What Are You Reading, Again?

[Stapel]

I just read the gospel of Mark. Oh boy, there were many people with evil ghosts inside back then .

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Rgiht now Im reading Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of American Empire by Chalmer Johnson. Its a great book, I highly recommend it.

 

[Håkon]

A Norwegian book (Aksel Sandemose - "En flyktning krysser sitt spor" - roughly translated, "A refugee crosses his tracks")

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Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. More of a children's book than his other's, but still good.

 

[Thadlerian]

Just about to start reading the Narnia books.

I recently finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. le Guin. Anyone read anything by her?

 

[anarres]

I've read most her stuff. Very good fun but her books are a little thin for me. You just get in to it and it ends...

 

[gael]

'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser
My next will be 'Mr.Nice' by Howard Marks.

 

[BorgeoisBuffoon]

I read ABDUCTION by Robert Cook. Fascinating book, and it's really interesting to learn about what really went on with Atlantis....and the underground civilization it's part of.

 

[Richard III]

Various books on the history of the Confederacy with surprising titles like "The Confederacy" and "The Confederate Nation" and "The Confederate War."

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I'm reading Lord of the Rings at the moment. I tried to resist reading it until after I seen Return of the King, but I couldn't. I read the entire Fellowship on Friday, so I'm going to try to spread the Two Towers out over the month.

 

[JonathanValjean]

Originally posted by cgannon64
About to start Heart of Darkness by Conrad.

That is one of my favorite books of all! I read it earlier this year, and I must say that his writing is a feast for the linguaphile! His vocabulary is astounding! The amazing thing is, English was Conrad's third language (his first was Russian, his second French, IIRC)! Even so, Conrad is widely regarded as having some of the best word usage in all of English-language Literature. Enjoy that book, Mr. Gannon!

 

[Thadlerian]

Originally posted by anarres
I've read most her stuff. Very good fun but her books are a little thin for me. You just get in to it and it ends...

Yeah, I know how that is
Have you read anything by Doris Lessing? Her books are certainly not thin

 

[anarres]

Yeah - I've read her Sci-Fi stuff, she is an amazing writer.

 

[DS_Legionary]

Currently I'm reading Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Very good book, I wonder how the movie was?

 

[Pangur Bán]

I'm currently reading 9 books, the only work of fiction among them being The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Also of possible interest is Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman.

 

[WickedSmurf]

I am currently reading NOTHING! Oh sweet. Sometimes I can read book after book after book and then, after a while, I don't read at all. That's where I am now.

 

[Turner]

Don't have any new books to read, so I'm rereading a couple of one I had laying around.

Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky. A first contact story, where we are the ones doing the contact. Takes place several millenium in the future. The race we contact is about where we are now, technologically.

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. The Octagonal Raven. I've read this one before, but this one seems to be resistant to me reading it. I have a hard time reading some of his stuff. I guess I get so wrapped up in the here and now in his books, that the bigger picture is sometimes lost. Doesn't help that he jumps around a lot, timewise.

 

[Drewcifer]

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. An autobiographical book about the Spanish Civil War. Orwell's "lesser" works are actually some of his best.

 

[Wyetookay]

Just finished The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. It's amazing how none of the movies follow the book.

Now I am reading Battle Cry of Freedom, about the American Civil War. I've been wanting to get a better understanding of that era for awhile now.

 

[Mikoyan]

Premodern Japan - A Historical Survey by Mikiso Hane.

 

[Turner]

Wow! That was a thread-bump! (@Wyetookay)

Reading Empire from the Ashes, by David Weber. I think it's the compliation of Muntineer's Moon trilogy. Excellent read.

Also wading through two trilogies right now, The Tawny Man, Robin Hobb's sequel to The Farseer Trilogy, and takes place in the same universe as The Liveship Traders. I've come to love authors who create a world and stick to it, such as her and Raymond Feist.

Robert Newcomb's The Chronicles of Blood and Stone is looking to be pretty good, too.