What Are You Reading, Again?

[steviejay]

isn't Digital Fortress the book by Dan Brown?

speaking of which, before i even start. is it worth getting into 'Deception Point' by the same Author. if it's crap I'll just read about the Hittites...

 

[SoCalian]

I am reading Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson right now.

 

[thetrooper]

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

 

[Abaddon]

Vertebrae Evolution- pah, damn boring bio book

 

[nonconformist]

Catch 22-Joseph Heller.

 

[Hornblower]

My wife bought me a brand new copy of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for christmas to replace my long lost favourite. I began my revisit this morning and still love every word!

 

[Fifty]

The Kalevala - Compiled by Elias Lonnrot

 

[REDY]

Too strong to fantasy - Marcia Davenport. Very nice reading about Prague and Jan Masaryk in the years 1945-48....

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I'm finishing up Robert Silverberg - The Passengers (it is a colection of short stories that include the Passengers story)... Not sure what to read next .

 

[Babbler]

My wife bought me a brand new copy of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for christmas to replace my long lost favourite. I began my revisit this morning and still love every word!

I can't find a copy (well sort of: I decide to pass of one copy because it was old the first part, and I wanted the entire five-in-one book).

Watership Down -- I decide to check it out after I read it was on Lost. I guess it proves that I am a nerd. I believe it is one of the few novels I have read outside of any English class.

A Crack at the Edge of the World: America and Great California Earthquake of 1906 -- a fairly good book on the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. I recommend it, despite some slow parts. Finished.

The Earth: An Initmate History -- slow start, but it has some good information.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

I've been reading a (WWII) RAAF guy's self-biography. Really interesting, and quite funny, at points.

 

[synthboy]

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Choice!

Good days: 'The Pengiun Hostory of New Zealand' by Micheal King

Bad days: 'XPD' by Len Deignton

 

[Reno]

The Kalevala - Compiled by Elias Lonnrot

Excelent choice, it's a collection of Finno-Ugric (Karelian, Finnish, Ingrian, etc) folk stories and tales. It's also the National Epic of Finland.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

The Ruins of Ambrai - Exiles, book 1.

 

[bigfatron]

Valentine Pontifex, third in the Majipoor Chronicles series

 

[Fifty]

Excelent choice, it's a collection of Finno-Ugric (Karelian, Finnish, Ingrian, etc) folk stories and tales. It's also the National Epic of Finland.

Indeed! The cover prominently features your avatar as well.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I started reading "The Matrix - Science, Philosophy and Religion"
Cool analogies with the Bible ... and so far a very intresting book.

 

[Ayatollah So]

George R R Martin, A Feast for Crows

 

[The Fjonis]

I've been reading a (WWII) RAAF guy's self-biography. Really interesting, and quite funny, at points.

That wouldn't by any chance happen to be Roald Dahl's second installment to his autobiography (the one after "Boy")? It would match the description..

Oh, and I am reading "The Gambler" by Fjodor Dostoyevski ATM.

 

[nonconformist]

That wouldn't by any chance happen to be Roald Dahl's second installment to his autobiography (the one after "Boy")? It would match the description..

It's probably Douglas Bader's "Reach For the Sky".

He lost both his legs in a plane crash, got into the RAF, was shot down, parachuted from his plane, and escapted to England using his prosthetics.