angelhill.net/life

My recent interest in reading is hardly new, I have been reading scifi and fantasy books for many years, but now I also want to delve more into the classics, and also books that are perhaps, anchored more in the sea of reality. Not too much reality tho, just some. Also books of knowledge are of great interest.

Currently I am reading Calculating God, a really excellent book which makes me laugh out loud while I read it on the subway. While the title suggest religion, so far I have not found anything that would suggest this book is actually religious. The quick synopsis is that Aliens come to earth and try to prove, with the help of some human scientists that god really does exist, and is far from the nice bearded old man we have come to know. (that description could also be applied to Lenin! hehe)

The book was suggested to me a few years ago by a friend of mine, Marcus Wong, who lives in Hong Kong. I found it in my wish list recently when making my large japanese and programming books purchase, so I thought I’d go for it.

Now that my books from Amazon have arrived, I have a horde of Japanese grammar books and books on programming theory. I can’t wait to start absorbing this knowledge into my head as soon as time permits.

I guess I am addicted to Knowledge. However this seems to be a new discovery. I might need to elaborate on it at a later date, right now my eggs are getting cold, and I have class soon. So I gotta go.

I just read Isaac Asimov’s first book, Foundation. I was not familiar with his work, and I find I am loving it. His writing style is very nice, in just 230 pages, he covers over 300 years of history. The book delves deeply into details when needed, and skips the boring bits quickly. I was dismayed at the end, because there was nothing more to read. I must have the more. Lucky for me there are several sequels. Also the man wrote about 500 books, so I feel that my pocket-book frenzy is heating up again. Last time that happened was back in the late 90’s, and I am left with about 25 Star Wars books and 10 Wheel of Time books. I regret nothing, but my economy might, a little.

The book was a birthday gift to me from my officially-cousin and unofficially-brother Vlad, and I must say that he hit the bulls-eye. Thanks Vladskie!

He also gave me another book, Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick, I plan on starting it in a few days.

Also I am impatiently waiting for the arrival of a dozen books I ordered on amazon. It’s mostly programming books and japanese study books, to the value of $400 green ones… I really let loose on those books, and I had to do some major sorting there too before I could get under my planned 400 dollar mark… heh

A few days after I placed the order, I realised that for 400 bucks I could by an iPod, or a Palm Tungsten T, or a new nice phone, or 50% of a projector, or some other piece of technology. While I regret nothing (I like books), it did kinda tug at me for a little while.