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Ha ha...so that's how everyone else feels...I got "those looks" from my roommates in college when they realized I was almost finished with some really thick tomes (the Atlas Shrugged reading comes to mind...finished that one within two days).

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Hundreds of pages a day of assorted nursing textbooks.

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Speaking of Dune, I was just watching The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, there was a Dune reference there haha.

You bet your ass. It doesn't pull any punches, though.

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I was reading the saga of Darren Shan in my last year of high school and never finished, perhaps I will.

That's fine, I'll give it another go when I wrap up with the Golden Compass in a few hours.

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" by R. Feynman (autobiography, but more accurately a collection of interesting and funny stories)

My favourite part so far: he's attending a course in biology (and they let him do research for some crazy reason) during the time he was a graduate at Princeton, for the hell of it-

"It kept talking about extensors and flexors, the gastrocnemius muscle and so on. This and that muscle were named, but I hadn't the foggiest idea of where they were located in relation to the nerves or to the cat. So I went to the librarian in the biology section and asked her if she could find me a map of the cat. [...] From then on there were rumors about some dumb biology graduate student who was looking for a "map of the cat". [...] I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students interrupt me: "We know all that!". "Oh", I say, "You do? Then no wonder I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes."

"There was one useful lab technique I learned in that course which I still use today. They taught us how to hold a test tube and take its cap off with one hand (you use your middle and index fingers), while leaving the other hand free to do something else (like hold a little pipette that you're sucking cyanide up into). Now, I can hold my toothbrush in one hand, and with the other hand, hold the tube of toothpaste, twist the cap off, and put it back on."

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

If there ever was a book worth pushing onward with, it's AGoT, even though I'll never forgive Martin for A Feast for Crows.

Me? Neuromancer. William Gibson. Again.
Then, maybe The Scar by China Mieville; finished Perdido Street Station a while ago, was excellent.
That, or I'll get started on my Philip K. Dick collection I bought from Barnes.

Bahahaha, ~2nd year of graduate school (and his first technical talk)-

"A day or two before the talk I saw Wigner in the hall. "Feynman," he said, "I think that work you're doing with Wheeler is very interesting, so I've invited Russell to the seminar." [Henry N. Russell] Wigner went on. "I think Professor von Neumann would also be interested." Johnny von Neumann was the greatest mathematician around. "And professor Pauli is visiting from Switzerland, it so happens, so I've invited him to come" - Pauli was a very famous physicist, and by that time I'm turning yellow. Finally, Wigner said, "Professor Einstein only rarely comes to our weekly seminars, but your work is so interesting that I've invited him specially, so he's coming, too." By this time I must have turned green, [...]"

I'm now reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

Akina: bitch I will stab you in the face

The Greatest Show on Earth By Richard Dawkins (good primer on evolution so far but nothing novel yet)
Dr. Faustus (do not recommend)

ALso I loved the Fenymen books Joklem I read them once in 10th grade for a math course and then again this past summer. Fun reads indeed

Yeah, I think the tagline is "outlining the evidence"? Most "popular science accounts" don't have anything new (if you keep up with the news or better yet read papers, to my knowledge a scientist wouldn't publish findings in a book), they just put it out there in a form readable by anyone. And they're refreshing/useful/interesting to scientists/students too in a lot of cases.

Oh, it's on the list for my future readings too.



I look shit up in the Feynman lectures on physics collection on almost a daily basis. As a sidenote, a lot if not most physics textbooks I've had always start with the boring "pulley, velocity/trajectory of a thrown object, Newtonian gravity, etc" bullshit. Are they trying to attract more carpenters to physics or something? They also use old symbols/annotations/etc (ah the planck constant, what about the reduced planck constant? where are the complex numbers? why are there circuitry constants in my electrodynamics?!) , they tend to be in "historic order", that is it teaches all the old stuff before anything new (why would a professor spend more than 10 minutes on Maxwell/Newton's laws? a good one would start on modern physics, and wouldn't be afraid to mention and introduce more advanced things earlier, to be elaborated on later) and the problems they give are always plugged with numbers (are they teaching me how to use a calculator? what's wrong with algebra? edit: don't get me started about Mathematica...).

Feynman gave one, maybe two lectures on basic physics, then he went quantum alongside relating it to classical mechanics, as well as simplifying with his own explanations for better understanding. (seriously, he was a genius of education)

Some of it is a bit outdated, and there's been tons of new stuff since then, but for having been published in 1970 it's still surprisingly relevant and useful. Someone thinking about going in physics should definitely read that first, or while studying.