So... what are you reading?

[mookien]

Are we admitting our age John or was your slide rule not enough? ...

I was merely noting that, if HTML is "dark age", then assembly and procedural languages must belong to computing prehistory. Mustodons trampled on them.

As for the slide rule and Polish notation, I used the former (until I "discovered" computers) and was thankful that the latter was hidden away in the bowels of the compilers.

The only things that haunt my dreams these days are Godel's incompleteness theorems.

[Nile]

"The Death of an Irish Sea Wolf" A Petter McGarr Mystery by Bartholomew Gill.

I became addicted to Gill's, McGarr Mysteries after reading "The Death of an Irish Tinkerer". There's maybe a dozen of them but, they are all out of print now however, I've found them in used book stores and on eBay.

Nile

[EagleJCS]

Mostly finished with my Ludlum re-reads (just The Sigma Protocol left). Taking a break by starting the Sir Walter Scott collection I have on PDF. Going alphabetically, starting with The Bride of Lammermoor. Reading it on the Kindle my father gave me when he upgraded.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife series.

[GMan]

Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman.

[Tarheel]

Harper Lee's Go Set A Watcman.

This will be my next book also. I need to compare to the ideals that were my family's norms until the 1970's.

[GMan]

Just started to reread Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Tarheel]

Gman. I learned to pace down the speed of my reading with some of the Southern writers. Letting the words and phrases wash over you, lets you feel the pace of the slow delivery of speech and relish the languid settings.
Example: "Exiting a screen door, fanning the rich Wysteria scent outward only briefly, just enough to hear the bees swarming the lavender blooms draping the trellis, the syrupy haze saturates the air as she glides onto the stoop. Even after penetrated by the fragrance, outside, she is less a Southern Belle and more a wall flower. The drones ignore her."

This works for most, (except Faulkner and Grisham).

[Jack Daw]

I recently joined the 21st Century and traded my Blackberry in for an iPhone 6 Plus. One of the first things I decided to buy was, "The Clansman" by Nigel Tranter. in iBook format. I think iBooks, or any type of electronic book, are a fine idea, but when I began to unpack my boxes of "hardcopy" books after Andrea and I recently bought a house, I pulled out my old copy of "The Arabian Nights". My dad read to me from that book when I was too young to read; and, based on the date of the publishing, 1927, no doubt my grandfather read to him from the same pages. I'm never to give up the "real thing".

[Dughlas mor]

Just finished "Red Country" by Joe Abercrombie. His latest, I believe. Maybe his most enjoyable book yet. He manages to bring a strong "old west" feeling to it, and one of his most beloved characters (if their could be such a one) plays a prominent role.
Just started "Brendan," by Morgan Llywelyn, about the famous Irish saint and voyager. Looks promising.