Currently reading the following books

Well lately, I've gotten really busy with assignments to complete, research to do and so on, but strangely enough the amount of reading I do that is not related to any of those has also slightly increased.

Somehow, I am in one of those periods where I am totally hungry for knowledge and want to understand a tons of things for reasons I don't even know about. But ultimately, what I've been reading is either related to science or computers (my favorites).


The first and most interesting book I am reading at the moment is "The Mars Mystery - a warning from history that could save life on Earth" from authors Graham HANCOCK, Robert Bauval & John Grigsby. This book is about discoveries of potential 'artificial' monuments on Mars and who says artificial means 'created by a being'. There are many interesting facts from NASA as well as from a bunch of space scientists in the book. But most importantly, in my opinion, the book tries to prove something I've always believed in since I was a kid: "we are not alone". I would recommend this book to anyone who's ready to open their mind and who wouldn't mind reading a certain dose of scientific facts on why there is a high possibility that life might have existed or exists somewhere else on the universe apart from Earth. To find out more about the book, click HERE.

The second book that has also been sharing my days is "Hackers & Painters - big ideas from the computer age" by author Paul Graham. I just started reading it about a week ago and I can't really put my thoughts down as to what I think about the book yet. An update will follow. But for someone interested in reading it or getting more information about what the topic of this book is, go HERE.

Finally, a 'Must read' for any Java programmer who haven't read it yet: Thinking in Java 3rd edition by author Bruce Eckel. This is the best book about Java programming I've ever read and quite franckly I'd recommend it to anyone even if you're not too versed in the language. It is very focused on what makes Java a good programming language and also contains a very good approach to understanding OOP programming with Java. But that's not all, the one thing I love about this book is that it is available in print form, but also in a free-electronic downloadable book from Bruce Eckel's website and who doesn't like "free book"? huh? For more about the book, click HERE.

Well that's what I've been up to lately. I haven't been writing anything much here lately but that is surely because I've been extremely busy. Starting from this week, I will restart posting stuff down here. ;-)