Xmas reads.

[Yokai]

Since Christmas I've read:

Long Way Round - Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman... Good book - I wanna meet Igor (sort of)

The Songs of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke .... Surprisingly I had never read this! Really liked it, and there's no real ending - just a good ideas based story

I am currently reading "The Algebraist" by Iain M. Banks. I'm a Banks fan, but this is his latest and most referential so far. It's got some good bits in it, and I don't quite know (as per normal) where he is taking me. I recommend Mr. Banks to all and any who like science fiction writing and don't mind non-endings.

Still to come are:
Kiwi's might fly
The Illearth War
I, Robot (again - primarily I'm collecting the Voyager Classics covers...)
A French Magazine about language processing
KnR
and I'm STILL WAITING FOR MY KNUTH!
Can I borrow your Stroustrup in a bit, JR?

[manuboy]

the "saftey warning" stickers on the bike (all 4,600) of them as i was peeling them off.

And i would've read anything by Tad Williams, cos he's freakish. But he hasn't had time to write another one - good things take time?

[jrandom]

Can I borrow your Stroustrup in a bit, JR?

Yeah, sure, just gimme a yell when you want it, although it's more of a reference than a tutorial. But if you have the patience to slog through all of it you'll have a better understanding of the ANSI C++ standard's support for type-agnostic templates and generic programming than I do...

[Yokai]

Yeah, sure, just gimme a yell when you want it, although it's more of a reference than a tutorial. But if you have the patience to slog through all of it you'll have a better understanding of the ANSI C++ standard's support for type-agnostic templates and generic programming than I do...

Oh - and I forgot to say that I am still reading "The New Science" (Stephen Wolfram) .... - now THAT'S a slog.....

[jrandom]

Oh - and I forgot to say that I am still reading "The New Science" (Stephen Wolfram) .... - now THAT'S a slog.....

Well, we'll be expecting a summary of cellular automata theory in the Rave On section when you're finished.

(That *is* what it's about, isn't it? My memory could be faulty, and I haven't actually read it.)