackling sun tzu's art of war soon.

botts

[TheNobleEU]

All the time, but it's sorta occupational hazard.

Here's a cross section of what hardcopies I've bought in the last month:

_Cambridge World History of Human Disease_
_Epidemiology in Medicine_
_Discovering the Universe_
_US Nuclear Weapons in Canada_
_Crusader Castles_
_New Penguin History of Scotland_
_Nouvelle grammaire communicative_ (French textbook)
_Oxford History of Byzantium_
_Oxford History of the Classical World_
_Oxford History of the Biblical World_
_Hundred Years War: A Military History_
_Strategic Intelligence for American National Security_
_Planetary Astronomer's Companion_
_Kosovo_
_Confronting the Costs of War_


More than that, but it's a good cross-section of the subject material (used books thru ebay, book sales on campus!)

...Only too bad my e-book collection for sharing wasn't this large!

Cheers,
-C

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by ShareDaddy@21 May 2003 - 15:50
I used to, about anything from Nuclear Submarines to parenting, however as my chosen profession has required vast reading of boring acronym filled text books I have tapered off on the real stuff and focused on sci-fi and or fantasy for the most part. It is very nice to sort of leave this planet or least this time frame now and again.
SD you may have posted before, however please forgive me for asking and feel free to decline to answer if my question is impertinant.

What is your chosen profession.

[Curley]

Most serious books i've read are on finance - some interesting, some not :)

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Curley@24 May 2003 - 00:28
Most serious books i've read are on finance - some interesting, some not :)
Why ?

[Curley]

Originally posted by JPaul+24 May 2003 - 00:48--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JPaul @ 24 May 2003 - 00:48)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Curley@24 May 2003 - 00:28
Most serious books i&#39;ve read are on finance - some interesting, some not :)
Why ? [/b][/quote]
Because of my job & exams that i&#39;ve revised/going to revise for. No choice i&#39;m afraid :( Pass three and I get some (meaningless) letters after my name though, so its not for nothing. :D

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Curley+24 May 2003 - 00:53--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Curley @ 24 May 2003 - 00:53)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by -JPaul@24 May 2003 - 00:48
<!--QuoteBegin--Curley@24 May 2003 - 00:28
Most serious books i&#39;ve read are on finance - some interesting, some not :)
Why ?
Because of my job & exams that i&#39;ve revised/going to revise for. No choice i&#39;m afraid :( Pass three and I get some (meaningless) letters after my name though, so its not for nothing. :D [/b][/quote]
Would you be willing to elucidate.

I for one am interested.

My money is on an Accountancy or Economics thing.

[Curley]

Its more to do with Unit Trusts/Oeics/Peps/Isa&#39;s etc. See HERE. (http://www.securities-institute.org.uk/web/Infopool.nsf/HTML/eExamNavigator)

Multi choice questions, but beleive me when I say they are hard. I&#39;ve taken the first one twice & still failed, hence the need to read some finance books.