Goodreads

[dougo]

I just created an account on Goodreads.com, so now you can see just how ridiculously few books I read (I added all four books I've read this year, plus the one I'm currently reading, which doesn't show up in the widget below because that's a different "shelf"). Please add me as a friend there so I can envy your reading ability!

Comments

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least you finished GEB!

I haven't updated my GR profile since I started it the second time...

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I did in fact finish GEB (after starting over after having it stolen in college when I was about 1/3 of the way through). I thought about posting something about it, but, enh. It's worth reading to the finish, though it bogs down a lot in the cog sci chapters.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

When I first read it my reading diet was all RAWilson, Crowley, and tons of philosophy; I made it about halfway through when the computer/ programming logic got to be too much for me.

Earlier this year, I realized I now know a fuck of a lot about programming logic and maybe I should try again.

This time it was the philosophy that defeated me, and I didn't even make it as far as I did before.

One day I'll be in the right mode!

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

If you really want to go out there, try The Physics of Immortality, which gets into many of the same topics as GEB, but reads better because it's making a point/building up to somewhere.

[rfrancis]

Done!

[mhnicholson.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I had no idea that site existed. I'm not going to even try to put in past reads, but I'll start entering the new stuff.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

Try Visual Bookshelf on Facebook... I think it's similar. After using it it recommended a dozen other books on my wish list; half of which I have and are now on my to read list.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

We really need to merge all these social networking tools. Or hook them up to OpenSocial or something, I dunno.

[http://users.livejournal.com/mocker-/]

Added, although it's just books I want to read because my current book is dragging me donwn.

[(Anonymous)]

But I want to read books, I don't want to write book reviews. Besides, I might be embarrassed about the content. I suppose I wouldn't actually have to post about The Cat in the Hat... That kind of stuff probably accounts for 90% of the titles, but a much smaller percentage of the text. 99.9% of what I read is science fiction & fantasy, a fair percentage of it Young Adult.

How hard is it to track down the book you're reading so it'll make a nice little picture? Maybe I should see if it can find my current book as a test. (Bright and Shining Tiger by Claudia Edwards -- published in 1988, out of print for lo these many years. I got it at a library used book sale on a lark.)

[nosrednayduj]

AH CRAP, that was me. I didn't notice I wasn't logged in til I'd pushed "submit".

[dougo.livejournal.com]

You don't have to write reviews, you can just use it as a simple log of books read. (I added one or two sentences to each, basically just what I would say if someone at a party asked me "hey, what did you think of that book?") Your book is there.