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Author Topic: What Do You Read? Lionel Fouillen Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Belgium Registered: Nov 2002 posted 11-22-2002 04:24 AM                     Not working in a booth, but when I have time to read at work, I'm reading cinema-related stuff on internet websites, or computer-related magazines. I'm also reading the last edition of "ColdFusion MX" by Ben Forta, and also "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black. I don't read fiction a lot (last time was a novel by Amélie Nothomb). I started reading "Atlas Shrugged" too in 1999 but still haven't finished. Actually the first order I placed on Amazon.Com since the book is out of print in Europe. Hey, this thing really works! They said I'd get the book in 3 days. I got it after only 2 and a half days .  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-22-2002 06:54 AM                        Recent bedtime reading includes... Non-fiction: Film Copyright in the European Union by Pascal Kamina (as exciting as it sounds!) Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh The Lost Victory - British Dreams, British Realities, 1945-51 by Correlli Barnett. ...and in the shit lit category A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute The Death of Grass by John Christopher and Matto regiert by Friedrich Glauser, but am seriously struggling with the German.  |  IP: Logged Oscar Neundorfer Master Film Handler Posts: 275 From: Senoia, GA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-22-2002 09:28 AM                        If Atlas Shrugged doesn't make you seriously think, nothing will. I read it MANY years ago. My current preference is crime/psychological novels from authors like Jonathan Kellerman, Steven White, John Sandford, Iris Johannsen, James Patterson, and so on.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-22-2002 10:05 AM                     I tend to read all the books by one author at a time and then on to the next just finished most of John le Carres books (smiley people, the spy who came in from the cold) Alexander kents Bolitho serries  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-22-2002 03:51 PM                     I like science fiction, spy novels, Tom Clancy novels, any submarine or miltary theme based novel.I Haven't picked up a good book in a while. bout due for one though I guess. I can usually finish a book in about two or three days. Wont get no sleep but I can do it.  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-23-2002 12:20 AM                     Atlas Shrugged took me the good part of 3 months to finish, with a lot of the reading done at home. This definitely got me thinking, and has gotten me into business all the more (local theatres beware).  |  IP: Logged Gordon Hedges III Jealous of everyone not me Posts: 212 From: Severn, MD Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-23-2002 04:03 AM                     When I started as an employee, I was trying to finish THE STAND by Stephen King. The complete & uncut edition. Once I finished, my manager introduced me to the NECROSCOPE series by Brian Lumley. I could not wait until the next part of the series came out. I was so hooked. Parapsychology/Vampire Horror/Sci-Fi all in one. But as a manager/projectionist all I really read in the booth are manuals, film publications and weekly movie gross reports (i.e. MovieLine International). My resolution for the upcoming year is to read more often. And by reading the posts here, I just might get some good ideas to fulfill that resolution. For those interested in Brian Lumley here is a link to his site Brian Lumley  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-23-2002 05:04 AM                        Since I am illiterate, I do not read in the booth. Instead I play GameBoy Advance videogames. It is rare that a good game comes out for this system, but Castlevania kept me entertained between thread-ups and platter failures for awhile and now I am attempting to be entertained by Metroid Fusion, though it is nowhere near as good as Castlevania.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-23-2002 06:18 AM                     Mainly books on technical subjects, or about famous people that invented big things that either changed the course of history, or or made a big impact on out daily lives, books on air crash investigations, etc. I usually only get to read in my spare time on service trips. Some favorite books are........ "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes (Pulitzer Prize Winner)and a most amazing book! "Dark Sun" Also by Rhodes. About building the Hydrogen Bomb "Distant Vision", The Story of Philo Farnsworth "Zworykin, Pioneer Of Television" "The Mystery Of Flight 427" by Bill Adair Any books on old steam engines, trains, Airplanes, or their inventors, books on favorite directors, and cinematographers, etc. I also collect old books on anything technical. And of course Film-Tech! Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 11-23-2002 09:18 AM                     I NEVER read in the booth, obviously. That would be naughty! I am currently finishing Dostoyevsky's 'Notes From Underground' and have recently started Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' (which was made into the movie 'The Omega Man' with Charlton Heston). I started a thread about 'Fast Food Nation' a while back, which was the last book I finished. Mark (Ogden), did you read it as a result of that thread, or did you already have it?  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-23-2002 09:26 PM                     HUSTLER magazine!  |  IP: Logged Ray Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 111 From: Dayton, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 11-23-2002 09:55 PM                        quote: HUSTLER magazine! I prefer the "articles" in Playboy.  |  IP: Logged

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