Comments on: What’s your favorite book?

By: tiffany

tiffany — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:10:30 +0000

I tried to read “Catch-22,” but I couldn’t get into it. Maybe I’ll give it another shot. I think I still have that copy.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:10:00 +0000

I tried to read “Catch-22,” but I couldn’t get into it. Maybe I’ll give it another shot. I think I still have that copy.

By: sonik son

sonik son — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:08:02 +0000

I believe that “Catch-22″ by Joseph Heller is the greatest book I’ve ever read.

Give it a try.

By: sonik son

sonik son — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:08:00 +0000

I believe that “Catch-22″ by Joseph Heller is the greatest book I’ve ever read.

Give it a try.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sat, 20 May 2006 17:13:51 +0000

@j: you liked Paradise? I read it and was lost. Linguistically, Morrison was on point. I love the way she strings words together. But the plot had me saying "Huh?" I think my second-favorite Morrison book is The Bluest Eye.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sat, 20 May 2006 17:13:00 +0000

@j: you liked Paradise? I read it and was lost. Linguistically, Morrison was on point. I love the way she strings words together. But the plot had me saying “Huh?” I think my second-favorite Morrison book is The Bluest Eye.

By: AG

AG — Sat, 20 May 2006 16:14:16 +0000

Ok. I’ll bite. Not much of fiction reader.
Last three books –
“Think and Grow Rich” Napolean Hill
“ClueTrain Manifesto” Doc Searls and others
“Millionaire Mind” Thomas J. Stanley

By: AG

AG — Sat, 20 May 2006 16:14:00 +0000

Ok. I’ll bite. Not much of fiction reader.
Last three books –
“Think and Grow Rich” Napolean Hill
“ClueTrain Manifesto” Doc Searls and others
“Millionaire Mind” Thomas J. Stanley

By: j. brotherlove

j. brotherlove — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:43:50 +0000

I have seriously dropped off from reading. I just can’t seem to make time for it. I’m impressed Morrison topped the list. She’s my favorite. Although, I prefer her later work, Paradise especially.

By: j. brotherlove

j. brotherlove — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:43:00 +0000

By: Rashid Z. Muhammad

Rashid Z. Muhammad — Sat, 20 May 2006 12:24:40 +0000

My favorite book ever is 2001: A Space Odyssey. The book and the film combine for my favorite artistic work ever. The take on evolution and humanity’s place in the Universe is grand and poetic.

This is followed by Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man which I’d like to take in again this weekend..

Right now, I’m reading a lot of stuff, the best is Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process. Unfortunately, all that I read is tech stuff these days, but this is by far the most useful tech book that I’ve ever read and manages to transcend it’s subject matter due to incredible writing.

It talks about Object Oriented design and analysis, design patterns, and the Unified Process in such clear language that it is almost impossible not to get it. This has to be one of the great literary achievements of our time.

By: Rashid Z. Muhammad

Rashid Z. Muhammad — Sat, 20 May 2006 12:24:00 +0000

My favorite book ever is 2001: A Space Odyssey. The book and the film combine for my favorite artistic work ever. The take on evolution and humanity’s place in the Universe is grand and poetic.

This is followed by Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man which I’d like to take in again this weekend..

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sat, 20 May 2006 02:15:57 +0000

Two of the last three books I read were travelogues. “A Taste for Adventure” by Anik See really gave me a case of wanderlust. In the book, she travels through about a dozen countries by bicycle, eating food along the way. At the end of each chapter are recipes from that country.

I just (as in, an hour ago) finished “12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time.” It was as much a memoir about family (esp. fathers and daughters) as it was about their trip. Kind of all over the place, but still an interesting read.

I’m going to force myself to read “The Souls of Black Folk” this summer, and possibly a religious work (either the Bible or the Upanishads). I’ve got a weird thing about religions, even though I’m unaffiliated.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Sat, 20 May 2006 02:15:00 +0000

By: Bakari

Bakari — Sat, 20 May 2006 01:13:16 +0000

It’s been a while since I read Beloved, but it’s a well deserved choice for best book. I don’t read fiction as much as I used to–spend way too much time reading technical books. I would, however, like to read Morrison’s literary criticism book, “Playing in the Dark”, especially since I’ve read quotes from it over the years, but for some reason have never read it cover to cover.

Other than that book, I have to honestly say that I’ll probably be steeped in reading design books over the summer–such as “Problem Solved: a primer in design and communication.”