[Ellis Bell]

Now I'm reading The hunger games trilogy (slowpoke, I know) and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy of 5 books. I'm enjoying them both, the humour of Douglas Adams (hitchhiker's guide) is just wonderful, random to say the least.



Previous books I've enjoyed that are non-fiction and somewhat intellectual but more than just theories, are the books from Dan Ariely, 'predictably irrational' and 'the upside of irrationality', with a third coming soon. I've also enjoyed Leonard Mlodinow's 'The drunkard's walk, How randomness rules our lives', although it wasn't as smooth to read as Dan Ariely his books, could just be me though.

There are many books I yet have to read, I seem to have a tendency to buy them faster than I can care to read them, which isn't uncommon here I suppose.

Yes, hoarding books is a particularly bad habit of mine. It it really, really hard for me to walk past a bookstore because I know I'll go in and find something interesting and buy it. Currently have over 200 unread books sitting in my apartment (according to a spreadsheet I made to keep track of them).

[iscem42]

I haven't taken it with me on vacation since it's in two physical volumes, but I can say that Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun starts off pretty well, for anyone who's interested in "literary" fantasy.

[The Nth Doctor]

M is for Magic a collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman. It's turned out to be just what I was expecting when I bought it - different, interesting, thought provoking stories. The quote in my signature (I'll put it below because I change my signature so much) was in the introduction, and I could relate to that completely. Time will tell, but I believe some of his stories in this book will be those stories. As I have nothing but good to say about this one, I'm going to seek out more of his books as soon as I can and check them out.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

[Ellis Bell]

More book hoarding: bought two books by Jane Urquhart that I absolutely don't need. I'm Teflon for books.

[Rift]

I've been catching up on political manifestos and social diatribe... then getting distracted by reading student reports and term papers... which tend to be significantly more fun than professors desperate for tenure or a guest spot as a news commentator. A review of classic french drama, modern korean pop pulp novels, the readling lists from st. john's (both schools and the eastern program) St. John’s College | Academic Program | Santa Fe Reading List just to be a social dick... and for fun comic memoirs or the scattering of personal stories in a few of my favorite cookbooks.

[lastman]

More book hoarding: bought two books by Jane Urquhart that I absolutely don't need. I'm Teflon for books.

I somehow made it out of a Barns and Noble today with ZERO books. Just barely. But yeah, I have started to hoard books myself.

[In2itive]

A large Basalt flow in Northern California.http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/09mar

[Ellis Bell]

Is book hoarding a trait that should maybe be added to the list of INTP traits? A kind of metaphorical information-gathering.

Now reading Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande; a third for work, a third for school, and a third for pleasure.

[TheProcrastinatingMaster]

Is book hoarding a trait that should maybe be added to the list of INTP traits? A kind of metaphorical information-gathering.

I'm not sure, depends why you're hoarding. If it's because you can never get around to reading it, maybe it's INTP-ish. I have that problem, although apparently not as bad as you as I only have about 20 books to read.

[scissalc]

hey how is albert einstein's relativity book? I have to do an analytical reading on it and i was just wondering if you remember the major parts of this story or what you think i should definitely remember/know about this book.