What are you reading?

[Pachyderm]

Frank Herbert's Dune

[Griffin NoName]

Booker Shortilisted (didn't win) The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher.

Up to page 25 of 738. Big book.

So far, dull drivel. Will it improve? Or is being shortlisted corrupted? Or is it meant to test one's staying power in the face of irrefutable evidence one should abandon ship?

Still on same word on p25. Progress slow.

Third word on p.25.

[Sibling Chatty]

Just re-read Feet of Clay, trying to locate Men at Arms. (Pratchett shelf needs to be organized, and SOMEone needs to quit losing books in her bedcovers around this place... )

[Swatopluk]

A book on the naval war in the Baltic in WW1

[Pachyderm]

The Classical World, by Robin Lane Fox.

[Swatopluk]

The strange story of a Stalin icon (yes, in the religious sense) and attempts to have him canonized by the Russian orthodox church.
http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8624&Itemid=72

http://img.nr2.ru/pict/arts1/r34/dop1/08/11/4.jpg

[beagle]

Yet another book on Windows Presentation Foundation, and online installation manuals on gas boilers. Reckon I could install my own replacement boiler if it wasn't for the tiny detail they lock up unregistered domestic gas engineers.

[Pachyderm]

Caesar, by Adrian Goldsworthy

[Griffin NoName]

Booker Shortilisted (didn't win) The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher.

Up to page 25 of 738. Big book.

So far, dull drivel. Will it improve? Or is being shortlisted corrupted? Or is it meant to test one's staying power in the face of irrefutable evidence one should abandon ship?

Still on same word on p25. Progress slow.

Third word on p.25.

The same. 

But I did a detour to a new microwave instruction manual, so possibly that may redeem me.

And it seems at least as interesting as Beagle's reading.

Reckon I could install my own replacement boiler if it wasn't for the tiny detail they lock up unregistered domestic gas engineers.

Try dressing up as a Domestic Goddess and make sure you borrow a Corgi from the Queen before starting work - you may get away with a plea of insanity if they decide to prosecute. Mind you, if you are reading Windows Presentation Foundation to assist in sorting out the little viewing pane for the gas flame, you may already qualify.

[Swatopluk]

Chemical Law
Currently the German ones (Chemikaliengesetz, Gefahrstoffverordnung etc.)
Those are relatively short
The European law (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of CHemicals (REACH)) on the other hand has 850 pages basics and 260 pages corrections.

I have a very slim chance to get a job in spring but that one requires knowledge of the laws
I doubt that I'll make it

An offense in the sense of §16.1.3 commits who
1. violates §23.2.5 under circumstances as described under §32a, if not covered by the exceptions of §12.1b
2....
3....

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Finally done with A Series of Unfortunate Events and now reading some post-Asimov: Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford

[Swatopluk]

Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible

[Aphos]

Dean Koontz - Your Heart Belongs to Me

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Yet another book on Windows Presentation Foundation, and online installation manuals on gas boilers. Reckon I could install my own replacement boiler if it wasn't for the tiny detail they lock up unregistered domestic gas engineers.

I'm not sure if it's still the case (I hope it isn't) but up until just a few years ago at least, homeowners here were allowed to do work on natural gas systems in their own home themselves.


I'm currently working my way through three books:

- Life, the Universe and Everything (I got the HHGTG set for Christmas... a replacement for the set I loaned out years ago and never got back)
- the Book of Mormon
- Moby Dick

[Swatopluk]

I hear the second one is a good sleeping aid 
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