Do you regularly read non-go books?

bleep · Post by **bleep** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:15 pm

I keep trying to read Go books, but never really succeeding. I find them too dry, and setting up a position takes forever. It's something I want to get my head around, because I am at a level where a little reading will go a long way, but for now my reading is pretty limited to fiction.

Kindles and e-readers have opened up a whole new world for me. Access to new books was limited to trips outside the country, now, after a few clicks, I have any book I need! What a pleasure! My reading has gone through the roof in the last year or so.

schultz · Post by **schultz** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:08 am

Love reading all kinds of books. How much I read kind of goes in waves, though, where I'll read a lot, then almost none.

A lot of good books and series have been mentioned in this thread! Currently on my nightstand: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Graded Go problems vol. 2, Blizzard 1949, and two religious books. (Oh, and a small Gideon's bible.)

Boidhre · Post by **Boidhre** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:21 am

Regularly, no, I'm too sick for that.

But, when I'm in good form I do enjoy fantasy and non-fiction (especially popular science) quite a bit. I'm working my way through book one of the Mistborn Trilogy at the moment.

Archivist · Post by **Archivist** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:05 pm

I love reading. I am a HUGE fan and spend nearly all my free money on acquiring excellent copies of my favorites.

The best of which are Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle.

Post by **Joaz Banbeck** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:27 pm

I'm currently reading Dudley'Pope's 'Lord Ramage' novels. Light, but fun.

phrax · Post by **phrax** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:29 am

Boidhre wrote:I'm working my way through book one of the Mistborn Trilogy at the moment.

I finished the Trilogy a couple months ago and found it thoroughly enjoyable. His "Alloy of Law" is good too if you enjoy that world (something like 1000 years in the future).

Archivist wrote:The best of which are Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle.

I'm 3/4 of the way though "The Long Sun". I still have awhile to go yet before I finish the full cycle

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:08 pm

Almost through the ~600 pages of Michael Flynn’s “The Wreck of the River of Stars”, very enjoyable read (SF).

Phelan · Post by **Phelan** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:08 pm

I'm a great comics fan, and I've read Maus a few times, so I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered MetaMaus in a bookstore yesterday. Pretty fascinating read.

For those who don't know it, Maus is a pretty interesting comic book about a holocaust survivor and his son. MetaMaus goes in detail into the process that brought the book to reality, through interviews with the author and those around him.

Boidhre · Post by **Boidhre** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:34 pm

I'm trying to read book 2 of the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson but failing miserably to get into it at the moment which is a pity since I found the first one very easy to get absorbed in.

Stefany93 · Post by **Stefany93** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 9:54 am

I read non go books all the time, seriously. I always buy new ones even if I have some that are still staying in my drawers unread. I usually like history, philosophy and knight novels. Books makes you understand life.
Speaking of which, I haven't bought any new books since last week. I have to do something about it...

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:19 pm

Eric Idle (yes, THAT Eric Idle): “The Road To Mars”, a wonderful and hilarious SF thriller.

Phelan · Post by **Phelan** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:17 am

Bonobo wrote:Eric Idle (yes, THAT Eric Idle): “The Road To Mars”, a wonderful and hilarious SF thriller.

Hmm... *adds to wishlist*

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:54 pm

Phelan wrote:
Bonobo wrote:Eric Idle (yes, THAT Eric Idle): “The Road To Mars”, a wonderful and hilarious SF thriller.

Hmm... *adds to wishlist*

You won’t regret it

can’t remember when I last read—enjoyed!—a book that was as funny AND clever AND thrilling at the same time. And boy, Idle must’ve read lots of SF and done quite some research to write something like this. It is a real science fiction thriller. Oh, and at times it’s quite sexplicit also :cool:

Phelan · Post by **Phelan** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 7:43 pm

CheeseNPickle wrote:(...) and some others that seem interesting enough to drag me away from a problem book - like Ayn Rand's Fountainhead.

I got this one and Atlas Shrugged as a gift, and only got to half of the first... Seemed to drag on and on, while I could see where it would end. Not sure if it'd get better later, but I just got bored.
Still gathering courage to read Atlas Shrugged, since it's supposed to be a very important book.

Edit: By the way, since you mentioned funny books, this was an interesting article I stumbled upon on Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-i ... nny-books/

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