What Are You Reading, Again?

[thetrooper]

The Code Book by Simon Singh.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Back in Action by CPT Rozelle - a must read book about how a soldier recovered from a mine injury and returned to Iraq

Winter Oak by James Hetley - if you like Irish Lore, Summer Country and Winter Oak are must reads - very well done

 

[Babbler]

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. An interesting examination on how intellectuals of various political convictions oppose embracing initiate human nature as a fact.

What is Science and How it works by Gregory N. Derry. A very readable book on the work of scienists.

 

[Gif Warrior]

Stephen King's Gunslinger series, Book 5 Wolves of Calla to be exact.

 

[Azadre]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Holy Qur'an, and "The Tempest".

 

[Shadylookin]

"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Drewcifer]

The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

 

[cgannon64]

Robert Browning is the man.

EDIT: As is Masie Ward, and her biography of Chesterton. I'm going to be done with him after this book - unless I can get a copy of The Ball and the Cross, which, based on its descriptions, is the best book ever.

 

[punkbass2000]

Just rereading Taking the Quantum Leap by Fred Alan Wolf.

 

[CivCube]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

 

[YNCS]

The Thieves' Opera by Lucy Moore. It's about 18th Century London's most notorious criminals.

 

[Syterion]

Huckleberry Finn and 1984(again).

 

[blindside]

Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. Great book

 

[Vladyc]

I'm currently reading three books simultaneously-

Stephen King's Gunslinger series, Book 5 Wolves of Calla to be exact.

just started it,

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

recieved it as a gift from a libertarian friend, figured I would read it to better understand her philosophy,

and finally Chainfire by Terry Goddkind, the ninth book of the Sword of Truth series. It's an improvement over the last couple, but still not nearly up to the caliber of the beginning books of the series.

 

[GreyBeard]

Just finished "Darwin's Radio" and starting on "Darwin's Children" by Greg Bear.

 

[Cu Chulainn]

Right now I'm working on "The Princess Bride" after which I'm rereading the Hitchhiker trilogy so I'm fresh when the movie comes out at the end of April.

 

[thetrooper]

Opus Pistorum, Henry Miller. Page by page pornography for your imagination. It's not great, but I told myself to read it.

 

[Richard Cribb]

"Illusions" - the newest collection of essays by the Norwegian philosopher Jon Hellesnes.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Just finished 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.

 

[Babbler]

Just finished 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.

Just finishing it up. A good book, although I confess I didn't get some parts at times.

Also, I am reading The Arrow of Time by Peter Covney and Roger Highfield. Discuss how the arrow of time arises from the timelessness of classical, relativistic and quatum mechanics.

The Success of Open Source, where the auther tries to figure out how the open source community are able to function as well as they do.

Finial, there is Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, on how language is an iniate biological function.