Best books read in 2010

pj · Post by pj » Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:49 pm

I would like to create a new thread on the theme

and the best book I have read in 2010 so far is

SCUM manifesto

Happy New Year! Party

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:17 pm

well, 2010. hmm. I just completed Artamène. I was a bit slow to finish it, but, you know.

LongTheta · Post by **LongTheta** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:03 pm

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2005)

Bombay is the largest city in the world (if you exclude suburbs, otherwise that would be Tokyo-Yokohama) and by far the most densely populated. Mehta's book goes straight to Bombay's underbelly and stays there for 560 pages. The warlords, the terrorists and the assassins, the bar dancers, the prostitutes and the bollywood stars (but only of they have underworld connections), the poor, the extremely poor and the homeless. They are all there, interviewed and observed in great depth and even greater compassion.

pj · Post by pj » Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:49 pm

Nonius, did you read Artamene in Russian?

That would explain...

tristanreid · Post by **tristanreid** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:00 pm

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

by Seth Lloyd, 2007.

amazon link

I haven't read more than a few magazine articles about quantum mechanics and quantum computation, so it was nice to finally get more of a clue. Interesting stuff. Aimed at the popular audience, but there were a few sections where I was glad to have some background in electrical engineering and computer science.

-t.

Path Integral · Post by **Path Integral** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:37 am

Don't know if comics count as books Smiley

Best comic read so far: Wolverine Origins: Dark Reign Premiere

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:12 am

Wolf, my ex-friend Angry handed me Money some time ago. It looked like an annoying book so i never got around to it. Recently I picked it up and started reading. It's still slightly annoying, but it is fuuuuunny. reminds me of Miller a bit.

chiral3 · Post by **chiral3** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:29 pm

I assume you are talking about Martin Amis? The one that starts with the suicide note?

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:03 pm

yeah, that one, the old one. I like the part where he goes into his local pub and says to the bartender, gimme a scotch, the bartender asks "Big One?", and he replies, "no, just a double."

chiral3 · Post by **chiral3** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:20 pm

I think he is an important postmodern. I have House of Meetings on my shelf, which I have never read, but would like to soon.