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Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:43:12 2011 No.4156730 [Reply] [Original]

What books does /sci/ read other than text books?

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:45:28 2011 No.4156738 Once in a blue moon I will find something by Issac Asimov at the stores.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:46:36 2011 No.4156741 Iain M. Banks

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:48:51 2011 No.4156749 Anything and everything. Lately, it's been a lot of Terry Pratchett. Also, I read Frankenstein a couple days ago... awesome book, not at all what I expected.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:54:31 2011 No.4156764 Other neuroscience books. Maybe some scifi. I'm not a big reader, however.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:57:55 2011 No.4156773 Neal Stephenson, Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace. All those cool cats.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 02:58:04 2011 No.4156776 Nabokov, Dostoevsky, George RR Martin, Paul Auster, Tom Robbins, Terry Pratchett, to name a few

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 05:38:51 2011 No.4157047 >>4156741 so much of this. all the culture novels & quite a few of the others. and mostly blogs/articles, which are almost as technical as textbooks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 05:42:15 2011 No.4157052 Reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, just read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Animal Farm before that, I'm trying to read classics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 05:43:24 2011 No.4157054 Pretty much nothing. Sometimes I read a few chapters of some manga, but I get bored too easily.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 06:07:11 2011 No.4157087 I love all the books that Charles Seife has written Also, anything I can get my hands on that discusses the concept of time

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 06:26:27 2011 No.4157105 George RR Martin, Lee Child, Clive Cussler, Matthrew Reilly are ones Ive read in the past month.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 06:48:07 2011 No.4157123 File: 19 KB, 410x435, lem..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4156730 'nuff said

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 06:50:16 2011 No.4157126 >Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy YES! Epic fucking win. I read pretty much anything that's interesting. It sure beats playing vidya all day long.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 06:53:39 2011 No.4157130 Right now The Gods Themselves by Assimov. Next in line is Confessions by St. Augustine. Then Alice in Wonderland, just because I've never read it and I think I should have.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 07:06:16 2011 No.4157152 Nothing