What kind of books do u like? I've been a sucker for fantasy since my freshman year, i started with Eragon. Paolini was a great writer. Then i went on to other young adult fantasies.. unfortunetly a lot of fantasy gets kinda boring cause its all the same.. dragons, kights, wizards.. and then *dun Dun DUN* i got into anime.. thats another story lol but yea if anyones into reading, id love to know what books u like, I recently fell in love with the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers and James Patterson's Maximum Ride series. He's a great writer, and ive been trying to read all of his other series but they can be a bit to much for me. anyway lets hear it ^_^ fantasy, mystery, sci-fi?

The books I remember :

Frank Schätzing - Der Schwarm
Robert Ludlum - The Tristan Betrayal
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum - The Matarese Circle
Robert Ludlum - The Cry of the Halidon
Robert Ludlum - The Osterman Weekend
Robert Ludlum - The Hades Factor (by Gayle Lynds)
Robert Ludlum - The Rhinemann Exchange
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons
Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
Duncan Kyle - A Cage Of Ice
Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz - The Face
Dean Koontz - Strangers
Dean Koontz - Whispers
Stephen King - Needful Things
Clive Cussler - Treasure
Clive Cussler - Shock wave

Just some of the books I have read, and remember now..

I don't read books!

haha i liked KiKSU's reply lmao, yay 4 dan brown! i loved angels and demons and digital fortress, but i didnt like his other ones that much..

Do programming books count? Because I'm reading one now.

I don't have much time for books. Last time I've read one was this summer, and that's the only book I've read in a year. Used to read more in high school.

I'm more a movie guy.

i read goosebumps, does that count lol?????????

Originally posted by Hypnotic

Do programming books count? Because I'm reading one now.

You are officially my best friend.

Originally posted by Nick

You are officially my best friend.

You code too?

haha, go html! im so old school, my next goal is to learn flash and xml or C++ i no this is off topic but ive studied a lot of html, i practically know all the old html codes XD i was such a nerd before i got into music.

Originally posted by Hypnotic

You code too?

Yes, I do. In fact, that's what my course is all about. And I've been doing it since 4th grade. So, I think I've been doing it for more than ten years now (I'm in 3rd year college). But I'm being forced to learn different languages these times because different projects require different languages.

But hopefully I should be back to honing myself to C++ very soon. I'm currently heavy on PHP, C# and Java because that's what they require in the courses. Not much C++. talk about discrimination. I intend to explore Macro-Assembly Language in the next month or so.

i read such girly books, LOL! the shopaholic series by sophie kinsella, that's the only books that got me so absorbed into the story. i'm into the whole twilight thing too, currently reading new moon. =)

other than that, i basically never read books.

Originally posted by Nick

Yes, I do. In fact, that's what my course is all about. And I've been doing it since 4th grade. So, I think I've been doing it for more than ten years now (I'm in 3rd year college). But I'm being forced to learn different languages these times because different projects require different languages.

But hopefully I should be back to honing myself to C++ very soon. I'm currently heavy on PHP, C# and Java because that's what they require in the courses. Not much C++. talk about discrimination. I intend to explore Macro-Assembly Language in the next month or so.

Nice skills you got there. You can code pretty much everything in those languages.

I learn C++ at uni now, and Ruby (the Rails framework) at home.

I taught myself Pascal and Delphi, and I know some PHP, but just enough to be able to hack some scripts, write a simple component for a website or fix a problem. My main focus has been on Ruby lately. Loved that language since I first saw it.

ASM is great to know when it comes to optimizing your code. Read few tutorials out of curiosity about 4 years ago, but I couldn't find my way with all those abstract commands and registers. Will get back to it eventually.

Haha. Maybe eventually we'll be able to talk about ASM. I've also heard of Ruby on Rails. There was a talk about it at my uni a few months ago, but I wasn't able to go because of my schedule.

I'm guessing that you're also using Algorithms in C++ by R. Sedgewick? My professor (Dr. Manalastas, if anyone knows him here) recommended it to us in class, since the textbook we were using (which was adapted for Java) was not "his favorite." The illustrations on the Sedgewick books seems pretty nice, though. I have it, but I haven't started it. *blush*

My professor recommended "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup, for learning the language, and "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel for programming techniques. Those are what I currently use.

If you'd like to look into Rails, Sitepoint were giving away a free book by Patrick Lenz, which gives a nice overview of the Ruby language and the Rails framework. I found it pretty useful. Another one I'd recommend is "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Rails is great when it comes to web development. It's based on the MVC architecture and everything looks so organized and easy once you get used to it.
http://www.rubyonrails.org/

Wow. Thanks! I'll be checking that out

i love booooooks i have like a million in my room stacked all over the place in percariously balanced pilesss hahaha i love some si-fi some fantasy some fiction biographys and all books in general besides romance novels EW! and alot of other shit is just really bad im pretty picky when it comes to books!!