Which book are you reading now? Volume X

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Thread 1: What books are you reading right now

Thread 2: What Are You Reading?

Thread 3: What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Thread 4: What Are You Reading Now?

Thread 5: Books, your favourite and current reading

Thread 6: Anyone reading any books recently

Thread 7: What Are You Reading? Vol.1 Iss.3

Thread 8: What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

Thread 9: What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

Currently reading: Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About Their Lives - Donald J. Raleigh

 

[Traitorfish]

Art of the Celts by Lloyd and Jennifer Laing

 

[Joecoolyo]

The Last of the Mohicans

 

[Skwink]

I will start The Gallic War by Julius Caesar in a few days.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

I recently finished reading: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks.

http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Surviv...r_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285711532&sr=8-1

 

[Azale]

I couldn't get through World War Z. It was so stupid.

Gotta read State Terrorism in Latin America by next Tuesday and finish a book report on Our Hearts Fell to the Ground (Indian history of the American west) by the same day.

Fo fun I'm taking meticulous notes on Political Economy for Beginners, A Modern History of Japan, and The Rise of Modern China.

 

[Integral]

I couldn't get through World War Z. It was so stupid

This has been on my "to read or not to read" list for some time. Was it stupid for any particular reason or just stupid in general?

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I'm continuing my existentialist binge. Sartre and Kierkegaard are intimately involved.

 

[Elrohir]

Just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz for a class. Pretty good, but I felt like I needed to brush up on my Latin in order to appreciate it. (I didn't, and mostly just skimmed the Latin bits that went untranslated)

Will be continuing Herodotus for a different class -- I need to read about five books of it by next Monday.

 

[Ajidica]

Cities in Flight by James Blish.
I'm also working through various communist writings by Lassalle, Bakunin, Lenin, Trotsky, and a but by Luxemburg.
EDIT: What did you think of A Canticle For Leibowitz? It is one of my top ten favorite books.

 

[Traitorfish]

This has been on my "to read or not to read" list for some time. Was it stupid for any particular reason or just stupid in general?

I didn't think that it was any more stupid than a book about zombies should be, and a lot less stupid than it could've been.

 

[Azale]

This has been on my "to read or not to read" list for some time. Was it stupid for any particular reason or just stupid in general?

When I got to the part with the celebrities in the compound running from zombies, the book completely disconnected with reality for me and I quickly lost interest in seeing what was going to happen next.

I dunno, it felt like Brooks couldn't decide whether to be serious or not so he failed at both.

 

[Traitorfish]

That's less than a fifth of the way in, and, yeah, it's goofy and a bit of a low-point, but it's hardly representative of the whole book. That's like watching The Lord of the Rings up until Sam and Merry moaning about "second breakfast" and proclaiming the whole thing to be inescapably absurd. Honestly, it gets better.

 

[Agent327]

I will start The Gallic War by Julius Caesar in a few days.

Cool! (And a good read.)

 

[LittleBoots]

Liked World War Z but I'm a zombie/post-apocalyptic nerd.

Loved Canticle for Leibowitz.

Currently reading Alasdair MacIntyre After Virtue

 

[Perfection]

Metamagical Themas
-Douglas Hofstadter

 

[Arakhor]

I'm getting the decided opinion that this thread involves bragging about the latest, weightiest books you've read. Am I the only one who posts the novels I've enjoyed?

 

[Pwnzerfaust]

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Nearly finished, actually.

 

[LittleBoots]

The Last of the Mohicans

I recently finished reading: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks.

Just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz

Liked World War Z but I'm a zombie/post-apocalyptic nerd.

Loved Canticle for Leibowitz.

Am I the only one who posts the novels I've enjoyed?

But bragging about how brilliant you are is also necessary to win the internet.

 

[FriendlyFire]

When I got to the part with the celebrities in the compound running from zombies, the book completely disconnected with reality for me and I quickly lost interest in seeing what was going to happen next.

I dunno, it felt like Brooks couldn't decide whether to be serious or not so he failed at both.

Some of the short stories are pure hollywood cliche ******ed. You should have just skip that one and just continued onto the next. Compared with the surival guide which was very good WWZ had some good and bad.

I only enjoyed the chinese outbreak, Isreal, Germany, Canada with the canniablism (fast forward) First succesful zombi battle.

 

[Traitorfish]

Picked up More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman. While the rest of you are filling your brains with knowledge, I shall fill mine with nonsense.

I'm getting the decided opinion that this thread involves bragging about the latest, weightiest books you've read. Am I the only one who posts the novels I've enjoyed?

It's not just me then? I was begging to think that I was a bit of a thicko.